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The Society for Medieval and Renaissance Philosophy awards an annual prize of $500 for the best paper on medieval or renaissance philosophy by a younger scholar. Details here: smrpblog.wordpress.com/founders-awa...

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🔴 Russia is actively relocating members of its indigenous populations to temporarily occupied territories of Ukraine as part of a broader assimilation effort.

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Me on Independent Bookstore Day

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“A Financial Times analysis of more than 350,000 posts on X related to the election, gathered since the snap poll was announced in March, revealed a network of co-ordinated accounts pushing content to boost Conservative leader Pierre Poilievre and tarnish his counterpart, the Liberal’s Mark Carney.”

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Note how much of what Trump is trying to destroy, from Radio Free Europe to transatlantic trade, is precisely what the Russians most want him to destroy www.nytimes.com/2025/04/26/u...

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English academic giving talk in Japan in 80s. Spoke for 15 mins. Translator 1 min. Then same thing. And once more with applause. Bemused he asked a Japanese friend what the translator had said. “It’s about the rule of law but nothing new.” “Nothing new. Still’ “Still nothing. Please clap.”

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No degenerate art

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Ukraine has exposed Trump’s true identity: as a vandal, an autocrat, a gangster and a fool | Jonathan Freedland

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It is difficult to express how profoundly troubling this is. The Trump Administration’s attack on the scientific/medical research apparatus and the basic norms of science will directly harm to the health of Americans. I’m glad NEJM isn’t standing for it. www.nytimes.com/2025/04/25/h...

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Harvard scientist Kseniia Petrova has been in ICE custody for about two months. Her colleague and friend Leon Peshkin says her case is causing some scientists to reconsider working in the U.S.

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We have now arrived at the "arresting judges" level of fascism.

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Excellent work by @alanburdick.bsky.social explaining the circumstances we find ourselves in. Share with your friends!! #StandUpForScience www.nytimes.com/2025/04/25/b...

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As we have also been saying here academic.oup.com/phe/article/...

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Previously people in the position to influence medical research funding often encouraged research into conditions they personally fear, such as cancer and dementia. I sometimes wondered if this distorted research priorities but I so much prefer it to what’s happening in the US right now.

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Returning Jesus Christ Downed By U.S. Missile Defense 30,000 Feet Before Making Landfall

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Words of peace, acts of war—Russia’s Easter truce.

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The Ukrainian pysanka, inscribed on UNESCO’s list of intangible cultural heritage, isn’t just folk art—it’s a real-world magical artifact. Like something out of your favorite RPG, but woven into reality. #UkraineBriefly (1/12)

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The White House has turned COVID.gov from a public health resource into a politically charged platform promoting the lab-leak theory and attacking specific scientists and the pandemic response in general. Let’s fact check its 5 headline claims… 🧵

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OpenAI’s so-called “reasoning” models generate more falsehoods than their predecessors. Since #LLMs are model language usage and not factual information, it’s built-into their design that they will output false or misleading information. #PhilAI techcrunch.com/2025/04/18/o...

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www.nytimes.com/2025/04/18/b... Further proof, if we needed it, that it pays to stand up to bullies.

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Dios mio! Wall Street is full of what now?

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Put aside the lies and the open defiance of the Supreme Court, as well as the cruelty, and ask yourself: who talks like this? This is the official account of the White House - is it being run by a six year old?

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The same missile Russia parades on May 9 was used to kill 9 children in Kryvyi Rih.

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In Kharkiv, the number of injured from the Russian strike has risen to 112—including 8 children. Civilian homes, lives, and futures torn apart once again by Russia’s terror.

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🧵 THREAD: A federal whistleblower just dropped one of the most disturbing cybersecurity disclosures I’ve ever read. He's saying DOGE came in, data went out, and Russians started attempting logins with new valid DOGE passwords Media's coverage wasn't detailed enough so I dug into his testimony:

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the ERC has added a million euro for researchers moving to Europe.

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Become ungovernable #BecomeUngovernable

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‘Show Me Where You Make Autism!’ Shouts RFK Jr., Storming Sour Patch Kids Factory theonion.com/show-me...

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Einstein, 1933.

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Trump is using economic blackmail to force the UK to repeal all protections for LGBTQ people. www.independent.co.uk/news/uk/poli...

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⚡️‘This is a murder’ – Zelensky rebukes Trump for calling deadly Sumy strike a mistake. “Excuse me, but this is a murder. This strike went to the (city) center, it did not go to the front line,” President Volodymyr Zelensky said.

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Another act of Russian terror: an air bomb was dropped on a residential building in Kupyansk. A 72-year-old woman was injured. At least 10 more apartment buildings were damaged in the blast. Russia keeps targeting civilians. This is not war—it’s terrorism.

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The Trump administration has threatened to take away Harvard University’s ability to enroll international students.

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Call it what it is: a race/ gender purge.

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Please join me next week for a virtual book talk on THE BIG MYTH at the Harvard Kennedy School: hksexeced.tfaforms.net/f/registrati...

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Due to Trump’s funding freeze, Harvard researchers say they may be forced to lay off workers and euthanize research animals www.cnn.com/2025/04/16/u...

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This is where we are headed. If you don’t believe me, ask what basis the government had to send me and my family to a prison camp in Arkansas. We “looked like the people who bombed Pearl Harbor.”

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⚡️ Russian shelling of Nikopol kills 2, injures 5. A Russian artillery attack against Nikopol in Dnipropetrovsk Oblast on April 17 killed two men aged 56 and 61 and injured five people, Governor Serhii Lysak reported.

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🔴 Russian forces attacked an ambulance in Kherson with a drone, injuring a medic and a driver. 📷: Kherson Regional Prosecutor's Office

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