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Netherlands pulls out of Eurovision as organizer votes to keep Israel in 2026 contest The Netherlands will not take part in next year's Eurovision Song Contest, with Dutch broadcast rights holder AvroTros deciding to boycott the event. The decision was made after the members of the eve...

The Netherlands, Spain, Ireland and Slovenia have pulled out of Eurovision, Iceland and Belgium still deciding

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Four countries to boycott Eurovision 2026 as Israel cleared to compete Ireland, Spain, Slovenia and the Netherlands pull out after decision not to hold vote on Israel’s participation

“After weighing all perspectives, Avrotros concludes that, under the current circumstances, participation cannot be reconciled with the public values that are fundamental to our organisation.” clearer ethical principles than @w-u-r.bsky.social www.theguardian.com/tv-and-radio...

They should invent a university that prioritizes teaching and research

Care for my students has now extended to care for their fermentation babies, how did this happen ?

We cool with it. I would not trust a qualitative researcher who claimed their research was unfalsifiable.

We tend to rely on transparency and triangulating multiple data sources, so that someone else can follow your protocols and trust your findings. But they will never be able to reproduce the exact same findings, because they are not you. Validity is not the same as being falsifiable.

Qualitative methods use interpretive methods, you and I will inevitably have different interpretations of the same qualitative data set. We do our best to be transparent about how we collect and analyze our data, as well as our limitations. We strive for validity and rigor, not universal truths.

First they came for my students, then they came for my knitting.

A new meditation app that embraces climate breakdown.

Breathe in profit. Breathe out responsibility.

If you’ve ever had problems with anxiety from being a fossil fuel executive, this is the app for you.

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Congratulations Dr. Kristina Ulm, for leading this exciting research on the governance of public gardening in Sydney. Thrilled to see this out. Spoiler: let the people garden !

We have just as much right to ride the train as customers who can walk. When will this be fixed ?

@prorail.bsky.social Ede Wageningen station is an insult to anyone with a disability or a small child. It is impossible to get from the bike parking to the station in a wheel chair or stroller, and there is insufficient bakfiets parking.

child friendly bathroom at Lisbon airport. They also have free strollers and a big soft play area. #feministcity

Yes and yet several European countries are embracing a far-right worldview that would burn these policies to the ground, so let’s be not be smug or complacent here - particularly as Mamdani‘s pro-immigration stance is radical by European standards.

So many amazing stories from Belgium about social security for food, public land, public fruit trees and edible parks, community kitchens, public procurement, CSA and public -commons partnerships led by the grassroots.

Vital questions being asked about how to include social and solidarity economy and food as commons in the CAP.

Housing and Food: Communities and local-governments driving fair sustainability transitions - ECOLISE Europe’s long-term wellbeing depends on fair and locally-driven sustainability transitions. Housing and food, our most basic human needs and the two largest household expenses, are powerful entry poin...

Thrilled to be listening to demands for and inspiring examples of the right to food and food as commons at the @ec.europa.eu @ecolise.bsky.social policy dialogue on Housing and Food ecolise.eu/event/housin... #foodstudies

He is proposing five municipal grocery stores

For years, but especially for the past year, Democrats have been in thrall to the idea that they need to chase an imagined median voter, and adopt that voter’s positions. Mamdani’s victory shows another way: hold principles, and persuade people to share them.

Mamdani: "We can respond to oligarchy and authoritarianism with the strength it fears, not the appeasement it craves. After all, if anyone can show a nation betrayed by Donald Trump how to defeat him, it is the city that gave rise to him."

Give the award to your fired staff. What a brave publication this used to be.

Farhana Sultana is a tenured , full prof & a prominent critic of right wing supremacies. RW extremists are targeting her for exercising her 1A rights. Worse her institution has shamefully caved to political pressure and placed her on leave. An atrocious violation of academic freedom.

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Ahead of the 1st shutdown of US food aid to hungry Americans in 60 years, some of the 200,000 Little Free Library locations are converting into food pantries. Thanks @littlefreelibrary.bsky.social

When you see Mamdani looking all normal doing normal person things—petting bodega cats, riding public transport—you realize just how bizarre and estranged our average candidate for public office is. Rich martians in flesh suits

“The researchers aim to show that the ‘inevitability’ of AI is just a marketing frame perpetrated by the industry and that pushback is a lot more possible than we often see.” Yes!

"[Not using the funding already allocated to keep SNAP going] is a decision the president is making--on his own--to allow people to go hungry."

I am not a "tech critic". I am an antifascist, a feminist, an anticapitalist, an engineer. My criticism of tech flows from my politics and values. Not from a desire to save or destroy tech. Tech is an expression of power and that's what the whole conversation is about.

Opinion | Debating the Dangers of a Pesticide (Gift Article) Readers respond to an Opinion guest essay about the common weedkiller Roundup.

"We have decades of evidence that [agroecology] is working all over the world," Associate Professor Timothy Bowles writes in an @nytopinion.nytimes.com letter to the editor. "What we haven’t had is the political will to make it the foundation of our food system." www.nytimes.com/2025/10/11/o...