📢 We've reached *3000* documented authoritarian-like actions of Trump's second term since Jan 2025...
the two most recent are classic suppression of the press & using the justice system to attack political enemies
www.trumpactiontracker.info
IMPACT OF PARENTHOOD ON UNIVERSITY EMPLOYMENT. Line graph shows how the probability of holding a research position changes from four years before to seven years after having children.
Becoming a parent is much more detrimental to women’s academic careers than it is to men’s
Read the full story: go.nature.com/4v4rxmQ
Open-mindedness was the strongest predictor of *rejecting* conspiracy theories in a sample of 46,745 participants in 68 nations
In particular, participants who were threatened by people who disagree with them were the most likely to believe conspiracy theories.
www.cambridge.org/core/journal...
Scott Bessent said 2 days ago there would be no more extensions.
Now Donald Trump extends sanctions relief on Russia for another month, also recently lifting sanctions on Belarus, which also eased pressure on Moscow.
Tiesa, pētījums ir par bināru, ne multipolāru vēlēšanu sistēmu. Turklāt, kā atzīst autori, šāda pieeja varētu veicināt negativitātes pieaugumu politiskajā diskursā. Vai potenciāli lielāka līdzdalība šādu trūkumu atspēkotu?
Žēl, ka raidījumā šo ideju šķietami pārprata kā tukšu biļetenu mešanu urnā.
"alienated voters are more willing to choose a candidate if the typical decision frame is inverted from selecting the better candidate to rejecting the lesser" tinyurl.com/4wxhshfy
Dzirdot, cik ātri 15.04. Krustpunktā eksperti noraidīja "pret" balsīs balstītu vēlēšanu ideju, domāju par šo pētījumu.
Guess who's winning the war? "The world’s top 100 oil and gas companies banked more than $30m every hour in unearned profit in the first month of the US-Israeli war in Iran..."
🛡️Pēc Ukrainas dronu nokrišanas Baltijas valstīs Krievija sāka dezinformācijas kampaņu, ka baltieši oficiāli atļāvuši to lidojumus un tā iesaistījušies karā.
Restaurējam, kā kampaņa sākās - un kas liecina, ka tā ir organizēta.
Lasi un padod tālāk! 🙌
rebaltica.lv/2026/04/ka-k...
www.lsm.lv/raksts/zinas... Te minēts, ka salīdzināta tiek vidējā cena martā (1.886 €/L) ar vidējo cenu februārī (1.504 €/L). Tad tiešām sanāk 25.4%.
This is an actual post. This is not funny. This is beyond desperate. This is a deeply unwell man who doesn’t belong anywhere near the levers of power. Every member of his cabinet and Congress is complicit in not demanding his removal now.
war_iran_final-blow_v1.pdf
war_iran_final-final-blow-v2.pdf
war_iran_final-blow-no edits.pdf
war_iran_final-blow-no edits (1).pdf
war_iran_final-blow-no edits (1) APPROVED.pdf
IRANWARPLANSFINALFINALFINAL.pdf
IRANWARPLANSFINALFINALFINAL (1).pdf
Divas nedēļas militārās agresijas Irānā klimata budžetam pievienojušas Islandes patēriņa gadu - 5 megatonnas CO2. Aprēķini neietver vēl gaidāmo militarizāciju un fosilo kurināmo meklējumus un infrastruktūras atjaunošanu.
Karš ir klimata kaps.
climatecommunityinstitute.substack.com/p/iran-war-p...
The deadline for all these positions is now April 12th.
Please do not be put off by the "Senior" in the job title. We have hired people at different career stages into roles at this grade, what matters is whether you can do the job!
Even if the destruction somehow stopped today, it will take years to rebuild.
This is a fucking travesty.
“In just three days of fighting in the Middle East, more than 800 Patriot missiles were used — more than Ukraine has received throughout the entire Russian full-scale invasion.”
(A year’s worth of production or more, btw)
kyivindependent.com/over-800-pat...
Latvijas Tēatra darbinieku savienība skaidro, ka "demokrātiskā valstī nav pieļaujams izdarīt spiedienu uz māksliniekiem, lai tie noklusētu kādam politiķim netīkamus vēsturiskus notikumus".
Another Special Military Operation is upon us.
Special thanks to my PhD examiners, @liamebrowne.bsky.social & Auke Ijspeert, for encouraging this publication; to the reviewers for thoughtful feedback; to @sainsburywellcome.bsky.social for the space and resources to follow my curiosity; and to Tiago Branco 3+ years of unwavering support. 11/11
4. Lastly, the new experimental paradigm itself is a valuable contribution to the field as it paves the way for biomechanically informed investigation of gait in my favourite experimentally tractable species 🐭. 10/11
3. The results are also interesting to consider in the context of feedforward- vs. feedback-driven locomotion, as the tighter phase coupling during non-restrained locomotion may be another reason for the reduced load-related effect seen on the motorised treadmill, without head fixation. 9/11
2. Since the direction of phase shift (reduced f-limb phase lag at greater h-limb loading) contradicts previous results in load-bearing dogs, we propose that what matters for homolateral coordination is not the load distribution in absolute terms, but relative to the specific animal's baseline. 8/11
What makes this work interesting?
1. Animals with highly uneven load distributions (giraffes, ring-tailed lemurs) do not display trotting gaits. By extending the natural biomechanical range of mouse locomotion, our study supports a role for load distribution in gait expression. 7/11
A shift towards greater homolateral synchronisation can also be seen during non-restrained locomotion on a motorised treadmill, but the effect is much smaller.
We discuss several potential reasons, e.g. head movement likely counters how much load gets redistributed by our manipulations. 6/11
The shift in homolateral limb phase does not correspond to a switch between specific canonical gaits.
It is robust across different hindlimb phase relationships (in-phase, out-of-phase, anti-phase), limb support patterns, and speeds, although these factors modulate its magnitude. 5/11
We found that mice alternate their homolateral limbs when more of their weight is on their forelimbs, but shift toward up to a quarter-of-phase synchronisation as hindlimb load increases. 4/11
A drawing of the experimental paradigm: a head-fixed mouse is sitting on a passive treadmill that is being filmed from the right and left sides. Head bar height and treadmill tilt can be adjusted. The mouse has an optic fibre implanted in its brain (cuneiform nucleus).
We developed a new experimental paradigm in mice to decouple (1) speed from load-related variables and (2) load distribution from the absolute load.
Key components:
* head fixation
* head height + surface slope modulation
* optogenetic excitation of the cuneiform nucleus
3/11
How animals coordinate their limbs is known to depend on locomotor speed: walking gaits 🐾 are preferred at low speeds, while trot and gallop 🏃♀️ dominate at higher speeds. However, this association is not deterministic.
We sought to explore how interlimb coordination is influenced by leg load. 2/11
Delighted to share that part of my PhD work is now published in @cp-iscience.bsky.social: www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...
TL;DR Forelimb-hindlimb coordination is up to a quarter-phase more synced when hindlimbs are relatively more loaded, regardless of speed & phases of other limbs.
🧵1/11
💯Izrāde kā piedzīvojums uz citas planētas, turklāt psiholoģisks bezsvara stāvoklis saglabājās vēl ilgi pēc pēdējās nots. Hands down, jaudīgākā šosezon redzētā izrāde, un neiztrūkst arī Liepājas teātrim tik raksturīgais sirsnīgums.
🇱🇻 Rihards Lozbers is just so unique. He’s just 16 years old, so not even the top of the Youth age category. He just finished 32 in the Sprint at the Olympic Games. Youth Worlds just isn’t a challenge for him and that’s not an insult to the other young men. He’s so good
📸 Deubert/IBU
#biathlon