I'm a historian. Sewage systems have saved more lives than any medical intervention. Vaccines are second and antibiotics third.
Prior to the 1880s, the urban annual death rate was ~25%; it dropped to ~0.5% in under a generation.
Support your sewage system. Dispose of bodies responsibly.
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Artis Svece | Zinātne pie virpas
Zinātnieku uztraukumam par zinātnes neatkarības ierobežošanu nav nekāda pamata. Vienkārši jāievieš kārtība un turpmāk jāļauj Nacionālās apvienības un partijas "Latvija pirmajā vietā" politiķiem, šiem ...
Daļa Latvijas politiķu un uzņēmēju grib, lai zinātniekus noliek pie virpas un tur viņi taisa to, ko vajag. Bet zinātnieks nevar precīzi paredzēt, ko un vai kaut ko atklās. Tāpat nav iespējams sasaukt kopā māksliniekus un pateikt viņiem, lai glezno tikai labas gleznas.
Sveces sleja.
22.09.2025 05:56 — 👍 20 🔁 6 💬 0 📌 1
kāpēc ir sasaukta šī preses konference?
18.09.2025 08:17 — 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 3 📌 0
Una Bergmane: "Krievijas maigā vara nenāk ar pārgrieztām acīm un Solovjova bļāvieniem. Tā ienāk klusi, pieklājīgi, dārgos uzvalkos tērpta. Tā izstāda porcelānu un ar kādreizējās Atmodas aktīvistes atbalstu stāsta mums par "tā saukto speciālo militāro operāciju." www.facebook.com/una.bergmane...
16.09.2025 11:01 — 👍 24 🔁 6 💬 0 📌 0
Man tas pats. Neesmu ne tviterī, ne fb un ir lielāks miers. Nesaprotu LV medijus, kuri joprojām tviteri uztver kā agoru.
14.09.2025 20:02 — 👍 9 🔁 0 💬 1 📌 0
Reclaiming the Medieval Saami Past
Explore Saami history and its representation in medieval sources, challenging the myth of a purely White Middle Ages.
From traders to magicians and allies, the Saami appear across medieval Nordic sagas.
Solveig Marie Wang explores how these stories reveal an Indigenous presence at the centre of the Middle Ages — and why remembering it matters today.
21.08.2025 10:53 — 👍 54 🔁 22 💬 0 📌 0
My old friend Steven Lynch has pointed out Latvia has a new cricket ground, the Infinity Oval at Olaine, which staged its first matches last month (Latvia Cricket)
11.09.2025 17:06 — 👍 153 🔁 24 💬 9 📌 3
Kultūra,izglītība un zinātne bija tas,kas latviešus no bauriem padarīja par nāciju.
Sācies ir atgriezenisks process.
09.09.2025 13:59 — 👍 31 🔁 6 💬 2 📌 1
It is interesting that the populists suggested stopping funding for two projects. They want to stop funding for research projects on anti-gender rhetoric and one-sex parents' families. They also want to stop funding a project in archaeology. ARCHEOLOGY? 2/2
11.09.2025 08:18 — 👍 7 🔁 0 💬 1 📌 0
Saeima noraida LPV priekšlikumu atņemt finansējumu četriem pētījumu projektiem
Saeima noraida LPV priekšlikumu atņemt finansējumu četriem pētījumu projektiem
In the Latvian parliament, an opposition party (populists) suggested a vote on research grants recently awarded by the Latvian Council of Science. They wanted to stop funding four humanities projects. Usually, politicians don't vote on these issues, but nowadays... 1/2
www.delfi.lv/193/politics...
11.09.2025 08:16 — 👍 11 🔁 1 💬 1 📌 0
Charlie Kirk called me a ‘lunatic’ and a ‘prostitute’ and demanded I be deported.
Nothing, *nothing*, justifies killing him, or robbing his kids of their dad.
We don’t know the identity or motive of the shooter but murder can *never* be the response to political disagreements.
10.09.2025 21:58 — 👍 39275 🔁 6131 💬 2464 📌 469
liels paldies Tev par labi formulēto viedokli!
10.09.2025 19:42 — 👍 3 🔁 0 💬 1 📌 0
būs tīrīšanas?
10.09.2025 19:18 — 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 2 📌 0
kā uzņēmumi, kuru “intereses” pārstāv LDDK, vērtē šādus Gorkša izteikumus?
Accenture, RISEBA, Daugavpils Universitāte, CSDD, Getliņi, Grindex, Latvijas Finieris uc lddk.lv/aktualitate/...
Arī iestājas pret akadēmisko brīvību un uzskata, ka tiekšanās pēc zinātniskās izcilības ir izšķērdība?
10.09.2025 15:02 — 👍 15 🔁 3 💬 0 📌 0
Critics say that the government should not give money to projects that research anti-gender ideas and the upbringing of children with two same-sex parents. 2/2
10.09.2025 14:11 — 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 1 📌 0
Plašu kritiku izpelnās valsts finansējumu saņēmuši pētījumu projekti
Pētnieki Latvijā nākamgad sāks 56 jaunus fundamentālo un lietišķo pētījumu projektus, kam atvēlēti ap 17 miljoniem eiro. Taču atlasītos projektus arī šogad kritizē Darba devēju konfederācijas pārstāvj...
Academic freedom now is endangered almost everywhere. Lately in Latvia, the results of the annual research grant competition have been published, and some populist politicians, together with business people, are criticising grant recipients in the humanities. 1/2 www.lsm.lv/raksts/zinas...
10.09.2025 14:08 — 👍 5 🔁 0 💬 1 📌 0
At least 19 Russian drones crossed into Polish air space last night. This was not an accidental breach or a mistake.
10.09.2025 07:51 — 👍 10329 🔁 3275 💬 361 📌 202
Vairāk nekā nepieņemami ir, ka skaidroties liek pašiem grantu saņēmējiem. Skaidrojumu būtu jāsniedz LZP un IZM, jo viņi izveidoja šādus noteikumus un šādus principus (iespējams, labākos, kādi ir pieejami). Zinātnieki tikai atbildēja uz aicinājumu un pielāgojās spēles noteikumiem.
09.09.2025 10:11 — 👍 15 🔁 5 💬 0 📌 1
neesmu tviterī, tāpēc Tev vaicāju - no kurienes Bērziņa un Kiopas reakcijai aug kājas?
09.09.2025 10:24 — 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 1 📌 0
academic job market sucks everywhere.
08.09.2025 08:07 — 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
Professor of history • Knowledge, ideas, people, universities, the humanities, Europe – past and present • Director of the Lund Centre for the History of Knowledge (LUCK)
Game designer @adastragames.com, writer, monkey servant of Theoden Cat, discusser of certain varieties of politics.
Medievalist interested in 12th century frontiers, particularly Yorkshire and Northumberland. PhD from the University of Hull, Associate Fellow of the Royal Historical Society. Hull City fan.
All views my own, not those of my employer.
California writer. Ida Tarbell stan. Beat: tech fascism, billionaire extremism, network state, crypto cartels.
Writing a book: “The Nerd Reich: Silicon Valley Fascism and the War on Global Democracy.”
The Nerd Reich: http://www.thenerdreich.com
Problem solver, cartoonist, designer, writer, educator and communicator. I sharpen messages.
"The only reason to be an artist is to bear witness"
—Philip Guston
Professor of German Culture, Department of Language and Literature, Norwegian University of Science and Technology (NTNU), #Trondheim
Professor of #History. Author of "Rogue Agent" and "The Rise of Devils".
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Academy Research Fellow in political history, University of Helsinki | Transnational & global history, antifascism, resistance, solidarity, memory & urban history | helsinkinotebooks.com | He/him https://researchportal.helsinki.fi/en/persons/kasper-brasken
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Ph.D. from the London School of Economics and Political Science
Participant in the democratic renaissance of Ukraine since independence
Chronicler of fascist Russia's wars since 2014
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Prokurore. Krimināltiesības, vides tiesības.
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Professor of Politics and Philosophy at the London School of Economics. Flas shqip.
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Occasionally irreverent analysis of global conflicts. USAF Veteran, retired engineer, USCG Master Captain, 2% Neanderthal. Pronouns: skipper, me matey.
Invisible woman behind @rebaltica
MA History & MA History Education. PhD-Candidate Charles University | Historian of Medicine | First Faculty of Medicine, Institute for History of Medicine and Foreign Languages | Ritual Dynamics within the Christianisation of Temple Sleep in 200-700 🇳🇱🏳️🌈🇨🇿
Menswear writer. Editor at Put This On. Words at The New York Times, The Washington Post, The Financial Times, Esquire, and Mr. Porter.
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Arī: demogrāfiskā prognozēšana ar kohortas + scenāriju analīzēm - bet par to vēl pastāstīšu :)
Professor of Medical Anthropology (St Andrews) | Global War Against the Rat project, zoonoses, plague, epidemics, history of colonial medicine, animal studies & visual culture
https://www.st-andrews.ac.uk/social-anthropology/people/cl1
Priecīga. Brīvais spirts.
Svilpaste.
Praktizējoša ideāliste.
Vienkārša un tieša sirds.
Gib mir wieder etwas Schönes.
BBC journalist
“A nobody” - Andrew Tate
“Slightly blind” - Alexander Lukashenko
“NATO propagandist” - Donetsk People’s Republic