@elengebretsen
she/they Professor of Gender Research; researching gender + sexual diversities, social movements + inequalities; global anti-gender politics; future of democracy; climate justice; China, Sinosphere + Nordic Europe.
really tired of conversations about how we need to get people to spend more time offline that don't acknowledge that one of the reasons people ARE online is their access needs aren't being met in physical spaces. This is especially true for queer people and disabled people.
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Dette utelukker interseksjonelle perspektiver og analyser som tar flere samvirkende ulikhetsmarkører og diskrimineringsstrukturer på alvor. At dette gjøres fremdeles, i 2026, er skuffende men ikke overraskende. De som er så redde for statlig kjønnsmangfolds- og queermayhem, kan bare slappe av. 2/2
Konferansen lanserte rapporten, "Likestilling i endring. En medieanalyse av den offentlige debatten i 2025". Mulig mye er i endring i den offentlige debatten, men likestilling forstås fremdeles utelukkende som binær størrelse, altså 'kvinner' og 'menn', implisitt hetero, cis, hvite. 1/2
Katrine Fangen snakker om "anti-gender" og at det ikke finnes en (god) oversettelse på norsk. Men det gjør det: "anti-kjønn". Den betegnelsen brukte vi f.eks. i Aftenposten-kronikken i fjor + jeg har en tekst, "antikjønns-mobiliseringer" i en kommende fagbok i kjønnsstudier. #likestilling2026
Seniorforsker Pinar Tank ved PRIO gir en veldig god oversikt på geopolitikk og kjønn. Med et svært relevant sitat fra Judith Butler. [Bufdir-konferansen på kjønn, teknologi og demokrati i dag (streames)] #likestilling2026
Thank you for this uplifting post 💗
USA og Israels angrep på Iran er forferdelig. Det rammer sivile hardt og har gjort hele regionen enda mer utrygg. Å bombe seg til fred er en farlig strategi. Vi kan ikke gi opp håpet på et friere og mer demokratisk samfunn for alle iranere.
Excellent analysis of anti-trans mobilizations by @celestinekunkeler.bsky.social
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1) within any marginalized group, members will disagree & some individuals may espouse views that others find somewhat off-base or extreme 2) if you're a cis person whose entry point into a particular trans discourse is to amplify Jesse Singal & Noah Smith HotTakes™ about it, WTF is wrong with you?!
I dag er jeg intervjuet av Blikk om forskningsetikksaken. Den blir bare verre og verre. (abo)
>> [Concerned troops] report the unrestricted euphoria of their commanders and command chains as to how this new “biblically-sanctioned” war is clearly the undeniable sign of the expeditious approach of the fundamentalist Christian “End Times”...
jonathanlarsen.substack.com/p/us-troops-...
A digital drawing of author Maia Kobabe, a white nonbinary person with short brown hair wearing a patterned blue shirt, who scowls while holding up a copy of eir book GENDER QUEER: A MEMOIR. Maia is saying: H.R. 7661 is a national book banning bill which seeks to remove any book that "involves gender dysphoria or transgenderism" from all public schools in the US. This would ban my books, and any other book with trans themes, from public schools. PLEASE call your House Reps and say: NO ON H.R. 7661!
H.R. 7661 is a national book banning bill which seeks to remove any book that "involves gender dysphoria or transgenderism" from all public schools in the US. This would ban all my books, & any other book with trans themes, from public schools. PLEASE call your House Reps & say: NO ON H.R. 7661!
@rikiwilchins.bsky.social 2026 Mar 2 Advocate
After Kansas law invalidates correct-sex drivers' licenses for trans residents, in one of the first corporate responses, Lyft invites them to use code TRANSJOY to get 50% off rides this week.
Unstable energy markets and migration are fuels for far right populism. With Germany, France, and the UK about to fall to far right nationalist parties, this will push them over the edge. I believe that's part of the goal. Russia has done this for over a decade with Syria and Ukraine.
om masterstudentens evner, alvorlig svekket. Hva skal vi da med masteroppgaver? Her må universitetene tenke helt nytt. Ett menneske, ett institutt Agentrevolusjonen vil etter all sannsynlighet føre til store sprang i menneskelig kunnskap. Alle har nå et helt team av dyktige, digitale forskere tilgjengelig for en relativt billig penge. Disse forskernes produksjon må, hvis den skal få godkjentstempel av det vitenskapelige miljøet, fortsatt kvalitetssikres av krediterte seniorforskere og professorer. Innenfor kvantitativ samfunnsforskning ser jeg for meg at hver enkelt forsker blir en slags overordnet administrator eller «guide» for et helt egendefinert forskningsprogram, hvor en sverm av KI-agenter gjør ulike mindre undersøkelser, hvis funn syntetiseres, aggregeres og vurderes av den menneskelige «forskningsdirektøren». I dette scenarioet vil hver enkelt forsker bli sitt eget forskningsinstitutt eller senter for fremragende forskning.
Tore Wig har full AI brainrot, rip
NEW BY ME: I spoke with Lio Cundiff, the 31-year-old transgender comedian in Chicago who saved a baby.
He’s a cool dude who’s down to earth and embarrassed by the attention.
I hope you, Tig Notaro, and River Butcher read this.
www.advocate.com/news/people/...
Den forskningsetiske komiteen legger ikke akkurat fingrene imellom i sin siste fellelse av OUS’ forskning på transpersoner.
Jeg er intervjuet, og mener de involverte må fritas fra oppgavene sine inntil saken er ferdig gransket.
Nettopp. Dette blir nok kjørt hardt på ifm neste valgkamp.
"A complaint about an oppressive situation is used as evidence that a person is not really oppressed by a situation" (pp. 55) and other motivational insights and reminders by THE @saranahmed.bsky.social Annotating my copy with comments as a way to document, remember, complain, archiving. 💪
Er i et vårlig uk for øyeblikket og vil bare nevne at jeg måtte vise leg til en streng ansatt da jeg skulle kjøpe litt booze på waitrose i dag. Hilsen 52,5 år.
En forskningsetisk skandale som bare får lov til å pågå. Tydeligvis.
The political effects of X's feed algorithm https://doi.org/10.1038/s41586-026-10098-2 Received: 16 December 2024 Accepted: 4 January 2026 Published online: 18 February 2026 Open access • Check for updates Germain Gauthier,5, Roland Hodler?5, Philine Widmer35 & Ekaterina Zhuravskaya3,4,5 m Feed algorithms are widely suspected to influence political attitudes. However, previous evidence from switching off the algorithm on Meta platforms found no political effects'. Here we present results from a 2023 field experiment on Elon Musk's platform X shedding light on this puzzle. We assigned active US-based users randomly to either an algorithmic or a chronological feed for 7 weeks, measuring political attitudes and online behaviour. Switching from a chronological to an algorithmic feed increased engagement and shifted political opinion towards more conservative positions, particularly regarding policy priorities, perceptions of criminal investigations into Donald Trump and views on the war in Ukraine. In contrast, switching from the algorithmic to the chronological feed had no comparable effects. Neither switching the algorithm on nor switching it off significantly affected affective polarization or self-reported partisanship. To investigate the mechanism, we analysed users' feed content and behaviour. We found that the algorithm promotes conservative content and demotes posts by traditional media. Exposure to algorithmic content leads users to follow conservative political activist accounts, which they continue to follow even after switching off the algorithm, helping explain the asymmetry in effects. These results suggest that initial exposure to X's algorithm has persistent effects on users' current political attitudes and account-following behaviour, even in the absence of a detectable effect on partisanship.
A new paper shows that less than 2 months of exposure to Twitter’s algorithmic feed significantly shifts people’s political views to the right.
Moving from chronological feed to the algorithmic feed also increases engagement.
This is one of the most concerning papers I’ve read in awhile.
The beautiful, harrowing photography of Ukrainian Julia Kochetova, unwitting war journalist, capturing the humanity and resilience of her countryfolk since the start of the full-scale Russian invasion, by Charlotte Higgins www.theguardian.com/artanddesign...
www.theguardian.com/artanddesign...
Arild Hermstad hilser på Volodymyr Zelenskyj i Stortinget. Arild ser bestemt ut, Zelenskyj smiler. Bildet er i sort hvitt. Doble støtten! står over i neongrønn skrift
Ukrainerne sloss fortsatt for Europas frihet, fire år etter at Russland invaderte for fullt. 🇺🇦 De kan vinne – hvis vi og andre land støtter dem mer. Norge kan ha tjent 3000 milliarder som følge av krigen. Signer på mdg.no/ukraina om du er enig!
Foto: Morten Brakestad/Stortinget
As one commenter wrote:
May they outlive us by a million years!
Indeed.
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Polling on trans issues is difficult to interpret. It becomes even more difficult when pollsters use politically charged terms like 'transgender ideology.'
Great new analysis by @billiejsweeney.bsky.social, only on Assigned Media.
www.assignedmedia.org/breaking-new...
Brilliant interview with so many vital insights. E.g.
"Scientific understanding, both natural and social, is essential to comprehend the emergency of our time. And that understanding, especially the social and political part, can only lead to rage."
