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Masaya LlavanerasBlanco @masayalb.bsky.social · 19h

@antuliorosales.bsky.social y yo estamos muy contentes por este reconocimiento y con ánimos de difundir el artículo en cuanto sea publicado.

Gracias a @lasavenezuela.bsky.social por generar espacios de estudio y apoyo a los estudios sobre #Venezuela

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Sección de Estudios Venezolanos de LASA @lasavenezuela.bsky.social · 19h

🚨La SVS de LASA se complace en anunciar el Premio Paula Vásquez 2025🚨

MEJOR ARTÍCULO EN EL ÁREA DE CIENCIAS SOCIALES

“Embodying the cost of a predatory state: Depletion via social reproduction in Venezuela’s crisis (2013-2021)” de @masayalb.bsky.social y @antuliorosales.bsky.social

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Caracas Chronicles (RSS) @caracaschronicles.tierra-de-gracia.com · 2d

Attack in Bogotá Hits Two Venezuelan Activists Fleeing Maduro Persecution: https://www.caracaschronicles.com/2025/10/14/attack-in-bogota-hits-two-venezuelan-activists-fleeing-maduro-persecution/

Attack in Bogotá Hits Two Venezuelan Activists Fleeing Maduro Persecution | Caracas Chronicles

Luis Peche and Yendri Velasquez survived after being shot by hit men. But the message is clear: Colombia is not safe for Venezuelan dissidents

www.caracaschronicles.com

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Emmett Macfarlane 🇨🇦 @emmettmacfarlane.com · 22h

The other word for objections to diversity, equity, and inclusion is "racism"

Alex Boyd @alexboyd.bsky.social · 22h

The DEI debate comes to Canada. www.thestar.com/diversity-eq...

Diversity, equity and inclusion are coming under scrutiny — and Pierre Poilievre is ready to push the conversation

Diversity, equity and inclusion initiatives are in the crosshairs south of the border and now the mantle has been taken up by the federal Conservative party, which has released a

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David Smilde @dsmilde.bsky.social · 1d

Trump Administration Authorizes Covert C.I.A. Action in Venezuela www.nytimes.com/2025/10/15/u...

Trump Administration Authorizes Covert C.I.A. Action in Venezuela

www.nytimes.com

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Antulio Rosales @antuliorosales.bsky.social · 5d

Here some of the initial analyses about the María Corina Machado's Nobel Peace Prize award.

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Masaya LlavanerasBlanco @masayalb.bsky.social · 5d

#tryliketerry 💚
Sending my love and energy to all people and families living with cancer. Thanks to my child for walking for me and the women in my family.

#BreastCancer
#Survivor

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Kyle Griffin @kylegriffin1.bsky.social · 5d

A library director in Wyoming who was fired two years ago because she refused to remove books with sexual content and LGBTQ themes from a library's children and young adult sections has just been awarded $700,000 in a settlement. t.co/EA5L1kOZfV

https://www.nytimes.com/2025/10/09/us/wyoming-library-settlement-book-bans-terri-lesley.html?smtyp=cur&smid=fb-nytimes&fbclid=IwdGRjcANWLXdleHRuA2FlbQIxMQABHhlnY6nKj_j4zuP3VjNSstXWBaV1t8-sPQ5C3b_jS6WN...

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Michael Paarlberg @mpaarlberg.bsky.social · 6d

A surprising choice by the Nobel Committee. One (US-centric) interpretation is they didn’t want to give it to Trump but figured giving it to a Trump ally who is a genuine anti-authoritarian leader would mollify him. And encourage him to pursue peace at a time when he’s pursuing military escalation.

The Associated Press @apnews.com · 6d

BREAKING: For her work promoting democratic rights for the people of Venezuela, María Corina Machado wins the Nobel Peace Prize.

María Corina Machado of Venezuela wins the Nobel Peace Prize

Opposition activist María Corina Machado of Venezuela has won the Nobel Peace Prize. The Norwegian Nobel committee praised her as a key figure in unifying Venezuela's political opposition.

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David Smilde @dsmilde.bsky.social · 7d

Qatar Pushes U.S.-Venezuela Diplomacy as Trump Focuses on Military Action www.nytimes.com/2025/10/08/u...

Qatar Pushes U.S.-Venezuela Diplomacy as Trump Focuses on Military Action

www.nytimes.com

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Masaya LlavanerasBlanco @masayalb.bsky.social · 7d

These lyrics are horrible. What is this infatuation with homogeneity (and whiteness ofc) that we are seeing everywhere???

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Dana El Kurd @danaelkurd.bsky.social · 8d

Can I also say I am so angry today. It's the lives lost, the cities wiped out, the time taken from us. We have been consumed with this level of unspeakable violence for 2 years. To think of all the potential futures taken away... it's unfathomable

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Voices of Motherhood @voicesofmotherhood.bsky.social · 22d

We're pleased to share this call for papers for our upcoming conference!

📍Online via Zoom
🗓️Thursday 5 - Friday 6 February 2026
⏱️Abstract deadline Saturday 1 November 2025

See our website for full details 👇

voicesofmotherhood.wp.worc.ac.uk/index.php/news-and-resources/updates-from-the-project

The Politics of Motherhood: Maternalism, Maternity and Mothering.

Thursday 5 and Friday 6 February 2026, Online Conference.

Ruth Davidson, Anna Muggeridge, Eve Pennington and Beckie Rutherford.

Keynote address by Dr Sarah Crook, Swansea University: ‘Cradles of Discontent: Motherhood as a pathway to activism in modern Britain’.

This conference is supported by a UKRI Future Leaders’ Fellowship ‘Voices of Motherhood’ Project reference MR/Y018184/1 and the University of Worcester.

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Masaya LlavanerasBlanco @masayalb.bsky.social · 13d

Los "escritorios diminutos" siempre son una joya, pero esta es una joya aún más especial. Que belleza este conciertico de Chuwi.

#TinyDesk Thank you for this jewel @npr.org

www.npr.org/2025/09/25/g...

Chuwi: Tiny Desk Concert

The Puerto Rican band blends bomba, plena and salsa into its sound, trading ocean blues and sunset pinks for playful jazz breaks and tasteful synthesizer effects.

www.npr.org

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DAWN Feminist @dawnfeminist.bsky.social · 18d

Along with over 60 organizations and experts, DAWN is calling on the World Bank to investigate @ifcorg.bsky.social funded hospitals accused of denying emergency care, detaining patients, and exploiting staff. True development demands #PeopleOverProfits

📮 Full letter: assets.bwbx.io/documents/us...

assets.bwbx.io

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Seth Edmunds @phealthy.bsky.social · 18d

www.reddit.com/r/science/s/...

From the science community on Reddit: One in 15 Americans has witnessed a mass shooting, a new study shows, revealing the depth and impact of the epidemic of gun violence that has washed over the US i...

Explore this post and more from the science community

www.reddit.com

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Masaya LlavanerasBlanco @masayalb.bsky.social · 18d

“this is yet another way to control women; another way to reduce us to walking wombs rather than multidimensional human beings. This war on Tylenol is also very much a war on women”

Trump’s war on Tylenol is also very much a war on women | Arwa Mahdawi | The Guardian

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Geoff Johnson @geoffthejohnson.bsky.social · 20d

So much energy and righteous anger here after the horrifying attack against a woman by an ICE thug earlier today.

#ICEoutofNY

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Till Eckert @tilleckert.com · 20d

1/ I’m Till Eckert, a ProPublica reporter. For the past 2 weeks, I’ve been going to the same NY immigration courthouse.

Nearly every time, I see ICE agents arresting immigrants. Today, a woman was slammed to the ground after begging officials not to take her husband away.

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BISA - British International Studies Association @mybisa.bsky.social · 22d

🎉 We are OPEN now for abstract, roundtable and panel submissions for #BISA2026 🎉

'Is International Studies ready for what comes next? New thinking, new directions' 🌎

Submit here! 👉 buff.ly/kK9oIlM

@visitbrighton.bsky.social @simonrushton.bsky.social @julietdryden.bsky.social

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Masaya LlavanerasBlanco @masayalb.bsky.social · 21d

Normalcy isn’t clickable

JA Westenberg @joanwestenberg.com · 21d

I keep seeing articles about 'scientists baffled by unexpected finding' and it's always something like 'people who exercise feel better.' Are scientists actually chronically baffled or do we just have a journalism problem where normalcy isn't clickable?

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Susan Kaye Quinn is Writing Solarpunk 🌞🌱 @susankayequinn.bsky.social · 22d

They've lost the 9yos

JA Westenberg
@Daojoan@mastodon.social

My 9 year old and his classmates have started using “that’s AI” to mean “I don’t believe you.”

Me: we’re having dinosaur meat for dinner

Kiddo: that’s AI
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Sassy Denise @sassydenise.bsky.social · 23d

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DAWN Feminist @dawnfeminist.bsky.social · 22d

🎧 DAWN joins New Books Network to talk about #PandemicPoliciesAndResistance!

Masaya Llavaneras and Damien P. Gock discuss how a global feminist project became a book linking research, advocacy & resistance on the world's largest podcast network for new books!

newbooksnetwork.com/pandemic-pol...

Masaya Llavaneras Blanco and Damien P. Gock eds., "Pandemic Policies and Resistance: Southern Feminist Critiques in Times of Covid-19" (Bloomsbury, 2025) - New Books Network

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DAWN Feminist @dawnfeminist.bsky.social · 22d

Hear from Nour Bader herself! 🎥2025 #DAWNFellowship

From her mother’s journey with cancer to encounters with women crossing checkpoints for care, she shows how illness, stigma, and occupation shape bodies & identities in #Palestine.

💬 Watch, listen, and share with care.

#FeministResearch #DAWN40

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Broadbent Institute @broadbent.bsky.social · 24d

From Perspectives Journal – Issue no. 4:

Despite legislative guarantees under the Canada Elections Act, practical barriers continue to hold back unhoused individuals from political participation.

Read more at perspectivesjournal.ca/ballots-without-barriers/

Ballots Without Barriers: Empowering Unhoused Voters during the 2025 Ontario Election | Perspectives Journal

Despite legislative guarantees under the Canada Elections Act, practical barriers continue to hold one of the country’s most marginalized populations back from political participation.

perspectivesjournal.ca

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