Daniele Florean

That’s more than half the annual budget of the National Science Foundation.

I've been looking at the "Dire" responses and literally going to myself "huh, the Strait of Dire, I guess i don't know that one" and then ahhhhhhhhhhhhhh

sharon take: gender is part of the reason decarbonization is so hard

Me pulling the level on a press with a litho stone on it.

Last semester a student taking my Early Medieval Art class told me she’s a studio major specializing in print. After I said that I’ve long wanted to wrap my head around lithography she said “I’m doing that next semester! I’ll invite you to the studio!” Today was that day & my student became my prof.

“Girls Just Want to Have Fun” peaks at #2 today in ‘84

“We got every racial group of girl—mixed, Spanish, white, black, Asian,” said Lauper, “so that every little girl who looked at that video would .. understand that every young woman, older woman, every person is entitled to a joyful experience.”

the fundamental assumptions that underpin the idea that trans women are a threat to sport are:

1. trans women will always be men
2. cis women will always be weaker and less capable than men

both of these assumptions are often axiomatic positions that people have not reasoned themselves into.

As an ECR who has basically given up on the academic career due to structural constraints, if you are a reasercher with a TT or permanent position hyping up LLMs for scientific work and writing papers with them, I just think you should quit and leave your position open for someone who likes the job.

This is actually my take on the @socarxiv.bsky.social question of whether to set policy banning fully AI-generated submissions - literally writing the prose is an important part of connecting with readers. As in faith-based fellowship, the act of being in community is an important part of Science.

A brown meandering river in front of a glacier front, with ice patterns in front. The glacier is very turquoise with deep crevasses.

One of the coolest sights I saw on my recent trip to #Iceland - a meandering river along the front of a glacier. I've always been intrigued by ox-bow lakes forming and love to look out for them from aeroplanes, so was delighted to see this formation from my drone in the ice!

#ShareMondays2026

striking photo of a black and white tuxedo cat. The entire photo is almost entirely a velvety black except a curving line of white fur and the cat's gold eye which are illuminated by a sliver of sunbeam.

Stunning portrait of The Morsel by my boyfriend.

I know people are very sensitive about the use of the word “genocide” but the attempts to medically eliminate trans children is very clearly meets the standard because they are trying to eliminate a population and also they know some of those kids are going to kill themselves

Wasn't Tibet closed to foreigners at the time?

Cis people need to pay attention to the way they communicate this. They freely admit that after all of their research, they came up with zero evidence that HRT was harmful.

Then they banned it anyway, claiming their inability to find a reason is a reason in of itself.

But how do you teach someone they don’t think well enough to understand and know? How do you get them to know what they don’t know but is knowable?!

There’s answers but it also really depends on societal culture. It shapes who we are. And they won’t change without all of us changing.

channeling my inner Mary Caprioli and coining the "gender shock" explanation for international conflict when a state experiences a sudden and dramatic change in Gender

More than anything, “the kids” are uninterested in the old parties… and who could blame them.

cover of Teresa Noce's memoir, "Rivoluzionaria professionale: Autobiografia di una Partigiana Comunista"

del mondo. Anche Borghese po- tevano aiutarmi. Era poi compito mio estrarre dalle cose che esse sapevano e che mi avrebbero detto, la lezione politica e di classe che avrebbe dato un senso alla nostra con- ferenza per l'8 marzo. Mi dettero via libera. E cominciai a rivolgere la parola a molte detenute con cui fino ad allora avevo avuto scarsi rapporti: come la signora Michelin che si trovava al campo pare per una questione di valuta concernente prodotti venduti ai tedeschi. Con prudenza dissi a queste deportate che noi compagne volevamo commemorare l'8 marzo, la giornata in- ternazionale delle donne di tutto il mondo, parlando proprio di quello che le donne di tutto il mondo avevano fatto nei secoli. Non tutte le deportate conoscevano certi avve- nimenti: e noi volevamo parlare loro di Lucrezia e di Giovanna d'Arco; di Louise Michel la comunarda e di madame Curie la fisica franco-polacca; di Emmeline Pankhurst la suf- fragetta inglese e di sua figlia Sylvia; della Pasionaria spagnola, di Nadeizda Krupskaja la moglie di Lenin e di Rosa Luxemburg. Era nostra intenzione ricordare quello che le donne di tutto il mondo avevano fatto per la libertà e il progresso, lottando, combattendo e spesso pagando di persona come era accaduto a noi nella lotta contro i nazisti. Era importante che tutte sapessero che in ogni

secolo c'erano state donne che avevano lottato per difendere il proprio paese o la propria religione, il pane e il lavoro, la pace, la libertà da ogni oppressione, contro la tirannia e lo sfruttamento. Perciò dovevamo parlare oltre che di Lucrezia e di Giovanna d'Arco, anche delle serve della gleba insorte con la jacquerie del 1358 e delle calzettaie della Rivoluzione francese, delle comunarde di Parigi e delle setaiole di Lione, delle suffragette inglesi e delle martiri di Chicago, delle rivoluzionarie russe e delle insorte di Torino, delle scioperanti contro i padroni e contro i fascisti. Trovai più aiuto di quanto avessi sperato. Tutte volevano dirmi qualcosa del proprio paese o di persone conosciute o di episodi di lotta o di quello che ricordavano delle lezioni di scuola: e con più apertura mentale e meno conformismo di quanto mi attendessi. La permanenza al campo, la lezione delle sofferenze sopportate in comune, forse non erano state inutili. Poteva anche essere che appena libere, quelle donne tornassero a vivere come prima ma era molto più probabile in ognuna qualche cambiamento. Intanto il mio lavoro di preparazione aveva già avuto questo risultato: tutte si interes- savano dell'8 marzo, tutte aspettavano la conferenza e tutte volevano ascoltarla. E la cosa più sorprendente fu che tutte seppero mantenere il segreto e nessuna «aspirina», nessuna kapò, venne a sapere quello che stavamo preparando. Tenemmo la conferenza la sera dell'8 marzo 1945, appena suonato il silenzio e uscite 1 giaciglio più alto di un castello posto in mezzo al blocco

On March 8, 1945, the Italian Communist Teresa Noce gave a lecture on International Women's Day to her fellow prisoners in a Nazi concentration camp. Noce highlighted the achievements and collective struggle of women from all the prisoners' nations to build solidarity.

#InternationalWomen'sDay

deportato e gli altri avevano lasciato fare. rato, Anche tra le nostre compagne molte ragionavano così. Il giorno della liberazione, le kapò e le Ss che avevano cercato scampo nei blocchi delle deportate furono picchiate, graf- fiate e rasate. D'accordo con le ungheresi, le deportate volevano fare subito giustizia som maria e impiccare tutte le tedesche. Nel cortile le francesi cantavano il Ça ira della grande Rivoluzione: «Toutes les kapò à la lanterne, toutes les Ss on les pendra». Invano le compagne più responsabili cercavano di calmare gli animi e di mettere un po' d'ordine nel campo Nell'ebbrezza della liberazione e della vendetta ci si dimenticava perfino di mangiare. Io ero tra quelle che cercavano di calmare le più esacerbate e di frenare quel caos. Dicevo alle compagne che noi non dovevamo fare come i tedeschi: proprio perché eravamo re- sistenti, patriote e comuniste, non dovevamo diventare bestie feroci come le Ss. Queste dovevano essere punite ma da regolari tribunali rivoluzionari. Esse dovevano essere giu- dicate regolarmente, così come i tedeschi di Holleischen che sapevano benissimo cosa avveniva nei campi e pure non avevano mai tentato di aiutarci. Alcune compagne si rivoltarono contro di me, altre mi presero in giro per il mio mo- ralismo. Mi arrabbiai ma compresi solo molto più tardi che avevano ragione loro. Sarebbe stato meglio fare giustizia subito, anziché attendere quella degli Alleati o dei nostri tri- bunali. Oggi ci sarebbero in giro meno criminali nazisti miliardari camuffati-specialmente in Sud America e in Sud Africa - così come nella Germania federale vi sarebbero meno Ss che hanno ripreso tranquillamente la loro carriera dopo aver fatto funzionare per tanti anni i forni crematori. Ma a quell'epoca malgrado tutto quello che avevo sofferto,

Noce argued for trials of the SS guards, while others wanted to execute them immediately. Noce won, but regretted it:

"I was angry, but much later I understood that they were right. It would have been better to see justice done immediately, rather than wait for the Allies or our own tribunals."

Is anyone else experiencing debilitating amounts of dread?

The End of an Era: The Vanishing Negative Effect of Women’s Employment on Fertility ANNA MATYSIAK AND DANIELE VIGNOLI This paper examines whether women’s employment in the 21st century remains a barrier to family formation, as it was in the 1980s and 1990s, or—similar to men’s—it has become a prerequisite for childbearing. We address this question through a systematic quantitative review (meta-analysis) of empirical studies conducted in Europe, North America, and Australia. We selected 94 studies published between 1990 and2023 (N = 572 effect sizes). Our analysis uncovers a fundamental shift in the relation-ship between women’s employment and fertility. What was once a strongly negative association has become statistically insignificant in the 2000s and 2010s—and even turned positive in the Nordic countries, parts of Western Europe (France, Belgium, and the Netherlands), and Central and Eastern Europe. This shift is evident both among childless women and mothers and has occurred across all analyzed country clusters, except for the German/Southern European group, where the relationship has remained negative. These findings challenge longstanding assumptions about work–family trade-offs and suggest a reconfiguration of the economic and social conditions underpinning fertility decisions in contemporary high-income societies. The paper calls for a reconceptualization of the employment–fertility relationship and development of a new theoretical framework that better captures these evolving dynamics in contemporary high-income societies

Important new paper by @amatysiak.bsky.social and Daniele Vignoli showing that the association between women's employment and fertility is no longer negative in most high-income countries as work-family reconciliation policies and practices have increased. doi.org/10.1111/padr...

Always a bad time when other experts start posting like climate scientists, political scientists and public health professionals

for those unaware, this would be perfidy, explicitly prohibited by the 1907 Hague convention and 1977 protocol to the Geneva conventions as war crimes; these (particularly The Hague convention) are customary international law and thus binding on Israel

Remember when the IDF had a squad dress up as medical personnel to enter a hospital and execute an injured man in his hospital bed

So Vulture fired Matt Zoller Seitz after Rolling Stone already fired Alan Sepinwall. I guess we don‘t need cultural or media criticism anymore, which tracks in a fascist country.

Uploading Pirated Books via BitTorrent Qualifies as Fair Use, Meta Argues * TorrentFreak In an ongoing lawsuit, Meta now argues that uploading pirated books to strangers via BitTorrent qualifies as fair use.

In 2013 Aaron Swartz committed suicide for facing 35 years in prison for mass downloading scientific articles.

13 years later, Meta is almost getting away with an infraction orders of magnitude larger.

The law didn't change.

torrentfreak.com/uploading-pi...

Spanish PM Pedro Sánchez:

You may have heard that Spain is alone. They’re the same people who said that when we recognized the State of Palestine, and then others followed.

We are not alone — we are the first. Those who will end up alone are the ones defending the indefensible.

The asymmetry of the value placed on human life is so striking. Israel has a goal to recover 40-year-old remains; to do so, it invades a sovereign country, and the lives of 26 Lebanese are an afterthought. Their names not even worth printing in the New York Times.

Challenge for people who believe Claude *is* conscious and use it anyway: Explain how you’re not a slaver.

What a time to have started a retirement fund uh

Reactionary centrism is a scourge on legacy media and a threat to liberal democracy.