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Igor Pessi
@igorspp.bsky.social
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Polar microbial ecologist, researcher at the Finnish Environment Institute (SYKE). I post about science AND politics. “Ecology without class struggle is gardening” (Chico Mendes). 🇧🇷🇫🇮
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stevensalzberg.bsky.social
very sad news. Peer Bork was one of the leaders of our field, a wonderful scientist, and he's much too young to be gone. www.embl.org/news/embl-an...
In remembrance of Peer Bork  | EMBL
EMBL and its community are deeply saddened by the death of Peer Bork, the organisation’s Interim Director General.
www.embl.org
January 16, 2026 at 6:33 PM
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netalexx.bsky.social
January 13, 2026 at 10:10 PM
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seamas.bsky.social
pretty sure he meant the other thing, grok, but very cool that those are your two things
Tweet exchange in which a photo of Anne Hathaway is posted by @TheRoyalSerf, to which user @VvSchweetz24 replies "@grok...do your thing. @Grok replies: Anne Hathaway isn't Jewish; she was raised Catholic but left the church. She married Adam Shulman (who is Jewish) in 2012 and celebrates Jewish holidays with their kids. SHe's played Jewish roles, like in "Armageddon Time."
January 16, 2026 at 4:55 PM
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syke.fi
Join our webinar to explore what #justice looks like in #biodiversity policies and practices, with case studies from the Netherlands, Finland and Belgium.

Learn more and sign up 👇
www.bionext-project.eu/news/webinar...

#BiodiversityNexus #TransformativeChange #BIONEXT
Webinar: Justice in biodiversity transitions: Insights from Europe | 10 February — BIONEXT
This webinar will explore how justice considerations play a role in efforts to change and improve biodiversity-related practices and policies in Europe.
www.bionext-project.eu
January 16, 2026 at 12:08 PM
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anttikarkman.bsky.social
The position for a postdoc is now officially open.
I can answer any questions related to the position, but please apply only thru the university system.

jobs.helsinki.fi/job/Helsinki...
January 16, 2026 at 1:50 PM
igorspp.bsky.social
Spotted em Copenhague, lembrei de vocês @viracasacas.viracasacas.com
January 16, 2026 at 1:29 PM
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gabrieldivan.bsky.social
Well, Nobel Prize Museum: you honored with this 196g medal a TOTAL IDIOTA DE MERDA, now, face it's consequences MEU CONSAGRADO.

NÃO FOI POR FALTA DE warning.
charlotteclymer.bsky.social Charlotte Clymer @charlotteclymer.bsky.social · 1d
The Nobel Prize museum in Oslo subtweeting the fuck out of Trump today.
The #NobelPeacePrize medal. It measures 6.6 cm in diameter, weighs 196 grams and is struck in gold. On its face, a portrait of Alfred Nobel and on its reverse, three naked men holding around each other’s shoulders as a sign of brotherhood. A design unchanged for 120 years. Did you know that some Nobel Peace Prize medals have been passed on after the award was given? A well‑known case is Dmitry Muratov’s medal, which was auctioned for over USD 100 million to support refugees from the war in Ukraine. And the medal displayed at the Nobel Peace Center is actually on loan and originally belonged to Christian Lous Lange, Norway’s first Peace Prize laureate. But one truth remains. As the Norwegian Nobel Committee states: “Once a Nobel Prize is announced, it cannot be revoked, shared, or transferred to others. The decision is final and stands for all time.” A medal can change owners, but the title of a Nobel Peace Prize laureate cannot.
January 16, 2026 at 12:09 PM
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wvschaik.bsky.social
Do you know who else was gifted a Nobel Prize medal?

Joseph Goebbels.

Seriously.

thecritic.co.uk/issues/march...
By contrast, in Growth of the Soil the main character, Izak, encapsulates the nobility of the working man, exuding the sweat and toil reminiscent of the Nazi slogan Blut und Boden (“Blood and Soil”) and so impressed the Nazis that the book was distributed to the soldiers fighting in Norway. Joseph Goebbels admired the book so much he invited Hamsun and his wife Marie to Berlin in May 1943 and in return for such agreeable hospitality Hamsun gave Goebbels his Nobel medal
January 16, 2026 at 8:53 AM
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rubenvezzoni.bsky.social
Not sure what's more embarrassing: the gesture itself or the mention of Bolívar and Lafayette.
onestpress.onestnetwork.com Olga Nesterova @onestpress.onestnetwork.com · 1d
Machado confirms that she gave Trump her Nobel Peace Prize

..despite the fact that the Nobel commission has issued a statement that this kind f gesture is prohibited.
January 16, 2026 at 7:41 AM
igorspp.bsky.social
Europeans go around the world stealing art and religious artefacts to put in their museums. Now, non-Europeans who visit the Louvre have to pay 45% more for the ticket than Europeans. And some say that colonialism is a thing of the past
January 15, 2026 at 7:42 PM
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lauracapp.bsky.social
How easy it is for a single man to sh*t on the world. Over and over again, through history. And we let them, we let them, we let them. Learning nothing.
January 15, 2026 at 2:42 PM
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revistajacobina.bsky.social
“Por um mundo onde sejamos socialmente iguais, humanamente diferentes e totalmente livres.”

A militante socialista Rosa Luxemburgo foi covardemente assassinada neste dia em 1919.
January 15, 2026 at 1:43 PM
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January 11, 2026 at 10:21 PM
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evgenii-protasov.bsky.social
@isme-microbes.bsky.social offers a great opportunity to publish uncultured microbes via #SeqCode using #genomes as type material. A fantastic step toward embracing the true diversity of microbes! But isolates are also welcome 🧫🔬🦠😁
@seqcode.bsky.social
isme-microbes.bsky.social ISME - International Society for Microbial Ecology @isme-microbes.bsky.social · Oct 7
ISME Communications is expanding its scope to include Taxonomy and Nomenclature, recognizing their essential role in microbial ecology.
Read more: isme-microbes.org/taxonomy-and...
#microbes #taxonomy
December 16, 2025 at 10:00 AM
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neatuomela.bsky.social
Final format of my first article is now out! We discovered that degrading palsa permafrost might not lead into higher loading of organic matter into the river system. Also, we discovered that microbial communities were dominated by ultra-small Patescibacteria 🦠
Carbon and microbes in a degrading palsa mire are distinct from a peatland and a wider connected sub-Arctic fluvial system
Abstract. Climate change is altering the biogeochemical cycling of carbon and nutrients in the northern peatland and permafrost regions, which provide two
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January 8, 2026 at 8:10 AM
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mikarantane.bsky.social
Hot off the press in the journal Science Advances:

A new era of bioclimatic extremes in the terrestrial Arctic

www.science.org/doi/10.1126/...

Our new paper was published today!
A new era of bioclimatic extremes in the terrestrial Arctic
Long-term climate data suggest that the Arctic is entering a new era of bioclimatic extremes threatening cold ecosystems.
www.science.org
January 7, 2026 at 7:22 PM
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patschloss.bsky.social
New paper up on bioRxiv! This is my third and hopefully final paper on rarefaction. It's still better than the other available methods.

www.biorxiv.org/content/10.6...
Rarefaction is better than robust Aitchison PCA and other compositional data analysis methods at controlling for uneven sequencing effort
Amplicon sequencing typically results in a wide distribution in the number of sequences obtained from each sample. How best to account for this variation has been a persistent problem in the microbial...
www.biorxiv.org
January 7, 2026 at 6:58 PM
igorspp.bsky.social
So let me get this straight: Lukoil was sanctioned when Russia invaded Ukraine, which is a no-no for Europe. But now Chevron, which is 100% involved in the US invasion of Venezuela, is allowed to operate scot-free??
January 7, 2026 at 10:58 AM
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progintl.bsky.social
BREAKING 🇵🇸 Israeli regime forces have stormed Birzeit University campus in the Occupied West Bank, injuring 41 students, including 9 with live bullets.
January 6, 2026 at 12:46 PM
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floriantrigodet.bsky.social
Now published in Nature Biotechnology:
go.nature.com/44P7nSm
If you missed it, the TL;DR is in my April thread below
January 6, 2026 at 9:38 AM
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January 6, 2026 at 12:35 PM
igorspp.bsky.social
What a bunch of clowns. Clowns to the left, clowns to the right. It is clear that we don't matter to these people at all, not even as a learning exercise.
January 6, 2026 at 12:07 PM
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dnthomas01.bsky.social
Great to see the final formatted version now published.
@neatuomela.bsky.social led a concept-chllenging study about how thawing/degrading #permafrost palsas do not necessarily result in organic matter and the associated bacteria reaching the connected waters

Link: academic.oup.com/ismecommun/a...
Carbon and microbes in a degrading palsa mire are distinct from a peatland and a wider connected sub-Arctic fluvial system
Abstract. Climate change is altering the biogeochemical cycling of carbon and nutrients in the northern peatland and permafrost regions, which provide two
academic.oup.com
January 5, 2026 at 5:17 PM
igorspp.bsky.social
Scientists love to excuse ourselves, a posteriori, saying that eugenics is not science. It was 100% regarded as such a century ago by white europeans. Today, @nature.com published a piece where it featured Nick Bostrom, a known eugenicist. This is happening TODAY. Disgusting.
January 5, 2026 at 11:55 AM
igorspp.bsky.social
“There’s a good likelihood that by 2050, all scientific research will be done by superintelligent AI rather than human researchers,” Bostrom said in an e-mail.

Do you know what else Bostrom said in an email?
“Blacks are more stupid than whites. I like that sentence and think it is true.”

FFS!!!!
January 5, 2026 at 11:32 AM