Fabrizio Scarpa
@flago2009.bsky.social
Academic at Uni Bristol 🏴 FRAeS ERC work on #metamaterials and #biobased #materials. Love for history, geopolitics and climate. Banner shows a 2D metamaterial. Links: ibit.ly/b_Dsn and ibit.ly/MuO03 Personal opinions, etc ... 🧪⚙️🤖👾♻️🚤✈️🏋️♀️🏛🐈
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Content Analysis: A delightful mix of academic rigor and witty banter, Fabrizio’s style reads like a conversation with a friend at a coffee shop, where every sip comes with a side of insight and a sprinkle of sarcasm. Expect footnotes—a lot of them!
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Japanese giant SoftBank said Tuesday it has sold its entire stake in tech giant Nvidia for $5.83 billion.
Click here to read more: https://cnb.cx/49LCIs8
Click here to read more: https://cnb.cx/49LCIs8
November 11, 2025 at 7:35 AM
Japanese giant SoftBank said Tuesday it has sold its entire stake in tech giant Nvidia for $5.83 billion.
Click here to read more: https://cnb.cx/49LCIs8
Click here to read more: https://cnb.cx/49LCIs8
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The UK government is probing a $50M purchase of russian planes, despite sanctions.
British firms imports from russia rose 21% to $105M in 2025, with nearly half from aircraft, raising security and compliance concerns.
united24media.com/latest-news/...
British firms imports from russia rose 21% to $105M in 2025, with nearly half from aircraft, raising security and compliance concerns.
united24media.com/latest-news/...
UK Bought $50 Million Worth of Russian Planes Despite Sanctions, Government Launches Probe
The UK is examining a $50 million aircraft transaction with Russia for potential sanctions violations, as imports from the country rise significantly.
united24media.com
November 10, 2025 at 6:37 PM
The UK government is probing a $50M purchase of russian planes, despite sanctions.
British firms imports from russia rose 21% to $105M in 2025, with nearly half from aircraft, raising security and compliance concerns.
united24media.com/latest-news/...
British firms imports from russia rose 21% to $105M in 2025, with nearly half from aircraft, raising security and compliance concerns.
united24media.com/latest-news/...
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Empty Head ▶️ Empty Promise
Kash Patel leaves major allies 'incredulous' as empty promise threatens historic pact
Kash Patel leaves major allies 'incredulous' as empty promise threatens historic pact
British intelligence officials were left “incredulous” as FBI Director Kash Patel axed an agent’s job in London, compromising an intelligence-sharing agreement between the two countries that had held strong since 1938.That agreement is known as Five Eyes, an alliance between the United States, the U...
bit.ly
November 10, 2025 at 1:18 PM
Empty Head ▶️ Empty Promise
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This looks rather meaningful.
November 10, 2025 at 9:40 AM
This looks rather meaningful.
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Researchers extracted proteins from spent beer-brewing yeast and spun them into strong textile fibers that avoid the environmental impact of petroleum-based polymers, and the ethical as well as land- and water-use concerns of cotton and wool. cen.acs.org/materials/Br... #chemsky 🧪
Brewing waste: The solution to sustainable fashion?
Biodegradable fibers spun from yeast protein avoid the resource use and pollution of cotton, wool, and polyester
cen.acs.org
November 7, 2025 at 12:44 PM
Researchers extracted proteins from spent beer-brewing yeast and spun them into strong textile fibers that avoid the environmental impact of petroleum-based polymers, and the ethical as well as land- and water-use concerns of cotton and wool. cen.acs.org/materials/Br... #chemsky 🧪
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This is a snapshot of our future that shows why the UK must step up to counter these threats.
War is no longer just ships and planes, it is drones and cyber too.
As we spend more on our armed forces it is critical that these new threats are recognised.
www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...
War is no longer just ships and planes, it is drones and cyber too.
As we spend more on our armed forces it is critical that these new threats are recognised.
www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...
UK military to help protect Belgium after suspected Russian drone incursions
Sir Richard Knighton, the UK military chief, says his Belgian counterpart requested assistance in the form of personnel and equipment this week.
www.bbc.co.uk
November 9, 2025 at 5:36 PM
This is a snapshot of our future that shows why the UK must step up to counter these threats.
War is no longer just ships and planes, it is drones and cyber too.
As we spend more on our armed forces it is critical that these new threats are recognised.
www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...
War is no longer just ships and planes, it is drones and cyber too.
As we spend more on our armed forces it is critical that these new threats are recognised.
www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...
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Blue Labour is the Militant Tendency of the 2020s, and just as damaging
November 9, 2025 at 9:51 AM
Blue Labour is the Militant Tendency of the 2020s, and just as damaging
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Look forward to more grand declations about how Europeans must emulate an America whose government is in the sixth week of shutdown and now can't provide safe air travel
✈️ FAA Ops Summary - 09/0300 ✈️
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ADDITI0NAL STAFFING TRIGGERS ISSUED. LGA GROUND DELAY PROGRAM TIMED
OUT. DFW, IAH AND HOU GROUND DELAY PROGRAMS WERE CA... More info in image.
FAA Details. #AvGeek
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ADDITI0NAL STAFFING TRIGGERS ISSUED. LGA GROUND DELAY PROGRAM TIMED
OUT. DFW, IAH AND HOU GROUND DELAY PROGRAMS WERE CA... More info in image.
FAA Details. #AvGeek
November 9, 2025 at 11:26 AM
Look forward to more grand declations about how Europeans must emulate an America whose government is in the sixth week of shutdown and now can't provide safe air travel
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Simple rule: Stop setting carbon on fire to make energy. It ain't sustainable.
Drax still burning 250-year-old trees sourced from forests in Canada, experts say
Exclusive: report by Stand.earth says subsidiary of power plant received truckloads of whole logs at biomass pellet sites
www.theguardian.com
November 9, 2025 at 10:37 AM
Simple rule: Stop setting carbon on fire to make energy. It ain't sustainable.
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It is pretty interesting to read some of the commentary on future sea level rise from the 1950s. This was from a symposium held in the Netherlands in 1954, before many of the aspects of climate change were fully understood, including Milankovich theory and CO₂ changes. #ClimateChange #SeaLevelChange
November 8, 2025 at 10:11 AM
It is pretty interesting to read some of the commentary on future sea level rise from the 1950s. This was from a symposium held in the Netherlands in 1954, before many of the aspects of climate change were fully understood, including Milankovich theory and CO₂ changes. #ClimateChange #SeaLevelChange
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One thing this Hill article doesn’t mention about US non participation in COP30 is that the State Department already fired all the people who knew anything about UNFCCC
thehill.com
November 8, 2025 at 12:28 PM
One thing this Hill article doesn’t mention about US non participation in COP30 is that the State Department already fired all the people who knew anything about UNFCCC
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What utter BS is this?
Southern Water investigating themselves
Seriously - you couldn't make it up
www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2025...
Southern Water investigating themselves
Seriously - you couldn't make it up
www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2025...
‘Environmental catastrophe’ fears as millions of plastic beads wash up on Camber Sands
Southern Water is being investigated amid concerns the spill could have dire impact on rare sea life
www.theguardian.com
November 8, 2025 at 7:58 PM
What utter BS is this?
Southern Water investigating themselves
Seriously - you couldn't make it up
www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2025...
Southern Water investigating themselves
Seriously - you couldn't make it up
www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2025...
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Important new research published last month in Nature Sustainability shows that the oil and gas industry has only a 1.42% share of global renewable energy.
Only 20% of the 250 largest oil and gas companies operate any renewable energy projects.
www.nature.com/articles/s41...
#COP30
Only 20% of the 250 largest oil and gas companies operate any renewable energy projects.
www.nature.com/articles/s41...
#COP30
Oil and gas industry’s marginal share of global renewable energy - Nature Sustainability
The decarbonization of oil and gas companies may not be as speedy or robust as advertised. This analysis finds that renewable energies make up just a minor fraction of the total energy production by t...
www.nature.com
November 7, 2025 at 10:14 AM
Important new research published last month in Nature Sustainability shows that the oil and gas industry has only a 1.42% share of global renewable energy.
Only 20% of the 250 largest oil and gas companies operate any renewable energy projects.
www.nature.com/articles/s41...
#COP30
Only 20% of the 250 largest oil and gas companies operate any renewable energy projects.
www.nature.com/articles/s41...
#COP30
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NEW YORK (AP) — James Watson, co-discoverer of the double-helix shape of DNA, has died at age 97.
November 7, 2025 at 7:57 PM
NEW YORK (AP) — James Watson, co-discoverer of the double-helix shape of DNA, has died at age 97.
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Défense : électrochoc à la tête de la direction générale de l’armement
Défense : électrochoc à la tête de la direction générale de l’armement
Emmanuel Chiva, qui avait pris la tête de la DGA en juillet 2022, est sur le départ en raison de nombreux blocages en interne et avec les industriels.
www.lemonde.fr
November 7, 2025 at 6:33 PM
Défense : électrochoc à la tête de la direction générale de l’armement
www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2025... “I’ve been reassured from the top of the army down to the folks that work on the platform that it is safe.”
But forgot to ask the squaddies.
But forgot to ask the squaddies.
UK troops treated for hearing problems in final tests of Ajax armoured vehicle
The £5.5bn model was classified as fit for army deployment in September but soldiers continue to raise health fears
www.theguardian.com
November 7, 2025 at 6:38 PM
www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2025... “I’ve been reassured from the top of the army down to the folks that work on the platform that it is safe.”
But forgot to ask the squaddies.
But forgot to ask the squaddies.
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Word of the Day is ‘catchfart’ (17th century): an obsequious individual who sucks up to the boss and always follows the political wind.
November 7, 2025 at 10:12 AM
Word of the Day is ‘catchfart’ (17th century): an obsequious individual who sucks up to the boss and always follows the political wind.
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Vital piece of investigative reporting from Sky. They've uncovered the X algorithm which feeds users extremist right wing material from the moment they join the site. It is a far-right radicalisation engine, by design.
news.sky.com/story/the-x-...
news.sky.com/story/the-x-...
Elon Musk is boosting the British right - and this shows how
Elon Musk is boosting the British right - and this shows how
news.sky.com
November 6, 2025 at 7:23 AM
Vital piece of investigative reporting from Sky. They've uncovered the X algorithm which feeds users extremist right wing material from the moment they join the site. It is a far-right radicalisation engine, by design.
news.sky.com/story/the-x-...
news.sky.com/story/the-x-...
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Imagine having a kid in this daycare who watches as their teacher is bodily dragged away by masked goons.
Federal agents pulling a woman out of Rayito Del Sol, a daycare by Lane Tech high school
November 5, 2025 at 2:58 PM
Imagine having a kid in this daycare who watches as their teacher is bodily dragged away by masked goons.
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To understand how plants coordinate defense strategies against herbivore attacks, researchers studied potato plants attacked by leafminers.
In a new #ScienceAdvances study, they report that a gene called SWEET11 plays a key role in potato plants’ tissue-specific defense. https://scim.ag/3L8Cv8p
In a new #ScienceAdvances study, they report that a gene called SWEET11 plays a key role in potato plants’ tissue-specific defense. https://scim.ag/3L8Cv8p
Tissue-specific regulation of a sugar transporter mediates both resistance and tolerance responses to attack from a leafminer in potato
Potato plants differentially regulate SWEET11 in sink and source leaves, which mediates two distinct responses to herbivory.
scim.ag
November 5, 2025 at 7:13 PM
To understand how plants coordinate defense strategies against herbivore attacks, researchers studied potato plants attacked by leafminers.
In a new #ScienceAdvances study, they report that a gene called SWEET11 plays a key role in potato plants’ tissue-specific defense. https://scim.ag/3L8Cv8p
In a new #ScienceAdvances study, they report that a gene called SWEET11 plays a key role in potato plants’ tissue-specific defense. https://scim.ag/3L8Cv8p
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In normal circumstances the attempt by the US to extort an allied country directly and via large companies would be a major political scandal. It isn't because the US is using such mob tactics on all other countries. We all lose out.
www.politico.eu/article/us-p...
www.politico.eu/article/us-p...
US pharma to abandon UK unless NHS pays more, says Trump’s ambassador
Britain has offered to increase the threshold at which the NHS pays firms for medicines. Pharma firms want the government to go further.
www.politico.eu
November 5, 2025 at 5:51 PM
In normal circumstances the attempt by the US to extort an allied country directly and via large companies would be a major political scandal. It isn't because the US is using such mob tactics on all other countries. We all lose out.
www.politico.eu/article/us-p...
www.politico.eu/article/us-p...
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Good morning with good news: New solar plus storage in India is more than 25% cheaper than EXISTING coal plants. It's also much cheaper than new coal plants!
Indian solar plus storage costs $33–41/MWh
EXISTING coal costs $54/MWh
New coal costs $67-83/MWh
ember-energy.org/latest-insig...
#energysky
Indian solar plus storage costs $33–41/MWh
EXISTING coal costs $54/MWh
New coal costs $67-83/MWh
ember-energy.org/latest-insig...
#energysky
October 31, 2025 at 11:43 AM
Good morning with good news: New solar plus storage in India is more than 25% cheaper than EXISTING coal plants. It's also much cheaper than new coal plants!
Indian solar plus storage costs $33–41/MWh
EXISTING coal costs $54/MWh
New coal costs $67-83/MWh
ember-energy.org/latest-insig...
#energysky
Indian solar plus storage costs $33–41/MWh
EXISTING coal costs $54/MWh
New coal costs $67-83/MWh
ember-energy.org/latest-insig...
#energysky
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UK opts out of flagship fund to protect Amazon and other threatened tropical forests #Climate
UK opts out of flagship fund to protect Amazon and other threatened tropical forests
Decision is bitter blow to Brazil ahead of fund’s launch at Cop30 – and an embarrassment to Prince William
www.theguardian.com
November 5, 2025 at 5:42 PM
UK opts out of flagship fund to protect Amazon and other threatened tropical forests #Climate
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IEA said in 2010 that 410 GW of solar would globally operate in 2035.
In 2025, there is already four times that amount of solar globally.
Small solar (<1 MW) was 42% of global solar deployment in 2024, up from 22% in 2015.
Trump/MAGA war on solar will fail!
www.ft.com/content/c406... #energysky
In 2025, there is already four times that amount of solar globally.
Small solar (<1 MW) was 42% of global solar deployment in 2024, up from 22% in 2015.
Trump/MAGA war on solar will fail!
www.ft.com/content/c406... #energysky
The global boom in solar — with or without the US
Despite the scepticism about renewables in Washington, falling prices for new panels are making a compelling business case around the world
www.ft.com
November 5, 2025 at 2:30 PM
IEA said in 2010 that 410 GW of solar would globally operate in 2035.
In 2025, there is already four times that amount of solar globally.
Small solar (<1 MW) was 42% of global solar deployment in 2024, up from 22% in 2015.
Trump/MAGA war on solar will fail!
www.ft.com/content/c406... #energysky
In 2025, there is already four times that amount of solar globally.
Small solar (<1 MW) was 42% of global solar deployment in 2024, up from 22% in 2015.
Trump/MAGA war on solar will fail!
www.ft.com/content/c406... #energysky