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Museum job! 📜 🗃️ #histSTM National Museums Scotland, Assistant Curator, Technology - part of the truly fabulous NMS Science & Technology Department Full time, permanent - details here: careers.nms.ac.uk/job/671171 Deadline soon: 2 March

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Why does 25% AfD among young men spark a thousand "what is going on with young men?" posts yet Die Linke 34% among young women generates...nothing at all? Yes, young men voting for the radical right is an important phenomenon. But so is young women going rad left at even higher rates.

submitted 11 hours ago • 446 comments

Is anyone keeping a running list of which grad programs (subjects) at which universities have decided to freeze PhD admissions and/or rescind offers? Please lmk me if so.

submitted 1 day ago • 45 comments

Sign the petition. And in addition. Stop shopping in it. There is literally NOTHING in M&S you can't get anywhere else. @stopfundinghate.bsky.social

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The loss of glaciers deprives millions of fresh water and causes sea levels to rise. This makes coastal flooding more frequent and more severe at astronomical economic and human cost. This isn't inevitable. We have the solutions. We only require the political will to act.

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With social media, and right-wing-dictated algorithms, many of the population are sleepwalking into fascism at a pace never before witnessed. Where in the past one might read a few far-right newspaper headlines per week, in the present, it's multiple stories per day, over and over on a single feed.

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Powerful. Tomorrow’s front page of the most influential weekly publication in Germany. “BETRAYED. First Zelensky, Soon Us? The radical departure of the US from its allies.”

submitted 3 days ago • 295 comments

On Wednesday we're bringing a vote to end Scottish Government grants for the arms companies profiting from Israel's atrocities against Gaza. www.thenational.scot/news/2495453...

submitted 2 days ago • 2 comments

Great to see Unions condemning Scottidh Labour's play for Farage seig heilers.

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“If you're not careful, the newspapers will have you hating the people who are being oppressed, and loving the people who are doing the oppressing.” A classic quote from Malcolm X, who was assassinated 60 years ago today.

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Excellent in depth interview with Debbie Stotard (of ALTSEAN-Burma) about #WhatsHappeningInMyanmar, the current situation, what is needed from the international community & more. Well worth a watch. on @501awani.bsky.social

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New event 🗓️4th March 🕕6pm AEDT Victorian Trades Hall Council & friends as part of WRAW Fest 2025 host Altsean-Burma book launch for "Women's Voices from the Revolution" w/ Debbie Stotard & Noor Azizah of Rohingya Maìyafuìnor Collaborative Details & Reg: weareunion.org.au/womensvoices

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They tried to cancel John Crace from covering the right-wing jamboree at ExCel but no one can stop him filing copy this good www.theguardian.com/politics/202...

submitted 6 days ago • 35 comments

HUGE protest in Union Sq NYC right now! #50501

submitted 7 days ago • 8 comments

Today, we showed up. Tomorrow, we build a better future, together. #5050movement #politicalrevolution #fiftyfiftyone

submitted 6 days ago • 65 comments

We the People are pissed! 📍Manhattan, #NYC New York #NoKingsDay #50501 protest 2/17/2024 #50501movement #FiftyFiftyOne #BuildTheResistance #PoliticalRevolution #NoVoiceUnheard #NoKings #VoicesOfFlorida #VoicesUnheard #ImpeachTrump #DeportMusk @polrev.bsky.social

submitted 6 days ago • 157 comments

I repeat…

submitted 7 days ago • 1042 comments

In this new world, if you're not around the table, you're on the menu. If China, Russia, US are allowed to decide Europe's future, our future won't be ours. European leaders...lead! on.ft.com/3CQFzlI

submitted 8 days ago • 89 comments

It's been a long time since Private Eye's satire has made me audibly wince, but this is so to the point if it were a knife people would demand it be banned.

submitted 9 days ago • 16 comments

Today, along with 2,000 other NIH employees, I had to clear out my office 😭 It was truly the honor of my life to work with such incredibly passionate people focused on improving human health. I’ve never experienced a more positive culture where everyone cared about their job and serving others.

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If only we knew who was responsible for price rises from the UK-wide national rail infrastructure company that ScotRail and our Scottish Government have no control over.

submitted 11 days ago • 9 comments

Nicola Sturgeon has spoken out against those 'kotowing' to the likes of Donald Trump and Elon Musk. In a new interview, she warns of right-wing parties taking us on a "road to ruin"

submitted 11 days ago • 3 comments

#Airbus: Your close Chinese partner and investee AVIC is helping Myanmar military commit war crimes. Demand AVIC halt biz with the military now or divest. #Airbusted @airbus.com @gsteuer.bsky.social @philgmk.bsky.social @anthrsdo.bsky.social @sararcc.bsky.social www.justiceformyanmar.org/airbusted

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WPN welcomes the #Argentina court's arrest warrants against Min Aung Hlaing, Soe Win, and 23 other individuals. We urge the int'l community to take further actions to bring justice and accountability to all victims and survivors in #Myanmar, including #Rohingya. www.brouk.org.uk/argentina-co...

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Breaking News: Manhattan’s acting U.S. attorney resigned after she was ordered by the Justice Department to drop a corruption case against Mayor Eric Adams that she had championed.

submitted 11 days ago • 66 comments

We in Europe remember that Canadians died to liberate our continent. In the face of Trump's madness, EU stands with Canada now! There is no reason why EU membership should be off the table. 🇪🇺🇨🇦

submitted 21 days ago • 111 comments

Missed this last week, Mid & East Antrim Pride have also banned political parties who agreed to ban puberty blockers for trans kids. So, that's MEA, Foyle, and Causeway Prides. Come on Belfast Pride...what are you waiting for?

submitted 12 days ago • 2 comments

NYT reporting is now fully aligned with MAGA rhetoric. Flagrantly breaking the law and flouting separation of powers is “push[ing] to expand executive authority.” Nothing dangerous or antidemocratic to see here; just some invigorating boundary pushing. It’s all reality TV.

submitted 13 days ago • 2 comments

Israel has broken the ceasefire agreement every single day since they signed it.

submitted 14 days ago • 23 comments

Are they going to rename Canada as the United States, but only for Americans, too?

submitted 13 days ago • 2 comments

The Project 2025 architect has effectively frozen the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau, now allowing big banks and giant corporations to prey on consumers.

submitted 15 days ago • 7 comments

If your boss or company tells you to do something unethical: don't say yes. Make them write it down.

submitted 17 days ago • 75 comments

SCOOP: A US Treasury threat intelligence analysis has designated DOGE staff an ‘insider threat'. An internal email reviewed by WIRED calls DOGE staff's access to federal payments systems “the single biggest insider threat risk the Bureau of the Fiscal Service has ever faced.”

submitted 17 days ago • 738 comments

Tesla earned $2.3 billion in the United States in 2024. You'd think it paid a lot in taxes, right? Well it paid precisely $0 in federal income taxes last year. You want waste and fraud? Look at what some big corporations and the rich are getting away with.

submitted 16 days ago • 1527 comments

BREAKING: We’re suing the Trump administration for refusing to issue passports with accurate sex designations for transgender, nonbinary, and intersex people. This action violates the Constitution.

submitted 16 days ago • 119 comments

Your regular reminder that the revenue of the entire UK fishing industry is half a billion pounds less than the University of Manchester

submitted 20 days ago • 24 comments