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New data on global poverty challenges dominant narratives. Extreme poverty increased dramatically during the period of capitalist liberalisation in the 1990s. jasonhickel.substack.com/p/new-data-o...

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I'm in the process of removing Google from my life. It's a slow journey but I do take great pleasure in filling out every piece of feedback at every uninstall with a long list of reasons why.

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ARE YOU FUCKING KIDDING ME Congress didn’t pass a law requiring NIH-funded trials to include women until 1993. Drug trials with government funding only started including women in the NINETIES And that’s only drug trials! And not ones with private funding! Health research FAMOUSLY excludes women.

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How popular are post-growth and post-capitalist ideas? Here is a list of studies, surveys and polls with some striking results. jasonhickel.substack.com/p/how-popula...

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Hey, @ox.ac.uk, how about an honorary degree for this woman pilot with a PhD in aviation safety, whose employer hired a crooked psychiatrist to label her mentally ill after she blew the whistle on safety practices? She fought (for years) and won. www.seattletimes.com/business/boe...

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IGN's parent company Ziff Davis removes DEI mentions from its website: aftermath.site/ziff-davis-ign...

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the science behind a punch 💥🚀 The mantis shrimp inspires material engineers with its ability to punch prey with a force of 1500 newtons (>1000x its weight) without injury, thanks to a multilayered structure that absorbs the shock waves from its strikes. 🔗 doi.org/10.1038/d415... #SciComm 🧪

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“Without academic freedom there is no competitiveness.” A look back at an important debate on #academic #freedom, with Roberta Metsola, president.europarl.europa.eu, & Prof. Milena Zic Fuchs, ERC Scientific Council member and former Minister in Croatia. Watch the highlights 👉 bit.ly/EP-ESMH

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Sure looks like Google News caught the Latin Times using a large language model to write an article picking up on my latest report

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This is what happens when people demand a more "business-driven" approach to #globaldev...

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SCOOP: The National Academies of Science, Engineering, and Medicine, arguably the nation's most powerful scientific organization, is bending to political pressure and removing terms like "health equity" from pending reports. Members are not happy. Story by me: www.statnews.com/2025/02/20/n...

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I don't know what to tell higher education. You can't both be "committed to democracy and intellectual freedom" and bending to the whims of authoritarians to "preemptively avoid fall out." At that point, you're just selling a mission you have no intention or capability of delivering on.

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With the world seemingly falling apart with <waves hands at everything> some good news: it won't literally be falling apart in 2032. The latest data from Asteroid #2024YR4 ☄️ has reduced the chances of impact to 1-in-370. Bruce Willis, you can stand down. 🧪🔭 ℹ️: cneos.jpl.nasa.gov/sentry/detai...

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im sorry but video games just aren’t profitable….. call of duty only made ceo doug duty 20000000 dollars this year so you can see why we have to fire everybody

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My #DragonAge and #BaldurGates fanart drawings will be on display in the council room of mayors of my region! Yeah, you read that right! 👍 Awkward vernissage next week, I'll be ready for you!

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#TourESO What's it like to stroll along the telescopes 🔭🚶 of ESO's La Silla Observatory? Join our next virtual tour and experience it firsthand! 😉 🗓️ 22 February ⏰ 15:00 CET / 11:00 CLT 🔗 Streamed at https://www.youtube.com/user/ESOobservatory/ 📷 ESO/A.Santerne

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Flyby success! Solar Orbiter swept past Venus last night, using the planet's gravity to adjust its orbit and grant it a new view of the Sun's polar regions. Everything went as planned 🕹️🛰️✅

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What does your mind conjure when you see this stunning image of Jupiter in this light and from this distance? Is it silence, isolation, alienation? Or the roaring sounds of swirling storms as Van Gogh imagined the stary night to be? Maybe its the eerie sounds of radio waves screeching? Jove 🤎

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Phil Spencer that's not how games preservation works, that's not how any of this works: aftermath.site/microsoft-xbox...

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Just in case you thought DEI was some new-fangled idea at NASA, I found this Equal Opportunity Award trophy at NASA HQ today which was first awarded to Goddard Space Flight Center in 1980, which was 45 years ago for people who are too afraid to count.

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Mostly preaching to the choir here, but a group of us moderators over on Reddit's AskScience put together kind of an explainer for the implications of some of the attacks on science funding and infrastructure in the US if it's useful for anyone else to share:

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So one of the things that I think is lost on AI proponents is what I call the card catalog effect, a thing I shouldn’t call it because a lot of people probably have no experience with a card catalog.

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Nice piece from Jess Wade on @spie.org ‘s 20 years of showcasing women in optics, photonics and STEM 🔭🧪 spie.org/news/women-t...

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GameStop is a very 21st century company: aftermath.site/gamestop-stonk...

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And arrogant. Ive never encountered a class of people so convinced that they and they alone have the answers to everything, no matter what the subject in question is--from higher education to medicine to art and literature. They might have no training or skill in it, but are convinced they know best

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Truly out of science fiction! 😲 Using ESO's #VLT, astronomers have mapped the 3D structure of an exoplanet's atmosphere for the first time. This atmosphere behaves in ways that challenge our understanding of how weather works. 🔭 🧪 #exoplanets https://www.eso.org/public/news/eso2504/

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Humans do amazing things. Astronomers have analysed the weather on a planet, around another star that is 900 light-years away. Reported: - Lower layer of iron blowing away from where star is overhead - Middle layer sodium jet, getting faster crossing day side - Upper level hydrogen going outwards

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As we move through February, CDPH commemorates #BlackHistoryMonth by recognizing the remarkable achievements and contributions of African Americans. In Chicago, we’re shining a light on local leaders & programs that have made a difference and lasting impact for local Black communities. #BHM

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An inspiring article on courageous community college leaders who are publicly organizing and standing up against DEI attacks.. www.insidehighered.com/news/governm...

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I am one of over 900 political scientists who signed this statement to express our "urgent concern about threats to the basic design of American government and democracy." drive.google.com/file/d/1lGk2... Political scientists, you can sign here: docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1F...

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New from us: clean energy technologies contributed more than 10% of China’s GDP in 2024 for the first time ever, with sales and investments worth $1.9tn. Clean energy sectors drove a quarter of the country’s GDP growth and have overtaken real estate sales in value.

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"CEOs embedded in the corporate elite can extract a substantial wage premium. These premiums are then followed by reductions in wages going back to workers over the next three years." academic.oup.com/ser/advance-...

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National Science Foundation fired nearly 170 workers this morning in Zoom call. This included workers who had completed a 1-yr requisite probation and shouldn't have been included in termination but were suddenly told recently that the 1-yr should have been 2-yrs, revoking their permanent status.

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They don't want to teach history so they can repeat it.

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regular reminder that if you think supply and demand are the only forces that define whether you get to keep your job in capitalism then you are a rube. any company that wants to get rid of its employees will find a reason to do so regardless of how well the thing they produce performs.

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no amount of success, merit, profitability, or talent will spare you. you can not make yourself irreplicable or indispensable. you can not be layoff-proof. even if things actually would fall apart without you and everybody knows it.

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The NSF Director did not attend the hybrid meeting this morning where they summarily fired 168 public servants without cause - giving them 3hrs to clear out.

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Is science coming to your town? Kiel 🇩🇪 Brest 🇫🇷 and Split 🇭🇷 are the 3 cities hosting the new EU initiative #ScienceComesToTown. In 2026, as ambassadors of research and innovation, they will enable citizens to connect with researchers and explore how science impacts daily life. → europa.eu/!wjpQgK

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I've been keeping my shilling to the other, worse, place but if this is useful: youtu.be/0mkVfdbVAZE

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