Martijn van den Broek
@mfamyfuerza.bsky.social
📚 Aspiring Biogerontologist | Biology Student at the Open University
🌍 Exploring systems, synthetic, developmental, regenerative and computational biology
🚀 Seeking a fully remote role
🔗 https://www.linkedin.com/in/martijn-van-den-broek/
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🌍 Exploring systems, synthetic, developmental, regenerative and computational biology
🚀 Seeking a fully remote role
🔗 https://www.linkedin.com/in/martijn-van-den-broek/
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We are heading towards some absurd Disney future where everything is an adorable robot with a personality and I love it
November 22, 2025 at 12:54 AM
We are heading towards some absurd Disney future where everything is an adorable robot with a personality and I love it
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We used to be a society
November 22, 2025 at 12:55 AM
We used to be a society
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A lucky @aranethome.bsky.social owner in Ireland shared this excellent CO2 reading from their bedroom, which has been unoccupied all day. This is ideal for a good night's sleep! #FridayAirday
November 21, 2025 at 10:28 PM
A lucky @aranethome.bsky.social owner in Ireland shared this excellent CO2 reading from their bedroom, which has been unoccupied all day. This is ideal for a good night's sleep! #FridayAirday
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EXCLUSIVE: Far-right activity in Scotland is rising “month on month”, an expert has said
Far-right activity in Scotland growing 'month on month', says expert
www.thenational.scot
November 21, 2025 at 6:24 PM
EXCLUSIVE: Far-right activity in Scotland is rising “month on month”, an expert has said
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Following the 2nd report of the UK Covid-19 Inquiry, a bunch of people are moaning about lockdown, saying we should have been more like Sweden. Moaning about the report.
You folks won - the world decided to ignore COVID.
Why are you so miserable?
You folks won - the world decided to ignore COVID.
Why are you so miserable?
November 21, 2025 at 5:44 PM
Following the 2nd report of the UK Covid-19 Inquiry, a bunch of people are moaning about lockdown, saying we should have been more like Sweden. Moaning about the report.
You folks won - the world decided to ignore COVID.
Why are you so miserable?
You folks won - the world decided to ignore COVID.
Why are you so miserable?
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Outrage as Uefa orders Scotland fans to delete celebration videos off social media
Outrage as Uefa orders Scotland fans to remove celebration videos from Twitter/X
www.thenational.scot
November 21, 2025 at 5:24 PM
Outrage as Uefa orders Scotland fans to delete celebration videos off social media
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60% of the world’s best solar resources are in Africa. Sadly, 600 million Africans still live without electricity.💡
Today in Johannesburg, President von der Leyen announced mobilising €15.5 billion for clean energy in Africa.
Together, we’ll unlock a sustainable future.
🔗 link.europa.eu/4drdcc
Today in Johannesburg, President von der Leyen announced mobilising €15.5 billion for clean energy in Africa.
Together, we’ll unlock a sustainable future.
🔗 link.europa.eu/4drdcc
November 21, 2025 at 3:52 PM
60% of the world’s best solar resources are in Africa. Sadly, 600 million Africans still live without electricity.💡
Today in Johannesburg, President von der Leyen announced mobilising €15.5 billion for clean energy in Africa.
Together, we’ll unlock a sustainable future.
🔗 link.europa.eu/4drdcc
Today in Johannesburg, President von der Leyen announced mobilising €15.5 billion for clean energy in Africa.
Together, we’ll unlock a sustainable future.
🔗 link.europa.eu/4drdcc
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#BREAKING “Ukraine may now face a very difficult choice: either loss of dignity, or the risk of losing a key partner,” Ukrainian president said on Friday.
Kyiv is “under tremendous pressure” over the latest draft proposal by the US and Russia.
➡️ https://l.euronews.com/UXst
Kyiv is “under tremendous pressure” over the latest draft proposal by the US and Russia.
➡️ https://l.euronews.com/UXst
November 21, 2025 at 4:21 PM
#BREAKING “Ukraine may now face a very difficult choice: either loss of dignity, or the risk of losing a key partner,” Ukrainian president said on Friday.
Kyiv is “under tremendous pressure” over the latest draft proposal by the US and Russia.
➡️ https://l.euronews.com/UXst
Kyiv is “under tremendous pressure” over the latest draft proposal by the US and Russia.
➡️ https://l.euronews.com/UXst
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Yes, our Labour Home Secretary really did just post this on Twitter.
It's not an AI hoax. More's the pity.
It's not an AI hoax. More's the pity.
November 21, 2025 at 2:34 PM
Yes, our Labour Home Secretary really did just post this on Twitter.
It's not an AI hoax. More's the pity.
It's not an AI hoax. More's the pity.
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Edinburgh has lost the plot. Today my kid and I (me w/2 more kids on my bike) had to bike through frozen leaves on Queensferry Rd. We tried to use the road but a Range Rover decided we were impinging on his freedom and drove us into the wands. The leaves are well done falling and yet they remain…
November 21, 2025 at 2:37 PM
Edinburgh has lost the plot. Today my kid and I (me w/2 more kids on my bike) had to bike through frozen leaves on Queensferry Rd. We tried to use the road but a Range Rover decided we were impinging on his freedom and drove us into the wands. The leaves are well done falling and yet they remain…
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- the point that there was NEVER a public health campaign to inform people about Long Covid. To which we would add - there still hasn't been.
November 21, 2025 at 1:57 PM
- the point that there was NEVER a public health campaign to inform people about Long Covid. To which we would add - there still hasn't been.
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Some points on the #CovidInquiry:
- that the importance of ventilation was clear and known from July 2020 and should have been communicated by all 4 nations from that point.
- that the importance of ventilation was clear and known from July 2020 and should have been communicated by all 4 nations from that point.
November 21, 2025 at 1:57 PM
Some points on the #CovidInquiry:
- that the importance of ventilation was clear and known from July 2020 and should have been communicated by all 4 nations from that point.
- that the importance of ventilation was clear and known from July 2020 and should have been communicated by all 4 nations from that point.
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The US is threatening to cut intelligence and weapons support if Ukraine doesn’t sign the Russia-friendly deal, Reuters reports.
November 21, 2025 at 1:44 PM
The US is threatening to cut intelligence and weapons support if Ukraine doesn’t sign the Russia-friendly deal, Reuters reports.
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Deadline: 12 December. If everyone who lost a job or knows someone who lost a job in the #NHS to #LongCovid responded, maybe the NHS could rethink exposing its workers to #Covid with no PPE. Roughly 1 in 3 people losing jobs as a result of having Long Covid are health or social care workers.
The #NHSProductivityCommission Call for Evidence is a chance for you to share your ideas about how productivity could be improved across hospital care, primary care, community care and mental health.
More information and guidance for responding ⬇️
https://bit.ly/4oHG9UY
More information and guidance for responding ⬇️
https://bit.ly/4oHG9UY
November 21, 2025 at 12:55 PM
Deadline: 12 December. If everyone who lost a job or knows someone who lost a job in the #NHS to #LongCovid responded, maybe the NHS could rethink exposing its workers to #Covid with no PPE. Roughly 1 in 3 people losing jobs as a result of having Long Covid are health or social care workers.
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BREAKING: Nathan Gill, the former leader of Reform UK in Wales, has been jailed or 10-and-a-half years for making pro-Russian statements in the European Parliament for cash
Story to follow
Story to follow
November 21, 2025 at 12:56 PM
BREAKING: Nathan Gill, the former leader of Reform UK in Wales, has been jailed or 10-and-a-half years for making pro-Russian statements in the European Parliament for cash
Story to follow
Story to follow
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Nature research paper: Rewiring an olfactory circuit by altering cell-surface combinatorial code
go.nature.com/3MbCoZT
go.nature.com/3MbCoZT
Rewiring an olfactory circuit by altering cell-surface combinatorial code - Nature
In Drosophila, changing the expression of a small set of cell-surface proteins in just one type of olfactory neuron rewires its connections almost entirely to a new postsynaptic partner neuron type, altering the fly’s odour response and courtship behaviour.
go.nature.com
November 21, 2025 at 11:12 AM
Nature research paper: Rewiring an olfactory circuit by altering cell-surface combinatorial code
go.nature.com/3MbCoZT
go.nature.com/3MbCoZT
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South Australia: "Summer’s almost here but flu is on the rise."
Flu cases have hit a 6-week high with infections almost triple what they were at this time in 2022.
🔹2025: 31,490 cases so far this year
🔹2024: 22,096 cases
🔹2023: 20,301 cases
🔹2022: 11,693 cases
Source: archive.md/CKeoK
Flu cases have hit a 6-week high with infections almost triple what they were at this time in 2022.
🔹2025: 31,490 cases so far this year
🔹2024: 22,096 cases
🔹2023: 20,301 cases
🔹2022: 11,693 cases
Source: archive.md/CKeoK
November 21, 2025 at 6:17 AM
South Australia: "Summer’s almost here but flu is on the rise."
Flu cases have hit a 6-week high with infections almost triple what they were at this time in 2022.
🔹2025: 31,490 cases so far this year
🔹2024: 22,096 cases
🔹2023: 20,301 cases
🔹2022: 11,693 cases
Source: archive.md/CKeoK
Flu cases have hit a 6-week high with infections almost triple what they were at this time in 2022.
🔹2025: 31,490 cases so far this year
🔹2024: 22,096 cases
🔹2023: 20,301 cases
🔹2022: 11,693 cases
Source: archive.md/CKeoK
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"At the beginning of November, I came to Edinburgh to give a speech at the annual dinner of the European Movement in Scotland.
I felt at home. Edinburgh is a European city." 👏👏👏
Guy Verhofstadt writes for @bylines.scot
I felt at home. Edinburgh is a European city." 👏👏👏
Guy Verhofstadt writes for @bylines.scot
More Europe is the key to our security and prosperity
The former Belgian Prime Minister and European Parliament Brexit negotiator is optimistic about the EU’s future, despite the world’s “new empires”
bylines.scot
November 21, 2025 at 11:40 AM
"At the beginning of November, I came to Edinburgh to give a speech at the annual dinner of the European Movement in Scotland.
I felt at home. Edinburgh is a European city." 👏👏👏
Guy Verhofstadt writes for @bylines.scot
I felt at home. Edinburgh is a European city." 👏👏👏
Guy Verhofstadt writes for @bylines.scot
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Friend this morning ‘you want to go to the pub’. I don’t know what to say anymore, those around me ignore my situation entirely. Five years campaigning and still don’t have good vaccine access or any awareness of airborne risk, post infection risk. There is a failure to inform on risk.
November 21, 2025 at 11:35 AM
Friend this morning ‘you want to go to the pub’. I don’t know what to say anymore, those around me ignore my situation entirely. Five years campaigning and still don’t have good vaccine access or any awareness of airborne risk, post infection risk. There is a failure to inform on risk.
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This is dangerous and short-sighted decision by the UK government.
These facilities save lives and are showing success in reducing overdose and deaths.
Addiction should be treated as a health issue, instead of criminalising and stigmatising.
www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...
These facilities save lives and are showing success in reducing overdose and deaths.
Addiction should be treated as a health issue, instead of criminalising and stigmatising.
www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...
UK government will not change law for more drug consumption rooms
A committee urged the government to change the legal framework for drug consumption facilities but this was refused.
www.bbc.co.uk
November 21, 2025 at 11:32 AM
This is dangerous and short-sighted decision by the UK government.
These facilities save lives and are showing success in reducing overdose and deaths.
Addiction should be treated as a health issue, instead of criminalising and stigmatising.
www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...
These facilities save lives and are showing success in reducing overdose and deaths.
Addiction should be treated as a health issue, instead of criminalising and stigmatising.
www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...
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Brexit has caused almost twice as much damage to the UK economy than estimated by official forecasts, according to new paper from a group of experts including a senior Bank of England economist
Brexit Hit to UK Economy Double Official Estimate, Study Finds
Brexit has caused almost twice as much damage to the UK economy than estimated by official forecasts, according to new paper from a group of experts including a senior Bank of England economist.
bloom.bg
November 21, 2025 at 9:30 AM
Brexit has caused almost twice as much damage to the UK economy than estimated by official forecasts, according to new paper from a group of experts including a senior Bank of England economist
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So, without much ado, we've kind of lost the first major city to climate change. (Tehran, metropolitan area 15 million people.)
Iranian President Masoud Pezeshkian: “When we proposed relocating the capital, we lacked the budget…
“People said it was impossible, but now it’s no longer optional.
“We can’t keep adding population and construction here. Expansion is possible, but the water problem cannot be solved.”
“People said it was impossible, but now it’s no longer optional.
“We can’t keep adding population and construction here. Expansion is possible, but the water problem cannot be solved.”
November 21, 2025 at 9:40 AM
So, without much ado, we've kind of lost the first major city to climate change. (Tehran, metropolitan area 15 million people.)
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It’s not the substance that counts for the Record, it’s the accusation.
Disgracefully, the pandemic was treated as a political story rather than a health issue by all the papers and the broadcast media, with the BBC leading the charge.
The aim, as ever, talk up Westminster, talk down Holyrood.
Disgracefully, the pandemic was treated as a political story rather than a health issue by all the papers and the broadcast media, with the BBC leading the charge.
The aim, as ever, talk up Westminster, talk down Holyrood.
Nicola Sturgeon has insisted "at no point did I behave politically" during her time leading Scotland through the coronavirus pandemic.
Nicola Sturgeon denies she 'behaved politically' during covid response
The former first minister said it was "very difficult" working with Boris Johnson during the peak covid years in 2020 and 2021.
www.dailyrecord.co.uk
November 21, 2025 at 8:44 AM
It’s not the substance that counts for the Record, it’s the accusation.
Disgracefully, the pandemic was treated as a political story rather than a health issue by all the papers and the broadcast media, with the BBC leading the charge.
The aim, as ever, talk up Westminster, talk down Holyrood.
Disgracefully, the pandemic was treated as a political story rather than a health issue by all the papers and the broadcast media, with the BBC leading the charge.
The aim, as ever, talk up Westminster, talk down Holyrood.