Žiga Malek
@zigamalek.bsky.social
Assistant professor at the Biotechnical faculty of the University of Ljubljana 🇸🇮 and researcher at the International Institute for Applied Systems Analysis (IIASA) Vienna 🇦🇹 | 🇸🇮&🇪🇺 |
Paper alert: we analysed near future exposure of European cattle to heatwaves. 11 to 26% of current cattle - or 6 to 14 million cattle livestock units - in the EU+UK is projected to be exposed to 15 or more additional days of heatwaves by 2050.
doi.org/10.1038/s442...
doi.org/10.1038/s442...
Client Challenge
doi.org
January 14, 2026 at 4:13 PM
Paper alert: we analysed near future exposure of European cattle to heatwaves. 11 to 26% of current cattle - or 6 to 14 million cattle livestock units - in the EU+UK is projected to be exposed to 15 or more additional days of heatwaves by 2050.
doi.org/10.1038/s442...
doi.org/10.1038/s442...
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Conservatively estimated 32 millon hectares of land is used for producing 1,400 TWh of biofuel per year. If that land instead was covered* by solar panels, it would surpass the *total* current electricity production worldwide 🤯.
*: Not that it should, just for comparison.
*: Not that it should, just for comparison.
Biofuels are absurdly inefficient compared to electric vehicles.
A great piece in @ourworldindata.org
ourworldindata.org/biofuel-land...
A great piece in @ourworldindata.org
ourworldindata.org/biofuel-land...
Putting solar panels on land used for biofuels would produce enough electricity for all cars and trucks to go electric
The world dedicates a Poland-sized area of land to liquid biofuels. Is there a more efficient way to generate energy?
ourworldindata.org
January 14, 2026 at 9:28 AM
Conservatively estimated 32 millon hectares of land is used for producing 1,400 TWh of biofuel per year. If that land instead was covered* by solar panels, it would surpass the *total* current electricity production worldwide 🤯.
*: Not that it should, just for comparison.
*: Not that it should, just for comparison.
I taught classes of roughly 200 students and managed to indoctrinate most of them each year to use free and open source geographic information system software @qgis.fosstodon.org.ap.brid.gy instead of closed commercial software
Anyone asserting that professors are indoctrinating students needs to teach a 200+ person intro class. How am I going to find time to indoctrinate students when I spend all day responding to emails with variations like "As stated in class and in the syllabus . . ."
January 12, 2026 at 9:41 PM
I taught classes of roughly 200 students and managed to indoctrinate most of them each year to use free and open source geographic information system software @qgis.fosstodon.org.ap.brid.gy instead of closed commercial software
"Lepo" je videt, da so tudi novi akterji na političnem parketu predstavniki polovice prebivalstva. Očitno je v politiki že dovolj žensk.
January 12, 2026 at 7:45 AM
"Lepo" je videt, da so tudi novi akterji na političnem parketu predstavniki polovice prebivalstva. Očitno je v politiki že dovolj žensk.
Nisem prepričan da ima najnovejše podatke. T&E ocenjuje, da ima celo na Kitajskem proizveden avto, ki se vozi v državi, kjer prevladujejo termoelektrarne na premog v celotnem življenjskem ciklu 37% nižje izpuste. In to upoštevajoč rudarjenje in reciklažo.
Se pa seveda strinjam, da ni črno-belo...
Se pa seveda strinjam, da ni črno-belo...
January 11, 2026 at 1:29 PM
Nisem prepričan da ima najnovejše podatke. T&E ocenjuje, da ima celo na Kitajskem proizveden avto, ki se vozi v državi, kjer prevladujejo termoelektrarne na premog v celotnem življenjskem ciklu 37% nižje izpuste. In to upoštevajoč rudarjenje in reciklažo.
Se pa seveda strinjam, da ni črno-belo...
Se pa seveda strinjam, da ni črno-belo...
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"Visual language can communicate up to 30,000 times faster than the written word." the cover's designer told Newsweek.
Designer Defends Trump-Hitler Magazine Cover—’Parallels Are Fairly Clear’
www.newsweek.com
January 9, 2026 at 5:50 PM
"Visual language can communicate up to 30,000 times faster than the written word." the cover's designer told Newsweek.
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this is how every outlet should refer to X
January 6, 2026 at 5:11 PM
this is how every outlet should refer to X
Vesel božič ter dan samostojnosti in enotnosti in srečno novo leto vsem. Če kdo rabi potico, naraščaj jo je spekel za nekaj gospodinjstev 😀
December 25, 2025 at 12:07 PM
Vesel božič ter dan samostojnosti in enotnosti in srečno novo leto vsem. Če kdo rabi potico, naraščaj jo je spekel za nekaj gospodinjstev 😀
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Noam Chomsky has spent about 60 years telling us that billionaires control the world through corporate propaganda.
December 20, 2025 at 12:20 PM
Noam Chomsky has spent about 60 years telling us that billionaires control the world through corporate propaganda.
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Science has named the seemingly unstoppable growth of renewable energy worldwide as the 2025 Breakthrough of the Year.
Learn more about this year's #BOTY and other big advances in science: https://scim.ag/493Tpgx
Learn more about this year's #BOTY and other big advances in science: https://scim.ag/493Tpgx
December 18, 2025 at 7:05 PM
Science has named the seemingly unstoppable growth of renewable energy worldwide as the 2025 Breakthrough of the Year.
Learn more about this year's #BOTY and other big advances in science: https://scim.ag/493Tpgx
Learn more about this year's #BOTY and other big advances in science: https://scim.ag/493Tpgx
Vrana iz družine Prevc
December 14, 2025 at 8:37 AM
Vrana iz družine Prevc
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Greece is about to complete one of the most ambitious coal phaseouts in the world.
But Western Macedonia, its longtime energy region, is struggling to adapt.
“It’s like the Titanic,” one source said, “Everybody dancing on board, but the disaster is coming.”
www.canarymedia.com/articles/jus...
But Western Macedonia, its longtime energy region, is struggling to adapt.
“It’s like the Titanic,” one source said, “Everybody dancing on board, but the disaster is coming.”
www.canarymedia.com/articles/jus...
As solar booms and coal fades, Greece’s mining region struggles to…
Next year, Greece will complete its coal phaseout, a success for the energy transition. But Western Macedonia residents feel left behind.
www.canarymedia.com
December 8, 2025 at 6:01 PM
Greece is about to complete one of the most ambitious coal phaseouts in the world.
But Western Macedonia, its longtime energy region, is struggling to adapt.
“It’s like the Titanic,” one source said, “Everybody dancing on board, but the disaster is coming.”
www.canarymedia.com/articles/jus...
But Western Macedonia, its longtime energy region, is struggling to adapt.
“It’s like the Titanic,” one source said, “Everybody dancing on board, but the disaster is coming.”
www.canarymedia.com/articles/jus...
Da si je ameriška vlada izbrala Times New Roman za font je zanimivo, glede na to, da bodo kmalu pisali v ruski cirilici.
December 10, 2025 at 10:10 AM
Da si je ameriška vlada izbrala Times New Roman za font je zanimivo, glede na to, da bodo kmalu pisali v ruski cirilici.
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The EPA has removed references about humans causing climate change from its website. No US government website can be trusted for science information.
December 10, 2025 at 4:54 AM
The EPA has removed references about humans causing climate change from its website. No US government website can be trusted for science information.
Movie you’ve watched more than six times with a gif. Hard mode: no Stars (Wars nor Trek), LOTR, or Marvel, Disney Animated or Pixar
December 8, 2025 at 4:23 PM
Movie you’ve watched more than six times with a gif. Hard mode: no Stars (Wars nor Trek), LOTR, or Marvel, Disney Animated or Pixar
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It’s us
What caused a massive die-off of penguins off the South African coast?
There are fewer than 10,000 breeding pairs of African penguins left today.
wapo.st
December 7, 2025 at 2:39 AM
It’s us
Bolje to, kot pa lokalni NGO-ji, katerim se gre le za abstraktne koncepte kot so čist zrak in vode
LOL, EU vodijo ameriški naciji, katarski douchebagi in Exxon Mobile, LOL
December 7, 2025 at 1:21 PM
Bolje to, kot pa lokalni NGO-ji, katerim se gre le za abstraktne koncepte kot so čist zrak in vode
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The AI that we’ll have after AI
Cheap GPUs, unemployed engineers, and open source models.
doctorow.medium.com
December 3, 2025 at 2:03 PM
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A paper in Scientific Data presents a novel global natural forest map for 2020 at 10 m resolution. This map can support forest monitoring or conservation efforts that require a comprehensive baseline for monitoring deforestation and degradation. go.nature.com/4remVIQ ⚒️ 🧪
November 30, 2025 at 2:35 AM
A paper in Scientific Data presents a novel global natural forest map for 2020 at 10 m resolution. This map can support forest monitoring or conservation efforts that require a comprehensive baseline for monitoring deforestation and degradation. go.nature.com/4remVIQ ⚒️ 🧪
Let's ask Bill, how it is possible, that one of the most prosperous regions globally, with the best healthcare, struggles to defend itself against climate change
November 30, 2025 at 8:07 AM
Let's ask Bill, how it is possible, that one of the most prosperous regions globally, with the best healthcare, struggles to defend itself against climate change
My parents' Peugeot 308 sportwagon was able to handle this
What a complete joke and failure of a car the Tesla CyberTruck ClusterFuck is.
My 92 year old grandma in a wheelchair handle snow better than this!
Ht: @28delayslater.bsky.social
$TSLAQ
My 92 year old grandma in a wheelchair handle snow better than this!
Ht: @28delayslater.bsky.social
$TSLAQ
November 29, 2025 at 5:02 PM
My parents' Peugeot 308 sportwagon was able to handle this
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"Michael Mann To Bill Gates: What World Are You Living In?" by Carolyn Fortuna for @cleantechnica.bsky.social: cleantechnica.com/2025/11/29/m...
Michael Mann To Bill Gates: What World Are You Living In? - CleanTechnica
Mann offers a roadmap against an "ecocidal agenda" driven by plutocrats, polluters, petrostates, propagandists, and much of the press.
cleantechnica.com
November 29, 2025 at 3:50 PM
"Michael Mann To Bill Gates: What World Are You Living In?" by Carolyn Fortuna for @cleantechnica.bsky.social: cleantechnica.com/2025/11/29/m...