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Marjolijn Dijkman
@marjolijndijkman.bsky.social
Interdisciplinary artist, co-founder Enough Room for Space, PhD researcher LUCA/KU Leuven. Researching connections between human stories and material, environmental, and inter-species networks. 🌿🌊
www.marjolijndijkman.com
www.enoughroomforspace.org
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Hey @safety.bsky.app, found an account making death threats you should suspend.
this is a far more explicit death threat from people with the actual means to carry it out
November 14, 2025 at 5:13 PM
Cladosporium sphaerospermum is a remarkable species of radiotrophic fungus that is thriving in the Chernobyl Exclusion Zone. Scientists observed patches of blackened growths on the walls of the No. 4 reactor—fungi that seemed to thrive where the radiation was highest.
This Black Fungus Might Be Healing Chernobyl By Drinking Radiation—A Biologist Explains
Cladosporium sphaerospermum is a remarkable species of radiotrophic fungus that is thriving in the Chernobyl Exclusion Zone and which scientists are studying to unlock applications in a wide range of ...
www.forbes.com
November 14, 2025 at 8:42 AM
09/12/2025 kex—kunsthalle exnergasse, Vienna, AT
As part of the exhibition Botanizing the Asphalt, Marjolijn Dijkman and Pom Bouvier-b. will present the live performance “Electrify Everything”.
Botanizing the Asphalt
The live performance “Electrify Everything” translates the seductive and captivating magic of demonstrations of the eighteenth-century Enlightenment into a critical exploration of the origins of the u...
www.wuk.at
November 11, 2025 at 8:03 PM
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EU-based companies continue to export thousands of tonnes of banned pesticides to Kenya and other countries, even though the food it helps produce is often then exported back to the EU, new research has confirmed.
Boomerang effect: pesticides banned in EU are shipped back in Kenyan food exports
EU-based companies continue to export thousands of tonnes of banned pesticides to Kenya and other countries, even though the food it helps produce is often then exported back to the EU, new research has confirmed.
euobserver.com
November 6, 2025 at 5:18 PM
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After years of research, scientist Leonid Pshenichnov concluded Russia + China cannot continue fishing krill, the main food source of many marine creatures, at current rates without risking breakdown of entire ocean ecosystems. Russia had him arrested:

www.theguardian.com/environment/...
Russia arrests Ukrainian biologist for backing curbs on Antarctic krill fishing
‘Trumped-up’ charges spark diplomatic row as scientists express fears for health of 70-year-old Leonid Pshenichnov
www.theguardian.com
October 28, 2025 at 1:11 PM
Opening 5/11: Kunsthalle exnergasse. With: Ana Vaz, Alexandre Estrela, Anna Schachinger, Haig Aivazian, Hugo de Almeida Pinho, Jonathan Uliel Saldanha, Marjolijn Dijkman, Pedro Henriques, Younes Ben Slimane. Botanizing the Asphalt explores the political role of light in urban spaces at night.
Kunsthalle Exnergasse
Die kex—kunsthalle exnergasse im WUK, ist ein nicht kommerziell orientierter Ausstellungsraum und versteht sich als offene Plattform zur Produktion und Präsentation von Projekten innovativer, experime...
kunsthalleexnergasse.wuk.at
October 27, 2025 at 2:45 PM
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We urgently need honesty on the climate crisis.

Military emissions are excluded from national emissions figures. Yes, we simply pretend they don't exist.

That means there's little pressure to reduce them.
This has to change.

www.thewaronclimate.org
The War On Climate | Join the Climate Action
Explore how military emissions impact climate change and learn how to advocate for accountability and sustainable policies to protect the planet.
www.thewaronclimate.org
October 21, 2025 at 8:06 PM
Open call for presentations
POLLEN2026, Barcelona Call ends 05/12/2025
>> Soil Alive: Sedimented Relations and Muddy Agencies.
Convenors: Anna Elisabeth Kuijpers (ULB) & Marjolijn Dijkman (LUCA/KU Leuven)

Submissions may take artistic forms or adopt more traditional scientific approaches.
P033: Soil Alive: Sedimented Relations and Muddy Agencies
Submissions may take artistic forms—such as visual art or performance—or adopt more traditional scientific approaches- like presentations or papers.
nomadit.co.uk
October 15, 2025 at 5:40 AM
Looking forward: Rethinking Human Relationships with the More-than-Human: Spiritual, Indigenous and Relational Paradigms in Conversation
This seminar brings together international scholars and artists from a plurality of backgrounds.

30-31/10/25 at Center for Applied Ecological Thinking, DK
Rethinking Human Relationships with the More-than-Human: Spiritual, Indigenous and Relational Paradigms in Conversation
This seminar creates a public forum that brings together international scholars and artists from a plurality of backgrounds.
cape.ku.dk
October 15, 2025 at 5:35 AM
ACTIVE TERRAIN N°4
Marjolijn Dijkman
Solo exhibition 'Between the Lines', with unusually elaborate, spatially accessible arrangements, making the dynamic upheavals of the regions in question tangible for the audience, thus exemplifying the acute changes taking place on Earth.
Exhibition – Marjolijn Dijkman - Kunstverein Göttingen
The final exhibition in the series ‘TERRA DIASPORA – Active Terrains’ presents Dutch artist Marjolijn Dijkman with her solo show ‘Between the Lines’. On the first floor of Göttingen's Old Town Hall, s...
www.kunstvereingoettingen.de
October 12, 2025 at 3:49 PM
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New article from Marjolijn Dijkman and Oliver Ressler.

‘We need to understand that the main appeal of CCS
for the fossil industries lies in the huge new subsidies
it promises the industry.'

Read the article on journal.commodityfrontiers.com/journal-issu... #CFI
September 24, 2025 at 12:24 PM
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~ 'focused listening'
with Jana Winderen

► rec-on.org/focusedliste...
March 8, 2024 at 8:48 AM
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Coming up tonight at 19:19 BST/20:19 CEST: the September #Equinox! This image from Meteosat-12, taken this morning, shows Earth near the equinox - when the terminator appears as a straight line dividing the planet into equal halves of light and dark.

@wmo-global.bsky.social @eumetsat.int
September 22, 2025 at 3:15 PM
This report is a wake-up call: urgent action is needed to protect ecosystems, seafood safety, and public health from the growing threat of forever chemicals.

eeb.org/library/fore...
'Forever Chemicals' poisoning Europe's waters and fish
Fresh EEB report reveals the shocking extent of PFAS ('forever chemicals') pollution in Europe’s fish and waters.
eeb.org
September 13, 2025 at 6:37 AM
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Earlier this year, ERforS hosted Pamela – a photographer from the Democratic Republic of Congo (DRC) – as the first AR-resident as part of a new ongoing partnership.
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September 12, 2025 at 8:33 AM
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✨ 𝗠𝗲𝗲𝘁 𝗼𝘂𝗿 𝗳𝗶𝗿𝘀𝘁 𝗔𝗥-𝗿𝗲𝘀𝗶𝗱𝗲𝗻𝘁 𝗣𝗮𝗺𝗲𝗹𝗮 𝗧𝘂𝗹𝗶𝘇𝗼 @𝗽𝗮𝗺𝗲𝗹𝗮𝘁𝘂𝗹𝗶𝘇𝗼 𝗮𝘁 𝗼𝘂𝗿 𝗔𝗥-𝗥𝗲𝘀𝗶𝗱𝗲𝗻𝗰𝗲 𝗽𝗮𝗿𝘁𝗻𝗲𝗿 𝗶𝗻 𝗕𝗲𝗹𝗴𝗶𝘂𝗺 𝗘𝗻𝗼𝘂𝗴𝗵 𝗥𝗼𝗼𝗺 𝗳𝗼𝗿 𝗦𝗽𝗮𝗰𝗲 (𝗘𝗥𝗳𝗼𝗿𝗦)! ✨
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September 12, 2025 at 8:33 AM
Looking forward to the Field_Notes!
September 7, 2025 at 7:09 AM
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In the EU? Please take a moment to sign this petition. Because what kind of species are we, allowing this ruthless planetary pillaging to continue? Destroying so many nonhuman cohabitants’ lives and habitats? We must be mad, right?

act.greens-efa.eu/habitats?utm...
Hands Off Nature - Stop the right from dismantling nature
Send an email to relevant EPP Members of the European Parliament who can make a difference.
act.greens-efa.eu
September 2, 2025 at 11:26 AM
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aye

To defend against Russian tanks, Finland and Poland consider restoring wetlands #europe

Finland & Poland considering restoring these natural carbon sinks brings significant environmental benefits.

www.france24.com/en/europe/20...
To defend against Russian tanks, Finland and Poland consider restoring wetlands
Finland and Poland are both considering rewetting dried-out peatbogs to form defence barriers against a potential Russian ground invasion. Restoring these natural carbon sinks could also bring signifi...
www.france24.com
August 29, 2025 at 5:01 PM
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🌾 📢 The past year has been a generative period for the @waterlandsh2020.bsky.social artists in residence. To spotlight their ongoing effort and research, we have gathered some updates on their work in the field! 📸Elo Liiv waterlands.eu/news-and-eve...
WaterLANDS Artist Residency Programme - Update from the Field
WaterLANDS is an EU-funded project that will restore wetland sites across Europe and upscale wetland restoration for sustainable ecosystems, communities and economies.
waterlands.eu
August 21, 2025 at 1:49 PM
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There’s a new world record for the longest lightning flash ⚡ 🧪 eos.org/research-and...
There's a New Record for the Longest Lightning Flash - Eos
515 miles—roughly the distance from Washington, D.C. to Detroit, one-third the length of the Colorado River, and now, the longest lightning bolt ever recorded. That’s right: A new analysis of satellit...
eos.org
July 31, 2025 at 1:55 PM
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"There is no case since WW2 of starvation that has been so minutely designed and controlled"

Famine expert Alex de Waal on Israel deliberately starving an entire civilian population
July 21, 2025 at 8:38 AM