Tarek Anous
@tarwreck.bsky.social
Lecturer of Mathematical Sciences at Queen Mary University of London (he/him)
Physics and Cigarettes (One thing old, one thing new, one thing false, one thing true)
Physics and Cigarettes (One thing old, one thing new, one thing false, one thing true)
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Tarek Anous
@tarwreck.bsky.social
· Dec 4
75 new Future Leaders Fellows and upcoming rounds announced
75 of the most promising research leaders will benefit from £101 million to tackle major global issues and to commercialise their innovations in the UK.
www.ukri.org
Very happy to announce that I've been awarded a UKRI Future Leaders Fellowship. Very excited for what's to come and keep an eye out for postdoc openings at QMUL! www.ukri.org/news/75-new-...
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🚨 Breaking: Israeli forces raided Birzeit University north of Ramallah on Mon., storming the campus, injuring students and detaining several people, according to Anadolu Agency & other outlets.
At least 11 Palestinian students were injured, some by live fire and others by tear gas inhalation and...
At least 11 Palestinian students were injured, some by live fire and others by tear gas inhalation and...
January 6, 2026 at 6:21 PM
🚨 Breaking: Israeli forces raided Birzeit University north of Ramallah on Mon., storming the campus, injuring students and detaining several people, according to Anadolu Agency & other outlets.
At least 11 Palestinian students were injured, some by live fire and others by tear gas inhalation and...
At least 11 Palestinian students were injured, some by live fire and others by tear gas inhalation and...
That ship set sail in Gaza
A defining moment for Europe. If it endorses/fails to condemn this flagrant breach of international law, it will have surrendered its core justification for opposing Russia’s invasion of Ukraine
JUST IN: Trump says the U.S. has captured Maduro and his wife and flown them out of the country.
January 3, 2026 at 11:30 AM
That ship set sail in Gaza
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overthrowing govs, sending people to detention facilities for torture, cutting taxes for the rich, slashing social spending for the poor, increasing military spending, promoting christian nationalism, demonizing gays, surveilling citizens under "national security." same old GOP.
January 3, 2026 at 11:09 AM
overthrowing govs, sending people to detention facilities for torture, cutting taxes for the rich, slashing social spending for the poor, increasing military spending, promoting christian nationalism, demonizing gays, surveilling citizens under "national security." same old GOP.
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I will never regret being part of the movement to free Alaa Abd el-Fattah, or writing the foreword to his extraordinary book, You Have Not Yet Been Defeated.
Read his honest and heartfelt response to those playing politics with his hard-won freedom.
#FreeAlaa Always.
freealaa.net/alaa-response
Read his honest and heartfelt response to those playing politics with his hard-won freedom.
#FreeAlaa Always.
freealaa.net/alaa-response
Statement in response to historic tweets
I am shaken that, just as I am being reunited with my family for the first time in 12 years, several historic tweets of mine have been republished and used to question and attack my integrity and valu...
freealaa.net
December 29, 2025 at 1:24 AM
I will never regret being part of the movement to free Alaa Abd el-Fattah, or writing the foreword to his extraordinary book, You Have Not Yet Been Defeated.
Read his honest and heartfelt response to those playing politics with his hard-won freedom.
#FreeAlaa Always.
freealaa.net/alaa-response
Read his honest and heartfelt response to those playing politics with his hard-won freedom.
#FreeAlaa Always.
freealaa.net/alaa-response
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By the way Noam shuster's doc "coexistence my ass" is so fucking good. You can rent and stream it off kinema now
December 24, 2025 at 11:40 PM
By the way Noam shuster's doc "coexistence my ass" is so fucking good. You can rent and stream it off kinema now
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Amazing how legacy media panics over a leftist mayor, compared to how chill they were about an actual fascist becoming president. Really clarifies their priorities.
He's not even sworn in and fucking Politico is counting him out. With journalists like Politico's and the New York Times', who needs enemies?
December 31, 2025 at 4:28 PM
Amazing how legacy media panics over a leftist mayor, compared to how chill they were about an actual fascist becoming president. Really clarifies their priorities.
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“Ben Gvir is weak against criminals, and strong only against children.”
— Israel’s Knesset member Ayman Odeh writes. Read below.
— Israel’s Knesset member Ayman Odeh writes. Read below.
December 31, 2025 at 4:31 PM
“Ben Gvir is weak against criminals, and strong only against children.”
— Israel’s Knesset member Ayman Odeh writes. Read below.
— Israel’s Knesset member Ayman Odeh writes. Read below.
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⭕️ Dec. 2025 monthly briefing by the Commission of Detainees’ Affairs & the Palestinian Prisoner’s Society documents the latest in Israel’s “campaign of extermination” inside Israel’s prison & military detention system, currently holding more than 9,300 Palestinian...
Key findings in thread below 🧵👇
Key findings in thread below 🧵👇
December 31, 2025 at 7:20 AM
⭕️ Dec. 2025 monthly briefing by the Commission of Detainees’ Affairs & the Palestinian Prisoner’s Society documents the latest in Israel’s “campaign of extermination” inside Israel’s prison & military detention system, currently holding more than 9,300 Palestinian...
Key findings in thread below 🧵👇
Key findings in thread below 🧵👇
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Cartoonishly evil stuff here
Israel says it will suspend several humanitarian groups, including Doctors Without Borders, in 2026 for failing its new vetting rules for groups working in Gaza. Some international organizations have said that Israel’s rules are arbitrary and could endanger staff.
Israel says it will halt operations of several humanitarian organizations in Gaza starting in 2026
Israel says it will suspend several humanitarian organizations, including Doctors Without Borders, for failing to meet its new rules to vet international organizations working in Gaza.
bit.ly
December 30, 2025 at 2:34 PM
Cartoonishly evil stuff here
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Abd el-Fattah's historic tweets are leading to calls for his UK citizenship to be revoked, and a UK Government review of his case, while Nigel Farage's history of racism and Nazi goose-stepping has led to a few Guardian front pages.
December 30, 2025 at 12:56 PM
Abd el-Fattah's historic tweets are leading to calls for his UK citizenship to be revoked, and a UK Government review of his case, while Nigel Farage's history of racism and Nazi goose-stepping has led to a few Guardian front pages.
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Over 100 years after a 3,400-year-old bust of Queen Nefertiti was first taken to Berlin, the largest effort to bring her back to her homeland is underway.
But German museum authorities are hardly eager to hand over one of the country’s most famous artifacts.
But German museum authorities are hardly eager to hand over one of the country’s most famous artifacts.
New Egyptian museum brings fresh pressure for return of Nefertiti’s bust
One of Egypt’s most famous and beautiful artifacts lies in a Berlin museum, and the calls for its return have received a renewed push with the opening of a new museum.
www.washingtonpost.com
December 27, 2025 at 5:00 AM
Over 100 years after a 3,400-year-old bust of Queen Nefertiti was first taken to Berlin, the largest effort to bring her back to her homeland is underway.
But German museum authorities are hardly eager to hand over one of the country’s most famous artifacts.
But German museum authorities are hardly eager to hand over one of the country’s most famous artifacts.
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Donald Trump just bombed a hospital on Christmas. But a cashier at Target said "Happy Holidays" to me when I was doing a return this morning. I have never felt more politically homeless.
December 27, 2025 at 3:32 AM
Donald Trump just bombed a hospital on Christmas. But a cashier at Target said "Happy Holidays" to me when I was doing a return this morning. I have never felt more politically homeless.
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“The Constitution of the Roberts Court is not color-blind. It is a Constitution that permits discrimination on the basis of race, but forbids alleviating discrimination on the basis of race.”
Such a good @adamserwer.bsky.social piece.
www.theatlantic.com/politics/202...
Such a good @adamserwer.bsky.social piece.
www.theatlantic.com/politics/202...
Conservatives Want the Antebellum Constitution Back
The Fourteenth and Fifteenth Amendments are in trouble.
www.theatlantic.com
December 23, 2025 at 10:58 PM
“The Constitution of the Roberts Court is not color-blind. It is a Constitution that permits discrimination on the basis of race, but forbids alleviating discrimination on the basis of race.”
Such a good @adamserwer.bsky.social piece.
www.theatlantic.com/politics/202...
Such a good @adamserwer.bsky.social piece.
www.theatlantic.com/politics/202...
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Something very funny about de santis praising Coolidge for “immigration.” Coolidge’s immigration policy was that people named de santis shouldn’t be allowed to come here bsky.app/profile/anth...
There’s like a dozen things that are wrong about this statement.
December 23, 2025 at 11:58 AM
Something very funny about de santis praising Coolidge for “immigration.” Coolidge’s immigration policy was that people named de santis shouldn’t be allowed to come here bsky.app/profile/anth...
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I think bigotry has become a kind of loyalty ritual among young republicans, it’s how you show you’re one of them www.thecrimson.com/article/2025...
Racial Slurs and Nazi Symbols: Inside the Complaint That Shut Down The Harvard Salient | News | The Harvard Crimson
Screenshots and message logs obtained by The Crimson appear to show Salient leaders casually using racial slurs, defending extremist rhetoric, and dismissing internal concerns — conversations that lat...
www.thecrimson.com
December 21, 2025 at 12:44 PM
I think bigotry has become a kind of loyalty ritual among young republicans, it’s how you show you’re one of them www.thecrimson.com/article/2025...
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if you're not dropping n bombs in the group chat, can you really be trusted?
December 21, 2025 at 12:46 PM
if you're not dropping n bombs in the group chat, can you really be trusted?
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Yes, but it’s not a “nuclear option.” It’s the most basic, obvious, conventional option available if you want to actually do something effective. The fact that they’re not immediately promising it en masse tells us something, and that something is not good.
WATCH-- Former AG Eric Holder says Congress should consider impeachment for the DOJ officials responsible for holding back the Epstein files: “That's a nuclear option that Congress has.”
December 20, 2025 at 3:42 AM
Yes, but it’s not a “nuclear option.” It’s the most basic, obvious, conventional option available if you want to actually do something effective. The fact that they’re not immediately promising it en masse tells us something, and that something is not good.
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Zohran: "I mean, think about when you fly. We have made it such a difficult experience to go through TSA that there's now a financial incentive to sign up for a separate program that can move you through it quicker. We have monetized the dysfunction."
December 18, 2025 at 2:08 PM
Zohran: "I mean, think about when you fly. We have made it such a difficult experience to go through TSA that there's now a financial incentive to sign up for a separate program that can move you through it quicker. We have monetized the dysfunction."
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The collective delusion here is useful in that it has provoked conservatives to dispense with decades of bootstrap rhetoric and reveal what they would say if they thought black people were people, that is to say, if these things were happening to them
December 18, 2025 at 3:42 PM
The collective delusion here is useful in that it has provoked conservatives to dispense with decades of bootstrap rhetoric and reveal what they would say if they thought black people were people, that is to say, if these things were happening to them
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TLDR: Proportional representation would prevent the undemocratic allocation of federal seats away from parties that lost elections by narrow margins.
NEW: We asked Bolts readers to send us questions about mid-decade redistricting.
We got many — and we answer a bunch today.
How are the new maps changing the midterms?
Would proportional representation help?
Why are courts not doing more?
And more!
Read on:
We got many — and we answer a bunch today.
How are the new maps changing the midterms?
Would proportional representation help?
Why are courts not doing more?
And more!
Read on:
The Escalating Race to Redistrict: Your Questions Answered - Bolts
How are the new maps changing the midterms? Why are courts not doing more? Would proportional representation help? We’ve got answers about mid-decade redistricting.
boltsmag.org
December 19, 2025 at 8:39 PM
TLDR: Proportional representation would prevent the undemocratic allocation of federal seats away from parties that lost elections by narrow margins.
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Just now, a national trans healthcare felony ban for youth has passed the US House, with 10 year prison terms.
3 Dems crossed party lines to vote to jail providers.
4 GOP crossed party lines to vote against.
It is not expected to pass the Senate, where Dems hold filibuster power.
Story to come.
3 Dems crossed party lines to vote to jail providers.
4 GOP crossed party lines to vote against.
It is not expected to pass the Senate, where Dems hold filibuster power.
Story to come.
December 17, 2025 at 11:44 PM
Just now, a national trans healthcare felony ban for youth has passed the US House, with 10 year prison terms.
3 Dems crossed party lines to vote to jail providers.
4 GOP crossed party lines to vote against.
It is not expected to pass the Senate, where Dems hold filibuster power.
Story to come.
3 Dems crossed party lines to vote to jail providers.
4 GOP crossed party lines to vote against.
It is not expected to pass the Senate, where Dems hold filibuster power.
Story to come.
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December 17, 2025 at 4:06 PM
Hunger strikes by prisoners protesting human-rights abuses are commonplace in my home country, Egypt. Looks like the practice has followed me here, as has the apathy of our politicians.
www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2025...
www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2025...
Palestine Action-linked hunger strikers ‘may die without Lammy’s intervention’
Justice secretary criticised for refusing to meet lawyers who say health of their jailed clients is ‘rapidly deteriorating’
www.theguardian.com
December 17, 2025 at 11:15 AM
Hunger strikes by prisoners protesting human-rights abuses are commonplace in my home country, Egypt. Looks like the practice has followed me here, as has the apathy of our politicians.
www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2025...
www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2025...