I was looking for something like that: sign the petition for no Palentir in EU: action.wemove.eu/sign/2026-03... Peter Thiel company has been used by govs all over the world to terrorize their own population and others - including in Gaza. No surveillance state in the EU

In this short essay in BMJ Global Health, we draw attention to how standardised “global”measurement approaches obscure diversity, marginalise locally relevant insights needed for effective interventions, and create fragile measurement monocultures. gh.bmj.com/content/11/3...

This is an excellent read and what a dream team of authors! "It is important to distinguish between 'making global data'-collating sources from across the globe-and 'making data global'-computing global metrics through modelling[...] disproportionate focus on the latter marginalises alternatives"

𝐀𝐫𝐞 𝐠𝐥𝐨𝐛𝐚𝐥 𝐡𝐞𝐚𝐥𝐭𝐡 𝐦𝐞𝐭𝐫𝐢𝐜𝐬 𝐜𝐚𝐩𝐭𝐮𝐫𝐢𝐧𝐠 𝐭𝐡𝐞 𝐫𝐞𝐚𝐥𝐢𝐭𝐢𝐞𝐬 𝐨𝐟 𝐜𝐢𝐭𝐢𝐞𝐬? 𝐑𝐞𝐚𝐝 𝐨𝐮𝐫 𝐧𝐞𝐰 𝐚𝐫𝐭𝐢𝐜𝐥𝐞: gh.bmj.com/content/11/3... Co-authored with @jilmolenaar.bsky.social, @lenkabenova.bsky.social , @seyeabimbola.bsky.social , @onykepe.bsky.social & @grlurton.bsky.social illustration by Namrata Narendra.

Probably the most exciting news you'll read today. A single-dose oral treatment for gambiense human African trypanosomiasis (HAT)--also known as sleeping sickness--has been recommended for approval by the European Medicines Agency (EMA).

Move over, Apple: Meet the alternative app stores available in the EU and elsewhere

France hands stolen colonial-era 'talking drum' back to Côte d'Ivoire. The Djidji Ayokwe was looted by colonial troops in 1916. Used by the Ebrie people to transmit messages, it’s among hundreds of objects France is to repatriate to Africa.

The French translation of The Foreign Gaze is now out! It is titled “Le regard étranger: Réflexions sur la santé mondiale” You can download it for free or order a print copy here: www.editions.ird.fr/produit/731/... Please spread the word to your French-speaking friends, colleagues, and partners.

Public health giant William Foege, who helped eradicate smallpox, has died at 89 www.statnews.com/2026/01/25/w... via @statnews.com

Paul's back and he nails it here

The UN Group of Experts has published its latest report on eastern Democratic Republic of Congo, which - as expected - makes Trump's entire peace process in that country look like a work of pure fantasy. documents.un.org/doc/UNDOC/GE...

Happy Birthday Francis Poulenc. Snowy Music for a snowy day www.youtube.com/watch?v=25ks...

Few years ago, an intern in the team explored historical archives and identified a fascinating report describing with great detail the large French cholera epidemic of 1892. The modelling analysis of these data has now been published in Epidemics. www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti... 🧪

See, EU?

This may be the EU’s lowest foreign-policy point yet (and the bar was already low). After rumors of a joint statement (so EU governments speaking with one voice), the outcome is: -a statement by Kallas “supported” by 26 countries -not even all EU members, as Hungary opted out

It’s striking that Spain's government had to express what it really thinks about on the U.S. strikes via a joint declaration with Latin American countries, while members in the same political union called them 'legitimate' or said it’s 'too complex' to judge their legality

L'attaque du Venezuela est le terrible sequel de la guerre en Ukraine : les puissances fossiles en sont réduites à revenir au modèle impérial classique pour sécuriser leur modèle politique. La décarbonation comme garantie de sécurité reste en haut de l'agenda.

Esto comenzó rebautizando el Golfo de México.

Marco Rubio is reportedly saying Maduro will stand trial in US courts. Which means it’s now the US administration’s position that US courts can hold foreign presidents, but not the US president, accountable for crimes.

When the rules of the « free market » and so-called « comparative advantages » no longer work as well for the hegemonic power (because a systemic rival is doing better), that power attempts to quickly rebuild or strengthen its imperial silo #finitudecapitalism www.nytimes.com/live/2026/01...

La France et la communauté internationale via l'ONU doivent réagir sans délai La CGT réaffirme son attachement à la démocratie, au droit des peuples à disposer d'eux-mêmes, à la paix et à la régulation internationale. Elle affirme sa solidarité avec le peuple vénézuélien. #Venezuela

C'est utile que les médias d'information nous tiennent au courant de la situation au Venezuela. Il serait aussi necessaire qu'ils caractérisent l'attaque US aux termes du droit international, en fonction des informations disponibles, indépendamment de ( l'absence de) qualifications officielle.

We're going to need a bigger Hague.

The complete Bayeux Tapestry has finally been released and proves that Bishop Odo had absolutely nothing to do with the illegal Norman invasion of England.

Aujourd’hui sort mon nouveau livre «Les milliardaires ne paient pas d’impôt sur le revenu et nous allons y mettre fin.»🧵

Our data stewards have started recommending that we no longer use US-based infrastructure for #openscience practices, given the risk of (near-future) censorship, from pre-print and data hosting to preregistration and more. That includes OSF.

For the first time, a cargo ship docked in Salina Cruz, Oaxaca, marking the official launch of the Interoceanic Corridor by rail through the Isthmus of Tehuantepec. It’s the revival of ancient trade routes once walked by Indigenous civilizations. The rail corridor will also connect to Guatemala.

Cool photo: the construction of the Atomium in Brussels (1957).

“When asked directly whether he could guarantee under oath that French citizen data would never be transmitted to US authorities without explicit French authorization, [Microsoft France's director of public and legal affairs Anton] Carniaux responded: ‘No, I cannot guarantee it.’”

Anyone tracking weather or climate data suppression/deletion by the Trump admin? Let me know here, or DM me if you're concerned about reprisals. We know they're suppressing climate *knowledge* (e.g. all the national climate assessments) – how much source data have they deleted, and which sets?

C'est aussi un travail entre les langues : un linguiste amateur allemand ayant une connaissance livresque des langues africaines et des bases d’arabe échange avec un lettré sahélien dont la formation intellectuelle est fondée sur la circulation entre arabe coranique et langues vernaculaires.

Worth a watch: Head of Signal, Meredith Whittaker, on so-called "agentic AI" and the difference between how it's described in the marketing and what access and control it would actually require to work as advertised.

"We need to expand the category of ‘expert’ in the characterisation & management of epidemic disease... [and] render expertise (& ultimately authority) more proximate to affected communities—thereby giving those most at risk a stake in designing & carrying out projective scenarios & interventions."

Beautiful

Today we made history. Countries have come together & agreed the new Intergovernmental Science-Policy Panel on Chemicals, Waste and Pollution that will provide the 🌍 with robust, independent science. Environmental multilateralism delivering again, #ForPeopleForPlanet. www.unep.org/news-and-sto...

1🧵We are grateful to @TheLancet for showing climate leadership by extending its ethical advertising ban to the banks funding the fossil fuel crisis. It is time for all medical organisations to divest their banking and investments away from climate destroying infrastructure.

Rest in peace Ngũgĩ wa Thiong’o www.theguardian.com/books/2025/m...

Discover our results of the largest ancient DNA study ever conducted on a single burial site: 400 skeletons from the Belgian city Sint-Truiden (8th–18th century). A unique glimpse into 1000 years of genetic history. (1/9) @kuleuvenuniversity.bsky.social

A doctor from Colombia once told me “in my country, Easter weekend is full of debauchery because god is dead for three days and there’s nobody watching” and I think about him every year.

What's striking about capitalist civilization is that it has no real direction. There's no vision for social progress, no commitment to improving human welfare or ecology. All we get is the chaos of profit-oriented production and accumulation as the world burns around us.

Résultats définitifs des élections agricoles enfin disponibles. La dégringolade de la #FNSEA-JA se confirme : elle passe pour la 1ère fois de son histoire au-dessous des 50%, en recueillant seulement 46,7% des voix dans le collège "exploitants" (1/4)

A neogaullist is just a transatlantist mugged by Donald Trump

"My name is Mahmoud Khalil and I am a political prisoner. I am writing to you from a detention facility in Louisiana where I wake to cold mornings and spend long days bearing witness to the quiet injustices underway against a great many people precluded from the protections of the law."

As the world does silly rounds, it is good to hear the message of dignity, solidarity and humanity that the zapatistas are sending from the mountains of the south of Mexico in support of families looking for disappeared people (some translation in alt) enlacezapatista.ezln.org.mx/2025/03/17/o...

🇲🇽 Mexico’s President Claudia Sheinbaum: “US Customs and Border Protection data show that 80% of those arrested for fentanyl trafficking at US ports of entry were US citizens."

"Only seven of the DRC’s 26 provinces are reporting on mpox cases." “With the US aid freeze, there is no money for the transportation of specimens” healthpolicy-watch.news/mpox-testing...

Roman Architecture https://www.wikiart.org/en/john-singer-sargent/roman-architecture

No sé si estamos preparados para un mes que tiene 31 días, cinco fines de semana, un cambio de estación, un cambio de hora, un cambio de papa, una guerra interna dentro de la OTAN, una conmemoración del 11M, otra del covid y una semana de carnaval. Y todo con una sola nómina.

I hope Americans appreciate that while the episode today was about Ukraine and featured Zelensky, it is more than anything about the future of their country, American democracy, its place in the world, and its rapid path towards authoritarianism

For the German election we wanted to use a cartogram of German election districts but didn't find anything good, so we created our own. Here's a little nerd thread how the final algorithm worked 🤓 🧵 #gis #cartogram #election #datavis #cartography