It was fun meeting you in many sessions (including posters of mutual interest 🤐). Connecting with past, current & potentially future colleagues makes 10 hours of travel worth the effort.

Several big scientific conference are held each March-April-May in the US. Every scientist from Europe I talk to says something like „not sure that I should really go there“. It‘s an opportunity to meet colleagues and I give a talk, otherwise I would for sure not travel to the US in this situation.

Best place for conferences in the US. No other conference center comes close. Take a walk at the marina for me!

The analogy to the UK is a very good one. Don‘t forget that Labour lost with Jeremy Corbyn to an already dysfunctional Tories government under Boris Johnson in a landslide. It took additional years of Tories chaos and a candidate like Starmer who dialed down left rethoric to win a majority.

She spoke of a genocide committed against the Palestinians.

Some of AOC‘s comments about Israel/Gaza are enough that I - as a middle of the road voter (in Europe) - would never support here. With the average US voter being more conservative than Europeans that leaves her with zero electoral chances outside the Bronx.

I expected more from him in the recent campaign. But my perspective watching from Europe may have been incomplete. From over here he looked like the funny uncle everybody likes at family parties but you would never give your wallet to. And there was no content in the Harris campaign anyway.

Fangt doch an. Oder was ist der Auftrag von Journalismus? Agenturmeldungen nachdrucken ist es nicht.

This is The main problem of US politics IMO: The only Democrats able to build a credible opposition movement are so far to the left that they would never ever win an election against a JD Vance/Rubio ticket. Where are the candidates for middle of the road voters? And where are these voters hiding?