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Any reduction in sea lamprey control will devastate Great Lakes Fisheries! Hopefully, this move is similar to the "fire the guys who maintain the nukes and then re-hire them" sort of thing...but somehow I doubt Trump cares about fisheries. www.greatlakesnow.org/2025/02/trum...

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"The increase to Musk's wealth since Trump was elected president three months ago is greater than all of the American aid given to Ukraine over the last three years."-- @timothysnyder.bsky.social

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Breaking News: Scientists from the University of the Basque Country have discovered a groundbreaking molecule, WIN55.212-2, that reverses early cognitive damage caused by Alzheimer’s disease.

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If anything is clear from the last few days, it's surely that Ukraine belongs in the EU

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The beauty of working for science based organisations is that as evidence emerges, we change our positions and practices. Would be great to see governments, political parties, businesses and economic sectors following the same logic. www.theguardian.com/environment/...

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Al maanden demonstreren tienduizenden Serviërs tegen hun corrupte en autocratische regering. Het zou niet de eerste keer zijn dat de studentenbeweging een dictator ten val brengt. ‘Vucic gebruikt dezelfde trucjes als Miloševic.’

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Starting the week off with some (much needed!) good news - my FIRST first-author manuscript has been published in #conservationgenetics 🌎✨🧪 Using DNA barcoding, I found that ~10% of swordfish sold in New England (USA) fish markets was actually shark, including the endangered shortfin mako 🦈

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Trump "congratulates" the German CDU, because they are considered "conservatives" in Germany (specifically: Liberal-right or Center-right). I got some American friends who pitty that Germany "turned right wing". Okay, I gotta explain something here: I am not a fan of the CDU, but they are

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Hot take: Europa had al lang geld moeten pompen in een eigen browser.

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Three years, tomorrow. #standwithukraine

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The USA is now run by gangsters who both want to ally with other gangsters, and are using threats of destruction and violence to get their way. They certainly don’t respect any law other than “The Boss is Right” and “Power is All that Matters”.

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Worst. Episode. EVER.

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Still people out there who don't believe that Trump is a Russian asset?

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My warmest greetings go out to the wonderful people who built their careers sniffing out “Ukrainian Nazis” under every stone in Ukraine for tasty headlines that fueled Russian war propaganda on this-is-why-Ukraine-must-be-dealt-with, only to get Nazi salutes normalized in their own country.

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Over on LinkedIn, the head of the Executive Secretariat of the NIH -- a central part of NIH leadership 🧪🩺-- resigned with a lettter worth reading www.linkedin.com/posts/nathan...

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We programmed a crawler to search open web marketplaces for every animal on the IUCN red list. Nearly 2/3 of our matches were shark jaws, comprising 9 of the top 10 openly traded threatened species. A glimpse of the global trophy trade of endangered sharks: 🌏 🦑 🧪 🧵 urldefense.com/v3/__https:/...

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"In reality, most of what Musk is doing is flatly illegal" or, even more egregious, unconstitutional. "Congress still gets to dictate the budget," no matter what Trump and Musk think. A comprehensive takedown by @lizdye.bsky.social. www.publicnotice.co/p/elon-musk-...

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"Although this directive claims to defend us—Jewish and Israeli students—we unequivocally declare that this act does not protect us. We reject the order’s immoral threat of deportation of our fellow Columbia students..." www.columbiaspectator.com/opinion/2025...

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"To start, Europe must rid itself of the dangerous illusion that it is weak—and stop acting like it." www.economist.com/by-invitatio...

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Hi All--a double barrelled post I hope you will find very important (and all free). First a comment on what we saw from Trump last night. The USA is now an open enemy of democracy--and needs to be understood as such. Also, Paul Krugman and I have a video chat. open.substack.com/pub/phillips...

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Trump's "plan" is both depraved and unworkable paulkrugman.substack.com/p/a-belgian-...

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Let us not despair but act. That's my No.1 takeaway from #MSC2025, yesterday’s Paris summit, & today's US-Russia talks in Riyadh. Enough of the 'wake-up calls', ‘unity’ & the 'hour of Europe', those Europeans who get it must embrace the 'Nike Strategy' & #JustDoIt 🧵

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Prediction 1: within a few weeks, right-wing media, pundits and politicians will repeat this lie. Prediction 2: soon afterwards, a huge chunk of the public will believe it.

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#Georgia ’s legitimate President Salome Zourabichvili was assaulted by pro-Kremlin thugs at Tbilisi airport upon her return from the Munich Security Conference.

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In today’s Vatnik Soup, I’ll introduce how the Elon Musk’s Election Interference Machine™ (EIM) works. Since Musk and his broligarch allies won the presidency for Trump, they’ve now harnessed the machine to interfere in European elections, including the ones in Germany and Romania. 1/23

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Ukrainian weapons startups are finally seeing an inflow of funds from Western investors who have long been intrigued by the Ukraine's defense tech sector but have so far kept their money out of the war-torn country.

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Portuguese editorial cartoonist Zez Vaz reaches back to Tiananmen Square to call on American defiance.

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1. Trump and his Death Eaters cannot tolerate any rival power. Europe, when united, is a major trading and diplomatic bloc. They see Russia (much less of a threat to US hegemony) as an excellent instrument for breaking up Europe, by threat or by force.🧵

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I’m in Munich and people keep asking me to decode Vance’s speech. OK: In Vance English “free speech” means “Let Musk run your elections” and “democracy” means “let Russia run your elections.” Now move on. 2025 is about what Europeans do, not what Americans say.

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Wie zegt dat een sterke Europese troepenmacht in Oekraïne onmogelijk is, vergist zich

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It's been a week of focus on international events and their impact on Europe 🌍 Members of the European Parliament reaffirmed the EU’s commitment to supporting Ukraine amid Russia’s war, and heard from Ukraine’s parliament speaker Ruslan Stefanchuk, who called for more military aid.

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To US colleagues who have lost or are in imminent danger of losing their jobs: please DM whether we can accommodate your research.

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Tbilisi today. Day 80 of nonstop protests in Georgia. 🇬🇪🇪🇺 #GeorgiaProtests

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Voor de mensen die het nog niet gelezen hebben en zich afvragen waarom Trump zich gedraagt als Poetins pion: twee hele interessante boeken over hoe Trump sinds 1987 gecultiveerd werd door de KGB en later door Poetins inner circle.

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“Trump might convince himself that he is in charge of events, but with his attention diverted to the Far East, Putin will be able to pick his time to break any agreement on spurious grounds and finally destroy Ukraine’s will and independence.” engelsbergideas.com/notebook/the...

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Superb piece from Draghi in the FT. Europe’s woes are mainly of its own making. Driven by internal barriers killing off firms ability to scale. And persistently sluggish demand after 2008 - throttling innovation spending. The EU can take its fate in its own hands. www.ft.com/content/13a8...

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The love is over 🇪🇺🇺🇸. Let’s face it. Our Valentine for 80 years dumps us. Time to move on #EUunite 💙💛 “Divorce sucks, but with ingenuity you can sometimes restart from a better place.”

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It is great to have the restoration law - but it needs to incorporate genetic diversity more #consgen 🌏🦤 www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...

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Transatlantic Relationship waxes & wanes, but this week was a low point Since 2016 🇪🇺 had time to prepare, but perhaps because it didn’t want divorce to be final, did too little What do Europeans think? @eupinions.bsky.social found out In 2017 just 25 % wanted 🇪🇺 to go its own way; 2024 > 60 % 🧵

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Giving infectious disease research a break, as promised by the MAHA agenda. Let's break down what exactly this Executive Order is really saying. Fortunately, I speak fluent anti-vax grifterese & can translate. www.whitehouse.gov/presidential...

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