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Dr. ir. Brian R. Pauw 🍉 @drheaddamage.bsky.social · 1d

Fuck’s sake.

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POLITICO Europe @politico.eu · 1d

The US-brokered ceasefire between Israel and Hamas is looking increasingly fragile after Israel shot several people today and US President Donald Trump raised the prospect of further violence.

Trump threatens to disarm Hamas ‘quickly and perhaps violently’ as ceasefire wobbles

Israel and Hamas both accused of violating truce commitments.

www.politico.eu

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Rachel Gilmore @rachelgilmore.bsky.social · 1d

WATCH THE FULL VIDEO HERE: youtube.com/shorts/3aaQH...

What's the difference between a 'prisoner' and a 'hostage'?

YouTube video by Rachel Gilmore

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Rachel Gilmore @rachelgilmore.bsky.social · 1d

The living Israeli hostages have been released as part of a ceasefire deal that also saw about 2000 Palestinian prisoners freed.

Wait, but why are the Israelis “hostages” and the Palestinians “prisoners”?

In today’s video, that’s the question we’re exploring:

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Marisa Kabas @marisakabas.bsky.social · 1d

"a test"? you mean...a violation?

AP: Israel plans to halve aid into Gaza over slow return of dead hostages, a test for the Gaza ceasefire

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Dr. ir. Brian R. Pauw 🍉 @drheaddamage.bsky.social · 1d

That’s really cool, is it a chemical, electronic or structural change that takes place?

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Nick Brown @steamtraen.eu · 2d

Next time an institution tells you how seriously it takes research misconduct, ask them if it's *this* seriously. www.bmj.com/content/297/...

In 1916 the BMJ published an article about the work done by James Shearer, an American physician working in the British Army as a sergeant (because he had no British qualification). He had described a
"delineator" which was better than x rays for portraying gunshot wounds. This caused a sensation and a lot of interest — but on investigation the work was found to have been invented. The BMJ published a retraction, but Shearer was tried by court martial and sentenced to death by firing squad.

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Dr. ir. Brian R. Pauw 🍉 @drheaddamage.bsky.social · 2d

In the Asian protests, we’ve seen protesters placing cones over smoke grenades to minimize dispersion. Does that work?

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Rufus Hickok @rufus-hickok.bsky.social · 2d

There's something so heart-rendingly touching about the persistent faith many people have that the market will finally solve the problem of climate change. Like a smoker with cancer thinking maybe one more cigarette will cure it.

Climate investment is only growth opportunity of 21st century, says leading economist

Lord Stern says fossil-fuelled growth is futile as the damage it causes ends in economic self-destruction

www.theguardian.com

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Dr. ir. Brian R. Pauw 🍉 @drheaddamage.bsky.social · 3d

Sort of like saying “‘X’ as in ‘xenophobia’”

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Dr. ir. Brian R. Pauw 🍉 @drheaddamage.bsky.social · 3d

I agree it’s not a full solution, but it beats looking at derivatives and amalgamations of f($papers_published,$impact_factor, $times_cited,$grants_obtained) = quantified_research_quality.

In REF, I appreciate the papers are read, and that it’s forcing a shift to fewer, more thoughtful papers.

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Dr. ir. Brian R. Pauw 🍉 @drheaddamage.bsky.social · 3d

Yep, that’s the issue. And apparently it’s not universally known what letter “whiskey” starts with 😅

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Dr. ir. Brian R. Pauw 🍉 @drheaddamage.bsky.social · 3d

I use the nautical one as my last name is apparently hard to spell for Germans. However, I wish more telephone operators and desk staff knew it as well so we could communicate faster with it.

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Dr. ir. Brian R. Pauw 🍉 @drheaddamage.bsky.social · 3d

Congratulations 🍾🎊🎉🎈

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Gaia Vince @wanderinggaia.bsky.social · 4d

A lovely example of how we could do things better #NomadCentury

‘It’s a question of humanity’: how a small Spanish town made headlines over its immigration stance

Mayor explains why Villamalea unanimously backed call to regularise undocumented migrants – across party lines

www.theguardian.com

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Dr. ir. Brian R. Pauw 🍉 @drheaddamage.bsky.social · 4d

"The war is considered by many legal experts as a genocide against the civilian population of Gaza. It is a claim Israel denies, despite the evidence." 3/3
www.theguardian.com/world/live/2...

Ceasefire live: aid trucks enter Gaza as Netanyahu says Israel is ready for ‘immediate’ release of hostages

Israel’s military says it has completed first phase of withdrawal, ahead of Monday peace summit in Egypt

www.theguardian.com

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Dr. ir. Brian R. Pauw 🍉 @drheaddamage.bsky.social · 4d

"Only 1.5% of cropland in Gaza has been left able to be farmed, with water and soil left polluted by munitions and fires." 2/3

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Dr. ir. Brian R. Pauw 🍉 @drheaddamage.bsky.social · 4d

Guardian: "More than 67,000 Palestinian people have been killed by Israeli attacks since the war began, according to the territory’s health ministry, most of them civilians.

Much of the territory has been reduced to rubble and its infrastructure destroyed by Israeli aerial bombardments.
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Jon Cooper @joncooper-us.bsky.social · 4d

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Jennifer 🎃 @jenyetagain.bsky.social · 4d

i feel this sentiment deeply so i need my mutuals to understand that of the 24 men tried at nuremberg half were acquitted, and at subsequent trials not on the national stage nearly every nazi tried was found not guilty and many went straight back to work in the government, they died old and rich.

Clara Jeffery @clarajeffery.bsky.social · 4d

We will need Nuremberg-like trials

LongTime🤓FirstTime👨‍💻 @longtimehistory.bsky.social · 5d

ICE secretly kidnap autistic boy during bathroom break—never notify parents.

Mother reported him missing a week ago—turns out ICE had him detained the whole time.

He was helping sell fruit and asked to go to the restroom—by the time she was done helping a customer he was gone.

Houston, Texas

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Ami Dar @amidar.bsky.social · 4d

There are exactly zero excuses left for not letting international journalists into Gaza now. Open the damn gates.

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Mark Bray @mark-bray.bsky.social · 7d

“Someone” cancelled my family’s flight out of the country at the last second.

We got our boarding passes. We checked our bags. Went through security. Then at our gate our reservation ‘disappeared.’

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Dr. ir. Brian R. Pauw 🍉 @drheaddamage.bsky.social · 7d

Israel detonating remote controlled bombs in busy spaces is genocidal terrorism. I’m appalled at the German government still supporting Netanyahu’s lunatic regime.

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Doctors Without Borders / Médecins Sans Frontières (MSF) @msf.ca · 8d

Watch Claire Magone, MSF General Director, share the harrowing reality of hospitals in #Gaza, from inside #NasserHospital.

We call for an immediate halt to the violence and concrete measures to protect civilians. Israeli authorities must ensure safe access to humanitarian aid.

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Mark E. Griffin @marvelousmarks.bsky.social · 9d

Discovery and cultivation of methane-eating microbes is such a neat story because it encompasses such simple instincts of discovery science and the will to make things better. 🧪 www.nytimes.com/2025/10/06/c...

The Very Hungry Microbes That Could, Just Maybe, Cool the Planet

www.nytimes.com

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