Imagine how much coverage this story would have received in normal times…

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We're one year in. The speed, scope and severity of what's happening to American science is beyond anything we've seen before. The reliability of the Federal science and technology enterprise and the people within it, has been shattered. www.nature.com/articles/d41...

Former GOP strategist Stuart Stevens says Republican senators are “compromised” and have become “Russian assets” for enabling Trump’s subservience to Putin.

Book review 📚 Forget formalism: mathematics was built on infighting and emotional turmoil go.nature.com/3LUmwvd

Kai's write up and @cailinmeister.bsky.social's thread do a great job of summarizing our results. Rather than cover them a third time, I thought I'd clarify some misconceptions over our piece and COIS more broadly that keep cropping up scattered across replies. 🧵🧪

Top Catholic Clerics Denounce U.S. Foreign Policy www.nytimes.com/2026/01/19/u... « the American-born pope condemned “a diplomacy based on force” and a “zeal for war” without mentioning any world leaders by name. » I will mention the name: D. Trump who is acting like V. Putin.

Trump Links His Push for Greenland to Not Winning Nobel Peace Prize www.nytimes.com/2026/01/19/w...

Jordan Bardella, président du Rassemblement national, diffuse sur son compte Instagram (1,3 million d'abonné·es) un deepfake d'Edwy Plenel, une vidéo générée par IA à partir de son visage

Writing is thinking Outsourcing the entire task of writing to LLMs will deprive us of the essential creative task of interpreting our findings and generating a deeper theoretical understanding of the world.

Joint statement by the eight European countries targeted by Trump’s 10% tariff: 🇩🇰🇫🇮🇫🇷🇩🇪🇳🇱🇳🇴🇸🇪🇬🇧 “Tariff threats undermine transatlantic relations and risk a dangerous downward spiral. We will continue to stand united and coordinated in our response. We are committed to upholding our sovereignty.”

www.lemonde.fr/article-offe... "Des figures du parti, le plus fasciné semble toutefois être Jordan Bardella, qui, du département de l’efficacité gouvernementale d’Elon Musk aux attaques de J. D. Vance, a, depuis un an, enfourché à plusieurs reprises le cheval trumpiste." Article offert à lire!

www.lemonde.fr/le-monde-des... Le concept de tolérance à l’ambiguïté est effectivement important en psychologie mais il a aussi été développé au niveau culturel ou sociétal par G. Hofstede dans ce qu’il a appelé le contrôle de l’incertitude (uncertainty avoidance). Le France a un score élevé sur ça.

"Au total, le manque à gagner pour l’économie américaine se situerait entre 25 et 29 milliards de dollars en 2025". Jusqu'à 40% de Canadiens voyagent ailleurs. L'Espagne, la France et le Japon sont les grands gagnants de ce report. #Tourisme #Trump

The images and stories coming out of Minneapolis are extraordinary. We can't say we did not know what was happening. Lots of people are putting their bodies on the line to make sure we do.

Large protests broke out in Denmark and Greenland under the slogan “Hands off Greenland.” Crowds gathered in front of Copenhagen’s City Hall before marching to the U.S. Embassy, demanding respect for Greenlanders’ right to self-determination and opposing reported U.S. plans concerning the island.

Data from 28,000 people reveals which conspiracy debunking strategies tend to work best

𝐀𝐥𝐥 𝐭𝐡𝐨𝐬𝐞 𝐰𝐡𝐢𝐭𝐞 𝐬𝐮𝐩𝐫𝐞𝐦𝐚𝐜𝐢𝐬𝐭𝐬 𝐭𝐡𝐚𝐭 𝐬𝐭𝐨𝐫𝐦𝐞𝐝 𝐭𝐡𝐞 𝐜𝐚𝐩𝐢𝐭𝐨𝐥 𝐨𝐧 𝐉𝐚𝐧𝐮𝐚𝐫𝐲 𝟔𝐭𝐡, 𝐡𝐞 𝐩𝐚𝐫𝐝𝐨𝐧𝐞𝐝 𝐭𝐡𝐞𝐦 𝐭𝐡𝐞𝐧 𝐠𝐚𝐯𝐞 𝐭𝐡𝐞𝐦 𝐚 𝐛𝐚𝐝𝐠𝐞 𝐚𝐧𝐝 𝐚 𝐠𝐮𝐧 𝐚𝐧𝐝 𝐡𝐞'𝐬 𝐭𝐮𝐫𝐧𝐞𝐝 𝐭𝐡𝐞𝐦 𝐨𝐧 𝐨𝐮𝐫 𝐜𝐢𝐭𝐢𝐞𝐬 𝐧𝐨𝐰.

« Corruption and failure »

slate.com/news-and-pol... “Because the highly divided court was unanimous on one point: Being born in the United States meant being a native-born American, regardless of the status of one’s foreign parents.” Merci @patrickweil.bsky.social @slate.com

www.lemonde.fr/internationa... French soldiers arrived in Groenland , a symbolic gesture in support of the people of Groenland who simply want peace.

Greenland PM Jens-Frederik Nielsen: "If we have to choose between the US & Denmark here and now, we choose Denmark. We choose NATO. We choose the Kingdom of Denmark. We choose the EU." "Greenland does not want to be owned by the US. Greenland does not want to be governed by the US" he later added.

Puisque le RN se débat à nouveau pour noyer l’image judiciaire qu’il veut renvoyer sur ses malversations c’est toujours le moment de rappeler son vrai visage sur les sujets cruciaux

The chaos in the world right now and inside the United States is mainly due to one person: Trump. Many thanks to the people of the United States who are peacefully protesting against this across the country:

Israël a banni de Gaza les plus grandes ONG mondiales. Les humanitaires ont jusqu’au 1er mars pour partir. « Mais pourquoi est-ce qu’ils veulent-ils interdire ces organisations ? » Des camions entrent dans Gaza, mais la majorité appartiennent au secteur privé : la nourriture est payante.

I BEG every smug commentator who praised Mahmood for doing the “tough but necessary thing” to read this. All the disadvantages of plummeting immigration for the economy & public services, for NO POLITICAL GAIN. Labour in DESPERATE need of a 180 change of course on immigration

Pas question de laisser Marseille à la droite incompétente qui l’a mise dans le trou pendant 25 ans ou aux fascistes qui détournent de l’argent. Et ça commence aujourd’hui. Forza !

Is Perceived Economic Scarcity Linked to Attention Toward Economic Inequality Cues? Empirical Evidence With Multiverse Analyses, from @vauger.bsky.social, Céline Darnon, and Alice Normand doi.org/10.1525/coll...

Excellent joueur et excellente équipe !

👮 Sur #CNews, quand il s'agit d'inviter des représentants syndicaux, sentirait-on une petite préférence corporatiste, une discrète prédilection pour certains thèmes ? Voyons ça en chiffres… 👇 #LaDataNeMentPas

‼️ New paper out at @electoralstudies.bsky.social with the fantastic Valentin Pautonnier, Michael Lewis-Beck and Richard Nadeau! doi.org/10.1016/j.el... A short 🧵 on what it's about and what we find

François Mitterrand, impossible héros de la gauche ? theconversation.com/francois-mit...

"A force de parler d’islamisme, l’islamisme fait peur même si on ne sait pas ce que c’est. Cette peur a une traduction politique, et renforce les partis politiques qui instrumentalisent l’islamophobie à des fins électorales" www.lemonde.fr/idees/articl...

Name and Shame: une partie des ordures racistes ayant insulté le nouveau né Zaïd a été identifiée par la plate-forme collaborative pour les Maghrébins Tajmaât, ainsi que la Veille d'Investigation contre le Racisme ciblant les Maghrébins (VIRMAG. Parmi eux...

32 millions de contrôles par an en France, ça veut dire qu'en théorie un Français sur 2 serait contrôlé chaque année hors nourrissons. En pratique : qui, parmi nous, a été contrôlé ne serait-ce qu'une fois ? Question subsidiaire : quelles catégories de pop sont sur-sur-ciblées par ces contrôles ?

🧑‍🎓Can democracy promotion strengthen support for democracy in terrorism-affected regions? ➡️ Using a randomized experiment in Burkina Faso, S Yameogo @anjaneundorf.bsky.social & @aykutozturk.bsky.social find that democracy promotion videos boost democratic support www.cambridge.org/core/journal...

Affaire Epstein : des millions de documents attendent toujours d’être publiés, exposant Donald Trump aux accusations de dissimulation

A reminder that the US killed 80 people in Venezuela, and it would be nice if the US media cared enough to think that the life of a grandmother in Caracas whose building is destroyed by a US bomb matters as much as the life of a person in the US.

«Les États-Unis sont officiellement devenus un État voyou»

What we see with Trump is the naked use of power. But this is not the same as social influence. As shown by Serge Moscovici 50 years ago, social influence can occur without power. Trump coerce people: this is ineffective in terms of changing people who may conform but still beleive he is an asshole!

True!

New work by Mohamed Hussein, Zakary Tormala, & S Christian Wheeler shows that when political issues become identity-relevant, people favor radical candidates. Identity—not just policy—drives polarization. @columbiauniversity.bsky.social @stanforduniversity.bsky.social www.psypost.org/linking-pers...

“The democratic will of the Venezuelan people” is not even remotely a consideration of the Trump Admin. It is completely irrelevant to Trump.

"Bientôt" : après le Venezuela, le Groenland… Sachant qui est Katie Miller, engagée auprès de Trump de longue date et épouse de son principal conseiller à la Maison Blanche, ce post sur X n'est pas un dérapage mais la confirmation de leur projet impérial illimité. Dont l'Europe est aussi la cible.

Un article pour décrire comme "totalitaire" la volonté d'Emmanuel Macron (et de l'Europe) de réguler les médias et de lutter contre les influences étrangères. Un autre pour condamner les sanctions contre un propagandiste de Moscou. En 2026 comme en 2025, le JDD sera le média du Kremlin.

New #Jan6 Archive As Trump tries to erase this history, @npr.org has put together a public archive to protect reality. Much of the video and evidence you have not seen before. Trying to overturn a free and fair election was an assault on democracy. It was fascism.

www.lemonde.fr/internationa... C’est absurde et illégal: