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Next #NECS location revealed. #NECS2026 will take place in Montpellier, FR 17.-20.6.2026

book cover of 'Shaping Film Festivals in a Changing World' in purple

Celebrate the publication of 'Shaping Film Festivals in a Changing World' w/ co-editors Dorota Ostrowska & Tamara Falicov, our own @maryzen.bsky.social and contributors at #SCMS2025!

⏲️TODAY at 5:30pm, 2 min from conference
📍Firelake Grill House, 221 N. Columbus Drive

www.aup.nl/en/book/9789...

Marco Rubio May Have Just Banned Trans Foreigners Seeking Visas From US Entry A new state department cable, meant to target transgender athletes, indicates a potential broader application to all transgender visas, which it states must contain "sex at birth."

1. Major exclusive breaking news: Marco Rubio may have just banned trans foreigners seeking visas with correct gender markers from US Entry.

A new cable, effective immediately, says visas must contain assigned sex at birth and should be rejected if they don't.

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5 Takeaways From Germany’s Election Friedrich Merz and his party won, Elon Musk didn’t seem to move voters, and more lessons from an early German vote with big implications for Europe.

Germany is getting a new chancellor. Its current leader is heading out of power, but his party probably will stick around in a diminished capacity. Sunday’s election produced a few surprises and a lot of suspense. Here are five takeaways.

To answer some quick questions about my latest story:
- It does not apply to the Visa Waiver Program as far as I can see
- It does not impact American citizens
- The ban exclusively impacts transgender foreigners seeking visas in the United States
- It is far more extensive than reported elsewhere

Pink and purple graphic that says, "Trans youth are valid."

Daily reminder. 🏳️‍⚧️

An alle cis Menschen, die mir folgen: die USA treiben die staatliche Auslöschung von trans* Personen voran, und ihr könnt sicher sein, dass dieselben Kräfte schon längst hier am Werk sind (wer erinnert sich noch an das Treffen der CSU-Delegation mit De Santis?) ->

Meanwhile, the US-based colleagues of the Film Festival Alliance (FFA) are running a Festival Worker Employment & Compensation Study. Here you get to the survey if you work at a film festival (in the US, but also abroad).
#FilmFestivalLabor #FilmFestivalAlliance

Presentation of 3rd Fair Festival Award On February 17, 2025, the Workgroup Festival Labour within ver.di will present the 3rd Fair Festival Award to the fairest film festival in Germany. We are very happy and invite you to check out the sh...

German #FairFestivalAward 2025 was given out by Festival Labor @verdi-medien.bsky.social this week at the #Berlinale2025 based on a survey asking film festival workers to evaluate their film festivals as employers. Congrats Short FF HH.
The larger report will be published shortly. #FilmFestivalLabor

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Wann ist ein #Filmfestival fair? Wenn es so läuft wie hier: @verdi-medien.bsky.social ehrt Kurzfilm Festival Hamburg mit Fair Festival Award 2025. 🥳https://www.verdi.de/presse/pressemitteilungen/++co++70ba5558-ed1b-11ef-bbdf-890f1199ae9d

Scientists fight Norway’s language law, warning of talent exodus Mandatory language courses for foreign researchers could harm Norway’s ability to attract the best talent, Nobel laureate says, as rule prompts legal challenge.

Meanwhile in NOR: "In 2022, ca 44% of PhD cand & 74% of postdoc fellows at NOR higher-ed institutions from abroad. [] law unlikely to strengthen Norwegian as scientific language. 3-month courses won’t provide proficiency needed “to partake in aca discussions or write academic texts in Norwegian”.

Wie die Wissenschaft unter der US-Politik von Donald Trump leidet Die Trump-Regierung hat wissenschaftliche Programme beschnitten, unterbrochen oder zensiert. Die Folgen werden weit über die USA hinausreichen.

"Die SZ hat Wissenschaftler i verschiedenen Ländern z d aktuellen Entwicklungen id USA befragt. Unklarheit & Ungewissheit waren () Leitthemen id Antworten. Die immer neuen Restriktionen, alle abrupt verordnet, verunsichern d Wissenschafts-Community massiv."
www.sueddeutsche.de/wissen/trump...

"Wir dürfen die EU-Forschungsförderung nicht den Wettbewerbspolitikern überlassen"

Interview mit Georg Schütte über Sorgen um das #Forschungsrahmenprogramm, Macrons KI-Vorstoß, Europas #Innovationsrückstand – und Prioritäten für die nächste Bundesregierung.

Im Blog: www.jmwiarda.de/https-www.jm...

I published this piece yesterday, and today JD Vance went to Munich (yes, Munich) and lectured German politicians about why they ought to break down the firewall that has kept the far-right out of German politics for decades, and work with the Holocaust-minimizing AfD. www.zeit.de/politik/ausl...

In Zeiten zunehmenden Rechtsrucks erwarten wir von der Politik, alles zu tun, um Frauenrechte bestmöglich zu schützen - statt vorbildlich demokratische Willensbildungsprozesse zu ersticken.

Gestern wurde der Gesetzentwurf zur Entkriminalisierung von Schwangerschaftsabbrüchen im Rechtsausschuss gestoppt und ist damit de facto gescheitert!
Das obwohl 80 % der Deutschen wollen, dass selbstbestimmte Abbrüche aus dem Strafrecht verschwinden.

Wir kämpfen weiter!

#stimmefürfrauen

Der Täter war offenbar ein Rechtsterrorist, die Schule ein Ort an dem Eingewanderte schwedisch lernen können. Natürlich sagen dt Medien er hätte kein ideologisches Motiv gehabt. Es ist furchtbar.

www.telegraph.co.uk/world-news/2...

Hundreds protest rapid changes from immigration to gender issues under Trump and in state Event in downtown South Bend came on same day as protests at state capitols across the U.S.

While I didn't know this happend today and so didn't join the protests in South Bend, I am happy to know people from ND went!

This is how Trump’s war on federal workers threatens democracy Two former political appointees in the Biden-Harris administration explain why "defending an unbiased civil service preserves the vital link between 'we the people' and a government truly of, by, and ...

#GLAADinstitute alum Omar Noureldin gives a perspective on how important civil servants are to our lives, and a look at why purging the civil service, especially LGBTQ people, people of color, and people with disabilities, is going to hurt the USA.

Exactly. We are not hearing enough from University leaders in the US. This silent complicity is toxic - for academia, science, freedom.

Mississippi Senator Bradford Blackmon isn’t playin around.

In answer to the GOP’s ridiculous “life begins at contraception” law, he’s introduced Senate Bill 2319 stating that “CONTRACEPTION BEGINS AT ERECTION” and it makes it illegal for a man to cum if he does not intend to fertilize an embryo.

Danke, Berlin!

Auf der Tesla Gigafactory in Berlin steht: „Heil Tesla!“

Tesla Gigafactory, Berlin - right now!

In cooperation with @ledbydonkeys.org

more detail here: www.filmfestivalresearch.org/index.php/cf...

For those still looking to form a panel on #FilmFestivalResearch for #NECS2025, please see the detailed CfP for the pre-constituted panels in the FFR Workgroup here: www.filmfestivalresearch.org/index.php/cf...

‘Better a bad image than no image’: interview with Richard Dyer on organizing the UK’s first lesbian and gay film season Practices in film curation share a rich history with Britain’s gay liberation projects. With the 1970s came the proliferation of numerous countercultural c

My first article has been published!

If you fancy a read on the history of Britain’s gay and lesbian film curation, and an interview with Richard Dyer on his groundbreaking season ‘Images of Homosexuality’, then click the link below…

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Who is doing #FilmFestivalResearch and has arrived on Bluesky?
@dburgess.bsky.social @nulladiessinelinea.bsky.social @jonpetrychyn.bsky.social @bestqualitycrab.bsky.social

Please help spread: @nulladiessinelinea.bsky.social @dburgess.bsky.social @jonpetrychyn.bsky.social

DL for submitting to #NECS2025 conference in Lisbon, Portugal (18-21 June) is approaching (Jan. 31). Submit your paper proposal to m.devalck@uu.nl by Jan. 26 to be included in pre-constituted panel in #FilmFestivalReseach. More info about conference, CfP & updates, pls visit necs.org/conference.

Trump Wants Snitches to Report on DEI. There’s Just One Problem. Donald Trump wants people to expose diversity, equity, and inclusion efforts in the federal government. The idea is already flopping.

it's already working
Trump Wants Snitches to Report on DEI. There’s Just One Problem. newrepublic.com/post/190576/...