Frederique Vanholsbeeck
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Frederique Vanholsbeeck
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Physicist, feminist, Belgian, Kiwi and many other things
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October 19, 2025 at 4:10 PM
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#Optics #Photonics #WiOWednesday
September 3, 2025 at 9:16 PM
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The sans-Ukraine meeting is not the first time large powers have colluded to negotiate new borders without the people who live there.
With family in parts of Europe, east and west, apart as a long-tail consequence of the Munich agreement, this cuts close theconversation.com/ukraine-isnt...
Ukraine isn’t invited to its own peace talks. History is full of such examples – and the results are devastating
A decision to negotiate over the heads of the Ukrainians would reveal just how Trump sees Ukraine and Europe.
theconversation.com
February 20, 2025 at 4:35 AM
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Notice what the kid's lawyer Alistair McClymont says (referred to as a 'veteran' & this is for real, he was already well-known when I was doing asylum cases in 2001): This kind of case is normally granted; Penk is pulling a Trump, breaking the norms of our system for the love of racism.
📢 Daman Kumar was born in Auckland, and he’s never left the country. He’s just finished school, and wants to go to university - but soon, he could be deported.
The Kiwi kid who faces being deported to a country he's never been to
www.stuff.co.nz
February 14, 2025 at 9:24 AM
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Had an OIA on the Marsden decisions land. This appears to be the ground zero and the level of thinking Collins put into gutting humanities funding. I have found no actual *advice* or analysis on the removal of humanities panels and literally zero engagement with Royal Society or Universities.
February 14, 2025 at 2:21 AM
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