Chiara Loschi

BRISMES Council wrote to Helmut Schmidt University to express concern over the forthcoming keynote by Dr Graicer, an instructor in the Israeli Defence Forces, entitled “Extracting Order from Chaos: Lessons from Military Design in an Eight-Front War.” 1/3 👉 shorturl.at/QQR7G

Diablo Devs Unionize Following Layoffs And Dissatisfaction With AI, Pay - Aftermath Workers on Diablo are the latest arm of Blizzard to unionize, joining the teams behind Overwatch and World of Warcraft before them.

For nerds corner: Diablo workers, last of Blizzard teams, unionize over layoffs and dissatisfaction with AI
aftermath.site/diablo-union...

Europe Is Recruiting Academics Disenchanted With America The U.K., France and other countries have set up funds to help U.S. researchers relocate to the continent.

As pleased as I am to see EU governments offer funding to attract US scholars, there are loads of talented European scholars who’ve struggled to find permanent positions. They could use some help.

www.wsj.com/world/europe...

Tick tock University of Amsterdam, tick tock…

⚖️ 🌐 #ClimateLitigation alert: follow today's hearing at the Tribunal Judiciaire de Paris in the greenwashing case brpught by @amisdelaterre.org @notreaffaireatous.bsky.social & @greenpeace.fr against TotalEnergies.
Brilliant live reporting by @julietrenaud.bsky.social 👇

This past semester was the most stressful of my academic career. I had 180 students and about half cheated at some point in the semester

They submit weekly reflections where the questions are opinion-based, graded only on effort, don't care about grammar

SO MANY students submitted ChatGPT essays

Interoperability and the multiple modes of ordering in Europe's digital border regime Drawing on qualitative interview data and document analysis, this article traces the making of interoperability between databases as a policy response to Europe's crisis-laden management of migration....

@drkiarastorm.bsky.social and I have a new article out in International Migration on the multiple modes of ordering in the EU border regime that come with introducing interoperability btw databases of migration control. Open Access: onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/full/10....

YouTube video by DW News USAID cuts hit Myanmar relief operation | DW News

I was on @dwnews to unpack how the dismantling of USAID has hobbled rescue and response efforts following the devastating earthquake in Myanmar m.youtube.com/watch?v=e5Q0...

DOGE Is Planning a Hackathon at the IRS. It Wants Easier Access to Taxpayer Data DOGE operatives have repeatedly referred to the software company Palantir as a possible partner in creating a “mega API” at the IRS, sources tell WIRED.

SCOOP: DOGE is hosting a “hackathon” in DC next week with the goal of building one “mega API” for accessing all IRS data.

Palantir has been brought up as a potential partner.

www.wired.com/story/doge-h...

Photograph of a fence demarcating the border between two countries. By Mussi Katz, under a free Flickr License: https://www.flickr.com/photos/mussikatz/50758919936/ .

What #interventions can be designed to limit the #datafication of #mobility?

👀#Manifesto by Pelizza @drkiarastorm Olivieri Trauttmansdorff & van Rossem against essentializing + securitizing #alterity through #datafication: https://doi.org/pcgr

#borders #ProcessCitizens

🔥 ⚖️ today: day 2 of #ClimateJustice hearing in #SaulvsRWE
🏛️ The Higher Regional Court in Hamm (🇩🇪) reviews if a #fossilfuels company can be held accountable for climate harms, potentially setting a historic precedent.
🐦 📝 I am reporting live from the Court's room.
🧵 🔽 thread below

More than glad to share our Manifesto on the #Datafication of #Mobility Across #Borders by ERC ProcessingCitizenship, PI A. Pelizza, published by @estsjournal.bsky.social Thanks to ESTS editorial team & the co-authors: we could not have aspired to a better conclusion! estsjournal.org/index.php/es...

Hundreds of Venezuelans Sent to El Salvador in Face of Judge's Order: Trump Live Updates

Until now Trump has followed court orders. Now we enter the realm of arbitrary power ubchecked by the judiciary.

www.nytimes.com/live/2025/03...

Brown University advises all international community members to postpone, reconsider travel One week before spring break, Brown advised international community members, including green card holders and permanent residents, to postpone international travel in a campus-wide email sent on Sunda...

www.browndailyherald.com/article/2025...

The Techno-Anthropology Research Group (TANT), Institut for Kultur og Læring, Aalborg Universitet Forskningsgruppen TANTlab undersøger centrale processer inden for social og teknisk innovation, der er afgørende for de udfordringer, nutidige og fremtidige samfund står over for.

Today in Copenaghen, Aalborg university, to discuss study of infrastructures and possible projects on air pollution, regulations, shutting down data infrastructures, with the great research team of TANTlab led by Torben Elgaard Jensen

www.kultur.aau.dk/forskning/fo...

In Memoriam: Mark Klein, AT&T Whistleblower Who Revealed NSA Mass Spying EFF is deeply saddened to learn of the passing of Mark Klein, a bona fide hero who risked civil liability and criminal prosecution to help expose a massive spying program that violated the rights of m...

We are deeply saddened to hear of the passing of Mark Klein. In 2006, Mark showed up at EFF’s front door with a simple question: “Do you folks care about privacy?” We did. And what Mark told us changed everything.

EPA launches attack on ‘holy grail’ of climate science — and dozens of enviro rules The move is the most aggressive attack yet by the Trump administration to undo previous efforts to limit the emissions that are warming the planet.

EPA's Lee Zeldin wants to overturn the federal government’s core scientific finding about the dangers of greenhouse gases — along with 30 other key regulatory actions stretching back decades. Story from @zcolman.bsky.social & @alexguillen.bsky.social

www.politico.com/news/2025/03...

The Darwinian moment in the EU: The Defense pact Either it adapts and evolves, or it doesn't survive: here we are at the Darwinian moment of a united Europe, after the alignment between the USA and Russia. Once again, conflicts over borders and nati...

my own views on 'defending Europe' in a new release of our Security Praxis blog

(translated from op-ed published on Sunday's edition of il Manifesto)

www.securitypraxis.eu/darwinian-mo...

Real question. What is an “illegal protest”? Real question. He was convicted of a crime. Why hasn’t he been expelled?

Screenshot of text from a Nature Ecology & Evolution Editorial entitled "Deep cuts"

In our latest Editorial we discuss the continuing damage being done to US science, and its impact on researchers and the environment 👇

Deep cuts: www.nature.com/articles/s41...

Are you a #SocialSciences researcher seeking a publisher for your #Research?

Get in touch with your commissioning editor today: #AcademicPublishing

'Italian Jews say no to ethnic cleansing': Hundreds sign ad blasting Trump's Gaza plan ***

www.haaretz.com/us-news/2025...

La Cisgiordania è sotto attacco Mentre gli occhi del mondo sono rivolti alla Striscia di Gaza, prosegue la “gazificazione” della Cisgiordania. Da settimane ci sono sgomberi di residenti, stravolgimenti… Leggi

www.internazionale.it/magazine/202...

from now, when an Italian researcher goes on a mission in a context where electronic payment is unavailable, the expense is considered income and taxed up to 43%. That's how we kill the internationalization of research, discriminate research in/on the global south, and bunkerize it in big hotels

I asked DeepSeek three questions:

- How does China treat the Uyghur Muslims?

- Is Taiwan part of China?

- What happened in Tiananmen Square in the 1980s?

Here are DeepSeek's answers:

Happy to share the call for abstracts for 10th STS Italia Conference, 11-13/06, Politecnico of Milan, panel «Where sociomateriality lies: Re-thinking the synergies between STS & Information Infrastructure studies in the age of datafication», C. Coletta, L. Olivieri, A.Pelizza, myself. Deadline 3/02

German police investigate AfD mock plane ticket campaign – DW – 01/15/2025 A local branch of the far-right Alternative for Germany has been distributing controversial fake "airplane tickets" to promote the deportation of people to a "secure home country." Police are investig...

Disgusting, and quite telling: the mock plane tickets printed by #farright #AfD echo the ones made by the neo-nazi #NPD in the 2010s and ultimately the fake train tickets printed by the original Nazis since the 1920s (see the screenshot below)

Transparency geek news: from the 1st of January, the EU Commission started to proactively publish minutes of the meetings held between lobbyists and staff with management function (from DG to head of units). It's short, and not very detailed, but still a step toward transparency

Call for Abstracts - STS Italia Join the 10th Biennial STS Italia Conference, 'Technoscience for Good,' on 11-13 June 2025 at Politecnico di Milano, Milan, Italy. Explore cutting-edge discussions on ethical, social, and political di...

Info & submission guidelines stsitalia.org/call-for-abs...

Happy to share the call for abstracts for 10th STS Italia Conference, 11-13/06, Politecnico of Milan, panel «Where sociomateriality lies: Re-thinking the synergies between STS & Information Infrastructure studies in the age of datafication», C. Coletta, L. Olivieri, A.Pelizza, myself. Deadline 3/02