Oca sapiens
ocasapiens.bsky.social
Oca sapiens
@ocasapiens.bsky.social
Sylvie Coyaud, retired science reporter, not sapiens yet.
#IHL

"The atrocities in Gaza, Ukraine, Sudan and eastern DRC are still rightly and widely seen as wrong, as illegal. We just need a more consistent effort to defend the victims and uphold the law."

We also need more Kenneth Roths, imo...
February 16, 2026 at 2:36 PM
#dirittiumani
#migranti

Sei medici indagati a Ravenna per presunti "certificati falsi".

A Milano sappiamo bene quanto il CPR di via Corelli sia patogeno e che invece di un ricovero, spesso i i medici preferiscono prescrivere dosi massicce di "tranquillanti".

Firmato.
February 16, 2026 at 2:05 PM
#agrochemistry

"The Chincha’s skill at harvesting [guano] - inferred from the chemistry of maize recovered from Chincha graves - may have earned them an elevated status when they were later absorbed into the Inca empire in the mid-1400s."

OA paper: journals.plos.org/plosone/arti...
Pre-Incans collected seabird poop from remote islands to use as fertilizer
Guano-based agriculture became highly prized in the Inca empire
www.science.org
February 16, 2026 at 12:02 PM
#EventiEstremi

A Melendugno, vicino ai Cantieri Action Aid di Capranica, delle amiche mi ospitano ogni tanto nella loro masseria in riva al mare, un po' Ritz anche per gli animali.
Vedere in home page il sindaco intervistato dal Guardian fa impressione.
Italy’s famous Lovers’ Arch collapses into the sea on Valentine’s Day
Rock structure which served as backdrop to countless proposals disappears into the Adriatic after violent storm
www.theguardian.com
February 16, 2026 at 11:16 AM
#USpolitics
#EUpolitics

Alcuni motivi di ottimismo, come si addice a una lettura domenicale...
February 15, 2026 at 5:59 PM
Patriarchy's "bottomless malice"...
"The salon played yenta to billionaire money and alpha-male minds, & together, ..., they all converged on a master philosophy: they were apex predators ordained by nature to exploit and subjugate others. This creed allowed the Edge set to steer intellectual history into its current fascist dead-end"
About Epstein, Edge, eugenics, and finding my name in the Epstein files.

www.thenerve.news/p/epstein-bi...
February 15, 2026 at 5:21 PM
#oneworldonehealth

Cuba sent medical teams abroad at the start of the covid pandemic, led by docs who had helped contain Ebola (like "Doc Carlos" who arrived in Crema, Italy, in March 2020).

Food and medicines are needed, and also batteries and solar appliances, imo.
Fuck it, let's send Cuba aid ourselves.

Help establish the flotilla headed for Cuba and stock it full of supplies and much needed help!!

act.progressive.international/flotilla/
Nuestra América Flotilla
We are sailing to Cuba, bringing critical humanitarian aid for its people.
act.progressive.international
February 15, 2026 at 4:29 PM
#oncology

Even more insanely, "For almost thirty years, Richard Horton has known that Banerjee is a persistent research fraudster."

And @thelancet.com editors never question his decisions?
February 15, 2026 at 1:20 PM
#immunocompetence

😍

How some species of ants enhance immunity and control infections by using social interactions, such as surgery, "pharmaceuticals, grooming, social spacing, burying the dead, quarantine and exile".
Natural selection is about ends, not means. And in ants it seems to have arrived at complex medical systems that require neither empathy nor cognition
Humans are not the only animals that treat each other’s injuries
Many ant species do so too
econ.st
February 15, 2026 at 1:00 PM
#AGW
#tippingpoints
#models

"The risks we describe are troubling not only for their magnitude but also for their uncertainty. We do not yet know the exact thresholds for many tipping elements, how feedbacks will interact with climate sensitivity, or how quickly tipping cascades might unfold."
Concerned about the Point of No Return? Today we published a paper on the risk of a hothouse Earth trajectory. You can read it here: authors.elsevier.com/c/1mbW49C~Iu...
February 15, 2026 at 12:11 PM
#climatechange
#EUpolitics

2004-2010
First papers on #AGW contribution to the increased intensity and frequency of extreme events in Europe.

2026
"England’s flood defences are not strong enough".
Spain's, Italy's, France's etc. aren't either. EU: Let's gut the European Green Deal.
The Guardian view on heavy rain: England’s flood defences are not strong enough | Editorial
Editorial: The disruption and distress caused by record downpours must focus minds on the need for climate preparedness
www.theguardian.com
February 15, 2026 at 11:59 AM
#humanrigts

Definitely a thread to see and learn from, share and perhaps support immigration defense funds if we can.
I don’t really know what I expect in posting this, but maybe some people see it and can learn from it.

I’ll call it “lessons from an unwilling immigration attorney.”

1/
February 14, 2026 at 7:15 PM
#EndangermentFinding
#EPA

When you don't have the facts on your side, and when you don't have the law on your side, "get the case up to the Supreme Court as quickly as possible and before the president leaves office"...
Stanford Law’s David J. Hayes, a former Biden White House climate policy adviser, breaks down the EPA’s planned repeal of the 2009 Endangerment Finding and what it could mean for U.S. climate regulation.

Read more: law.stanford.edu/2026/02/13/s...
February 14, 2026 at 1:55 PM
#Immigrationpolicies

Mutatis mutandis (e.g. doctors & nurses in the UK, farm laborers & old people's caregivers in Italy) @gregsargent.bsky.social's analysis seems true for Europe as well.
The extraordinary courage of people who are documenting ICE atrocities in places like Minneapolis, at great personal risk, are also achieving something else: They're changing the public's mind about immigration. We have a rare opportunity here. 1/

(new piece)
newrepublic.com/article/2059...
How the Democrats Can Play Offense on Immigration
Typically, Democrats run for the hills when immigration comes up. But as two blue-state governors are showing, the winning play is actually to confront ICE and MAGA xenophobia head on.
newrepublic.com
February 13, 2026 at 8:12 PM
#civilrights

Protests work, passim

UK's High Court ruled that #PalestineAction ban under terrorism laws is unlawful, but for now it remains "proscribed" just like al-Qaeda and the Wagner Group (source: BBC Live).

More protests coming.
February 13, 2026 at 12:01 PM
A propos #EndangermentFinding, OA paper shows

"supramolecular nanoparticle production by organic acids, an important consideration for assessing the potential impacts of new particle formation on public health & climate in a warming world in which heat waves are becoming more frequent & intense."
By probing the compositions of atmospheric aerosols down to 3 nanometers during a heat wave, researchers discovered an essential role of carboxylic acids in new particle formation. Learn more: https://scim.ag/4rGT5vS
February 13, 2026 at 11:24 AM
#dirittiumani

La proposta di legge greca su immigrazione e asilo, sembra peggiore di quella italiana. Nella UE, la Spagna resterà l'eccezione?
Grecia endurece su política migratoria con una nueva ley que contempla cárcel para quienes salven vidas: hasta 10 años de prisión para quienes proporcionen ayuda material o logística a migrantes sin documentación
Grecia endurece su política migratoria con una nueva ley que contempla cárcel para quienes salven vidas
La reforma legal aprobada por los conservadores de Nueva Democracia prevé cadena perpetua para los condenados por tráfico de personas
elpais.com
February 12, 2026 at 8:22 PM
#vaccine
#adenovirus

How researchers solved the "molecular riddle".

In 2021, an analogy with heparin started their search for cues: patients shared a mutated gene, and a particular antibody. And a protein of the viral vector looked a bit like a human blood-clotting protein.
And then in mice...
Five years after the rollout of Covid-19 vaccines started, it seems the mystery of why the Astra-Zeneca and J&J vaccines led to a rare but deadly side effect of unusual blood clots and bleeding has finally been solved. 

It's a fascinating case of molecular mimicry that may help make vaccine safer.🧪
Rare, dangerous side effects of some COVID-19 vaccines explained
“Groundbreaking” study uncovers why adenovirus-based shots caused life-threatening blood clots and bleeding in some people
www.science.org
February 12, 2026 at 7:57 PM
#fecalgenomics

Good news

In 2003 Hainan gibbons were on the brink of extinction: there were only 13 left. There are now 42 of them. Low inbreeding and "the recent crosses of two ancient [cryptic] lineages [have] led to new family groups with increased heterozygosity".
Genetic legacy and recent cross of two ancient lineages underlie the rebound of the world’s rarest primate
Fecal genomic analysis of Hainan gibbon reveals roles of demography, recombination, and behavioral regulation during its recovery.
www.science.org
February 12, 2026 at 4:57 PM
Good news

"Moderate consumption of caffeine, amounting to 2–3 cups of coffee or 1–2 cups of tea a day, was associated with the greatest reductions in dementia risk and rate of cognitive decline. But lower levels of consumption were also associated with brain benefits."
February 12, 2026 at 4:00 PM
L'asso. Juristes pour le Respect du Droit International a signalé au Procureur de la République le faux et les diffamations de @jnbarrot.bsky.social (démission!)

Origine de l'intox: UN Watch, l'organisation US-israélienne d'Hillel Neuer - comme d'hab...
February 12, 2026 at 3:22 PM
#intox

😠

Le ministre @jnbarrot.bsky.social et 53 députés de @renaissance-parti.bsky.social utilisent un faux, diffusé la députée pro-Likoud Caroline Yadan, pour accuser d'antisémitisme Francesca Albanese, rapporteure de l'ONU pour la Palestine, et demander la déchéance de son mandat.
"Israël est l'ennemi commun de l’humanité" : comment cette phrase a été attribuée à tort à Francesca Albanese
Le ministre des Affaires étrangères français Jean-Noël Barrot et plus de cinquante députés français accusent à tort la rapporteuse spéciale de l'ONU d'avoir déclaré qu’"Israël est l'ennemi commun de…
www.france24.com
February 12, 2026 at 12:46 PM
Motivi in più per chiedere la sospensione totale dell'Accordo di associazione #UE-Israele e, potendo, sostenere le associazioni israeliane che difendono i diritti dei palestinesi.

Si firma qui sign.myvoice-mychoice.org/forms/stop_g...

Info istituzionali 🔽
February 12, 2026 at 12:06 PM
Da straniera, io pure

Anche i decreti-sicurezza e il decreto immigrazione-asilo limitano l'indipendenza della magistratura, il dovere di salvare i naufraghi, diritti civili e umani che la Costituzione e le convenzioni europee e internazionali dovevano garantire...
February 12, 2026 at 11:54 AM