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Volodymyr Minin 🇺🇦🇺🇸

@vmminin.bsky.social
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grew up as a human in Ukraine, grew up as a scientist in USA | stochastic processes | statistical modeling | infectious disease dynamics | phylogenetics | systems biology | DEI in STEM/Statistics | faculty @ucirvine.bsky.social vnminin.github.io

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UNITED24 @u24.gov.ua · 19/12/2025
Another beautiful Shchedryk performance amidst ruins. It was set in what used to be a DTEK thermal power plant — now destroyed by russia. The contrast between russia’s destructive nature and the Ukrainian will to create beauty even in the darkest times is palpable.
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Volodymyr Minin 🇺🇦🇺🇸 @vmminin.bsky.social · 15/12/2025
log-transform the world and keep thinking linearly 😀 (not to make fun of @adamjkucharski.bsky.social's wonderful educational and outreach efforts; just couldn't keep the math nerdiness under control)
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Alessandro Vespignani @alexvespi.bsky.social · 25/11/2025
We’ve just released Epistorm-Mix, a new open dataset on how people in the U.S. mix across ages and settings in the post-COVID era. 📊 Contact-level data + contact matrices Built for epidemic modeling & forecasting Fully open data & code 🔗 www.epistorm.org/data/epistor...
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Epistorm-Mix: Mapping Social Contact Patterns in the Post-Pandemic United States
Epistorm-Mix provides individual-level contact data and contacts patterns characterization relevant for the spread of respiratory infectious diseases within the US population.
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Dr Edward Hill @edmhill.bsky.social · 19/11/2025
1/ 📰 Fantastic to see the official website for the Global Society for Infectious Disease Dynamics (GSIDD) is now live! #GSIDD #IDsky #EpiSky 🧪 🗺️ GSIDD serves the global community of researchers, practitioners and educators in infectious disease dynamics. 🔗: www.gsidd.org
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Global Society for Infectious Disease Dynamics (GSIDD) | infectious disease dynamics
GSIDD serves the global community of researchers, practitioners, and educators in infectious disease dynamics.
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Nextstrain @nextstrain.org · 06/11/2025
On Oct 1, 2025, GISAID informed us that they had ended updates to the flat file of SARS-CoV-2 genomic sequences and associated metadata that we had used to update Nextstrain analyses since Feb 2020. GISAID's stated rationale was that their "resources are limited". 1/5
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Lena Sun @lenasun.bsky.social · 11/10/2025
NEW: @CDCgov hit hard by massive firings that several staff describe to me as a “bloodbath.” Among those RIFd: —leadership of the center for immunization and respiratory diseases; —leadership of global health center —leadership of the measles outbreak response; 1/4
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Volodymyr Minin 🇺🇦🇺🇸 @vmminin.bsky.social · 05/10/2025
In another display of incredible resilience, Ukrainian mathematicians in 2022(❗) opened a new International Centre for Mathematics in Ukraine (ICMU): icmu.ua/en It was pleasure to give an online mini-course on Bayesian Statistics to Ukrainian students and scientists: icmu.ua/en/events/in...
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International Centre for Mathematics in Ukraine - ICMU
ICMU supports top-level research in mathematics, with special emphasis on training younger generations of scientists and the development of mathematics in Ukraine.
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Volodymyr Minin 🇺🇦🇺🇸 @vmminin.bsky.social · 29/09/2025
Russian soldiers proudly call their campaign to hunt Ukrainian civilians with the help of drones "human safari." Yes, you've read this correctly: deliberately hunting *civilians* using drones
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Michele Guindani @mguindani.bsky.social · 16/09/2025
Closing a Department of Statistics, in this day and age, is incredible and shortsighted. Please, read below. I encourage everyone from all over the world to submit their feedback here apc.unl.edu/fall-2025-bu...
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Fall 2025 Budget Reduction Feedback Form | Academic Planning Committee | Nebraska
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Volodymyr Minin 🇺🇦🇺🇸 @vmminin.bsky.social · 11/09/2025
Don't miss UC President's Postdoctoral Fellowship Program if you are looking for postdoc opportunities: ppfp.ucop.edu/info/how-to-...
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How to apply
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Michele Guindani @mguindani.bsky.social · 21/08/2025
“University of California scientists helped create the Internet, wet suits, artificial intelligence and a lung therapy that has saved an untold number of premature newborns.” www.latimes.com/california/n...
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The 'death knell' of America's top public university?
Your morning catch-up: UC fights the Trump administration, voters in deep-red NorCal are fuming about Newsom’s maps, and more big stories.
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psathyrella.bsky.social @psathyrella.bsky.social · 16/08/2025
In a new preprint we use deep learning on lineage trees to infer the functional form of the relationship between affinity and fitness that controls antibody evolution in germinal centers: arxiv.org/abs/2508.09871 🧵
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Inference of germinal center evolutionary dynamics via simulation-based deep learning
B cells and the antibodies they produce are vital to health and survival, motivating research on the details of the mutational and evolutionary processes in the germinal centers (GC) from which mature...
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Sam Abbott @seabbs.bsky.social · 16/08/2025
Screenshot of cases from the U.S. CDC’s website showing the number of national measles cases indexed by rash onset date. Are they going down?
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Daniel M. Parker @dmparker.bsky.social · 15/08/2025
preliminary work from us on seroepidemiology of #Aedes borne disease in East #Ethiopia. Long story short - LOTS of exposure to #dengue and #chikungunya. There have been outbreaks, but looks endemic to me. More work needed on that. There might be Zika transmission too: : dx.plos.org/10.1371/jour...
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High seroprevalence of antibodies to Dengue, Chikungunya, and Zika viruses in Dire Dawa, Ethiopia: A cross-sectional survey in 2024
Author summary Mosquito-borne viruses such as dengue, chikungunya, and Zika pose growing public health challenges in many parts of Africa, but limited surveillance makes it difficult to assess their t...
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Duncan MacCannell @drm.bsky.social · 05/08/2025
✨ Looking to add something special to your decor? This is your last chance to order FREE Scientific Superhero posters for your home, office, university, or lab from CDC-INFO on Demand. The last day to order is August 15, 2025 before they shut things down. www.cdc.gov/advanced-mol...
AMD Posters for Genomic sequencing, bioinformatics and epidemiology. These posters won a ClearMark award for their design and clarity.
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MIDAS Network @midas-network.bsky.social · 11/08/2025
The California Department of Public Health is pleased to invite abstract submissions for the 4th Annual Western States Modeling Symposium, to be held virtually on Wednesday, October 8, 2025, from 10am PT. Register: forms.office.com/Pages/Respon...
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Volodymyr Minin 🇺🇦🇺🇸 @vmminin.bsky.social · 07/08/2025
That's us 🤓 @dmparker.bsky.social and company Special thanks to ‪@juemos.bsky.social (not a co-author, unfortunately for us), whose joke about our work in progress at the time (when we were prepping to apply for NSF PIPP II competition) inspired the title of the paper! 🚽
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Volodymyr Minin 🇺🇦🇺🇸 @vmminin.bsky.social · 01/08/2025
💔 www.pravda.com.ua/eng/news/202...
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Death toll from Russian strike on Kyiv rises to 26, including 3 children – photos
The death toll from the Russian attack on Kyiv on the night of 30-31 July has risen to 26, including three children. Another 159 people have been injured, including 16 children.
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Volodymyr Minin 🇺🇦🇺🇸 @vmminin.bsky.social · 20/07/2025
Austrian Journal of Statistics has a special issue this year highlighting research in the Department of Probability, Statistics and Actuarial Mathematics at Taras Shevchenko National University of Kyiv 🇺🇦 Legends like Gnedenko, Gikhman, and Skorokhod worked there www.ajs.or.at/index.php/aj...
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Vol. 54 No. 1 (2025): Special Issue by the Department of Probability, Statistics and Actuarial Mathematics at TSNU of Kyiv | Austrian Journal of Statistics
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Moritz Kraemer @mugkraemer.bsky.social · 07/07/2025
BEAST X for Bayesian phylogenetic, phylogeographic and phylodynamic inference www.nature.com/articles/s41...
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BEAST X for Bayesian phylogenetic, phylogeographic and phylodynamic inference - Nature Methods
BEAST X advances Bayesian phylogenetic, phylogeographic and phylodynamic analysis by incorporating a broad range of complex models and leveraging advanced algorithms and techniques to boost statistica...
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Mine Doğucu @minedogucu.com · 21/06/2025
💜 LA
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Harvard T.H. Chan School of Public Health @hsph.harvard.edu · 16/06/2025
During Pride month, we're highlighting LGBTQ leaders in public health history. Alan Hart, born in 1890, was a physician, researcher, radiologist, and novelist. 🧵 1/3
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Pioneered the use of chest x-rays to diagnose tuberculosis
LGBTQ leaders in public health history
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Terry McGlynn @hormiga.bsky.social · 11/06/2025
What's happening in LA? Here's what I see. scienceforeveryone.science/p/a-quick-re...
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A quick report from Los Angeles
Immigrants and the rule of law in the world's 4th largest economy
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Bloom lab @jbloomlab.bsky.social · 11/06/2025
I wrote a full response to this here, which explains why there remains a discrepancy between outgroup- and date-based rooting that still makes it impossible to reliably root the tree: academic.oup.com/mbe/article/...
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The Data are Insufficient to Confidently Root the SARS-CoV-2 Phylogenetic Tree
Abstract. Several years ago, I published a paper that described the discrepancy between outgroup and date-based methods for rooting the SARS-CoV-2 phylogen
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Volodymyr Minin 🇺🇦🇺🇸 @vmminin.bsky.social · 11/06/2025
I am not an expert on the early SARS-CoV-2 evolution, but this looks like a thorough study. It is also important given a big splash @jbloomlab.bsky.social's recovered sequence analysis made back in 2021
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Marc Lipsitch @mlipsitch.bsky.social · 09/06/2025
Remarkable open letter to the director from NIH staff on the health, financial,academic freedom, and other impacts of changes at the agency. www.standupforscience.net/bethesda-dec...
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Bethesda Declaration — STAND UP FOR SCIENCE
Support NIH Staff Now!
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Volodymyr Minin 🇺🇦🇺🇸 @vmminin.bsky.social · 02/06/2025
Russian strategic bombers are burning in the background with a Ukrainian soldier watching them and showing them a middle finger
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Jon Freeman @freemanjb.bsky.social · 21/05/2025
🚨 A new rule would let career scientists like NSF/NIH program officers be replaced by political appointees Already 14,000+ public comments, deadline is Friday 📣 Comments can be short. Courts consider them—and scientists with NSF/NIH experience are especially impactful Speak up! shorturl.at/WKuBj
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Timothy Snyder @timothysnyder.bsky.social · 21/05/2025
If you are frustrated with the Trump policy of coddling Russian war criminals, you can give a hand yourself. savelife.in.ua/en/
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Come Back Alive Foundation - Charity Organization
One of the top charity organizations who help the Ukraine Army since 2014. Donate via the website - 100% of proceeds go directly to Ukraine Army.
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Frederick "Erick" Matsen @matsen.bsky.social · 18/05/2025
matsen.group/general/2025...
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Let's blog!
My return to blogging, and why I hope to read your blog too.
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Volodymyr Minin 🇺🇦🇺🇸 @vmminin.bsky.social · 13/05/2025
A cool article about what the US newspapers were writing about Ukraine 100 years ago. It is in Ukrainian, but with lots of screenshots in English. Mentions @timothysnyder.bsky.social of the 1910s who was writing about the rebirth of Ukraine as a nation. www.pravda.com.ua/articles/202...
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“Дайте їм допомогу. Їхні війська вимушені покладатися тільки на себе”. Що писали про Україну в США сто років тому
“Українська правда” вивчила архіви американської преси, щоб дізнатися, якою США бачили нову Українську державу в 1917–1921 роках. Саме в той час, до якого звертається Рубіо в своєму апокаліптичному ма...
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Mine Doğucu @minedogucu.com · 13/05/2025
My partner has a show opening today with Taymour Grahne Projects. Their social media person recorded this video. I love documenting his work in his studio for each show. I am glad this time it was done by a professional. You can see the show here: taymourgrahne.viewingrooms.com/viewing-room...
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Mine Doğucu @minedogucu.com · 08/05/2025
I am thrilled to share that I got elected as 2027 chair of the Section on Statistics and Data Science Education of the American Statistical Association. If you, like me, don't know how to write statements for such elections, you can read my blog post about it. www.datapedagogy.com/posts/2025-0...
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Writing personal statements for elections – Data Pedagogy
Tips for election statements in professional organizations
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Pleuni Pennings @pleunipennings.bsky.social · 07/05/2025
How the NSF-funded GOLD program helped our master students learn data science skills Photo of students with yellow caps to celebrate their graduation from the GOLD data science program. How it started Around 2018, undergraduate students in the Biology and Chemistry departments of San Francisco…
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How the NSF-funded GOLD program helped our master students learn data science skills
Photo of students with yellow caps to celebrate their graduation from the GOLD data science program. How it started Around 2018, undergraduate students in the Biology and Chemistry departments of San Francisco State University had the option to participate in the PINC computing minor, and it wasn’t long before graduate students began asking for similar opportunities. At the time, several of us computational scientists were already collaborating on initiatives like a…
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Sam Abbott @seabbs.bsky.social · 07/05/2025
Do you like situational awareness of infectious diseases (who doesn't). Do you like thinking about modelling with this aim in mind? Do you feel like its a bit of a niche and hard to find people to talk to about it? We have a forum: community.epinowcast.org for you.
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Epinowcast
A community to discuss epinowcast and real-time infectious disease analysis more generally
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Volodymyr Minin 🇺🇦🇺🇸 @vmminin.bsky.social · 30/04/2025
www.npr.org/2025/04/30/n...
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Word of the Week: Crimea's tumultuous history shrouds the origin of its very name
At the northern end of the Black Sea, Crimea sits at the crossroads of Europe and Asia, having been at various times in its long history either coveted, conquered or controlled by various powers.
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William DeWitt @wsdewitt.github.io · 30/04/2025
A funny story for the immunologists. Today I attended a brilliant PhD defense involving B cells. Near the end of the Q&A session, a gotcha question came from the audience: "Do you know what the 'B' in 'B cell' refers to?" Groan, here it comes... 1/3
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Mine Doğucu @minedogucu.com · 30/04/2025
One of our student clubs came to interview me and asked about my hobbies 😻 www.instagram.com/p/DJDa_Ezpxr...
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Timothy Snyder @timothysnyder.bsky.social · 27/04/2025
Very good recommendations here of Ukrainian literature in English.
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Dr. David Miller 🏳️‍🌈 @davidimiller.bsky.social · 26/04/2025
🧪 UPDATE: NSF just opened itself even further to lawsuit. Yesterday, it doubled down on the false claim that its 1,000+ grant terminations are "not subject to appeal." See question 16 here, published Friday afternoon: www.nsf.gov/updates-on-p... A brief thread... 🧵
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Randall Munroe @xkcd.com · 25/04/2025
PhD Timeline xkcd.com/3081
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Volodymyr Minin 🇺🇦🇺🇸 @vmminin.bsky.social · 02/04/2025
Good people at @tochnyi.info are documenting war crimes that happen every day in Ukraine: russians are hunting Ukrainian civilians with drones
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Volodymyr Minin 🇺🇦🇺🇸 @vmminin.bsky.social · 31/03/2025
Looking forward to my visit @ccdd-hsph.bsky.social!
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kermit the frog is dancing in front of a red curtain with the words i 'm so excited !
ALT: kermit the frog is dancing in front of a red curtain with the words i 'm so excited !
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Michael Yarbrough (he/him) @mwyarbrough.bsky.social · 30/03/2025
This exciting resolution from Rutgers University Senate is exactly the kind of model I think higher ed needs: a mutual defense pact of, in this case, Big 10 schools. They call for member institutions to create a joint defense fund and make resources available to any member institution under attack.
Excerpt from Rutgers University Senate resolution calling for a Mutual Academic Defense Compact. The excerpt reads:

"BE IT RESOLVED THAT, the Rutgers University Senate urges the President of Rutgers University to formally propose and help establish a Mutual Academic Defense Compact (MADC) among all members of the Big Ten Academic Alliance;

BE IT FURTHER RESOLVED THAT, under this compact, all participating institutions shall commit meaningful funding to a shared or distributed defense fund. This fund shall be used to provide immediate and strategic support to any member institution under direct political or legal infringement;"
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Volodymyr Minin 🇺🇦🇺🇸 @vmminin.bsky.social · 24/03/2025
Meanwhile, 🇷🇺 piece seekers bomb schools and injure civilians, including children abcnews.go.com/Internationa...
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Dozens injured, including children, in strike on Ukraine as US-Russia talks resumed, officials say
American and Russian negotiators met again in Saudi Arabia on Monday as the White House continues its push for a ceasefire and eventual peace deal in Ukraine.
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Volodymyr Minin 🇺🇦🇺🇸 @vmminin.bsky.social · 24/03/2025
🤔 how many journalists (from 🇺🇸, 🇺🇦, 🇪🇺, 🇬🇧, or 🇷🇺) are in the signal group chat about 🇺🇦 end of the war negotiations? There is very little doubt that this group chat exists, right?
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Volodymyr Minin 🇺🇦🇺🇸 @vmminin.bsky.social · 24/03/2025
www.theguardian.com/world/2025/m...
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Ukraine’s clandestine book club defies Russia’s push to rewrite history
Risking discovery and even prison, teenage readers meet in secret to discuss texts that Putin’s troops are trying to erase
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Michael Kofman @michaelkofman.bsky.social · 21/03/2025
An update on the war following a recent trip. The situation has improved compared with Fall 2024. Russian offensive momentum slowed significantly over the winter, though it is premature to claim that the front has stabilized, especially following AFU withdrawal in Kursk. /1
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Timothy Snyder @timothysnyder.bsky.social · 15/03/2025
Russia has kidnapped tens of thousands of Ukrainian children. Putin was indicted for this crime. Yale has a unit searching for them. Musk eliminated the funding. inews.co.uk/news/world/m...
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Musk cuts the team finding Ukrainian children stolen by Russia
Trump’s federal cost-cutting - led by Elon Musk's Doge – has now hit the unit helping rescue Ukrainian children taken by Russia
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