A South Carolina county is now ground zero for the largest measles outbreak since 2000. Many parents want the right to decide medical treatments for their children. But the recent contagion shows what happens when high vaccination rates — meant to keep children safe — are clipped.
« Notre engagement politique ne peut être qu’antifasciste. Cela implique une exigence : ne plus céder aux cadrages de l’extrême droite, ne plus courir derrière ses narrations, ne plus lui offrir des minutes de silence comme des chambres d’écho. » blogs.mediapart.fr/les-invites-...
1/ ProPublica collected handwritten letters in mid-January from children held at the Dilley Immigration Processing Center, the same facility where 5-year-old Liam Conejo Ramos was taken.
Hundreds of kids are still detained.
We’ll let the children’s words speak for themselves. 🧵
This is horrifying for so many reasons. The one I'm thinking of right now is the billion dollars spent to torture and terrorize and imprison people could easily buy all of us healthcare, child care, parental leave, affordable housing ... all the things the Epstein Class swears we can't afford.
You should read this. It is the type of detail that experts in authoritarian regimes see as telling.
In this case, state agents are offered impunity from higher ups, and the legal system is rendered inoperative as a mode of accountability.
www.nytimes.com/2026/02/07/u...
US science after a year of Trump
A series of graphics reveals how the Trump administration has sought historic cuts to science and the research workforce.
go.nature.com/4jSm0ui
It’s notable that the president can go on TV and be a total gutter racist, and somehow this isn’t news in the slightest. Says a lot about the sickness of American society right now.
MAGAs are already defending ICE fascists by saying the man they killed today had a gun.
1. MN is an open carry state
2. The same MAGA bootlickers who claim we need unlimited guns to "prevent government tyranny" are the first ones to scream "OH MY GOD HE HAD A GUN" when tyrannical govt kills someone
Vandaag verzamelen universiteiten en hogescholen van over het hele land om te betogen tegen besparingen in het hoger onderwijs. Om 12u vertrekt de betoging aan het Braemgebouw van de VUB.
Tech can be complicated, but we've got some clear answers to frequently asked questions about the devices you use every day. www.digitalrightsbytes.org/
"Fossil fuel lobbyists outnumber all COP30 delegations except Brazil" - via @ninalakhani.bsky.social in @theguardian.com
Time to kick them out? ⏰
www.theguardian.com/environment/...
affiche de "la dernière"
Toujours incroyable que ça continue. Toujours l'impression que c'est une des meilleure réponses à ce qu'on a pu subir à Inter en termes de manoeuvres pour faire exploser les solidarités de groupe. Bravo les ami·es!
(et je reviens pour une chronique linguistique en novembre) #laderniere
La Belgique fait partie des trois pays de toute l'OCDE dans lesquels vos résultats scolaires sont le plus déterminés par votre origine sociale.
Hier, la droite au pouvoir au ministère de l'enseignement à décidé de mettre fin au chantier du "tronc commun" entamé il y a 15 ans.
#KEVIN 😮💨
📢 ✍ Appel à contribution pour #didapro 11
🧑🏫 ⌨️ Colloque francophone de didactique de l’informatique
🗓️ Grenoble du 10 au 12 mars 2026
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Scientific illustration showing a cross-section of Saturn’s moon Enceladus. It features three labelled layers: An ice shell at the top, with visible cracks releasing jets of water vapour into space; an ocean in the middle, depicted as a large body of water beneath the ice; a rocky core at the bottom, shown emitting heat that may drive the jets. In the background, Saturn and its rings are visible in space.
🆕 The discovery of new complex organic molecules at Saturn's #Enceladus enhances the likelihood that the moon is habitable 🪐
On Earth, these molecules are involved in chemical reaction chains that lead to the more complex molecules essential for life.
Read more 👉 www.esa.int/Science_Expl...
🔭 🧪 ☄️
The last few months trying my hand at writing a newsletter I have been posting only in Dutch, but from now on my newsletters will also contain an English translation.
Don't miss the first English one, on hallucinations, the easy or unease of learning and how to use AI.
We have to stop dehumanizing ICE agents while they are doing their important job of dehumanizing us
California Gov. Gavin Newsom signed a bill prohibiting federal agents from wearing identity-concealing masks during enforcement operations, a controversial practice that the governor likened to “a dystopian sci-fi movie.”
A VPN is not a tool for anonymity, and while it can protect your location from some companies, there are many other ways companies may track you. ssd.eff.org/module/choo...
Denis Goeman is rechter bij de Franstalige rechtbank van eerste aanleg in Brussel en geeft tweewekelijks in zijn column een unieke inkijk in de wereld van de Brusselse justitie.
The assassination of Charlie Kirk makes we worry we can no longer have peaceful discussions of whether gays should be stoned to death or civil and collegial debates about whether black people are inherently inferior. Our culture will suffer.
New York Times tomorrow
✅ #SCHIER2025 is officially confirmed!
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📩 Apply by 25 July via email — before the last few spots go!
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#InformaticsEducation #EducationResearch #PhDChat
Based on the Informatics Europe Higher Education Data Portal, the first pan-European report on bachelor-level Informatics retention and graduation (2010–2023) has been published.
🌍 #InformaticsEurope & @acm.org Europe release the first pan-European report on bachelor-level Informatics retention & graduation (2010–2023), covering 13 countries across #Europe.
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#Informatics #HigherEducation #DigitalFuture
Het openbaar onderzoek over de verkavelingsplannen op de Josaphatsite in Schaarbeek gaat vandaag van start. De vraag is of groene open ruimte en biodiversiteit moeten wijken voor ruim 500 woningen.
The Trump administration called for a review of all exhibitions at the Smithsonian’s museums this month. Some other museums across the U.S. have already changed their programming significantly, as they try to steer clear of potential hot-button topics including gender, sexuality and race.
More than 60,000 metric tons of food aid have languished in warehouses in the United States and around the world after the Trump administration’s breakneck dismantling of the USAID. wapo.st/4fmJAx2
Musk has adjusted Grok’s algorithm so it’s now a neo-Nazi.
Pretty cool that almost every progressive commentator, elected official and organization still uses Musk’s X algorithm to communicate with the public! Good job guys.
There is an ad for the #schier summer school in your #iticse welcome pack. Check it out ! @informatics-europe.bsky.social
