‘Study after study shows that students want to develop these critical thinking skills, are not lazy, and large numbers of them would be in favor of banning ChatGPT and similar tools in universities’, says @olivia.science www.ru.nl/en/research/...

💡 Ook dichter bij huis neemt Gen Z het op voor meer democratie. Hoog tijd dat de leiders van de EU deze bondgenoten van het integratieproces openlijk steunen. 🇷🇸🇪🇺 👉 Mijn volledige opinie in @tijd kan je lezen via www.tijd.be/opinie/colum...

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Some people complain there’s too much polling in this life, but what is voting intention in the after life? Reform leads among both those who think they’d go to heaven & those who think they’d go to hell. Though their lead grows from 6 to 20 among (self selected) denizens of hell

Nelson's Victory crew included a Brazilian and a Russian, 2 Indians, 2 Swiss, 2 Portuguese, 3 Danes and 3 Norwegian sailors. There were 3 Germans, 4 Italians, 6 Swedes, 7 Dutchmen, 9 West Indians and an African, as well as 21 Americans, 63 Irish, 64 Scots, 441 English.... oh, and 3 French men, too.

It’s very clear that he views it as personal property, and that speaks to so much of how he views the office of the presidency as well. thehill.com/homenews/adm...

Denken dat de dalende cijfers in heel Europa slechts aan je eigen “strenge beleid” te danken is? Men maakt zichzelf iets wijs. Voor diverse migratie(s) per groep per land spelen andere factoren mee. Van stabilisatie (Syrië) tot te zwak om te vluchten of hoge sterfte (Soedan/gaza)

Striking that the figure below has provoked much less response than @simonhix.bsky.social's preceding call for an electoral threshold in NL It raises the genuine question how much fragmentation a party system can afford The response can't just be: this is how we do things in NL a few more thoughts:

In our new article, @tevoelker.bsky.social and I show how far-right actors have increased their influence on mainstream parties' agenda-setting. For the @euobserver.com, Hannah Kriwah has written about our study, and I had the pleasure to comment on it. euobserver.com/eu-and-the-w...

Physics Paths xkcd.com/3155/

AOC: The problem is that the Trump administration, they think that destroying our health care, making sure that housing is too expensive to live in, that jacking up the cost of our groceries—they think all of this is about hurting Democrats. What they are doing is hurting Americans

It's going up to $40 billion. USAID's budget last year was $28 billion.

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Everyone, please read this by @vjosamusliu.bsky.social

⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️ "Some of the jokes made me laugh, you have to laugh or else you'll cry at how wonderful and amazing our planet is...and how little time we have left to be with her." Elaine on Goodreads ⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️

🗣️ #ProEU MEPs pursue #democratisation based on institutional mimicry. 🔗 Jan Pieter Beetz, @gillespittoors.bsky.social & Wouter Wolfs argue that this risks overlooking potentially better alternative models that might better connect with European citizens. 👉 bit.ly/48gEEs2

Pritzker: "It's unconscionable. This has never happened before. They're calling out troops onto the streets of a state that doesn't want them and they're not even telling us where they're gonna go, what they're gonna do. This hasn't happened I don't think since the Civil War."

@jdceulaer.bsky.social, Mark Elchardus, Rudi Laermans, ... zijn geen fan van gelote burgerpanels. Filip De Rynck onderzoekt de scherpe kritiek én belicht de verrassende meerwaarde in de praktijk.

Op de tweede verjaardag van een oorlog die uitgroeide tot een genocide, staat Gaza aan de vooravond van wat velen “vrede” hopen te noemen. Maar wie goed kijkt, ziet: deze vrede werd en cours de route al verwrongen en gekoloniseerd. apache.be/2025/10/07/v...

How is anyone going to do the work that leads up to those big grants? You need loads of small bits of financial support for most humanities research (or, well, job security and non-overload with teaching & admin but 🤷‍♀️) and to support the groundwork. Only massive grants skew the research environment.

📣 Call for Proposals is now 𝐎𝐏𝐄𝐍 🏛️ 13th Biennial Conference of the ECPR Standing Group on the European Union @ecprsgeu.bsky.social ✅ Submit Panels & Papers across 18 Sections buff.ly/to6v8Km 📆 1 – 3 July 2026 📍Università di Catania 🔔 Deadline: Wed 10 Dec buff.ly/a3kcN3s

When I was a kid, I saw diversity all over the media I consumed because we all understood it was a good thing. Now suddenly any display of diversity is considered dangerous. Wonder why.

This is perhaps the ultimate expression of the phenomenon feminist theorist Marilyn Frye described 50yrs ago: that many self-proclaimed heterosexual men neither like nor desire women. This is why the bros invented RealDolls & now AI "actresses:" they want femininity, not human beings who are women.

This ultimately comes down to the EU's well-known dilemma: there are instruments which *could* be really effective, but the best instruments don't help you if you have no strategy for using them because you lack a definition of your interests and objectives.

"An anti-coercion instrument adopted two years ago was supposed to be the gun on the table to deter economic bullying, but it has done no such thing. EU has been shaken down for its lunch money by browbeaters from all sides this year & shown that it does not have the pain threshold to punch back."

Please join me in congratulating Woman on her appointment

When writing this we did it with the hope that it wouldn't remain an ever-green comment on the state of the Labour Party. For a brief moment during Starmer's conference speech I became more hopeful. As Starmer talks about Labour's latest radical right policy today, I've corrected myself.

I can’t believe I’m watching interviews of city mayors talking about how they are coordinating with other mayors to discuss how to protect their residents FROM THE PRESIDENT OF THE UNITED STATES I know we are “used to it” but it is absolutely insane

Here's the argument that bans on Pride marches fall within the scope of EU law (and are in breach of EU law), by Attila Szabó - eulawanalysis.blogspot.com/2025/04/buda...

This is grounds for Congress to remove Trump today.

An unprecedented violation of our civic and Constitutional traditions. Calling every military leader in the world back to the U.S. to hear a wildly inappropriate partisan campaign speech followed by a fascist call to use the military against Americans.

Judging by their speeches, neither Trump nor Hegseth has paid the slightest attention to how actual wars are being fought in the actual world. The “war fighting” and “lethality” they plan is inside their own country and comes from conflicts inside their own minds.

I moan about British politics but I suppose we should be glad that our party leaders are not yet asking the generals to declare war on their own citizens.

On the morning of Keir Starmer's conference speech here's a new post on an odd psychopathology in British politics - our main parties don't like the people who vote for them - the dreaded Professional Managerial Class. And so they are acting out like a divorced dad seeking cooler voters. 1/n

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Powerful Speech www.youtube.com/watch?v=ECaq...

None of this makes any sense and everyone else is supposed to be running around taking them seriously and treating their idiotic ideas with respect.

this is very exciting for me because I co-wrote this movie, along with you and everyone else who has ever posted words on the internet

Het is heel snel een dominant mediaframe aan het worden dat verzet tegen extreemrechts onnodig polariserend is

Excited for this! If you work on democracy or representation in multilevel Europe, sign up via your MyECPR account! @ecpr.bsky.social

🌍📢 Exciting news: @lucykinski.bsky.social, @wouterwolfs.bsky.social and myself have launched the ECPR Research Network on Democracy and Representation in a Transnational Space! We aim to connect scholars studying transnational politics, democracy & representation in Europe. ecpr.eu/Group/democr...

My cartoon for this week’s @newscientist.com

Nancy By Ernie Bushmiller September 20,1945

It’s time for some good news! 🌱🌍 (a thread, 1/3)

@nieuws.nos.nl waarom geven jullie aan mannen die prinsenvlag meevoeren, antisem leuzen roepen en hitlergroet brengen de apolitieke benaming “relschoppers”? bovendien, eerder noemden jullie het “in zwart geklede mannen”. nos.nl/l/2583277.

Absolutely wild. Israel targeted and massacred 31 journalists and media staff in Yemen. The second-deadliest attack on journalists ever recorded. The Israeli regime is built on war crimes.