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Gerard Wiegers

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History 32%
Political science 22%
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Een uitstekende bijdrage van Postma inderdaad, en Yislgöz blijft doelbewust dichtbij de rabiate PVV standpunten zonder die te benoemen, nog steeds in de hoop stemmen bij Wilders weg te halen. We hebben afgelopen weekeinde gezien waar dat totnogtoe toe geleid heeft.
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We passed the 1.5C climate threshhold. We must now explore extreme options
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Trump imposes tariffs on Antarctic islands home to penguins but no people
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Als dit gericht was op bedreigde onderzoekers was het lofwaardig initiatief, maar nu gaat het over ‘topwetenschap’: en is het in het licht van de dramatische bezuinigingen vooral goedkoop opportunisme.

Reposted by Gerard Wiegers

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Universities should support each other and pool resources to stand up to pressure from the Trump Administration collectively and principally. Columbia’s cowing should be a wake up call

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“Vlucht uit de VS en schuil op een Nederlandse universiteit. U vindt daar een stimulerende omgeving vol teleurgestelde en lamgeslagen collega’s die zojuist een grote ontslagronde hebben doorgemaakt…”

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Beste toponderzoeker, wilt u weg uit het wetenschapsvijandige Amerika van Trump? Kom dan naar Nederland!
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Netanyahu is waging war on Gaza and on us – his ‘enemies within’. It’s the path to autocracy
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State of the Climate Report by the World Meteorological Organization WMO: More than 150 ‘unprecedented’ climate disasters struck world in 2024.
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French scientist denied US entry after officers find phone messages criticising Trump
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Threaten campuses, shut down debate: that’s what free speech looks like under Trump
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Ukraine war live: Russian attacks show Putin has no interest in peace, EU says
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Donald Trump is turning America into a mafia state

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#FelizLunes

Frente a ciertas decisiones políticas: datos.

🔸EE. UU. será en 2060 el 2.º país hispanohablante tras México
🔸Tiene el mayor n.º de estudiantes de español, 8,6 M
🔸 Se habla en un 13,3 % de las 🏡, el doble que el resto de lenguas juntas, excepto el inglés
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We are experiencing an assault on science unparalleled by anything I’ve seen in my life. It’s not one issue or another anymore, the entire institution is under attack by the most powerful individuals in the country.

This Friday, where will you be?

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by Timothy SnyderReposted by Gerard Wiegers

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The United States now playing the role that communist satellite states once played in the UN: sponsoring resolutions in its own name but on behalf of Moscow.
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Last Saturday, 22 February, Dr Mohamed Abdelouhed al-Asri (University Abd el Malik al-Sa’di) presented in Zoom session the first ever thrilling reading of the cryptic parts of Lead Book 17, the Essence of the Gospel, the key text of the Lead Books. The presentation was recorded on Facebook.

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Call for Papers:
(Be)laboring Medieval Iberian Texts and Cultural Production
LLC Medieval Iberian Forum Session
Abstracts due March 20, 2025

#cfp #MLA #medieval #medievalIberia #labor #medievaltexts #academicconference
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Spanish fishers in Galicia report ‘catastrophic’ collapse in shellfish stocks

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Excellent resource: 91 Arabic and Aljamiado-Morisco manuscripts fully digitized on the CSIC/Simurg website

#moriscos #aljamiado #Arabic #manuscripts

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New ASH UvA Global History seminar series

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