🔴 La Global Sumud Flotilla zarpa de nuevo desde Barcelona rumbo a Gaza para romper el bloqueo ilegal, llevar ayuda humanitaria y mantener viva la atención sobre Palestina.
Uno de nuestros mayores barcos, el Arctic Sunrise, acompañará a sus más de 80 embarcaciones para dar apoyo técnico y logístico.
This is a very good paper and you should all read it. However, to this part, I want to reply with Arthur Spirling: "Open generative AI models are a way forward for science" (doi.org/10.1038/d415...).
Seriously, please don't default to sending students and other researchers to closed models.
The right to protest is under threat and there is legislation going through Parliament that aims to give police even more powers to restrict protest.
Join the mass lobby of MPs on 17 March 📅
www.quaker.org.uk/blog/protecting-the-righ...
Article title: Agenda Seeding: How 1960s Black Protests Moved Elites, Public Opinion and Voting Article Abstract How do stigmatized minorities advance agendas when confronted with hostile majorities? Elite theories of influence posit marginal groups exert little power. I propose the concept of agenda seeding to describe how activists use methods like disruption to capture the attention of media and overcome political asymmetries. Further, I hypothesize protest tactics influence how news organizations frame demands. Evaluating black-led protests between 1960 and 1972, I find nonviolent activism, particularly when met with state or vigilante repression, drove media coverage, framing, congressional speech, and public opinion on civil rights. Counties proximate to nonviolent protests saw presidential Democratic vote share increase 1.6–2.5%. Protester-initiated violence, by contrast, helped move news agendas, frames, elite discourse, and public concern toward “social control.” In 1968, using rainfall as an instrument, I find violent protests likely caused a 1.5–7.9% shift among whites toward Republicans and tipped the election. Elites may dominate political communication but hold no monopoly.
I’ve been studying civil rights protests for 20 years. With new mobilization against Trump’s agenda, I’m sharing a thread summarizing my research on how nonviolent & violent actions by 1960s activists and police influenced media, elites, public opinion & voters. 1/ www.cambridge.org/core/journal...
No hacen falta bombas para destruir un país: basta con cortar la energía, el agua y la comida. El bloqueo a Cuba no es presión política, es castigo colectivo. Y tiene nombre en derecho internacional
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Si quieres firmar y difundir:
actionnetwork.org/fo...
¿Cómo podemos hacer que la investigación en economía tenga impacto en las políticas públicas? nadaesgratis.es/marcos-vera/... Vía @nadaesgratis.bsky.social #Economía
Hoy hemos transformado la Comisión Europea en la Torre Trump, antes de la reunión de líderes de la 🇪🇺.
La desregulación es la base de la ideología de Trump. Exigimos que los líderes europeos resistan al embiste trumpista y ¡mantengan las leyes diseñadas para proteger las personas y el planeta! ⛔
It feels like another tipping point is being crossed rn… back-&-forth refinery strikes, Tehran in flames. Trump demanding unconditional surrender, de facto boasting of bombing Iranian desal. US & Israel are pushing Iran to fire everything it has at the region’s weakest links. Unimaginably dangerous.
Un médico palestino relata ante el juez en la Audiencia Nacional el daño provocado por el genocidio israelí en Gaza, en el marco de la investigación a la empresa Sidenor por sus envíos a armamentísticas israelíes
www.eldiario.es/politica/med...
As a whole nation remains in shock, horror, and grief, and families are searching for their loved ones in the aftermath of security forces’ massacres on January 8 and 9, Iranian authorities continue to terrorize the population.
Read HRW’s new investigation. ⤵️
www.hrw.org/news/2026/02...
The ICE killings in Minneapolis evoke Selma but the day-to-day tactics in Minneapolis remind me of the Birmingham Bus Boycott: a grinding, continuous, citywide and logistically demanding effort of non-cooperation over months to break an unjust status quo.
Cuando un bebé muere de frío en Gaza: “Mi hijo estaba en mis brazos respirando y de repente se convirtió en un cadáver”. (@Planeta_Futuro, uno de los pocos espacios de los medios españoles que todavía dedica historias humanas a la tragedia de Gaza) elpais.com/planeta-futu...
Gigantesca manifestación en Francia contra el golpe militar del criminal ultraderechista Donald Trump en Venezuela. Están quemando la bandera de Estados Unidos.
Months of war and displacement forced people in #Gaza to live amid collapsing ruins in makeshift shelters or in flimsy tents.
While Storm Byron that struck Gaza from December 10 was a natural hazard, its consequences are man-made.
Illustration of a standing white girl with a drum surrounded by a border of Holly and with musical notes underneath
Suffragette Christmas card from the Women's Social and Political Union, 1909. UK.#Womensart
Just in time for Christmas: a great interview with an absolute legend.
Theda Skocpol and Edwin Amenta on her career, US politics, the erosion of democracy, and most of all, what to do about it.
sociologica.unibo.it/article/view...
Survey experiments have become a popular methodology among social scientists. Has it been effective?
In POQ, Rauf et al. study the efficacy of 100 survey experiments. Their results show that a majority of hypotheses were not supported.
Read now: doi.org/10.1093/poq/...
This generally seems like a bad idea - particularly paying Qualtrics to do it.
However, there are various applications of synthetic data, or "silicon sampling", that are worth exploring. We discuss this in the context of the recent SMR special issue on gen AI: journals.sagepub.com/doi/abs/10.1...
Segundo capítulo del podcast de @olgarodriguezfr.bsky.social y @centredelas.org sobre las complicidades militares con Israel.
Y es que nadie podrá decir en el futuro que no se sabía.
www.eldiario.es/internaciona...
The UN, human rights organizations, and scholars have concluded that Israel is committing genocide against the Palestinians in Gaza.
What are the views of people living in Germany on Israel's offensive and Germany's role?
A long 🧵based on survey results.
www.giga-hamburg.de/en/publicati...
On #HumanRightsDay we reiterate that human rights cannot be applied selectively.
#OurEverydayRights are also the rights of Palestine Refugees. What is at stake are the values enshrined in the Universal Declaration of Human Rights and international law.
Human Rights must be upheld without exception.
Our next #TADA session is just around the corner! 🚨
We are absolutely delighted to welcome Ju Yeon (Julia) Park, who will present her paper: "Toward a framework for creating trustworthy measures with supervised machine learning for text."
📅 Wed., Dec. 10, 17:00-18:00 (Berlin)
More info: tada.cool
Un informe alerta de que la criminalización de la protesta reduce a la mitad los derechos civiles en Europa en solo seis años (El poder reduce libertades, exactamente como ocurrió en la Europa del siglo pasado antes de la gran catástrofe) elpais.com/videos/2025-...
Sobre Eurovisión: La Unión Europea de Radiodifusión prefiere que 4 países europeos se vayan de Eurovisión con tal de que se quede un país no europeo que comete genocidio
Europa sigue sin sancionar a Israel pero la Corte de La Haya sí es sancionada, por EEUU, por investigar los crímenes israelíes 🧵⬇️
El humo de Gaza nubla las llamas de Cisjordania: el proyecto colonial se hace permanente. Tel Aviv está ejecutando su campaña más agresiva de limpieza étnica y robo de tierras en la Cisjordania ocupada desde 1948. thecradle.co/articles/gaz...
Across the region and beyond, #Palestine Refugees continue to await a just and lasting political solution.
Their displacement has lasted to this day due to the absence of a resolution of their plight by the international community.
#UNRWAworks everyday to support them.
New paper! @william-dinneen.bsky.social @guygrossman.bsky.social Yiqing Xu and I use GPT to code 91k articles from 174 polisci journals (2003–2023)and track research designs, transparency practices, and citations. How has the credibility revolution reshaped the discipline? doi.org/10.31235/osf...
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Even with the ceasefire, people in #Gaza face immense challenges. They are hungry, bereaved, and traumatised.
#UNRWAworks relentlessly in Gaza, but the Agency’s aid supplies must be allowed in.
Raise awareness on Gaza and support the call to lift restrictions on aid.
ANÁLISIS | La resolución de la ONU que entrega Gaza a Trump con el beneplácito de Europa
Por @olgarodriguezfr.bsky.social ✍🏽⬇️
www.eldiario.es/internaciona...
“…wherever there was a ‘deserving’ Party member and no other place could be found for him, he would be dumped into education.…Putting ignorant ‘reliables,’ from politics or business, over the educators was also part of the Nazi way of humiliating education and bringing it into popular contempt.”
