I think the Founding Fathers would be most shocked to find our that in the year of their semiquincentennial, the citizens of the American Republic have the ideals and values of liberty and democracy explained to them by the Pope and the British King. www.theguardian.com/us-news/2026...

Mission accomplished as king’s speech to Congress goes down a storm

Charles quoted Wilde and Dickens in measured masterclass – and no tirade as yet from mad monarch in White House

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me with the time machine, to my 1996 self: the year is 2026. the Pope is the only world leader you respect. you believe unironically that the cultural mores and sexual behavior of San Francisco are destroying America. computers were a mistake

Oakland Review of Books@oaklandreviewofbooks.org · 4mo ago

One (anonymous) woman's account of navigating the "sexual marketplace" of Silicon Valley ca. 2015, as the rich tech dudes were beginning to get a little fashy.

I do not think there will ever be an announcement in the newspaper that World War III has started. I think a future group of historians is going to hypothesize in a grant application that we were already in it for years.

Very predictably, the EU always informs the people they hurt www.theguardian.com/world/live/2...

Macron praises Europe’s predictability in face of countries that ‘hurt you without even informing you’ – Europe live

In an apparent swipe at US, France’s president says that with some countries you do not know ‘whether tomorrow they won’t… hurt you’

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Waarom heeft Bert Bokhoven nog steeds geen tenure? speld.nl/2026/03/12/w...

Wat maakte George Orwell in 1984 zo optimistisch over de toekomst?

De klassieke roman 1984 van George Orwell heeft door de jaren heen veel faam vergaard vanwege de voorspellende waarde die het boek zou hebben.

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Het goede nieuws volgens de krant: generaals gebruiken (nog) geen AI. www.volkskrant.nl/tech/ai-druk...

AI drukt opmerkelijk snel op de nucleaire knop, blijkt uit onderzoek

Als chatbots militaire strategie gaan bepalen in een nucleaire crisis, is er een grote kans dat ze kernwapens inzetten, blijkt uit nieuw onderzoek. Het goede nieuws: de generaals gebruiken ChatGPT of ...

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We krijgen een minderheidskabinet dat voor meerderheden aan moet kloppen bij de oppositie. Dat kan de ene keer bij GL-PvdA, een andere keer bij Groep Markuszower, afhankelijk van de vraag of het bijvoorbeeld over verduurzaming van woningbouw gaat of over de aanschaf van Israëlische clustermunitie.

Opinie | ‘Constructief’ doet het lijken alsof we met z’n allen ergens heen willen

Dat mag jij vinden: Thomas Hogeling beschouwt wekelijks de publieke opinie. Wat wordt er gezegd en vooral niet gezegd? Deze keer: dit kabinet wil ‘constructief’ zijn.

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This is like eating dog shit to get out of your “food bubble”

In the middle of a wonderful meeting between staff members of @manchstm.bsky.social and @utrechthps.bsky.social, lead by @ctimmermann.bsky.social and Toine Pieters!

Thanks to John Cale I am finally having my brat summer. Only now discovered this. Damn. www.youtube.com/watch?v=Xgp7...

Charli xcx - House featuring John Cale (Official Video)

YouTube video by Charli xcx

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Carsten Timmermann@ctimmermann.bsky.social · 7mo ago

Every historian of colonialism working on their blog post.

taxonomy 101: whales are not fish taxonomy 201: whales are hoofed animals taxonomy 301: whales are fish

Our upcoming seminar in the Global Histories of Knowledge series. The link to the meeting will be on the website: www.staff.universiteitleiden.nl/events/2025/...

Nederland geeft fossielen Dubois-collectie terug aan Indonesië. Statement en meer informatie te vinden op www.naturalis.nl/persberichte...

Breaking news: Netherlands to return the Dubois collection of fossils to Indonesia

Naturalis Biodiversity Center@naturalis.bsky.social · 10mo ago

Nederland geeft fossielen Dubois-collectie terug aan Indonesië. Statement en meer informatie te vinden op www.naturalis.nl/persberichte...

Important news. www.volkskrant.nl/wetenschap/m...

Museum Naturalis geeft topstukken terug: befaamde oermensfossielen gaan weer naar Indonesië

Museum Naturalis doet afstand van enkele topstukken. De Nederlandse overheid geeft 28 duizend objecten terug aan Indonesië. Ze werden daar eind 19de eeuw vergaard door de arts Eugène Dubois. Tot de co...

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I hope it is not Mads Mikkelsen. www.theguardian.com/world/2025/s...

‘Professional actor’ behind attacks that closed Danish airports, defence minister says

Drones overfly four more airports forcing Aalborg to halt traffic two nights after shutdown at Copenhagen terminals

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If we are undoing what the Dutch did to the world, I could suggest a few more things www.theguardian.com/science/2025...

Scientists claim they’ve made ‘pivotal step’ in bringing back the dodo for first time in 300 years

Thousands of dodos could return within a decade according to Colossal Biosciences, a ‘de-extinction’ company – but experts warn of ‘moral hazard’

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like, sorry, daddy feyerabend said "anything goes" but most people aren't good at it as galileo

Final ms ready for submission:

Stockholm is the city the Prussians would have built if they wanted a San Francisco of their own. After having drank too much Scotch.

On my way to #ESEH2025 in Uppsala. Happy to chair two sessions and present on history of German weather & climate science. Took the train via Hamburg/Copenhagen, and very happy that I had time to do slow travel. A bit sad because the train before us hit an elk.😭 #envhis #hisstm

Our colonial history project of the Royal Dutch Academy of Sciences and Arts @knaw-nl.bsky.social made it into the @timeshighered.bsky.social l! #highered #academicsky #hisstm #colonialhistory www.timeshighereducation.com/news/dutch-p...

Dutch probe of colonial science ‘about present as much as past’

Researchers hope examining history of scientific academy can help create a more ‘just’ organisation in the modern day

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Goed wetenschapshistorisch zomernieuws! Ons onderzoeksconsortium mag het koloniale verleden van de Akademie onderzoeken! #hisstm #historici www.knaw.nl/nieuws/knaw-...

"Life is like a sewer--what you get out of it depends on what you put into it." Tom Lehrer, mathematician & #ColdWar satirist, has passed away. His albums warped my comedic & political sensibilities at a young age, and I'm pleased to report that I've never fully recovered. #RIP #TomLehrer #comedy

Tom Lehrer - We Will All Go Together When We Go

YouTube video by The Tom Lehrer Wisdom Channel

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Kennis die knecht, verschijnt a.s. oktober:

hope.

Mel Brooks@officialmelbrooks.bsky.social · last yr.

I told you we’d be back

Link here: amocscenarios.org?lat=-53&lon=... Credits to van Westen’s research group for releasing this as part of their knowledge mobilization work.

AMOC Collapse Visualisation Map

The interactive map that shows you the effects worldwide of climate change scenarios and the AMOC current collapsing

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Very happy to read about the Erasmus Prize for Donna Haraway! erasmusprijs.org/en/laureates...

Erasmusprijswinnaars - Praemium Erasmianum Foundation

The Praemium Erasmianum Foundation has awarded the Erasmus Prize 2025 to the American philosopher and historian of science Donna Haraway. The theme of this year’s prize is “the pursuit of what binds u...

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