Maurice Blanchot’s Politics and His War-Time Reviews of Georges Dumézil The philosopher, literary theorist and novelist Maurice Blanchot’s politics have come under periodic scrutiny. Leslie Hill describes the source of the controversy:  As early as 1931 and 1932, …

Maurice Blanchot’s Politics and His War-Time Reviews of Georges Dumézil progressivegeographies.com/2026/04/05/m...

Must-read new @hrw.org report documents scores of attacks on civilians by #BurkinaFaso forces, their allies & #JNIM. These are crimes against humanity.

#EU 's #Sahel strategy should put protection of civilians, justice & remedies at its core.

www.hrw.org/news/2026/04... @joaocravinho.bsky.social

Press release summary of the judgments. Full text in the link.

CJEU, foreign policy sanctions

New judgments: EU sanctions against businessmen solely on grounds of their businesses' contributions to the Russian economy are valid; no need to show direct links to invasion of Ukraine curia.europa.eu/site/jcms/d2...

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Terrorist attacks rarely increase trust in political leaders Research suggests that institutional trust increases in times of political crises. Christof Nägel, Amy Nivette and Christian Czymara test this notion for jihadist terror attacks in Europe. Their…

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🚨 Terrorist attacks rarely increase trust in political leaders

🧠 Christof Nägel, @nivette.bsky.social & @christian.czymara.com show that, contrary to common assumptions, terrorist attacks don’t generally boost public trust in political leaders.

Journals This is our best attempt at a comprehensive guide for journals that publish in philosophy of social science. If we have either misrepresented or omitted a journal and you are on the editorial board…

Kareem Khalifa is assembling a list of journals that either specialise or regularly publish work in philosophy of social science. A great service but I need this list to be longer! Please add to it #philsci #philsky

💔 One person died in the Kyiv region as a result of the Russian attack. There is significant destruction.

Going against the gut: Q&A with Kevin Mitchell A new review of 15 years of studies on the connection between the microbiome and autism reveals widespread statistical and conceptual errors.

Going against the gut: Q&A with Kevin Mitchell on the autism-microbiome theory www.thetransmitter.org/spectrum/goi...

New paper shows social scientists are sidelining null results. Analysing 100,000 articles across 150 political science journals, it finds 2% of abstracts report null-only findings; >90% highlight significant results.
Researchers 10–100x less likely to spotlight nulls: driver of publication bias.

Iranian Nobel laureate's prison sentence extended by seven years Supporters of Narges Mohammadi, who was awarded the Nobel Peace Prize in 2023, said she had been on hunger strike since 2 February.

Iran extends Nobel laureate Narges Mohammadi's prison sentence by seven years

Systematic review and meta-analysis of quotation inaccuracy in medicine - Research Integrity and Peer Review Background Quotations are crucial to science but have been shown to be often inaccurate. Quotation errors, that is, a reference not supporting the authors’ claim, may still be a significant issue in s...

8.0% of citations in the medical literature contain major errors.

E.g., the cited work makes the opposite claim or is unrelated to the claim in the citing article.

Pääkirjoitus | Viranomaisten rajasota räjähti silmille Kun kokonaisuutta ei ole katsottu, turvallisuusviranomaiset yrittävät siiloissaan laajentaa omia toimivaltuuksiaan. Vaadituista lisävaltuuksista syttynyt rajasota heikentää viranomaisten keskinäistä l...

Tällä hallituskaudella tehty ja tekeillä hurja määrä viranomaisten, erityisesti poliisin, toimivaltaa lisääviä lakimuutoksia. Valmisteilla jopa perustuslakimuutos, jonka pontimena valtuuksien lisääminen entisestään. Perusoikeudet kapenevat, tarve usein heikosti perusteltu.
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Maahanmuuttopolitiikan kiristykset vaikeuttavat kansainvälisten tutkijoiden asettumista Suomeen. Tiukentuneet työhistoria‑ ja toimeentuloehdot eivät sovi tutkijatyön pirstaleisuuteen. Lisäksi kansalaisuushakemusten pitkät käsittelyajat nakertavat luottamusta tulevaisuuteen. 👇🏻
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Yli miljoona rohingaa elänyt vuodesta 2017 Bangladeshissa mutavellin keskellä. Koska Myanmarin sisällissota + juntan valta jatkumassa kotiinpaluu ei ole mahdollista, siirtoja kolmansiin maihin on hyvin vähän tarjolla...

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Laillisuusvalvoja näkee ongelmia kaavailuissa laajentaa poliisin tiedustelumahdollisuuksia - Suomenmaa.fi Tiedusteluvalvontavaltuutettu suhtautuu varauksella hallituksen kaavailuihin laajentaa poliisin tiedustelumahdollisuuksia perustuslakimuutoksella. – Haasteet liittyvät siihen, pystytäänkö riittävän...

Laillisuusvalvoja näkee ongelmia kaavailuissa laajentaa poliisin tiedustelumahdollisuuksia

Libya: Over 220 migrants freed from underground prison Libyan authorities have freed over 220 migrants from what would appear to be a secret underground prison in the southeast of the country. The people were held in gravely inhuman conditions, according ...

Libyan authorities have freed over 220 migrants from what would appear to be a secret underground prison in the southeast of the country. The people were held in gravely inhuman conditions.
www.infomigrants.net/en/post/6930...

Congress ordered CBP to create a biometric entry/exit system 25 years ago. The problem was that the tech wasn't there until recently, and the agency never pushed hard for it. In late 2020, CBP proposed a rule to implement it. That rule sat until 2025, when the Trump admin finalized it December 26.

Africa in 2026: Global uncertainty demands regional leadership Africa can no longer rely on intermittent international attention to safeguard peace, democracy and economic resilience.

Conflicts across Africa, such as in Sudan, the Horn of Africa or the Sahel, remain unresolved as international attention and mediation efforts are stretched or focused elsewhere. https://bit.ly/4bwFXVi

Current Humanitarian Situation in Ukraine: IDP Needs and the Limits of Recovery Millions of people in Ukraine continue to live as internally displaced persons (IDPs), for whom instability has become a prolonged condition rather than a tempo

🇺🇦🙏 Current Humanitarian Situation in Ukraine: IDP Needs and Limits of Recovery

Transition to full-scale recovery will only be possible with stabilization of security and energy context and a gradual reduction in household vulnerability.

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A Cartesian coordinate system with learning to performance on the horizontal axis, left to right, and novice to expert on the vertical axis, bottom to top. The expert/performance quadrant shows a green thumbs up with "human-in-the-loop", the novice/performance quadrant shows a yellow doc with a checkmark on it that says "low-risk tasks", then expert/learning quadrant shows a yellow doc with a refresh symbol that says "verify" and the novice/learning quadrant has a red triangle that says "danger."

If you forced me to set aside the many ethical and environmental questions about #GenAI, and asked me for the best advice I could provide on how it should be used, this picture sums up my current thinking. Experts can use it... (1/n)

Smuggled to suburbia: no end to danger for Ethiopians looking for better life in South Africa With tens of thousands thought to be arriving each year, the ‘southern route’ is becoming more perilous and extortionary

Smuggled to suburbia: no end to danger for Ethiopians looking for better life in South Africa

scientific community is trained in reading papers presented as defense of preset conclusions (or hypotheses to the same effect) and struggles to react meaningfully to exploratory research written in an exploratory way. "what if this is a thing? let's see. huh turns out it isn't!" baffles reviewers.

Screenshot of the title page of an article published in the journal "Psychological Bulletin" titled: "Trust and Subjective Well-Being Across the Lifespan: A Multilevel Meta-Analysis of Cross-Sectional and Longitudinal Associations."

Trust in others and institutions predicts subjective well-being and vice versa. This makes me even more attuned to the costs of people and systems that undermine trust. The decay of trust as a public health issue. #PsychSciSky #AcademicSky #EduSky doi.org/10.1037/bul0...

Mass grave of migrants discovered in eastern Libya, survivors report torture

Mass grave of migrants discovered in eastern Libya, survivors report torture #Refugees

We've got ISSUES. Literally.

We scraped >100k special issues & over 1 million articles to bring you a PISS-poor paper. We quantify just how many excess papers are published by guest editors abusing special issues to boost their CVs. How bad is it & what can we do?

arxiv.org/abs/2601.07563

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Kyiv my beloved

More from Tehran and Shiraz today. Footage coming out has dropped sharply due to IRGC/Basij raids searching for Starlink terminals, and extreme jamming causing massive packet loss, making it nearly impossible to upload or send content.

‘The streets are full of blood’: Iranian protests gather momentum as regime cracks down Demonstrators recount experiences on the frontlines as protest movement rapidly moves beyond government’s control

Cannot imagine the courage required for Iranians to keep joining the protests, & find ways of getting testimony out. www.theguardian.com/world/2026/j...

Iran protests sweep nation despite internet shutdown as state TV warns of 'casualties' Iranian protesters have taken to the streets following a call by the exiled crown prince for demonstrations.

Iran’s judiciary chief vowed that punishment for protesters “will be decisive, maximum and without any legal leniency.” The comment, reported by Iranian state television, came from Gholamhossein Mohseni-Ejei.