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Victor Kattan @victorkattan.bsky.social · 1h

Your long weekend read by yours truly :-) There is something new here for everyone. The hidden history of British war crimes in Palestine — and the campaign for an apology - ABC Religion & Ethics www.abc.net.au/religion/hid...

The hidden history of British war crimes in Palestine — and the campaign for an apology - ABC Religion & Ethics

The UK government has belatedly recognised a Palestinian state, but memories of British repression in “mandate Palestine” linger — if the UK is sincere about wanting to foster a peaceful future, it ne...

www.abc.net.au

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Drew McKevitt @drewmckevitt.bsky.social · 8h

Years ago I was teaching my gun history class and at the end of the quarter one of the students said that he was in the campus TPUSA chapter and they put him up to taking the class to spy on me but he felt bad about that because he loved the class and learned a lot and had a great time

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Andrew Tan @andrewtanyongyi.bsky.social · 1h

"One day, Jewish-Israeli society will recognize that this 'Jewish and democratic' thing gradually tightened the noose around it from the day of its founding." - Assaf David

One of the few Israelis with a direct line to Gazans urges public to confront horrors

Middle East Scholar Assaf David, One of the Few Israelis in Direct Contact With Gaza Residents, Wants His Fellow Citizens to Recognize the Horrors Unfolding There in Their Name. He Relays Chilling Acc...

www.haaretz.com

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Jens Eisert @jenseisert.bsky.social · 1h

How hard is it to verify a classical shadow?

We look at the problem of establishing classical shadows from the perspective of computational complexity.

scirate.com/arxiv/2510.0...

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Yossi Bartal @yossibartal.bsky.social · 1d

Auch das passierte gestern: Ein Sohn von palästinensischen Flüchtlingen aus Gaza hat den Chemie-Nobelpreis gewonnen.

Chemie-Nobelpreis 2025 - Entdeckung von Molekül-Schwämmen ausgezeichnet

Susumu Kitagawa, Richard Robson und Omar Yaghi haben metal-organic frameworks (MOFs) entwickelt. Neuen Materialien, die Umweltprobleme lösen können.

www.deutschlandfunk.de

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Andrew Tan @andrewtanyongyi.bsky.social · 6h

Guadalupe

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Andrew Tan @andrewtanyongyi.bsky.social · 7h

"Nadeen Kort from Palestine turned unimaginable challenges into a story of resilience and hope. Despite living through violence that made attending university impossible, they found a way to continue their education with Neuromatch Academy."

Neuromatch @neuromatch.bsky.social · 11h

Nadeen Kort from Palestine turned unimaginable challenges into a story of resilience and hope. Despite living through violence that made attending university impossible, they found a way to continue their education with Neuromatch Academy.

➡️ Read more here: www.linkedin.com/posts/neurom...

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Mark Histed @markhisted.org · 8h

"pattern completion circuits in lower cortical areas may reinforce activity patterns that match prior expectations..."

Yes. That's active filtering. Sensory cortical recurrent networks learn the structure of the sensory world.

New paper from Shin, Adesnik et al. 🧠🤖🧪

Recurrent pattern completion drives the neocortical representation of sensory inference

Nature Neuroscience - Neurons that respond emergently to illusory contours drive pattern completion in V1. Pattern completion in lower cortical areas may therefore mediate perceptual inference by...

www.nature.com

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Andrew Tan @andrewtanyongyi.bsky.social · 7h

It's because Catholics have long been part of the threat Trump represents.

‘Maga Catholics’ are gaining ground in the US. Now their sight is set on the Vatican

Conservative US Catholics like Steve Bannon look to win ‘war that lasts decades’ with pope antithetical to Francis

www.theguardian.com

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Andrew Tan @andrewtanyongyi.bsky.social · 8h

What!!!! I listened to and loved your program via the World Service to Singapore for many, many years before I encountered you on social media. In my mind, it's one of the iconic programs like Outlook, HARDTalk, and Letter from America from 100 😜 years ago 😅

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Roland Pease @peaseroland.bsky.social · 13h

Science in Action, coming up, in which I get to revisit, thanks to this week's #NobelPrize, my enthusiasm for 3D organic framework structures, with archive of Omar Yaghi and commentary from @philipcball.bsky.social

And share with listeners that the prog dies in 3 weeks
www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/w...

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Andrew Tan @andrewtanyongyi.bsky.social · 9h

Daniel Barenboim is a Palestinian Jew.

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Amy Maxmen, PhD @amymaxmen.bsky.social · 11h

🧵RFK "HIV-doesn't-cause-AIDS" Jr. is now linking circumcision with autism.

This nonsense was posted by his anti-vax group Children's Health Defense years ago, and I looked into it.

www.youtube.com/watch?v=SS9D...

SHOCK CLAIM: RFK Jr. Says Children Circumcised Early Have Twice The Autism Rate Due To Tylenol Use

YouTube video by Forbes Breaking News

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Andrew Tan @andrewtanyongyi.bsky.social · 16h

x.com/ShusterNoam/...

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Andrew Tan @andrewtanyongyi.bsky.social · 16h

We couldn't stop the history from repeating itself.
We have to be part of those who will make sure there's accountability for Gaza's genocide. All those who starved, bombed, displaced and contributed to this brutality must be held accountable. Period.

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Andrew Tan @andrewtanyongyi.bsky.social · 16h

I now know, I no longer wonder what decades of dehumanization lead to- I now know it leads to genocide. The fact that me and so many around me are grandchildren of holocaust survivors have lost its meanings. Our actions and our education failed.

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Andrew Tan @andrewtanyongyi.bsky.social · 16h

I want to be part of the people who are able to look in the mirror and face the truth - we were complicit and responsible for a mass revenge slaughter, a brutal genocide that stripped all of us of our humanity and caused generations of more suffering to people of Gaza.

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Andrew Tan @andrewtanyongyi.bsky.social · 16h

I want to listen to Gazans. I want to listen to hostage families who have called for a ceasefire since day one. I want to give all my attention, respect and love to Gazans who are going to rebuild Gaza and restore humanity.

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Andrew Tan @andrewtanyongyi.bsky.social · 16h

Is it ok that I’ll never be the same again? I'll never look at comedy and some comedians the same after they made fun of starving people, became entertainers of war machine, posted lies about Palestinian comedians- I’ll never step on stages with you and I'll never forgive you.

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Andrew Tan @andrewtanyongyi.bsky.social · 16h

Is it ok that I want to punch former “friends” in the face who dared calling us traitors when we said we don’t want revenge and that Israel is lying about "destroying Hamas". You, who think you’re “liberal” but couldn’t feel "empathy" for children anymore? I'll never forgive you.

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Andrew Tan @andrewtanyongyi.bsky.social · 16h

Can I be so fearful of going back to the deadly status quo and daily occupation that were always the elephant in the room and the main reason none of us can truly normalize a “normal” life?

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Andrew Tan @andrewtanyongyi.bsky.social · 16h

Can I be full of fear of what it means to live knowing what everyday people around me are capable of ? Can I wonder if a genocide is really over when the powers who committed it still have their weapons pointed at my friends, neighbors and can restart it at any moment ?

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Andrew Tan @andrewtanyongyi.bsky.social · 16h

Noam Shuster Eliassi 🧵 on X:

Can I be speechless?

Can I genuinely not know what to feel after 2 years of watching the most horrendous horrors and genocide? Can I just want to listen to Gazans, hostage families and actual people who have lost everything?

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Chris Lintott @chrislintott.bsky.social · 17h

Last call to join us tomorrow for our celebration of the end of the Universe! Come party while there’s still a chance wegottickets.com/event/676292

The End of the Universe

After a magnificent* 13.8 billion years** astronomer Chris Lintott (Sky at Night) and Steve Pretty (Hackney Colliery Band) lead a funeral and wake for the universe, as it sadly heads into heat death. ...

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Ann Kennedy @antihebbiann.bsky.social · 19h

Finally out: our recent work with Nick Betley is a view into how the brain reshapes its behavior in the face of competing survival needs- and also a potential angle on treatment targets for enduring pain.

A brief rundown...

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

A parabrachial hub for need-state control of enduring pain - Nature

Activity in a set of parabranchial neurons in the mouse brain is increased during chronic pain, predicts coping behaviour, and can be modulated by circuits activated by survival threats.

www.nature.com

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