Israel becomes the first country in the world to ban the humanitarian organization Doctors Without Borders. Let that sink in. File under "Things you do when you are committing genocide"... www.nbcnews.com/world/israel...

😲😳 www.theguardian.com/world/2025/d...

Call for Proposals: Schwerpunktthema „#Immigration und Einstellungen gegenüber ethnischen und religiösen #Minderheiten“ im #ALLBUS 2027 Der ALLBUS 2027 ist als selbstadministrierte Mixed-Mode-Erhebung (schriftlich-postalisch/online) geplant. Die Befragungsdauer beträgt insgesamt ca. 45 Minuten.

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A new year’s wish that we all start framing paying taxes as positive and patriotic contribution to a better world for all. Thank you Anthony Joshua! I’ve just paid mine too. They were quite a lot less than yours, but for some reason most historians don’t earn £68.5m.

This might make you cry But also trigger some faith in humanity Let's talk more about people like #MelissaHortman “It does not matter how Melissa died,” Williams says in a whisper. “All that really matters is how she lived.” www.rollingstone.com/politics/pol...

Familiar story: Cost estimate for the first 6 new nuclear reactors in France up by 40% in three years. And that's 13 years before the first one would be completed (not accounting for delays). Btw, that €73 billion is in Euros of 2020; better known as €85 billion now. www.reuters.com/business/ene...

Rufe einen AfD-Landtagsabgeordneten in Sachsen-Anhalt an, mit dem ich noch nie zu tun hatte. Er so: "Mit Ihnen rede ich nicht, sie Linksjournalist. DIE ZEIT gehört doch der SPD!" Nein. Mit keinem einzigen Cent ist eine Partei an der @zeit.de beteiligt. Und diese Menschen wollen 2026 regieren.

Open today's door for a fiery, festive friend... and a wiggle to boot! 😃 #RSPBAdvent25

Science has named the seemingly unstoppable growth of renewable energy worldwide as the 2025 Breakthrough of the Year. Learn more about this year's #BOTY and other big advances in science: https://scim.ag/493Tpgx

Commuting by bicycle in Belgium pays off as employees earn compensation for every km they ride. 1 in 6 employees commute by bike and get a bicycle allowance of €0.28/km. People cycling to work in 2024 earned an average of around €460 net per year (some as high as €810), up 20% over the past year.

Minister orders probe into foreign interference in politics www.bbc.co.uk/news/article... #ReformRussianBribes

Wie Paris in 10 Jahren seine Luft um 40% verbesserte und so vorzeitige Todesfälle durch Smog halbieren konnte, ist so eine krasse Erfolgsgeschichte. 2019 litten 400.000 Menschen an schlechter Luft. 2023 nur noch 5.000 und nächstes Jahr sollen es Null sein. Für eine 🇪🇺 Großstadt ist das beispiellos❤️

This drove me insane. A parent tried to responsibly trust his kids to ride the public bus to school unsupervised, and some busybody phoned the government to complain about him. He eventually won in court, but I can’t imagine the happening when I was a kid (gen x). vancouversun.com/news/local-n...

#ECR #AcademicChatter

This 👇

The Effects of Nudges. casssunstein.substack.com/p/the-effect...

Autos werden auf so vielen Ebenen subventioniert. Auch deshalb sind Mieten so hoch. Etwa der Zwang, Stellplätze bereitzustellen. Super Artikel von Caterina Lobenstein in der ZEIT

How one guy killed a whole industry and put the US in a more fragile energy state: www.motherjones.com/politics/202...

They're talking about extending travel bans on a country basis, "If they don’t have a stable government there" 🤔 www.cnbc.com/2025/12/10/u...

"The takedowns and restrictions began in October and targeted the Facebook, Instagram and WhatsApp accounts of more than 50 organisations worldwide ... in what appears to be a growing push by Meta to limit reproductive health and queer content across its platforms."

Large language models "don’t actually understand what they’re doing: they have no #empathy, insight, conscience or capacity for moral reason. In humans, we would call that the mindset of a sociopath." by @gabyhinsliff.bsky.social in @theguardian.com

📱 Social Media & Gesundheit 🩺 passt das zusammen? Wir, die Gesundheitspsychologie der @univie.ac.at, starten im Rahmen des Replicability Projects Health Behavior des @cos.io eine spannende Online-Studie dazu, wie Studierende in Deutschland & Österreich Social Media für Gesundheitsinfos nutzen. ⤵️

Doom scrolling here from the UK is a bit problematic, given the site is 90% American. Everyone is called Tom Johnson or Kirsti Nutti and they’ve done something inexplicable but obviously very bad. Again!

Warm ist im Dezember längst zum "neuen Normal" geworden. Um einen kalten Dezember in Österreich zu finden, müssen wir bis ins Jahr 2010 zurückgehen:

Facts: The universal hepatitis B birth dose has prevented more than 500,000 childhood infections, reduced infant hepatitis B cases by 95%, and prevented an estimated 90,100 childhood deaths (NFID). RJK is the opposite of "Do No Harm"

Another one from @firstdogonthemoon.bsky.social that oh so cruelly hits the mark. sigh. www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...

🛜 Project Spotlight: GOLIAT 🏛️ Uni Vienna Team: Nina Vaupotič, Valeria Vitale, & Mathew White ⌛ Duration: 2022–2027 🌐 For more information visit: projectgoliat.eu

I don't know the specifics here, but this kind of behaviour by powerful, established, typically male professors is totally unacceptable. Institutions must show clear leadership to support #ECRs and foster a positive culture against #harassment and #misconduct. www.personneltoday.com/hr/resignati...

#RETRACTED after 25 years! Safety Evaluation and #RiskAssessment of the Herbicide #Roundup and Its Active Ingredient, #Glyphosate, for Humans www.sciencedirect.com:5037/science/arti...

@helenezillig.bsky.social visited the European School in Munich last month to answer questions and help students discover whether psychology is something they’re interested in—be it for their education, profession, or general future. 🎓

'a startling amount of capital pouring into a "revolution" that remains mostly speculative' Imagine, just for a moment, this amount to go into addressing #ClimateChange...the infinitely better lives that would bring to this world population and to future generations 😐 Would ♥️ to see this scenario

Monet knew winters that weren’t just weather. In Argenteuil, he painted streets buried in snow; later, debt and death would drag his life into wintry depths. Starting to feel the chill of winter? Let's study the season through Monet's eyes. 🧵👇 #artbots #monet

"What matters in the climate crisis is not the legal status of words agreed over night-long sessions in windowless conference rooms. What will save us is real-world action. If enough countries display their intent to move away from fossil fuels, money will follow. www.theguardian.com/environment/...

Looking forward to an interesting session on "green and blue infrastructure for the city of tomorrow" bringing together @wien.gv.at and @univie.ac.at at a lecture series organised by the #Environment and #Climate Research Hub (ech.univie.ac.at) #EnvirinmentalPsychology

The 2025 Lancet Report on Health and Climate Change and the recent Cradle to Grave Report spell out the tremendous harm and suffering caused by fossil fuel burning and resulting climate changes. Millions are dying every year. drtomharris.substack.com/p/breathless... #climatechange #health

Great news that this paper led by the fabulous @todorova.bsky.social is out now, a collaboration between the @scanunit.bsky.social and @envpsyvienna.bsky.social @univie.ac.at. 👏 🎉 #EnvironmentalPsychology

This comment has a strong guns-don't-kill-people vibe.

Q: “Are you affirming you think Trump is a fascist?” TRUMP: “That’s ok, you can just say yes.” ZOHRAN: “Ok. Yes.”

Falls sich jemand für Merz entschuldigen will (er will ja nicht): weact.campact.de/petitions/br...

Every time the shocking, perplexing tactic of “giving money to people who need it” is tried, it turns out to work. And yet people who have more money than they could ever need remain baffled.

Researchers at work in the #HorizonEurope soszerpol2030.eu project meeting. As we're going into the final year of the project, we're working on integrating all the outputs and activities for #ZeroPollution in European Seas by 2030

Researchers @univie.ac.at downloaded all #WhatsApp user data! Whoops 👀 (Report in German) 👇 www.heise.de/news/3-5-Mil...

New feature article from TNJ (nation's best student magazine): Inside Yale’s Quiet Reckoning with AI thenewjournalatyale.com/2025/10/insi...

That's totally shocking, how did this happen?

Ich hab das Gefühl, selbst er wäre ein fähigerer Kanzler gewesen,als Fritze Merz und Olaf Scholz. Liebe #SPD, lasst ihn das nächste mal Kanzlerkandidat sein.