📑❗️Our article with @grigopop.bsky.social and Graeme Robertson on the effects of Ukraine’s decentralization reform on satisfaction with public services (and democracy) in Ukraine 🇺🇦 was just published in Comparative Political Studies! doi.org/10.1177/0010...

Dans un contexte compliqué pour la presse scientifique, @epsiloon.com fait figure de référence. Son 60e numéro sort ce mercredi 27 mai. Cinq ans après sa création, comment la publication a-t-elle fidélisé ses lecteurs ? Explications avec Hervé Poirier. #science www.ouest-france.fr/sciences/cin...

Kyiv this morning:

Une des nuits les plus dures à Kyiv, visée par plus de 700 drones et 50 missiles. Un Orechnik se serait abattu sur Bila Tserkva à 100 kms au sud. Des dizaines de cibles touchées, à un point tel que les tunnels du métro Lioukanivka, où sont réfugiés des habitants, s’effritent.

Morning in Kyiv. Russia launched hundreds of drones and dozens of missiles at Kyiv overnight, causing widespread destruction and fires across the city. Two people were killed and more than 50 injured.

"Nous basculons dans l'inconnu". OUI ! C'est ça qu'il faut dire au bulletin météo. Il y en a marre de la banalisation du changement climatique avec les marchands de glace et les surfeurs. Merci Sébastien Thomas ! 1/12

#Ukraine vous voyez ce food truck distribuant des repas chauds aux populations derrière le front ? Il a été visé il y a qq jours par un drone russe : 2 bénévoles blessés dont un amputé. Offrons un camion blindé. Même un don d’un euro compte ! C’est ici : www.helloasso.com/associations...

Extrait d’interview, je suis bouche bée. Car oui les amis, en fait la Résistance c’est pas une histoire de politique, c’est DEVENIR LA MEILLEURE VERSION DE SOI MÊME !! Pour connaître les secrets skincare et la morning routine de Jean Moulin, commente Ebook et je t’envoie mon pdf (abonnement payant)

rightscon has confirmed the conference is canceled and recommend attendees not travel to zambia, as some are already en route

It is with heavy hearts that we share: RightsCon will not proceed in Zambia or online.

Rightscon being postponed by the Zambian government days before thousands of people from hundreds of countries fly in is quite chaotic: www.404media.co/rightscon-hu...

"Agence France-Presse said its analysis of data from the Institute for the Study of War (ISW) showed Russian troops made almost no territorial gains across the frontline in March – the first time this had occurred in two and a half years." @theguardian.com www.theguardian.com/world/2026/a...

Begging folks with open ended academic jobs not to forget there’s a whole underclass of permanently casualised academics who’ve been facing redundancy as standard for years. 12+ in my case. I get it’s awful facing redundancy ofc! Just…this isn’t unprecedented for us. It’s the norm.

Le numéro anniversaire (50 ans tout de même!) d' Hérodote (@ifgeopolitique.bsky.social) vient de paraître, et j'ai eu le plaisir de contribuer avec Frédérick Douzet à un article sur "30 ans de géopolitique du numérique"... 1/3

Really looking forward to the next instalment of our annual BASEES-ZOiS-Roundtable at #BASEES2026 tomorrow afternoon. Important topic, great line-up, don‘t miss it if you are attending the conference!⬇️

Many more ZOiS researchers will present their research at #BASEES2026 over the weekend – meet us there!

Well, there it is.

Avec @rlg.bsky.social, A. Ribardière et tout notre collectif éditorial, nous avons le plaisir de vous annoncer la parution des premières planches de notre Atlas social de la France. Pour un autre récit des inégalités dans l’espace national : atlas-social-de-france.fr

⚡️ Update: Ukraine, Romania sign strategic partnership declaration. Presidents Zelensky and Dan agreed to expand cooperation in the energy and defense sectors, signaling closer ties between the neighboring countries.

OMG they released the deposition videos where they revealed that these two DOGE bros were just feeding grants into ChatGPT and saying "tell me if this is DEI in less than 120 characters." www.techdirt.com/2026/02/19/d...

Did you know that if you buy my book on Amazon, Jeff Bezos makes 5 times as much as I do on each copy sold? Sharing some behind-the-scenes book math on why buying directly from presses is best for EVERYONE (except Bezos) in my newsletter today! aubreyhirsch.substack.com/p/book-math

So loads of people are sharing an obvious ai "glow up" of an actual photo. I never share ai stuff even to dunk, but in this case I'm sharing a comparison to show the problem. We have to stand against this slop at every level or it becomes normalised. They want us to stop caring. See alt text.

IODA shows the Internet in Iran has been cutoff from the global Internet since ~7:00 AM UTC. The regime implemented a similar Internet shutdown when Israel attacked Iran in June of 2025. Follow connectivity in Iran in near realtime: ioda.inetintel.cc.gatech.edu/country/IR?f...

Alors que des frappes israélo-américaines visent Téhéran, des millions d’Iraniens ont reçu ce matin d’étranges notifications via une appli de prière populaire. 1/2

Unfortunately, people in #Iran are familiar with internet shutdowns. In the current state of emergency, this is tragic because people can no longer obtain news or communicate with their loved ones. The shutdown began at the same time as the air strikes at around 7 UTC, according to data from IODA.

In Israel, Cloudflare Radar shows a clear jump in Internet traffic this morning as people followed the news. Traffic rose nearly 50% after 06:15 UTC compared with the previous week, a pattern typical during fast-moving events that draw nationwide attention.

Internet connectivity in Iran is now in a near-complete shutdown, down about 98% vs the previous week. The disruption began around 07:00 UTC, following reports of military strikes — and in past incidents the government has responded with nationwide Internet shutdowns.

Putin has appointed a new Kremlin commission on the development of AI (which Russia is lagging WAY behind in). Among the members: 74-year-old FSB director Alexander Bortnikov, and former Putin bodyguard Alexei Dyumin. (@meduza.io apt description: "old farts with big ideas.")

The EU moves to kill infinite scrolling "Commission preliminarily finds TikTok's addictive design in breach of the Digital Services Act" www.politico.eu/article/tikt...

Pas besoin de neige pour être une station de ski qui fait vivre le territoire local. "On sait depuis longtemps qu’on ne pourra pas vivre uniquement de la neige." rfo.ynh.fr/1c

UPDATE: Iran Internet shutdown Continuing to see a small, but steady restoration for Iran as the country rolls out its internet whitelisting system to police connectivity. #DigitalBlackoutIran #IranianRevolution2026 From our perspective, traffic is at ~25% of pre-shutdown levels (bits/sec).

X ceased being a public square years ago, and over the last month, it’s degraded even further. A platform that enables the creation non-consensual sexualised images of women and children cannot be treated as neutral ground - and governments choosing to stay are endorsing it. Enough is enough.

#Internet traffc in #Iran has dropped to effectively zero as of 18:45 UTC (22:15 PM local time), signaling a complete shutdown in the country, and disconnection from the global Internet. radar.cloudflare.com/traffic/ir?d...

As of 18:45 UTC (10:15 PM local), traffic to Iran has stopped as the country has completely severed itself from the global internet.

It's like they have all the pieces to the puzzle and they just don't understand how puzzles work.

Vous avez déjà certainement utilisé des services bourrés de pubs pour découper un PDF, convertir une image ou supprimer l'arrière-plan d'une image. Framatoolbox vous propose une énorme boîte à outils gratuite et sans pub framatoolbox.org/abc/fr/

"What does cyber really achieve, strategically?" is a recurring question in the cyberwarfare debate. In this article for the Journal of Cyber Policy, I try to tackle it focusing on one of the most dreaded cyber weapons: Wipers. A few highlights from this study...🧵 www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....

Wikipédia a besoin de nous “Beaucoup de personnes ont le sentiment que Wikipédia a toujours été là et sera toujours là. Mais Wikipédia est fragile : tout repose sur la bonne volonté des bénévoles. C’est uniquement grâce à eux que ce projet tient bon.”

Un article avec des gros mots, des punchlines, des conseils lecture chez CFEditions, 1 proposition totalement disruptive qui va casser les internets, et 1 analyse de la bouille de merde qui nous arrive. affordance.framasoft.org/2025/11/le-w... Alors lis-le, partage-le, critique-le, alaqueuele-le.

⏰ Only one week left to submit your proposal for SplinterCon -Paris 2025, Dec.8-10 ! 📢 Open to researchers, technologists, and policymakers, the CfP is open until Oct. 31 for panels, workshops, and project demonstrations! 👉 More information and submission details: splintercon.net/paris-partic...

⏰ Only one week left to submit your proposal for SplinterCon -Paris 2025, Dec.8-10 ! 📢 Open to researchers, technologists, and policymakers, the CfP is open until Oct. 31 for panels, workshops, and project demonstrations! 👉 More information and submission details: splintercon.net/paris-partic...

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Vous vous souvenez des MOOCS ? Ce devait être la fin des universités, une révolution dans le savoir, blablabla. Et c’était plus pertinent que les IA génératives.

Les IA rendent les gens idiots. Enfin, encore plus idiots. Le savoir est accessible depuis longtemps via des livres et des bibliothèques et pourtant ça n’a pas fait disparaître les profs et les universités. Vous croyez vraiment qu’un générateur de mots aléatoire va y arriver ?

The FT once again siding with left-wing activists because 80%of the political spectrum has chosen to defend oligarchs and, well, common sense and basic economics both conclude that oligarchs are a nuisance.

Just in case the dramatically low Leni Riefenstahl-style angle was too subtle, they used a word from her most famous movie

We're so relieved to see Germany reaffirm its opposition to the dangerous Chat Control proposal--the one that would mandate mass scanning of communications. Germany's long been a solid champion of privacy, and the news that it was considering backing mass surveillance was alarming. 1/

"We need journalists, and we need academics, and we need researchers, and we can't have new technology just strangle the business model of that." Passionnante interview du patron de Cloudflare qui crée un outil pour bloquer le scraping sauvage des sites par les IA. www.wired.com/story/big-in...