The frontier is fundamental: my reflections on today’s Beijing launch of the China Fundamental Research Report Includes contributions by Lin Zhang, @magdalenaskipper.bsky.social & @sciencecouncil.bsky.social #CFRR researchonresearchinstitute.substack.com/p/the-fronti... @rorinstitute.bsky.social

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Just look at Jupiter’s posture as he paints those butterflies on that gorgeous greenblue of a painted sky. When or when will there be a Dosso Dossi monographic exhibition somewhere? Has there *ever* been one in London? You can see Jupiter painting butterflies in Wawel Castle in Kraków

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🇵🇱 Conference maxxing in Krakow this week paricipating in #ecprgc26 & #EASST2026 which conveniently take place just across the road from each other On Thursday morning I am presenting at EASST & on Thursday afternoon we have our ECPR AI panel Looking forward to seeing many familiar & new faces

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The most important thing about the data center backlash is that, in a time of intense polarization and micro-movements, it is astonishingly large—such a big tent mass politics that any time you try and an atomize or explain it you end up diminishing it. nytimes.com/2026/08/31/opi…

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Plenty to reflect about re: the Arday affair, but I'm going to repeat this one thing. The playbook the right used here is effective even though it's not especially sophisticated, as it relies on the audience to do the dirty work. I've been calling it "Trojan horse propaganda", let's go with that. 1/

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