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@aedoavila.bsky.social
· Aug 15
Our democracies are dying because we hate, we strive to hate as much as we are hated.
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Australia observed a record number of >450 000 notified #influenza cases during an unusually long season
A(H3N2) subclade K viruses possibly imported from the United States became the predominant subtype in both Australia and New Zealand from August onwards
#IDSky #MedSky #EpiSky #flu #H3N2 🧪🛟🧫🧬
A(H3N2) subclade K viruses possibly imported from the United States became the predominant subtype in both Australia and New Zealand from August onwards
#IDSky #MedSky #EpiSky #flu #H3N2 🧪🛟🧫🧬
Influenza clade K viruses prolong the influenza season in Australia and New Zealand
Australia observed a record number of more than 450 000 notified influenza cases during an unusually long season which stretched into the southern hemisphere’s summer period. A(H3N2) subclade K ...
www.eurekalert.org
December 11, 2025 at 9:27 PM
Bigfoot is an object, but not an object of knowledge.
💥New: Can understanding the search for Bigfoot help renew trust in science?
✍️ @drjamielewis.bsky.social & Andrew Bartlett
#STS #SciComm #Experts
✍️ @drjamielewis.bsky.social & Andrew Bartlett
#STS #SciComm #Experts
Can understanding the search for Bigfoot help renew trust in science? - Impact of Social Sciences
Bigfooters – especially those known as the apers - are dedicated to the pursuit of Bigfoot as an object of scientific study. As Jamie Lewis and Andrew Bartlett describe, to do this they draw on method...
blogs.lse.ac.uk
December 9, 2025 at 10:26 PM
Bigfoot is an object, but not an object of knowledge.
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While they wait in this backlog & try to grab a slot for the exam, those who live here have to work in jobs for which they're hugely overqualified, and their dentistry skills atrophy.
December 9, 2025 at 11:51 AM
While they wait in this backlog & try to grab a slot for the exam, those who live here have to work in jobs for which they're hugely overqualified, and their dentistry skills atrophy.
The brain is wider than the sky
December 9, 2025 at 5:13 PM
The brain is wider than the sky
"Collateral Murder" (WikiLeaks, 2010)
Rep. Jim Himes of Connecticut said the unedited video clearly shows the U.S. striking helpless people. interc.pt/49Z6zxr
December 5, 2025 at 4:44 PM
"Collateral Murder" (WikiLeaks, 2010)
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I'm no purist when it comes to participating in things we all know are bad. I try to reduce my harm but I'm an honest hypocrite.
I won't judge you for still using Spotify, just try this rad alternative. I'm listening to music from Dar es Salaam. Where will you listen to? radio.garden/listen/furah...
I won't judge you for still using Spotify, just try this rad alternative. I'm listening to music from Dar es Salaam. Where will you listen to? radio.garden/listen/furah...
Explore live radio by rotating the globe
Explore live radio by rotating the globe.
radio.garden
December 4, 2025 at 5:06 PM
I'm no purist when it comes to participating in things we all know are bad. I try to reduce my harm but I'm an honest hypocrite.
I won't judge you for still using Spotify, just try this rad alternative. I'm listening to music from Dar es Salaam. Where will you listen to? radio.garden/listen/furah...
I won't judge you for still using Spotify, just try this rad alternative. I'm listening to music from Dar es Salaam. Where will you listen to? radio.garden/listen/furah...
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Huge congratulations to the wonderful Donna Haraway for winning the 2025 Erasmus Prize:
erasmusprijs.org/en/laureates...
erasmusprijs.org/en/laureates...
December 4, 2025 at 10:13 AM
Huge congratulations to the wonderful Donna Haraway for winning the 2025 Erasmus Prize:
erasmusprijs.org/en/laureates...
erasmusprijs.org/en/laureates...
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80% of our food crops and wild flowering plants depend on pollination.
Yet one-third of bee, butterfly and hoverfly species is in decline.
Our new EU Pollinator Monitoring Scheme aims to help reverse this trend by 2030.
More info: link.europa.eu/Jb7pBQ
Yet one-third of bee, butterfly and hoverfly species is in decline.
Our new EU Pollinator Monitoring Scheme aims to help reverse this trend by 2030.
More info: link.europa.eu/Jb7pBQ
November 27, 2025 at 8:25 AM
80% of our food crops and wild flowering plants depend on pollination.
Yet one-third of bee, butterfly and hoverfly species is in decline.
Our new EU Pollinator Monitoring Scheme aims to help reverse this trend by 2030.
More info: link.europa.eu/Jb7pBQ
Yet one-third of bee, butterfly and hoverfly species is in decline.
Our new EU Pollinator Monitoring Scheme aims to help reverse this trend by 2030.
More info: link.europa.eu/Jb7pBQ
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#CeJourLà #OnThisDay – Le 5 septembre 1977, la #NASA a lancé simultanément les sondes #Voyager1 et #Voyager2 dans l’espace, dans le but d’en apprendre davantage sur les régions lointaines du système solaire et de recueillir des informations précieuses sur les planètes qui nous entourent. 🛰️🪐
September 5, 2025 at 6:33 AM
#CeJourLà #OnThisDay – Le 5 septembre 1977, la #NASA a lancé simultanément les sondes #Voyager1 et #Voyager2 dans l’espace, dans le but d’en apprendre davantage sur les régions lointaines du système solaire et de recueillir des informations précieuses sur les planètes qui nous entourent. 🛰️🪐
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Hydrogen won't help decarbonize heavy industry. It's more likely to end up in $15 pantsuits and $10 trainers on Shein and Temu
Your Shoes May Soon Be Made With Chinese Hydrogen
Rich countries have been left in the dust by China in the clean energy industries that have dominated the past decade or so: solar panels, wind turbines, lithium-ion batteries, and electric vehicles. Still, you might have hoped they’d take the lead in the technologies of the future, such as clean hydrogen.
bloom.bg
November 26, 2025 at 9:15 PM
Hydrogen won't help decarbonize heavy industry. It's more likely to end up in $15 pantsuits and $10 trainers on Shein and Temu
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Insurance companies are dropping customers as the cost of disasters goes up. Some communities in California are working to reduce their risk, but so far, insurance companies often aren't factoring that in.
This community is getting a disaster makeover. Insurance bills are still rising
Insurance companies are dropping customers as the cost of disasters goes up. Some communities in California are working to reduce their risk, but so far, insurance companies often aren't factoring that in.
n.pr
November 21, 2025 at 10:55 PM
Insurance companies are dropping customers as the cost of disasters goes up. Some communities in California are working to reduce their risk, but so far, insurance companies often aren't factoring that in.
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Right now, talking to Copilot in Windows 11 is an exercise in pure frustration — a stark reminder that the reality of AI is nowhere close to the hype.
Read more from @superantonio64.bsky.social: www.theverge.com/report/82244...
Read more from @superantonio64.bsky.social: www.theverge.com/report/82244...
November 18, 2025 at 5:21 PM
Right now, talking to Copilot in Windows 11 is an exercise in pure frustration — a stark reminder that the reality of AI is nowhere close to the hype.
Read more from @superantonio64.bsky.social: www.theverge.com/report/82244...
Read more from @superantonio64.bsky.social: www.theverge.com/report/82244...
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#CNRSNews📰 Plastic pollution worldwide is harmful to the environment and health, causing cancer and other life-threatening diseases. Yet recycling has its limits, and even boosts consumption. Scientists insist the only viable option is to stop plastic production
Plastic recycling is counter-productive
news.cnrs.fr
November 17, 2025 at 9:15 PM
#CNRSNews📰 Plastic pollution worldwide is harmful to the environment and health, causing cancer and other life-threatening diseases. Yet recycling has its limits, and even boosts consumption. Scientists insist the only viable option is to stop plastic production
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Pope Leo likes movies. As he meets with Hollywood stars today, we have a look at his four favorite movies. n.pr/48e0yLY
Opinion: Pope Leo's hope-inspiring favorite films
Pope Leo likes movies. As he meets with Hollywood stars today, we have a look at his four favorite movies.
n.pr
November 15, 2025 at 3:41 PM
Pope Leo likes movies. As he meets with Hollywood stars today, we have a look at his four favorite movies. n.pr/48e0yLY
#DonaldMacKenzie:
"...something is wrong with our pedagogy. Have we been teaching students to be stochastic parrots?
"...something is wrong with our pedagogy. Have we been teaching students to be stochastic parrots?
‘Search can sometimes take you to places you don’t want to go. But at least a “classical” search engine like Google in the 2000s and 2010s took you outside itself, and perhaps prompted you to evaluate what you found there.’
Donald MacKenzie on Google’s future: www.lrb.co.uk/the-paper/v4...
Donald MacKenzie on Google’s future: www.lrb.co.uk/the-paper/v4...
Donald MacKenzie · The Future of Search: Will we still google it?
I’m starting to feel some pre-emptive nostalgia when I do a Google search. Yes, it’s true, search can sometimes take...
www.lrb.co.uk
November 12, 2025 at 6:38 PM
#DonaldMacKenzie:
"...something is wrong with our pedagogy. Have we been teaching students to be stochastic parrots?
"...something is wrong with our pedagogy. Have we been teaching students to be stochastic parrots?
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A stark warning from insurance giant Allianz:
"We are fast approaching warming levels where insurers won't be able to offer coverage for many climate risks. The premiums required exceed what people or companies can pay. This is already happening"...
www.linkedin.com/pulse/climat...
"We are fast approaching warming levels where insurers won't be able to offer coverage for many climate risks. The premiums required exceed what people or companies can pay. This is already happening"...
www.linkedin.com/pulse/climat...
Climate, Risk, Insurance: The Future of Capitalism
CO₂ emissions directly increase the amount of energy trapped in the Earth’s atmosphere. This is not a vague or future issue—it is physical reality.
www.linkedin.com
March 25, 2025 at 7:01 PM
A stark warning from insurance giant Allianz:
"We are fast approaching warming levels where insurers won't be able to offer coverage for many climate risks. The premiums required exceed what people or companies can pay. This is already happening"...
www.linkedin.com/pulse/climat...
"We are fast approaching warming levels where insurers won't be able to offer coverage for many climate risks. The premiums required exceed what people or companies can pay. This is already happening"...
www.linkedin.com/pulse/climat...
"Kaleniuk, argue the president and his coterie are using the war to monopolize power to such a degree that it threatens the country’s democracy"
COMMENTARY: Opposition lawmakers and civil society activists say Ukraine’s leadership is using lawfare to intimidate opponents and silence critics.
🔗 www.politico.eu/article/dark...
🔗 www.politico.eu/article/dark...
November 1, 2025 at 6:16 PM
"Kaleniuk, argue the president and his coterie are using the war to monopolize power to such a degree that it threatens the country’s democracy"
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“The mind of man spontaneously assumes greater simplicity, uniformity and unity among phenomena than actually exists. It follows superficial analogies and jumps to conclusions; it overlooks the variety of details and the existence of exceptions. Thus it weaves...
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October 27, 2025 at 4:01 PM
“The mind of man spontaneously assumes greater simplicity, uniformity and unity among phenomena than actually exists. It follows superficial analogies and jumps to conclusions; it overlooks the variety of details and the existence of exceptions. Thus it weaves...
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Un año después de la dana, el geólogo Gerardo Benito reitera las advertencias sobre los peligros asociados a una mala planificación urbanística y hace un llamamiento a la ciudadanía para que consulte los mapas de zonas inundables.
Danas, inundaciones, incendios: España ante el reto de un nuevo mapa de riesgos climáticos - Climática, el medio especializado en clima y biodiversidad
Un año después de la dana, el geólogo Gerardo Benito reitera las advertencias sobre los peligros de una mala planificación urbanística.
f.mtr.cool
October 21, 2025 at 9:39 AM
Un año después de la dana, el geólogo Gerardo Benito reitera las advertencias sobre los peligros asociados a una mala planificación urbanística y hace un llamamiento a la ciudadanía para que consulte los mapas de zonas inundables.
With nothing to criticise, what would the critic do?
Paris Fashion Week introduced clothes that hid, confined, muzzled or even erased the women beneath. Some off-putting, sometimes cruel designs left our fashion critic wondering: What is the purpose of women’s fashion? nyti.ms/3W2ZfJ0
October 11, 2025 at 5:21 PM
With nothing to criticise, what would the critic do?
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Disponible sur Arte.tv : “Il est temps d’atterrir” : les pieds sur Terre avec Bruno #Latour www.nouvelobs.com/teleobs/2025...
Ce soir à la télé - « Il est temps d’atterrir » : les pieds sur Terre avec Bruno Latour
Dans ce documentaire, Vincent Gaullier et Raphaël Girardot restituent la pensée de ce pionnier de l’écologie politique, disparu en 2022, dont les citoyens s’emparent aujourd’hui. Disponible sur Arte.t...
www.nouvelobs.com
August 27, 2025 at 4:13 PM
Disponible sur Arte.tv : “Il est temps d’atterrir” : les pieds sur Terre avec Bruno #Latour www.nouvelobs.com/teleobs/2025...
October 4, 2025 at 2:43 PM