“In a conflict like Sudan where women’s bodies are the battleground (GBV, lack of SRHR, acute malnutrition), how are we supposed to work when ‘gender’ has been erased from our vocabulary.” Powerful remarks by MSF at @humconberlin.bsky.social SRHR session.

Stay safe! That is horrible. There must be a lot of traumatised people in Kyiv 😔

Honestly why is the US cutting back on its scientists, where would it be without its biologists to solve complex fraud cases like this

Started reading this after people started posting it on 7 April... addictive mystery, mad premise, perfect worldbuilding, not sure if it would actually help if I knew anything about American football.

it feels quite bad that it's basically impossible to argue that much of the modern right in the west has become both entirely intellectually shallow and deeply, fundamentally morally corrupt without sounding like a tedious teenage tankie, because it is.....the factual truth

I keep forgetting Your Party exist, but every few months they remind me by having the stupidest possible argument very publicly. But it always takes me a minute to realise who we're talking about because 'Your Party'is a stupid name for a party.

Maybe I'll just blockade the Strait too, may as well get in on the action if I'm going to have to pay more for my heating anyway

Annoyingly a bigger loser is probably European, African and Asian economies and households. If only this only impacted the US but I think you're insulated compared to us in the rest of the world.

Someone pushed in front of me to push through the barriers but it didn't quite work (dumb big teen fucked it). The TFL lady gave him a stern look, then said 'next time just ask' and beeped him through. Like what??? I think she was just young and didn't want a fight but still, I was pretty miffed.

Yep, we're taking our academic journals off it this month at work. Get almost no engagement nowadays. Although bluesky is not much better, LinkedIn is the best for us now which I kinda hate because it means I have to spend time on LinkedIn

I try really hard to always be courteous to my fellow internet denizens but apparently a quick way to get on my bad side is to be misleading and/or inaccessible with space/science things. Science should be for everyone and misinformation about it undermines the whole point of scicomm.

I guess i knew from reading history - so much European history is pogroms. But still, it's striking to read a theory of it as a pattern rather than isolated incidents. Horrible to see it coming back, holocaust education (and perhaps education in it not being one isolated moment) never more vital.

I'm reading Hannah Arendt's Origins of Totalitarianism, which I started because, well, look around us. But I've been really struck by the first section on antisemitism and how ingrained in the structures of European society it was, even as those structures changed in response to societies changing

Can the FIFA Peace Prize be transferred to, say, Pakistan? *

*asking for a friend

Yes, love my parents but there was a lot of 'you'll never know the fear of the bomb' when I was being a brat in the 90s. Well now I do know the fear of the bomb so maybe we can revisit your position on purchasing the Spice Girls sticker book

If there's anything I could nick from London to have in my house it would be the underground sign benches from Earls Court

One highlight of the paper reads 'Key mechanisms include reduced PM2.5 exposure, increased individual earnings, and alleviation of depressive symptoms.'

Indeed... Although to be fair the paper also argues that HSR improves local economies and does note wealth as a variable which might impact outcome.

I love this.

Ok glad to read this as my internet is down so I think I'm going to have to work at a cafe tomorrow. I figure the trick to keep things civilised is to have one headphone in so you can hear yourself and keep to reasonable volumes. With headphones people speak louder than in regular conversation.

You're so right about the sadness, space captures our imagination so deeply, I'd absolutely love to adventure out there in a Star Wars kinda way which is completely impossible. And that is sad.

I think there's things AI could help with, like literature reviews(in the sense of a summary of recent research publications) but as a reader I can't see why I'd want the final book to be AI. I read non-fic for more than just some facts, I want to know what the writer thinks and how they got there.

Haha no worries! He's just an old friend and we chat about politics occasionally (when tipsy) but like most people politics is not the main thing which defines him or our friendship. There will be logical inconsistency because he's a primary school teacher who doesn't think deeply about this stuff 🤷‍♀️

I mean you do realise I'm not this person right? I'm not sure I can expose his soul for you

I think it is just a contradiction in his position. I also don't think he views himself as someone who works for the state (despite coming from a rural area where in general you're either a farmer or work for the state). There's a spot of 'deep state' conspiracy in that, he's not part of 'the blob'.

Which is of course full of contradictions, but we all are. The thing i can never square is that he basically doesn't want a state, but also has worked for the state his whole life as a teacher, and also thinks the state should do more to help poor native Brits. He thinks Farage will achieve this.

Yeah, guy from where I grew up who intends to vote reform hates Muslims but has no problem with other immigrants beyond numbers, believes the 'Londonistan' stuff (despite visiting me in London), but the main drive is libertarianism and also a sense that nothing is being done for the poorest Brits.

I watched a video from a learn-Spanish YouTube channel, and they asked people around Mexico City if they use AI and what for. So many normal people basically replied some version of 'therapy'/'a friend to talk to', it completely took me by surprise, I hadn't ever considered that as an option.

Because of woke

Yes, I'm not from Gorton and Denton but it didn't strike me as surprising at all that 'local tradeswoman' beat 'North-London based "academic" and media personality' basically, regardless of party.

The impact on all of us of a mindless Emperor's carelessness.