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IUS is an international platform for scientists opposed to militarism and destructive uses of science and technology and supporting ethical practices of science. #FreePalestine #NoTechForApartheid

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Paris Marx @parismarx.com · 24/09/2026
Just when I think I can’t hate OpenAI and Sam Altman any more, new details come out about how ChatGPT helped a shooter plan one of the worst mass shootings in Canadian history in Tumbler Ridge, BC. OpenAI made an explicit decision not to report the user to authorities.
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ChatGPT helped the Tumbler Ridge school shooter focus on guns, tactics, and terror, our investigation reveals
OpenAI’s chatbot fed the shooter’s violent fantasies and planning up to the massacre.
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International Union of Scientists @iuscientist.bsky.social · 14/10/2025
Genocide and Ecocide: The Interconnected Crimes Against Humanity and Nature www.iuscientists.org/genocide-and...
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Join the Conversation on 'Genocide and Ecocide: The Interconnected Crimes Against Humanity and Nature'
A conversation with Prof. Mazin Qumsiyeh Thursday, October 16 @ 19:30h Palestine Time / 18:30h CET / 17:30 UK Time Register for the video conference: https://zoom.us/meeting/register/1203Zmr_SoaHus5_L...
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International Union of Scientists @iuscientist.bsky.social · 03/10/2025
IUS interview with Anthony Loewenstein, Oct. 24. www.iuscientists.org/the-palestin...
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The Palestine Laboratory: how Israel uses genocide to test & sell weapons
A conversation with Antony Loewenstein 24 October 2025 10:00 UTC (GMT) Streaming at iuscientists.org Join us live as award-winning journalist Antony Loewenstein unpacks the chilling political econom...
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International Union of Scientists @iuscientist.bsky.social · 20/08/2025
Livestream Aug. 30: Decolonising Science: Anti-imperialism and Community Research in the Philippines. www.iuscientists.org/livestream-d...
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LIVESTREAM. Decolonising Science: Anti-imperialism and Community Research in the Philippines
We are excited to invite you to a livestream podcast featuring leaders of AGHAM in the Philippines. Join us for a conversation with three officers of the radical science organization AGHAM. Learn how...
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International Union of Scientists @iuscientist.bsky.social · 02/07/2025
Endorse the IUS statement against war and the militarization of science! www.iuscientists.org/stand-with-s...
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Stand with Scientists Against War and Militarization of Science: Endorse the IUS Statement
The Statement is issued by the International Union of Scientists (IUS) Against Militarism and the Destructive Use of Science and Technology, on 29 June 2025. Endorse the Statement here. The Stateme...
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Chanda Prescod-Weinstein 🌌 @chanda.blacksky.app · 28/04/2025
MUST READ especially for climate change concerned folks who think they can choose silence on genocide: “War causes extensive, long-lasting environmental damage, affecting landscapes, ecosystems, biodiversity, and vital resources.” 🧪 @iuscientist.bsky.social www.iuscientists.org/militarism-a...
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Militarism: A Leading Cause of Environmental and Climate Crises
By Manabendra Nath Bera. Synopsis - The climate and environmental impacts of war and military operations are often neglected in global climate negotiations. This article highlights how war, being the...
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evacide @evacide.bsky.social · 25/02/2025
This is your regular reminder that government mandated backdoors for end-to-end encrypted comms are bullshit, make everyone less safe, and should be resisted at maximum volume.
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Bhaskar Mitra | ভাস্কর মিত্র @bmitra.bsky.social · 25/02/2025
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Microsoft workers protest sale of AI and cloud services to Israeli military
Five Microsoft employees have been ejected from a meeting with the company’s chief executive for protesting the company providing artificial intelligence and cloud computing services to the Israeli mi...
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Chanda Prescod-Weinstein 🌌 @chanda.blacksky.app · 25/02/2025
Point out things are illegal not from a belief that the courts will save us (they almost certainly won’t) but because it’s important to not shift toward an authoritarian mindset by allowing them to normalize illegal shit
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Al Jazeera English @aljazeera.com · 25/02/2025
At least six Palestinian infants have died of hypothermia amid a harsh cold snap in Gaza and Israel’s blocking of shelter from entering the enclave. Read more: aje.io/i3l0f4
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Al Jazeera English @aljazeera.com · 25/02/2025
More than 1,000 musicians, including Kate Bush, Cat Stevens and Annie Lennox, have released a silent album in protest of the proposed changes to British copyright laws around artificial intelligence (AI) ⤵️
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Music stars release silent album in protest against UK AI copyright plans
Is This What We Want features recordings of empty studios, performance spaces, highlighting danger to creative trade.
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International Union of Scientists @iuscientist.bsky.social · 20/01/2025
Demand that #EmoryUniversity rescind the suspension of medical student Umaymah Mohammad, unjustly punished for exposing the university's complicity in genocide. www.instagram.com/p/DExgaxGOLa...
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International Union of Scientists @iuscientist.bsky.social · 18/01/2025
Defeating apartheid. It can happen again, in the other apartheid state. www.iuscientists.org/how-nuclear-...
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How Nuclear-Armed Apartheid was Defeated: An Interview with Abdul Minty
We spoke with Dr. Abdul Samad Minty, a key figure in the international campaign against apartheid who helped expose apartheid South Africa's nuclear programs. His reflections offer valuable insights f...
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Margaret Mitchell @mmitchell.bsky.social · 15/01/2025
Discussions with colleagues @hf.co about "AI agent" were super fruitful. Kudos to @giadapistilli.com for seeing the point about humans *ceding control* as they build more autonomous systems. Very kind of @fdaudens.bsky.social to make a brief video on some of our thinking! Blog: tinyurl.com/7uuc9x34
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AI Agents Are Here. What Now?
We’re on a journey to advance and democratize artificial intelligence through open source and open science.
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ali alkhatib @ali-alkhatib.com · 15/01/2025
israel still occupies Palestine, the iof continues killing Palestinians in Gaza and the West Bank, and Palestine is not free. even now israel keeps killing, getting their last shots in. i'll be grateful for every day of every life, but this isn't over. Palestine will be free.
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Damian Carrington @dpcarrington.bsky.social · 18/11/2024
#ClimateCrisis to blame for dozens of ‘impossible’ heatwaves, studies reveal Exclusive: Stark evidence of how global heating is already supercharging deadly weather beyond anything ever experienced by humanity #COP29 Story by me Data @carbonbrief.org www.theguardian.com/environment/...
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Climate crisis to blame for dozens of ‘impossible’ heatwaves, studies reveal
Exclusive: Analyses are stark evidence of how global heating is already supercharging deadly weather beyond anything ever experienced by humanity
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International Union of Scientists @iuscientist.bsky.social · 17/12/2024
Extensive report on how #MIT supports #ZionistGenocide and #ZionistApartheid: (1) labs do research for Israeli's Ministry of Defense (2) MIT maintains institutional collaborations that grant genocide profiteers privileged access to MIT expertise. archive.org/details/mit-...
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MIT Science For Genocide : MIT Coalition for Palestine : Free Download, Borrow, and Streaming : Internet Archive
The Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) contributes to the Gaza Genocide and Zionist settler colonialism in Palestine in at least...
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International Union of Scientists @iuscientist.bsky.social · 17/12/2024
Iyengar, a doctoral candidate at MIT, has been barred from campus until January 2026 for publishing this piece in Written Revolution in October. We are republishing this thoughtful article out of support for Mr Iyengar and his freedom of academic expression. www.iuscientists.org/on-pacifism/...
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On Pacifism
By Prahlad Iyengar. Editorial note: The author is a doctoral candidate in the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) Department of Electrical Engineering and Computer Science and a recipient of ...
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Thomas Zimmer @thomaszimmer.bsky.social · 15/12/2024
Conservatives want a world that combines existing structures that discriminate by race and gender in all spheres of life with “race-blind” and “gender-neutral” selection processes (like hiring and admission practices) that pretend those structures don’t exist. They call the result “meritocracy.”
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International Union of Scientists @iuscientist.bsky.social · 03/12/2024
Yet another way face recognition is making the world worse. Anti-Zionist protesters: mask up! www.timesofisrael.com/us-jewish-gr...
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US Jewish group targets anti-Israel protesters in hopes Trump will deport them
Right-wing Betar movement uses artificial intelligence tool to identify foreign students involved in anti-Israel action on college campuses
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Mondoweiss @mondoweiss.net · 03/12/2024
Mondoweiss exists to tell Palestinian stories that mainstream media ignores. Here's how: 📝 Analysis pieces: Breaking down the big picture. 🎥 Explainer videos: Making complex issues clear. 📍 On-the-ground coverage: Reporting from where it matters. 🍉 And more! shorturl.at/9yN6F
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International Union of Scientists @iuscientist.bsky.social · 01/12/2024
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Mathematicians Against the Genocide in Gaza
More than 800 mathematicians from around the world have signed a statement condemning the ongoing genocide in Gaza. They are calling on the scientific community to suspend all collaborations with I…
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International Union of Scientists @iuscientist.bsky.social · 27/11/2024
www.iuscientists.org/skeptics/ #StopTheGenocide #FreePalestine
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Genocide for Skeptics
by Flavio Del Santo. Israel has been bombing Gaza for over 13 months: the humanitarian crisis across Palestine, as well as in neighboring areas of the Middle East, has reached unprecedented critical ...
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Mondoweiss @mondoweiss.net · 18/11/2024
Basic morality and simple logic dictate that the right of self-defense belongs to the Palestinian people, not to their oppressor. And international law agrees. mondoweiss.net/2024/09/no-i...
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No, Israel does not have a right to defend itself in Gaza. But the Palestinians do.
Basic morality and simple logic dictate that the right of self-defense belongs to the Palestinian people, not to their oppressor. And international law agrees.
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Chanda Prescod-Weinstein 🌌 @chanda.blacksky.app · 19/11/2024
I guess “from the river to the sea” is ok and not violent racism when Zionists say it to say a second Trump term is the opportunity of a lifetime to expel all Palestinians and extinguish Palestinian dreams of statehood
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Mondoweiss @mondoweiss.net · 19/11/2024
WATCH: Israel is using facial recognition technology in Gaza to coordinate mass arrests and forcible displacement. Witnesses report it’s also being used for field executions. www.youtube.com/watch?v=uLHT...
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Israel's Facial Recognition Tech: Arrests & Executions
YouTube video by Mondoweiss
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Transnational Institute @tninstitute.bsky.social · 19/11/2024
There will be no climate justice without the liberation of Palestine - Hamza Hamouchene at #COP29 youtu.be/DLyYSAYWv0E?...
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There will be no climate justice without the liberation of Palestine
YouTube video by Transnational Institute
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Al Jazeera English @aljazeera.com · 19/11/2024
Around 100 protesters have blocked staff from entering the Collins Aerospace factory in Canada, demanding the company stop selling weapons components for military aircraft bound for Israel, according to a statement released by activists. 🔴 LIVE updates ⤵️
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North Gaza hospital under attack; Hezbollah fire causes injuries in Israel
Director of Kamal Adwan Hospital in Beit Lahiya says Israeli forces are shelling the facility.
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Chanda Prescod-Weinstein 🌌 @chanda.blacksky.app · 17/11/2024
DoE is, among other things, the primary funder of particle physics research. It is also responsible for maintaining the nuclear weapons supply and nuclear weapons waste clean-up. 🧪 apnews.com/article/trum...
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Trump names fossil fuel executive Chris Wright as energy secretary
President-elect Donald Trump has selected Chris Wright, a campaign donor and fossil fuel executive, to serve as energy secretary after his second administration begins in January.
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Chanda Prescod-Weinstein 🌌 @chanda.blacksky.app · 16/11/2024
CENSORSHIP AT MIT. Advocacy for #Palestine is censored and punished without due process at MIT. PLEASE Sign the petition: blocktheban.org
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Block the Ban at MIT
A petition to challenge MIT’s censorship of Palestine advocacy and education.
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