Laura C. Dees

Israel has murdered more than 500 Palestinians in Gaza since it signed the so called ceasefire. One of the latest is a 3 year old child.

"Those who failed to correctly pronounce the trilled –r, as in the shibboleth perejil ‘parsley’, were deemed to be Haitian and, as a consequence, were murdered.”

Bullock & Toribio. 2014. "From Trujillo to the terremoto." Int'l Jrl of the soc. of lng, 227: 83-100.

en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Parsley...

Good news everyone, _Nature_ has published 66 Open Access articles to date in 2026!

This means Springer-Nature has gobbled up USD$837,540 of science funding this year.

I'm sure we couldn't think of anything better to do with that money.

#OpenScience

on the road to nowhere

Some tools for thinking about AI in a time when the companies making them are trying to destroy teaching and learning itself...

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If you feel bad for not having published all the papers from your PhD yet... This paper is the discussion of my thesis, and it took me about 6 years to publish it!

Thank you to my lovely collaborators @geoffreymesbahi.bsky.social and @maelmleroux.bsky.social for the (much-needed) final push!

Is this real? Many European leaders are there?

Brief aan de informateur Nederland kan in de komende jaren een taalpolitiek voorbeeldland worden.

Nederland kan in de komende jaren een taalpolitiek voorbeeldland worden.

neerlandistiek.nl/2026/01/mijn...

Text: Israels' Yellow Line - The Ongoing Silent Genocide Image of large yellow block in the ground with shell of a building in background

Since the so-called “ceasefire” announced in October 2025—violated by Israel more than 1,000 times—there remains a false impression that Israel’s genocide in Gaza has ended. In reality, alongside its ongoing illegal siege, the Israeli government has intensified its theft of Palestinian land not only in the West Bank but also in Gaza, through the so-called “Yellow Line,” which functions as an expanding zone of de facto annexation.

Over half of the Gaza Strip is still under Israeli control. Map of Gaza and the Yellow Line.

The Yellow Line remains largely unmarked on the ground, and prohibits or restricts Palestinians' access to humanitarian facilities and assets, public infrastructure, agricultural land, and homes - implemented with deadly force. Many Palestinians, including young children, have been shot and killed by the Israeli military simply for approaching these areas. Hundreds of others have been killed and over 1,000 injured by Israeli forces since October 10.

Instead of withdrawing from Gaza, Israel has imposed a so-called "Yellow-Line," leaving its military occupying 58% of Gaza and forcibly confining Palestinians to the remaining 42 percent. This largely unmarked and lethal boundary functions as de facto annexation... 1/3

such an exciting topic!!

The Tsova-Tush children’s book aiming to save one of Georgia’s most endangered languages A 2019 documentary failed to find anyone under the age of 30 who knew Tsova–Tush.

Wrote about sweet Tsova-Tush children's book project, trying to revive a dying language, for @ocmedia.bsky.social
oc-media.org/the-tsova-tu...

We Need to Get Off the Defensive About Immigration Free movement is a fantastic thing, and we should say it.

"Free societies are under assault from a resurgent fascism. Across the world, fears about immigration have been one of the main—arguably the main—weapon used. And across the world, there has been a timidity on the part of progressives about countering these arguments."

Arabische cartoonisten hebben een field day.

In 2025 I spent 19 full nights or large parts of the day on a train travelling through Europe. There’s so much to improve still (looking at you, Germany) but it’s exciting to see the growing number of possibilities the European rail network offers!

U mist het punt. Het gaat niet om labels van “links“ of “rechts”. Haar columns waren al slecht, en ze heeft daarna een kwalijke rol gespeeld bij NSC. Nu mag ze verder met de hele wereld de maat te nemen zonder enige zelfreflectie op haar rol in de politiek.

Columnisten zijn nooit “neutraal“. Graag wel integer.

hierzo: bsky.app/profile/jelm.... Ze werd “te radicaal” gevonden om haar eerlijke columns.

Waar is het protest van de NRC-redactie tegen alle bizarre beslissingen vd leiding?

Jemig.. geen interesse in haar hypocrisie. Dat wordt abonnement opzeggen voor mij. Na hoe @hassnae.bsky.social behandeld is, het absurde gepruts met Logtenberg, en dat jullie nog steeds platform bieden aan ongeschikte mensen als Aylin Bilic… jammer

in case you haven’t been: the central library in Utrecht at Neude is stunning!

amen

news flash: your work is valuable regardless of this 😌

Francesca Albanese: "This is the genocide that continues through other means. Israel has zero intention to relinquish control of the Gaza strip.. what has been sold to the world as the peace plan.. is a way to push the intl community to have an alibi not to continue to engage with Gaza"

Israeli drone chases and kills elderly woman in Gaza as attacks continue At least seven Palestinians killed in Israeli attacks as military pushes deeper beyond truce demarcation line.

Israel hunted a 70 year old lady down with a gun drone and then hoovered above to make sure she bled out next to her dying son. They both join almost 1,000 Palestinians Israel has massacred or maimed in its genocide during the "ceasefire".

www.aljazeera.com/news/2025/12...

#WestBank: new @hrw.org report finds #Israel 's mass displacement of Palestinians amounts to ethnic cleansing: hrw.org/news/2025/11...

Countless EU statements on "two state solution" have done nothing to stop this. Sanctions, settlement trade ban urgently needed: hrw.org/news/2025/10...

yes, I think somehow expressing mutual expectations (more than once) is crucial. If informally, I do think that the responsibility for providing a platform for that lies more on the side of the supervisor (definitely not solely on the side of the PhD student)

I am by no means a prominent public intellectual, but my inbox is increasingly filled with messages from people who have been convinced by sycophantic chatbots that they have discovered revolutionary theories that entirely upend our scientific understanding of the universe.

Being available; sharing network and resources; giving timely feedback; offering opportunities and learning moments (e.g. co-reviewing a paper, organising a conference, co-presenting - these are things you have to learn somehow). Oh and be kind - there is enough harshness in academia.

being available when needed, offering constructive criticism as well as motivation and recognition, being humane (do not request unreasonable achievements, or expect huge personal sacrifices, respect holidays, time to rest etc.), there's probably more but this are top three to me

@jennekevanderwal.bsky.social @chiarazulberti.bsky.social I agree with both of you, but also feel that “being available” can be interpreted in so many ways.. what about things like collective goal-setting, working out when and how to reach goals? and do we ideally use formal tools for this or not?