Johan Zvrskovec 🇺🇦
Research associate/assistant at IoPPN(@kingsioppn.bsky.social), KCL(@kingscollegelondon.bsky.social). Behavioural epidemiology, statistical genetics, factor analysis, machine learning.
- Reposted by Johan Zvrskovec 🇺🇦Jörgen Warborn (M) ledde EU:s arbete för att lätta upp bolagsregler. I samarbete med Der Spiegel kan Aftonbladet nu avslöja att hans kontakter med amerikanska organisationer som velat påverka EU:s klimatlagar varit fler och djupare än vad som tidigare varit känt. www.aftonbladet.se/nyheter/a/aJ...
- Reposted by Johan Zvrskovec 🇺🇦Another horrific Russian crime against Ukrainian civilians Russian forces killed a married couple who were trying to leave the occupied village of Hrabovske,Sumy region.The family had made it halfway when they were attacked by drones 📷the couple had been teenage sweethearts&were married for 33yrs
- Reposted by Johan Zvrskovec 🇺🇦Also under the radar: One in six autistic pupils in UK have not attended school at all since September www.theguardian.com/education/20...
- Reposted by Johan Zvrskovec 🇺🇦🤢 FIVE WINNERS. MILLIONS LOSERS. 🚨Brexit beneficiaries: Johnson - PM Farage - fame Putin - a weaker UK Epstein - ??? Steve Bannon - Far right Growth Everyone else got higher prices, fewer rights, and a divided country.
- Reposted by Johan Zvrskovec 🇺🇦I know the govt is in meltdown again… but meanwhile I wrote about how their immigration policies create a subclass of migrant workers exposed to abuse in an increasingly “Dubai-style” rightless immigration model & I explain what to do about it
- Labour is creating a vulnerable migrant underclass @zoejardiniere.bsky.social
- Reposted by Johan Zvrskovec 🇺🇦Samma Europa, samma människor på flykt, samma data. Men en helt annan slutsats: www.nytimes.com/2026/02/04/o...
- Reposted by Johan Zvrskovec 🇺🇦My story on Elon Musk cutting safeguards at xAI is on the front page of today's @washingtonpost.com. I’m also among 100’s of reporters laid off. I absolutely loved my job my brilliant coworkers & the thrill of reporting @ the center of forces upending the world: AI & Silicon Valley’s political power
- Reposted by Johan Zvrskovec 🇺🇦THREAD 🧵: The Epstein files are real. The antisemitism they're fueling is also real. And right now, the second part is getting almost no attention.
- Reposted by Johan Zvrskovec 🇺🇦China is now bankrolling Russia’s war in Ukraine by providing 60% of the funds needed by Moscow to continue fighting, MPs on the Commons Defence Committee were told today. The aim is to gain an advantage over the West.
- Reposted by Johan Zvrskovec 🇺🇦Om retroaktiva bestraffningar och viljan att göra Sverige renrasigt har jag skrivit några rader: www.vk.se/2026-02-04/m...
- Reposted by Johan Zvrskovec 🇺🇦The genetic foundations of convergent traits www.nature.com/articles/s41... (free: rdcu.be/e2bBO) 🧬💻🧪
- Reposted by Johan Zvrskovec 🇺🇦INBOX: Washington Post Ukraine Correspondent Lizzie Johnson announces that she has been laid off in the middle of a below-freezing war zone without power, heat, or running water.
- Reposted by Johan Zvrskovec 🇺🇦Founders of modern paleontology, and their contributions to systemic racism, classism and sexism (🧵) Henry Osborn (1857–1935), responsible for naming of Tyrannosaurus & Velociraptor; president of ANHM. Co-founder of the American Eugenics Society. Contributing to books later praised by Hitler.
- Reposted by Johan Zvrskovec 🇺🇦In this week's column I seek to explain Keir Starmer's flat refusal to change our electoral system, even though its gross unfairness could put Reform UK in power on <30% of the vote. The reasons, I believe, are deeply cynical and disturbing. www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...
- Reposted by Johan Zvrskovec 🇺🇦When some Na'amodniks went to the West Bank last month, local settler militias harassed us & the local Palestinian population every day. This article exposes how these violent, under-reported, and unaccountable militias work as extensions of the Israeli state. www.theguardian.com/world/2026/j...
- Reposted by Johan Zvrskovec 🇺🇦If you truly believe that social media platforms are harmful places, the idea that the government now makes a list of vulnerable people and bans them from these platforms, e.g. based on age, is not a sensible or good faith solution. Regulate the platforms instead, for everybody.
- Reposted by Johan Zvrskovec 🇺🇦On this day in 1948, an all-white jury sentenced a Black woman and two of her teenage sons to death for killing an armed white man in self-defense.
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- Reposted by Johan Zvrskovec 🇺🇦Peter Thiel has been open about this for a long time. Trump is a way to break the republic, which can then be replaced by “free economic zones” with oligarchs as dictators and tech as a taskmaster for helpless humans without any rights. (1/2)
- Reposted by Johan Zvrskovec 🇺🇦If you support autistic adults: are you asking about burnout or assuming it's depression? This matters because treatment is completely different. Sensory rest helps burnout. Behavioural activation helps depression. Get it wrong = worse outcomes. #MentalHealth #Autism #Burnout 🧵 THREAD
- Reposted by Johan Zvrskovec 🇺🇦(1) Long 🧵 Time. Today we learned that paleontologist Jack Horner (the same guy who helped give us "Jurassic Park") is in the Epstein Files. As a paleontologist, I feel compelled to say something because this touches my field and I want to make my stance clear on this...
- Reposted by Johan Zvrskovec 🇺🇦This time I try to explain group-level confounding and some ways to deal with it. Lecture B04 of Statistical Rethinking 2026 - fixed effects, Mundlak machines, latent Mundlak machines, intro to social network analysis and the social relations model. Full lecture list: github.com/rmcelreath/s...
- Reposted by Johan Zvrskovec 🇺🇦Here she goes, leaving Baltic Sea. There is frantic activity. German clerks has had the main responsibility for looking away and the staff is exhausted. Denmark took over for now but the Germans are on again tomorrow. The clerks in UK shiver. They have 11 vessels to ignore. Just the coming hours.
- Reposted by Johan Zvrskovec 🇺🇦Non-physical domestic violence in childhood has stronger links to adult mental health than physical violence 🏠 New study found intimidation, control & property damage more strongly assoc w PTSD, anxiety and depression than physical violence. #MentalHealth #DomesticViolence #TraumaTherapy 🧵 THREAD
- Reposted by Johan Zvrskovec 🇺🇦I've been kinda numb today, in no small part because of the E-files revelations that this whole trans genocide was so that the friends of some billionaires were chasers. I... I wrote about this for my scholarly book. I put so much effort into showing it. I get how Sexton feels. Fucking fuck.
- Reposted by Johan Zvrskovec 🇺🇦An Italian court has recognised refugee status for an EU citizen - a Hungarian national who faces persecution for being Roma and transgender Analysis by Chiara Scissa: eulawanalysis.blogspot.com/2026/01/mutu...
- Reposted by Johan Zvrskovec 🇺🇦Liam is home now and we are grateful to @joaquincastrotx.bsky.social for traveling to Minneapolis with him and his dad. Welcome home Liam ❤️❤️
- Reposted by Johan Zvrskovec 🇺🇦[sex crime island] Jeffrey Epstein: the thinng abut a trans womanis that its= a byootiful lad y/ wit booboohoogoobass ( . ) ( . ) Name redacted Extremely Respected Evolutionary Biologist: of course, of course Epstein: butt al so Epstein: it has a hoohadoodypoo <=====3
- Reposted by Johan Zvrskovec 🇺🇦Shadow tanker PEACE lacks safety management, insurance. She is flying a false flag of Timor-Leste where Timor-Leste demands of other states to stop her. She is lawless. Sanctioned by EU and UK. She is on her fifth delivery of Russian crude to India last 12m. She is leaving Baltic Sea laden now.
- Reposted by Johan Zvrskovec 🇺🇦‘It would be foolish to deny the force and allure of Trump’s perverse charisma, but after the violent humiliation of 9/11, the wars in Afghanistan and Iraq and the financial crisis of 2008, he walked through an open door.’ @adamshatz.bsky.social’s Winter Lecture: www.lrb.co.uk/the-paper/v4...
- Reposted by Johan Zvrskovec 🇺🇦In Springfield, Ohio, people are preparing in advance of a “large deportation” promised by the president. To all appearances, the city is 2 or 3 days from a federal ethnic cleansing, grounded in a hate campaign organized by the vice-president and American Nazis. snyder.substack.com/p/ethnic-cle...
- Reposted by Johan Zvrskovec 🇺🇦🕎🇵🇸 Watch this amazing Rabbi talking at a Pro-Palestine protest against the Genocide of Gaza Zionists are not Jews, and true Jews stand with the Palestinian people. (Jewish Voice)
- Reposted by Johan Zvrskovec 🇺🇦This is a truly timeless piece... harpers.org/archive/1941...
- Reposted by Johan Zvrskovec 🇺🇦Do I understand this Epstein doc? Not at all. Is it a remarkable network diagram of elite connections? Yes.
- Reposted by Johan Zvrskovec 🇺🇦I would almost say, "I can't get even get mad, it's such a funny bit." The problem is, we all know where this goes, and the answer is, "(((they))) did it"
- Reposted by Johan Zvrskovec 🇺🇦Reform politician Matthew Goodwin tells the Sunday Times that he would "rather shoot myself in the head" than be at dinner with Nick Robinson and Mary Beard, and the last thing the ex-acadenuc would ever have wanted would be to be a Professor at some Oxford college "backwater with zero influence"
- You dont win 'em all! Reform's Matt Goodwin in Sunday Times: 'Most .. people criticising me are nerds.The last thing I want is to be at some dinner party table with Nick Robinson & Mary Beard. I'd rather shoot myself in the head'. Hang on, I'm not THAT bad!Nerds sometimes have a (thoughtful!) point.
- Reposted by Johan Zvrskovec 🇺🇦Yeah this is textbook antisemitism and also easily pivots into “strapping young bucks buying T-bone steaks” talk that Reagan used too
- Reposted by Johan Zvrskovec 🇺🇦A lovely woman I know told me the other day that since Avelo stopped flying for ICE, "We did it! We ended ICE Air!" Had to tell her Avelo was only about 15% of it. Still going: Global X, Eastern Air, Journey, Key Lime/Denver Air, and Omni Air International ⤵️ www.motherjones.com/politics/202...
- Reposted by Johan Zvrskovec 🇺🇦Det går nästan inte att ta in detta: Enligt Financial Times så går tillbakagången för demokratin just nu och under Trumps första år vid makten snabbare i USA än vad den gjorde i länder som Ungern, Ryssland och Turkiet efter det att Orbán, Putin och Erdoğan valde att slå in på den illiberala vägen
- Reposted by Johan Zvrskovec 🇺🇦Rather depressing afternoon searching the names of fellow physicists in the Epstein files 😑
- Reposted by Johan Zvrskovec 🇺🇦The corruption went into overdrive even before the inauguration. People saying that the American system of checks and balances is holding are detached from reality. When it comes to checking corruption, they don’t seem to exist. www.wsj.com/politics/pol...
- Reposted by Johan Zvrskovec 🇺🇦Based on what I've seen, at least 4 current/former Harvard professors have now been named as Epstein associates. Which seems notable given prior reporting that Epstein used false promises of "elite" college admissions to lure young girls into his web of abuse. www.theguardian.com/us-news/2026...
- Reposted by Johan Zvrskovec 🇺🇦straight up Gestapo shit
- Reposted by Johan Zvrskovec 🇺🇦In Moscow's Shadows 234: PACE’s Picks, Ukraine’s Grid, Russia’s Corruption Four stories with counter-intuitive implications, on emigre politics, energy ceasefire, corruption and battle death www.buzzsprout.com/1026985/epis...
- Reposted by Johan Zvrskovec 🇺🇦Well, I went yesterday to hear Lise Davidsen as Isolde and all I can say is that if you ever get a chance to hear her in that role you should do whatever it takes to get tickets: she is the Isolde of our time. Quite extraordinary. Great production (despite this review) and conducting too.
- Reposted by Johan Zvrskovec 🇺🇦The problem with this account, so far as Oxford itself is concerned, is that these restrictions never actually happened. There are no traffic filters on St Clements or Hollow Way or any of the other places on the map in the seventh post. There was not trial. It never happened. /1
- Reposted by Johan Zvrskovec 🇺🇦Åklagaren ifråga har även skrivit detta. www.expressen.se/debatt/tilla... Intressant bias.
- Reposted by Johan Zvrskovec 🇺🇦Ok, let’s do this🙄 We’ll start with an explainer covering: 🕒What is a 15-minute city 🏫What on Earth is going on with Oxford 👽Where the conspiracy theories have come from And then we’ll look at the Telegraph article 🧵 1/25
- Reposted by Johan Zvrskovec 🇺🇦"microtransactions in games started by cabal of pedophile elites for the purpose of indoctrinating kids into an economy" Ok. Well, we all knew it was evil somehow but I really didn't expect Epstein to be responsible for why video games are bad now. That's just not what I would've thought.
- Check this out. www.justice.gov/epstein/file...
- Reposted by Johan Zvrskovec 🇺🇦Unable to comprehend, accountability must be demanded -The Israeli military previously claimed to have killed 22,000 militants in Gaza, suggesting that, by its own count, more than two-thirds of the 70,000 dead were non-combatants. www.theguardian.com/world/2026/j...
