Roxana Münster

3. The rationale given for a war will change over time, such that actual success or failure in achieving a named objective is less relevant than one might think

#NoKings Ithaca,NY

The head of a new RFK-backing group has promoted 9/11 conspiracies and antisemitic texts Leland Lehrman is a key figure in the MAHA world, despite decades of pushing extremist ideas.

NEW: Leland Lehrman is the new executive director of the MAHA Institute, a policy organization with ties to RFK. In the mid-2000s, Lehrman promoted 9/11 conspiracy theories and argued repeatedly that the Protocols of the Elders of Zion is legitimate: www.motherjones.com/politics/202...

Wasn't the fight with Elon supposedly a "distraction" from some other thing?

None of it is a "distraction." Everything is real and deserving of attention.

Vielen lieben Dank an alle hier und an das tolle @realscientists.de Team! Es hat sehr Spaß gemacht, mich mit euch allen auszutauschen. Ich freue mich aufs Mitlesen und -lernen bei den nächsten Wissenschaftler*innen :)

Seems like a good time to re-up @katecrawford.bsky.social‬'s brilliant coining: "hallucitations".

Genaus das, obwohl viele von den heute bekanntesten Beispielen wenig bis gar nicht explizit über Politik sprechen, aber dennoch politische Ideologie vermitteln durch ihren Lifestyle und ihr Tun. Und erreichen damit auch solche, die von direktem/explizit politischem Content vielleicht abgetan wären.

Abgebildet ist eine Collage aus Screenshots von Tik-Tok-Videos, Accounts, und Nachrichten-Schlagzeilen von und über Headlines. Die Screenshots zeigen junge Frauen, oft in der Küche und beim Kochen, oder eine Familie im Farm-Look auf einer weiten Grassfläche mit 8 Kindern. Die Schlagzeilen lesen etwa: "The rise and fall of the trad wife", "What is a tradwife? All about the controversial lifestyle - and why it's having a viral moment", "The truh about the past that tradwives want to revive" and "Who's afraid of the big, brad, tradwife?"

Späte Meldung da voller Tag heute. Unter anderem haben meine Co-Authorin und ich an unserem Tradwife-Projekt weitergewerkelt. Tradwives bezeichnet eine Bewegung von Influencerinnen die sich als Hausfrauen und Mütter im und für "traditionelle" Werte werben.

RFK Jr. threatens to bar government scientists from publishing in leading medical journals The health secretary said the New England Journal of Medicine, the Journal of the American Medical Association, and The Lancet are in bed with pharma.

HHS Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr. threatened to bar government scientists from publishing in major medical journals, saying on a podcast that three top journals were “corrupt” and influenced by pharmaceutical companies.

Trump administration moves to cut all remaining federal contracts with Harvard U.S. President Donald Trump's administration plans to terminate the federal government's remaining contracts with Harvard University, according to a letter set to be sent to federal agencies on Tuesday.

Ich hatte zwar nicht vor, direkt heute darüber zu sprechen, aber die Frage um die Zukunft der Forschungsförderung bestimmt den amerikanischen Universitätsalltag seit einigen Monaten schlichtweg enorm.

www.reuters.com/world/us/tru...

Hi! Ich bin Roxana @roxanamuenster.bsky.social, ich promoviere gerade an der Cornell University am Institut für Kommunikationswissenschaften und erforsche hier digitale rechte Bewegungen. Ich freue mich diese Woche über @realscientists.de einen kleinen Einblick in meine Arbeit zu geben!

Screenshot of a very sassy FT article ending about Altman and ChatGPT

No notes. www.ft.com/content/b180...

This professor studies dictatorships. He helped convince Harvard to stand up to Trump Harvard professor Steve Levitsky has spent decades studying democracies and how they fail. He's now raising alarm bells over what he sees as a slide toward autocracy under President Trump.

“In March, @stevelevitsky.bsky.social and fellow prof @ryanenos.bsky.social authored a letter, co-signed by 800 colleagues, calling on Harvard to defend itself and academic freedom more broadly by mounting ‘a coordinated opposition to anti-democratic attacks.’

Their pressure seems to have helped…”

Das sind 1/4 der gesamten Harvard Studentenschaft. Intl. undergrads bezahlen idR volle Studiengebühren und sind daher sehr wichtig für die Kassen der Unis (gerade bei Verlust von Fördergeldern). Und auch mal eben so 1/4 der grad students zu verlieren wäre ein Desaster für die Forschung und Lehre.

Trump administration says Harvard may lose ability to enroll foreign students The U.S. Department of Homeland Security said Harvard University will lose its ability to enroll foreign students if it does not meet demands from the Trump administration in the government's latest escalation against the educational institution.

Knapp 7.000 ausländische Studierende an Harvard (und 1.5m nicht-US Studierende insgesamt) werden zum Spielball der Regierung:

Trump administration says Harvard may lose ability to enroll foreign students - www.reuters.com/world/us/us-...

Trump administration says Harvard may lose ability to enroll foreign students The U.S. Department of Homeland Security said Harvard University will lose its ability to enroll foreign students if it does not meet demands from the Trump administration in the government's latest escalation against the educational institution.

The speed of all this never cease to amaze me (and I read Project 2025).

Trump administration says Harvard may lose ability to enroll foreign students - www.reuters.com/world/us/us-...

ICE Just Paid Palantir Tens of Millions for ‘Complete Target Analysis of Known Populations’ www.404media.co/ice-just-pai...

I hope other university alliances start pooling resources and engaging in the kinds of collective action Rutgers is proposing here for the Big Ten.

senate.rutgers.edu/report/resol...

„Wer rechte Inhalte übernimmt, stärkt letztlich das Original.“ Rechtsextreme Parteien feiern Wahlerfolge in ganz Europa. Warum sie so erfolgreich sind, welche Fehler andere Parteien machen und was man dagegen tun kann: Ein Gespräch mit der Politikwissenschaftleri...

Ich habe mit @tageins.at über den Aufstieg der radikalen/extremen Rechten und deren Normalisierung gesprochen – und darüber, was liberale Demokratien tun können oder tun sollten.

Hier zum Nachlesen:
www.tageins.at/interview-ga...

Trump tells inner circle that Musk will leave soon President Donald Trump has told his inner circle, including members of his Cabinet, that Elon Musk will be stepping back in the coming weeks from his current role as governing partner, ubiquitous cheerleader and Washington hatchet man. The president remains pleased with Musk and his Department of Government Efficiency initiative, according to three Trump insiders who were granted anonymity to describe the evolving relationship, but both men have decided in recent days that it will soon be time for Musk to return to his businesses and take on a supporting role. Musk’s looming retreat comes as some Trump administration insiders and many outside allies have become frustrated with his unpredictability and increasingly view the billionaire as a political liability, a dynamic that was thrown into stark relief Tuesday when a conservative judge Musk vocally supported lost his bid for a Wisconsin Supreme Court seat by 10 points.

Well.

“Law and Order” ist bei Rechtsextremen immer nur ein Kontrollinstrument um Repressionen gegen marginalisierte Gruppen zu rechtfertigen. Staatsgewalt soll angewandt werden, um ihre eigene autoritäre Form von Gesellschaft durchzusetzen. Für sie selbst gelten - ihrer Ansicht nach - immer andere Regeln.

Hi Jens! Danke für das tolle Angebot - ich würde liebend gerne mal dabei sein!

Ich promoviere gerade in den USA - und forsche unter anderem zu rechten Bewegungen. Die Lage unter den internationalen Studierenden und Professor*innen hier ist unfassbar angespannt. Kaum vorstellbar, dass all das in nur zwei Monaten passieren konnte.

Far-Right Influencers Are Hosting a $10K-Per-Person Matchmaking Weekend to Repopulate the Earth The Natal Conference, which costs up to $10,000 to attend, features multiple matchmaking strategy sessions and on-site ministers so attendees can get married, WIRED has learned.

NEW: Organizers behind a pronatalist conference with far-right ties in Austin, Texas this weekend have set up matchmaking events for attendees that include the option of getting married on site as part of their greater effort to repopulate the world, WIRED has learned.

Conversations with non-Americans admitted to our PhD program suggest that recruiting talent to the USA (not only in academia) will be harder and more expensive in the coming years, at least under this administration.

From Axios article, stating that, out of 1.5m student visa-holders, more than 300 foreign students' visas have been revoked in the last 3 weeks.

I knew there were more than the 5+ very public cases of student visa revocations, but I did not expect that number to be 300.

www.axios.com/2025/03/27/t...

Grim news from Joe Rogan world: Joe is getting into polio vaccine skepticism, and just had a guest who said polio wasn't that big a deal. Not good!

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"Laut einer Studie der Polizeiakademie Hamburg stuft sich jeder vierte befragte Polizist selbst als rechts oder rechts außen ein."

Scorpion and frog "the scorpion won't sting me if i grovel and beg enough"

Video Shows an Octopus Riding a Mako Shark Near New Zealand Researchers in New Zealand saw a colorful blob on top of a shark’s head. When they looked closer, they realized it had eight arms.

Video of an octopus riding a shark?

A breath of fresh air in these wild times!

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