@rolfoldejans.bsky.social on Bluesky

Vaya brutalidad de foto del Eclipse de Borja Sanchez-Trillo, de @EFEnoticias en Pradorrey (León)

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@nickjbrumfield.bsky.social on Bluesky

Kuwait has, for essentially all of my life, had one of the most robust civil societies in the Middle East, and certainly the most democratic government in the Gulf. It's being systematically dismantled. https://cpj.org/2026/08/kuwait-arrests-political-commentator-revokes-citizenship-of-2-journalists/

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@zekehausfather.com on Bluesky

I'm not sure folks have realized just how crazy the second half of 2026 and 2027 will be for global temperatures – on the back of a record-smashing El Niño event. Here is my latest estimate of where both years will end up compared to global temperatures since 1850.

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@nbcnews.com on Bluesky

At least 2,000 people have died among the confirmed cases in Congo’s Ebola outbreak that is the fastest growing on record, according to the latest government data. https://nbcnews.to/4glGwmR

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@gsferreira.bsky.social on Bluesky

"interesting" that returning illegally acquired fossils to where they belong is a no no, but selling a whole collection is a yes yes 🤑 https://www.theguardian.com/science/ng-interactive/2026/aug/09/one-of-uks-best-fossil-collections-sold-overseas-in-loss-to-the-nation

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How the NEP’s killing of the public university brought Gen Z out on the streets | The Caravan

Student protests were inevitable as the NEP had rode roughshod over an already underfunded and poorly managed higher education system, somehow making it more opaque than before.

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@michaelswanwick.bsky.social on Bluesky

One of the greatest writers of our times has fallen. I've posted a brief memory of John Crowley on my blog. https://floggingbabel.blogspot.com/2026/08/john-crowley-1942-2026.html

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@artinsociety.bsky.social on Bluesky

Greens, yellows & whites pervade this view of an open rowboat with no oars ~ artist Charles Curran’s new bride Grace, sheltered by green parasol, picks exuberantly large water lilies which carpet the lake, & cousin Lottie gathers them on her lap (1888) https://collection.terraamericanart.org/objects/10?_ga=2.91617562.1054094682.1780111069-2094901519.1780111069

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@sholtodavid.bsky.social on Bluesky

A tool used to rephrase plagiarised text changed "final solution" to "mass killing of an ethnic group" in a chemistry paper. Now retracted thanks to a PubPeer user who spotted this. https://pubpeer.com/publications/B9A4ACD51DC24C453DF4F8229C71CE

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@evolvwing.bsky.social on Bluesky

Was Odysseus' holy moly antidote properties based on the counteracting effect of snowdrops on Datura poisoning https://www.ovid.com/jnls/clinicalneuropharm/abstract/00002826-198303000-00001~homers-moly-identified-as-galanthus-nivalis-l-physiologic?redirectionsource=fulltextview

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@70sbachchan.bsky.social on Bluesky

This obviously should be a coordinated global effort to find unpaid taxes from the global super rich. Can someone give China a copy of the Panama papers? Lots of names and addresses in that one that Western govts have been prevented from going after.... [contains quote post or other embedded content]

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@mixedlinguist.bsky.social on Bluesky

This is the part that breaks my heart. "Generative AI has broken the sacred contract between professors & students: that the professors are there to teach and the students are there to learn. The understanding has been broken...That’s a very deep part of the grief” https://www.chronicle.com/article/these-professors-are-retiring-early-ai-was-the-last-straw?fbclid=IwY2xjawTgeD1leHRuA2FlbQIxMABicmlkETFNbEpxNENCekZMUEY5SkhUc3J0YwZhcHBfaWQQMjIyMDM5MTc4ODIwMDg5MgABHoBRgd82x8XKLj4MZ4WL6sVPZOCbTJX_Ls9emJSiGZV0uro6fDRkSAG6BWIu_aem_J3MuYy7iU9uFLedGcdbj-g

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@drdrtsai.bsky.social on Bluesky

Banger of a funding acknowledgment 😂 https://academic.oup.com/ajeadvances/article/2/1/uuag007/8494217

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@physicsworld.bsky.social on Bluesky

Three successful women physicists in India – Kaveri Hukku, Asima Pradhan and Urbasi Sinha – talk to Shobha Shukla and Matin Durrani about their triumphs, the challenges they’ve faced and their attempts to build a more equitable future. 🧪⚛️ https://physicsworld.com/a/how-women-physicists-in-india-are-breaking-down-barriers-and-shaping-the-future/

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@70sbachchan.bsky.social on Bluesky

FT: UAE's imperial push into Africa UAE is now a bigger investor in Africa than China,UK,France,US! UAE's dark king MBZ is supporting/extracting from african actors (particularly in north africa) with investments in logistics, gold, copper, arms, farming https://www.ft.com/content/a4c6e5da-dc9f-43b0-a794-c3f6bb9bca7d?shareType=nongift

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@aemonten.bsky.social on Bluesky

"I advise students to keep tabs on AI, to be aware. It takes discipline to resist seductive tools that promise ease and efficiency, and to ask instead what we risk losing when creating gets easy. To me, that is the real question: how to remain intentional". https://www.nature.com/immersive/d41586-026-02230-z/index.html

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@indrapramitdas.bsky.social on Bluesky

While the regime cracks down on protesters for 'abuse', sanghis are going on their annual rampage--the Kanwar Yatra pilgrimage--and terrorising everyone on the way, setting fire to vehicles, robbing trucks, & even attacking a school van filled with children. Full impunity, of course. https://x.com/Benarasiyaa/status/2084181631745872221

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@kirstenhan.com on Bluesky

This is Massive Attack's response to what happened in Singapore, posted on their Instagram page. Good on them. [contains quote post or other embedded content]

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‘It is incredible’: How AI is transforming mathematics | Nature

Thanks to some surprising advances, mathematicians are starting to realize that artificial intelligence could radically alter their profession.

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@indrapramitdas.bsky.social on Bluesky

“Neighbours tell me that people are still coming to our house in black vehicles. The UP Police are also still visiting our house. My daughter and I have shifted to another location. She studies in Class 10, and I used to teach students. I don’t know what our future holds now.” [contains quote post or other embedded content]

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