@elliegadjanova
Political scientist. Ethnic politics, political communication, and social media in Africa. Writing a book on cross-ethnic outreach in highly diverse states. British Academy Innovation fellow 2025-2026.
my word!
The advantage of using sarcasm to implicitly criticise Trump is that he won't notice.
Freedman highlights a stark asymmetry: the US can force compliance from its tech giants in extremis, but allies like the UK are left exposed to American corporate power with no recourse. Better come to this realisation late than never: Tech sovereignty isn't just about China.
Yay.
Hello British dual nationals:
If you have been, or know anyone who has been, refused board on a flight, ferry or train to the UK in the coming days, they can share their story here. Or email me direct - email in bio.
www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2026...
No reputable media outlet should engage with Restore, any more than they would with Combat 18.
Absolute shocker of a rights grab - academics may want to push back hard
Danish PM on Facebook this morning:
“I am happy to live in a country where there is free and equal access to healthcare for everyone. Where insurance and wealth do not determine whether you receive proper treatment. The same approach exists in Greenland. Happy Sunday to you all”
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Research grantee Natasha Patel is a PhD candidate in political science. Her work theorizes about social movements, especially those that seek to address deep, structural causes of contemporary problems. Learn more about her project here:
Cue the class action
Oh snaaaappp
Which brings me to my research! What we show in this paper is that AI’s ability to produce expert-looking content at zero cost *raises* the demand for experts who can help you tell apart real from fake. 7/
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Hate-filled fake videos about London are everywhere. We've obtained a recording of a TikToker confessing to secretly filming Londoners in their homes for clicks.
He says it's not political. He just wants to make money from far-right anger.
Read what he says: www.londoncentric.media/p/london-tik...
Young men are the second most liberal group in the country after young women.
'More of a comment than a question' 😅
Spain and France leading the way on regulating digital harms
Thanks for sharing.
If people earnestly wanted to understand this or report accurately the numbers…there are studies. And it has been discussed many years earlier from this happening…
www.npr.org/2019/07/07/7...
Congratulations!
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what makes you think I'm British? and yes, different colonisers in my part of the world did this too - and are still doing it. I'm not saying I'm mystified, I was saying our theories are currently inadequate and we need better ones.
funny. for the record, I'm not British.
I'm really not British
Yep, definitely been my experience but I hadn't seen it quantified. Thanks for sharing.
True. And, at least from my experience, more common on the left than on the right.
So, so true.
Switzerland will soon vote on a polular initiative to cut media licence fee that would basically slash public broadcasting as an infrastructure of democracy.
What a timely exposition @unil.bsky.social on «La télévision en Suisse: 75 ans sous tension» tvsoustension.ch