Anders Lanzén
@lanzen.bsky.social
Human, scientist, euskaldun berri, purveyor of philosophical subtleties, associate professor at IKERBASQUE / AZTI interested in marine microorganisms great and small, planktonic or benthic, biomonitoring, climate change and coastal pollution.
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Anders Lanzén
@lanzen.bsky.social
· Jun 27
MICROMON: DNA from micro-organisms to monitor the health of estuarine ecosystems
YouTube video by AZTI
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Short video about what we do in the MicroMon project hosted in @azti.bsky.social (funded by Spanish govt. and EU) with estuary microbial communities, their global biogeography, interactions, effects of environmental impacts, and their use in eDNA-based monitoring.
www.youtube.com/watch?v=G04y...
www.youtube.com/watch?v=G04y...
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Not my opinion. We know the situation in the Pliocene, and the conditions there for lower CO2 than now. Half of climate scientists polled expect a 3C+ rise, which is what we would expect for a return to Pliocene cnditions. This is confirmed by modelling (below)
pmc.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/articles/PMC...
pmc.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/articles/PMC...
Pliocene and Eocene provide best analogs for near-future climates
The expected departure of future climates from those experienced in human history challenges efforts to adapt. Possible analogs to climates from deep in Earth’s geological past have been suggested but not formally assessed. We compare climates of ...
pmc.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov
November 10, 2025 at 2:03 PM
Not my opinion. We know the situation in the Pliocene, and the conditions there for lower CO2 than now. Half of climate scientists polled expect a 3C+ rise, which is what we would expect for a return to Pliocene cnditions. This is confirmed by modelling (below)
pmc.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/articles/PMC...
pmc.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/articles/PMC...
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Inaction is contagious. My take as we head into COP30:
Governments and Billionaires Retreat Ahead of COP30 Climate Talks
Worldwide, every other week seems to bring a new climate-related crisis. Increasingly, the response has seemed to be a dulled acceptance.
www.newyorker.com
November 10, 2025 at 9:16 PM
Inaction is contagious. My take as we head into COP30:
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Western economies are eating themselves to maintain the profits of multinational corporations that can no longer produce goods and services that consumers value more than the cost of production. This isn’t going to end well for any of us.
November 10, 2025 at 9:33 PM
Western economies are eating themselves to maintain the profits of multinational corporations that can no longer produce goods and services that consumers value more than the cost of production. This isn’t going to end well for any of us.
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My economics is pretty rusty but it seems to me that across the globe investors have forgotten to check whether certain corporations can actually produce a product or service, either at all, or at price that consumers are prepared to pay. 🤷
November 10, 2025 at 9:17 PM
My economics is pretty rusty but it seems to me that across the globe investors have forgotten to check whether certain corporations can actually produce a product or service, either at all, or at price that consumers are prepared to pay. 🤷
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Went on LBC News earlier to discuss the BBC shambles.
I said the BBC has kowtowed to Trump in the US and conservative outlets here - both of which want the Beeb dead.
Two of the most senior people quit over a 10-second clip using Trump’s exact words, albeit put closer together than he’d like.
I said the BBC has kowtowed to Trump in the US and conservative outlets here - both of which want the Beeb dead.
Two of the most senior people quit over a 10-second clip using Trump’s exact words, albeit put closer together than he’d like.
November 10, 2025 at 9:06 PM
Went on LBC News earlier to discuss the BBC shambles.
I said the BBC has kowtowed to Trump in the US and conservative outlets here - both of which want the Beeb dead.
Two of the most senior people quit over a 10-second clip using Trump’s exact words, albeit put closer together than he’d like.
I said the BBC has kowtowed to Trump in the US and conservative outlets here - both of which want the Beeb dead.
Two of the most senior people quit over a 10-second clip using Trump’s exact words, albeit put closer together than he’d like.
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It's funny how hard we have to work to convince the world that uncontrolle data centre expansion is a climate risk when there's a fossil gas power station called the EXXONMOBIL POWER PLANT being built explicitly to power a data centre
Not enough people know about Homer City. The single largest fossil fuel plant that's being built *explicitly* to power a data centre.
This isn't a future projection, or some hollow marketing. This is physical stuff happening right now.
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This isn't a future projection, or some hollow marketing. This is physical stuff happening right now.
bsky.app/profile/keta...
November 10, 2025 at 8:17 PM
It's funny how hard we have to work to convince the world that uncontrolle data centre expansion is a climate risk when there's a fossil gas power station called the EXXONMOBIL POWER PLANT being built explicitly to power a data centre
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An engineer wanted to make a quiet high-speed train. “The question then occurred to me — is there some living thing that manages sudden changes in air resistance as a part of daily life?” The answer: the kingfisher. See my story today for more tales of bioinspiration. Gift link: nyti.ms/4otNQyl
November 10, 2025 at 5:10 PM
An engineer wanted to make a quiet high-speed train. “The question then occurred to me — is there some living thing that manages sudden changes in air resistance as a part of daily life?” The answer: the kingfisher. See my story today for more tales of bioinspiration. Gift link: nyti.ms/4otNQyl
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Happy There Is A Circulatory System Walking Through The Kitchen Day to all who celebrate.
November 10, 2025 at 10:54 AM
Happy There Is A Circulatory System Walking Through The Kitchen Day to all who celebrate.
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good morning to everybody except the super-senior PI whose paper I just reviewed, a new submission of a ms I reviewed in March that was rejected from the same Very Good journal, which ignored most of my original review and which changed all the stats to make the results look stronger than they are 🤡
November 9, 2025 at 9:46 PM
good morning to everybody except the super-senior PI whose paper I just reviewed, a new submission of a ms I reviewed in March that was rejected from the same Very Good journal, which ignored most of my original review and which changed all the stats to make the results look stronger than they are 🤡
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November 9, 2025 at 12:11 AM
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Burning trees is not a climate solution
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 8:12 AM
Burning trees is not a climate solution
Call me sceptical, but LLMs will not be able to do any of these things. It's like trying to use an untrained monkey with a word processor to build a spaceship.
November 9, 2025 at 9:07 AM
Call me sceptical, but LLMs will not be able to do any of these things. It's like trying to use an untrained monkey with a word processor to build a spaceship.
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So I’ve got some real bad news about a large fraction of the AI in medicine efforts
The LLM thing is remarkable because if anyone was like "I never went to medical school anyway here's my magic anti disease device pls give 100 billion" they'd be laughed out the room or beaten with sticks but we're supposed to let guys who never read a book hand us an app claiming it'll write them
November 8, 2025 at 9:20 AM
So I’ve got some real bad news about a large fraction of the AI in medicine efforts
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Amazon lakes hit ‘unbearable’ hot-tub temperatures amid mass die-offs of pink river dolphins – study www.theguardian.com/environment/...
Amazon lakes hit ‘unbearable’ hot-tub temperatures amid mass die-offs of pink river dolphins – study
Droughts and heatwaves causing water in some areas to reach 41C, killing fish and endangered dolphins, say researchers
www.theguardian.com
November 8, 2025 at 7:05 AM
Amazon lakes hit ‘unbearable’ hot-tub temperatures amid mass die-offs of pink river dolphins – study www.theguardian.com/environment/...
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One thing I took away from Hacking's Representing & Intervening is that many theories of How Science Works don't survive contact with the historical record. Apropos here's an account of Franklin's role in discovering the structure of DNA. A lot going on that's hard to compress into a talking point.
What Rosalind Franklin truly contributed to the discovery of DNA’s structure
Franklin was no victim in how the DNA double helix was solved. An overlooked letter and an unpublished news article, both written in 1953, reveal that she was an equal player.
www.nature.com
November 8, 2025 at 9:35 AM
One thing I took away from Hacking's Representing & Intervening is that many theories of How Science Works don't survive contact with the historical record. Apropos here's an account of Franklin's role in discovering the structure of DNA. A lot going on that's hard to compress into a talking point.
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Enligt polisens uppskattning av gängkriminalitet saknar 11% svenskt medborgarskap. Motsvarande del i befolkningen är 8%, vilket innebär ingen överrepresentation.
Slutsats: gängkriminalitet är ett svenskt fenomen och kan inte tillskrivas invandring i allmänhet.
www.sydsvenskan.se/sverige/ny-a...
Slutsats: gängkriminalitet är ett svenskt fenomen och kan inte tillskrivas invandring i allmänhet.
www.sydsvenskan.se/sverige/ny-a...
Ny analys: 67 500 kopplas till kriminella gäng
Det är 5 500 fler än i polisens förra rapport.
www.sydsvenskan.se
November 8, 2025 at 9:05 AM
Enligt polisens uppskattning av gängkriminalitet saknar 11% svenskt medborgarskap. Motsvarande del i befolkningen är 8%, vilket innebär ingen överrepresentation.
Slutsats: gängkriminalitet är ett svenskt fenomen och kan inte tillskrivas invandring i allmänhet.
www.sydsvenskan.se/sverige/ny-a...
Slutsats: gängkriminalitet är ett svenskt fenomen och kan inte tillskrivas invandring i allmänhet.
www.sydsvenskan.se/sverige/ny-a...
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🧪🔬🧬🎓 Science is a communal activity, a social product. Not giving credit to your collaborators, students, technicians and interns is being a bad scientist. #JamesWatson #RosalindFranklin
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🎓Part of the current #ScientificCrisis is the cult of the #LoneGenius myth. Great scientists are not isolated geniuses but a cultural phenomena, product of education systems, funding structures, social capital, historical paradigms - and lots of privilege and invisible labor.
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November 8, 2025 at 9:13 AM
🧪🔬🧬🎓 Science is a communal activity, a social product. Not giving credit to your collaborators, students, technicians and interns is being a bad scientist. #JamesWatson #RosalindFranklin
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The Trump administration's cybersecurity policies are indistinguishable from a foreign attack.
In many ways they're worse, given they're wrapped in layers of phony operational efficiency.
In many ways they're worse, given they're wrapped in layers of phony operational efficiency.
Trump Cybersecurity Policy Is Indistinguishable From A Foreign Attack
Last year almost a dozen major U.S. ISPs were the victim of a massive, historic intrusion by Chinese hackers who managed to spy on public U.S. officials for more than a year. The “Salt Ty…
www.techdirt.com
November 7, 2025 at 3:05 PM
The Trump administration's cybersecurity policies are indistinguishable from a foreign attack.
In many ways they're worse, given they're wrapped in layers of phony operational efficiency.
In many ways they're worse, given they're wrapped in layers of phony operational efficiency.
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"World's first potential trillionaire has killed 600,000 people, including 400,000 children" is the only headline that anyone should ever read about Elon Musk
One analytical model shows that, as of November 5th, the dismantling of U.S.A.I.D. has already caused the deaths of 600,000 people, two-thirds of them children. https://newyorkermag.visitlink.me/jUzNSc
The Shutdown of U.S.A.I.D. Has Already Killed Hundreds of Thousands
The short documentary “Rovina’s Choice” tells the story of what goes when aid goes.
newyorkermag.visitlink.me
November 7, 2025 at 1:33 AM
"World's first potential trillionaire has killed 600,000 people, including 400,000 children" is the only headline that anyone should ever read about Elon Musk
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Inte nog med att man är generellt livrädd för allt klimatkrisen kommer ställa till med, nu för tiden behöver man också gå runt och skämmas över sitt lands klimatarbete.
Resultat: EU på rätt väg mot klimatmålen – Sverige ökar utsläpp mest
EU är på god väg att nå klimatmålet för 2030, visar en ny rapport från EU-kommissionen. Utsläppen minskade med 2,5 procent under 2024. Sverige gick mot strömmen
www.europaportalen.se
November 6, 2025 at 3:40 PM
Inte nog med att man är generellt livrädd för allt klimatkrisen kommer ställa till med, nu för tiden behöver man också gå runt och skämmas över sitt lands klimatarbete.
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Archaeologists discover how oldest American civilisation survived a climate catastrophe #Climate
Archaeologists discover how oldest American civilisation survived a climate catastrophe
Experts find artefacts left behind in Caral showing how population survived drought without resorting to violence
www.theguardian.com
November 5, 2025 at 2:17 PM
Archaeologists discover how oldest American civilisation survived a climate catastrophe #Climate
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Statsministern har bättre saker för sig. Kanske en träff med skollobbyister i Sagerska? Energiministern har bättre saker för sig. Kanske är det någon grupp kvinnor vars val av kläder som måste recenseras?
Men EU-ministern åker. På förmötet.
Signalen är öronbedövande.
www.vf.se/2025/11/05/v...
Men EU-ministern åker. På förmötet.
Signalen är öronbedövande.
www.vf.se/2025/11/05/v...
Ledare: Vad som är ”sinnessjukt” är att vi har en regering som skiter i klimatet
Kritiken handlar inte om en graviditet utan om en regering och en klimatminister som glatt ser på när världen brinner.
www.vf.se
November 5, 2025 at 8:46 AM
Statsministern har bättre saker för sig. Kanske en träff med skollobbyister i Sagerska? Energiministern har bättre saker för sig. Kanske är det någon grupp kvinnor vars val av kläder som måste recenseras?
Men EU-ministern åker. På förmötet.
Signalen är öronbedövande.
www.vf.se/2025/11/05/v...
Men EU-ministern åker. På förmötet.
Signalen är öronbedövande.
www.vf.se/2025/11/05/v...
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There’s an old Scottish saying that “facts are chiels that winnae ding” if you wanted a more accessible definition of what a fact was
LEAVITT: It's absolutely true that there's fraud in California's elections
Q: What's the evidence of that?
LEAVITT: It's just a fact
Q: What's the evidence of that?
LEAVITT: It's just a fact
November 4, 2025 at 8:03 PM
There’s an old Scottish saying that “facts are chiels that winnae ding” if you wanted a more accessible definition of what a fact was
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Trump skickar ingen till COP30 och Tidöregeringen vill såklart inte vara bättre. För första gången någonsin väljer Sverige nu att inte ha en minister på plats under klimatförhandlingarna. Först fuckar makthavarna upp klimatet, sedan stannar de hemma för att slippa ta ansvar
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November 3, 2025 at 12:45 PM
Trump skickar ingen till COP30 och Tidöregeringen vill såklart inte vara bättre. För första gången någonsin väljer Sverige nu att inte ha en minister på plats under klimatförhandlingarna. Först fuckar makthavarna upp klimatet, sedan stannar de hemma för att slippa ta ansvar
omni.se/analyser-sve...
omni.se/analyser-sve...