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No Russian ballistic missiles shot down by Ukraine in night of attacks that killed 17 | CNN

At least 17 people were killed and dozens wounded in Kyiv and surrounding areas overnight as Russia fired more than two dozen ballistic and anti-ship missiles, none of which were intercepted by Ukrain...

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As of this morning, Kyiv authorities report that nearly two dozen people were confirmed injured after the mass attack, and at least 16 have been killed in the surrounding oblast, including eight civilians waiting for a train at a village station.

Romeo Kokriatski@vagrantjourno.bsky.social · 18h ago

I can see fires in pretty much every direction from my windows, with city authorities reporting strikes on multiple warehouse facilities belonging to internet retailers and shipping companies.

Mearsheimer approaching year five of having to invent elaborate new justifications for why his hypothesis of an unstoppable Russian juggernaut that had to be appeased at all costs is still correct despite all the evidence. The press also approaching five years of inexplicably still platforming him.

Sven-Erik Volberg@volberg.bsky.social · 8h ago

New pro-russian talking point, spearheaded by Mearsheimer, is that Ukraine is landlocked, russia is winning but it also means nuclear war. Looks extremely organic and based on reality. Spot the grifter!

Kyiv under heavy missile attack, massive fires in multiple districts of the city have been reported. Reported hits in the suburbs as well. An estimated 30 or so missiles have been launched at Kyiv so far, and at least a dozen rocket drones are also in the air.

It would be nice if peace were at hand. But I don't understand Graham's statement in the 1st para that Putin has "been clear in recent months" that he wants "to bring the fighting to an end." Just last week Putin was talking about Ukrainian "neo-Nazis" and how all of E Ukraine belongs to Russia. 1/3

Opinion | Trump’s Chance for Peace in Ukraine Is Real. But It Won’t Last. (Gift Article)

There’s a narrow chance for a Russia-Ukraine peace deal before things go south.

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Painful footage of a fire at a book warehouse in Kharkiv. After a Russian strike, rescuers are still fighting the fire. ​Up to half a million textbooks for 4th to 9th grades were stored there, intended to be distributed across the country, along with over a million books from the "KnyhoLand"

Discussing diplomacy in Ru-Ukr war always benefits Ru. If I say talks are unlikely to work because Ru demands surrender terms and only Ukr has compromised, some still hear Ukr intransigence; if Ze says he wants to restart talks, journos ask me whether Ukrainians are tired and want to stop fighting.

New book coming in October from a team of Ukrainian & American authors, including two Wesleyan University colleagues: “The Body Remembers Freedom: Somatic Interventions in Times of Crisis" 1/

When there are no humans in the copyediting/publishing loop

Andy Luttrell@andyluttrell.bsky.social · 2w ago

When the author queries could be more specific...

Sensing your body (‘Interoception’) is everywhere in theories of mental health. But when we tested how well hundreds of people sensed their heart and lungs, the link to symptoms was almost nowhere to be found. 💣 🚨New @natmentalhealth.nature.com paper 🚨🎉 asks why 🧵 www.nature.com/articles/s44...

The Russians have launched over 20 missiles in the last 20 minutes at Kyiv. Multiple explosions and fires reported throughout the city.

This game is crazy

Ukraine’s military said it struck 116 Russian vessels over the past nine days. The drone attacks have reportedly forced Russia to suspend shipping operations in the Sea of Azov. Satellite imagery shows ship traffic near the Kerch Strait has ceased since the attacks began.

First underground kindergarten in Ukraine opens in Kharkiv region. ​Designed for 260 children, the facility features a bomb shelter capable of housing up to 1,000 people. ​Children in frontline regions, including Kharkiv, have been cut off from in-person education and daycare since Russia's

Got reminded about this photo today. It might look mundane, but it’s so not , it’s something i think we never cherished the way we should’ve while we still had it: the world before war. Mariupol, Ukraine, before Russia invaded and bombed it Photo: victoriyaruf/threads

🚨 Publication alert! Exploring Variation in Infants' Preference for Infant-directed Speech: Evidence From a Multi-Site Study in Africa Congrats to the entire MB1-Africa team! manybabies.org/MB1A/ doi.org/10.1111/desc...

Exploring Variation in Infants' Preference for Infant‐directed Speech: Evidence From a Multi‐Site Study in Africa

Infants show a preference for infant-directed speech (IDS) over adult-directed speech (ADS). This preference has been linked to infants' language processing and word learning in experimental setting...

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Trump: "Would you go to Moscow?" Zelensky: "It's difficult. There are a lot of Ukrainian drones there. It would be dangerous."

Looks like it was parts of the processing units that were hit in the Omsk attack, which is a much bigger problem (for Russia) than storage tanks getting hit.

🦋Special Kherson Cat🐈🇺🇦@specialkhersoncat.bsky.social · last mo.

🔥🛢️Russia’s Omsk Oil Refinery, the country’s largest and arguably its most valuable refinery, was attacked by Ukrainian drones. The plant has a capacity of around 20.5–21 million tons of oil per year, accounting for about 8% of Russia’s total oil refining volume. ❗️2500km from the frontline!

The overnight missile raid on Kyiv is currently counting casualties in the dozens. Multiple apartment building throughout the city and beyond have been hit, and detonations are continuing to be reported in the city outskirts as of 6 am Kyiv time.

🕯Nnani Adaobi Merian, a 23 Nigerian medical student, has died from the injuries she sustained when Russia bombed Kharkiv on June 29th. The guided bomb had also killed her friend, fellow med student Fatima Huseynova. Both women had returned to Ukraine to graduate. 1/ suspilne.media/kharkiv/1347...

Померла Ннані Адаобі Меріан, яка зазнала поранень під час авіаудару по Харкову

У лікарні в Німеччині померла 23-річна випускниця Харківського національного університету Ннані Адаобі Меріан, яка зазнала тяжких поранень під час російського авіаудару по Харкову 29 червня, повідомил...

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⚡️More explosions, damage reported to residential infrastructure in Kyiv as Russia launches large-scale attack.

Breaking: Residential buildings damaged in Kyiv as Russia launches large-scale missile, drone attack

Russia launched a barrage of missiles and drones toward Kyiv overnight on July 6, hours after President Volodymyr Zelensky warned of yet another large-scale attack targeting the capital.

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Only 5 days after, the last massive Russian Blitz attack on Kyiv and Ukraine, another one looks to be coming: Launches of Kalibr cruise missiles (video) reported, cruise missiles fired from Tu-95 bombers, threat of ballistic missile launches, and drones airborne as usual.

On my last visit to Kyiv, @luciankim.bsky.social & I were struck by a somewhat different tone among Ukrainians. New developments have made many of those we met with cautiously optimistic, even as they expect war to continue, & substantial challenges also remain. We lay out what we learned here:

A New Tone and Better Cards in Kyiv | International Crisis Group

After four-plus years of war, Ukraine aims to show it can inflict more pain than Russia is willing to absorb to achieve the Kremlin’s objectives. Ukrainians increasingly believe that this goal is atta...

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Last night, two of my family’s homes were hit in Russia's 11-hour bombardment of #Kyiv. These are the rooms I grew up in, the places where our lives happened. My family worked so hard for them. Now I am looking at them in shards.

There’s no need to tell us how resilient we are. This is a resilience born of necessity. I can barely walk myself from exhaustion and lack of sleep. If you can, please do something to support the people in Ukraine who are fighting for freedom and have no intention of giving up.

👇 Exactly! Targeting and killing Ukrainian civilians is an inhumane, stupid (see academic literature & experience of past wars), and failing (all evidence shows it has increased Ukrainian resolve) strategy, but that has been Russia’s strategy since the early days of this full scale invasion.

@steffrichard73.bsky.social 💙💛🦈🌻🍉🦝🚜✊🇺🇦@steffrichard73.bsky.social · last mo.

NO, this is not a revenge, a retaliation from Putin due the 40 days of Ukrainian strikes as claimed by our media ! This is what Putin does for 1588 days, about each 10 days in Kyiv !! Each day in Kharkiv, in Dnipro, Zaporizhzhia, Kryvyi Rih, Kherson...

PSA for trainees cold emailing with interest in joining a lab: Be careful about your use of LLMs in writing these emails!! It is now *extremely* common to get emails with a bizarrely-detailed, clearly-LLM take on a paper finding or with specific phrases pulled from the lab website. Don’t do this!

The 5 grey regions-all remote and sparsely populated except Chechnya- are the only ones without fuel sale limits or restrictions. 84 regions (including the 6 occupied territories in Ukraine) have restrictions. From @theins.press

22M views and nice little ratio over on The Other Site for this bit of pro-Kremlin conspiracism from a former USG official (Benz was a hatchet man brought in by Musk to kill USAID)

The NYU department of psychology is also reinstating the GRE as a requirement for PHD admissions. I heard Yale and Harvard are as well. Now Penn too. If you are applying to psych PHD programs this year be sure to take the exam.

Daniel P. Moriarity@dpmoriarity.bsky.social · 2mo ago

🚨University of Pennsylvania will be re-instating the GRE as a requirement for Psychology PhD admissions for the coming cycle 🚨