Hema Vraman, Ph.D.
@contxt-matters.bsky.social
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PhD @Radboud_Uni | Am deliberately slow 🐌 | 🐕 🌳🖖✌️🌾🌻
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PhD @Radboud_Uni | Am deliberately slow 🐌 | 🐕 🌳🖖✌️🌾🌻
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But is that really such a big price to pay for slightly freer markets?
'Life of everything on earth' is at stake as EPA begins 'massive' deregulation: report
CNN's chief climate correspondent issued a dire warning about the future of the planet now that the Trump administration's Environmental Protection Agency has announced plans to rip away regulations m...
www.rawstory.com
March 13, 2025 at 4:49 PM
But is that really such a big price to pay for slightly freer markets?
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Welfare Queen
Elon Musk’s business empire is built on $38 billion in government funding
Government infusions at key moments helped Tesla and SpaceX flourish, boosting Musk’s wealth.
www.washingtonpost.com
February 26, 2025 at 3:38 PM
Welfare Queen
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Today's @usatoday.com front page
First US death from measles in 10 years
First child to die from measles in 22 years in the US
All of this fully preventable
First US death from measles in 10 years
First child to die from measles in 22 years in the US
All of this fully preventable
February 27, 2025 at 2:09 PM
Today's @usatoday.com front page
First US death from measles in 10 years
First child to die from measles in 22 years in the US
All of this fully preventable
First US death from measles in 10 years
First child to die from measles in 22 years in the US
All of this fully preventable
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This is where we are.
February 27, 2025 at 12:51 PM
This is where we are.
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“It’s nice to know that someone appreciates the job I’m doing,” the ranger said.
DOGE Staffer Attempting to Fire Park Ranger is Mauled by Angry Bear
“It’s nice to know that someone appreciates the job I’m doing," the ranger said.
www.borowitzreport.com
February 27, 2025 at 2:14 PM
“It’s nice to know that someone appreciates the job I’m doing,” the ranger said.
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A beautiful story about a brave and caring dying Stanford doctor. Makes me proud of my university. www.nytimes.com/2025/02/26/u...
When This Stanford Professor Got Cancer, He Decided to Teach a Class About It
Dr. Bryant Lin, who teaches medicine at Stanford University, was given a terminal diagnosis. He wanted his students to understand the humanity at the core of medicine.
www.nytimes.com
February 26, 2025 at 5:58 PM
A beautiful story about a brave and caring dying Stanford doctor. Makes me proud of my university. www.nytimes.com/2025/02/26/u...
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The only thing more embarrassing than voting with N Korea at the UN is turning over your government to the guy who invented the Cybertruck
February 26, 2025 at 7:58 PM
The only thing more embarrassing than voting with N Korea at the UN is turning over your government to the guy who invented the Cybertruck
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Empirical reality completely undermines Western narratives about Chinese "debt-trap diplomacy". A Johns Hopkins University investigation of more than a thousand loans to African countries found that China never seized assets, and never even used courts to enforce payments.
February 27, 2025 at 10:57 AM
Empirical reality completely undermines Western narratives about Chinese "debt-trap diplomacy". A Johns Hopkins University investigation of more than a thousand loans to African countries found that China never seized assets, and never even used courts to enforce payments.
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Q: how to 6x DOGE savings ($2.5b)?
A: Cut subsidies to Tesla ($15b)
A: Cut subsidies to Tesla ($15b)
February 26, 2025 at 12:37 AM
Q: how to 6x DOGE savings ($2.5b)?
A: Cut subsidies to Tesla ($15b)
A: Cut subsidies to Tesla ($15b)
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Public notice:
If you want to read a research article, please don't pay for the paper on the publisher's website. All that money goes to the publisher, we don't get any of it. Instead, contact us. We'll be happy to send you the paper :-).
@academic-chatter.bsky.social #OpenScience
If you want to read a research article, please don't pay for the paper on the publisher's website. All that money goes to the publisher, we don't get any of it. Instead, contact us. We'll be happy to send you the paper :-).
@academic-chatter.bsky.social #OpenScience
February 11, 2025 at 12:52 PM
Public notice:
If you want to read a research article, please don't pay for the paper on the publisher's website. All that money goes to the publisher, we don't get any of it. Instead, contact us. We'll be happy to send you the paper :-).
@academic-chatter.bsky.social #OpenScience
If you want to read a research article, please don't pay for the paper on the publisher's website. All that money goes to the publisher, we don't get any of it. Instead, contact us. We'll be happy to send you the paper :-).
@academic-chatter.bsky.social #OpenScience
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Trump declared on Truth Social, “I will soon be announcing a new roster of ballerinas, with an amazing principal ballerina, DONALD J. TRUMP.”
Trump Names Himself Principal Ballerina of Kennedy Center Ballet
Trump took to Truth Social to announce a purge of the company's ballerinas.
www.borowitzreport.com
February 10, 2025 at 2:17 PM
Trump declared on Truth Social, “I will soon be announcing a new roster of ballerinas, with an amazing principal ballerina, DONALD J. TRUMP.”
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US aid freeze claims first victims as oxygen supplies cut off.
Seventy-one-year-old woman dies after being sent home from USAID funded hospital. Others die after hospitals close in refugee camps.
@sneweyy.bsky.social reports. Full story below ⬇️
www.telegraph.co.uk/global-healt...
Seventy-one-year-old woman dies after being sent home from USAID funded hospital. Others die after hospitals close in refugee camps.
@sneweyy.bsky.social reports. Full story below ⬇️
www.telegraph.co.uk/global-healt...
US aid freeze claims first victims as oxygen supplies cut off
Seventy-one-year-old woman dies after being sent home from USAID funded hospital. Others die after hospitals close in refugee camps
www.telegraph.co.uk
February 11, 2025 at 12:32 PM
US aid freeze claims first victims as oxygen supplies cut off.
Seventy-one-year-old woman dies after being sent home from USAID funded hospital. Others die after hospitals close in refugee camps.
@sneweyy.bsky.social reports. Full story below ⬇️
www.telegraph.co.uk/global-healt...
Seventy-one-year-old woman dies after being sent home from USAID funded hospital. Others die after hospitals close in refugee camps.
@sneweyy.bsky.social reports. Full story below ⬇️
www.telegraph.co.uk/global-healt...
"Monstrous Originality": There is something the matter with Donald Trumps America.
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February 11, 2025 at 2:55 PM
"Monstrous Originality": There is something the matter with Donald Trumps America.
🎯 @mukulkesavan.bsky.social
🎯 @mukulkesavan.bsky.social
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If an incredibly powerful person is angry at a journalist, the journalist is almost always doing it right.
February 7, 2025 at 2:51 PM
If an incredibly powerful person is angry at a journalist, the journalist is almost always doing it right.
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February 7, 2025 at 12:30 PM
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“It maps almost too neatly to his acquisition of Twitter in 2022: Get rid of most of the workforce. Install loyalists. Rip up safeguards. Remake in your own image… This is the way of the startup.” @wired.com
The US Government Is Not a Startup
Elon Musk is moving fast and breaking things that can’t afford to be broken.
www.wired.com
February 8, 2025 at 5:59 PM
“It maps almost too neatly to his acquisition of Twitter in 2022: Get rid of most of the workforce. Install loyalists. Rip up safeguards. Remake in your own image… This is the way of the startup.” @wired.com
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Deportees came shackled on plane, saw people dying on way to U.S.
www.thehindu.com/news/nationa...
www.thehindu.com/news/nationa...
Cuffed and deported: Indian immigrants share harrowing journey back from the US
104 deportees from the U.S. land in Amritsar, India, sharing harrowing tales of their journey, deception, and shattered dreams.
www.thehindu.com
February 6, 2025 at 4:03 AM
Deportees came shackled on plane, saw people dying on way to U.S.
www.thehindu.com/news/nationa...
www.thehindu.com/news/nationa...
The corporates, RSS, and Modi
thediplomat.com/2024/08/apoo...
thediplomat.com/2024/08/apoo...
Apoorvanand on Why RSS Will Not Oust Modi as Prime Minister Just Yet
“At this juncture, unless the corporates withdraw support from Modi, RSS is not going to undermine Modi’s supremacy.”
thediplomat.com
February 5, 2025 at 4:39 PM
The corporates, RSS, and Modi
thediplomat.com/2024/08/apoo...
thediplomat.com/2024/08/apoo...
"Arvind Subramanian, chief economic adviser during Modi's first term, said the government has gone 'stale, and bereft' of ideas for tackling such problems as long-term growth and boosting employment"
India's economy slows down just when it was supposed to speed up
Arvind Subramanian, chief economic adviser during Modi's first term, said the government has gone 'stale, and bereft' of ideas for tackling such problems. 'Ideas for long-term growth and boosting empl...
www.deccanherald.com
January 21, 2025 at 1:25 PM
"Arvind Subramanian, chief economic adviser during Modi's first term, said the government has gone 'stale, and bereft' of ideas for tackling such problems as long-term growth and boosting employment"
"This is the first public acceptance by the Indian government of the role of its official and systems in the alleged murders which first came to light in 2023 after a statement by the Canadian prime minister in parliament."
m.thewire.in/article/dipl...
Modi Govt Concedes ‘Individual’ Official's Role in Pannun Plot, Probe Calls For Legal Action Against Him
The press release was not issued by the MEA, as has been the case with all the previous press releases on the subject, or the National Security Council Secretariat which deals with intelligence agenci...
m.thewire.in
January 16, 2025 at 4:54 AM
"This is the first public acceptance by the Indian government of the role of its official and systems in the alleged murders which first came to light in 2023 after a statement by the Canadian prime minister in parliament."
m.thewire.in/article/dipl...
"Step into an American classroom, and you will find an environment free of ceremony: no uniforms and no daily assemblies...Identity is shaped not thru collective rituals but thru the act of questioning – of teachers, of peers, of the world, and ultimately, oneself."
m.thewire.in/article/educ...
m.thewire.in/article/educ...
How India’s Assembly Line Education System Shapes the Perfect H1B Candidate
We, the Indian STEM kids, remain ensnared in a web of simplistic binaries – our lives shaped from the earliest moments by family structures that demand obedience, caste hierarchies that normalise subj...
m.thewire.in
January 12, 2025 at 5:00 PM
"Step into an American classroom, and you will find an environment free of ceremony: no uniforms and no daily assemblies...Identity is shaped not thru collective rituals but thru the act of questioning – of teachers, of peers, of the world, and ultimately, oneself."
m.thewire.in/article/educ...
m.thewire.in/article/educ...
The ONOE only impairs federalism. A way to keep in power, the powers that be.
m.thewire.in/article/gove...
m.thewire.in/article/gove...
'One Nation One Election' Neither Saves Money Nor Improves GDP – It Only Impairs Federalism
Despite the electoral setback in Lok Sabha, one may wonder what made the Modi-Shah duo press ahead with the Kovind panel report. The advantages of this authoritarian project, however, far outweigh the...
m.thewire.in
January 12, 2025 at 1:24 PM
The ONOE only impairs federalism. A way to keep in power, the powers that be.
m.thewire.in/article/gove...
m.thewire.in/article/gove...