#insecticides
Good news
"By 2022, four years after the European Union banned neonicotinoid use in fields, researchers observed that France’s population of insect-eating birds had increased by 2%-3%."
"The results could be mirrored across the EU..."
#insecticides
Good news
"By 2022, four years after the European Union banned neonicotinoid use in fields, researchers observed that France’s population of insect-eating birds had increased by 2%-3%."
"The results could be mirrored across the EU..."
"What is different today is that the majority of the world’s poorest people are stuck in economies that have been stagnating for a long time" - mostly in sub-Saharan Africa...
"What is different today is that the majority of the world’s poorest people are stuck in economies that have been stagnating for a long time" - mostly in sub-Saharan Africa...
#panzoonotic #avianflu
#biosecurity
Since 2021, the transmission from wild birds to domestic birds and mammals in North America is "primarily driven by Anseriformes, while non-canonical species act as dead-end hosts".
Press release penntoday.upenn.edu/news/wild-bi...
#panzoonotic #avianflu
#biosecurity
Since 2021, the transmission from wild birds to domestic birds and mammals in North America is "primarily driven by Anseriformes, while non-canonical species act as dead-end hosts".
Press release penntoday.upenn.edu/news/wild-bi...
#AGW
"Saudi Arabia almost killed the global UN climate treaty at birth three decades ago."
And then obstructed, delayed and watered down other environmental agreements.
The desert kingdom depends on oil dollars but its people already face a climate ‘at the verge of livability’. What’s going on?
#COP30 #climatecrisis
Story by me
1/7
www.theguardian.com/world/2025/n...
Despite $20-25 billion/year of US research funds - and sales of pre/probiotics, detox enemas, fecal transplants etc. - studies still don't show a link between autism and gut bacteria.
OA paper (tks @deevybee.bsky.social et al.)
Despite $20-25 billion/year of US research funds - and sales of pre/probiotics, detox enemas, fecal transplants etc. - studies still don't show a link between autism and gut bacteria.
OA paper (tks @deevybee.bsky.social et al.)
Despite $20-25 billion/year of US research funds - and sales of pre/probiotics, detox enemas, fecal transplants etc. - studies still don't show a link between autism and gut bacteria.
OA paper (tks @deevybee.bsky.social et al.)
How a violent & "grotesque economic logic" profits both RSF's and SAF's commanders, and serves the interests of Saudi Arabia and the Emirates across the Horn of Africa, by Joshua Craze.
(See also his essay www.nybooks.com/articles/202...)
How a violent & "grotesque economic logic" profits both RSF's and SAF's commanders, and serves the interests of Saudi Arabia and the Emirates across the Horn of Africa, by Joshua Craze.
(See also his essay www.nybooks.com/articles/202...)
#Gaza
US plans to deploy European & Jordanian troops, & Jordanian police in the red zone - while others paid for the reconstruction of the green zone secured by IDF & (blue helmets?) - promptly "collided with reality".
"Only Italy has offered a potential troop contribution."
#Gaza
US plans to deploy European & Jordanian troops, & Jordanian police in the red zone - while others paid for the reconstruction of the green zone secured by IDF & (blue helmets?) - promptly "collided with reality".
"Only Italy has offered a potential troop contribution."
#MIT
We already knew, didn't we?
2019
Science publishes an interview with #JeffreyEpstein in 2017
2020
@naomioreskes.bsky.social in Scientific American
web.archive.org/web/20200822...
#MIT
We already knew, didn't we?
2019
Science publishes an interview with #JeffreyEpstein in 2017
2020
@naomioreskes.bsky.social in Scientific American
web.archive.org/web/20200822...
"The nonprofit research group found 420 instances where water was either the trigger, weapon, or casualty of violence last year — up 20 percent from 2023, and 78 percent from 2022."
www.circleofblue.org/newsletter/t...
"The nonprofit research group found 420 instances where water was either the trigger, weapon, or casualty of violence last year — up 20 percent from 2023, and 78 percent from 2022."
Review of Matthew Cobb's "magnificent biography":
"Complex, energetic, freethinking, dazzling, and bohemian, Crick was also ruthless, immature, misogynistic, arrogant, and careless."
Review of Matthew Cobb's "magnificent biography":
"Complex, energetic, freethinking, dazzling, and bohemian, Crick was also ruthless, immature, misogynistic, arrogant, and careless."
"Substantial phenotypic diversity already existed in early Holocene dogs" 11,000 years ago, long before Victorian breeding programs.
www.science.org/doi/10.1126/...
Due to early domestication? Or natural variation, and of wolves as well?
www.science.org/doi/10.1126/...
"Substantial phenotypic diversity already existed in early Holocene dogs" 11,000 years ago, long before Victorian breeding programs.
www.science.org/doi/10.1126/...
Due to early domestication? Or natural variation, and of wolves as well?
www.science.org/doi/10.1126/...
"Very good news"
Plasmodium falciparum is becoming increasingly resistant to artemisinin, but "A new drug combination produced by Novartis [...] has proved just as efficacious against malaria as the most widely used artemisinin-based combination therapies".
My story in @science.org (and 🧵on why it's important to come):
www.science.org/content/arti...
"Very good news"
Plasmodium falciparum is becoming increasingly resistant to artemisinin, but "A new drug combination produced by Novartis [...] has proved just as efficacious against malaria as the most widely used artemisinin-based combination therapies".
#terrestrialization
Over 487 million years, "key biological functions evolved independently & repeatedly across unrelated lineages", but each "also carries its own unique innovations, reflecting unique evolutionary paths shaped by ecology, physiology, and chance.”
Press release
#terrestrialization
Over 487 million years, "key biological functions evolved independently & repeatedly across unrelated lineages", but each "also carries its own unique innovations, reflecting unique evolutionary paths shaped by ecology, physiology, and chance.”
Press release
"La sera del Bataclan", dieci anni fa a Parigi.
"La sera del Bataclan", dieci anni fa a Parigi.
Although 56% of Americans want stricter gun control laws, recent "mass shootings mobilize local voters (especially in heavily Democratic areas) but do not shift presidential vote choices".
Co-author Kevin Morris's 🧵: bsky.app/profile/kevi...
Focus: www.science.org/doi/10.1126/...
Although 56% of Americans want stricter gun control laws, recent "mass shootings mobilize local voters (especially in heavily Democratic areas) but do not shift presidential vote choices".
Co-author Kevin Morris's 🧵: bsky.app/profile/kevi...
Focus: www.science.org/doi/10.1126/...
#climatejustice
#ExtremeEvents
In Mumbai, deaths due to monsoon rains & sea-level rise are up to 10 times more than official statistics suggest, and victims are mostly women & small children from the slums.
Not OA paper www.nature.com/articles/s41...
Editorial
#climatejustice
#ExtremeEvents
In Mumbai, deaths due to monsoon rains & sea-level rise are up to 10 times more than official statistics suggest, and victims are mostly women & small children from the slums.
Not OA paper www.nature.com/articles/s41...
Editorial
The case was also filed by writer Ezio Gavazzeni who collected more evidence after watching Miran Zupanič's documentary "Sarajevo Safari" in 2022:
bsky.app/profile/vali...
The case was also filed by writer Ezio Gavazzeni who collected more evidence after watching Miran Zupanič's documentary "Sarajevo Safari" in 2022:
bsky.app/profile/vali...
"L'indagine ha avuto origine da una denuncia presentata da Ezio Gavazzeni, uno scrittore milanese che ha raccolto prove dopo aver visto #SarajevoSafari, un documentario del 2022 del regista sloveno Miran Zupanič."
Come quella aperta in Gran Bretagna:
"L'indagine ha avuto origine da una denuncia presentata da Ezio Gavazzeni, uno scrittore milanese che ha raccolto prove dopo aver visto #SarajevoSafari, un documentario del 2022 del regista sloveno Miran Zupanič."
Come quella aperta in Gran Bretagna:
"For 8 months, South Australia has been besieged by mysterious toxic algae. Dead rays, octopuses, crabs, and other marine species [...] litter tens of kilometers of shoreline. [...] Besides sickening people, the toxins have caused large economic losses in fisheries, aquaculture, and tourism."
"For 8 months, South Australia has been besieged by mysterious toxic algae. Dead rays, octopuses, crabs, and other marine species [...] litter tens of kilometers of shoreline. [...] Besides sickening people, the toxins have caused large economic losses in fisheries, aquaculture, and tourism."
#energytransition
The yearly and reliable digest of WEO's scenarios, “none of [which] should be regarded as a forecast” and only one of which would see warming "returning to 1.5C by the end of the century...
Contra some terrible news coverage, IEA World Energy Outlook shows coal near peak, oil peaking by 2030 & gas by 2035 (see chart)
What's going on? 🧵 + cool charts
www.carbonbrief.org/iea-fossil-f...
#energytransition
The yearly and reliable digest of WEO's scenarios, “none of [which] should be regarded as a forecast” and only one of which would see warming "returning to 1.5C by the end of the century...
"Other researchers who work with human neurons are more sceptical of what’s possible. And they warn that hype — and the science-fictional allure of what are sometimes labelled brain-in-a-jar systems — could even be counterproductive."
go.nature.com/4p28R39
"Other researchers who work with human neurons are more sceptical of what’s possible. And they warn that hype — and the science-fictional allure of what are sometimes labelled brain-in-a-jar systems — could even be counterproductive."
"By mid-2025, 117 million people had been displaced by war, violence and persecution. Three in four of them are living in countries facing high-to-extreme exposure to climate-related hazards."
Mostly in Africa, but #AGW exacerbates crises everywhere.
A new @unhcr.org report reveals how floods, droughts, and deadly heat are undermining recovery, increasing humanitarian needs and amplifying the risks of repeated displacement. #COP30
#warcrimes
A review of Ben Zand's new documentary for ITV "Breaking Ranks: Inside Israel's War", released tonight on Remembrance Day.
See also Ben Zand's interview:
#warcrimes
A review of Ben Zand's new documentary for ITV "Breaking Ranks: Inside Israel's War", released tonight on Remembrance Day.
See also Ben Zand's interview:
#SaniAbacha
#Shell
In June, Nigeria's president pardoned Ken Saro-Wiwa and 8 Ogoni environmental activists executed by the military regime in 1995. He also named Saro-Wiwa Commander and the others Officers of the Order of the Niger...
www.thecable.ng/just-in-tinu...
#SaniAbacha
#Shell
In June, Nigeria's president pardoned Ken Saro-Wiwa and 8 Ogoni environmental activists executed by the military regime in 1995. He also named Saro-Wiwa Commander and the others Officers of the Order of the Niger...
www.thecable.ng/just-in-tinu...