Is anyone looking to do a postdoc in Ireland to jumpstart an independent career? I'd love to support an application for the @researchireland.ie Pathway Programme. Internal UCD deadline is February 4 2026, so please reach out sooner rather than later! #postdocjobs #ireland #STEM 🧪 ⚗️ #compchem

The non-aligned countries should have come out on top after the cold war...

No. This one though... (Source: indigamerica.blogspot.com/p/downloads....)

Is there historical precedent of a country (or, more generally, a part of an imperial core) became a colony of one of its former colonies? Or is the UK the first one?

So I'm currently compiling a JS engine because of an R-package that generates random colours..... (not my code)

Will anyone please think of the poor people on the Death Star who had to blow up Alderaan!?

There were 242 distress calls registered in Malta’s search and rescue (SAR) in the first six months of 2025, but Maltese authorities only responded to two of the cases, according to the Malta Migration Archive. www.maltatoday.com.mt/news/nationa...

Mehr Chancen für "Forschende" die neue Methoden entwickeln wollen mit denen man Menschen möglichst effizient auf Knopfruck ermordet. Genau was die Welt braucht, davon haben wir noch viel zuwenig..........

In North America, Europeans, while stealing land and murdering the people living on it, "hunted down" and kidnapped Apache leader and resistance fighter Goyaałé from his native lands. During his captivity, he was used as a tourist attraction and told by Roosevelt that he was "not a good Indian".

It was around 500 years ago when Europeans kidnapped Incan emperor Atahualpa after butchering his bodyguards.

#OtD 4 Jan 1932 martial law was declared in Honduras, to quell a revolt initiated by sacked workers from the United Fruit Company stories.workingclasshistory.com/article/1043...

die nzz ist wahrlich die zeitung, die die schweiz verdient

These kind of lists outdate so fast.

What a nice song.

The hubris and hypocrisyof Europe and it's "offspring" truly has no parallel in history. To quote from recently released documents: "We envisage the ICC acting only in the case of failed states [...]" — (alleged) war criminal and potential future colonial governor Tony Blair

A timely reminder that unilateral sanctions by the US kill 564,258 people every year.

I wish there was something left I could boycott.

Well done, @nobelprize.org Whoever was involved in the awarding of this year's prize needs to be buried deeply to hide the shame they should be feeling.

Another NYE, another night of terror for millions of birds across the Netherlands (and around the world). Last year we published in @ecologicalsociety.bsky.social Frontiers 🧪 about the massive impact of fireworks on birds 🦅. Paper: doi.org/10.1002/fee.... Thread below 🧵👇

The fucking fireworks last longer than the effect of the cat's pregabalin...

I can't help thinking the possibility of the most meaningful asteroid impact since the KT boundary formed is on the table here....

Song of the year: Propagandhi - Benito's Earlier Work (youtu.be/cKnKqZSmJkQ?...) Book of the year: Adrian Tchaikovsky - Shroud (app.thestorygraph.com/books/0e23c4...) Movie of the year: Boris Lojkine - Souleymane’s Story (www.indiewire.com/criticism/mo...)

Short doc about the worst anti-social network

AI fetishism, as in commodity fetishism. Thinking AI is in and of itself a source of (surplus) value, rather than just a catalyst for (a lot of VCs bet on this) changing social relations. Even in its most flashy examples, value is created by the de facto dispossession of artists.

I am working with reaction SMARTS again and they can be really tricky in representing heterocycles! I just had a "fun" time debugging a reaction involving tryptophan - I will show you what I mean!

Statewatch Analysis: The EU's Pact on Migration and Asylum is likely to send the situation for migrants and refugees in the Balkans from bad to worse. www.statewatch.org/analyses/202...

My (IMO essential and excellent) holiday book.

#OtD 24 Dec 1783 simultaneous mutinies occurred on two Dutch East India Company ships. On the Java, 25 Chinese sailors rebelled after cruel treatment by Europeans, while 20 enslaved Javanese sailors murdered several officers on the Slot ter Hoge stories.workingclasshistory.com/article/9636...

1/n On this day in 1847, Algeria was proclaimed a colony by France. While all of colonialism is a horrific crime, here's some of what France did *after* 1945. 2-3 million Algerians were forced into 1,150 "regroupment" camps without sanitation, systemic violence, forced labour, many deaths.

Ooh nooo...

Im Moment findet ja in Europa ein Wettlauf der dämlichen Ideen statt. Die Schweiz ist für einmal voll dabei.

On this day in 1598 the South American Mapuche won a decisive victory against the European invaders in the Battle of Curalaba, afterwards resisting them for almost 350 years. They were then brutally conquered by the nation states of Chile and Argentina, and Europeans stole their land once more.

Regarding certain files—it's always those you suspect most, isn't it?

De wetenschap moet investeren in mensen, niet in hype.

This is a nice bubble-shaped animation. Note the lack of a "value out" stream.

This is not going to end well. What's not similar to the training data will not be "reviewed" well, rewarding bandwagon papers and punishing the new, weird, and exciting stuff.

Our Open-source Hardware Infrastructure for The Netherlands (OSHNED) has been granted :) This will strengthen and improve coordination among the hubs in the Netherlands (Wageningen, Eindhoven, Delft, VU, Radboud) with a single goal: making Open Hardware the standard in science.

AI is big business at Europe’s borders Exemptions for research and growing militarisation of border policy across Europe are creating lucrative opportunities. Defence firms benefit most and now research institutes in Switzerland are also cashing in. www.swissinfo.ch/eng/human-ri...

"Etwa 1500 Stellen für Nachwuchsforschende könnten nicht mehr finanziert werden" Kein Problem, die Schweiz kann auf ihre massiven Bodenschätze, ihren wachsenden internationalen Einfluss, und die zukunftsgerichtete Industrie setzen............

Michael C. Rockefeller got shipwrecked in 1963, washed up on an island, and was promptly eaten by cannibals.

Da geht's um unmenschliche Methoden die sich hinter Bürokratie verstecken sodass sich die Bevölkerung dann einreden kann, dass sie ja Human seien. Was am Ende solcher Entwicklungen steht sollte allgemein bekannt sein.

GPUs that don't come from Nvidia.

Impressed by the hyper modern campus of Shenzhen University of Advanced Technology. All built in just over one year... 😮

Auch irgendwie die doofste Abfahrt aller Zeiten...

... curl vs wget

Look at these losers, posing as people who actually produce value.