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In Wall Street-kringen gaat rond dat Trump een ‘chicken’ is. ‘Dat heet onderhandelen’, snauwt de president (wiens tere zieltje weer eens niet tegen kritiek opgewassen blijkt)
#TrumpChicken

Sky News expands its data and forensics team as part of the Sky News 2030 project to build a newsroom focused on premium video journalism (Charlotte Tobitt/Press Gazette)
https://pressgazette.co.uk/publishers/sky-news-data-forensics-journalism/

Sky News expands data and forensics journalism team
Sky News is hiring journalists to expand its data and forensics team as part of a plan to make premium journalism that people might pay for.

Bill Moyers,
the former White House press secretary who became one of television’s most honored journalists, masterfully using a visual medium to illuminate a world of ideas, died Thursday at age 91.
Moyers died in a New York City hospital, according to longtime friend Tom Johnson, the former CEO of CNN and an assistant to Moyers during Lyndon B. Johnson’s administration. He did not cite Moyers’ cause of death.

Bill Moyers, the former White House press secretary turned acclaimed TV journalist, dead at 91
Bill Moyers, the former White House press secretary who became one of television’s most honored journalists, masterfully using a visual medium to illuminate a world of ideas, died Thursday at age 91.

Het NOS journaal laat even weten wat 'gewone' Moskovieten van de Russische oorlog tegen Oekraine vinden. Ja, Rusland heeft gelijk, Oekraine heeft dit aan zichzelf te wijten etc. etc.
Maar het NOS journaal vergeet daarbij te vermelden dat deze Moskovieten bij een tegengeluid het risico lopen om 10 jaar dwangarbeid in de Oeral op te lopen wegens "landverraad'.
Is dit nou domheid, onachtzaamheid, of wat anders? Waarom de Putin propaganda ongefilterd doorgeven?

Interview with Times Media Group's Steve Strickbine, who employs 60 journalists across 60 local US papers and says papers are better off diminished than dead (Sarah Scire/Nieman Lab)
https://www.niemanlab.org/2025/05/this-own

I guess it's always nice when someone cites a paper. But too often, it's very clear that they haven't read it. If they had done, they would have realised that they were writing stuff that that I showed to be wrong in 1987. Sigh.
The extent of innumeracy in pharmacology is worrying.

Frontiers | The flexibility of SABRE, a new quantitative receptor function model, when fitting challenging concentration-effect data
The Signal Amplification, Binding affinity, and Receptor-activation Efficacy (SABRE) model is the most recent general and quantitative model of receptor func...

"The Research Data Management Workbook: Building a Collection of Data Management Exercises to Bridge Data Information Literacy and Data Management Implementation" @ Journal of eScience Librarianship: https://doi.org/10.7191/jeslib.937

A reader reports that when the patient died, the attending doctor
recorded the following on the patient's chart: "Patient failed to fulfill
his wellness potential."
Another doctor reports that in a recent issue of the *American Journal
of Family Practice* fleas were called "hematophagous arthropod vectors."
A reader reports that the Army calls them "vertically deployed anti-
personnel devices." You probably call them bombs.