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La créatrice du programme d’échange Erasmus, Sofia Corradi, est morte Quelque 16 millions de jeunes ont pu étudier dans d’autres pays d’Europe grâce au projet lancé en 1987 par cette professeure italienne qui s’est éteinte à l’âge de 91 ans.

La créatrice du programme d’échange Erasmus, Sofia Corradi, est morte

The creator of Erasmus, Sofia Corradi from Italy has died aged 91. She was known as "Mama Erasmus".

Erasmus changed my life in very unimaginable ways. It was the beginning of my European journey back in 1991.

Thank you Mama Erasmus ♥️

It's really very simple. The *only* guarantor of our rights is the EU. The UK can't even guarantee the rights of UK citizens as they have no meaningful constitutional protections against a 50%+1 parliament 🤷‍♀️ If the UK keeps failing as it has since 2015 there's no future here that's worth staying for

Congratulations💐

An upland landscape in Scotland with trees and open areas.

PhD opportunity with me at University of Edinburgh linked with Forest Research, funded by E5 DTP.

On the microbial mechanisms of soil carbon cycling in tree-planted upland soils. Apply before 14th Dec. Please share with your network.

Pic: one of our Scottish sites.

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🤔 so how is Putin going to fly there without crossing into EU airspace of other countries or be target-practice for Ukraine?

Remember folks. The original bluesky ethos by us bluesky elders (apparently I count?) is block and move on.

Don't quote dunk, don't pick fights.
Block, and move on.

This is what made this site unpalatable to the right early on, and we can continue to make it unpalatable to them.

I've supported the #EU as a concept for decades. My whole life really.
I have a British and German background. My family fought on opposite sides of WW2.

For me, the EU always meant the healing of that divide.

It feels even more important now.

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Frankfurt, 18. Oktober 2025
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A mugshot registration photograph from Auschwitz. A man with a shaved head wearing a striped uniform photographed in three positions (profile and front with bare head and a photo with a slightly turned head with a hat on). The prisoner number is visible on a marking board on the left.

18 October 1881 | A Polish Jew, Ernest Pragner, was born in Rydłutowy.

In #Auschwitz from 26 February 1942.
No. 25506
He perished in the camp on 6 March 1942.
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Video about the history of Auschwitz: https://youtu.be/Fxnl5HTygrs

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Chen Ning Yang, Chinese-American physicist and Nobel laureate, dies at 103 Renowned 1957 Nobel prize winner worked on statistical mechanics and symmetry principles in elementary particle physics

I had the pleasure of meeting him once, and share a 5-minute conversation with him, but I spent hours on his work. Both left a big impact on me!
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En als de schuldenberg ooit onbetaalbaar wordt ... gaat ook die rekening naar allen. Je zou het bijna ... corruptie ... noemen.🤔 Het is één van de vele weef-fouten uit de late 80'er en vroege 99'er jaren.

Al decennia lang subsidieert de Nederlandse Overheid kopers op kosten van de gemeenschap. Vrije sector huurders betalen huur, maar betalen ook mee aan de hypotheek rente van hun huurbaas. En Nederland kan er maar niet rationeel over debateren. Dus moet kritiek van buiten komen.🤷‍♀️ Dat krijg je ervan.🤦

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Rogan is an example, with is "have a heart" call, of folks trying to extract themselves from the damage done by the problem of which they were, and still are, a part. People like MJT and Joe Rogan, shouldn't "this isn't what we meant" the current situation but atone. You and I know they never will.

It’s a Bird! It’s a Plane! It’s a Chemtrail? New Conspiracy Theory Takes Wing at Kennedy's HHS - KFF Health News The idea that airplane vapors are toxic to people or that there are ongoing efforts to intentionally change the climate made the social media rounds. Now, it has found advocates at the Department of H...

“I expected there were documents like this, but seeing it in print is nevertheless shocking,” says David Keith, a prof. of geophysical sciences at the U. of Chicago, about an internal HHS memo on chemtrails. https://kffhealthnews.org/news/article/chemtrails-conspiracy-fringe-theory-maha-kennedy-hhs/

When it's up to me, open internal-borders deserve being enshrined in memberstate constitutions in addition to being part of Europran treaties. They're too precious to be left to the whims of simple majorities and shoddy referendums.

ii) Those who seek to bring back borders *always* have border-disputes on their menu as well. The Orbans of Europe want closed tightly guarded borders, but also eye-up territory of their neighbours for inclusion into their own. They 'll make us war over what we can visit peacefully today.

Two things I keep coming back to that only the EU's internal, open, borders could solve: i) Europe holds many non-nationstate nations that live across nation-state borders like Sami, Sorbs, Roma, Basques, Elsas-Lotharingians, Westphalians, Frisians, etc, and for them open borders are existential.

Every Russell Group uni that dropped DOWN in the World University Rankings for 2026 One uni plummeted 16 whole places

The Tab pushing relentlessly for the further 'instagrammification' of higher education and student experience. 🤷‍♀️
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use, utility, and dangers of it, academia would remain impactless on AIs future-development, and we would fail to train students how to manage their work & ethics in a world in which AI will surround them everywhere but in the classroom. This is so obviously wrong, it shouldn't even be considered.

But most importantly, banning AI from academia, though impossible to enforce, comes across as a purity-competition for an academic in-crowd, while leaving the wider public who fund academic research exposed to the wolves-of-AI. If a ban were succesful, academia would be left speechless regarding the

Transparency of AI use and a thoroughly critical attitude towards its outputs should be made good practice. Of course, journals should develop editorial policies concerning whether they allow such submissions and how they referee those ... they'd be doing something useful for once.

sufficiently critical towards the output of such tools, and other similar, but independent, tools are used for critical verification. You don't cite papers based on what you take from their Google-scholar abstracts, but you find the damn thing & read it first.

A bit like most folks watching Netflix having no idea how the platform, or their tv-set actually works, nor know how the algorithm works that puts together their menu. How many researchers using Google or Google-scholar do *actually* know how those work? It is not a problem as long as that usage is

Basically, almost all search-engines would qualify as "political technologies" but trying to ban their use in education and research would be fruitless at least, and counter-productive at worst. Plenty of researchers use "black box tools" of which they hold imprecise beliefs on how they work.

This is an interesting post, and I share many of the authors' concerns. But I also see little chance of changing researchers' behaviour by banning the use of AI. Unlike what this contribution suggests, there is no sharp dividing between what qualifies as a "tool" and what as "political technology".

Faulty engineering led to deadly Titan sub implosion, US investigators rule NTSB report finds OceanGate company did not adequately test submersible before 2023 voyage to wreck of Titanic

This story reads like the winning entry in a challenge to pack everything that's wrong with corporate culture into 1,000 words, and to throw in a couple of quick asides about how easy it is for the wealthy to corrupt democratic oversight while you're at it. Profoundly grim.

🚨 out at @apsrjournal.bsky.social 🚨

➡️ We ran a large media literacy experiment to fight misinformation
➡️ 13,500 students, 583 villages in Bihar, India
➡️Created custom misinfo curriculum of 4 months
➡️Partnered w the government to roll it out as an official course in classrooms

hopeful findings👇🏽

They better stay outside until we find a vaccine against this ethno-populist insanity 🤷‍♀️