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vladms.bsky.social @vladms.bsky.social · 10/10/2026
@unileiden.bsky.social It would be great if news articles included at least one link to the original paper (referring to www.universiteitleiden.nl/en/news/2026...)
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POLITICO Europe @politico.eu · 05/10/2026
From Reykjavík to The Hague, European governments are starting to prepare for a literal sea change that would end life as we know it on the continent. 🔗 vist.ly/5m4ks
Abstract scene with a large chain and hooks, icy landscape, and buildings.
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vladms.bsky.social @vladms.bsky.social · 23/07/2026
I’ve just had my say on our future banknotes. Have your say too! surveys.ecb.europa.eu/10b/neweuro/
surveys.ecb.europa.eu
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Lisanne @lisanne.bsky.social · 27/06/2026
Blij met de berichtgeving van @nieuws.nos.nl de laatste tijd
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De nieuwe Nederlandse zomer
De cijfers achter de hitte van nu en de zomers van straks.
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ESA Navigation @navigation.esa.int · 12/06/2026
🛰️ Galileo's second generation will feature intersatellite links, which will allow the satellites to ‘talk’ to one another in orbit. Read more about the test campaign to get the intersatellite links ready for life in space here: 🔗 @esa.int @euspa.bsky.social @ec.europa.eu
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Conversations in the sky: Galileo’s intersatellite links tested
The second generation of Galileo, Europe’s satellite navigation constellation, is being built. These satellites will feature reconfigurable payloads, provide more robust and reliable positioning, navi...
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Defend Democracy @defenddemocracy.eurosky.social · 26/05/2026
Milestone decision: Netherlands government blocks the US take-over of a vital digital tech supplier, citing "a possible risk to the public interest." #DefendDemocracy #TechSovereignty #HandsOffOurEU🇪🇺
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vladms.bsky.social @vladms.bsky.social · 06/05/2026
Nice there is work to reduce dependency on one transmission medium during disasters www.euspa.europa.eu/galileo-ewss
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Galileo Emergency Warning Satellite Service (EWSS)
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vladms.bsky.social @vladms.bsky.social · 18/04/2026
Children might benefit from more independence : www.frontiersin.org/journals/psy...
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Frontiers | A Systematic Review of “Helicopter Parenting” and Its Relationship With Anxiety and Depression
Background: Emerging evidence suggests that overprotective and controlling parenting, often referred to as ‘helicopter parenting’ may have negative implicati...
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vladms.bsky.social @vladms.bsky.social · 16/04/2026
Not nice of them www.eff.org/deeplinks/20...
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Google Broke Its Promise to Me. Now ICE Has My Data.
In 2025, Google gave Amandla Thomas-Johnson's data to ICE without giving him the chance to challenge the subpoena, breaking a nearly decade-long promise to notify users before handing their data to la...
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Copernicus ECMWF @copernicusecmwf.bsky.social · 15/04/2026
March 2026 saw the second-warmest global sea surface temperature on record for the month. It was the fourth-warmest March globally & the second-warmest for European land. Arctic sea ice extent was the lowest recorded for March. 🔗 Read the summary climate.copernicus.eu/sea-surface-...
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vladms.bsky.social @vladms.bsky.social · 09/04/2026
It's fine if a company doesn't want to support a device anymore, but bricking it if you factory reset or de-register it feels evil and only increases e-waste! Think of the alternatives next time you buy such a thing ... www.engadget.com/mobile/amazo...
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Amazon is cutting off support for older Kindles
Amazon has sent out emails to some of its users, with a warning that it's discontinuing support for Kindle ereaders and Fire tables released in 2012 or earlier.
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vladms.bsky.social @vladms.bsky.social · 08/04/2026
I always love when looking for an alternative you are positively surprised, today's case: alternative to entrenched map applications for desktop: osmapp.org . Extremely fast, favorites, multi-language, only thing missing public transport routing.
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OsmAPP
An open-source map of the world based on the OpenStreetMap database. Features a search, clickable points of interest, in-app map edits, and more!
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ESA Exploration @exploration.esa.int · 06/04/2026
👨‍🚀 The #Artemis II crew are now further from home than any humans ever, and European engines brought them there 🚀. 🌍 The record of 400 171 km was previously held by the Apollo 13 mission 🌕.
(April 6, 2026) In this fully illuminated view of the Moon, the near side (the hemisphere we see from Earth), is visible on the right. It is identifiable by the dark splotches that cover its surface. These are ancient lava flows from a time early in the Moon’s history when it was volcanically active. The large crater west of the lava flows is Orientale basin, a nearly 600-mile-wide crater that straddles the Moon’s near and far sides. Orientale's left half is not visible from Earth, but in this image we have a full view of the crater. Everything to the left of the crater is the far side, the hemisphere we don’t get to see from Earth because the Moon rotates on its axis at the same rate that it orbits round us.

Image Credit: NASA
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vladms.bsky.social @vladms.bsky.social · 12/03/2026
Maybe we should add to 'You Are What You Eat' something like 'You Remember Depending on What you Eat' (with the caveat that this in mice): med.stanford.edu/news/all-new...
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Enhancing gut-brain communication reversed cognitive decline, improved memory formation in aging mice
Aging causes changes in gut bacteria in mice, which hampers communication between the intestines and the brain. Restoring this connection helped old mice form memories as well as young animals.
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vladms.bsky.social @vladms.bsky.social · 09/02/2026
One possible answer to the question "why blue sky?" (on Mars it would be "blue sunset"!) explainers.blog/posts/why-is...
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Why is the sky blue?
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Thomas Piketty @thomaspiketty.bsky.social · 10/12/2025
Today, we are publishing our World Inequality Report, which reviews the most recent #inequalitydata and exposes the magnitude of #inequality across time, space and all its dimensions. 👇Share this thread, share the report! www.youtube.com/watch?v=R67u...
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World Inequality Report 2026
YouTube video by World Inequality Lab
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vladms.bsky.social @vladms.bsky.social · 03/12/2025
Mathematical interval notation is not the same everywhere! For example Danes and French use different ones, see fr.wikipedia.org/wiki/Interva...
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Intervalle (mathématiques) — Wikipédia
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vladms.bsky.social @vladms.bsky.social · 30/11/2025
People should pay more attention to their environments: www.sciencealert.com/scientists-f...
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Scientists Found a Weird Way to Make People Kinder: Add Batman
A new study has found that people are more likely to act kind towards others when Batman is present – and not for the reasons you might assume.
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vladms.bsky.social @vladms.bsky.social · 28/11/2025
Fungi might even consume radiation - that’s one hell of an appetite! www.bbc.com/future/artic...
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The mysterious black fungus from Chernobyl that may eat radiation
Mould found at the site of the Chernobyl nuclear disaster appears to be feeding off the radiation. Could we use it to shield space travellers from cosmic rays?
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vladms.bsky.social @vladms.bsky.social · 26/11/2025
Not against some difference, but 100$ seems really high www.bbc.com/news/article...
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US hikes national park fees for foreigners to put 'American families first'
Non-residents will soon have to pay $100 per person to enter 11 of the United States' most popular parks.
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vladms.bsky.social @vladms.bsky.social · 17/11/2025
Full of interesting insights : unpublishablepapers.substack.com/p/where-do-t...
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Where Do the Children Play?
On the need for a world without us
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vladms.bsky.social @vladms.bsky.social · 05/11/2025
Interesting way to look at equations: gods.art/articles/equ...
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Caleb Madrigal
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vladms.bsky.social @vladms.bsky.social · 15/10/2025
One more thing that might be bad for your health : pmc.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/articles/PMC...
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Proximity to Golf Courses and Risk of Parkinson Disease
Does living within proximity to a golf course affect the risk of Parkinson disease (PD)? This case-control study found the greatest risk of PD within 1 to 3 miles of a golf course, and that this risk ...
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vladms.bsky.social @vladms.bsky.social · 30/09/2025
One more reason to address inequality: www.nature.com/articles/s44...
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Macroeconomic income inequality, brain structure and function, and mental health - Nature Mental Health
Rakesh et al. used data from the Adolescent Brain Cognitive Development cohort study to evaluate the relationship between state-level income inequality, brain structure and function, and mental health in young people.
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vladms.bsky.social @vladms.bsky.social · 14/09/2025
If you ever wondered how the metro stations interchanges look like you can now see it in 3D : stations.albertguillaumes.cat
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Stations and transfers
A gallery of drawings depicting the topology of metro stations from different European cities.
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vladms.bsky.social @vladms.bsky.social · 03/09/2025
Probably the best is to use with moderation: publichealthpolicyjournal.com/mit-study-fi...
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MIT Study Finds Artificial Intelligence Use Reprograms the Brain, Leading to Cognitive Decline - Science, Public Health Policy and the Law
By Nicolas Hulscher, MPH
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vladms.bsky.social @vladms.bsky.social · 27/08/2025
One more job with (probably) too long conference calls: edition.cnn.com/2025/08/27/u... .
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F-35 pilot held 50-minute airborne conference call with engineers before fighter jet crashed in Alaska | CNN
A US Air Force F-35 pilot spent 50 minutes on an airborne conference call with Lockheed Martin engineers trying to solve a problem with his fighter jet before he ejected and the plane plunged to the g...
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vladms.bsky.social @vladms.bsky.social · 14/08/2025
Who would have thought that walkable cities allow people to walk more ? www.nature.com/articles/s41... Anyhow, still good we have some numbers, now if only people will accept walking more is healthier ...
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Countrywide natural experiment links built environment to physical activity - Nature
By analysing the smartphone data of 2,112,288 participants, in particular observing and comparing the activity of the same individual in two different environments, we find that increases in the walka...
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vladms.bsky.social @vladms.bsky.social · 27/05/2025
Interesting, let's see if they get to the next level and hack the traffic light to trigger it :p. www.frontiersin.org/news/2025/05...
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Street smarts: how a hawk learned to use traffic signals to hunt more successfully
Dr Vladimir Dinets, a zoologist who studies animal behavior, ecology, and conservation, is the author of a recently published Frontiers in Ethology article that
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vladms.bsky.social @vladms.bsky.social · 27/04/2025
If you ever thought an address is something simple: www.mjt.me.uk/posts/falseh...
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Falsehoods programmers believe about addresses
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vladms.bsky.social @vladms.bsky.social · 22/04/2025
Wonder how many problems would be solved faster if only people would talk more to each other: www.theguardian.com/environment/...
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‘Spiral of silence’: climate action is very popular, so why don’t people realise it?
Researchers find 89% of people around the world want more to be done, but mistakenly assume their peers do not
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vladms.bsky.social @vladms.bsky.social · 21/03/2025
Sometimes parliaments take good decisions: www.eff.org/deeplinks/20...
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A Win for Encryption: France Rejects Backdoor Mandate
In a moment of clarity after initially moving forward a deeply flawed piece of legislation, the French National Assembly has done the right thing: it rejected a dangerous proposal that would have gutt...
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ESA Space Transport @transport.esa.int · 06/03/2025
Ariane 6 soared to the skies once again! 🚀 This time, with a triple boost from Vinci! After the deployment of its passenger, Ariane 6's Vinci engine’s third boost put the upper stage into a reentry orbit to safely burn up through Earth’s atmosphere, preventing accumulation of space debris.
Artist's view of an Ariane 6 flying into space over Earth. This image depicts the Ariane 6 with two boosters, known as Ariane 62.
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bert hubert 🇺🇦🇪🇺🇺🇦 @bert-hubert.fosstodon.org.ap.brid.gy · 03/03/2025
So I didn't know, but Europe already has a backup of PubMed, the database of biomedical research publications. The US PubMed broke down over the weekend. And here is our alternative: europepmc.org #pubmed #pmc
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Europe PMC
Europe PMC is an archive of life sciences journal literature.
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vladms.bsky.social @vladms.bsky.social · 02/03/2025
Nice that progress is made on some topics: www.cea.fr/english/Page...
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Nuclear fusion: WEST beats the world record for plasma duration!
​On 12 February, the CEA’s WEST machine was able to maintain a plasma for more than 22 minutes. In doing so, it smashed the previous record for plasma duration achieved with a tokamak. This leap forwa...
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Eric Topol @erictopol.bsky.social · 03/02/2025
A new paper on microplastics accumulating in the brain was just published in Nature Medicine. I've reviewed the background and main findings in a new Ground Truths post erictopol.substack.com/p/the-microp...
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Eric Topol @erictopol.bsky.social · 24/01/2025
Life expectancy in the US —by educational attainment, by county www.thelancet.com/journals/lan... @ihmeuw.bsky.social —the growing inequalities abcnews.go.com/Health/growi... @amymaxmen.bsky.social @kffhealthnews.bsky.social
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Bert Hubert 🇺🇦🇪🇺🇺🇦 @berthubert.bsky.social · 21/01/2025
#Orwell’s 1940 review of Mein Kampf is an astounding read. It is very educational to read literature from just before historical events. In here we find that up to 1939 Hitler was regarded rather favorably by many, for reasons we might recognize today. Frightening: bookmarks.reviews/george-orwel...
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George Orwell's 1940 Review of Mein Kampf
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Jamie Carter @jctheresistance.demcast.com · 21/01/2025
Instagram has now banned the #Democrat But Republican is still there.
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vladms.bsky.social @vladms.bsky.social · 20/01/2025
Interesting article on trust in scientists : www.nature.com/articles/s41...
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Trust in scientists and their role in society across 68 countries - Nature Human Behaviour
What is the state of trust in scientists around the world? To answer this question, the authors surveyed 71,922 respondents in 68 countries and found that trust in scientists is moderately high.
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vladms.bsky.social @vladms.bsky.social · 31/12/2024
Very interesting study over plastics in food, especially the parts that explain how limits are set and discuss the existing studies. So much work still to do: www.plasticlist.org/report
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PlasticList
Data on plastic chemicals in Bay Area foods
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vladms.bsky.social @vladms.bsky.social · 28/12/2024
Use your brain more to navigate and it might give you more protection to Alzheimer’s disease www.bmj.com/content/bmj/...
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vladms.bsky.social @vladms.bsky.social · 12/12/2024
Interesting maps: www.openhistoricalmap.org (and a prettier interface, seems to use the data there as well, although has some inconsistencies: www.oldmapsonline.org/en/Metropoli... . Wish I had something like this in high-school!
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OpenHistoricalMap
OpenHistoricalMap is an interactive map of the world throughout history, created by people like you and dedicated to the public domain.
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vladms.bsky.social @vladms.bsky.social · 22/11/2024
People seem (still) lot more troubled than 6 years ago. While the trend is good, lets remember there are still almost double the people with serious (probably mental health) issues than in 2019... (www.faa.gov/unruly)
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vladms.bsky.social @vladms.bsky.social · 27/09/2024
Don't think that disruptive activism is the best solution, but 2 years in jail for damaging the frame of a painting, considering there are so many other instances of people and businesses destroying things is outrageous. Are people so afraid of being reminded there might be a problem ?...
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Just Stop Oil activists jailed for throwing soup over Van Gogh’s Sunflowers
Phoebe Plummer, 23, recieves two-year prison term while Anna Holland, 22, given 20-month sentence over incident
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vladms.bsky.social @vladms.bsky.social · 12/01/2024
Interesting article, with lots of valid points. Still, I am not sure cloud is the ideal tool for all its current users, so we might see more "cloud repatriations" in time. And improved tools to manage infrastructure will enable competition.
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Bert Hubert 🇺🇦🇪🇺🇺🇦 @berthubert.bsky.social · 11/01/2024
Europe has no position in "cloud" at all, but (government) initiatives abound to change this. In the post below I argue how hard this will be & why Europe might be better served by a narrower ambition: berthub.eu/articles/pos...
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Taking the Airbus to the IKEA Cloud - Bert Hubert's writings
This article is part of a series on (European) innovation and capabilities. The very short version: All of computing is moving to the cloud at a rapid clip, including (government) parts you might want...
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European Commission @ec.europa.eu · 10/01/2024
2023 has replaced 2016 as the warmest calendar year on record. The global-average temperature for 2023 was 14.98°C, 0.17°C higher than recorded for 2016. Climate change affects us all. So we must maintain our ambitious #EUGreenDeal climate goals. climate.copernicus.eu/global-clima...
​​​Monthly global surface air temperature anomalies (°C) relative to 1991–2020 from January 1940 to December 2023, plotted as time series for each year. 2023 is shown with a thick red line while other years are shown with thin lines and shaded according to the decade, from blue (1940s) to brick red (2020s).
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