Klare und deutliche Worte des israelischen Spezialisten Yair Ramati, dass für eine effektive Drohnenabwehr weit mehr und anderes als einige zusätzliche Polizeibefugnisse nötig ist. www.sueddeutsche.de/politik/droh...

A fascinating overview on the tremendous advances that AI already has achieved accross so many research topics in medicine. The talk also underlines the great potential of future progress to be enabled by AI in this field.

Fascinating guidance of placing deep brain stimulation, by the patient with severe Parkinson’s Disease playing the clarinet during surgery! What would HTA institutions such as UK's NICE @nicecomms.bsky.social, or Germany's Federal Joint Committee @g-ba.de, say about this? www.bbc.com/news/article...

Inspiring interview! On investing in a country that has imposed tariffs, hoping to attract foreign investors in the long term: In a world of coopetition among countries, investments decisions involve many other aspects, too. The hope seems risky thus, at least.

Great piece! Do you think a power up to exceed human intelligence could be regulated at all just by the latter? Or which incentives does it have to build its own AI regulatory system? Could we in case, influence that better than when educating humans, which obviously comes with many problems?

Ein kantiger Beitrag der @wirtschaftswoche.bsky.social! Wenn das Lockern der Schuldenbremse ein Freifahrtschein zum 'Weiter so' war, dann passt das Bild für den Blick in die Zukunft - nur die Farben innerhalb und außerhalb des Rings sind vertauscht.

Kürzungen bei #Entwicklungshilfen bedrohen die #Gesundheit von Menschen weltweit. Laut einer aktuellen #Studie drohen viele zusätzliche #Tuberkulose-Fälle: pharma-fakten.de/news/gekuerz...

Cyber security of vital infrastructure is a general, high-level security issue. Strategy and action seem to be needed at EU-level, e.g., by @andriuskubilius.ec.europa.eu and others. For open societies, maybe the mentioned testing of AI-supported digital-twins might offer a promising starting point.

An impressive view upon challenges to the U.S. constitution, by David French. www.nytimes.com/2025/08/21/o...

🔬Today is International Day of Women and Girls in Science. #WomenInScience 🧬"We need women at the table. We need their voices to be heard, and we need the work to be centered around them." stressed Ru-fong Joanne Cheng, Gates Foundation. #WHS2024 💡More: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=g9xQ3qNxO2A

Tariffs may challenge drug availability, and cannot replace comprehensive, evidence-based pricing. Next to higher per capita income, lack of this control likely contributes to US drug prices exceeding those of the EU, which is even introducing joint assessments. health.ec.europa.eu/health-techn...

WHO condemns in the strongest terms the attacks on a building housing WHO staff in Deir al Balah in #Gaza, the mistreatment of those sheltering there, and the destruction of its main warehouse. Read our full statement: www.who.int/news/item/21...

In unseren Zeiten fällt mir noch der Hass auf Andersartige ein, sei es religiös oder weltanschaulich, ethnisch, politisch oder kulturell geprägt.

What a frightening impact of the #BBB estimated, raising the figure reported in the @economist.com's post by 8,500 excess deaths when also including the end of enhanced subsidies to buy insurance! Would be helpful to have a peer-reviewed version published. See also ldi.upenn.edu/our-work/res...

🇬🇧 🇩🇪 GMF's @georginaewright.bsky.social told the New York Times that new Kensington Treaty between Germany and the UK is the latest example of Europeans stepping up on security and defense and an “easy win” for the countries. Read her full analysis: buff.ly/0HqU1ZX

Thrilling thoughts on AI's potential to become dominant and fully autonomous. One issue might be interaction with the physical environment: could it build chips, generate electric power, ship goods and prevent floods, while ruling the globe? Man still might be helpful. www.spiegel.de/wissenschaft...

An illustrative detail - has this been documented right after the Munich appeasement? The lessons of the latter should not be ignored today, as in a now famous speech at the #MSC conference this February, c.f. bsky.app/profile/leid...

A very impressive empowerment of AI capabilities, rendering striking results! Enabled by comprehensive access to personal files in the cloud, such as mails and other files saved there. The combination of personal database and AI process in one hand seems to do the trick.

In order to defend life-saving institutions in times of sharp decline in global aid budgets, Gargee Ghosh of the #Gates Foundation points out the urgent needs to stabilize development finance, including more private capital, philanthropy, and blended finance. www.gatesfoundation.org/ideas/articl...

Reducing expenditure in an industry with a high intensity of personnel, is quite likely to be cutting jobs, too.

A striking contribution on a decision situation to let the blood freeze in your veins. Then consider the personalities on stage, for a total of 9 nuclear powers known now to interact on this globe. @pranayrvaddi.bsky.social and Vipin Narang have sketched such new complexity. bsky.app/profile/pran...

Contrasting current government policy, @ralfstegner.bsky.social and Rolf Mützenich, members of the German parliament, have pleaded to initiate peace talks with Russia, on Ukraine. Therefore, they should also consider this detailed opinion.

Breaking news: The National Institutes of Health has ceased terminating grants on politically sensitive topics after a federal judge ruled last week that the cancellations were illegal. scim.ag/4l9MO8Y

Calocedrus decurrens, 23 meters high, in the Park of the castle Blair Atholl, in the middle of the Scottish Highlands

Behind the US 🇺🇲 and China 🇨🇳 in the global tech race, there is still room for improvement for Europe 🇪🇺

A privilege to live in a country ranking 5th among 193, regarding the Human Development Index 2023. This index includes developments in life expectancy, education and income. Yet, the slowing of the global trend reminds us to work more on improvement, and on equity! www.economist.com/graphic-deta...

Wichtig in Zeiten, in denen unpassende Evidenz gerne durch Unbelegtes ersetzt wird! Schade, dass sektorale Aspekte etwas kurz kommen: So ist die Steuerung neuer medizinischer Technologien primär evidenzbasiert, und in der EU werden dazu Standards gerade ausgebaut. www.leopoldina.org/uploads/tx_l...

Have you been aware that storks may be sporting chin beards?

ICYMI: @harvard.edu today filed a 51-page lawsuit against the Trump Administration, Pam Bondi, RFK Jr., and several other defendants for their unconstitutional and unlawful federal funding freeze. www.harvard.edu/president/ne...

Jill Lepore hat Elon Musk erforscht. Er präsentiert sich als Futurist, identifiziert sich aber mit Comichelden des vorigen Jahrhunderts. Seine Ideenwelt ist noch älter und gefährlicher: Sie stammt von seinem Opa.

Unfortunately, the US Nimitz Library book removal adds on to a very long history of book burning in humanity. en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Book_bu...

Beeindruckendes Interview, weil hoch differenziert und über die aktuelle Administration hinaus gehend: das Bild der Wert-bezogenen Auseinandersetzungen zwischen Politik und Universitäten in den USA!

Indeed the State of Liberty has been looking around Europe for places to stay. At the south tip of wonderful Lake Neusiedl in Austria, she yet turned around shocked when hearing the winds blowing over from Hungary.

DockCeck schildert beeindruckende Aspekte der 'Sinnhaftigkeit' wechselseitiger Zölle in der Gesundheitsversorgung. www.doccheck.com/de/detail/ar...

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Naheliegende Ziele und Mittel könnten die Grundrichtung dieser Idee aufgreifen, etwa bsky.app/profile/leid...

A potential weakness in the simultaneous US #tariff attack, have impacts responses co-ordinated not within, but between non-US economic blocs - such as EU and others - been discussed? If such responses have potential to lessen losses, they could even be combined with mutually assured other benefits.

Reminds me of a post 4 months ago bsky.app/profile/leid...

Considering international empirical evidence, a poor outcome for #Hungary seems to fit smoothly into the overall economic impacts found of autocratic populists bsky.app/profile/leid...

Breaking News: A draft deal between Canada and the European Union would bolster defense cooperation at a time when the country’s ties with the U.S. are fraying.

Rich view by Yanzhong #Huang of @cfr.org in the @nytimes.com, upon the manifold roles and purposes of #research-cooperation between competing countries, primarily looking at #China from a #US perspective. www.nytimes.com/2025/03/02/o...

The severe diplomatic & political abuse of #Selenskyj by #POTUS & #VP has come as a major surprise to many. Hal #Brands‘ striking analysis, published one day earlier, indicates that a risk for it could yet have been on our radar. Could this even have been the case, for Kamala #Harris‘ campaign?

Just listened to below 2-weeks old, fine sketch of the benefits of a co-operative #US strategy in #globalisation. Yet today, this sounds like a decade ago, with second-term #POTUS just having charged again former ally #EU to be a foe, at least in economic terms. www.nytimes.com/2025/02/27/w...

The #US political system of checks and balances has faced contests in history, and in today’s practice. For a key issue, the relation between #POTUS and #independent-regulatory-agencies, Harvard law professor Cass R. Sunstine finely explains the challenges. www.nytimes.com/2025/02/26/o...

VP #Vance's definition of #freedom-of-speech disregards detrimental impact on others. Upon democratic societies having agreed to regard such impact, he wants to impose his definition. He thus ignores their democratic values, in order to pursue political, and business aims. orf.at/stories/3385...

Trump on Ukraine: "I think I have the power to end this war. And I think it's going very well. But today I heard, 'Oh well we weren't invited.' Well you've been there for three years. You should have ended it three years. You should've never started it. You could've made a deal"

Sehr lesenswert! (von @detlefesslinger.bsky.social für @szde.bsky.social) #Vance #Sicherheitskonferenz #MSC www.sueddeutsche.de/kultur/j-d-v...

For those trying to better understand links and incentives between #tech-moguls and some key players in the #Trump administration including DOGE, this @nytimes.com article dating back to 10/18/2024 might come in handy. www.nytimes.com/2024/10/18/m...

Congratulations to #MSC for providing a unique global forum, a regular base for critical discussions for those prepared to accept the rules. #MSC has included remarkable historical events. Let us hope key players will stay, or become, prepared enough to include them in your invaluable work.

#US where are you going, your values, your power, your politics? To reject European allies at the #MSC, #VP presented his idea of 'free speech'. It did not include woke science or administration, by the way. #POTUS seems to have opened negotiations with a foe, with presents, and is applauding VP.