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European Journalist of the Year: Christo Grozev — PRIX EUROPA 6 days to go until PRIX EUROPA 2025 starts but the Members of the PRIX EUROPA Steering Committee have already decided about the winner of this year’s first award: The European Journalist of the Y...

The European Journalist of the Year 2025 award goes to Christo Grozev from Bulgaria for - among other things - tracking down the wanted former Wirecard manager Jan Marsalek in Moscow and exposing him as a Russian spy.
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www.prixeuropa.eu/news/2025/eu...

A new JWST image, showing the star-forming region Sagittarius B2.

Open up the image and lose yourself in the stars...

BEYOND DOUBT: The Putin regime runs a state-sponsored program to assassinate political opponents with military-grade chemical weapons.

🧵 Navalny's death was part of it, and the Dossier Center findings suggest his 2020 poisoner finished the job in prison

Photo pf a large group of women in blue football strips posing together on a grass field, some wonen standing in a row while others are sitting on the ground in front

The Afghan women's football/soccer team, who relocated to the UK to escape the Taliban's removal of female rights, including exclusion from all public life #WomensArt #AfghanWomen

Research posts on Bluesky are more original — and get better engagement Bluesky posts about science garner more likes and reposts than similar ones on X.

Posts about research on Bluesky receive substantially more attention than similar posts on X, formerly called Twitter

go.nature.com/45Ftiw4

A large Ukraine flag featuring blue and yellow colors displays the words "Alaska Stands With Ukraine." Trees and a cloudy sky are visible in the background.

Massive flag in support of Ukraine unveiled in Alaska.

"Alaska Stands With Ukraine." #3E #StandWithUkraine #AlaskaWithUkraine

A rally in support of Ukraine was held in Anchorage, Alaska, with several hundred participants reported. Another pro-Ukrainian demonstration is planned today to coincide with the US-Russia summit.

COSIG logo: COSIG (Collection of Open Science Integrity Guides) Now available at cosig.net!

Anyone can do post-publication peer review.
Anyone can be a steward of the scientific literature.
Anyone can do forensic metascience.
Anyone can sleuth.

That's why we are launching COSIG: the Collection of Open Science Integrity Guides, an open source resource for all of the above.

cosig.net

A clip for #RomanSiteSaturday of Inchtuthill, the short-lived #Roman fortress on the banks of the Tay, near Blairgowrie, Perth & Kinross, #Scotland. It iwas occupied by the XX Valeria Victrix legion. This was a major fort covering 53 acres, completed in AD82/83.

‘We are so grateful to the people of Shetland’ – skippers praise warm welcome from all THE SKIPPERS of the historic vessels in the Liberation Convoy have praised Shetland for the exceptionally warm welcome they have received during their...

The Liberation Convoy has landed safely in Lerwick. The five historic vessels — some of which took part in “Shetland Bus” operations in World War II — remain open to the public today and tomorrow.

Petition: Funding for Hyperemesis Gravidarum care We call on the UK Government to provide funding to improve physical and mental healthcare for sufferers, increase training, eliminate inequities in access and treatment as well as ensure HG sufferers ...

UK people, please consider signing this Parliamentary petition asking for better care for those experiencing hyperemesis gravidarum - my dear daughter-in-law suffered during both her pregnancies & it's a horrible thing, with inadequate support: petition.parliament.uk/petitions/71...

A lot of Americans don't know this, but the winner of the Canadian election will be required live in a small cottage located in the backyard of the palace where the viceroy to the King of England lives.

The cottage just recently got a new wifi router, which was very exciting for all Canadians.

‘MPs are outsourcing their morals’ Thinking through the relationship between sex, gender and rights doesn’t require supreme court guidance

observer.co.uk/news/opinion...

YouTube video by Cambridge Disinformation Summit Belllingcat CEO Eliot Higgins, on how disordered discourse is destroying democracy

I've just come back from the Cambridge Disinformation Summit where I gave the opening keynote, titled "Demanufacturing Consent - How Disordered Discourse is Destroying Democracy", featuring everything from Fake Hooves to Jackson Hinkle being the worst.
www.youtube.com/watch?v=D-FV...

This was an incredibly excellent talk by Eliot.

In the pre-sunrise Orkney light (05.30), a cold brisk wind doesn't stop the curlews calling

An apartment block burns

Kherson, as Putin’s “Easter ceasefire” gets underway.

Don’t let your media outlets lie to you.

We should all be concerned about mental health of young people whose distress is expressed through gender identity.

But they need reassurance re the #SupremeCourt judgment, not alarming rhetoric.

Not hostility & prejudice but support.

And the best mental health care we can offer.

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Here is Earth's rotation realized in an unusual way: using a camera scanning the landscape of Tivoli, Namibia, Bartosz Wojczyński focused on the sky.

He created a timelapse spanning 24 h that has a focal point in the sky rather than on the ground.

➡️ apod.nasa.gov/apod/ap20070...

🔭 🧪 #galactic

This is high art

Inside Mousa Broch on the now uninhabited island of Mousa in Shetland. The image shows the interior of the stone tower with flagstones at its base and a group of four people standing an looking around. The doorway is on the far side of the structure.

Inside Mousa Broch on the now uninhabited island of Mousa in Shetland. Mousa Broch rises to 13m high and is both magnificent and awe inspiring. It is also by some margin the best preserved of Scotland's 500 or so brochs. More pics and info: www.undiscoveredscot...

#Scotland #Shetland #MousaBroch

The inside of Mousa Broch - The finest preserved example of a Iron Age broch or round tower. Built in 100 BC it is one of the best preserved ancient buildings in Europe.
Island of Mousa, Shetland, Scotland.

Breaking now: Ministry of Economics reporting the tariffs have not caused significant changes to our trading volumes

Defence Ministry: Shoreline defence force Gentoo’s prepare mortars. Our Navy Seals conduct clandestine training, and teach tactical camouflage and concealment to juveniles. We stand ready. Flippers Up.

Antarctic Tern on Heard Island

Heard Island Delegate to the UN: “We condemn this economic pressure in the strongest possible Terns”

Howls have the power to make the whole world smile 🙂

A portrait of ancient Scots pine trees on an atmospheric morning. I love the moment when the light starts to interact with the morning fog.

#landscapephotography #scotspine #nature #woodland

Cow habitat