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Wow - just got an e-mail that as a Cambridge University graduate I can vote for the next chancellor of the university online. #CambridgeUniversity

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It is really very simple. Putin does not fear NATO (he has lived with it in Turkey for decades and knows that it is a purely defensive alliance), he hates the EU for spreading the idea of democracy and the rule of law (even if imperfectly) Silicon valley hates the EU for attempting to regulate […]

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Does anybody know more about #EuropeSays, the news aggregator (?) / news and opinion platform (?). They have an account here https://pubeurope.com/@europesays and a website, but the sources, curation policy, ownership, location, people behind it etc. are not noted anywhere on the site, afaikt […]

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Absolutely agree with this whole thread (in German, try deepl). TL;DR Science is a global collaborative enterprise, attacks on US science hurts us all and we can't just offer jobs to those fleeing, because our own job structures are precarious, with austerity threatening our own science, not to […]

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Why aren't you wearing a suit?

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It will be interesting to see what the Royal Society of London decides when it meets on Monday to discuss when and how fellows can be expelled.

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So, I started to donate for science and education in Ukraine on a monthly basis …

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This was the day the clown bus finally drove into the roadside tree. Kaja Kallas is the EU High Representative for foreign affairs and security policy.

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Jesus Christ. Public video of full on angry #Trump & #JDVance yelling attacks at & shouting over #Ukraine President #Zelensky airing now. This is atrocious. #geopolitics #allies #Russia #Putin #Europe #ForeignPolicy #bullies #authoritarianism #RevengePolitics #insanity #chaos #PutinsPuppet […]

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Let's de-Musk social media. Posted in the centre of Berlin. Thanks to #savesocial @bjoernsta and @hnnng More at https://savesocial.eu/en/

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The #Trump admin has fired hundreds of workers at the National Oceanic & Atmospheric Administration (#NOAA), the US’s pre-eminent #climate research agency housed within the Dept of Commerce…. On Thurs afternoon, the commerce dept sent emails to employees saying their jobs would be cut off at […]

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Kudos to #Canada's three major research-funding agencies for their draft all-green, zero-embargo, rights-retention #OpenAccess policy. https://science.gc.ca/site/science/en/interagency-research-funding/policies-and-guidelines/open-access/draft-revised-tri-agency-open-access-policy-publications […]

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Super interesting 4-year tender... 👀 https://bidstats.uk/tenders/2025/W07/840565060 Manchester Open Research Environment, advancing the University's green open access (OA) strategy - Request for Information #OpenAccess #RightsRetention #GreenOA #Repositories

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Dublin Loves Ukraine ♥️ Today in Dublin Ireland #AureFreePress #News #press #headline #Ukraine #Russia #Putin #EU #NATO #Zelensky #war

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I know, Medium is not great anymore, I know. But I had to write this up somewhere so that others can in theory find it. Especially prospective PhD students. https://medium.com/astronomy-without-stars/starting-a-phd-the-decision-27685f06cca4

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We now see the wisdom of Europe having its own satellite positioning system as well as an independent launch capability. #Galileo #Ariane6

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I've never understood how scientists, in particular, could flee from that Musk place only to take refuge in, wait for it, a Bannon place like #BlueSky. 🤦‍♂️ "On social media, Mastodon is managed and run by the community (e.g., https://neuromatch.social is a server run by neuroscientists) […]

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Bitte Deutschland, sei vernünftig!

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The mess we make from worshipping the #deathcult for the last 40 years

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PLOS statement on recent US Executive Orders and scientific integrity https://theplosblog.plos.org/2025/02/plos-statement-on-recent-us-executive-orders-and-scientific-integrity/

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This is the Royal Irish Academy's statement on academic freedom from 2022 which is cited by @ALLEA in their recent criticism of the deplorable political interference and suppression of research in the United States. Disclosure - I was one of the people who drafted this […]

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With Trump everything is personal and revolves around him. From: @meduza_en https://masto.ai/@meduza_en/114040729168006093

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Interesting opinion poll results from Germany - the public, even AfD voters, want more climate action, not less. The contrast to party policies dramatically shows how powerful lobbying and “donations” by corporations can be. #Climate #GermanElection #PoliticalCapture From: @rahmstorf […]

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Die AfD wurde als Anti-Euro-Partei gegründet, die AfD will die ganze Zeit aus der EU austreten, das stand sogar noch im Entwurf ihres Wahlprogrammes 2025. Sie hat "Dexit" last minute gestrichen, mit der Begründung, dass sie damit im Wahlkampf jeden der Lüge bezichtigen kann, der sagt, sie will […]

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I just had 4 straight hours of meetings with no break ending with an interview talking about fucking space billboards which some fucking Russian company actually thinks they're going to build (the journalist is going to talk to them in a few hours). I need to eat food, then go outside and […]

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Very pleased that @ALLEA has issued this statement on the deplorable political interference and censorship of science in the US - and that the Irish Academy's statement on academic freedom gets cited! https://allea.org/wp-content/uploads/2025/02/ALLEA-Statement-on-Threats-to-Academic-Freedom.pdf

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https://keelingcurve.ucsd.edu/. 426.55 ppm of CO2 in Earth's atmosphere on 18/02/2025.

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[Uspol] Perhaps not surprisingly a man convicted of sexual assault turns to the standard ploy of the rapist and blames the victim for making Russia attack her. Shameful.

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You can depend on the brilliant Molly White to have the most detailed, most contextual, and altogether best coverage of the endlessly corrupt cryptocurrency "industry" and its affinity for scumbag politicians. Read her latest on Trump, Milei and the slimy crypto profiteers […]

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Today I gave an interview to #Deutschlandfunk German radio #DLF about why I signed the call "Declaration To Defend Research Against U.S. Government Censorship" https://docs.google.com/document/d/1cC6Vu_CAtgxSck8S9be_hmzSu-w2DsaJ02Nw5oeayAg/edit?tab=t.0 The interview probably/possibly airs […]

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Big Tech threatening countries that want to regulate them in this way is just not OK. We have as a company engaged with regulators over the years and I have the utmost respect for their integrity and courage. #Meta #Facebook #Mastodon #fediverse #Politics #Vivaldi […]

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Everybody knows that efficient and high-quality scholarly publishing is possible. The Global South has been demonstrating this for years, no decades, as have various journals and fields. A nice summary of how the European Geosciences Union shows the world how it's done has just been published […]

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On Friday, my uni, like many others, received a “Dear Colleague” letter from DoE acting assistant secretary Trainor. The letter threatens to withhold funding unless we demonstrate compliance with the administration’s anti-DEI program. It uses words like “depraved” and “shameful” and promises […]

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After nearly a decade of denial, Europe's leaders are finally opening their eyes to the realities of a shifting global order. One can only hope that Europeans, too, recognise that the world today is not the one they thought it was yesterday. #europe #Politics

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I keep thinking of this quote from the Great Gatsby: “They were careless people, Tom and Daisy- they smashed up things and creatures and then retreated back into their money or their vast carelessness or whatever it was that kept them together, and let other people clean up the mess they had made.”

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Just had another meeting with entirely US-based astronomers and it's like every other sentence ends with something horrible that's currently happening due to the US gov't being gutted. I'm so sorry this is all happening... But there were also lots of really cool ideas for reaching out to lots […]

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This is a useful guide to creative commons and the associated copyright law issues from the German UNESCO commission. https://www.wikimedia.de/wp-content/uploads/2024/12/Open-Content_final_web.pdf #CreativeCommons #Copyright #OpenScience

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I always thought Frontiers was a dodgy publisher but a recent experience changed my mind. I now think they're a really shitty publisher.

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It's really hard to concentrate on climate science when our colleagues are getting fired and everyone's funding is being threatened. Maybe that's the goal.

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🧵"So this is how liberty dies..." Trump’s first 3 weeks have been a relentless flood of actions. It's incredibly hard to keep up. I’ve gone through 69 actions & mapped out the pattern - showing how they fall within 5 broad domains consistent with authoritarian states 1/9

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I've signed this Declaration To #DefendResearch Against US Gov #Censorship and hope you will too. (Disclosure: I was on the drafting committee.) https://tinyurl.com/2dyadwzr #ScholComm #Takedowns #Trump #USPol #USPolitics

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