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Is this enough to shake some American lawmakers out of their foolishness and dump Musk and all his businesses?
Probably not, honestly, but one can hope.
“Dmitry Novikov, first deputy chairman of the State Duma Committee on International Affairs
"I think that Musk has a completely different game, [so] he will not need any political asylum, although if he did, Russia, of course, could provide it," Novikov said, in remarks translated from Russian.”
#russiaukrainewar #musk #starlink
https://dmv.community/@jcrabapple/114636458312326546

Didi reports Q1 revenue up 8.5% YoY to ~$7.4B, a ~$334M net income, up from a ~$194M loss YoY, transactions up 10% YoY to 3.3B, and ~$418M international revenue (Reuters)
https://www.reuters.com/business/autos-trans…

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International collaboration of Ukrainian scholars: Effects of Russia's full-scale invasion of Ukraine International collaboration of Ukrainian scholars: Effects of Russia's full-scale invasion of Ukraine
This study explores the effects of Russia's full-scale invasion of Ukraine on the international collaboration of Ukrainian scholars. First and foremost, Ukrainian scholars deserve respect for continuing to publish despite life-threatening conditions, mental strain, shelling and blackouts. In 2022-2023, universities gained more from international collaboration than the NASU. The percentage of internationally co-authored articles remained unchanged for the NASU, while it increased for universitie…

Oh great... employee department had a project to create a company cookbook. Since we're a very international company we have people from more than 60 countries and first cookbook turned out really great. Now where to get those partially "exotic" ingredients in Germany...

"The term anarcho-syndicalism first appeared as a derogatory commentary and an insult against certain working-class militants in the nineteenth century. It was often used to refer as a whole to the trade-union activities of individuals and groups who defined themselves as anarchists."
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Exercise can reduce the risk of cancer patients dying by a third,
stop tumours coming back
and is even more effective than drugs,
according to the results of a landmark trial that could transform health guidelines worldwide.

France Becomes First Government to Endorse UN #OpenSource Principles, Joined by 19 Organizations
https://unite.un.org/fr/news/france-be

New long-period transient #LPT space object detected. It is the first one of which we know it is pulsing in both radio frequencies and X-ray bursts. Why? More research required. Still a fascinating object!
https://www.icrar.org/xray-tr…

The Great Play on [any country]'s Inferiority Complex (markdown formatting is mine) ->
‘"President Trump pledged to put **America First**, and the administration is committed to using every lever of executive **power** to address this **crisis** and **restore** American **greatness**," [Kush Desai] added.’
US trade court blocks Trump's sweeping tariffs in blow to trade policies | BBC

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Should We Expect Further Acceleration of the Earth's Rotation in the Coming Years?
Recently, it has been suggested in the literature that the difference between universal and coordinated time UT1-UTC could reach a large positive value in the coming years (Agnew 2024). This would make it necessary to introduce a negative leap second into UTC for the first time in history, which in turn will cause serious problems in time keeping and synchronization systems around the world. Based on the latest Earth's rotation and universal time data published by the international Earth rotati…

International collaboration of Ukrainian scholars: Effects of Russia's full-scale invasion of Ukraine International collaboration of Ukrainian scholars: Effects of Russia's full-scale invasion of Ukraine
Myroslava Hladchenko
https://arxiv.org/abs/2505.20944

International collaboration of Ukrainian scholars: Effects of Russia's full-scale invasion of Ukraine International collaboration of Ukrainian scholars: Effects of Russia's full-scale invasion of Ukraine
This study explores the effects of Russia's full-scale invasion of Ukraine on the international collaboration of Ukrainian scholars. First and foremost, Ukrainian scholars deserve respect for continuing to publish despite life-threatening conditions, mental strain, shelling and blackouts. In 2022-2023, universities gained more from international collaboration than the NASU. The percentage of internationally co-authored articles remained unchanged for the NASU, while it increased for universitie…

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ILC250 Cost Update - 2024
The International Linear Collider was conceived as a global project for an energy-frontier electron-positron collider.It employs superconducting RF and nano-beam technologies with a center-of-mass energy of 500 GeV. Its cost was estimated in 2013, based on the Technical Design Report published in 2013.Japan's high-energy community proposed to host the ILC in Japan as a Higgs boson factory at 250 GeV in its first phase, and a revised cost estimate was conducted in 2017 to host it in Japan. Howev…

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Filling the gap in the IERS C01 polar motion series in 1858.9-1860.9
The C01 Earth orientation parameters (EOP) series provided by the International Earth Rotation and Reference Systems Service (IERS) is the longest reliable record of the Earth's rotation. In particular, the polar motion (PM) series beginning from 1846 provides a basis for investigation of the long-term PM variations. However, the pole coordinate $Y_p$ in the IERS C01 PM series has a 2-year gap, which makes this series not completely evenly spaced. This paper presents the results of the first at…

ILC250 Cost Update - 2024
Gerald Dugan, Andrew J. Lankford, Benno List, Shinichiro Michizono, Tatsuya Nakada, Marc Ross, Hiroshi R. Sakai, Steinar Stapnes, Nobuhiro Terunuma, Nicholas Walker, Akira Yamamoto
https://arxiv.org/abs/2506.00353

ILC250 Cost Update - 2024
The International Linear Collider was conceived as a global project for an energy-frontier electron-positron collider.It employs superconducting RF and nano-beam technologies with a center-of-mass energy of 500 GeV. Its cost was estimated in 2013, based on the Technical Design Report published in 2013.Japan's high-energy community proposed to host the ILC in Japan as a Higgs boson factory at 250 GeV in its first phase, and a revised cost estimate was conducted in 2017 to host it in Japan. Howev…

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Gaming the Metrics? Bibliometric Anomalies and the Integrity Crisis in Global University Rankings
Global university rankings have transformed how certain institutions define success, often elevating metrics over meaning. This study examines universities with rapid research growth suggestive of metric-driven behaviors. Among the 1,000 most publishing institutions, 98 showed extreme output increases between 2018-2019 and 2023-2024. Of these, eighteen were selected for exhibiting sharp declines in first and corresponding authorship. Compared to national, regional, and international norms, thes…