Marcel Swart

Homeland Security @DHSgov Democrats must end this DHS shutdown NOW.

it is not normal for official government social media channels to behave like arms of the Republican Party

The Economist’s glass-ceiling index Our annual measure of the role and influence of women in the workforce

For International Women's Day I've updated our 14th annual "glass-ceiling index", ranking 29 rich countries on life for working women. Interesting movers from their positions last year inc:
⬆️ France
⬆️ Netherlands
⬇️ United States
⬇️ Spain
www.economist.com/interactive/...
For @economist.com

Glass pane with inserts of different coloured and patterned circular glass pieces

US artist Nikki Root recycles vintage and modern bottles and glassware to create stained glass windows #WomensArt

Human Rights Watch beschuldigt Israël van oorlogsmisdrijf: onrechtmatig inzet van witte fosformunitie in Zuid-Libanon Human Rights Watch (HRW) beschuldigt Israël opnieuw van het onrechtmatig inzetten van witte fosfor in een dichtbevolkt gebied.

Human Rights Watch beschuldigt Israël van oorlogsmisdrijf: onrechtmatig inzet van witte fosformunitie in Zuid-Libanon

Putin has no plans to stop. Ukraine needs Russia's frozen assets more than ever | Euractiv The US, UK, France, Germany, Canada, and other like-minded allies must form a coalition to cooperatively and immediately employ Moscow’s sovereign assets on Ukraine’s behalf

Opinion: "The US, UK, France, Germany, Canada, and other like-minded allies must form a coalition to cooperatively and immediately employ Moscow’s sovereign assets on Ukraine’s behalf", writes Michael F.Bennet at @euractiv.com
www.euractiv.com/opinion/puti...

Trump's decision to bomb Iran is now the greatest windfall to the Russian war effort on record. If it continues, it might save the Russian war economy.

Red line graph time series of monthly carbon dioxide abundance from January 1959 through February 2026. There is a seasonal cycle and long-term increasing trend. Current levels of CO2 are at 429 ppm. This is the Keeling Curve graph. A line for CO2 10 years ago is also annotated.

Carbon dioxide (CO₂) averaged about 429 ppm in February 2026. Note that I also just updated my annual mean growth rate plot for 2025 on my personal climate indicators website.

10 years ago February averaged about 404 ppm.

Data available at gml.noaa.gov/ccgg/trends/

Dozens killed as Israeli special forces raid Lebanese village in search of 40-year-old remains Overnight, one Israeli operation saw at least 41 people killed and 40 injured, according to the Lebanese health ministry.

Pretty serious allegation here. "Witnesses told the BBC that the Israeli soldiers had arrived disguised in Lebanese military fatigues and used ambulances with signs of Hezbollah's Islamic Health Organization."
www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...

Grumble grumble
#SpellingBee only knows one type of ionic

#ChemChat

Exclusive: US investigation points to likely US responsibility in Iran school strike, sources say Military investigators believe it is likely that U.S. forces were responsible for an apparent strike on an Iranian girls' school that killed scores of children on Saturday, two U.S. officials told Reu...

Reuters Exclusive

"U.S. military investigators believe it is likely that U.S. forces were responsible for an apparent strike on an Iranian girls' school."

"The strike would rank among the worst cases of civilian casualties in decades of U.S. conflicts in the ​Middle East."

Trump is a traitor. Plain and simple. He supports Russia who is giving Iran intelligence against our military. Trump is absolutely detrimental to the future of the U.S.A. Fly your flags MAGAts.

What happens when you have quacks running health care?

You get disinformation, outbreaks and deaths

Stand Up For Science @standupforscience.bsky.social

Quacks must go!

kevinrkirk 2d @ Threads Why are we bothering with the Strait of Hormuz when we could simply do this? Explain it to me like l'm 5. (Drawing of chopping of part of land) suahuatica 2d MOUNTAIN HARD AND BIG, WATER NO UP. MANY MANY DIG DIG.

Happy Friday. Don’t skip school.

NEW: The Trump administration told a judge that it can’t immediately comply with a court order to take key steps towards tariff refunds after SCOTUS struck down the president’s global levies. From Erik Larson:
www.bloomberg.com/news/article...

Doc: assets.bwbx.io/documents/us...

Scientific datasets are riddled with copy-paste errors Initial results from scanning through Excel files belonging to 600 published scientific papers.

If you want to take your mind off awful politics and look at awful science stuff instead, this is a good read: www.sciencedetective.org/scientific-d...

"The software detected 18 cases in the first 600 datasets that were serious enough to report...based on that limited sample, around 3% of papers contain these types of errors."

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Reporter, Nature News Job Title: Reporter, Nature Location: Washington DC or New York (Hybrid Working Model) Application Deadline: March 27, 2026 About Springer Nature Springer Nature is one of the leading publishers of re...

Nature Magazine is hiring! This is a rare and wonderful chance to join our US news team as a physical sciences reporter. US$85,000 - $100,000. Based in Washington, DC or New York City (you must have the right to work in the US, sorry). springernature.wd3.myworkdayjobs.com/SpringerNatu...

Original (left) and corrected (right) Fig. 4a in the paper https://www.nature.com/articles/s41586-026-10305-0 showing the chemical structures of amino acids (only the right one) the left figure is just an embarrassment

I wonder... 🤔🤔🧪 #chemsky

a) what program did the authors use to make the original (left) figure in the paper? Wild guess, ChatGPT

b) how such high school science level of disgrace pass peer review in @nature.com?

Note this was Fig.4.a NOT in SI

www.nature.com/articles/s41...

Can AI Replace Social Science Researchers? No. No it can't. Come on, now.

New post: Can AI Replace Social Science Researchers? (No. No it can't. Come on, now.)

davekarpf.beehiiv.com/p/can-ai-rep...

Don’t let the door hit you on the way out, Kristi Noem.

AP: Trump says he’s replacing his Homeland Security Secretary Noem and will nominate in her place Oklahoma Republican Sen. Markwayne Mullin. Trump made the announcement on social media on Thursday, two days after Noem faced a grilling on Capitol Hill from GOP members as well as Democrats.

Well done, Arkansas.

Inside Jeffrey Epstein’s network What 1.4m emails reveal about America’s most notorious sex offender

The Epstein files contain 1.4m emails. Working with independent researchers, we have used AI tools to build a picture of the sex offender’s network. Register for free to read the first such analysis of its kind www.economist.com/interactive/...

DODJT is disappearing many of the trump/epstein files while we are talking war. That tells me there are many people in his cabinet that are afraid they will go down with trump if the truth comes out. They are now fighting for their own freedom as well as trump's. We need those files NOW.

Spanish PM Sánchez responds to Trump:

"Spain is against this disaster... Govts are here to improve people's lives... It is absolutely unacceptable that those leaders who are unable to fulfill that mission use the smoke of war to hide their failure, and in the process, fill the pockets of a few."

Spain's leader with a message that should be adopted by every top Democrat

US strikes on Iran ‘outside international law,’ says Macron Macron joins Spanish PM Pedro Sánchez in calling the legality of the strikes into question.

After four days of hesitating, the president of France has joined the prime minister of Spain in saying that the 🇺🇸🇮🇱 attack on Iran is a violation of international law.

But they are still the only 2 EU leaders to have done so. Will others join?

Trump wants to distract from the failing economy, ICE murders, and his corruption scandals

Netanyahu wants to distract from the Gaza genocide, West Bank settler attacks, and his own corruption scandals.

Both are using the same playbook: wage war to blot out everything else.

okay, Ill bite.
What do you think the point of reading for and writing a literature review is? The process of reading and writing is crucial for THINKING. Your ideas are shaped by all of this, offloading it to gAI, no matter how "good" you think gAI is at it defeats the purpose entirely.

Bro, ICE is still here kidnapping people, now they’ve even got transit vans advertising fake companies.