Israel destroyed all of the town of Al-Khiam in southern Lebanon within a month.

Carbon Capture and the Political Capture of Nature in Iceland In this episode, we speak with anthropologist Cody Skahan about carbon capture and storage (CCS) in Iceland and the Nordic region. Drawing on fieldwork with environmental activists, scientists, and…

We have a new Challenging Nordic Innocente podcast episode out today. We talk with anthropologist Cody Skahan about CCS in Iceland and how climate technologies like CCS are reshaping landscapes, economies, and political relationships in Iceland and beyond. nettop.guru/wordpress/ca...

Palestine Scholars Fatima Ali Abu Owdah, How Alone You Were (2025) Poetry in cover art excerpted from Mahmoud Darwish’s epic poem “Madīḥ al-ẓẓil al-‘ālī” (“In Praise of the High Shadow”): Son of mor...

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The Iranian people deserves better than choosing between a genocidal repressive theocracy and a genocidal imperial war monger. All my thougths and prayers to my Iranian colleagues and friends.

academia's culture of pay out of pocket, reimbursement eventually needs to be swiftly ended - especially in this economy!

Seminar: Reproduction in times of climate change

If you are in Stavanger, April 9: Join our seminar REPRODUCTION IN TIMES OF CLIMATE CHANGE. Invited speakers: Prof. Jenny Björklund (Uppsala University) and Associate Prof. Ingvill Stuvøy (NTNU) www.uis.no/en/research/...

Today the final report for a research project I led was accepted by the Norwegian Research Council. It feels liberating to be out of the claws of that bureaucratic death machine. It will take me some years to recover from that. So many bad experiences.

Enacting participatory democracy through futures making in the city This paper examines how futures thinking can support participatory democracy in urban development. It does so by analysing the tensions and contradict…

Can futures thinking make urban democracy more participatory?
Our new study in Futures explores how inhabitants in Stavanger, Norway, led their own futures-making process—using critique, utopian visioning, and collective action. We also reflect on the tensions that we encountered in the process.

Postdoctoral Fellow in Environmental History (297163) | University of Stavanger Job title: Postdoctoral Fellow in Environmental History (297163), Employer: University of Stavanger, Deadline: Monday, April 20, 2026

We're hiring! 🌿 The Greenhouse Center for Environmental Humanities at the University of Stavanger invites applications for a 3-year postdoc in Environmental History. See thread for more details. #envhist #envhum

Til mine venner og bekendte med stemmeret i Danmark. Stem for formueskat, stem for de fattige og udstødte, stem for international solidaritet, stem for naturen og stem for klimaet. Med venlig hilsen en uden stemmeret.

Cristina fikk opphevet norsk utenlandadopsjon – jeg har fått datteren min tilbake! For første gang i norsk historie er en adopsjon annullert. Sandra ble adoptert fra Costa Rica uten morens samtykke – nå er hun juridisk tilbakeført til sin biologiske mor Cristina.

Sandra was stolen and abducted to Norway through transnational adoption. She has now been legally reinstated as the daughter of her first mother, Cristina.

Hyundai workers, residents in Ulsan fear impact of robots' arrival at US factories - The Korea Times “We weren’t even shaken during COVID. It somehow just passed us by,” said Joo Jung-hee, an 80-year-old restaurant owner. “That’s because of the fac...

Restaurant owners, taxi drivers, and factory workers anxiously await the arrival of robots in Hyundai City and how their lives will change. www.koreatimes.co.kr/southkorea/s...

Fallouts and financial woes: inside Heston Blumenthal’s sinking empire Current and ex-staff claim demise of London restaurant can be traced back to the departure of chef’s right-hand man

Another celebrity chef downfall. Now let us focus on building just and regenerative food systems instead. www.theguardian.com/food/2026/ma...

‘Highly problematic behavior’: Noma residency in LA starts with PR crisis After stories of René Redzepi’s abuse of staff resurfaced, protests and sponsorship cancellations eclipsed the restaurant’s pop-up

Abolish fine dining and celebrity chefs. www.theguardian.com/food/2026/ma...

Min krop er en transkønnet krop — Trans_skribenter Jeg tænker på, hvordan overarbejdet med at fremstå fattet allerede genspejler en transerfaring: På den ene side den indre affektive distance, man kan være nødt til at anlægge sig for at kunne holde ud...

Fantastisk tekst af Mons Bissenbakker: Min krop er en transkønnet krop www.transskribenter.org/alletekster/...

‘I wish I could push ChatGPT off a cliff’: professors scramble to save critical thinking in an age of AI As AI has upended the way students learn, academics worry about the future of the humanities – and society at large

“Reliance on AI among faculty is also on the rise, with observers pointing to the dystopian possibility that the college experience may soon be reduced to AI systems grading AI-generated homework – “a conversation between two robots”.”

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Landmark study finds half of UK media reporting on Muslims contains bias A NEW report has found that almost a half of UK media coverage contains anti-Muslim bias ...

*Half* of all UK media reports about Muslims contain negative bias, according to a new study, together with widespread "sweeping generalisations".

"The highest rates were recorded by GB News (39%), The Telegraph (32%), Daily Express (24%), The Times (22%), The Sun (21%) and the Daily Mail (20%)"

Except, this isn't a boycott. This is a mass transfer from one war loving brand to another war loving brand, enacted by a pro-AI faction of centrist effective altruists.

Iran demands international action after attacks impact hospitals, schools Hospitals across Iran have been damaged by US, Israeli strikes - but no reports of direct hits yet.

'liberating" the Iranian people by bombing their hospitals and schools. aje.news/iws1cc

Like rats fleeing a sinking ship

Relooted: the South African video game where players take back artefacts from western museums Creators say they’re offering Africans a ‘hopeful, utopian feeling’ of retrieving objects looted by colonial armies

Love it. "Relooted: Reclaim real African artifacts from Western museums in this Africanfuturist heist game."

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Korea 24 - 2026.02.26 Podcast Episode · [KBS WORLD Radio] Korea 24 · February 26 · 1 sec

I was on KBS World News Radio this evening (KST) to talk about what I see as the shortcomings of the South Korean Truth and Reconciliation Commision's investigation of overseas adotion. I support TRC, but it is just a small piece of what it takes to provide justice to us adoptees and our families.

Arrangement med Marta Söderberg, Sabitha Söderholm, Brynjulf Jung Tjønn, Lisa Wool-Rim Sjöblom og Lene Myong (moderator) på Malmötxt den 24. marts

Kom med til Malmötxt 24 marts. Tema: Adoption

South Korea relaunches truth commission with focus on adoption fraud South Korea has relaunched a fact-finding commission into its past human rights violations, with a key focus on the extensive fraud and malfeasance that corrupted the nation’s historic foreign adoptio...

The third period of the Truth and Reconcilliation Commmission of South Korea will put a special focus on systematic human rights violation in the transnational adoption system: apnews.com/article/sout...

European Citizens' Initiative Give your support !

EU citizens. Sign the petition for the full suspension of the EU-Israel Association Agreement in view of Israel’s violations of human rights. eci.ec.europa.eu/055/public/#...

Welcome to the year of the fire horse!

En misvisende historie om Det Muslimske Broderskab endte på forsiden af Weekendavisen To rapporter afdækker, at broderskabet de facto styrer et forskningscenter på det anerkendte Georgetown University og har været tæt involveret i donationen af milliarder til universitetet, skrev avise...

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Det er længe siden jeg har anset Weekendavisen som en seriøs avis med ordentlig journalistik. Det bekræfter Informations graverarbejde omkring en artikel fra forsiden af WA sidste sommer endnu tydeligere. Jeg vil anbefale Morgenbladet i Norge, hvis du mangler god konservativ journalistik.

Buddhism becomes unlikely force behind Korea's Olympic snowboard success - The Korea Times What does Buddhism have to do with Korea’s unprecedented back-to-back snowboarding medals at the 2026 Milan Cortina Winter Olympics? More than you...

Coming out of a Buddhist family myself, I can only say that snowboard is Zen...and suffering! www.koreatimes.co.kr/sports/20260...?