La Belgique fait partie des trois pays de toute l'OCDE dans lesquels vos résultats scolaires sont le plus déterminés par votre origine sociale.

Hier, la droite au pouvoir au ministère de l'enseignement à décidé de mettre fin au chantier du "tronc commun" entamé il y a 15 ans.

#KEVIN 😮‍💨

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📢 ✍ Appel à contribution pour #didapro 11
🧑‍🏫 ⌨️ Colloque francophone de didactique de l’informatique
🗓️ Grenoble du 10 au 12 mars 2026

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Scientific illustration showing a cross-section of Saturn’s moon Enceladus. It features three labelled layers: An ice shell at the top, with visible cracks releasing jets of water vapour into space; an ocean in the middle, depicted as a large body of water beneath the ice; a rocky core at the bottom, shown emitting heat that may drive the jets. In the background, Saturn and its rings are visible in space.

🆕 The discovery of new complex organic molecules at Saturn's #Enceladus enhances the likelihood that the moon is habitable 🪐

On Earth, these molecules are involved in chemical reaction chains that lead to the more complex molecules essential for life.

Read more 👉 www.esa.int/Science_Expl...
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AI in week 39 New!! A newsletter in English! Scroll down, or visit my site and read this newsletter in English too! If you subscribed a long time ago and never received a newsletter before that's because there we none in English before, so welcome!! So Dutch readers, don't worry! This newsletter looks like

The last few months trying my hand at writing a newsletter I have been posting only in Dutch, but from now on my newsletters will also contain an English translation.

Don't miss the first English one, on hallucinations, the easy or unease of learning and how to use AI.

We have to stop dehumanizing ICE agents while they are doing their important job of dehumanizing us

California bans federal agents from using masks to hide their faces California Gov. Gavin Newsom signed a bill banning federal agents from wearing face-concealing masks, likening the practice to a “dystopian sci-fi movie.”

California Gov. Gavin Newsom signed a bill prohibiting federal agents from wearing identity-concealing masks during enforcement operations, a controversial practice that the governor likened to “a dystopian sci-fi movie.”

A VPN is not a tool for anonymity, and while it can protect your location from some companies, there are many other ways companies may track you. ssd.eff.org/module/choo...

Rechter Denis Goeman: 'Onze jeugd' Denis Goeman is rechter bij de Franstalige rechtbank van eerste aanleg in Brussel en geeft tweewekelijks in zijn column een unieke inkijk in de wereld van de Brusselse justitie.

Denis Goeman is rechter bij de Franstalige rechtbank van eerste aanleg in Brussel en geeft tweewekelijks in zijn column een unieke inkijk in de wereld van de Brusselse justitie.

The assassination of Charlie Kirk makes we worry we can no longer have peaceful discussions of whether gays should be stoned to death or civil and collegial debates about whether black people are inherently inferior. Our culture will suffer.

New York Times tomorrow

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Based on the Informatics Europe Higher Education Data Portal, the first pan-European report on bachelor-level Informatics retention and graduation (2010–2023) has been published.

🌍 #InformaticsEurope & @acm.org Europe release the first pan-European report on bachelor-level Informatics retention & graduation (2010–2023), covering 13 countries across #Europe.

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Maand van de waarheid voor 'friche Josaphat': openbaar onderzoek van start Het openbaar onderzoek over de verkavelingsplannen op de Josaphatsite in Schaarbeek gaat vandaag van start. De vraag is of groene open ruimte en biodiversiteit moeten wijken voor ruim 500 woningen.

Het openbaar onderzoek over de verkavelingsplannen op de Josaphatsite in Schaarbeek gaat vandaag van start. De vraag is of groene open ruimte en biodiversiteit moeten wijken voor ruim 500 woningen.

As Trump Targets the Smithsonian, Museums Across the U.S. Feel a Chill Some museums are changing or canceling exhibits, especially those that involve artworks that engage with gender, sexuality and race.

The Trump administration called for a review of all exhibitions at the Smithsonian’s museums this month. Some other museums across the U.S. have already changed their programming significantly, as they try to steer clear of potential hot-button topics including gender, sexuality and race.

More than 60,000 metric tons of food aid have languished in warehouses in the United States and around the world after the Trump administration’s breakneck dismantling of the USAID. wapo.st/4fmJAx2

There is an ad for the #schier summer school in your #iticse welcome pack. Check it out ! @informatics-europe.bsky.social

A bridge is packed with people, with scattered pride flags in the crowd. A headline reads: "Budapest Pride Parade Was Bigger Than Ever, Despite Government Ban." Photo by Janos Kummer/Getty Images.

More than 100,000 people marched in Hungary’s annual Pride parade in Budapest on Saturday after Prime Minister Viktor Orban’s ban on the event backfired, turning what is usually a low-key parade into a mass rally against his government. www.nytimes.com/2025/06/28/w...

Mélenchon propose de changer le nom de la langue française : "Si quelqu'un pouvait trouver un autre nom, il serait le bienvenu" Invité à un colloque sur la francophonie, Jean-Luc Mélenchon a évoqué l'idée de donner un autre nom à la langue française, puisqu'elle est parlée par des millions de personnes hors de la France.

Bon, alors, ce qu'a dit Mélenchon sur la langue française. En gros :
1) qu'il faudrait renommer le français (puisque ce n'est pas la propriété de la France)
2) qu'il faudrait le considérer comme un créole
Qu'est-ce qu'on en pense? Fil pour décrypter ça⬇️
www.lalibre.be/internationa...

Et bien sûr, ce faisant, l'Académie s'assoit sur ses propres usages… Voir par exemple les discours de réception de Maurice Genevoix (1947) et Marguerite Yourcenar (1981), ou même (quelle ironie) un billet « Dire, ne pas dire » de 2021.
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Video: Inside the Struggle to Find Food in Gaza Aid agencies say Gaza faces the threat of widespread starvation in the wake of the 80-day Israeli blockade on food deliveries that ended in mid-May. Two young Gazans, Salem Madhat Alaydi and Aya Ehab ...

Two Palestinians showed us first-person videos of what it's like to try and retrieve, and provide, food in Gaza City.
By Ang Li, Meg Felling, and me. Heaps of geolocation help too from @fdov21.bsky.social
www.nytimes.com/video/world/...

Don't just say it's unconstitutional, remind people that the constitution is full of very good ideas designed to prevent authoritarianism, and most people who want to ignore it want that specifically because they are authoritarian.

Apply now for #SCHIER2025 to deepen your knowledge and skills in Informatics Education Research, a vital field recognised by @consilium.europa.eu!

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26 June, join @felienne.bsky.social (@vuamsterdam.bsky.social), creator of #Hedy & author of "The Programmer's Brain" (@manningbooks.bsky.social) for the #ACMTechTalk "Programming for All: A Feminist Case for Language Design." @markguzdial.bsky.social will moderate.

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YouTube video by Simon Clark Does recycling even do anything?

Excellent nuanced video by @simonoxfphys.com on what systemic changes and individual steps are needed for better (plastic) use and recycling! www.youtube.com/watch?v=iOtr...

Funding Cuts Are a ‘Gut Punch’ for STEM Education Researchers

an overwhelming percentage of cuts at the NSF are to STEM education. experts see it as part of a broader attack on DEI, as well as on education as a whole.

www.nytimes.com/2025/05/22/s...

🇷🇴George Simion est arrivé en tête de l’élection présidentielle en #Roumanie. Ce succès traduit l’inexorable essor global du fascisme brisé en 1945 mais aussi, chez les Roumains, un gros malaise social et une profonde défiance envers les grands médias. Éléments d’analyse.🧶1/19⬇️

We are in urgent need of several Associate Editors to join the ACM TOCE Editorial Board. If you're interested in serving, write Amy at ajko@uw.edu and share your reviewing experience and expertise. Without more volunteers to manage our rising submissions, we may have to pause submissions.

On s'approche doucement mais sûrement de 20 000 articles Wikipédia indexés au projet les sans pagEs, via des créations et/ou des améliorations ! Parmi les pages populaires en avril on retrouve les noms habituels de Louane, Frida Kahlo et Rosa Parks, mais également deux nouveaux : Kim Kardashian, ..

YouTube video by Philoxime Rester sur X pour débattre avec tout le monde ? Le Libre marché des idées

Superbe vidéo de l’ami @philoxime.bsky.social sur la liberté d’expression réelle, la place de la censure dans les démocraties et les nombreuses limites de l’argument décidément bien grossier du « libre marché des idées »

‘The Only Person in the World Claiming to Be the Pope Right Now’

I went to Chicago to cover a papal conclave. No, not that one. www.nytimes.com/2025/05/06/u...