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Josie Glausiusz @josiegz.bsky.social · 1h

A trio of scientists have been awarded the 2025 Nobel Prize in chemistry for developing a form of molecular architecture that packs vast amounts of space into tiny structures – which the committee likened to Hermione Granger’s handbag in the Harry Potter novels.

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Nobel Prize in chemistry goes to scientist trio for Harry Potter-like work in molecular architecture | CNN

A trio of scientists have been awarded the 2025 Nobel Prize in chemistry for developing “metal-organic frameworks,” a form of molecular architecture that packs vast amounts of space into tiny structur...

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Josie Glausiusz @josiegz.bsky.social · 2h

“It’s a horrible reality that humanitarian crises make people vulnerable in many ways — increased sexual violence is often a consequence,” said Heather Barr, at Human Rights Watch. “The situation in Gaza today is unspeakable, especially for women and girls.”

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Women in Gaza say they were promised food, money or work in exchange for sexual interactions | The Associated Press

After weeks of scraping by to feed her six children in Gaza, the 38-year-old woman thought she’d found a lifeline. At a shelter, a friend told her

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Josie Glausiusz @josiegz.bsky.social · 2h

“Amitav Ghosh writes both fiction and non-fiction, has won a bunch of other major prizes (but not too many), and his perspective on colonialism, the Opium Wars and their contemporary impact is just the kind of stuff that the committee loves.”

#NobelPrizes

www.washingtonpost.com/books/2025/1...

Which writer will win the Nobel? The literati have some guesses.

Amitov Ghosh? Gerald Murnane? The truth will be revealed Thursday.

www.washingtonpost.com

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Josie Glausiusz @josiegz.bsky.social · 7h

"Deploying a variety of objects as pillows." Love it.

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Tom Cox @dj-acid-reflux.bsky.social · 7h

Highland cattle are famous for their ability to "disco nap". Normally these brief, efficient sleeps will last between three and twenty minutes, deploying a variety of objects as pillows, including moorland boulders, cars or any particularly large dog or sheep who happens to be nearby.

A highland cow having a little nap on a boulder on Dartmoor (ok, it was actually scratching its head)

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Josie Glausiusz @josiegz.bsky.social · 7h

“All I’ve ever sought to do is amplify library people and library kids,” Mychal Threets said. “And remind them that every single one of them are readers, they’re all capable, they’re all worthy.”

www.nytimes.com/2025/10/04/s...

‘Reading Rainbow’ Comes Back With a New Host, but the Same Mission

www.nytimes.com

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Josie Glausiusz @josiegz.bsky.social · 7h

Correction: Eden Ben Rubi fled the festival when rockets started firing, and sought safety in a roadside bomb shelter, where she was slain by Hamas terrorists who fired inside and threw grenades into the structure.

www.timesofisrael.com/eden-ben-rub...

Eden Ben Rubi, 23: Artist, life of the party who lived ‘every moment’

Murdered by Hamas terrorists near the Supernova music festival on October 7

www.timesofisrael.com

Josie Glausiusz @josiegz.bsky.social · 7h

But as for me, yesterday was the first day of the holiday of Sukkot, so I stayed off the internet by default.

Josie Glausiusz @josiegz.bsky.social · 7h

Some of the saddest stories are the ongoing trauma suffered by survivors of the Nova Festival.

Arad Katz fled the festival in a car with friends. He saw Eden Ben Rubi standing with police officers at a junction, so didn't offer her a ride. She was later shot dead.

www.haaretz.com/israel-news/...

They survived the Nova party massacre. Two years on, they are still hiding

The State Expects Survivors of the Nova Festival to Recover, but With Hostages Still in Gaza and the War Dragging On, the Personal Tragedy Persists. 'I Knew We Had an Army, We Hade a Police Force; I B...

www.haaretz.com

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Josie Glausiusz @josiegz.bsky.social · 12h

This is a powerful, incisive op-ed.

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Josie Glausiusz @josiegz.bsky.social · 12h

Palestinians desperately need this war to end. But so do Israelis, writes Mairav Zonszein
@mairavz.bsky.social in this incisive op-ed.

www.nytimes.com/2025/10/07/o...

This is a piece of text from a New York Times op-ed by Mairav Zonszein, the senior analyst on Israel with the International Crisis Group.

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ACLED @acleddata.bsky.social · 1d

Two years since 7 October, Israel’s war with Hamas has spilled beyond #Gaza — drawing in Lebanon, Syria, Yemen, and Iran.

Its decisive gains have tilted the Middle East’s balance of power, but whether they can deliver lasting outcomes remains uncertain. 🔗 More: acleddata.com/report/two-y...

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Josie Glausiusz @josiegz.bsky.social · 22h

Trump “is giving instructions to shoot and kill people,” Kenrick Modie, a fisherman in in Port-of-Spain, Trinidad, said about recent U.S. military strikes targeting suspected drug vessels in the Caribbean. “What could we do? We’re just a little dot.”

David Shiffman, Ph.D. 🦈 @whysharksmatter.bsky.social · 22h

Fishermen fear for their lives after US strikes in the Caribbean 🐠🦑

Fishermen in Trinidad and Tobago fear for their lives and jobs after US strikes in the Caribbean

Fishermen worry their boat could be mistaken for a drug-smuggling vessel.

www.bostonherald.com

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Vox @vox.com · 1d

Earlier this week Gavi, the Vaccine Alliance — a public-private partnership that does more than any other organization to get vaccines to people in poor countries — reported that its vaccines saved a record-breaking 1.7 million people in 2024. That’s 400,000 more lives saved than in 2023.

2024 was a record-setting year for lifesaving vaccines

Vaccines delivered by Gavi saved the lives of 1.7 million people in poor countries

www.vox.com

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Josie Glausiusz @josiegz.bsky.social · 22h

Israel’s international legitimacy is eroding, criticism is intensifying, more states are recognizing Palestine, and global protests calling for an end to the war continue. These pressures have not so far deterred Israel’s leadership, reports @acleddata.bsky.social

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Two years since 7 October: Israel’s forever wars across the Middle East

Two years after the 7 October 2023 attacks, Israel’s war with Hamas has spilled beyond Gaza. Scroll through this report to learn about the conflict in Gaza, the West Bank, Lebanon, Syria, Yemen, and I...

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Josie Glausiusz @josiegz.bsky.social · 22h

"I lost my children, my home, my siblings, my memories. I lost every beautiful thing in my life."

"Sometimes my only wish is as simple as having a toilet of our own."

We’ve interviewed more than 700 people in Gaza over the past two years.

@nytimes.com Gift Link

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We Tried to Reach Gazans We Interviewed Over Two Years of War. Here’s What Happened to Them. (Gift Article)

We kept wondering: Did they find their missing relatives? Were they even still alive?

www.nytimes.com

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Santa Goldstein @goldstein.bsky.social · 2d

PTSD is a real bitch. As the survivor of a similar incident, it has now been 20 years that I have had the same horrible dreams and nervous system reactions to outside stimuli. People don't really get it. Its not just what happened to you, its what you saw happen to others, and what you did to live.

Josie Glausiusz @josiegz.bsky.social · 2d

Survivors of the Nova Festival massacre: "First there's the sharp transition from a state of love, joy and euphoria to an experience of horror and extreme cruelty. Then there's the sense of terrible abandonment." @haaretzcom.bsky.social

www.haaretz.com/israel-news/...

They survived the Nova party massacre. Two years on, they are still hiding

The State Expects Survivors of the Nova Festival to Recover, but With Hostages Still in Gaza and the War Dragging On, the Personal Tragedy Persists. 'I Knew We Had an Army, We Hade a Police Force; I B...

www.haaretz.com

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Josie Glausiusz @josiegz.bsky.social · 2d

For three centuries Salonica, now Thessaloniki, had been known as the “Mother of Israel,” (“La Madre de Israel”). By the early 20th century, there were 35 Ladino (Judeo-Spanish) newspapers published in the city.

My review of “Salonica: City of Ghosts," by Mark Mazower:

medium.com/@josieglz/sa...

Salonica, “The Mother of Israel.”

On a whim, after I had finished reading “Salonica: City of Ghosts — Christians, Muslims and Jews 1430–1950,” by Mark Mazower, I googled…

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Josie Glausiusz @josiegz.bsky.social · 2d

For me, it's "wake up at 4.00 a.m. and lie there and think about every single one of the world's problems, and my own, and then get up and cook something while continuing to ruminate about global catastrophes."

Tom Cox @dj-acid-reflux.bsky.social · 2d

I relate to quite a bit of Ursula Le Guin's writing schedule, but it's the "very stupid after 8pm" part that seems to hit harder and deeper as the years go on.

5:30 a.m.—wake up and lie there and think.
6:15 a.m.—get up and eat breakfast (lots).
7:15 a.m.— get to work writing, writing, writing.
Noon-lunch.
1:00-3:00 p.m.—reading, music.
3:00-5:00 p.m.— correspondence, maybe house cleaning.
5:00-8:00 p.m.- make dinner and eat it. After 8:00 p.m.—I tend to be very stupid and we won't
talk about this.

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Josie Glausiusz @josiegz.bsky.social · 2d

Survivors of the Nova Festival massacre: "First there's the sharp transition from a state of love, joy and euphoria to an experience of horror and extreme cruelty. Then there's the sense of terrible abandonment." @haaretzcom.bsky.social

www.haaretz.com/israel-news/...

They survived the Nova party massacre. Two years on, they are still hiding

The State Expects Survivors of the Nova Festival to Recover, but With Hostages Still in Gaza and the War Dragging On, the Personal Tragedy Persists. 'I Knew We Had an Army, We Hade a Police Force; I B...

www.haaretz.com

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Josie Glausiusz @josiegz.bsky.social · 2d

Riyadh Comedy Festival: “This whitewashing comes amid significant increase in repression, including a crackdown on free speech, which many of these comedians defend but people in Saudi Arabia are completely denied," says @hrw.org

www.hrw.org/news/2025/09...

Saudi Arabia: Riyadh Comedy Festival Whitewashes Abuses

The Saudi government is using the Riyadh Comedy Festival 2025 from September 26 to October 9 to deflect attention from its brutal repression of free speech and other pervasive human rights violations.

www.hrw.org

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Josie Glausiusz @josiegz.bsky.social · 2d

"I like this idea," says Pebbles.

This is a tabby cat with wide eyes sitting on a wooden floor next to a portrait of a tabby cat with wide eyes.

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Josie Glausiusz @josiegz.bsky.social · 2d

An Israeli strike on Gaza during the war’s early weeks hit near 5-year-old Rital, severing her right arm above her wrist.

Rital’s severed arm was lost in the chaos of the strike that injured her, so it could not be reattached, her father, Hamza Salem, said.

www.nytimes.com/2025/10/06/w...

Ravaged by War: Trying to Survive Gaza’s Present, Hoping for a Future

www.nytimes.com

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Josie Glausiusz @josiegz.bsky.social · 2d

A powerful piece.

Josie Glausiusz @josiegz.bsky.social · 2d

How does the immune system determine what it should attack and what it should defend?

Mary Brunkow, Fred Ramsdell and Shimon Sakaguchi are awarded the Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine 2025 for "discoveries relating to peripheral immune tolerance."

www.nobelprize.org/prizes/medic...

Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine 2025

The Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine 2025 was awarded to Mary E. Brunkow, Fred Ramsdell and Shimon Sakaguchi “for their discoveries concerning peripheral immune tolerance.”

www.nobelprize.org

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