Overnight, Russia launched its deadliest attack on Kyiv in nearly a year. This is a reminder of Putin's cruelty and just another reason the United States must stand firm in our commitment to aiding Ukraine. Russia is the obstacle to peace, not Ukraine.

Laments about murderous drone swarms don't change a thing- clever air defenses do! UA defenders are synching heavy artillery with recon drones& FPV interceptors. And if we stand together, we can give boost them with a launch station! Still €2850 needed, pls join! euromaidanpress.com/lets-support...

Due to Ukraine's preemptive destruction of Russian strategic bombers, Russia used just 7 planes, fully loaded, to launch 36 missiles (that reached Ukraine) on June 6th. Previously, Russia would load bombers with only 1-3 missiles each to minimize wear, firing up to 108 missiles in a single attack.

'Scientific conferences are leaving the US amid border fears' www.nature.com/articles/d41...

Thanks for having me- My interview (now in English) with Ukraine’s leading press agency about the impact and mechanisms of the Russian disinformation and influence campaign — and how it affects and reaches us far beyond social media. www.ukrinform.net/rubric-socie...

SEAI has announced that it will invest around €19m in a pipeline of energy projects over a number of years.

"No student should lose valuable time and mental energy over something as fundamental as health care." scim.ag/4kex04a #ScienceWorkingLife

Orban making overtures to Simion made sense from one perspective only: to gain an illiberal ally in the EU Council. Orban chose to make this incredibly costly gamble, essentially betraying the Transylvanian voters his party spent decades cultivating. And he lost. This is likely consequential.

update! Simion, the far-right candidate, lost so conclusively that he actually conceded

Few pollsters and analysts predicted even a week ago that Nicusor Dan, a quietly spoken mathematician and anti-corruption activist, had a serious chance of defeating far-right candidate George Simion in Romania's presidential election, writes Liam Nolan

Pro-EU centrist Nicusor Dan wins tense Romania presidential vote rerun ahead of nationalist George Simion

Bucharest 👇

⚡️ Poland detects foreign-funded election ads amid fears of Russian interference. The disclosure follows a warning from Digital Affairs Minister Krzysztof Gawkowski, who on May 6 said Moscow was carrying out an "unprecedented" interference campaign.

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While russian drones drop thermobaric munitions on civilians, a Ukrainian sea drone has successfully taken down a russian fighter jet! The operation, conducted near Novorossiysk port in the Black Sea, was carried out by HUR, SBU, & the AFU. Kudos to the Ukrainian defenders! Ukraine has great cards.

I spoke with NPR about the threatening letters that the Republican administration is sending to medical journals.

OTD in 1945, having just liberated Lithuania from Nazis, Soviet mass deportations resumed, liberating 1000 Lithuanians from Lithuania to provide slave labor for USSR. Within 2 years over half were dead. Imagine mass deportations taking place today...

💥Hungary's economic crisis is deepening. Viktor Orbán promised a “flying start,” but the country is back in recession—before Trump’s tariff war fallout has even hit. Orbán, who has ruled the country since 2010, blames Ukraine, the EU—anyone but himself. His chances of reelection are slipping away.

Applications are open for the role of Senior Programme and Communications Manager as part of the @dri.ie‬ team based @ria.ie. This is a specific-purpose maternity leave cover contract. Find out more and apply by 21 May www.ria.ie/about/careers/vacancy-senior-programme-and-communications-manager

A complex and contentious tale of AI benchmarks... AI is a trillion-dollar industry, and researchers say that tech giants are "distorting" the league table of chatbot performance. www.newscientist.com/article/2478...

Russian forces once again struck civilian apartment buildings in Zaporizhzhia and Donetsk regions.

www.rte.ie/news/2025/05... I think this is a good analysis. "In short, it supports the argument that the court's decision was taken in the interest of protecting Romanian democracy."

"American officials have now been explicitly asked to make lists of their contacts with other Americans, for no practical, legal, or national-security reason" Read @theatlantic.com on a State Dept witch hunt www.theatlantic.com/ideas/archiv...

You can now register for the IUA Future of Ireland hybrid event! Join Minister Lawless T.D. as he outlines his priorities and vision for the future of higher education and research in Ireland. 🗓️ Date: May 12th 🕜 Time: 1.30 - 2.30pm 📍 Register to watch online: us02web.zoom.us/webinar/regi...

Ukraine has exposed Trump’s true identity: as a vandal, an autocrat, a gangster and a fool | Jonathan Freedland

“A Financial Times analysis of more than 350,000 posts on X related to the election, gathered since the snap poll was announced in March, revealed a network of co-ordinated accounts pushing content to boost Conservative leader Pierre Poilievre and tarnish his counterpart, the Liberal’s Mark Carney.”

💔 Russians are taking more than just land in #Ukraine — they’re taking people’s homes. Houses, where once Ukrainian families lived peacefully, now are stolen by #Russia. Read more stories about #Mariupol residents in such situations in our article: texty.org.ua/articles/114917/

From @timkmak.bsky.social, on conflicts of interest: Steve Witkoff's Russian-linked business partner open.substack.com/pub/countero...

Russian President Vladimir Putin announced an Easter ceasefire starting on April 19, claiming that it would "test Ukraine's sincerity in pursuing peace talks," but across the front line, Ukrainian soldiers tell the Kyiv Independent they have yet to see any sign of it.

Carl Bildt: "As long as the Europeans stand firm in their determination to continue assisting Ukraine financially and militarily, Putin and Trump can agree to whatever they want. It will have no material impact on the ground." www.project-syndicate.org/commentary/t...

I messaged Ukrainian soldiers on the frontline about the Easter "ceasefire". Their answer: Russia is firing as usual and preparing new attacks. "For us, it’s just another day of war, with shelling and even an attempt to assault our positions," one brigade told me www.theguardian.com/world/2025/a...

Many in the media are still struggling to grasp what is really going on. Which is: Trump naively vowed to bring peace to Ukraine. But Russia refuses to comply. Because he admires Putin, Trump must blame Zelenskyy. Therefore, Ukraine is being set up for a fall. The US is going to abandon Ukraine.

More signs that Trump's team bends over for the Russians. Washington Post reports that Trump's pick for D.C.'s U.S. Attorney appeared on Russian state propaganda over 150 times. The US State Department has confirmed that these networks are arms of Russian intelligence.

⚡ A hacking group previously linked to Russian intelligence, has recently launched a coordinated cyber campaign targeting European diplomatic officials by distributing fake invitations to wine-tasting events.

"I cannot [bring] myself morally to spend Canadian taxpayers’ money in attending U.S. conferences." My latest story for @science.org—about international scientists rethinking conferences on U.S. soil. www.science.org/content/arti...

NEW: Thousands of CDC employees who worked on things like preventing HIV and lead poisoning have been told they were subject to a reduction in force. Experts say people will die.

You have to see this. PoliticsGirl and her husband teamed up with the brilliant Timothy Snyder (author of On Tyranny) and the legendary John Lithgow to create something truly powerful. It’s important, it’s urgent—and it needs to be shared far and wide.

Would you present your next NeurIPS paper in Europe instead of traveling to San Diego (US) if this was an option? Søren Hauberg (DTU) and I would love to hear the answer through this poll: (1/6)

"Hegseth, Waltz, Gabbard: Private Data and Passwords of Senior U.S. Security Officials Found Online" www.spiegel.de/internationa...

When scholars of authoritarianism and fascism leave U.S. universities because of the deteriorating political situation here, we should really worry.

With the #Signalgate scandal, we see our government openly compromising our national security, the better to violate our rights. I explain here: snyder.substack.com/p/signalgate...

this is Zelensky's home town

I still struggle to grasp that russia bombing residential houses, schools, or hospitals is considered okay for this 'peace process.'

They used Signal unlawfully to hide various crimes, including war crimes. It’s all the same story, not different ones.

Good time to follow Prof Maria Popova

Trump’s dislike of Europe is actively aligned with Putin’s hatred of the EU. The Ukrainian Revolution of Dignity was inspired by the prospect of joining it. And Putin’s “active measures” pushing for Brexit was his punitive response

Witkoff was a fool for joining that chat from Moscow. But the entire charlatan national security team also chose to put him on that chat when they knew (or should have known) that he was in Moscow. A spy novel based on this level of cretinous behavior would be unbelievable.

OTD in 1949 Operation Priboi started. USSR forcibly deported *90,000* Baltic people to 'inhospitable parts' of Russia. 70% of those deported were women & children under 16. Imagine mass deporting children today....

on the Romanian elections, if you want the real story www.youtube.com/watch?v=jBIp...