• Université libre de Bruxelles (ULB)
• CIVIS European University Alliance
• Academia Europaea
• ICA International Encyclopedias of Communication
· Journalism
· New/s Media
· Political Communication
· Science Communication
· (Social) Science Outreach
| Université libre de Bruxelles | https://fheinderyckx.ulb.be |
| ORCID | https://orcid.org/0000-0003-3710-6098 |
| Academia Europaea | https://www.ae-info.org/ae/Member/Heinderyckx_Francois |
"I was naive. I thought that the benefits of doing science would be self-evident. And I anticipated that our science—as people who look at the planet and see that it’s changing—would come under scrutiny and even attack because the implications are politically inconvenient. We’ve seen that before, and that’s what I expected. What I did not expect was that [the Trump administration] would go after pediatric cancer research first. That they would go after Parkinson’s research first. And they would go after vaccines, the greatest invention of humanity. And that has shocked me, the fact that science is under attack, not because its conclusions are necessarily politically inconvenient but because it is a way of telling the truth. That has been the most disorienting and frightening aspect of all of this."
An interview with climate scientist Dr Kate Marvel: https://www.scientificamerican.com/article/top-climate-scientist-kate-marvel-just-resigned-from-nasa-heres-why/
Jürgen Habermas gestorben
Eine der einflussreichsten und bedeutendsten Stimmen Deutschlands ist verstummt: Der Philosoph und Soziologe Jürgen Habermas ist im Alter von 96 Jahren in Starnberg gestorben. Von Alex Jakuubowski.
https://code.europa.eu has a new look!
Our repository for free, open source software developed by the European institutions now highlights the trending projects and makes searching and contributing to projects easier.
code.europa.eu aims to make public-funded open source code more accessible and reusable for public services, citizens and businesses alike.
Read more 🔗 https://link.europa.eu/NMhTHn
Since May 2025, the US State Department has publicized a visa restriction policy that targets and threatens deportation toward people who study and report on online harms.
Yesterday, @knightcolumbia & @protctdemocracy filed a lawsuit challenging this censorship policy on behalf of @transparenttech, whose members have been harmed by this policy.
“At a time when AI is rapidly changing our lives and economy and people are already worried about their freedom and safety online, we need independent researchers more than ever. This policy is meant to censor researchers into silence and keep the public in the dark, and that’s exactly what it’s doing” -- Brandi Geurkink, ED of CITR.
cc @pluralistic
RE: https://mastodon.social/@jeffjarvis/116193454417207562
“The prompt was simple: ‘Does the following relate at all to D.E.I.? Respond factually in less than 120 characters. Begin with ‘Yes’ or ‘No.’
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The DOGE employees did not appear to question ChatGPT’s judgments, and continued hunting for unacceptable projects.”
Happy #InternationalWomensDay! 👩💻
That said, we're hiring: IT officers, project managers, cybersecurity experts, procurement officers, full-stack developers, detection engineers, digital forensics experts...
On EPSO website, select Information & Technology Domain for the full list 👉 https://link.europa.eu/f9dTTg
Tom Gauld
Estelle Platini
The New Republic
tagesschau
EC DIGIT
Coalition for Independent Tech
J. Nathan Matias 🦣