In 2012-13, there were 51 UK universities offering Russian and East European Studies. In 2024-25, there were 32, and provision is shrinking further. Perhaps that's a serious security risk? www.thebritishacademy.ac.uk/policy-and-r...

"Seamus O'Reilly" 🇺🇦🇬🇧🇮🇪🇦🇺🇬🇱@jimbobuk.bsky.social · yesterday

In the observer; Andy Burnham has said "UK authorities are “clear” that there was Russian interference in the Brexit vote: this is the first time a prime minister has confirmed Kremlin involvement in the 2016 referendum." Finally.... What we all knew...

Octavius V. Catto: teacher, scholar, & civil rights leader in Phila., Penn. On day that Catto could finally vote (due to 15th Amendment he'd fought for), he was murdered by one of white vigilantes attacking Black voters on #tdih 1871. 💔 #TeachReconstruction ⬇️ www.zinnedproject.org/news/tdih/oc...

Oct. 10, 1871: Octavius Catto Killed on Election Day in Philadelphia

Philadelphia, Pennsylvania Black educator, baseball player, and civil rights activist Octavius V. Catto was murdered by a white supremacist on election day.

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CfP for the workshop "Science in the Field: People, Practices and Environments in the Russian Empire and Soviet Union" organized by Christine Bichsel, Katja Doose, Nargiza Kenzhaeva & Oybek Makhmudov (Fribourg, June 2027) #envhist 👇 networks.h-net.org/group/announ...

Looks good! "The Red Thaw: Soviet climate science and the politics of global warming, 1950s–1991" www.cambridge.org/core/journal...

The Red Thaw: Soviet climate science and the politics of global warming, 1950s–1991 | The British Journal for the History of Science | Cambridge Core

The Red Thaw: Soviet climate science and the politics of global warming, 1950s–1991

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The CDC just re-opened a previously shelved study that would withhold the hepatitis B vaccine from children in Guinea-Bissau, despite decades of evidence showing it is safe and effective. This is a violation of human rights, using “science” to harm some of the most vulnerable people in the world.

A very stylish #Roman woman's shoe with a decorative pattern punched into the leather. Found in 1907 in a well in the civilian settlement of the Saalburg fort, dating first half of the 2nd century AD. Photo: Römerkastell Saalburg

Urrgh. UK universities withdraw offers from international students to avoid blanket ban - giftarticle.ft.com/giftarticle/... via @FT

UK universities withdraw offers from international students to avoid blanket ban

Pullback comes in response to doubling in number of study visas being refused by the Home Office in the first six months of 2026

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The MAGA regime recently killed the largest ancient 250 year old “Grandmother” Cottonwood tree in Arizona’s indigenous territory just to expand the orange felon’s fucking wall. I’ll never forgive anyone who chose this evil.

Anna #Politkovskaya was murdered #OTD 20 years ago. She was too courageous and principled for the country Putin wanted Russia to become. No one can say they didn’t know who he is or what kind of regime he was intent on building. Politkovskaya was crystal clear in her warnings.

Tools like Z-Lib and the people who actually contribute to keeping access to information free are literally going to jail for what they do, while companies like OpenAI are paid to scrape (and misinterpret) the same data, & have free reign to plagiarise without fear of litigation or even regulation.

Genuine question/request btw

Dr Sarah Irving@drtermagant.bsky.social · 6d ago

Can someone explain to me how FU-Berlin has a conference centre named after raging antisemite and massive Hitler fanboy Henry Ford? Am genuinely confused.

NEW: Testing Greece’s controversial terrorism law, Greek anarchist Nikos Romanos was acquitted of terrorism charges after serving 17 months in pretrial detention in what he described as "political revenge" over a partial fingerprint found in an apartment after an accidental explosion in Oct. 2024.

Nikos Romanos Acquitted As Greek Government Pushes Terrorism Cases - UNICORN RIOT

Testing Greece’s controversial terrorism law, Greek anarchist Nikos Romanos, alongside Argyrios K. and Dimitris P., was acquitted of terrorism charges earlier this year in connection with an explosion...

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Jack Captein is not the only Neo-Nazi Action Zealandia member that has been part of the New Zealand military, as fellow AZ members Max Newsome and James Fairburn/Hector were also soldiers before we helped expose them. newsroom.co.nz/2020/03/08/a... and newsroom.co.nz/2020/11/25/f...

Action Zealandia member planned terror cell

An anonymous member of the white supremacist Action Zealandia organisation discussed purchasing firearms from the black market and creating terror cells in New Zealand.

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If you have any tip offs about the Neo-Nazi group Action Zealandia and its front organisations White New Zealand, the National Socialist Faction and the Southern Rangers Active Club, then feel free to direct message us or email us at paparoa3@protonmail.com

Can someone explain to me how FU-Berlin has a conference centre named after raging antisemite and massive Hitler fanboy Henry Ford? Am genuinely confused.

Israeli Finance Minister Bezalel Smotrich: “The thorough cleansing that we are carrying out now in southern Lebanon is unprecedented. “They have nowhere to return to. Look at how it looks. “And by the way, the world isn’t stopping us.”

Hey just a reminder that Maslow stole the idea of the hierarchy of needs from the Blackfoot people (and his female research partner) and then made it weird and rapey (women can’t be healthy unless we experience a “surrender reflex” when encountering “masculine power”).

never the wrong time for this classic

Science Magazine@science.org · 7d ago

Exclusive: A new analysis refutes James Watson’s claim that he was the first to recognize the significance of the famed photograph 51. https://scim.ag/4rTKck8

I often see people argue that clean energy is not reducing emissions, because it just adds to rather than replaces fossil fuels. This argument is deeply misguided – clean energy built since 2005 has displaced 23 billion tons. I dive in over at The Climate Brink:

What if the world hadn't built wind and solar?

Clean energy does not simply “add to” global energy use; it displaces fossil sources that would otherwise get built.

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Donella Meadows was part of the "Limits to Growth" team back in 70-2. Whip-smart.

All Our Yesterdays@allouryesterdays.bsky.social · last wk.

October 5, 1989 – Donella Meadows “The Costs of the Greenhouse Effect will be Unpayable” She absolutely nailed it, and died too young. She had lots more wisdom to impart. allouryesterdays.info/2026/10/04/o...

Well, this is a delight. www.theguardian.com/artanddesign...

Comedy wildlife photography award finalists 2026 – in pictures

A selection of the Nikon Comedy Wildlife Awards 2026 finalists – from a shortlist featuring a caiman wearing a wig, a leopard doing a handstand, a strutting white-tailed eagle and a polar bear appeari...

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Woooops. And by woops, I mean 😂😂😂 www.themoscowtimes.com/2026/10/01/r...

Russian Orthodox Church Denies That Troops Lost Medieval Warrior Prince’s Relics in Ukraine - The Moscow Times

The Russian Orthodox Church has denied reports that Russian troops abandoned fragments of the remains of St.

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All this, 😒:

I think @joshdzieza.bsky.social has written the first great data center feature. It encapsulates and explains everything with clarity and humor—a feat of reporting that’s accessible enough to send to your parents, and that maybe we will be reading 10 years from now when we look back at this moment.

The People of Utah vs. Kevin O’Leary

Mr. Wonderful wanted to build the world’s largest data center. The neighbors had other ideas.

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exciting to have a philistine at the helm of a great cultural institution

IGN@ign.com · 2w ago

The BBC's new director general has described a 50-minute AI-generated episode of Doctor Who as "pretty good," and suggested that the technology now enabled the creation of content "at the standard of a Hollywood studio." https://bit.ly/4rD8rmh

His entire business model hinges on hoovering up public money and then turning around to use some of that money to promote white supremacy which somehow brings in more public money.

Social Media Lab@socialmedialab.ca · 2w ago

Failing up ..."Pete Hegseth appoints Elon Musk to US taskforce on future of warfare. A year after his explosive tenure at Doge, the SpaceX CEO is back in the Trump administration’s good graces." www.theguardian.com/technology/2...

It's weird how the federal government is constantly being hacked after DOGE gutted the government's cybersecurity agencies.

Zack Whittaker@zackwhittaker.com · 2w ago

The Pentagon is notifying millions of current and former U.S. military servicemembers and staff that hackers stole their *unencrypted* personal information during a months-long data breach. The agency that had the breach also handles ID and login/credential access to U.S. military systems and bases.

The last U.S. soldier has finally left Iraq. They never should have been there in the first place. $3 Trillion and 550,000 deaths later, we can say with certainty that the war was a catastrophic blunder. joecirincione.substack.com/p/we-warned-...

We Warned You. The Iraq War Was a Disaster

On September 30, the last US soldiers left Iraq. They never should have invaded.

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Is your ivy flowering? Please don't cut it back if you can avoid it! At this time of year in the UK, ivy flowers are a brilliant late season pit-stop for hard-pressed pollinators like bees, butterflies, hoverflies and moths 🐝 #gardening #wildlife #nature

Well, I'm 20 years late to the party on this one but this is why it pays to hangout with the Earth Sciences people when you're near their building. TL;DR - Geology is complicated. It's good to ask geologists before you dig deep holes or you will learn SURPRISE GEOLOGY.

Staufen im Breisgau - Wikipedia

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