Climate Progress Top 10: 1. Estonia 2. Luxembourg 3. United Kingdom 4. Finland 5. Netherlands 6. Germany 7. France 8. Norway 9. Sweden 10. Austria Of course the US is slipping, intent on staying the greatest atmospheric polluter of all time.

It’s easy to forget after so many years of war that Zelensky was a brilliant comedian before becoming president.

Es ginge aber immer noch etwas mehr. 1934 köpfelte der Schiedsrichter bei Ö-Italien sogar den Ball ins Out, um Ö Sieg zu verhindern. Davor war er bei Gastgeber Mussolini gewesen. Übrigens auch grandios erzählt von @rolinho.bsky.social in "4000 Jahre Niederlagen" www.derstandard.at/story/200000...

Next time I moderate a panel at an academic conference, I will be using a system of yellow and red cards to keep things moving along properly: yellow cards for speakers going overtime, red cards for multiple infractions on time and any audience member who offers a comment instead of a question.

UEFA statement on Balogun case. "An unprecedented, incomprehensible and unjustifiable decision".

A major milestone for #DemocracyResearch. 🏛️ MEDem has been included in the ESFRI Roadmap, recognizing its role in advancing the empirical study of Democracy in Europe. 🇪🇺 Thank you to everyone who helped bring us to this point! 🙏 #ResearchInfrastructure⚙️

Wenn wir verlieren, sind die Habsburger schuld.

Ich schreibe einem fußballkundigen Freund: Fußball ist schon so ein Kingdom of Hindsight, oder? Antwort Freund: Nicht unbedingt! Die Experten wissen vor, während und nach dem Spiel alles besser. 🤌

‼️⚖️ The US Supreme Court has declared all independent authorities unconsitutional – effectively blowing up the EU-US deal on data transfers. Click the link below for noyb's full assessment of the situation, and prepare for a Schrems III case! noyb.eu/en/us-suprem...

Write a critical AI book, and you become everyone's confessor for their AI sins. People in my life keep telling me about their guilty AI pleasures, in search of an explanation, absolution or condemnation: us.macmillan.com/books/978037... 1/

As we kick off the Round of 32, I give you what these matchups are really about: 1. Canada 🇨🇦 vs. South Africa 🇿🇦 - Battle of the Commonwealth nations 2. Brazil 🇧🇷 vs. Japan 🇯🇵 - Battle of the Portuguese Jesuit "colonies" 3. Germany 🇩🇪 vs. Paraguay 🇵🇾 - Battle of *chuckles nervously* (1/x)

#OTD 1858 Alice Lee b (d 5 Oct 1939). Showing that "negative” studies can have major impact, her doctoral research demonstrated no correlation between skull volume & intelligence. As craniometry was used to “scientifically prove” male genius & female inferiority, the fallout was massive.

More than a decade ago, a group of young, internet-connected Belarusian dissidents launched a series of increasingly high-stakes, increasingly surreal confrontations with the corrupt, authoritarian government of Alexander Lukashenka, a man who is often called "the last Soviet dictator." 1/

When you think you've heard it all. German courts have ruled that a family who entered Germany on German passports in 2020 had never been German citizens, because a 1908 marriage between a German colonial official and a Togolese woman was not legally valid under colonial law.

Badesaisoneröffnungen in Österreich sind so fad.

Badesaisoneröffnungen in Österreich sind so fad.

Zur überraschend, gut klingenden Nachricht, dass #Serbiens Präsident Vučić heute auf der SNS-Veranstaltung in Belgrad seinen Rücktritt und Neuwahlen angekündigt hat, eine kleine Einordnung: Den Rücktritt (vom Amt des Präsidenten) kündigte er in den letzten Wochen in einigen Sendungen schon an. 1/10

I think Trump will try to steal the midterm elections. I’m not saying he will succeed - and failure could result in either tragedy or comedy - but I do think he will try.

Die Grünen sind schon ein hinterhältiges Völkchen. 1980 gegründet, aber 1978 schon den Klimawandel erfunden. Da steck doch bestimmt wieder dieser Habeck dahinter. Damals gerade mal 9 Jahre alt und schon so durchtrieben.

"How to burst the AI bubble: Strike at its roots" @doctorow.pluralistic.net

A fifth of Leave voters have died.

presse.innsbruck.gv.at/news-mariann... @polsciuibk.bsky.social

"Ende des Monats endet nach 22 Jahren meine Korrespondententätigkeit beim ORF." "Diese Entscheidung erfolgte nach einem Treffen des ORF-Generaldirektors Roland Weißmann Anfang November mit 🇮🇱-Staatspräsident, Yitzhak #Herzog, und dem Direktor des 🇮🇱 Rundfunks KAN, Golan Yochpaz"

Die Nutzung von KI lässt menschliche Fähigkeiten verkümmern. Ärzt:innen, die sich an KI-Unterstützung bei Koloskopien gewöhnt hatten, fanden ohne sie deutlich weniger Krebsvorstufen. Und auch bei Software-Entwickler:innen zeigt sich ein solches Muster.

In the 1960s, a historian opened an archive box that hadn't been touched in centuries. Inside were the testimonies of people who knew exactly who they were, before the Inquisition convinced them otherwise. This week we're talking about the Benandanti, the Good Walkers of Friuli.

Ha muerto Carlo Ginzburg. Buen momento para recordar lo que dijo su madre, Natalia Ginzburg, sobre la educación de los hijos («Las pequeñas virtudes»). Le aprovecharon sus enseñanzas, ya lo creo.

I think about this essay for @historyworkshop.org.uk on the scientific method and the professionalisation of knowing all the time, a characteristically brilliant shard of thought by "Italian comrade" Carlo Ginzburg. Remember you can get 100 jstor articles for free! www.jstor.org/stable/4288283

Academic freedom assessment across the world. The US is on a steep decline, below >120 countries www.scientificamerican.com/article/see-...

A German court has ruled that Google is liable for the false statements generated by its AI Overviews feature. The ruling could have massive impacts on the world's biggest search engine, which recently doubled down on giving users AI-generated results. www.wired.com/story/a-cour...

This data from @wsocial.eu on where European representatives, public voices and decision-makers are active is so revealing. There are now real European alternatives! W Social (official beta launch this Wed) The just launched @mu.social & of course the established joinmastodon.org Get off X!

#WM2026: How did democracy develop in a given country during the decade after it won the FIFA World Cup? Data: V-Dem's Electoral Democracy Index @vdeminstitute.bsky.social

The report made numerous false claims about the use of AI by organisations including UBS, claiming the Swiss bank 'integrates AI agents across investment advisory, risk management and compliance monitoring'. ft.trib.al/clkVSb6

War irgendwie klar, dass es so kommen würde. Aber alle fliegen anstandslos hin. Weil Sport hat ja nie und nimmer und noch nie in der Geschichte irgendetwas mit Politik zu tun (gehabt).

»Die Westdeutschen, sie seien ›Deutsch sprechende Amerikaner‹ mit Ersatzidentität. Anders die Ostdeutschen, die seien noch ›Deutsch sprechende Deutsche‹, fabulierte Höcke. Zugleich beteuerte Höcke, kein ›Anti-Amerikaner‹ zu sein.« Zuhörende so: Lasst uns den mal wählen!

Landwirt:innen geniessen die höchsten Sympathien (meine Familie freuts)! Thrilled to feature the amazing work by my @unil.bsky.social colleagues @evakrejcova.bsky.social & @pbundi.bsky.social, as well as by my @europeatharvard.bsky.social colleague @lennartschuermann.bsky.social et al in our op-ed!

I wrote about AI in academia. "PhD-level thinking", LLM bias, grunt work, alignment, AGI, data center water use, AI politics -- something for everyone.

WOW - Trump crashes out & cuts his interview w/ Welker short as she presses him on his lack of evidence for claiming elections are rigged "You're either crooked or you're stupid. I've had enough. Thank you darling," he tells her" "I traveled all the way to Wisconsin for this interview," she pleads

"France passed a single law and instantly unlocked 11 gigawatts of #solarenergy — without using new land. In 2023, France's government mandated solar canopies over all car parks larger than 80 spaces. The scale was enormous: There are 400,000 parking areas across France #ActOnClimate #Renewables

"There is currently a strong commercial incentive on the part of the technology industry to overstate the capabilities of their products."

IDF shoots baby; pleads mistake: the infant was critically wounded by the same bullet that injured his mother. His father, Fahd Abdul Aziz Abu Haikal, a lecturer at Bethlehem University, was shot in the hand. They were traveling from Bethlehem to visit family in Hebron.

Senior researchers at a meeting of the American Diabetes Association were handing out copies of an editorial, published in the association's journal, condemning Trump administration cuts to diabetes research. Police came to arrest them. www.nytimes.com/2026/06/05/w...

You want to see Norway men’s national football team’s official photo for World Cup 2026 www.nytimes.com/athletic/733...

This chart from the latest YouGov/Economist poll result is really quite stunning. Trump’s net approval is not only deeply negative, but about 15(!!) points below what it was at this point in 2018, putting the GOP deeper in blue wave territory now vs then substack.com/@gelliottmor...

Da die Introspektion hinsichtlich der deutschen Niederlage um einen Sicherheitsratssitz beginnt und eine Erwägung fehlt folgender Hinweis: der deutsche Aussenminister wies zu Recht darauf hin, dass Österreich und Portugal sich bereits einige Jahre vor Deutschland beworben hatten/1

‘The “populist wave” has become the go-to image or metaphor when one tries to understand what’s been going on. And I think it’s empirically profoundly misleading, and it’s also politically pernicious.’ @jwmueller-pu.bsky.social on myths of populism, on the podcast podcasts.apple.com/gb/podcast/t...

Die Schmach von Cordoba 2.0

orf.at/stories/3432... die Schlagzeile!

There’s not much new to say about this but I find it very sad that in multiple countries in Europe, including the Netherlands and the UK, “there are too many brown people and we should deport them” has become a fairly mainstream talking point for sitting MPs. Not something I expected to live to see

Imagine if a woman president crashed the economy and started a war with no end in sight, and her biggest, seemingly ONLY concern was building a ballroom and redecorating the White House.

Ups. Thema: Senkung des Unibudgets 2025-2027 um 150 Mio. Euro Start Begutachtung: 22.5 Ende Begutachtung: 28.5 Begutachtungsdauer: 7 Tage (inkl. Freitag vor verlängertem Wochenende), also in Wahrheit drei volle Tage www.parlament.gv.at/gegenstand/X... Uni Wien heute: Alles vereinbart, aber ...