EstherJVDB
@estherjvdb.bsky.social
Philosopher, permaculture designer 🍀, wereldverbeteraar 🌍, mama, friend of all things furry, feathered, greenleafed or otherwise alive.
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This year, Open Research Europe published over 370 articles from 1952 authors and 1099 institutions with invaluable input from over 1000 reviewers.
Publish your European Union-funded work on a fully transparent open research platform, submit your article now: link.europa.eu/6p9kXD 🧪
Publish your European Union-funded work on a fully transparent open research platform, submit your article now: link.europa.eu/6p9kXD 🧪
December 23, 2025 at 8:35 AM
This year, Open Research Europe published over 370 articles from 1952 authors and 1099 institutions with invaluable input from over 1000 reviewers.
Publish your European Union-funded work on a fully transparent open research platform, submit your article now: link.europa.eu/6p9kXD 🧪
Publish your European Union-funded work on a fully transparent open research platform, submit your article now: link.europa.eu/6p9kXD 🧪
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Zoom in… to see how EU research and innovation look under the microscope.
From restoring our forests & safeguarding coffee & chocolate from climate threats to minimising waste in textile production: #HorizonEU is tackling global challenges.
Read more 🧪 link.europa.eu/DNGHVc
#SciComm
From restoring our forests & safeguarding coffee & chocolate from climate threats to minimising waste in textile production: #HorizonEU is tackling global challenges.
Read more 🧪 link.europa.eu/DNGHVc
#SciComm
December 23, 2025 at 11:57 AM
Zoom in… to see how EU research and innovation look under the microscope.
From restoring our forests & safeguarding coffee & chocolate from climate threats to minimising waste in textile production: #HorizonEU is tackling global challenges.
Read more 🧪 link.europa.eu/DNGHVc
#SciComm
From restoring our forests & safeguarding coffee & chocolate from climate threats to minimising waste in textile production: #HorizonEU is tackling global challenges.
Read more 🧪 link.europa.eu/DNGHVc
#SciComm
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Are you working on projects that focus on cancer research, climate-neutral and smart cities, ocean and waters or soils.
Join the EU Missions online info days.
Discover the new topics in the Horizon Europe Work Programme 2026/2027 and the upcoming funding: link.europa.eu/DQrQfP
#SciComm 🧪
Join the EU Missions online info days.
Discover the new topics in the Horizon Europe Work Programme 2026/2027 and the upcoming funding: link.europa.eu/DQrQfP
#SciComm 🧪
December 15, 2025 at 12:33 PM
Are you working on projects that focus on cancer research, climate-neutral and smart cities, ocean and waters or soils.
Join the EU Missions online info days.
Discover the new topics in the Horizon Europe Work Programme 2026/2027 and the upcoming funding: link.europa.eu/DQrQfP
#SciComm 🧪
Join the EU Missions online info days.
Discover the new topics in the Horizon Europe Work Programme 2026/2027 and the upcoming funding: link.europa.eu/DQrQfP
#SciComm 🧪
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Why I'm an animal right activist ❤️
#environment #animalcruelty #climatechange #globalwarming #vegan #kindness
#environment #animalcruelty #climatechange #globalwarming #vegan #kindness
December 13, 2025 at 3:12 PM
Why I'm an animal right activist ❤️
#environment #animalcruelty #climatechange #globalwarming #vegan #kindness
#environment #animalcruelty #climatechange #globalwarming #vegan #kindness
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It's the @politico.eu 'sustainable future summit' today and tomorrow
Our agriculture expert was on the panel, but then we found out that Spanish fossil fuel company @naturgy.bsky.social was sponsoring it, and giving a keynote speech each day
We're boycotting #POLITICOSustainableSummit, here's why:
Our agriculture expert was on the panel, but then we found out that Spanish fossil fuel company @naturgy.bsky.social was sponsoring it, and giving a keynote speech each day
We're boycotting #POLITICOSustainableSummit, here's why:
Greenpeace boycotts Politico fossil-fuel-sponsored sustainability event - Greenpeace European Unit
© Pedro Armestre / Greenpeace
www.greenpeace.org
December 2, 2025 at 6:36 AM
It's the @politico.eu 'sustainable future summit' today and tomorrow
Our agriculture expert was on the panel, but then we found out that Spanish fossil fuel company @naturgy.bsky.social was sponsoring it, and giving a keynote speech each day
We're boycotting #POLITICOSustainableSummit, here's why:
Our agriculture expert was on the panel, but then we found out that Spanish fossil fuel company @naturgy.bsky.social was sponsoring it, and giving a keynote speech each day
We're boycotting #POLITICOSustainableSummit, here's why:
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Progress is slow but its an alien language, right here at home, we've ignored for way too long.
How do various animals communicate
www.youtube.com/watch?v=eFbn...
How do various animals communicate
www.youtube.com/watch?v=eFbn...
Researchers discover whale "vowels"
YouTube video by UC Berkeley
www.youtube.com
December 2, 2025 at 7:45 AM
Progress is slow but its an alien language, right here at home, we've ignored for way too long.
How do various animals communicate
www.youtube.com/watch?v=eFbn...
How do various animals communicate
www.youtube.com/watch?v=eFbn...
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If AI eliminates millions of jobs, how will people survive?
Will AI destroy democracy with a massive invasion of our privacy?
Could a superintelligent AI replace humans in controlling the planet?
We must act NOW. AI must benefit all of us, not just billionaire investors.
Will AI destroy democracy with a massive invasion of our privacy?
Could a superintelligent AI replace humans in controlling the planet?
We must act NOW. AI must benefit all of us, not just billionaire investors.
AI poses unprecedented threats. Congress must act now | Bernie Sanders
Despite the speed at which it is progressing, AI is getting far too little discussion in Congress, the media and within the general population. That has got to change
www.theguardian.com
December 2, 2025 at 3:57 PM
If AI eliminates millions of jobs, how will people survive?
Will AI destroy democracy with a massive invasion of our privacy?
Could a superintelligent AI replace humans in controlling the planet?
We must act NOW. AI must benefit all of us, not just billionaire investors.
Will AI destroy democracy with a massive invasion of our privacy?
Could a superintelligent AI replace humans in controlling the planet?
We must act NOW. AI must benefit all of us, not just billionaire investors.
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I wish someone would start a news network with no Trump news. It's very difficult to find out what is happening in the world without being bombarded with the buffoon's news.
December 2, 2025 at 5:04 PM
I wish someone would start a news network with no Trump news. It's very difficult to find out what is happening in the world without being bombarded with the buffoon's news.
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📦 Today we helped deliver 75 boxes of pesticides banned in the EU but authorised for export, back to the European Commission in Brussels.
From Brazil to India, Indonesia to South Africa, citizens sent a clear message: toxic trade must stop.
#ReturnToSender #BanToxicExports
From Brazil to India, Indonesia to South Africa, citizens sent a clear message: toxic trade must stop.
#ReturnToSender #BanToxicExports
December 2, 2025 at 11:09 AM
📦 Today we helped deliver 75 boxes of pesticides banned in the EU but authorised for export, back to the European Commission in Brussels.
From Brazil to India, Indonesia to South Africa, citizens sent a clear message: toxic trade must stop.
#ReturnToSender #BanToxicExports
From Brazil to India, Indonesia to South Africa, citizens sent a clear message: toxic trade must stop.
#ReturnToSender #BanToxicExports
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I wish more people were aware of this. Considering the scale of the threat, the media's near-silence is both remarkable and culpable.
www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...
www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...
Hello, foreign oligarchs and corporations! Please come and sue the UK for billions | George Monbiot
The case of a planned Cumbrian coalmine shows how governments around the world are being threatened by litigation in shadowy offshore courts, says Guardian columnist George Monbiot
www.theguardian.com
December 2, 2025 at 9:53 AM
I wish more people were aware of this. Considering the scale of the threat, the media's near-silence is both remarkable and culpable.
www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...
www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...
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At the #DigitalOceanForum, we’re advancing the European Digital Twin Ocean through collaboration with scientists, industry, public authorities & citizens. We're making ocean knowledge more open, connected & actionable for a sustainable future.
Watch live: events.edito.eu/2025-digital...
Watch live: events.edito.eu/2025-digital...
November 27, 2025 at 9:11 PM
At the #DigitalOceanForum, we’re advancing the European Digital Twin Ocean through collaboration with scientists, industry, public authorities & citizens. We're making ocean knowledge more open, connected & actionable for a sustainable future.
Watch live: events.edito.eu/2025-digital...
Watch live: events.edito.eu/2025-digital...
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Terwijl de kotprijzen in Europese studentensteden de pan uit swingen en commerciële kotenbouwers gouden zaken doen, namen studenten in het Duitse Heidelberg het heft in eigen handen.
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apache.be/2025/11/27/d...
Duitse studenten bouwen eigen betaalbare koten
Studenten in Heidelberg richtten een eigen huisvestingscoöperatie op.
apache.be
November 27, 2025 at 6:57 AM
Terwijl de kotprijzen in Europese studentensteden de pan uit swingen en commerciële kotenbouwers gouden zaken doen, namen studenten in het Duitse Heidelberg het heft in eigen handen.
apache.be/2025/11/27/d...
apache.be/2025/11/27/d...
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Clean steel. Clean cement. Real projects.
Europe’s frontrunners are proving heavy industry can ditch fossils for good.
Now EU policy must turn these pioneers into the norm.
Nerdy thread 🧵🤓👇
Europe’s frontrunners are proving heavy industry can ditch fossils for good.
Now EU policy must turn these pioneers into the norm.
Nerdy thread 🧵🤓👇
November 27, 2025 at 10:28 AM
Clean steel. Clean cement. Real projects.
Europe’s frontrunners are proving heavy industry can ditch fossils for good.
Now EU policy must turn these pioneers into the norm.
Nerdy thread 🧵🤓👇
Europe’s frontrunners are proving heavy industry can ditch fossils for good.
Now EU policy must turn these pioneers into the norm.
Nerdy thread 🧵🤓👇
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Tonight we're celebrating 10 years of Rewilding Britain (@rewildingbritain.org.uk). I don't think I've ever come across an organisation which has shifted both public attitudes and tangible outcomes on an issue so fast. I'm proud to be associated.
November 27, 2025 at 1:09 PM
Tonight we're celebrating 10 years of Rewilding Britain (@rewildingbritain.org.uk). I don't think I've ever come across an organisation which has shifted both public attitudes and tangible outcomes on an issue so fast. I'm proud to be associated.
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The EU banned many pesticides because they're toxic, yet European corporations keeps exporting them.
🌍 From Brazil to India, Bangladesh to Uganda, people are sending them back to Brussels 🎞️👇
#ReturnToSender #BanToxicExports
🌍 From Brazil to India, Bangladesh to Uganda, people are sending them back to Brussels 🎞️👇
#ReturnToSender #BanToxicExports
November 27, 2025 at 2:04 PM
The EU banned many pesticides because they're toxic, yet European corporations keeps exporting them.
🌍 From Brazil to India, Bangladesh to Uganda, people are sending them back to Brussels 🎞️👇
#ReturnToSender #BanToxicExports
🌍 From Brazil to India, Bangladesh to Uganda, people are sending them back to Brussels 🎞️👇
#ReturnToSender #BanToxicExports
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Want low-carbon steel & cement? Buy it!
Public procurement is key to climate success.
Spot on by Casier, @jorenverschaeve.bsky.social & Deboffe via @projectsyndicate.bsky.social
prosyn.org/fECHpKy
Public procurement is key to climate success.
Spot on by Casier, @jorenverschaeve.bsky.social & Deboffe via @projectsyndicate.bsky.social
prosyn.org/fECHpKy
Europe Must Stop Squandering the Power of Its Purse
Liesbeth Casier, Joren Verschaeve and Christophe Deboffe show how the European Union could be using public procurement more effectively to advance its climate goals.
prosyn.org
November 27, 2025 at 5:28 PM
Want low-carbon steel & cement? Buy it!
Public procurement is key to climate success.
Spot on by Casier, @jorenverschaeve.bsky.social & Deboffe via @projectsyndicate.bsky.social
prosyn.org/fECHpKy
Public procurement is key to climate success.
Spot on by Casier, @jorenverschaeve.bsky.social & Deboffe via @projectsyndicate.bsky.social
prosyn.org/fECHpKy
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Webinar alert for the cultural heritage professionals: discover the latest progress of the EU Cultural Heritage Cloud!
On 1/12, learn and ask questions about 10 new projects, and be part of this next step for cultural heritage research in Europe.
Event info & registration: link.europa.eu/ttgGMy 🧪
On 1/12, learn and ask questions about 10 new projects, and be part of this next step for cultural heritage research in Europe.
Event info & registration: link.europa.eu/ttgGMy 🧪
November 27, 2025 at 4:40 PM
Webinar alert for the cultural heritage professionals: discover the latest progress of the EU Cultural Heritage Cloud!
On 1/12, learn and ask questions about 10 new projects, and be part of this next step for cultural heritage research in Europe.
Event info & registration: link.europa.eu/ttgGMy 🧪
On 1/12, learn and ask questions about 10 new projects, and be part of this next step for cultural heritage research in Europe.
Event info & registration: link.europa.eu/ttgGMy 🧪
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©️ As a researcher, understanding your author rights and safely reusing third-party content can be challenging.
On 27/11, we will provide a practical overview of the limits, licenses, and open access rules that often slow down your work. We got you covered: link.europa.eu/hCdgRN 🧪
On 27/11, we will provide a practical overview of the limits, licenses, and open access rules that often slow down your work. We got you covered: link.europa.eu/hCdgRN 🧪
November 21, 2025 at 12:41 PM
©️ As a researcher, understanding your author rights and safely reusing third-party content can be challenging.
On 27/11, we will provide a practical overview of the limits, licenses, and open access rules that often slow down your work. We got you covered: link.europa.eu/hCdgRN 🧪
On 27/11, we will provide a practical overview of the limits, licenses, and open access rules that often slow down your work. We got you covered: link.europa.eu/hCdgRN 🧪
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Somebody's gotta say it: l've never seen a boy called a 13-year-old man. In fact, I've never heard the words "underaged man." Ever.
November 20, 2025 at 1:05 AM
Somebody's gotta say it: l've never seen a boy called a 13-year-old man. In fact, I've never heard the words "underaged man." Ever.
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Help build a strong, borderless market of research, innovation & technology in the EU!
A new #EUResearchArea funding opportunity will open soon.
Learn all about it & how to prepare a quality proposal on 11 December, at the ERA Info Day 🧪
🔗 link.europa.eu/vbQdQD
A new #EUResearchArea funding opportunity will open soon.
Learn all about it & how to prepare a quality proposal on 11 December, at the ERA Info Day 🧪
🔗 link.europa.eu/vbQdQD
November 19, 2025 at 9:12 AM
Help build a strong, borderless market of research, innovation & technology in the EU!
A new #EUResearchArea funding opportunity will open soon.
Learn all about it & how to prepare a quality proposal on 11 December, at the ERA Info Day 🧪
🔗 link.europa.eu/vbQdQD
A new #EUResearchArea funding opportunity will open soon.
Learn all about it & how to prepare a quality proposal on 11 December, at the ERA Info Day 🧪
🔗 link.europa.eu/vbQdQD
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We’re rolling out fresh guidance for #HorizonEU projects to help you communicate your research more effectively on social media.
Inside, you’ll find tips and tricks for crafting a stand-out post, managing your account, and improving your engagement: link.europa.eu/pjWWX9 🧪
Inside, you’ll find tips and tricks for crafting a stand-out post, managing your account, and improving your engagement: link.europa.eu/pjWWX9 🧪
October 28, 2025 at 9:12 AM
We’re rolling out fresh guidance for #HorizonEU projects to help you communicate your research more effectively on social media.
Inside, you’ll find tips and tricks for crafting a stand-out post, managing your account, and improving your engagement: link.europa.eu/pjWWX9 🧪
Inside, you’ll find tips and tricks for crafting a stand-out post, managing your account, and improving your engagement: link.europa.eu/pjWWX9 🧪
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WOMEN AGAINST THE FAR RIGHT
I’m sharing this letter I have co-signed.
“There is no evidence that people seeking refuge are more likely to commit acts of sexual violence. Many are themselves survivors of violence, war, and persecution. Blaming them distracts...”
www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2025...
I’m sharing this letter I have co-signed.
“There is no evidence that people seeking refuge are more likely to commit acts of sexual violence. Many are themselves survivors of violence, war, and persecution. Blaming them distracts...”
www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2025...
Prominent UK women tell rightwingers: stop linking immigration to sexual abuse
Exclusive: Open letter says politicians are exploiting violence against women ‘to fuel hate and division’
www.theguardian.com
September 2, 2025 at 5:07 PM
WOMEN AGAINST THE FAR RIGHT
I’m sharing this letter I have co-signed.
“There is no evidence that people seeking refuge are more likely to commit acts of sexual violence. Many are themselves survivors of violence, war, and persecution. Blaming them distracts...”
www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2025...
I’m sharing this letter I have co-signed.
“There is no evidence that people seeking refuge are more likely to commit acts of sexual violence. Many are themselves survivors of violence, war, and persecution. Blaming them distracts...”
www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2025...
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Door de Israëlische blokkades en bombardementen op ziekenhuizen hebben artsen in Gaza geen geneesmiddelen om levensbedreigende infecties te behandelen. Artsen ter plaatse getuigen dat ze wonden behandelen die vol maden zitten en azijn gebruiken om infecties te bestrijden.
apache.be/2025/08/19/g...
apache.be/2025/08/19/g...
Gaza-bombardementen doen superbacteriën woekeren
Israëlische blokkades en bombardementen laten artsen achter zonder basisgeneesmiddelen om infecties te behandelen.
apache.be
August 19, 2025 at 3:26 PM
Door de Israëlische blokkades en bombardementen op ziekenhuizen hebben artsen in Gaza geen geneesmiddelen om levensbedreigende infecties te behandelen. Artsen ter plaatse getuigen dat ze wonden behandelen die vol maden zitten en azijn gebruiken om infecties te bestrijden.
apache.be/2025/08/19/g...
apache.be/2025/08/19/g...
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good reminder by @mwuerker.bsky.social
August 15, 2025 at 8:02 PM
good reminder by @mwuerker.bsky.social