Reposted by Nicolas PugeaultAmnesty International France @amnestyfrance.bsky.social · 5hOn le répète : 800 000 lycéens, professeurs, retraités, agriculteurs se sont mobilisés le 17 octobre. Dans un monde où les inégalités se creusent, les revendications sociales et économiques sont légitimes. Ne cédons pas à la peur, continuons la mobilisation. 02911 29
Reposted by Nicolas PugeaultAmnesty International France @amnestyfrance.bsky.social · 5hSebastien Lecornu, notre seul «camp», c’est le droit de manifester. Maintenir l’ordre dans un État de droit c’est: ➡️Protéger les manifestants, pas les blesser, les empêcher de manifester ➡️Gérer les violences inacceptables, les pillages de certains groupes ➡️Désamorcer, pas enflammer 1238 23
Reposted by Nicolas PugeaultAmnesty International France @amnestyfrance.bsky.social · 5hAujourd’hui, Sebastien Lecornu demande de « choisir son camp » : « celui de la République et donc des forces de l’ordre[...]soit celui des casseurs » En désignant un ennemi, on détourne le regard de la responsabilité de l’État et du besoin de réformer le maintien de l’ordre. 12915 29
Reposted by Nicolas PugeaultAmnesty International France @amnestyfrance.bsky.social · 5hAu lieu de proposer une nouvelle stratégie de maintien de l’ordre, le gouvernement demande : 🔴Mise en place de couvre-feux localisés 🔴Interdiction de manifestations, sous couvert de sécurité Interdire une manifestation ne doit intervenir qu’en dernier ressort. 1155 15
Reposted by Nicolas PugeaultAmnesty International France @amnestyfrance.bsky.social · 5hDepuis des années en France, la doctrine du maintien de l’ordre blesse, instille la peur. En 2016, un manifestant perd son œil après avoir reçu une grenade de désencerclement pendant qu’il manifestait contre la loi travail à Paris. En 2026, des enfants de 15 ans sont mutilés. 1199 19
Reposted by Nicolas PugeaultAmnesty International France @amnestyfrance.bsky.social · 5hAu lieu de privilégier le dialogue, les autorités favorisent aussi les situations de tensions : 🔴Utilisation massive de gaz lacrymogènes sur des manifestants pacifiques 🔴Technique de la nasse qui crée de la peur chez les manifestants 🔴Armes mutilantesamnesty.frMaintien de l’ordre : ces armes dangereuses utilisées dans les manifestationsGaz lacrymogènes, grenades, LBD, matraques… partout dans le monde, la police utilise ce type d’armes dans le cadre de manifestations. Focus sur ces armes dites à létalité réduite, sur leur usage par l... 1189 18
Reposted by Nicolas PugeaultAmnesty International France @amnestyfrance.bsky.social · 5hOui, des stratégies de maintien de l’ordre mènent à l’escalade : L’usage d’armes comme les grenades explosives par exemple est inadapté à une gestion sécurisée des manifestations. La France est le seul pays d’Europe à utiliser ce type d’armes, classées comme armes de guerre. 21810 18
Reposted by Nicolas PugeaultAmnesty International France @amnestyfrance.bsky.social · 5hLes évènements de ce week-end en France révèlent une chose : la stratégie de maintien de l’ordre ne fonctionne pas. À la place de la désescalade, la stratégie de maintien de l’ordre fait exactement l’inverse. Depuis plus de 10 ans, nous alertons.👇 39564 95
Reposted by Nicolas PugeaultAmnesty International France @amnestyfrance.bsky.social · 5hLe 17 octobre, 800 000 personnes manifestaient en France. Dans la même journée, des manifestants pacifiques ont été gazés et une minorité de groupes violents pillaient des commerces. C'est inacceptable. Le problème n’est pas dans les manifestations, mais dans leur gestion. 1187 18
Reposted by Nicolas PugeaultCédric Mas @cedricmas.eurosky.social · 17/10/2026Et encore un superbe échec de Beauvau que personne ne dénoncera en France (parce qu’à l’étranger ils ne sont pas tendres avec nos forces de l’ordre et leurs responsables). 15597202 597
Reposted by Nicolas PugeaultChronoPolo @chronopolo.bsky.social · 17/10/2026Affrontements en fin de manifestation à Toulouse, la CGT dénonce "une agression du carré syndical" par la police www.ladepeche.fr/2026/10/17/a...ladepeche.frAffrontements en fin de manifestation à Toulouse, la CGT dénonce "une agression du carré syndical" par la policeDes affrontements ont eu lieu à Toulouse entre les forces de l'ordre et 200 manifestants qui s'étaient positionnés devant la tête du cortège peu avant 16 heures à Saint-Cyprien, une fois franchi le po... 01713 17
Reposted by Nicolas PugeaultCGT Environnement @cgt-environnement.bsky.social · 17/10/2026Même Télérama se radicalise : « ils ont décidé d’utiliser la force. En cinq ans, c’est la première fois qu’on se fait gazer en manifestation. La répression policière n’a plus de limite ! On en est à gazer un orchestre, à censurer de l’art en manifestation ! » www.telerama.fr/debats-repor...telerama.frL’Orchestre du Nouveau Monde : “En cinq ans, c’est la première fois qu’on se fait gazer en manifestation”Installée au pied de la statue de la République à Paris, la formation a dû évacuer rapidement après avoir été prise pour cible par les forces de l’ordre. Plus de 400 musiciens étaient venus jouer paci... 9222122 222
Reposted by Nicolas PugeaultMel🦄 @enbyandbi.eurosky.social · 17/10/2026De toutes les villes de France on lit les mêmes témoignages : la police a commencé à gazer avant même le départ des marches. Ados, enfants, rien à foutre. Après on nous dira qu'il n'y avait aucune consigne nationale ?? 18920435 920
Reposted by Nicolas PugeaultRicardo Parreira @ricardoparreira.com · 17/10/2026Un policier vient de me cibler intentionnellement avec un tir de LBD à la jambe. Je me trouve à seulement quelques mètres de lui. Je suis clairement identifié comme journaliste, avec un casque sur lequel le mot « PRESSE » est inscrit partout, et je porte également une caméra. @snjcgt.fr 12514271029 1.4K
Reposted by Nicolas PugeaultMédéric Gasquet-Cyrus @medericgc.bsky.social · 17/10/2026Les "casseurs" ont pillé des boutiques mais ne m’ont pas agressé ni bousculé. Des filles avec cagoules m’ont donné du sérum physiologique. Des hommes en armure avec boucliers ont balancé des lacrymos au milieu du groupe où je parlais, tranquille, immobile. Où est la violence ? 8576169 576
Reposted by Nicolas PugeaultRachel Cunliffe @rmcunliffe.bsky.social · 15/10/2026This week's New Statesman column, in which I attempt to annoy everyone by making the left-wing case for people earning over £100k to be entitled to free childcare. If you want a high tax, high spend society, you can't exclude the people who contribute the most www.newstatesman.com/politics/fut...newstatesman.comThe welfare state isn't for everyoneShould those who pay the most for public services get to use them? 3120426 204
Reposted by Nicolas PugeaultChris Dillow @chrisdillow.bsky.social · 16/10/2026It's not annoying!! Wanting benefits to be means-tested is stupid, as I wrote almost 10 years ago: chrisdillow.substack.com/p/the-fairne...chrisdillow.substack.comThe fairness errorThe fariness of the tax & benefits system must be judged as a whole, not by any individual part of it. 33613 36
Reposted by Nicolas PugeaultChris Dillow @chrisdillow.bsky.social · 16/10/2026A much more intelligent question would be: how many people do you know personally who have been over-diagnosed with ADHD or autism? But we live in an idiot country where prejudice beats evidence. 63710 37
Reposted by Nicolas PugeaultJordan @jordanpfot.bsky.social · 12/10/2026This is extremely reasonable and well-put. It clearly comes from a place of principle but is also strategic. The kind of argument that could have, had Polanski made it, meaningfully shifted the vote on the Zionism is Racism motion. But Zack doesn’t have the range. 610922 109
Reposted by Nicolas PugeaultFreya Holmér @freya.bsky.social · 08/10/2026thoughts on AI coding 2958161 581
Reposted by Nicolas PugeaultRicardo Parreira @ricardoparreira.com · 07/10/2026À Montpellier, un CRS vise délibérément la tête d'un jeune avec une grenade lacrymo. 25432375 432
Reposted by Nicolas PugeaultStephanie Lamy @stephlamy.bsky.social · 07/10/2026For my ENG speaking followers Unprecedented High School blockades began in the outskirts of Paris in Créteil on the 21st of Sept. National mobilisations followed on the 29th of September, the 1st and the 6th of October. The movement is ongoing and has spread both in scope and scale. #tippingpoint 15685324 685
Reposted by Nicolas PugeaultJean-Marc Lafon @jmlafon.eurosky.social · 07/10/2026Notice de la grenade "flash-bang" GL-307, éditée par son fabricant brésilien. En bas à droite, écrite en rouge et illustrée par un dessin, la mention : "La grenade doit être lancée de sorte à exploser à au moins 10 mètres des contrevenants. Elle peut causer des lésions à courte distance." 11217157 217
Reposted by Nicolas PugeaultJean-Marc Lafon @jmlafon.eurosky.social · 06/10/2026Aucun contexte ne justifie un tir quasi à bout touchant de grenade lacrymogène dans la figure. Aucun contexte ne justifie l'emploi de grenades de désencerclement pour disperser un attroupement qui ne menace personne. Le contexte, c'est l'attachement fétichiste de la Macronie à la violence d'État. 217476 174
Reposted by Nicolas PugeaultMargot Finn @eicathomefinn.bsky.social · 29/09/2026'The Westminster government’s contribution to funding domestic undergraduates studying in England fell in real terms from £8.9 billion in 2012-13 to just £3.3bn in 2024-25, a drop of more than 60 per cent, an analysis has found.' 29694 96
Reposted by Nicolas PugeaultUniversity and College Union (UCU) @ucu.org.uk · 15/09/2026TUC President Steve Gillan calls on Congress to join UCU’s lunchtime rally against the University of Brighton’s outrageous plans to derecognise UCU. An attack on trade union rights is an attack on us all. University of Brighton: back down. 01011 11
Reposted by Nicolas PugeaultDr Scott Arthur MP (Edinburgh South West) 🌍🌈🌹 @drscottarthurmp.bsky.social · 21/09/2026This is Aberdeen. We also have strikes over cost-cutting at Heriot-Watt University and Edinburgh, while Strathclyde University announced plans to cut 70 jobs in December. When will the Scottish Government act? See: www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...bbc.co.ukAberdeen University job cuts talks break down after union official dismissalA £10m savings plan - which could see more than 100 jobs lost - was agreed earlier this year. 021 2
Reposted by Nicolas PugeaultJane @localnotail.bsky.social · 16/09/2026Solidarity with this Piddington resident ♥️✊ #Newsnight 721800537 1.8K
Reposted by Nicolas PugeaultAileen McHarg @aileenmcharg.bsky.social · 14/09/2026This is very bad indeed 051 5
Reposted by Nicolas PugeaultDaniel C. Blight @danielcblight.bsky.social · 14/09/2026***URGENT PLEASE SHARE*** University of Brighton management have announced today that they ‘give notice of termination of all collective agreements’. This is a fundamental erasure of workers' rights. Management have announced the termination of all contractual documents, which includes: 13598708 708
Reposted by Nicolas PugeaultUniversity and College Union (UCU) @ucu.org.uk · 14/09/2026UCU members at Brighton University face the threat of derecognition. We have called an emergency rally tomorrow at 1:15pm. It would be amazing to see as many #TUC26 delegates as possible in attendance. 58-67 Grand Parade, Brighton and Hove, Brighton BN2 0JY 011082 110
Reposted by Nicolas PugeaultAliette de Bodard @aliettedebodard.com · 10/09/2026An article on the solving of the Navier Stokes equations by a mathematician who knows what's going on bms.ulb.ac.be/data/uploads... (Yes it's in LateX I am sorry)bms.ulb.ac.be 36912 69
Reposted by Nicolas PugeaultAlex von Tunzelmann @alexvont.bsky.social · 10/09/2026If you feel like donating to the RNLI, here’s a link. I just have. Their minimum donation is £2: I think it might be nice for them to receive a lot of donations this week, even if they’re mostly very modest. Just so they know a lot of people out here appreciate their work. rnli.org/support-us/g...rnli.orgDonate to the RNLI and help save lives at seaYour donations really make a difference. We depend on your generosity to educate people to stay safe and prevent tragedies on and offshore. Donate here. 4920941254 2.1K
Reposted by Nicolas PugeaultKate Devlin @drkatedevlin.bsky.social · 09/09/2026A lot of news coverage on AI doom based off one tweet on a shitposting platform by a prodigal techbro. Do I fear superintelligence wiping us out? No, I fear incompetence and probably climate disaster, both of which could be somewhat mitigated by making tech companies more responsible & accountable. 18914 89
Reposted by Nicolas PugeaultJosiah Mortimer @josiahmortimer.bsky.social · 09/09/2026Politico: "The latest Private Eye pulls various data together to suggest the Rachel Reeves agricultural inheritance tax changes might be having the intended impact: pushing tax-avoiders out of farmland and making it more affordable for real farmers." (Cont.) 14977325 977
Reposted by Nicolas PugeaultBlackford Safe Routes @blackfordsaferoutes.co.uk · 09/09/2026Edinburgh LibDems, Tories, and often Labour, take note! 173 7
Reposted by Nicolas PugeaultTrevor A. Branch @trevorabranch.bsky.social · 08/09/2026Millennium math problem solved by OpenAI may have "regurgitated" competitors unpublished work... also they spent more than $22 million in computing power in one week to scoop them. techcrunch.com/2026/09/08/o...techcrunch.comOpenAI fought dirty on career-making math problem, says NYU mathematician | TechCrunchThere is a $1 million bounty for the first person providing a solution to the Navier-Stokes existence and smoothness problem. 391332460 1.3K
Reposted by Nicolas PugeaultCharles Fourier @charlesfourier.bsky.social · 08/09/2026Bill Bryson’s words seem appropriate to post right now 5145201508 4.5K
Reposted by Nicolas PugeaultAlejandra Caraballo @esqueer.net · 08/09/2026This cost about $15 million in AI compute to do, a serious amount of money most mathematicians can never reasonably access. One of the troubling aspects is whether frontier labs will move on after using these major mathematical problems for PR without meaningfully improving the field. 918825 188
Reposted by Nicolas PugeaultSam Freedman @samfr.bsky.social · 08/09/2026One reason England does so well is our second generation immigrants outperform their peers which is not true in most OECD countries. We are also very good at integration. And it's v sad that this is never acknowledge in debates on immigration. 602405851 2.4K
Reposted by Nicolas PugeaultStephanie Lamy @stephlamy.bsky.social · 29/08/2026FYI, I'vre revised the English version to account for new information that has surfaced on Harris (and his huge lie), but also the strategy that Cofnas plainly laid out : promote washed out/retired DEI-critics (via FSU etc), and use them to eliminate Black scholars. Link in blog post.blogs.mediapart.frComment un réseau d’élite a chassé Jason ArdayLe racisme scientifique est une pseudoscience qui abreuve la propagande d'extrême-droite, dont masculiniste. Longtemps relégué aux marges, il s’installe dans les universités et cherche à imposer ses … 22820 28
Reposted by Nicolas PugeaultAndrew Coogan @cooganlab.bsky.social · 27/08/2026“A systematic review of 31 studies found that open-plan designs were negatively associated with health, satisfaction and productivity, with not a single study measuring productivity finding a positive effect,“ - please tell this to every university estates department. 173 7
Reposted by Nicolas PugeaultChad Loder @chadloder.dev · 27/08/2026How many signatories of the open letter defending "academic freedom" for white supremacist "race realists" came to the public defense of Maura Finkelstein, a tenured associate professor at Muhlenberg College who was fired for reposting on Instagram a statement from a Palestinian American poet?insidehighered.comTenured Jewish prof. says she's fired for pro-Palestine postPennsylvania’s Muhlenberg College may have become the first institution since Oct. 7 to oust a tenured faculty member for such statements, though the professor is appealing the decision and still rece... 141257400 1.3K
Reposted by Nicolas PugeaultMarc Welsh @marcwelsh.bsky.social · 25/08/2026Interesting piece by Justine Pedussel and Jim Dickinson on balance sheet issue just today. The balance sheet adjustments seem to make an already unequal system more unequal between the nations. It was ever thus. wonkhe.com/blogs/the-tr...wonkhe.comThe Treasury is bankrupting three nations' universitiesWith funding reviews underway in Scotland, Wales and Northern Ireland, Justine Pedussel and Jim Dickinson worry none will examine the hidden accounting rules driving the crisis 143 4
Reposted by Nicolas PugeaultPolGM @polgm.eurosky.social · 19/08/2026⚠️ La nouvelle mairie d'Avignon veut remettre les bagnoles dans la ville, et elle a commencé - de manière brutale, au milieu de l'été et sans consulter les habitants. C'est clairement un test pour voir "si ça passe". Petit fil, et comment vous pouvez contribuer de chez vous ⤵️ 45442 54
Reposted by Nicolas Pugeaultlastpositivist.bsky.social @lastpositivist.bsky.social · 20/08/2026Jason Stanley makes the case that the stuff that was most obviously in fact a lie in Arday's case was also not stuff which academic institutions care about when employing someone, whereas by the metrics academics care about Arday was doing well. jasonstanleyantifascist.substack.com/p/it-sure-lo...jasonstanleyantifascist.substack.comIt sure looks like Jason Arday was horrifically wrongedThe media’s profound ignorance of academia is a deadly problem 1234774 347
Reposted by Nicolas PugeaultCarole Cadwalladr @carolecadwalla.bsky.social · 20/08/2026A professor writes: (Jason Stanley) The problem is that journalists failed to do basic journalism. Not a single reporter seems to have checked’ Jason Arday’s citations. The ‘quantifiable metrics’ of his work. Prof Stanley did: ‘Arday is easily comparable to the leading scholars in the field’ 6126791064 2.7K
Reposted by Nicolas Pugeaultorbette @orbette.bsky.social · 20/08/2026Well this seems interesting and unsurprising archive.ph/vB0BP 5281124 281
Reposted by Nicolas PugeaultStephanie Lamy @stephlamy.bsky.social · 16/08/2026Arday defending himself by filing a police complaint against Dave Harris - a man who had already been formally found to have engaged in bullying misconduct as far back as 1998 - is not something I find extraordinary. What is extraordinary is that Harris's misconduct vanished from news coverage. 28226 82
Reposted by Nicolas PugeaultGeoffrey Hughes @geofffhughes.bsky.social · 15/08/2026We have just witnessed an incredible A/B test showing how plagiarism allegations at Cambridge University play out depending on how racialized the subject of the allegations are and it says nothing good about our society or the state of "race relations". O'Reilly is still in post.varsity.co.ukPlagiarising professor stays in post and threatens student journalistsMore than twelve pages of an article published under O’Reilly's name had been lifted almost word for word from two essays by one of his students 10605277 605