“They found that teens who used cannabis tended to have slower growth in all areas of cognitive development. This cohort actually tended to score just as well as or even better than their peers prior to cannabis use. But once cannabis had become part of their lives, their progress waned.”🧪🛟
Launch in a couple of weeks at Queen's.
Trump abruptly wraps up the event before he gets any questions about Iran
Kennedy has not been able to find a competent director to lead the CDC. The last one was Susan Monarez, whom he fired. The courts ruled against his chosen ACIP panel. Casey Means does not have enough votes to be confirmed as Surgeon General.
It's not looking good.
🧪 archive.today/2iSrz
So, not the Blair route, then; joining the International Board of Peace (Endless War)?
Barely retired from parliament, fmr Scottish First Minister Nicola Sturgeon has found a new cause - and a great one it is:
She has joined Safe Passage International as Chair of its Board of Trustees.
Safe Passage Int. defends safe routes for refugees and every family's right to be together.
The U.S. killed five more people in two strikes on April 11. The total number of people killed by strikes in the Pacific and Caribbean is now 168.
Great to have Yousef Aljamal speaking at Queen's today. A powerful talk on the writing of Refaat Alareer and the battle for knowledge and truth in Palestine. Maith thú, Yousef!
Tomorrow in Queen's.
We’re about to pay Iran $6 billion to re-open the thing that was open before the war.
Art of the deal, baby.
This should be an excellent event on Monday at Queen’s, on the writing of Palestinian Refaat Alareer, who was murdered by Israel two years ago.
Iran continues to mock Trump:
We are writing to you from the Stone Age and we control the Strait of Hormuz.
My great uncle Cyril signed up underage in WWII. When he was 17, his ship was sunk mid-Atlantic, and he clung to debris for 14 hours overnight. He was one of only a handful of survivors
I think about that when I read this account of the US sinking the Iranian vessel
thewalrus.ca/the-us-torpe...
"The notion that violence against women is the result of individual 'exceptions' is not only disproved by data — it serves to deny the scale of a pervasive issue, which cannot be explained away as a few bad apples." www.belfasttelegraph.co.uk/comment/were...
The biggest story in the world right now is that the president of the United States is a demented old man who takes pleasure in torturing and killing people and is committing crimes with impunity. And yet most legacy media outlets are too cowardly to tell it like it is.
The speech - now posted on the university’s website - is worth reading in full: www.bg.ac.rs/speech-of-th...
A student crowd gathered outside the university of Belgrade.
I was on holiday in Belgrade last week and accidentally found myself at a huge student-led protest after the police - seemingly on government orders - entered the university (on flimsy pretenses) to search computers and offices. #thread
2 planes, 1 day
U.S. loses F-15 and A-10 Warthog after Trump crows that Iran has "no anti-aircraft equipment. Their radar is 100 percent annihilated"
theintercept.com/2026/04/03/i...
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Hannity and Lindsey Graham are straight up cheerleading war crimes against the civilian population of Iran
Comhghairdeas Colin agus Linda! And great to see QUB represented on the Council of State. belfastmedia.com/linda-ervine...
No Kings protest sign for Commander Bone Spurs.
Book cover. Notions: The Lives of Irish Working Class Academics
This was a fantastic project to be part of and the book a pleasure to help edit with @michaelpierse.bsky.social & @ionaburnellreilly.bsky.social. I'll say more about it soon. For now, working with and meeting contributors, and being given an insight into their rich and varied lives was a privilege.
1. bilingual signage'd be lawful since Irish is an official language of Northern Ireland, 2. countries around the world have such policies to save minority languages. 3. there is no right to be outraged to undermine others'. 4. 5K QUB student votes=exceptional.
www.newsletter.co.uk/education/fo...
Horrific attack on four ambulances at a Jewish community charity in north London
Keir Starmer, "Antisemitism has no place in our society and it's really important that we all stand together"
Absolutely agree. This is appalling.
Standing in solidarity with the Jewish community 🙏
