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Agnete Schjønsby @agnete.bsky.social · 9h

I et Venezuela der undertrykkelse og politisk mørke preger hverdagen, er María Corina Machado som et symbol på sivil motstand og håp.

Les PRIOs @mariannedahl.bsky.social om hvorfor årets pris treffer tidsånden:

www.aftenposten.no/meninger/kro...

Fredsprisen til María Corina Machado treffer tidsånden

Årets fredspris er en påminnelse om at demokratiets fremtid hviler på dem som våger å protestere uten vold.

www.aftenposten.no

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Jan Rosenow @janrosenow.bsky.social · 1d

Grid scale batteries are changing our electricity system. Excellent new visual story on batteries in FT today shows just how far this technology has evolved.

Fasten your seatbelts, this is just the beginning.

ig.ft.com/mega-batteri...

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Marianne Dahl @mariannedahl.bsky.social · 1d

Årets Nobel Fredspris er delt ut i demokratiets navn.

Den demokratiske tilbakegangen er blant vår tids største utfordringer – nivået i dag er som i 1986.

María Corina Machado risikerer livet i kampen for demokrati – med ikke-voldelige midler.

Link til kronikk👇

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Haakon Gjerløw @haakongjerlw.bsky.social · 1d

"Årets fredspris er en påminnelse om at demokratiets fremtid hviler på dem som våger å protestere uten vold" PRIOs egen @mariannedahl.bsky.social i Aftenposten

www.aftenposten.no/meninger/kro...

Fredsprisen til María Corina Machado treffer tidsånden

Årets fredspris er en påminnelse om at demokratiets fremtid hviler på dem som våger å protestere uten vold.

www.aftenposten.no

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Barack Obama @barackobama.bsky.social · 4d

Congratulations to new Nobel Peace Prize laureate María Corina Machado for her courageous struggle to bring democracy to Venezuela.

Live Updates: María Corina Machado of Venezuela Is Awarded the Nobel Peace Prize

www.nytimes.com

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Andrea Matranga @andreamatranga.bsky.social · 4d

honestly it would have been extremely funny if they just gave Obama another peace nobel

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Haakon Gjerløw @haakongjerlw.bsky.social · 4d

A Nobel Peace Prize for democracy!

And democracy promotes peace: academic.oup.com/isq/article/...

www.nobelpeaceprize.org/articles/nob...

The Norwegian Nobel Committee has decided to award the Nobel Peace Prize for 2025 to Maria Corina Machado - Nobel Peace Prize

for her tireless work promoting democratic rights for the people of Venezuela and for her struggle to achieve a just and peaceful transition from dictatorship to democracy.

www.nobelpeaceprize.org

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Anne Applebaum @anneapplebaum.bsky.social · 6d

"We took the freedom of speech away," says the president

Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 6d

Trump: "We took the freedom of speech away because that's been through the courts and the courts said you have freedom of speech, but what has happened is when they burn a flag it agitates and irritates crowds."

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Haakon Gjerløw @haakongjerlw.bsky.social · 6d

Takk!

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Haakon Gjerløw @haakongjerlw.bsky.social · 6d

I'm looking for journals on organization/business management with a clear focus on causal inference, but this is a research field I know nothing about. Any tips?

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Joshua J. Friedman @joshuajfriedman.com · 13d

One of my favorite anecdotes from THE PREHISTORY OF THE FAR SIDE: "That doesn't sound like the Jane Goodall we know."

A few days after this cartoon was published, my syndicate received a very indignant letter from someone representing the Jane Goodall Institute.
Not only did my syndicate and I both get read the Riot Act, there was a vague implication that litigation over this cartoon might be around the corner.
I was horrified. Not so much from a fear of being sued (I just couldn't see how this cartoon could be construed as anything but silly, but because of my deep respect for Jane Goodall and her well-known contributions to pri-matology. The last thing in the world I would have intentionally done was offend Dr. Goodall in any way.
Before I had a chance to write my apology, another complication arose.
The National Geographic Society contacted my syndicate and expressed a

desire to reprint the cartoon in a special centennial issue of their magazine. My editor, aware of what had just occurred, declined, explaining why.
Apparently, whoever it was that sent the inquiry from National Geographic was shocked. They told my editor that "that doesn't sound like the Jane Goodall we know." They did some checking themselves, and an interesting fact was eventually discovered: Jane Goodall loved the cartoon. Furthermore, she was totally unaware that any of this "stuff" was going on. Some phone calls were made, and the cartoon was not only reprinted in the centennial issue of National Geographic, but was also used by her Institute on a T-shirt for fund-raising purposes.
I've since had an opportunity to visit Dr. Goodall at her research facility in Gombe. It's a wonderful place (sort of like right out of National Geographic).
"To refer to Dr. Goodall as a tramp is inexcusable even by a self-described 'loony' as Larson. The cartoon was incredibly offensive and in such poor taste that readers might well question the editorial judgment of running such an atrocity in a newspaper that reputes to be supplying news to persons with a better than average intelligence. The cartoon and its message were absolutely stupid." —Excerpt from the above-mentioned letter that started the ruckus

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Haakon Gjerløw @haakongjerlw.bsky.social · 13d

This is part of a larger project on Zambian politics. Two paper have already been published by our team:

doi.org/10.1080/1357...

doi.org/10.1016/j.el...

And much more in the works!

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Haakon Gjerløw @haakongjerlw.bsky.social · 13d

To do this, we have digitalized the corpus of parliamentary debates for the full duration of the Northern Rhodesian Colony, 1924 - 1964 -- A source hope will help generate more research on colonial legislative politics in the future

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Haakon Gjerløw @haakongjerlw.bsky.social · 13d

In this work, @antonkronborg.bsky.social @oyvindstiansen.bsky.social and I try to understand how discrimination on the parliamentary floor changed as the African population won (limited) representation in the colonial Northern Rhodesian Legislative Council.

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Haakon Gjerløw @haakongjerlw.bsky.social · 13d

Happy and thankful that our WP "Debating threats to authoritarian rule: Inclusion and Discrimination in the Legislative Council of Northern Rhodesia" has won the David Olson Award 2025!

rc08.ipsa.org/post/2025/09...

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𝙅𝙖𝙘🍩𝙗 𝙉𝙮𝙧𝙪𝙥 @jacobnyrup.bsky.social · 16d

Det her er et fantastisk interview med demokratiforskningens nestor @adamprz.bsky.social. Hvis du interesserer dig for USAs demokratis fremtid (og det bør du, for det er afgørende for både din og dine børns egen fremtid) er det læsværdigt!

How Democracies Fall Apart - Dissent Magazine

An interview with Adam Przeworski.

www.dissentmagazine.org

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Hans H. Tung @hanshtung.bsky.social · 17d

Echoing Ilaria—what a way to kick off the weekend! Our project just won a three-year grant from Norges forskningsråd the Research Council of Norway 🎉 (I was told only ~8–10% of proposals got funded. What a tough competition!).

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Haakon Gjerløw @haakongjerlw.bsky.social · 17d

Congratulations!

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hcekroll.bsky.social @hcekroll.bsky.social · 23d

Fredag drepte Israel 31 journalister og andre mediefolk i ett angrep alene: cpj.org/2025/09/isra...

Israel’s killing of 31 Yemeni journalists marks deadliest global attack in 16 years - Committee to Protect Journalists

Washington, D.C., September 19, 2025—Israel’s targeted strikes on two newspaper offices in Yemen’s capital, Sanaa, which killed 31 journalists and media support workers on September 10, signal that it...

cpj.org

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𝙅𝙖𝙘🍩𝙗 𝙉𝙮𝙧𝙪𝙥 @jacobnyrup.bsky.social · 26d

Exactly!

Blue Georgia @bluegeorgia.bsky.social · 27d

David Frum on Jimmy Kimmel: "This is not cancel culture because it's not culture. It's state repression. It's an order from the government. Here is the script, you must read, if you do not read it, you will be taken off the air."

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Haakon Gjerløw @haakongjerlw.bsky.social · 28d

Hurra, gratulerer!

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Magnus B Rasmussen @magnusrasmussen.bsky.social · 28d

Utrolig spennende og å få 12 millioner kroner til å forske på partienes rolle i å etablere den norske velferdsstaten ved hjelp av omfattende historisk datamatrialet og naturlig eksperimenter.

Les mer her: www.usn.no/forskning/fo...

Får 12 millioner til forskning på politiske partier og velferdsstaten - Universitetet i Sørøst-Norge

USN-statsviter er med i eksklusivt selskap av erfarne forskere som får penger fra Forskningsrådets FRIPRO-ordning.

www.usn.no

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Haakon Gjerløw @haakongjerlw.bsky.social · 28d

Hører på radioen at Christopher Sjuve mener Norge har ost i verdensklasse. Det er i så fall helt sykt. Ingenting gjør meg mer EU-tilhenger enn en norsk ostedisk.

Så, hvor får jeg kjøpt all denne gode osten?

Er det kun nisjebutikker som Maschmanns og Gutta på Haugen?

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Haakon Gjerløw @haakongjerlw.bsky.social · Sep 12

Mdg sin løsning fremstår mer effektiv både i pris, treffsikkerhet, og sosial utjevning: la prisene bestemmes av markedet og fordel overskuddet Norge tjener på det progressivt (gjennom lavere skatter eller whatever)

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Haakon Gjerløw @haakongjerlw.bsky.social · Sep 12

Enig. Og selv når man skjønner opplegget fremstår det ikke som en bedre løsning. Man vil bruke markedsmekanismen, men legge til et slags mellomledd for å unngå høye priser. Det vet vi koster penger, uten å vite hva det vil spare. Og vi vet av prisregulering av strøm er regressiv fordelingspolitikk

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