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De Studentenlijst is de grote winnaar van de Servische parlementsverkiezingen. Daarmee komt er een einde aan het veertien jaar durende bewind van autocraat Aleksandar Vucic. Wat betekent dit voor het land? We bellen erover met correspondent Lisa Spit.

The Netherlands should replace the F35s with a system that cannot be deactivated or made ineffective by our capricious and dishounerable American ‘allies’.

Working in Japanese schools, I saw how teaching young people civic pride creates adults with consideration for others, says freelance journalist Emily Bratt

"I understand that there have been some experiments showing that LLM review may have similar outcomes to human peer review, but who cares? Either scholarship, research and publishing are human enterprises or they aren’t." www.insidehighered.com/opinion/colu... >>

An perfect example of what @anneapplebaum.wsocial.eu describes in Authocracy inc is the essence of modern Corrupt Autocratic Oligarchy.

Russia never talks about 1939–1941 because it was allied with Nazi Germany, and would have stayed allied even longer had Hitler not betrayed them

russia is about to use a humanitarian crisis it CAUSED as a PR stunt. Vital to remember that people are still in Oleshky because russia held them hostage as human shields. Putin will try rewrite history & pretend he cares about saving lives. But russia caused this.

Here's another fun fact: Amedeo Avogadro never worked on his famous number. It was named in his honor, /very/ posthumously, by Jean Baptiste Perrin in 1909, because Avogadro's law (stating that equal volumes of gas contained equal numbers of molecules) was instrumental to determining it.

It's Mole Day, from 6:02 a.m. to 6:02 p.m. 10/23! - A mole of water💧 is about 18 grams & 18 mL, a sip. - A mole of aluminum🍲 is 27 grams, about dice-sized. - A mole of rice🍚 would cover the Earth to 28 meters (~91 ft). - A mole of donuts🍩 would cover it to 200 km (130 miles).

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De Nederlandse Militaire Inlichtingen- en Veiligheidsdienst (MIVD) heeft dankzij een Russische hacker een tijdlang kunnen meekijken op de mobiele telefoon van Jared Kushner, de schoonzoon van de Amerikaanse president Donald Trump. Dat schrijft een Amerikaanse journalist. De Volkskrant heeft dit ...

Always wonder what Russian ships are doing this close to Berwick/Edinburgh (legally). It’s not like they have any trade business there or it’s en route to somewhere. Loitering over what ? Offshore power lines ? Interconnect or? Gas pipes? Fibre cables? bsky.app/profile/spec...

This is just an ordinary day in the life of Ukrainians. Every single day. Ukrainians keep living, working, and supporting each other, but no one should ever have to get used to this. Support Sky Defense. Help bring ordinary, peaceful days back to Ukrainians. u24.gov.ua/sky-defense?...

Waarom verdedigen Europese landen voortdurend luchtruim in het MO oa met straaljagers maar laten we dat al bijna vijf jaar na in Oekraine? Terwijl dát daadwerkelijk direct onze veiligheid betreft. nos.nl/artikel/2635...

Europa zal lessen moeten trekken qua afhankelijkheid van Amerikaanse technologieën voor de vitale infrastructuur en defensie. Wat Trump mbt Oekraïne laat zien, is dat je zomaar de toegang ertoe kunt verliezen.

I never wanted to read Sally Rooney before but wil do so now. Which is her best?

This is a v misleading headline. Trump, Putin & Xi can agree what they like; it won't stop the war, because Putin's aim is to destroy Ukraine as a state & eliminate Ukrainian identity; no Ukrainian leader cd accept that. Europe shd ignore noises off, & step up military aid to UA & sanctions on RU.

Happy Birthday Philip Pullman! Thank you for the worlds, the daemons, and the reminder that we can build a republic of heaven right here. Your stories have a permanent place on our #humanistbookshelf.

As per usual Sartre had no idea what he was talking about, customer service centres by AI is hell, other people are mild compared to this. I strongly advise ever to rent anything from SIXT if you even have the slightest chance you would need help.

The Budapest Memorandum was a signed treaty. In 1994, Russia, along with the US and UK promised to respect Ukraine’s territorial integrity. Why would an off-the-books verbal promise in 1991, which might not have actually happened—Gorbachev swore it didn’t, but even if—outweigh a signed treaty?

Trump puts new Russia sanctions that he recently signed into law on hold, citing national interest. He is indeed serving the national interest of Russia..

It's that simple. 👇

“De massale Russische aanvallen op het Oekraïense energienetwerk begonnen letterlijk enkele uren nadat Trump zondag had aangekondigd dat Moskou en Kyiv een “energie-staakt-het-vuren' hadden bereikt.” Rob Schoof @robschoof.eurosky.social @nrc.nl #OorloginOekraïne www.nrc.nl/nieuws/2026/...

As a PhD student designing my first survey, I added what I thought was a throwaway question at the end. To my surprise, thousands of academics answered it! The paper is out today: doi.org/10.1093/pnas...

Impeachment should only be the first step. He (and his co grifters) really should loose all his money and assets, then he should be put in jail where he should be treated most kindly (yes kind) by all the kinds of people he hates and treated badly. That is the poetic justice that he deserves.

🇺🇦🗣️ Ben Hodges: A large amount of the intelligence that the US uses comes from allies. So yes, France, Germany, Britain, Poland and Finland can provide Ukraine with data that will give advance warning of ballistic missile launches. It is a matter of political will.

Pretty clear that Trump/Hegseth are doing everything they can to force Ukraine to surrender to Putin by withholding all US assistance while actively helping fund the Russian war machine to kill as many civilians as possible including kids. What a dark, evil chapter in US history.

Alle grote terreinbeheerders nemen afscheid van imkers. Overal om dezelfde reden. De honderden, veelal bedreigde wilde Nederlandse bijensoorten leggen het af in de concurrentiestrijd om nectar tegen één soort: de grotere, met suiker gevoede honingbij. www.volkskrant.nl/binnenland/i...

just today, I had a discussion about the predicates for life we underestimate the power of natural selection (and at a cosmic scale, other processes) in generating strange but recognizable forms of life

Your regular reminder to not publish or review for MDPI, what is this hot garbage of a figure. Drosophila and Nasonia are mixed up, and the photo of B. kinseyi is MY PHOTO of Eupelmus parasitoid that I reared out of B. kinseyi gall, instead of the inducer. Thanks for lifting and not crediting me?

​There are millions of bots commenting and posting Russian propaganda. There are paid influencers spreading it, with Russian bots supporting their content. There is a gigantic machine operating to radicalize and influence Western societies, and there is not enough defense in place.

The FT, with the data.

Wow — listen to these new comments from Trump. Thanking Putin, trashing Zelenskyy, characterizing Russia as eager for peace and Ukraine as intransigent. The mask is totally off.

The first Russian diesel cargo heading for the US left St Petersburg on September 22, two weeks *before* Trump announced the deal with Putin, Windward reports. The Greek-flagged tanker Minerva Zen carrying 275,000 barrels of diesel/gasoil is due at the US East Coast around 11–12 October.

That excellent documentary of a few years ago, "Big Oil Versus the World" ought to be readily available on BBC i-player. Better still, repeated as well. It explains how the good science of 40 years ago was deliberately obscured.

Ukraine should bomb every export terminal in the Baltic or Black Sea. And any tanker coming to get filled up.

We need to end this war - by ensuring a Ukrainian victory before Europe faces a Russo-American attack. www.theguardian.com/us-news/2026...

All European instititutes should ASAP stop using US software, it is a liability! www.theguardian.com/world/live/2...

Can we please agree now that when the AI bubble burst and software companies become worthless and they claim they are too big to fail we are not going to buy them out, there are ample alternatives, they are not like banks!

Deze vrouw, briljant software-wonderkind, ontwierp de software die Apollo 11 naar de maan (en terug) bracht in 1969. Ze was toen 32. Nu is ze overleden. Margaret Hamilton. Als ze zelf de software voor haar reis naar de hemel ontwierp, dan komt ze daar wel. www.bbc.com/news/article...

A very happy 50th birthday to our patron Tim Minchin. Thank you for the music, the laughter, and these really lovely words on living, happiness, and finding meaning in the here and now. Happy Birthday, Tim!