Did anyone else have like a c. 1999 Honda Civic (mine was manual transmission) — all gas-engine, etc. — that got >40mpg…?

Car and Driver@caranddriver.bsky.social · last wk.

Nissan finally brings its e-Power series-hybrid powertrain to America and says it expects up to 38 mpg combined.

IN NEW ISSUE: Polarized attitudes and anti-democratic orientation in the US - Ariel Malka, Christopher M Federico, Thomas H Costello & Adam R Panish examine paradoxical partisan asymmetries in current democratic attitudes. Read more: buff.ly/dVEZQr8 @polstudiesassoc.bsky.social #polsci #polsky

Read the story: The therapy, Rasonque from Revolution Medicines, nearly doubled overall survival in a clinical trial www.statnews.com/2026/08/26/p...

FDA approves new pancreatic cancer drug expected to usher in new era of treatment

The FDA has approved a life-extending treatment for advanced pancreatic cancer — the first such therapy to attack a genetic cause of the highly lethal malignancy.

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Mitch McConnell can get 75 days off as a US Senator, but women can’t get maternity leave. Welcome to America.

We are told to ignore the racism of Hegel, Kant, Locke etc because they were just "men of their time". So what do we do with the racism of current academics? Are they too just "men of their time"? What is this "time" that seems to make racists of men?

Die Ergebnisse der Studie könnten einigen nicht gefallen. Es ist dennoch wichtig, sich damit auseinanderzusetzen, aus welchen Gründen die AfD gewählt wird. www.uni-saarland.de/aktuell/sorg...

Sorge um Zuwanderung viel wichtiger für AfD-Erfolg als wirtschaftliche Benachteiligung

Vor allem die Einstellung zur Einwanderung erklärt die Unterstützung für die AfD. Geringeres Einkommen, geringere Bildung und – subjektiv empfundene – Benachteiligung hingegen spielten eine viel klein...

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"The Israel Defense Forces (IDF) had previously denied involvement in the January 2024 killing, saying months later that a preliminary investigation found its forces were “not present near the vehicle or within firing range” of the vehicle." www.cnn.com/2026/08/19/m...

Israeli military admits for first time to firing on car carrying 5-year-old Hind Rajab, opens criminal probe | CNN

The Israeli military acknowledged for the first time on Wednesday that it opened fire on the vehicle carrying 5-year-old Hind Rajab in Gaza and said it had opened a criminal investigation into the 202...

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Aus der Perspektive der 2010er unvorstellbar: die russische und die US-Regierung unterstützen beide dieselbe rechtsradikele Partei in Deutschland mit Millionnen. www.handelsblatt.com/politik/inte... www.welt.de/politik/ausl...

USA: MAGA-Offensive in Europa – wer nach Trumps Millionen greift

Die US-Regierung will europäische Organisationen mit fast fünf Millionen Dollar fördern. Nach Handelsblatt-Informationen bewirbt sich eine deutsche Influencerin mit AfD-Nähe um die Gelder.

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writing an expose of how the real life Garfield was a friendly cat who ate modestly and had no strong feelings about Mondays before Jim Davis turned him into a caricature for the masses.

Very excited for this book!!

John V. Kane@uptonorwell.bsky.social · 2mo ago

OUT TODAY! 🥳 A straightforward, non-technical guide to thinking like a quantitative social scientist. Written for students, journalists, and curious citizens. A lot of thought and heart went into this. I genuinely hope folks enjoy it!

We need to take a moment to salute Gianni Infantino for being the first person in history to get 55 European countries to unanimously agree on anything.

+1

Virginia Sapiro@vsapiro.bsky.social · 3mo ago

Just because: I recommend this golden oldie, which I assigned to my students for many years from the year of its publication. Carol Cohn, “Sex and Death in the Rational World of Defense Intellectuals," Signs: Journal of Women in Culture and Society, vol. 12, no. 4 (Summer 1987).

The appeal requests are pouring in after FIFA lifted the red card ban on Team USA’s star player, Folarin Balogun. trib.al/xBPAwVu

Trump Breaks the World Cup by Setting Off Wild Chain Reaction

The appeal requests are pouring in after FIFA lifted the red card ban on Team USA’s star player, Folarin Balogun.

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America keeps trying to get me to go to her birthday party and I’m like no girl u need to go to the hospital

I'm at home in Brooklyn with my two very young kids and ConEd has reduced our power because of the heat wave. Our lights don't work and AC is minimal. Also, there's a celebrity wedding in midtown right now and I'm unaware of any reports that they're going without.

Happy to present my new book with @drmalligaoch.bsky.social and Farida Jalalzai at the @ecprgender.bsky.social conference in Newcastle, UK. Thanks to @cvxydias.bsky.social , @petrahrens.bsky.social, and Henriette Müller for discussing on our book launch panel!

one anecdote: I was searching for a link to one of my old papers on Google, and the automated Gemini summary attributed all of my lab's work to my husband

Mel Andrews@bayesianboy.bsky.social · 3mo ago

When utilized in literature review, LLMs consistently 1. fail to mention female authors in female-led literatures, 2. insist that men are more influential or more heavily cited when this is contradicted by objective citation counts, and 3. attribute women’s work to hallucinated male scholars.

Using original survey data from the Bundestag & German state assemblies, @sfranceschet.bsky.social and I find that institutional efforts to address the challenges of working as an elected representative while caregiving would likely be successful. Legislatures should try it! @bundestag.de #gendersky

Cambridge University Press Political Science & IR@cambup-polsci.cambridge.org · 4mo ago

#OpenAccess from @politicsgenderj.bsky.social - Parties, Gender, and Attitudes Toward Parenthood and Politics in Germany - https://cup.org/4elxZiO - @sfranceschet.bsky.social & @cvxydias.bsky.social #FirstView

#OpenAccess from @politicsgenderj.bsky.social - Parties, Gender, and Attitudes Toward Parenthood and Politics in Germany - https://cup.org/4elxZiO - @sfranceschet.bsky.social & @cvxydias.bsky.social #FirstView

Daily pill can double survival time for world’s deadliest cancer, trial shows

Daily pill can double survival time for world’s deadliest cancer, trial shows

Experts hail daraxonrasib as ‘gamechanger’ for patients with advanced pancreatic cancer A daily pill can double survival time in patients with the world’s deadliest cancer, according to the results of a clinical trial that experts are saying is a “gamechanger” and one of the biggest breakthroughs in decades. Currently, there are few treatments for pancreatic cancer, and most do little or nothing to help. For decades, scientists have worked relentlessly trying to find clever solutions for a form of cancer that is often found late. More than half of patients are only diagnosed after it has spread. Continue reading...

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Revolution's pancreatic cancer drug doubles survival, boosts quality of life reut.rs/439RlkD

Revolution's pancreatic cancer drug doubles survival, boosts quality of life

Revolution Medicine's experimental pancreatic cancer pill doubled survival compared with chemotherapy and improved symptoms enough that some patients could resume ​activities they had previously abandoned, setting a new benchmark for this deadly cancer, researchers reported on Sunday.

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I'd forgotten half of these.

Jeffrey Brown @texasgeologist.bsky.social · 5mo ago

i will vote for any candidate who offers up this slogan

András Tóth-Czifra@minczifra.bsky.social · 6mo ago

Perhaps Magyar's most important promise, and the one that certainly resonates with voters: "never again a country without consequences!" The crowd chants: "To prison! To prison!" [with the corrupt officials of the outgoing government]

Orbán turns out to be more of a democrat than the U.S. president and a nontrivial number of GOP candidates.

András Tóth-Czifra@minczifra.bsky.social · 6mo ago

ORBÁN CONCEDED

today’s a pretty momentous day for women and/in space, so I hope you will re-enjoy this song with me: www.youtube.com/watch?v=OTnQ...

NASA Really Thought Sally Ride Needed 100 Tampons and Makeup in Space - Marcia Belsky

YouTube video by Comedy Central Stand-Up

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Bucknell U's political science department is searching for two VAPs for next year ('26-'27) in IR & CP, respectively. Deadline is quite soon: 30 March. Please feel free to DM me with questions! bucknell.wd1.myworkdayjobs.com/en-US/Extern...

a white cat wearing glasses and a pink bell around its neck

Alt: a white cat wearing glasses and a pink bell around its neck

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So many old men like Sessions sending young men and women to die.

Aaron Rupar@atrupar.com · 7mo ago

Rep. Pete Sessions: "I believe that what these 2,500 Marines would be is to secure the island. The island is not, in my opinion, boots on the ground in combat circumstances. It's not like inside Iran in the cities."

"Autocratization is now truly global. (...) In 2025, Western Europe and North America registers the most notable decline on both country- and population-weighted averages. This is primarily due to the recent developments in the US." V-Dem released its latest report. www.v-dem.net/documents/75...

I think it's great that the president put on his most solemnly branded baseball cap to receive the returning coffins of soldiers killed in the unnecessary war he launched to distract from his failing presidency and pedophilia scandal. Look at that gold-like letting. Classy as shit.