Mari Elken

So, I was looking into my junk email folder for something legit.

Wow.. whatever happened to the good old Viagra ads? Now its all about letters from the US presidents and longevity.

I mean, I suppose also spam has to go with the times but that's some batshitcrazy stuff.

– Det er summen av barns muligheter som er viktig - Forskningsnytt Muligheter til gode livserfaringer avgjør om barn fra de fattigste familiene lykkes senere i livet.

Muligheter til gode livserfaringer, ikke familieøkonomi alene, avgjør om barn fra de fattigste familiene lykkes senere i livet.

– Vi må sikre at barn har tilgang til varierte og gode opplevelser på mange arenaer gjennom oppveksten, sier CREATE-professor Henrik Zachrisson.
www.uio.no/forskning/fo...

It was not a plan but a capitulation document. It did not come together. It was a Russian document presented by some Americans as American. Be clear in your headlines. Help
people see the simple awfulness of things.

Nils Brunsson on the what and why of organisations. In Swedish. Fascinating historical take at the NEON conference.

This is just.. insane.

Distracted Boyfriend meme with the 2027 HERD Special Issue being the distraction

Call for EOIs - Higher Education Research & Development is seeking expressions of interest from guest editorial teams for our 2027 Special Issue

Due date – 19 December 2025

More information → www.tandfonline.com/journals/che...

Ok if you put it like this I am almost tempted.

Russian Unreality and American Weakness Notes from a bizarre moment of diplomatic history

We are in a bizarre moment of diplomatic history. The purported "peace plan" that appeared a few days ago begins in Russian unreality and American weakness. Demanding everything of Ukraine and nothing of Russia, its purpose is imperialism and profiteering.
snyder.substack.com/p/russian-un...

Fifty higher education providers at risk of exiting market in England, MPs told Regulator says 24 are at more immediate risk and may have to stop degree courses within next 12 months

The Guardian has even more alarming headlines (and content)..
www.theguardian.com/education/20...

And the consequences are probably vast...

Mike Johnson: ‘My Christian Faith Is More About Not Jacking Off Than Feeding The Poor’

Mike Johnson: ‘My Christian Faith Is More About Not Jacking Off Than Feeding The Poor’

Who Climbs the Ivory Tower? Social Origins of Academic Faculty in an Egalitarian Welfare State - Nicolai T. Borgen, Are Skeie Hermansen, Astrid Marie Jorde Sandsør, 2025 Although there is an extensive literature on intergenerational mobility in education, including the completion of PhD degrees, far less is known about the trans...

📢 New publication! Who climbs the Ivory Tower?

It’s not just a coincidence, as @aresherman.bsky.social, @astridsandsor.bsky.social, and Nicolai Topstad Borgen observe, even in egalitarian Norway.

Read the full paper 👇
journals.sagepub.com/doi/10.1177/...

German companies pay Russia €1.72bn in taxes, indirectly funding war German companies have paid nearly $2 billion (€1.72bn) in taxes to Russia since the Ukraine invasion, funding the war effort. Critics urge immediate withdrawal.

Well, they are funding the war in Ukraine. Nothing indirect about it.

If you are interested in Norwegian Education Policy, @marielken.bsky.social & I have a chapter in the new Oxford Handbook of Norwegian Politics (edited by great colleagues at @statsvitenskap.bsky.social) entitled "Searching for the Right Balance between Equality and Differentiation"
t.co/qHsCMXMgZT

Dr. Jane Goodall filmed an interview with Netflix in March 2025 that she understood would only be released after her death.

Provoserende husmødre på NRK KRONIKK: Husmorreklame i beste sendetid er god butikk.

KRONIKK: Husmorreklame i beste sendetid er god butikk.

Dutch late night TV has its take

So the UK police thinks photos of Trump are indecent and grossly offensive?

How to feel old in academia, Vol.26: When students are genuinely surprised when you catch their Horizon Zero Dawn reference.

#highered #academia #academicsky

2 weeks until deadline! :)

The saga of trying to buy a bus ticket in Thessaloniki. Two days, still dont know how. Have been told to buy from bus driver (not possible), then inside the bus (no such machines existed) and now from a kiosk (two have said nope). Must be some secret bus ticket selling society somewhere.

Conference time in Thessaloniki @ecpr.bsky.social. Curious mix of academic work, warm weather and a campus with a lot of eh.. identity?

Somehow further validates South Park S27 E1... even more.

YouTube video by FX Networks Uncle Jimmy's Warning - Scene | The Bear | FX

About restaurants. And universities too.

youtu.be/3EwduM3pAyA

Very interesting!

Would be curious how it would compare to Norway as here the fees were implemented as full cost to start with (with some rather unfortunate effects) and might now be loosened up (a bit uncertain how this will look like at this point).

Communist regimes insisted on a "propaganda of success," with the media daily and breathlessly reporting ever-higher quotas being met by the heroic workers and massive economic growth. Stalin sent the (few) authors of unfavorable economic reports to the gulag.

This of course is very different.

This. AI creating bonkers anatomy is one thing and to be expected. This passing any sort ofl quality assurance is mins boggling.

Palestine: MSF statement on the EU’s failure to protect people in Gaza again | Doctors Without Borders / Médecins Sans Frontières (MSF ... The EU ignores calls to end Gaza’s siege, enabling Israel’s attacks on civilians amid ongoing humanitarian catastrophe.

On June 16, Doctors Without Borders sent an open letter with a very clear message to EU leaders: The #EU can and must act now to stop mass atrocities in #Gaza.

www.doctorswithoutborders.ca/palestine-ms...

Nick on X: "South Park Full Episode season 27 https://t.co/DxHo9pk5p9" / X South Park Full Episode season 27 https://t.co/DxHo9pk5p9

Not often I would post links to Twitter here, but here is e1 of s27 of South Park... launched a few days after they signed a new contract with Paramount, who owns CBS who cancelled Colbert.. This just deserves to be shared. I am looking forward to the fallout. x.com/timetravelje...