Truly a roller coaster

Breaking‼️ UN commission on russian 'human safari' in Kherson: "Russian armed forces have been carrying out attacks from positions on the left bank of the Dnipro River with drones that allow real time observation and tracking of targets. www.ohchr.org/en/statement...

⚡️Update: 1 killed, 13 injured in large-scale Russian missile, drone attack on Ukrainian cities. In Dnipropetrovsk Oblast, regional Governor Serhii Lysak reported that one person was killed and 13 others injured amid the large-scale attack on the country.

Putin has concluded that military escalation is the best way to force Ukraine into talks on his terms and that Donald Trump is unlikely to do much to bolster Kyiv’s defenses - Bloomberg

Another reminder (see thread) that overestimating small proportions isn’t a demographic phenomenon (about minority populations). It’s an everything phenomenon.

“Estonia requests Nato article 4 consultation after ‘unacceptable’ violation of its airspace by Russian MiG-31s” www.theguardian.com/world/live/2...

Today at 5:00 on zoom and in person. Tune in if you can. harriman.columbia.edu/event/10-yea...

This is a massive, history making abuse of your power. It will define your legacy and one day you will come to regret punishing free speech and trying to destroy democracy.

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“Russia is running an extensive network of more than 200 camps to re-educate, Russify and militarise Ukrainian children, a new investigation has found.” www.theguardian.com/global-devel...

Evil even by ru standards

Via @hrl-yalesph.bsky.social on X: Yale “HRL identified 210 locations where Ukraine’s children have been taken in Russia and occupied Ukraine since Feb 2022. This research expands on HRL’s previous reports + is the highest number of locations to date.” ysph.yale.edu/news-article...

They just hit a university

In short: do you need to worry about experimenter demand ruining *your* online study? Based on our evidence, probably not. That's good news for the field! As we argue, demand effects appear, at least in their simplest form, to be more phantom than menace (7/8)

Laugh at Trump’s ridiculous innumeracy, sure. But the commander of the world’s most powerful military is responding to relevant questions about the laws of armed conflict by claiming that the existence of drug deaths in general permits him to kill anyone he feels like, which is very serious.

Romanian Air Force intercepted a Russian drone over national airspace, - Antena 3 CNN Two F-16 jets scrambled from Fetești Air Base at 18:05 to respond to the threat.

This Ukrainian orchestra created an overture imitating the sound of Russian Shahed drone attack. And I guarantee you it’s one of the most chilling things you’d ever hear. This is exactly how drone attack sounds like : the nauseating moped-like

“Biden’s and Zelenskyy’s WAR.” Anyone missing there?

::slowly stands while clapping::

My guess is that the Russian drone incursion against Poland was deliberate, with 2 goals: 1) probe and see if there is any meaningful response-if not, more of the same can be expected; 2) provoke disagreement/split w/in NATO about the response between the docile US/Trump & most of Europe.

They made the headline even worse. Seriously?? Did the Kremlin write this?

BBC: “An operation to "neutralise" objects that violated its airspace is underway, Poland's Deputy Defence Minister Cezary Tomczyk says. "Over Poland, an operation to neutralise objects that have violated and exceeded the border of the Republic of Poland is underway," Tomczyk has posted”

‼️ Since the beginning of 2025, the number of Russian attacks on Ukraine has increased fivefold, - WP There were no quiet nights in Ukraine this summer. In June and July, the occupiers launched a total of 11,739 drones — a record since the start of the full-scale war.

🔴 Russia has launched a glide bomb on Yarova, Donetsk region. Authorities say that the explosion occurred while local residents were gathering to receive their pensions. At least 21 people were killed & at least as many injured. Source: Donetsk Military Administration

Crazy and frustrating that we’re still stuck at highlighting Russia’s aggressive actions to argue that Russia isn’t after peace in the war Russia started unprovoked and can stop any time but chooses not to, despite 3.5 years of that happening every day. But the liars and the complacent have a say.

Phase one involved taking no action against Russia for the first 8 months of the Trump presidency. Phase two will involve taking no action against Russia for the remaining 3 years and 4 months of the Trump presidency.

Russia launched more than 800 drones and missiles at Ukrainian targets overnight, with at least one strike damaging the government’s main building in Kyiv.

Russia launched the largest mass aerial attack on Ukraine of the war, firing 805 drones and 13 missiles at targets across the country. The Cabinet of Ministers in central Kyiv was struck for the first time in what Foreign Minister Andriy Sybiha called “a serious escalation.” on.ft.com/4ghT1hQ

⚡️Fires reported at residential buildings in Kyiv as Russia launches hundreds of drones, missiles towards Ukraine. Mayor Vitalii Klitschko reported that Russian drones had struck three residential buildings in Kyiv.

One day he is going to care very much, I suspect.

Is “Skoupidiocracy” a word yet?

Posted without comment.

just an ongoing embarrassment that this barely sentient meathead is secretary of defense

New in @pnas.org. Preschool teachers were less likely to accept participation attempts by children from working-class backgrounds, regardless of their perceived language level. With a great team: @andreicimpian.bsky.social @sebastiengoudeau.bsky.social & Louise Goupil. doi.org/10.1073/pnas...

New Open dataset alert: 🧠 Introducing "Spacetop" – a massive multimodal fMRI dataset that bridges naturalistic and experimental neuroscience! N = 101 x 6 hours each = 606 functional iso-hours combining movies, pain, faces, theory-of-mind and other cognitive tasks! 🧵below

Nathaniel Raymond, Executive Director of @hrl-yalesph.bsky.social, talks with CNN about his research, which catalogs the abduction of thousands of Ukrainian children by Russia since the start of the war.

Donald's "disappointment with Putin" manifests...

www.reuters.com/world/ukrain... ‘ “Today, my child, a first grader, came to school for the first time, an underground school, the nearest school to Northern Saltivka," said Anastasia Pochergina, referring to a suburb of the city often subject to Russian attacks.’

Massive attack across all Of Ukraine. Again. Russia terrorizes ordinary Ukrainians.

People in Kyiv are heading to the Metro for the night - a large number of drone launches have been reported, and Russian strategic bombers are taking off. Another big attack expected. Drones seem to be bypassing Kyiv and heading west, however. Putin escalating his war on Ukraine.

Von der Leyen’s plane hit by suspected Russian GPS interference on.ft.com/4p2wEAO

"By hitting an American-run factory and European diplomatic offices in Ukraine, Russia appeared to signal that it would resist Western efforts to make peace, analysts said." www.nytimes.com/2025/08/31/w...

kyivindependent.com/as-russia-re... “In March, Russia's intelligence services remotely detonated an explosive device it had paid two teenage boys in Ivano-Frankivsk to plant, killing one of them and injuring the other.”

What did Putin think of the Alaska summit? Well, he just sent drones and missiles to hit an apartment building, a shopping mall and the headquarters of the European Union in Kyiv. www.nytimes.com/2025/08/28/w...

RFK Jr on the mass shooting in Minnesota: "We're launching studies on the potential contribution of some of the SSRI drugs and some of the other psychiatric drugs that might be contributing to violence."

A permanent UN Security Council member bombed sleeping families in their homes in a major European capital this morning.

Death toll in Kyiv has now climbed to 17 after Russian air strikes with 31 missiles and 598 drones, according to Ukraine’s state emergency service, which is still searching the rubble of destroyed apartment blocks for trapped residents.

Loud and clear: Ru’s goal in these “negotiations” is Ukrainian surrender (demilitarization and end of sovereignty), which Ru has failed to achieve militarily since 2022. Eternal shame on everyone who pretends that Ru wants anything less and can be reasoned with.