Catriona Kennedy

Copenhagen town hall square, Denmark right now.

Massive solidarity with Greenland demonstrations.

Source: dr.dk

Petition: Taking refugees’ jewellery: stop the cruelty I’ve just signed to support this campaign – join me

The plan to take jewellery from refugees is a new low for the Labour government. Reverse this inhumane policy. Sign the petition: r.ippl.es/refugees-jew...

From Willowbrook to the Geiers: Families Speak Out “Once, I went down to the Geiers’ basement to use the bathroom. I saw several ladies packaging drug bottles into boxes. And in the bathroom I saw what appeared to be equipment from a chemistry lab.”

Terrific sleuthing and deep background research by @alex23.bsky.social into the horrors of "research" on autism conducted by none other than the person RFK Jr put in charge of ... you guessed it, the (non-existent) link between autism and vaccines:

Very tough article to read because it shows how little respect for human subjects Mark and David Geier had. Thank you Dr. Morozov and Professor Caplan for your work exposing how little the Geiers cared about the children they experimented upon.

Opinion | RFK Jr. and the troubling link between the antivax agenda and potential money and influence Science does not support aluminum as a culprit of autism. Yet RFK Jr. and his associates continue to find ways to support the claim.

This piece on MSNBC, authored by Alex Morozov, Helen Petousis-Harris, and I is presenting evidence of what appears to be a long-planned campaign against vaccines by RFK Jr and his, umm, colorful associates. They discovered a new scary chemical called aluminum ... www.msnbc.com/opinio...

Stephen Miller’s wife told Social Security staff to cover up a lie from Musk: report Former White House aide remains at Tesla chief’s side even after barrage of Epstein allegations

Katie Miller instructed the head of the SSA to report that 40% of all calls placed to SSA phone lines were linked to fraudulent Social Security claims, a number Trump and Musk plucked out of thin air.

Just more proof that DOGE is not transparent or efficient.
www.independent.co.uk/news/world/a...

Unpacking the bias of large language models MIT researchers discovered the underlying cause of position bias, a phenomenon that causes large language models to overemphasize the beginning or end of a document or conversation, while neglecting t...

This is super interesting! LLMs tend to pay more attention to the beginnings and ends of information, and neglect the middle: news.mit.edu/2025/unpacki... Unpacking the bias of large language models | MIT News 🧪

Harvard sues Trump administration for blocking foreign student enrolment It comes a day after the administration said it had revoked Harvard's access to student visa programmes.

Absolutely the right thing to do. Everyone needs to defy Trump's bullying and I seriously doubt the original decision was thought through enough to stand up in court. #FDT

BBC News - Harvard sues Trump administration for blocking foreign student enrolment
www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...

Truly looking forward to this talk. Please join us online!

Here, from the parliamentary transcript, is the moment I felt: "it's like the start of a disaster movie, where no one seems prepared to understand the warning they're being given."
committees.parliament.uk/oralevidence...

1. I've been banging on about the existential crisis facing our food system for years. But don't take it from me. Take it from the food professionals now risking their careers in an urgent and devastating warning to their own industry. Key quotes from their memo in 🧵 drive.google.com/file/d/1tATF...

ICYMI: Here is a great summary of our
@commspsychol.bsky.social paper examining the link between curiosity, spatial exploration, and memory via virtual environments. with @cjhodgetts.bsky.social @danlucen.bsky.social

www.cardiff.ac.uk/news/view/29...

Paper link 👉🏻: www.nature.com/articles/s44...

NEW: The government has said it wants to ‘shape the AI revolution’. But our new report finds that much of UK AI innovation is generic and not focussed on solving hard problems. Our detailed AI database shows only one in seven companies focus on solving a specific problem. (1/5)

March 23, 2025 A newsletter about the history behind today's politics.

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A historic clock with an ornate black and gold design juts out from the Canongate Tolbooth building in Edinburgh, Scotland. The stone building has turrets and detailed masonry, with a partly cloudy blue sky in the background.

The Tolbooth Clock on Canongate, Edinburgh—one of the most unique clocks in the city! This beauty was added in 1884

#Edinburgh #Scotland #RoyalMile #History #Architecture #Clock🪬🧿

This is just so heartbreaking.

Anxiety Mounts Among Social Security Recipients as DOGE Troops Settle In Elon Musk’s team has descended on an already understaffed Social Security Administration, which now faces further workforce cuts and closures of vital local offices. The consequences could be signific...

DOGE has been at Social Security since last week. They’re firing employees and closing offices across the country.

I don't care what Trump said on the campaign trail. They are coming after Social Security. It’s a display of utter contempt for the families who depend on it.

I'm proud to join @sanders.senate.gov, @warren.senate.gov and others in cosponsoring the Social Security Expansion Act, which would fully fund Social Security for the next 75 years.

If Republicans can give away $4.5 trillion in tax cuts to the rich, we can sure as hell find the money for this.

I am incredibly proud to share my first, first-author paper as a postdoc with @benhayden.bsky.social . How does the human hippocampus, known for encoding concepts, represent the meanings of words while listening to narrative speech?
www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1...

Chicago, looking portentous

NEW: As world leaders gather for the Paris AI Summit, I hope we're reaching a turning point, towards a "new politics of AI". Politicians should not just accelerate AI, but they also need to actively steer it towards social good. (1/8)

This is exactly right.

It’s straight from the Trump playbook: Labour is tearing up the machinery of government | George Monbiot If Starmer and Reeves really want a greener, cleaner, wilder nation, then why attack vital state bodies that are already on their knees?, says Guardian columnist George Monbiot

It's utter madness.
In today's column I discuss how Labour in the UK, just like Trump in the US, is dismantling the administrative state. And how this makes its other plans, including the good things it's trying to do, impossible to implement.
www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...

Scottish nature body celebrates two decades of 'world-class' legislation THE 20th anniversary of a “pioneering” piece of Scottish legislation is being celebrated and will be marked throughout 2025 with the sharing…

Welcome comments from @naturescot.bsky.social chair Prof Colin Galbraith.⤵️

He wants Scottish access rights to "continue to thrive & that their use helps tackle the climate emergency by promoting a deeper connection to nature while encouraging everyone to care for Scotland's extraordinary outdoors.”

they are mostly targeting black employees so this is quite literally just a repeat of woodrow wilson’s segregationist purge of the federal government

I honestly believe our most powerful position in a toxic time that feeds on cynicism, apathy,& despair is to genuinely care and act for a better world.

Cynicism is our enemy. We should check it, incl. on the left. It’s not intellectually superior. It’s the virus they’re trying to infect us with. NO

Undocumented workers paid about $25.7 BILLION tax dollars into Social Security in 2022 while multi-billionaires like Bezos & Musk paid $0 in the past! Undocumented immigrants are often unseen heroes, working hard jobs, paying their taxes & contributing to their communities. itep.org/undocumented...

This.

Nice to see @pomscheme.bsky.social here on BlueSky.
Follow them to find out more about pollinators our plants depend on (& vice versa!).
Why not take 10 mins on 23 Feb to join their insect count:
ten-minutes-to-count-insects.eventbrite.co.uk
Good to see the #BlueskyNatureCommunity growing so fast!