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@AaronSlepkov @WPI @WPI_Physics Thank you, Aaron!

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Congratulations, Dr. Andrew Fitzgerald! Well done. @WPI @WPI_Physics

[Mahsa Piraei مهسا پیرایی 🇮🇷 @mahsa_piraei]

URGENT call to help #Iran immediately🚨
Based on my conversations with doctors in Tehran, Fars, Isfahan, Lorestan, Rasht, Sari & Kerman, as well as reports, photos & footages from eyewitnesses, the estimated death toll of protestors exceeds 5,000.
#DigitalBlackoutIran #R2P

[Sima Sabet | سیما ثابت @Sima_Sabet]

این تصاویر یک انقلاب است..
شمارش معکوس برای رسیدن به نور.. به آزادی.. به روزهای روشن ایران

#انقلاب_۱۴۰۴

[JP Lindsley | Journalist @JPLindsley]

1/ In London, power lives in Westminster & Buckingham Palace.

In Washington—the Capitol and White House.

In Moscow—the Kremlin.

But in Kyiv?

The real power isn't where you'd expect.

I'm here now, and what I've witnessed will show you the REAL reason for Russia’s war. 🧵⤵️

[Yury Gogotsi @YGogotsi]

The 2026 @NSF budget requests a ~57% decrease compared to 2024. There is a ~66% cut for Mathematical and Physical Sciences (this is where materials research is located). Cut in scholarships for students is 64.6%, for post-doctoral training - 91.4%. https://t.co/Fmp7rKXgCT

[Illia Ponomarenko 🇺🇦 @IAPonomarenko]

Just a thought:

Ukraine’s President is Jewish.
Our Defense Minister is a Muslim, a Crimean Tatar.
The Commander-in-Chief of the Armed Forces is an ethnic Russian.
Our top drone ace — recently awarded the title Hero of Ukraine — is an ethnic Hungarian.
Over 70,000 women serve in the military now.
Almost all of the most renowned combat medics are women.
The revolution that changed this country forever began with a Facebook post by an ethnic Afghan Pashtun, a prominent Ukrainian journalist.
And in our parliament, we have a Black MP — an Afro-Ukrainian and universally admired Olympic champion.

All of this — in a country that is still, for the most part, Slavic.

On the streets of Kyiv today, you’ll see halal restaurants for Muslim tourists standing peacefully next to Jewish eateries. Nearby are a museum and a monument to Sholem Aleichem, and a plaque bearing the face of Golda Meir, who once lived here.

Among our main landmarks: 19th-century synagogues. Just a short walk away — a large mosque and Muslim cultural center. And above all, of course — the ancient Christian churches and monasteries that are the oldest and most significant in the East Slavic world.

I still can’t get over the fact that Ukraine’s chief Muslim mufti (an ethnic Tatar from Donetsk) stepped down to serve as a frontline paramedic in the army. That our chief rabbi works tirelessly every day to help Ukraine across the globe — and that his adopted son died fighting for Ukraine, weapon in hand.

For many years now, a giant glowing menorah has stood each Hanukkah in the heart of Kyiv’s main square. And on Independence Day, every religious denomination gathers in Saint Sophia Cathedral to offer prayers for Ukraine, each in their own rite.

Just as they all come together for remembrance at Babyn Yar and the Holodomor monument.

The more you look at the world, the more often you realize how much healthier Ukrainian society has become when it comes to coexistence between nationalities and faiths.

We weren’t always like this. We are becoming this now — as the country is being radically transformed by revolution and by the defense against imperial Russia.

We are shedding the weight of so many remnants of the past — really fast.

Just recently in May, Ukraine held its WWII commemorations — with poppies and the slogan “Never again!”

What a stark contrast to the satanic frenzy of Russia’s “Victory Day,” with its death cult, its “We can do it again!” bravado, and its glorification of dying for the Tsar.

Against the backdrop of war, Ukraine is living through a real national and cultural renaissance. We are rediscovering the Ukrainian language, Ukrainian books, music, cinema — as something precious.

And for how many decades were we taught to look down on everything Ukrainian — as “third-rate,” “peasant,” “inferior”?...

I walk the streets of Kyiv on Christmas (December 25th, not January 7th as demanded by Moscow priests) and see bands of children in traditional embroidered clothes carrying colorful Bethlehem stars and singing carols. “Ukrainian Christmas” is returning to these lands as a vibrant cultural tradition.

On Easter, crowds gather near Saint Sophia Cathedral for picnics and spring dances. In the old city above Podil, I often hear youth pounding out Cossack songs on drums. I always see many people at our nation’s sacred places — the Kyiv Pechersk Lavra, the cathedrals of Lviv, the Motherland Monument, the old castles.

We haven’t suddenly become devout believers. We’ve simply come to take pride, like never before, in being Ukrainian — in treasuring our traditions, our culture, our history, and our way of life, in our own country.

New traditions keep being born in wartime, against all odds.

Today, we honor war veterans by inviting them to make the symbolic first kick at football matches — and then we give them a standing ovation from the stands, for their service.

I could go on like this for hours.

What I’m trying to say is — I love what Ukraine is becoming.

This hope — breaking through unspeakable pain and hardship — feels like a light piercing the tunnel.
Ukraine now, and Ukraine 12 years ago, are two completely different countries.

The road ahead is brutally hard, but if only — if only our Ukraine can survive this war for its very existence.

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@NoubarAfeyan @WPI Thank you for an inspiring speech and for highlighting the contributions of immigrants!

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What an honor to serve as the Honorary Marshall at WPI Graduate Commencement. AND got to hood Dr. Sepideh Khanmohammadi.

[Malcontent News @MalcontentmentT]

Almost every single person who starts as anti-Ukrainian, and then goes to Ukraine to see it for themselves, to "do their own research," comes back pro-Ukrainian.

This is worth 4 minutes of your time because it's accurate, lucid, and fair.

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@Peretti_Romain How cool!! Sharing with my students. Thank you, Romain!

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@WPI_Physics @FuncBioMatLab @WPIChemBiochem @KaterynaTHz Ti3C2Tx MXene: silk fibroin composite films—engineering DC conductivity and properties in the THz range | Graphene and 2D Materials

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MXene-silk paper is out! Collaboration of @WPI_Physics with @FuncBioMatLab (J. Coburn), R. Grimm (@WPIChemBiochem), @KaterynaTHz, O. Gogotsi, and all our awesome students! Ti3C2Tx MXene: silk fibroin composite films—engineering DC conductivity and properties in the THz range.

[Jo @JoJoFromJerz]

This. This. This!!!!!
We need more of this!!!!

[Aaron Rupar @atrupar]

You cannot make this shit up. Sharing this jaw-dropping story with a gift link -- give it a read. https://t.co/xoi2Fre1Bl

[Timothy Snyder @TimothyDSnyder]

Countless emails asking how Americans can directly aid Ukrainian soldiers. Here’s an easy answer:
https://t.co/esLMTa8fn2

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@MassGovernor @ZelenskyyUa Thank you, Governor Healy

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Boston 2/23/25

[John Jackson @hissgoescobra]

Unexpected and very fiery pro-Ukraine speech by Senator Tillis in the Senate on Wednesday, specifically mentioning Trump, drawing a contrast in their positions. He just got back from Ukraine. This is a positive, Trump needs the Senate to pass his budget:

[Shaun Pinner @ShaunPinnerUA]

I was electrocuted, beaten, stabbed in the leg and starved after being captured while defending my home and family in Mariupol.
We held back the Putin invasion for several weeks while Russia slaughtered over 25,000 predominantly Russian speaking Ukrainians including women and children.
TRUMP IS MAD OR OWNED.