Choisis 20 tableaux qui t'ont marqué-e ou influencé-e – un tableau par jour pendant 20 jours, sans ordre particulier. #BlueSkyArtChallenge #art #painting 18/20 Paul Cézanne Les grands arbres, 1905

Le fait est qu'il y aura de moins en moins de postes de titulaires et de financements : on assiste à un démantèlement à bas bruit de l'ESR, les jeunes chercheuses et chercheurs précaires deviendront vieilles et vieux, la titularisation ne viendra pas.

Les articles sur la précarité académique sont toujours curieusement optimistes : ils font comme si la précarité ne concernait (ou ne concernera) que les "jeunes". Désolé de faire l'oiseau de mauvaise augure mais ça ne s'arrange pas avec l'âge et un avoir bon dossier scientifique n'y change rien 🤷‍♂️

Assez dérangeant de voir les Yankees crier au fascisme (à raison) pour des trucs que la police fait en France depuis 10 ans

A good rule of thumb is that if something is a war crime, you probably shouldn't be doing it to civilians gratuitously

The suggestion that chemical agents like tear gas or pepper spray could be used indiscriminately against peaceful demonstrators, or even first responders, is unacceptable and not normal.

i just want to dissect this passage real quick. the system is hereditized and indicates a kinship grooming bias; the child has been partially indoctrinated; the process prioritizes speed and results; community values¹ are set by a group²; and the determination criteria are recited as doctrine.

Another angle on biological collectives, which may interest @drmichaellevin.bsky.social and @chrisfields38.bsky.social Renormalization Groups in bio collectives (e.g. swarms, flocks) Jean-Philippe Bouchaud. Fascinating. www.youtube.com/watch?v=BIAu...

So much has gone wrong in US press reporting on Trump because the White House reporters are people who have exclusively covered US politics. They need people who have worked in Hungary, Turkey, etc. The relevant knowledge isn't Reagan factoids; it's the dynamics of competitive authoritarianism.

Just a spot on examination of how tightly knit communities can xenophobically railroad someone in a way barely distinguishable from mob violence as told from the inside view, but the author doesn’t realize it’s a horror story.

The fact that the murderer is an outsider with weak community ties whose identity makes her inherently untrustworthy is a nice touch.

One thing about most rape and sa occuring from people you know and are close to, is its often done by people you love or at least care for. wanting capital punishment, except like wayyyy lower standard of evidence, does not make rape go away it means survivors dont speak out.

I'd say I am well aware of the tough choices that small scale social organization entails re "peacekeeping", but that does read more like a romanticization of lynching than a well thought out political philosophy of punishment

i thought this was hyperbole. this is, very very literally, a short story about being the sheriff's kid in a small town where they just up and lynch you or force you into slavery. they do it in a drum circle or something so it's woke now. they probably say namaste before they drown you.

Also, somewhat unsurprisingly, the system shapes the attitudes of the people acting within the system

A Finnish bus stop in Savo region. The time table reads: “Buses come and go sometimes.”

I am once again asking you to consider that MAGA works more like a cult than it works like what we usually think of as a "political movement"

Shared reality is simply not a thing anymore, if it ever was. "Alternative facts" create alternative realities. In Trump's alternative reality, there's a war going on in Portland. A war that justifies the use of "Full Force" by troops that Portland did not request, sent by the "Secretary of War."

As someone wiser than me once said, "speak softly and carry a big stick"

I’m obviously hawkish on Russia but I‘m open to the idea the best play for Europe right now is continued restraint with direct retaliation while continuing by to ramp up military aid to Ukraine to hammer military targets and oil refineries inside Russia. Stockpiling at the expense of UKR is stupid.

Really starting to think they want to provoke NATO into some direct response now for propaganda purposes. This is getting ridiculous.

Trains trains trains trains m.youtube.com/watch?v=A45U...

Gang was Julius Cesar left wing or right wing ? NB: anyone found questioning the validity of the question will be cancelled

Grace à vous j'ai pu acheter ma première boîte de 8 cachets de Vydura et j'ai de quoi en acheter quelque temps ! (C'est un cachet tous les deux jours, donc là c'est pour 16 jours) Merci beaucoup 💙 !

MagLev trains are great, but you know what would be better? Designing a mechanical link that passively reduces friction with the rails at sub- aerodynamic loss level

To the extent that political economy exists for Trump II, it is couched in the language of industrial and manufacturing renewal. But that's a chimera, so the truly mobilizing force for the base (and the only enduring bond with it) is the reactionary cultural language.

I think one of the biggest mistakes we’ve made in academia over the last few years was treating tenure and academic freedom as a guaranteed right and not a labor relation. Had more understood it as the latter perhaps we would have been better prepared to protect it

nataniabarron.com/2021/11/09/t... this scene was incredible and it was a shame we never saw this particular side of Lady Jessica again

Ensuite des écoles, collèges & lycées avec un air moins vicié permettraient que des élèves malades/handicapéEs étudient. Ça c'est intolérable pour une corpo prof qui élève son validisme en art martial. Et sacrifier nos collègues malades et handicapéEs ne nous pose visiblement aucun problème. 3/3

Le plan de purification de l'air dans les écoles n'a jamais été mis en place parce que Macron est un sac à vomi certe. Mais aucun rapport de force des personnels et orga syndicales construit sur cette question, en dehors de quelques collègues & parents pronant seuls l'autodéfense sanitaire 1/3

I have no evidence for this so take it with a thousand grains of salt, but we know prominent online influencers are frequently radicalized by their own audience and if that audience is largely bot networks, we need to consider which is the cart and which is the horse.

That 1,000,000 man army marching across Ukraine and nightly 800 shahed drone attacks on civilians are cute mister Putin but we’ve just spent €800bn on peace (undefined), checkmate. Your 500kg glide bombs are no use against the power of love.

the political policy cure for “male loneliness” is - more time to hang with the fellas (4 day work week) - more money to spend with the fellas (higher wages) - more things to do with the fellas (taxing the rich and building 3rd spaces)

Tl; dr: je suis pas un criminel, regardez, j'ai un costard

Je suis persuadé d'un truc: c'est que Balkany, Sarkozy et toute cette génération mafieuse "fond de siphon du RPR" est sincèrement, réellement convaincue de n'avoir RIEN fait de mal. C'est d'ailleurs ce qui ressort du jugement, où il est dit que Sarkozy minimisait sans arrêt les faits reprochés…

There should be a social cost to thinking in slogan format to the point of collapsing the differences in context between 2003 USA and 2025 Finland

American left wing FP attitudes being absorbed by Irish people is especially acute imo. “We start too many wars, we need to spend less on the army” makes a ton of sense if you’re a progressive American condemning George Bush in 2003. It’s borderline insane if you’re talking about Finland in 2025!

Good god, where do they find these morons?

did you know NASA used so many staples and paperclips during the Apollo program that US Steel had to do special manufacturing orders just for them to fill the gaps? google “Operation Paperclip” to learn more!

the thing which astounds me is that the Soviet golden age was from the middle of Khrushchev to the beginning of Brezhnev! the Soviet economy was growing faster than the US economy! they got to space first! we were convinced they were about to eclipse us! and yet they worship a miserable despotate.

i miss the days long since gone by when i was naive enough to mistakenly think “tankie” referred to someone who was just really enthusiastic about tanks. i imagined someone like a math/stats teacher i had who was an immigrant from an SSR. he watched videos of tanks doing tony hawk stunts

i am very normal and can definitely be trusted with a fleet of cargo ships loaded up with fine sand of predominantly volcanic origin

We are so humiliatingly deep into tinpot dictatorship territory. The government has just brokered the coerced sale of a major media platform to an ally of the president, who is openly boasting about converting it into (even more of) a partisan propaganda outlet.

An 18% flat tax on income plus 18% GDP/capita UBI would end all poverty in the US. And if you make less than $90k/yr per person in your household would be a net negative tax for your household.

Agreed - replication is important in and of itself iff we're characterising "laws of behaviour" (which definitely do not exist as natural kinds). For a mechanistic / naturalistic approach to mind, what matters is: what is the question being asked? And how does the experimental design address it?

I'll abstract it away from that case (bec I don't remember who/what). But science could legit be interested in such findings. Not everything interesting will be robust from the getgo. The problem in social sciences is that we often treat that as a discovery instead of an entry point for exploration.

Still thinking about that scholar who implied replicators just weren't skilled enough to reproduce the effects he uncovered. Sure, lab and field experiments are incredibly hard to set up well. But if our findings are that fragile, what are we even doing?

www.reuters.com/sustainabili... China is halting the expansion of the gobi desert by planting goji berries beneath solar panels. The shade reduces heat and water stress on the plants. Excellent

Growing food crops under solar panels is called Agrivoltaics. Lots of crops benefit from growing underneath them. I know in Maine they were piloting wild blueberries, and in Massachusetts cranberries. You can also graze animals like sheep or if you mount them high cows (not goats - they climb)