Discworld QOTD, from Moving Pictures

Petit résumé de Trump:

28 février : « Nous lançons une opération décisive. » « Ce sera rapide. »
2 mars : « Nous l'emporterons facilement. »
3 mars : « Nous avons gagné la guerre. »
7 mars : « Nous avons vaincu l'Iran. »
9 mars : « Nous devons attaquer l'Iran. »

Four years ago Russia began it's full scale invasion of Ukraine. They expected it to fall in days. They were wrong. Long live Ukraine.

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Hannah Arendt did not mince words, did she?

'Totalitarianism replaces all first-rate talents with crackpots and fools whose lack of intelligence and creativity is still the best guarantee of their loyalty.'

From "The Origins of Totalitarianism" (1951)

Holy moly this chart: Cumulative US measles cases

Il governo spagnolo continua a distinguersi sull’immigrazione La coalizione di centrosinistra di Pedro Sánchez ha approvato un decreto per regolarizzare fino a 500mila immigrati irregolari, senza passare dal parlamento

Il governo spagnolo continua a distinguersi sull’immigrazione

Un riassunto dei segnali d'allarme del fascismo di Umberto Eco

Bo, io la riposto, tanto non serve a un cazzo.
Ormai è una tombola demoniaca.

The killing of Alex Pretti is a heartbreaking tragedy. It should also be a wake-up call to every American, regardless of party, that many of our core values as a nation are increasingly under assault.

Minnesota National Guard members have arrived at a federal building and were directed to distribute donuts, coffee, and hot chocolate to anti-ICE protesters. Guard members were issued reflective vests so they would not be mistaken for federal agents.

The march is now passing the Chicago city hall / Cook County hall building. The chant goes up,

"Minnesota don't you fear, we, the people, are right here"

A reminder to the news media: “conflicting accounts” is what you say BEFORE the incontrovertible video evidence appears. After that, your job is to ask why one side is lying, not to repeat the lie and pretend no one knows the truth.

Literally every single thing in here was astonishingly evident from the beginning.

"Coerentemente con la posizione storica della Presidente del consiglio diremo qualcosa senza dire niente, contraddicendoci in meno di 200 caratteri".

Evidence for the Progressive Improvement of All-Atom Force Fields in Reproducing Local Conformational Preferences of Flexible Peptides www.biorxiv.org/content/10.64898/2025.12...

🎉Our group has been awarded a prestigious #FIS grant! #RNAScale - Exploring RNA Dynamics across Scales: From Base Pairs to Viral Genomes 👉 www.bussilab.org/fis3

We will soon open postdoctoral positions across several components of the project! An expression-of-interest form is already online.

Faith leader, Michael Woolf, minister at Lake Street Church of Evanston, is detained by Illinois State Police during a protest against immigration actions, outside the Broadview ICE facility in Chicago, Illinois, U.S., November 14, 2025. REUTERS/Jim Vondruska

Un candidat pour la photo de 2025 sur ce que deviennent les US.

Great opportunity with a great mentor!

みっちりねこマーチ - MitchiriNeko March - Cute cat characters in a marching band! YouTube video by Mitchiri MitchiriNeko (みっちりねこ)

Vous avez besoin de voir la fanfare des potichats Mitchiri, pour la santé mentale et pour trouver tous les chats qui font nawak pendant la marche.

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Students don't pay top £$€ for "information" they pay to get an education which is eons far from getting an answer to a question, it is learning how to *give* answers to a very diverse set of questions, so GO home ChatGPT, you are not a teacher!

New preprint by @lavagnae.bsky.social from Barducci lab (@cbsmontpellier.bsky.social): we show how energy-consuming enzymatic reactions, like phosphorylation, regulate biomolecular condensates with complex effects on condensate stability and reactive interfaces. Any feedback welcome!

EN DIRECT, Sébastien Lecornu renommé premier ministre : le chef du gouvernement promet un budget « pour la fin de l’année » et une équipe qui devra « incarner le renouvellement » « J’accepte – par devoir – la mission qui m’est confiée par le président de tout faire pour donner un budget à la France », a déclaré M. Lecornu. Le chef du RN, Jordan Bardella, a dit vendredi soir qu...

MAIS LE RENOUVELLEMENT DE QUOI BOUGRE DE TRUFFE VOUS ÊTES EN BOUCLE DEPUIS SEIZE MOIS

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Today my @nytimes.com colleagues and I are launching a new series called Lost Science. We interview US scientists who can no longer discover something new about our world, thanks to this year‘s cuts. Here is my first interview with a scientist who studied bees and fires. Gift link: nyti.ms/3IWXbiE

2 million rally in Italy for Gaza as general strike halts key services Over 2 million people across Italy have rallied in more than 100 cities for a one-day general strike.

Over 2 million people across Italy have rallied in more than 100 cities for a one-day general strike.

Snapshot of a condensate near a lipid membrane with Swedish Research Council and Malmö University logos.

I'm hiring for a PhD position at Malmö University, Sweden!

The project will focus on molecular modelling of proteins, lipids, and biomolecular condensates at cell membranes.

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Only an administration intent on committing war crimes in the present and future would stoop to calling Wounded Knee a "battle" rather than what it truly was: a massacre of over 250 Lakotas, mainly women, children, and the elderly. 1/

Tipsy bats and perfect pasta: Ig Nobels celebrate ‘improbable’ research The annual awards are a celebration of weird but thought-provoking science.

IG Nobel Prize in #Physics 2025 to @mpipks.bsky.social researchers for elucidating the phase behaviour of cacio e pepe sauce. The work highlights how physics can also be applied to solve daily-life problems!

nature.com/articles/d41586-025-03045-0

Lancement ce jour du projet d'extension de notre laboratoire. 1100m² de nouveaux espaces et 280m² rehabilités.
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