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📢 Wellcome's Data Prize in Mental Health has entered its second phase! Five teams will now build digital tools and refine their research on anxiety and depression in young people. This is a unique opportunity for collaboration and impact. Here’s a look at each project ⤵️ 1/7

"Acting against hate crimes and hate speech, properly defined in the Constitution, and existing law, is correct. But to stifle healthy debate, independent thought, ideas and opinions is not only dangerous. It is a threat to social progress." dailymaverick.co.za/opinionista/20…

The #EuropeanCouncil just adopted the #OpenScience proposal anticipated earlier this month. No #embargoes. No #APCs. #Nonprofit publishing. #OpenLicenses. #OpenInfrastructure. consilium.europa.eu/en/press/press…

"We all know that over the past decade social media has become a battleground for controlling human attention. With the new generation of ai, the battlefront is shifting from attention to intimacy." economist.com/by-invitation/…

"“You can’t use power that you don’t even know that you have.”" dailymaverick.co.za/article/2023-0…

"The point here is that democracy may bring people into positions of power, but you never can tell what they will do once in office. They too, once elected, may be surprised by what they find in their new positions of power...." dailymaverick.co.za/opinionista/20…

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“People know how bad the ANC is; they don’t have to be told.” dailymaverick.co.za/article/2023-1…

"... In the absence of an independent candidate, I may give my vote to one of the smaller parties whose leadership I may trust or have come to respect. The more diverse voices we have in our democracy, the better and more resilient it is." dailymaverick.co.za/opinionista/20…

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Willemien Froneman’s book, ‘The Groovology of White Affect: Boeremusiek and the Enregisterment of Race in South Africa’ will be published with Palgrave Macmillan in March 2024. Photographs by Niklas Zimmer. #affect #groovology @willemienf Palgrave Macmillan Niklas Zimmer Robin James

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