Lucia D’Ambruoso

A colleague of mine has visited the Kumu Art Museum of Estonia where some of Arvo Pärt’s score manuscripts are exhibited. They’re almost as beautiful as his music ❤️🎼

US anti-vax stance to blame for continent-wide surge in measles, say experts The disease was eliminated across the Americas in 2024, but urgent vaccination drives are now under way as cases rise from Mexico to Bolivia after outbreaks farther north

Sadly, this US administration is the biggest exporter of vaccine disinformation globally, with grave consequences for the whole world

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FT graph showing massive UK public support for the opinion that it was wrong to vote to leave the EU.

Ah! Good morning, reality. And welcome. We’ve been expecting you…

Tobacco industry is targeting teens and 40 million+ are getting hooked.
Our youth deserve better.
Read the report: http://bit.ly/46BQOui

#NoTobacco

Thank you for this interesting paper 🙏 Did/do you detect/suspect an ideological element, wondering if plausible also and at many levels?

New political science analysis of the renewed push for preventive health: ‘Can it be any different this time around?

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CDC Director Dismissal Threatens Public Health Integrity | EUPHA CDC dismissal of Dr. Susan Monarez undermines scientific independence and public trust. EUPHA calls for safeguards to protect global health leadership.

We in @eupha.bsky.social unequivocally condemn the illegal attempt to dismiss Susan Monarez, CDC Director. Another outrageous attack on science.
@standupforscience.bsky.social

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Elon Musk Sees Scientists Flee X As Bluesky Becomes Hotbed For Original Research And Higher Engagement (Benzinga) Scientists are fleeing Elon Musk‘s X platform in unprecedented numbers, with alternative social media site Bluesky emerging as the new hub for scholarly comm...

Bad people ruin good companies and now Blue Sky has gained some good news. l.smartnews.com/p-66K4IKDC/K...

Just enjoying the dynamism of English modernist Cyril Power’s linocut ‘The Tube Station’ (1932)

Can CDC relocate?

How these 3 groups are supporting refugees in Scotland amid a rise in threats Groups working across Scotland to welcome refugees have spoken of the need for "unity, dignity and compassion" amid a rise in the number…

And that’s Sarah bringing her light and doing the real, good stuff - the stuff that makes and mends www.thenational.scot/news/2542144...

What I learned from talking to anti-refugee protesters in Falkirk IT has been very unsettling to witness what we are all experiencing as a society in the past few weeks. The constant hate being shared across the…

That’s Pinar - doing the good stuff @pinaraksu.bsky.social and the hard stuff.

Always learning (proud supervisor moment)

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Show me a sign

My copies arrived plus additional purchases for those folk who supported me in leading underpinning the research with Esa Aldegheri & Dan Fisher @scotrefugeecouncil.bsky.social @scotnational.bsky.social @uofgunescorila.bsky.social @uofgvc.bsky.social

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BREAKING: At least 41 Palestinians have been killed in Israeli attacks across Gaza since dawn, including 20 aid seekers, sources at Gaza hospitals told Al Jazeera.

🔴 LIVE updates: aje.io/pnykac

Israeli attacks kill 41 across Gaza, including 20 seeking aid <article data-history-node-id="426729" about="https://www.middleeasteye.net/live-blog/live-blog-update/israeli-attacks-kill-41-across-gaza-including-20-seeking-aid" class="live-blog-update default clearfix"> <h2> <a href="https://www.middleeasteye.net/live-blog/live-blog-update/israeli-attacks-kill-41-across-gaza-including-20-seeking-aid" rel="bookmark"> <span class="field field-title">Israeli attacks kill 41 across Gaza, including 20 seeking aid</span> </a> </h2> <div class="content"> <div class="field field-field-text"><p data-end="65" data-start="0">At least 41 Palestinians have been killed since dawn in Israeli strikes across the Gaza Strip, according to medical sources who spoke to Al Jazeera.</p> <p data-end="327" data-is-last-node data-is-only-node data-start="217">Hospital officials said 20 of those killed were civilians attempting to collect aid when they came under fire.</p> </div> </div> </article>

Israeli attacks kill 41 across Gaza, including 20 seeking aid - https://www.middleeasteye.net/live-blog/live-blog-update/israeli-attacks-kill-41-across-gaza-including-20-seeking-aid

Former Israeli intelligence chiefs call for an end to war on Gaza <article data-history-node-id="426731" about="https://www.middleeasteye.net/live-blog/live-blog-update/former-israeli-intelligence-chiefs-call-end-war-gaza" class="live-blog-update default clearfix"> <h2> <a href="https://www.middleeasteye.net/live-blog/live-blog-update/former-israeli-intelligence-chiefs-call-end-war-gaza" rel="bookmark"> <span class="field field-title">Former Israeli intelligence chiefs call for an end to war on Gaza</span> </a> </h2> <div class="content"> <div class="field field-field-text"><p>A range of former Israeli intelligence chiefs have called for an end to the war on Gaza.</p> <p>In a video carried by Israeli media outlets on Sunday, former heads of Mossad, Shin Bet, police and military intelligence all urged an end to what is now Israel's longest war since its foundation.&nbsp;&nbsp;</p> <p>They also announced they had sent a letter, signed by 550 former security officials,&nbsp;to US President Donald Trump requesting that he pressure Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu over the issue.</p> <p>“Stop the Gaza War! On behalf of [Commanders for Israel’s Security], Israel’s largest group of former IDF (Israeli army) generals and Mossad, Shin Bet, Police, and Diplomatic Corps equivalents, we urge you to end the Gaza war," it read.</p> <p>"You did it in Lebanon. Time to do it in Gaza as well.”</p> <h3>Read more:&nbsp;<a href="https://www.middleeasteye.net/news/former-israeli-intelligence-chiefs-call-end-war-gaza">Former Israeli intelligence chiefs call for an end to war on Gaza</a></h3> <p><img alt src="https://www.middleeasteye.net/sites/default/files/styles/max_2600x2600/public/images-story/GAZA_AID_FAMINE_AFP.jpg.jpg?itok=Z0wkFi7F"></p> <section>&nbsp;</section> </div> </div> </article>

Former Israeli intelligence chiefs call for an end to war on Gaza - https://www.middleeasteye.net/live-blog/live-blog-update/former-israeli-intelligence-chiefs-call-end-war-gaza

🧵NEW: This is an unprecedented intervention.

Almost every single living, former head of the IDF, Mossad (Israeli foreign intelligence), Shin Bet (domestic intelligence) & Police Commissioner urges an end to Israel’s war in Gaza.

“This is an extremist government. It has taken us all hostage.”

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Mariann Johansen-Ellis, contemporary printmaker #ReframingWomenPrintmakers

Hope over experience? Patient and staff voice in the NHS after the Dash review Penny Dash’s review of patient safety in England has recommended major changes to the organisational landscape.1 National bodies will be abolished or merged, and strategic planning and coordination is...

Hope over experience? Excellent new opinion piece in the BMJ on patient and staff voice in the NHS after the Dash review, by my @thisinstitute.cam.ac.uk colleagues @instagraham.bsky.social and @janekohara.bsky.social www.bmj.com/content/390/...

The Wordle person has lost it.

The police (wrongly) inform a peaceful protestor that holding a Palestinian flag and signs deploring genocide is an offence under the Terrorism Act. This is the deranged policing environment the government has created.

Hague Group announces steps to hold Israel accountable in Bogota summit A group of 12 countries from across the world has committed to barring arms transfers to Israel, among other steps.

A group of 12 countries from across the world has committed to barring arms transfers to Israel, among other steps.

The secret to Baltimore's extraordinary year This April, Baltimore saw five homicides.

1. We interrupt this programming for some LEGITIMATELY GOOD NEWS

Violent crime in Baltimore has PLUMMETED to historic lows

How did the city do it?

Baltimore adopted a comprehensive set of "woke" policies, treating violence as a public health issue

I was explaining to my Ukrainian colleague the phrase ‘There’s no such thing as a free lunch’. She told me the equivalent in Ukrainian is ‘The only free cheese is in the mousetrap’ - which is so much better

Today

Make it thinkable Wash the brains Serve the billionaires' consensus Kill. Sow seeds of doubt Profit from prison War the words Humanitarian killers are what we now need. Kill. No doctors. No nurses No teachers. No professors No culture. No history No nature. No beauty A post-genocide golfing riviera For our Lords and the Masters

Make it thinkable

Simple choice fear and love

Caricature of Mayr by David Levine for the New York Review of Books.

Ernst Mayr was born OTD in 1904.

“Most scientific problems are far better understood by studying their history than their logic.”

🌱🐋🦋🦫🧪 #HistSTM #PhilSci