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Prof. Universiteit Antwerpen
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Counting lives saved is difficult, but it can show us the great difference some people have made—
Scientists can make an enormous difference in the world.
By now, we've all seen the video of Senator Alex Padilla (D-CA) being forcibly removed and handcuffed for asking a question during Kristi Noem's press conference.
But what Noem said just moments before the video was taken is "classic authoritarian red-baiting," points out @davidcorn.bsky.social.
“I’ve studied McCarthyism’s impact on higher education for 50 years. What’s happening now is worse.” -Ellen Schrecker, historian
Academic freedom in the United States has found itself periodically under siege, but the current attacks from the federal government raise a new level of alarm. nyer.cm/u405qvQ
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Our A.I. times ;-)
15.05.2025 15:10 — 👍 185 🔁 35 💬 1 📌 2Another day of reminding everyone of Carl Sagan’s eerily accurate warning about the dangers of not being able to ask skeptical scientific questions to those in power or authority.
08.05.2025 13:14 — 👍 14844 🔁 4311 💬 219 📌 241Eighty years ago, enemies laid down their arms.
Since then, we, Europeans, have built something extraordinary: a Union of peace, democracy, and solidarity. An anchor of stability.
Our Union was born as a peace project, and it remains one today.
This is from The Tonight Show with Johnny Carson aired on May 20th, 1977.
Carl Sagan says something very important, a strong message that didn't lose any validity since then.
On becoming an autocracy @newyorker.com
www.newyorker.com/magazine/202...
Last week in SLC!
Inspiring!
I saw Condors yesterday at the Navajo bridge on highway 89A
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Important paper on rethinking heart disease, with a focus on atheroma and primary prevention, not just blood supply impairment (reactive, today's mode of secondary prevention) A @thelancet.bsky.social Commission
www.thelancet.com/journals/lan...
"When a complex system is far from equilibrium, small islands of coherence in a sea of chaos have the capacity to shift the entire system to a higher order." Iya Prigogine, Noble prize-winning chemist
"When a complex system is far from equilibrium, small islands of coherence in a sea of chaos have the capacity to shift the entire system to a higher order."
Iya Prigogine, Noble prize-winning chemist
what to tip in a fully automated restaurant
Our digital times :-)
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RFK Jr. Falsely Claims Measles Vax Causes Deaths 'Every Year' | MedPage Today
Just listen
Click www.medpagetoday.com/infectiousdi...
Every few years, we sign up for yet another platform just to keep in touch with our friends. Private platforms have locked users in for too long, causing a lack of innovation & competition in social media.
Bluesky aims to fundamentally change this.
Live in 20 min with @jay.bsky.team:
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"Absence of evidence, is not the evidence of absence"
- Carl Sagan
"Politicians are allowed to criticize the press," writes the editorial board. "But there is a difference between using language and using muscle." The Trump administration "is mustering the arms of government to suppress speech it doesn’t like and compel words and ideas it prefers."
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Francis Collins, the NIH Director for 12 years, led the Human Genome Project and other NIH efforts for 32 years, resigned today. Key words from his resignation letter
www.nytimes.com/2025/03/01/u...
Welcome to the Bluesky account for Stand Up for Science 2025!
Keep an eye on this space for updates, event information, and ways to get involved. We can't wait to see everyone #standupforscience2025 on March 7th, both in DC and locations nationwide!
#scienceforall #sciencenotsilence
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Trump & Vance are disgusting PIGS rambling on about how Zelensky didn't thank them and how bad that is... THIS was a publicity stunt for King Trump to show Putin that he's a STRONGMAN -and on Putin's side. This was a planned public flogging of Zelensky. Pathetic.
www.theatlantic.com/politics/arc...
Your dignity honors the bravery of the Ukrainian people.
Be strong, be brave, be fearless.
You are never alone, dear President Zelenskyy.
We will continue working with you for a just and lasting peace.
Extract from the book Serving the Reich about the failure of universities, academies and scientific institutions to respond to Nazi expulsions.
Today's extract from Serving the Reich.
What makes it worse is that I don't even need to add any explanatory comment, do I?
A classic word of warning before you start studying statistical mechanics.
From "States of Matter", David L. Goodstein.
Nice interview in JAMA about the link between patient data and updated guidelines!
jamanetwork.com/journals/jam...
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