Hilary Barth

Russian attack overnight on Ukraine: 50 missiles and 500 drones.

Via @united24media.com and monitorwar_ua

Russian drone attack strikes Ukrainian passenger train www.rferl.org/a/russian-dr...

The universities are: MIT, University of Pennsylvania, University of Virginia, University of Texas, Vanderbilt University, University of Arizona, Brown University, Dartmouth College

Munich Airport closed after wave of drone sightings, officials say | CNN Munich Airport in Germany was forced to close temporarily last night after a wave of drone sightings, airport officials said.

Munich, now. Airport closed due to drones.

www.cnn.com/2025/10/02/e...

Long time in the making: our preprint of survey study on the diversity with how people seem to experience #mentalimagery. Suggests #aphantasia should be redefined as absence of depictive thought, not merely "not seeing". Some more take home msg:
#psychskysci #neuroscience

doi.org/10.1101/2025...

How to hold Russia’s propagandists accountable The most dangerous words aren’t necessarily the most violent ones. And disinformation campaigns could offer a new avenue for establishing responsibility.

“How to hold Russia’s propagandists accountable
The most dangerous words aren’t necessarily the most violent ones. And disinformation campaigns could offer a new avenue for establishing responsibility.”

www.politico.eu/article/russ...

It is bad that Trump wants to use American soldiers against their fellow Americans. And it is also bad that Trump wants foreign powers to exploit his unnecessarily, artificial, and pre-scripted civil war.

Kidcity Children's Museum Kidcity Children's Museum: Three floors of imagination play for kids age 1 to 7 and their favorite grown-ups.

This is a new exhibit I hadn’t seen before, over my years of visits. If you're ever within a daytrip of Central Connecticut with kids <8, it's a must-see: Kid City in Middletown! Probably the best children’s museum I know of, and certainly one of the very best.
www.kidcitymuseum.com

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Picture of person inside caffe seen through slats

You can see the woman inside the caffe if you raise the slats in the shutter … 3/

Down behind the lower vent opening under the caffe window, there’s a coffee grinder filled with real coffee, and when the button is pressed it grinds and wafts the smell out into the wider room (a piazza theme, with faux-marble dolphin sculptures that also have hidden qualities) … 2/

Picture of pretend cafe window with doorbell and vent below window

Need a timeline cleanse? My research group took a field trip to our wonderful local children’s museum. See this “caffe”? When you press the button, a woman’s voice calls to you in Italian about your coffee order. Sometimes she says she’s closed. If you persist, she relents and makes your coffee. 1/

Tochnyi » The Human Safari An interactive map of the atrocities caused by the Russian Human Safari in Kherson, Ukraine.

🚑🚨New Interactive Map: Human Safari Russian drones stalk Kherson daily — indiscriminately hunting civilians. Since 2023, over 3,000 casualties have been recorded.

Explore how these war crimes has developed over the years in our interractive map🗺️ maps.tochnyi.info/humansafari/

Russia once again assured the UN that it wants peace, but bombed peaceful cities in Ukraine for 12 hours straight. Four people died in Kyiv, including a nurse and a patient at the cardiology institute. A whole street was destroyed in Petropavlivskyi Borshchagovka.

Sunday. 5 in the morning. Russia attacks with missiles and drones.

French investigators believe Russia involved in dumping of pig heads at mosques One person, residing in Serbia, is believed to have orchestrated two destabilization operations aimed at religious and remembrance sites in and around Paris.

More destabilzation operations by Russia in W Europe: “French investigators believe Russia involved in dumping of pig heads at mosques”

www.lemonde.fr/en/france/ar...

There is an entire cohort of students who will never have the same opportunities as others because of this last-minute posting.The honorable & sensible thing to do is to announce these criteria to begin NEXT CYCLE and keep the criteria from past years for the applications due in ONE MONTH. FUMING!

Solicitation of #grfp just out. Excludes 2nd year grad students.

Good one to read for those interested in recent US/Ukraine/Russia events

It's said of totalitarian societies that anything that isn't compulsory is forbidden. Using the same logic, Putin is saying that anything that isn't capitulation is war. That's actually helpful because it shows European policymakers there's no area of compromise with Russia.

Opinion | Autism Has Always Existed. We Haven’t Always Called It Autism.

This is such a nuanced and big-hearted piece on the evolution of autism as a diagnosis, by an anthropologist of mental health who is also the dad of a now-grown daughter on the spectrum. Great reading (gift link) www.nytimes.com/2025/09/24/o...

My wide-ranging interview about the Russo-Ukrainian war for the Forum for Ukrainian Studies. One take-away: "The only reason there is an inkling of hope that the international world order will survive this enormous challenge is because Ukraine is resisting."
ukrainian-studies.ca/2025/09/23/i...

JA Westenberg @Daojoan@mastodon.social My 9 year old and his classmates have started using “that’s AI” to mean “I don’t believe you.” Me: we’re having dinosaur meat for dinner Kiddo: that’s AI Sep 24, 2025, 07:36 AM

They've lost the 9yos

Live Updates: After Meeting With Zelensky at U.N., Trump Shifts Stance on Russia

www.nytimes.com/live/2025/09...

Truly a roller coaster

Statement by the Chair of the Independent International Commission of Inquiry on Ukraine, Erik Møse Distinguished President,Excellencies,On behalf of the Independent International Commission of Inquiry on Ukraine, I am pleased to provide an oral update on the investigations during its fourth mandate...

Breaking‼️ UN commission on russian 'human safari' in Kherson:

"Russian armed forces have been carrying out attacks from positions on the left bank of the Dnipro River with drones that allow real time observation and tracking of targets.
www.ohchr.org/en/statement...

1 killed, 13 injured in large-scale Russian missile, drone attack on Ukrainian cities Russia launched a large-scale missile and drone attack on Ukrainian cities overnight on Sept. 20, killing at least one person and injuring 13 others, officials reported.

⚡️Update: 1 killed, 13 injured in large-scale Russian missile, drone attack on Ukrainian cities.

In Dnipropetrovsk Oblast, regional Governor Serhii Lysak reported that one person was killed and 13 others injured amid the large-scale attack on the country.

Putin has concluded that military escalation is the best way to force Ukraine into talks on his terms and that Donald Trump is unlikely to do much to bolster Kyiv’s defenses - Bloomberg

We estimate just about everything that way. It’s not telling us about how people think about social groups; it’s much more general.

Another reminder (see thread) that overestimating small proportions isn’t a demographic phenomenon (about minority populations). It’s an everything phenomenon.

Estonia requests Nato article 4 consultation after ‘unacceptable’ violation of its airspace by Russian MiG-31s – Europe live Nato condemns ‘reckless Russian behaviour’ after its jets intercept three MiG-31 fighters over Estonian airspace

“Estonia requests Nato article 4 consultation after ‘unacceptable’ violation of its airspace by Russian MiG-31s”

www.theguardian.com/world/live/2...