Cathedral of Barcelona with lots of tourists before it

A typical street in El Born in Barcelona with people walking in it and lovely scenery with old houses with large windows

Detail of the new front of La Sagrada Familia church in Barcelona with statues hidden behind it

Backside of La Sagrada Familia church in Barcelona with a pigeon in the sky

Today I went for a walk in Barcelona because the public transport is so bad that I had two hours free before a meeting, and two hours after

Depends on the evening and the questions in the quiz

Interested

Not only El Born.. 😉

How could you tell??? 😁

Guess where

The greatest threat women face is the online spread of misogyny by predator-influencers and via algorithms - even onto blank accounts set up as those of 24yo men, as in the article below.

Boys and men are being radicalized into misogyny by white men. Trans people & immigrants are not the problem.

The Bernard Dawson Scholarship Fund | King's College London The Bernard Dawson Scholarship Fund was set up to support chemistry education research.

Funding for a (home-fees) student in Chemistry Education at King's starting in 2026-27. Deadline 01 May. www.kcl.ac.uk/study/fundin...

Meta just paid the lowest effective federal tax rate in its history.

Thanks to tax breaks and loopholes, it avoided $13.7B in 2025 federal income taxes.

But now it's planning to lay off 10% of its global workforce (8,000 people) by May 20 — with more job cuts later this year.

Trickle down hoax.

"There's no need to make a sensation out of Vitkov and Kushner's visit. Their arrival is for their benefit, not ours." - Zelensky.

Jeffries: "Republicans have spent tens of million trying to convince the people of Virginia that President Obama and Gov. Spanberger are urging a 'no' vote. That's a stone cold lie. The 'no' vote position is Donald Trump's position, as is being evidenced tonight. He's been trying to hide it."

Atoms yearn for symmetrical electron clouds. #chemsky #chemistry #iteachchemistry

A remarkable shift, especially considering that a lot of mainstream US media and politics still goes very gently or even positively on Israel.

Workshop smartphone-fotografie Stadspark Tijdens deze workshop smartphone fotografie voor jonge natuurfotografen, maak je op een laagdrempelige manier kennis met onderwerpen zoals: Scherpstellen, inzoomen (of niet?), compositie, horizon, ver...

Zaterdag 2 mei

📱📷 Workshop smartphone-fotografie #StadsparkGroningen

Leeftijd: 7 tot 12 jaar
Tijd: 13.30 - ca. 15u
Kosten: geen

Opgave en informatie:
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White and light green text: "Meta: Stop being creepy. Don't make it easier for stalkers, scammers, and government agents to spy on us." Tinted blue photo of someone's faces as if being captured by facial recognition. White ACLU logo. Black background.

If Meta adds face recognition to their “smart” glasses, it would force their panopticon onto us all.

Take action to protect our privacy at aclu.org/eyewear_not_spywear

Peter Broelman n Canberra Times

Sunday morning walk in Platja d’Aro

Werken aan moleculen met wieltjes is alsof je aan het koken bent Carlijn van Beek deed promotieonderzoek naar de moleculaire motortjes waar haar begeleider Ben Feringa de Nobelprijs voor kreeg. Het is een complexe nanopuzzel. Hoe doe je onderzoek naar iets wat je n...

Werken aan moleculen met wieltjes is alsof je aan het koken bent.

@carlijnvanbeek.bsky.social in @nrc.nl
#chemchat

www.nrc.nl/nieuws/2026/...

There needs to be a giant billboard in every major American city that touts this. In any other era except this suicidal science administration, this would be a miraculous, wondrous thing.

Trump’s federal workforce changes cost the economy more than $165.6B, analysis finds The Partnership for Public Service report includes the costs of the deferred resignation program, severance pay for laid-off civil servants and federal employees who were on paid administrative leave ...

DOGE has backfired horrifically and the people who did this to us must be held accountable.

www.govexec.com/workforce/20...

Hundreds of Fake Pro-Trump Avatars Emerge on Social Media

Beware Aotearoa

Tactics coming to social media near you…

#nzpol
www.nytimes.com/2026/04/17/b...

Two lines of three dimensional sans-serif letters colored in gradients of blue and purple reading ‘Maybe it will/Happen today’. Above the ‘y’ in’ today’ and with its bottom point nestled neatly into the fork of the letter it’s a similarly dimensional golden pentagram with little flares of golden light glinting off its vertices. The entire lockup is superimposed over a glittering rainbow as it all streaks together through a black void.

#RISEUP We must be what they fear. The #USA is an evil Empire of corporate interests. There is no republic, no great leader coming to our rescue. Just regional managers as far as the eye can see.

Why does Trump celebrate Charlie Kirk's widow Erika but completely ignores Helen, the wife of Corey Comperatore, the fire chief who took that bullet that was allegedly meant for Trump?

It cannot do that???

Jo Nesbo:

Injustice is not part of the system’s machinery.
It IS the machinery

Donald Trump has treated a new ballroom as more substantial to his legacy than his current Vice-President, Amy Davidson Sorkin writes. Where does that leave J. D. Vance in 2028? newyorkermag.visitlink.me/4ao2zB

"Hollandia"

Screenshot of Science commentary articleL Scientists stunned by ‘fundamentally new way’ life produces DNA. Newly discovered bacterial defense system challenges genetic code’s central dogma. Image: In a newly discovered bacterial defense system, paired strands of DNA (orange and cyan) are synthesized by two enzymes: One (yellow) uses an RNA template (beige) to guide the assembly of the nucleotide bases that make up DNA, while a second, highly unusual enzyme (light blue) uses its own amino acids as a template."

As a scientist, I am here to report that this headline is indeed accurate as I am in fact STUNNED!!

Wow. This is incredible. 🧪

"Newly discovered bacterial defense system challenges genetic code’s central dogma.":
www.science.org/content/arti...

Professor in Synthetic Organic Chemistry University of California, Irvine is hiring. Apply now!

Please RT!

The Dept of Chemistry at UC Irvine invites applications for a tenured faculty position in Synthetic Organic Chemistry. Deadline: July 1, 2026.

More information about the position can be found here: recruit.ap.uci.edu/JPF10109

@uciphyssci.bsky.social