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The story of Endurance Emiowele, a young man who after having lived difficult experiences and having faced arrest, finds his way through study in the prison at the University of Turin, approaching the achievement of his degree and the building of a better future. #istruzione #cambiamento #giustizia (translated)

The planned drastic structural reforms at Goethe University Frankfurt, which include a reduction of departments from 16 to 7 and the elimination of about 60 professorships, are partly viewed as a response to the inadequate funding from the state of Hesse, while the precise effects and acceptance of these measures within the academic community remain unclear. #GoetheUni #Hochschulreform #Frankfurt (translated)

Researchers at the University of Colorado Boulder have developed innovative tattoos that turn on and off based on light, allowing common tattoos to become invisible, with potential applications for patients undergoing radiation therapy. #tatuaggi #innovazione #ricerca (translated)

A research team from the Technical University of Vienna has developed an atomic clock that could potentially become the most accurate clock in the world, as it recently ran stably for 24 hours and regulated itself, although it currently still has an error of one second per 30 million years. #Atomkernuhr #TUWien #Zeitmessung (translated)

THE "BATTLE OF CERIGNOLA (1503)" ON "POPULAR ARCHAEOLOGY USA" (by LUCIANO MAGALDI SARDELLA) SOURCE 1: https://popular-archaeology.com/author/sardella/ SOURCE 2: https://popular-archaeology.com/article/the-2026-battlefield-archaeology-of-the-battle-of-cerignola-1503/ -------------------------------------------------------------------- CERIGNOLA (FG) — On April 28, 1503, at sunset, a shallow trench cut between the vineyards outside Cerignola rendered heavy cavalry obsolete. For five centuries, its exact location has only been conjectured, its archaeology ignored, its most important sources never translated into English. We are on the Tavoliere of Puglia, a corridor of battles for two thousand years: from Cannae in 216 BC to the falcon hunt of Frederick II from Torre Alemanna. Cerignola, at that time, was not a city but a rural village of 350 families at 120 meters above sea level, custodian of the Mena della Dogana delle Pecore, the great pastoral system of transhumance that financed the Kingdom of Naples. Its possession was fiercely contested. Facing each other were two worlds. Louis d’Armagnac, Duke of Nemours, Viceroy of Naples for Louis XII, in his thirties, splendidly armored, confident of victory. On the other side was Gonzalo Fernández de Córdoba, the Gran Capitán, who on April 27-28 marched from Barletta with about 9,000 exhausted men and decided to settle on a low ridge. He deepened what was already there: not an invention, but an agricultural ditch. The French gendarmes, the last heirs of the medieval knight, lowered their lances and never reached the line. From behind a parapet reinforced with vine stakes, over 1,000 Spanish arquebusiers opened fire. Nemours fell, almost certainly the first European army commander to die from a portable firearm. With him, the charge of cavalry as a dominant tactic died. And here is the scandal denounced by the article: no cartographer of the 17th-18th centuries ever mapped the battlefield. No monument commemorates it. It is not protected as a cultural landscape under the Code of Cultural Heritage. Every deep plowing of the Tavoliere, standard practice since the Bourbon reforms, destroys an archaeology never recorded. Yet the perimeter can be reconstructed. By cross-referencing the 16th-century descriptions of "vine-covered slopes fifteen miles north of the Ofanto" with the Via Traiana, the engagement area is a rectangle of 3-4 square kilometers northeast of the current settlement. With the 1m LiDAR DTM from ISPRA, it could reveal anomalous linear depressions, and the lower filling of a ditch 2-3 meters deep, under the plowed layer, is still readable with magnetometry and ground radar. Why did we arrive late? Not for lack of sources, but for lack of translation. The Municipality of Cerignola and the Torre Alemanna Research and Study Center of Prof. Matteo Stuppiello, who in 1978 obtained the first monumental protection for Torre Alemanna, have digitized a corpus that has never entered Anglophone historiography. Here are the 3 pillars: 1. The letter that still smells of gunpowder. The “Letter from Consalvo de Córdoba to the Spanish royals dated April 29, 1503,” edited by Stuppiello in 2003 and updated to 2025 on comune.cerignola.fg.it/biblioteche-digitali. A handwritten page written in Cerignola the day after the battle, “rich in flashes, twilight lights, and gunfire.” Not a polished chronicle like that of Giovio, but a field dispatch: the fatigue of the night march, the decision to entrench upon arrival, the recovery and honorable burial of Nemours, the intact capture of the French artillery. 2. The graffiti, a monument inside the monument. In the 14th-century church of Santa Maria delle Grazie, known as the Incoronatella, on the Via Trinitapoli Vecchia, where tradition holds that the body of Nemours was brought. On the triumphal arch, a 1503 graffiti gives, in almost notarized form, the date, sixth indiction, Friday at the hour XXIII-XXIIII. It was indeed Friday, as confirmed by the perpetual calendar of Cappelli. Decoded in 1995 by Prof. Francesco Magistrale, Latin paleographer at the University of Bari, in *The Battle of Cerignola (1993)* and in the municipal monograph *S.M. delle Grazie (1999)*. Today it is fading due to humidity and neglect. 3. The land registry that explains the ditch. The Survey of 1672 preserved at the State Archive of Naples, Pignatelli Aragona Cortes fund, Scanzia 63, fasc.1: “At the time of the battle, thick vineyards covered the hill reaching to the plain, and were distinctly separated from the rest of the countryside by a not very deep ditch.” Córdoba did not improvise; he adapted. This is confirmed by the catasti of the Giustiniani: 277 households in 1532, 699 in 1595. The landscape of 1503 was intensely horticultural, not the deeply plowed monoculture of today. In addition to these, there is the first monograph by Vincenzo Buonassisi, *The Battle of Cerignola* (1908, died in Via Fanfulla 10 on June 27, 1928), and the first modern military analysis by Piero Pieri, “Consalvo de Córdoba and the Battle of Cerignola,” Archivio Storico Pugliese 1952, which 30 years before the Anglophone rediscovery of the “pike-and-shot” defined Cerignola as an engineered killing ground. While Cerignola forgot, others remembered. The “Regimiento de Infantería Cerinola n.42”, later “Fuerteventura n.56”, carried the name of Cerignola until the 20th century. The coat of arms, described in *Heraldica e Historiales del Ejercito, Tomo V” (Madrid, 1981): silver field, dying white swan entangled in a hedge, golden wall crown, with the scroll “Cerignola.” Dossier officially transmitted on April 30, 1986, prot. 4565/509, from the Servicio Histórico Militar of Madrid to the Torre Alemanna Center thanks to Col. Alessio Antonutti and Gen. José Cifuentes. And in Amsterdam, at the Rijksmuseum, the anonymous bronze commemorative medal: Hercules with lion skin and club and Janus with the keys next to an eagle-armed coat of arms, legend “Consalvus Agidarius… Janum clausit,” on the reverse a battle scene “Consalvi Agidari Victoria de Gallis ad Cannas,” an artist's mistake that confuses Cerignola with Cannae. It belonged to Mrs. J.M. van Gelder-Nijhoff, donated in 1885. The author's conclusion is clear: Gonzalo's ditch is the most consequential earthwork in European military history. It inaugurates the infantry armed with firearm and conditions the Mediterranean for 160 years. It may still be there, filled, plowed, invisible to the naked eye but accessible to a magnetometer. It is not a matter of medieval archaeology but of the will to protect. (translated)

Luigi Giliberti wrote that, even with a front row seat, the help of the university and the support of a professor, two degrees would not teach honesty. He argued that those who had committed crimes would not change their nature thanks to education and declared any romantic view of the issue over. #onestà #realità #educazione (translated)

In a shooting near a university stadium in Tallahassee, Florida, eleven people were injured on Saturday evening, including six minors, and the police confirmed that the shooting may have stemmed from a conflict between two or three individuals. #Fusillade #Tallahassee #ÉtatsUnis (translated)

The case of Alexandru Toader, a lecturer at the University of Iași accused of sexual assault by students, reveals a climate of fear and intimidation among the victims, who fear that his status and that of his father, a former Minister of Justice, would affect their academic progress. #UniversitateaCuza (translated)

HC Strien wrote that Johannes Varwick was, from his perspective, a disgrace to science. He excluded the University of Halle from this and described its committees as incompetent for having offered Varwick a professorship. Moreover, Strien accused Varwick of lying and stated that anyone who lies is not a scientist. #Wissenschaft #Forschung #Wahrheit (translated)

Cerfia reported that protests took place on Saturday, October 24, in several European countries, focused on the cost of living, housing, pensions, and education. In France, around 410,000 people marched according to the Ministry of the Interior, and over 800,000 according to the CGT, for purchasing power, wages, and more resources in education. In Italy, several thousand people gathered notably in Turin, Rome, Florence, and Milan, following the online broadcast of a call titled "Italy Like France." According to Cerfia, they protested against the high cost of living and the government, and supported education. In Portugal, several hundred people demonstrated in Lisbon and Porto for the right to housing and against what they deemed unaffordable rents. Cerfia also indicated that in Madrid, 25,000 people participated in a demonstration according to the authorities, compared to 50,000 according to the organizers, for dignified pensions and against their privatization. In Tirana, several thousand people protested against high study fees, university conditions, and corruption. #Manifestation #Europe #Pouvoirdachat (translated)

Federal Chancellor Christian Stocker (ÖVP) expects an annual additional revenue of over 200 million euros from the social assistance reform and at the same time remains firm on cuts to the university budget as well as on the rejection of better pay for civilian service workers. #Sozialhilfereform #Sparkurs #Bundeskanzler (translated)

The prosecutors argue that Alexandru Toader, the son of the former Minister of Justice, allegedly used his university connections with female students to initiate personal and sexual relationships, according to details from the arrest report. #Justiție #Arestare #AbuzSexual (translated)