Ana Hojbota

The UK is one of the Western countries that promised security guarantees to Ukraine in the Budapest Memorandum after coercing it to give up nuclear weapons. Having failed to deliver on the promises amid 12 years of Russia’s war on Ukraine, the country that is being bombed daily gets called “safe”

Measles outbreaks are costing the U.S. millions of dollars. The true losses can't be counted. As vaccination rates decline, the economic consequences will increase, research suggests.

If measles vaccination rates continue to drop just 1% annually for the next five years, the cost to the U.S. could reach $1.5 billion a year, according to a new report from the Yale School of Public Health.

Call for Applications: 2026 Summer Research Laboratory (SRL) at the University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign (June 8–July 31, 2026)
Deadline: March 16, 2026
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Are AI-generated summaries suitable for studying and research? Despite didactic, ethical, and environmental concerns, the use of GenAI is on the rise in academia. For most applications, the jury is still out on whether and how they will benefit education and rese...

Tired of AI hype posts? You might like my sober assessment of whether AI-generated summaries are suitable for studying and research. Spoiler alert, they are not.

The text is primarily aimed at students and researchers, but has much broader relevance. So share freely!: www.tue.nl/en/our-unive...

As @abeba.bsky.social was just saying yesterday: they're not actually good at summarizing

Plug-in hybrids use three times more fuel than manufacturers claim, analysis finds While most hybrids are said to use one to two litres of fuel per 100km, a study claims they need six litres on average

Uhh this feels big: New study in Europe finds plug-in hybrids use three times more fuel than manufacturers claim: www.theguardian.com/environment/...

Karl Lanzedelli, Eine Hochzeit in der Wallachei (A Wedding in Wallachia, Vienna, c. 1840), Romanian Academy Library via Wikimedia Commons)

"The Marriage Customs of the Romanian Peasants" - last year I discovered an unknown study from 1837 by Romanian historian Mihail Kogălniceanu and republished it with a commentary. (In Romanian)
Now #OpenAccess in @researchgate.bsky.social
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This is fun. By 1400 I am struggling.

Response burden and survey participation. Experimental evidence on the effect of interview length on non-response conversion In a context of declining response rates, identifying best practices for non-response conversion is of key importance. Adopting experimental data from a large-scale web-first mixed mode longitudina...

Yet another study showing that respondent burden (here in terms of survey length) hurts survey participation (here in a NRFU) www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....

So glad to see this work out! Such immensely needed critical analysis

YouTube video by Cultural Evolution Society Transmissions Episode 3 with Dr Tim Waring

We are excited to share the third episode of our student-led outreach series! In this instalment, student representatives @ferylbadiani.bsky.social & Ishaan interview Dr. Tim Waring, Assoc. Prof. at U. Maine and head of the Applied Cultural Evolutionary Laboratory.

www.youtube.com/watch?v=6O3U...

‘Hell-heron’ dinosaur discovered in the central Sahara A UChicago-led team unearthed ‘Spinosaurus mirabilis,’ a fish-eating giant and the first new species of its kind in a century, where nothing like it was supposed to exist

A UChicago-led team unearthed ‘Spinosaurus mirabilis,’ a fish-eating giant and the first new species of its kind in a century, where nothing like it was supposed to exist

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Budapest: Nazis openly march in SS uniforms, while Holocaust survivor gets banned, and Romani Pride organiser gets prosecuted - European Roma Rights Centre By Bernard Rorke On Sunday 14th February, neo-Nazis converged on the Castle district in Budapest to ...

The Hungarian government, cited as direct ideological inspiration by the Trump admin, allowed neo-Nazis to march in SS uniforms last weekend - but banned a Holocaust survivor from giving a speech warning about fascism in response. www.errc.org/news/budapes...

Brexit’s slow‑burn hit to the UK economy The UK is once again debating why its economy has grown slowly since the mid‑2010s. This column examines the impact of the decision to leave the European Union in 2016. Using almost a decade of data s...

New data shows #Brexit has lowered UK GDP by 6-8% over the past decade. Investment down 12-18%, employment down 3-4%. It's even worse than economists had predicted pre-referendum, because they thought there would be a bounce-back long term. "Economists were roughly right on the

🚨 shingled high rise alert. I repeat: shingled high rise alert. 🚨

Decoding the Cerebellum’s Secret Role in Human Language - Neuroscience News Researchers identify a specialized "satellite" language network in the cerebellum, offering new insights into how the brain processes communication and potential treatments for aphasia.

Researchers believed the human language network was primarily located in the brain’s neocortex. However, neuroscientists have now identified a “satellite” component of this network hidden within the cerebellum—a region typically associated with motor coordination
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The website of our project CULTEMO is now live: cultmind.ku.dk/research/cul...

One week left! We’re accepting Expressions of Interest for our funded MPhil/PhD in Philosophy at LSE, joining our interdisciplinary team advancing understanding of, and ways of caring for, nonhuman species. Deadline 23 Feb.

Details: www.lse.ac.uk/sentience/phd

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Deadline NEXT FRIDAY, Feb. 20.

If you’re an early-career researcher and have been meaning to apply for the Mentorship Program Associate with the Cognitive Science Society, this is it!

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🧵; *completely* identifying the US with its authoritarian and racist cultural strains ignores the cultural forces that push in other directions — it sounds edgy in some spaces but it really just does pro-bono ideological work for fascists

Boundaries of American Identity: Evolving Understandings of “Us” This review examines empirical research about American national identity. It focuses on the social and political causes and consequences of (a) how people define what being American means and (b) thei...

I feel like this is a good time to re-up my review of public opinion about American identity

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Enjoyed recording this. It gave a chance to talk about Wodders the Emu on a highbrow arts programme, which a guest agreed was a moment worthy of the Chaplin era. Job done!

You may laugh, but the Macbeths are a much better role model for a marriage than Romeo and Juliet. They discuss their problems (killing the king of Scotland), share their hobbies (killing the king of Scotland), and resolve their conflicts (by killing the king of Scotland).

‘Workers get the thorns’: the moral ugliness of rose factories | Rebecca Solnit A rose is beautiful but a greenhouse with thousands upon thousands of roses, a place producing millions a year, is not

Most of the roses for sale in the US are raised in hideous labor and environmental conditions in Colombia and Ecuador before they're loaded onto 747s to fly here. I know because I visited one of the rose plantations/sweatshops for my book Orwell's Roses. Give your love a book or something.

So happy that my Cambridge Element with @yesolakweon.bsky.social has been published! Free access for the next two weeks!

In unprecedented move, giant monkey research center may become a primate sanctuary University votes to consider ending all studies at Oregon National Primate Research Center. But cost and feasibility are still in doubt

In unprecedented move, giant monkey research center may become a primate sanctuary

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Alexander Edlich

This week's post is by Alexander Edlich (LMU Munich), and Alfred Archer (University of Tilburg) presenting their paper 'Rejecting Identities: Stigma and Hermeneutical Injustice' published in Social Epistemology.

#philsky #philpsy
imperfectcognitions....

We just had a strong geomagnetic substorm here in Iceland. My cat and I watched from the balcony. Sometimes the show is strong enough to see inside the city limits easily.

#northernlights #aurora #iceland

21st Annual Doctoral Conference 2026 Humanity at a Turning Point: Reaffirming or Reimagining Political Common Sense? CEU’s Annual Doctoral Conference (ADC) provides an interdisciplinary space to present works in progress, receive c...

If you're a graduate student or know any, look at this call. This is an annual conference at CEU, with a stream of panels in political philosophy. And this year's keynote is Andrew Williams! Deadline for abstracts: the 26th of February.
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