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.

De absolute afwezigheid van menselijkheid wanneer deze vrouw over mensen in miserie praat. vrtnws.be/p.dLnqLL704

Altijd wanneer je denkt dat de bodem van ontmenselijking van Arizona bereikt is, blijkt dat er geen bodem is.

This is an agent of the US federal government, armed for live-fire combat against a modern army, slamming a passive and nonviolent female candidate for the US Congress into asphalt. Then walking away without checking if she has injuries, with his identity concealed behind a black facemask.

Question Mark xkcd.com/3143/

JA21 zit in de lift, met als speerpunt een kleinere overheid. Gisteren vroeg Eva Jinek aan Joost Eerdmans hoeveel beleidsmedewerkers de overheid telt. 300.000, dacht hij. In werkelijkheid zijn het er 15x zo weinig. Onvoorstelbaar incompetent – en garantie voor teleurstelling.

A good summary of how it’s going. Finished my PhD 9 years ago and am still stringing things together. As the first Anon says, what does ECR (or Mid-career) even mean anymore? That kind of career linearity depends on first vaulting over the fault line of secure/insecure - now a nearly impossible task

There has to be consequences to AI platforms: or we will have an even more monstrous issue to deal with than we do with social media platforms

Ik nodig deze commentatoren uit om eens een semester lang colloquia, onderzoekspresentaties en beursaanvraaginterviews bij te wonen. Nergens wordt mijn zelfvertrouwen zo structureel en fundamenteel op de proef gesteld als tijdens de vernietigende discussiesessies aan de uni. nos.nl/nieuwsuur/ar...

Several anti-ICE protestors on the Ohio-Kentucky border. This is how the police dealt with them. Literally beat the hell out of them. This is Trump's police state America, coming to a protest near you.

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In de NRC over mijn plan om het aantal Kamerzetels en het aantal stemmen te ontkoppelen

Incredible clip of tech CEOs fawning over Donald Trump. Someone store this clip in the underground archive vault

Edgar the Peaceful or Peaceable (959-975). My favourite one, and a big reason I wanted to do this, because it means the exact opposite of what you think. Basically, if you caused trouble, Edgar would have the lads f*ck you up. This would, among other things, keep the peace.

4 years ago Goodwin was calling what he now stands for fascism. He should be asked to explain why on every mainstream show he’s invited on.

Interessant! @mrooduijn.bsky.social en @simonotjes.bsky.social zijn weer begonnen met hun serie "Plaatjes van de electoraatjes" over de kenmerken en opvattingen van de (potentiële) kiezers op een partij. Eerste aflevering: NSC.

Ok everyone agrees I get at least 48 hours to be obnoxious about this

The Alcide de Gasperi Annual Conference is underway at the EUI➡️ From EU Diplomacy to civil and student activism, from Brussels to the Western Balkans and the Caucasus. Day 1 was packed with lively discussions and new research on the history of European integration. More tomorrow!

As we enter September, you may see posts with news of jobs, promotions, grants, fellowships, and the like. That’s great! We should celebrate with colleagues, especially in an industry where rejection is the modal outcome. 1/n

What a gurning malevolent cunt he turned out to be, really.

What do Jenrick, Farage, Goodwin, the Telegraph etc think will be the consequences of their actions? And what does Starmer think will be the consequence of his inaction?

Seems bad.

Seems bad

If I take anything positive out of this at all, it is that once again they have nothing but « stop, go back, don’t change » and that is an untenable position. It can hold for a while but it will be defeated by reality in the end.

This is the dumbest propaganda fake statistic I've ever seen. It presents in a rate of per million population when there's only 2.8 million trans people in the entire country. A single trans mass shooter would show up in this and that's exactly what it shows.

The special issue I coordinated together with Ramona Coman and Sergiu Miscoiu on the actors of dissensus is out! It is part of the @gemdiamondphd.bsky.social GEM diamond Doctoral network and the SI contains brilliant articles by the PhD students of the network. www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....

🚨Border Patrol arrested two firefighters who were actively fighting a wildfire at the time. When the other members of the crew asked for a chance to say goodbye, a Border Patrol agent told the crew member “you need to get the f*ck out of here. I’m going to make you leave.”

This is my latest piece in The Loop @ecpr.bsky.social based on recent fieldwork in Argentina 🇦🇷. Thank you to all the officials and informants who shared their insights with me. @edinburghpir.bsky.social

"We deserve answers from our leaders about why placating Trump is worth the deaths of more pedestrians on European roads, worth increasing global warming, worth stripping away protections for Europeans using the internet. What is the end game here?"

Francken kan als minister in de Arizonaregering kritiekloos extreemrechtse analyses verspreiden. Er is geen enkele centrumpartij die hem er op zal aanspreken of contesteren in Arizona. Extreemrechts gedachtegoed wordt normaal door instemming (zwijgen is instemmen) van centrumpartijen. 👇🏾

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Mensenlief, wat een hoop "proper" verpakte racistische toogpraat is dit nu weer.

“Nativisme” van Francken en uiterstrechtse flank van N-VA, netjes verpakt in normen en waarden-registers. Zodat het niet etnisch klinkt. Maar de veronderstelling van een homogeen denkend volk versus andere “niet-verenigbare culturen” die “ons” zouden bedreigen, doorprikt dat.

Since Trump’s return to power the Tories have increasingly adopted key aspects of the same anti-constitutional far right worldview, including the embrace of explicitly racialised nationalism, as described here, also the total contempt for the rule of law when they see it as an obstacle to their aims

1. The philosophy of science sometimes gets an unearned reputation as a purely academic exercise that offers little by way of concrete tools for advancing research. This is wrong. And today, as we grapple with how AI is changing the nature of scientific activity, it's desperately wrong.

4. Science of Science, with its data-intensive descriptive approach is useful, but insufficient. Metascience, with its laser focus on a replication crisis in psychology, likewise. We need broader humanistic thinking about the social processes involved in the construction and valuation of knowledge.

🚨🚨" It was humiliating to watch an American president act like a happy puppy upon encountering the dictator of a much poorer, much less important state, treating him as a superior". Spot-on by @anneapplebaum.bsky.social of #anchorage debacle.

Perhaps, one day, schoolkids will study this squalid little chapter in British terror-panic history. When they do, I hope these two headlines from today are printed side by side, with clear annotation of which individual faced more outrage and condemnation.

happily ever after 🥰

I’m kind of speechless with this one. I can’t imagine the kind of person who continues to make the argument that it doesn’t count as real starvation if the kids were already sick.

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Trump got much of what he wanted in Alaska. Unfortunately most of it was not good for the US, our allies, or Ukraine. My latest. www.thedailybeast.com/why-trumps-l...

“An adviser used by Nigel Farage and others in Reform UK to boost their social media popularity has suggested that Britain would be better off had it stayed neutral in the second world war instead of fighting Nazi Germany.” www.theguardian.com/politics/202...

Slovak Prime Minister Robert Fico praised the Putin-Trump summit in Alaska and echoed Kremlin rhetoric in discussing the prospect of security guarantees to help bring Russia’s invasion of Ukraine to an end.

Trump has no cards www.theatlantic.com/ideas/archiv...