Adam Gristwood
@gristwood.bsky.social
Freelance science writer working with EUMETSAT, Frankfurt Zoological Society, the Max Planck Institute for Biological Intelligence, EMBL Trec and others. Posts about science and cycling
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Adam Gristwood
@gristwood.bsky.social
· Jun 8
It's #WorldOceanDay – this year’s theme is: ‘Wonder: sustain what sustains us’. One key force sustaining ocean life is microbes. With @embl.org TREC we explored this hidden universe along Europe's coasts, across water, sediment and soil to see how microbial life connects across ecosystems and biomes
#WorldOceanDay – how @embltrec.bsky.social – a remarkable expedition around Europe's (nearly) entire coastline – has provided tens of thousands of water, soil and sediment samples for understanding life at the intersect of land and sea @taraoceans-science.bsky.social @fondationtaraocean.bsky.social
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🔴 ⚠️ 🔥 ♨️ 🛰️ Many days with a persistent heatwave has strengthened the #wildifires season in the iberian peninsula. In Spain & Portugal violent fires are generating pyrocumulonimbous with massive smoke now engulfing W. France and reaching UK. ⬇️ Aerosol Index #Sentinel5P on Aug. 15 #ClimateEmergency
August 16, 2025 at 4:32 PM
🔴 ⚠️ 🔥 ♨️ 🛰️ Many days with a persistent heatwave has strengthened the #wildifires season in the iberian peninsula. In Spain & Portugal violent fires are generating pyrocumulonimbous with massive smoke now engulfing W. France and reaching UK. ⬇️ Aerosol Index #Sentinel5P on Aug. 15 #ClimateEmergency
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🔴⚠️🔥♨️Large parts of the iberian peninsula are engulfed by smoke.From Ourense and CastillayLeón to Extremadura in Spain,as well as Coimbra in Portugal:#wildfires with extreme 🌡 are out of control.#IncendiosForestales #ClimateEmergency ⬇️last 12hrs by meteosat-12 via @zoom.earth
August 14, 2025 at 5:43 PM
🔴⚠️🔥♨️Large parts of the iberian peninsula are engulfed by smoke.From Ourense and CastillayLeón to Extremadura in Spain,as well as Coimbra in Portugal:#wildfires with extreme 🌡 are out of control.#IncendiosForestales #ClimateEmergency ⬇️last 12hrs by meteosat-12 via @zoom.earth
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🔴⚠️🔥More than 100 wildfires currently active in #Greece, among them, one is affecting the Zante Zakhyintos, after its quick start yesterday August 12 on its SW coast. ⬇️First 🛰️ view of Landsat 8 on Aug.12 showing 12km2 of burning island. #climateemergency
August 13, 2025 at 11:19 AM
🔴⚠️🔥More than 100 wildfires currently active in #Greece, among them, one is affecting the Zante Zakhyintos, after its quick start yesterday August 12 on its SW coast. ⬇️First 🛰️ view of Landsat 8 on Aug.12 showing 12km2 of burning island. #climateemergency
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🔴⚠️🔥♨️ The current #heatwave in iberic peninsula fuels #wildfires to both in Spain and Portugal. The latest #Sentinel3 view + FRP of 11 August late morning clearly shows multiple hotspots especially in Galicia CastillaYLeon IRTrancoso #climateemergency
August 11, 2025 at 4:28 PM
🔴⚠️🔥♨️ The current #heatwave in iberic peninsula fuels #wildfires to both in Spain and Portugal. The latest #Sentinel3 view + FRP of 11 August late morning clearly shows multiple hotspots especially in Galicia CastillaYLeon IRTrancoso #climateemergency
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Metop-SGA1 is in the last stretch. Tomorrow it's expected to launch from the European Spaceport in French Guiana. 🚀
Here’s a look at its journey so far:
• Final checks in the Airbus clean room
• Fuelling
• Encapsulation
• Integration with Ariane 6 launcher
Follow its road to space: bit.ly/4onryyV
Here’s a look at its journey so far:
• Final checks in the Airbus clean room
• Fuelling
• Encapsulation
• Integration with Ariane 6 launcher
Follow its road to space: bit.ly/4onryyV
August 11, 2025 at 7:43 AM
Metop-SGA1 is in the last stretch. Tomorrow it's expected to launch from the European Spaceport in French Guiana. 🚀
Here’s a look at its journey so far:
• Final checks in the Airbus clean room
• Fuelling
• Encapsulation
• Integration with Ariane 6 launcher
Follow its road to space: bit.ly/4onryyV
Here’s a look at its journey so far:
• Final checks in the Airbus clean room
• Fuelling
• Encapsulation
• Integration with Ariane 6 launcher
Follow its road to space: bit.ly/4onryyV
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“With the Foundation’s backing, principles at the heart of TREC – open data, standardised protocols, and shared analytical approaches – are being adopted across new countries & continents,” said Paola Bertucci, Head @embl.org Scientific Expeditions. Check out this great article on labs on wheels!
With its scientific expeditions, EMBL is pioneering a new era of field-based molecular life sciences. 🚌🔬
Supported by the Klaus Tschira Stiftung & many partners, these ‘labs on wheels’ enable the study of life in context across Europe, with a view to global impact. 🌍🧬
www.embl.org/news/connect...
Supported by the Klaus Tschira Stiftung & many partners, these ‘labs on wheels’ enable the study of life in context across Europe, with a view to global impact. 🌍🧬
www.embl.org/news/connect...
August 11, 2025 at 1:13 PM
“With the Foundation’s backing, principles at the heart of TREC – open data, standardised protocols, and shared analytical approaches – are being adopted across new countries & continents,” said Paola Bertucci, Head @embl.org Scientific Expeditions. Check out this great article on labs on wheels!
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🔴⚠️🔥Dry conditions in the mediterranean are boosting #wildfires in multiple countries . In Italt at Mount #vesuvio a fire has already burnt 400Ha with 150 operators fighting.⬇️Sentinel2 view on August 9th showing the smoke plume into the sea and fire front on the ground #climateemergency
August 9, 2025 at 8:08 PM
🔴⚠️🔥Dry conditions in the mediterranean are boosting #wildfires in multiple countries . In Italt at Mount #vesuvio a fire has already burnt 400Ha with 150 operators fighting.⬇️Sentinel2 view on August 9th showing the smoke plume into the sea and fire front on the ground #climateemergency
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#pictureofthemonth: Pairs of white-browed coucals often duet. Here you see a coucal listening to a playback recording of its own species. Find out more: www.bi.mpg.de/goymann
August – Institute calendar of @mpibiochem.bsky.social and @mpiforbi.bsky.social
Picture by @dudumizi.bsky.social
August – Institute calendar of @mpibiochem.bsky.social and @mpiforbi.bsky.social
Picture by @dudumizi.bsky.social
August 6, 2025 at 7:23 AM
#pictureofthemonth: Pairs of white-browed coucals often duet. Here you see a coucal listening to a playback recording of its own species. Find out more: www.bi.mpg.de/goymann
August – Institute calendar of @mpibiochem.bsky.social and @mpiforbi.bsky.social
Picture by @dudumizi.bsky.social
August – Institute calendar of @mpibiochem.bsky.social and @mpiforbi.bsky.social
Picture by @dudumizi.bsky.social
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🔴⚠️🔥It is the largest wildfire since 1949 in France, started about 26hrs ago in the #Aude and rapidly increased at more than 16000Ha, with 2000 firefighters on it
⬇️first #Sentinel3 📸with its plume and hotspot along 30km of fire front.
⬇️first #Sentinel3 📸with its plume and hotspot along 30km of fire front.
August 6, 2025 at 10:32 PM
🔴⚠️🔥It is the largest wildfire since 1949 in France, started about 26hrs ago in the #Aude and rapidly increased at more than 16000Ha, with 2000 firefighters on it
⬇️first #Sentinel3 📸with its plume and hotspot along 30km of fire front.
⬇️first #Sentinel3 📸with its plume and hotspot along 30km of fire front.
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🔴 ⚠️ 🌀 ⛈️ 🛰️ The strongest August wind gust on record for Scotland at 131.9km/h, tied record for N.#Ireland at 106km/h: the extratropical cyclone #Floris is a powerful system that went across UK bringing heavy rains and damages on.It is now reaching Norway.⬇️last 20 hrs of Meteosat-12 #MTGI1 #eumetview
August 5, 2025 at 8:59 AM
🔴 ⚠️ 🌀 ⛈️ 🛰️ The strongest August wind gust on record for Scotland at 131.9km/h, tied record for N.#Ireland at 106km/h: the extratropical cyclone #Floris is a powerful system that went across UK bringing heavy rains and damages on.It is now reaching Norway.⬇️last 20 hrs of Meteosat-12 #MTGI1 #eumetview
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🔴⚠️🔥♨️🇬🇷🇹🇷For the 1st time in recordes history,#Turkey has reached 50°C on July 25,during one of the worst #heatwave ever in the Mediterranean.Records also for Albania and Greece,all with multiple wildfires.⬇️12hrs in sunlight by meteosat12 via @zoom.earth #ClimateEmergency
July 26, 2025 at 8:28 AM
🔴⚠️🔥♨️🇬🇷🇹🇷For the 1st time in recordes history,#Turkey has reached 50°C on July 25,during one of the worst #heatwave ever in the Mediterranean.Records also for Albania and Greece,all with multiple wildfires.⬇️12hrs in sunlight by meteosat12 via @zoom.earth #ClimateEmergency
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🔴 ⚠️ 🔥 ♨️ 🛰️ Dramatic situation in #Greece in the peak of the #heatwave. On saturday 26th July, multiple #wildfires have started and are growing fast. ⬇️meteosat-12 at 16.10UTC: from #Evia island and the #Attica,to #Kythira and #Crete Evacuations are ongoing.#ClimateEmergency @volcaholic1.bsky.social
July 26, 2025 at 7:34 PM
🔴 ⚠️ 🔥 ♨️ 🛰️ Dramatic situation in #Greece in the peak of the #heatwave. On saturday 26th July, multiple #wildfires have started and are growing fast. ⬇️meteosat-12 at 16.10UTC: from #Evia island and the #Attica,to #Kythira and #Crete Evacuations are ongoing.#ClimateEmergency @volcaholic1.bsky.social
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From the TREC Blog "My father passed away while I was working on TREC. Doing the work with others gave me the strength to carry on until I could return home to be with my family. It was a very sad time, but showed me how important this project & these people had become"
www.embl.org/about/info/t...
www.embl.org/about/info/t...
July 25, 2025 at 9:08 AM
From the TREC Blog "My father passed away while I was working on TREC. Doing the work with others gave me the strength to carry on until I could return home to be with my family. It was a very sad time, but showed me how important this project & these people had become"
www.embl.org/about/info/t...
www.embl.org/about/info/t...
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Huge algal bloom on the #Baltic Sea!
The #Copernicus #Sentinel2 image, colliected on July 21st shows an enormous swirling algal bloom on the eastern part of swedisch islands, during the longest #heatwave ever for #Scandinavia.
The #Copernicus #Sentinel2 image, colliected on July 21st shows an enormous swirling algal bloom on the eastern part of swedisch islands, during the longest #heatwave ever for #Scandinavia.
July 23, 2025 at 7:54 AM
Huge algal bloom on the #Baltic Sea!
The #Copernicus #Sentinel2 image, colliected on July 21st shows an enormous swirling algal bloom on the eastern part of swedisch islands, during the longest #heatwave ever for #Scandinavia.
The #Copernicus #Sentinel2 image, colliected on July 21st shows an enormous swirling algal bloom on the eastern part of swedisch islands, during the longest #heatwave ever for #Scandinavia.
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Check out this great article on the Curiosity microscope, used by @embl.org & BIOcean5D to empower teachers to share excitement of plankton discovery with their students! "The Curiosity microscope is fantastic because it will enable us to bring the classroom to the sampling site”
bit.ly/3UfeEoz
bit.ly/3UfeEoz
July 17, 2025 at 9:58 AM
Check out this great article on the Curiosity microscope, used by @embl.org & BIOcean5D to empower teachers to share excitement of plankton discovery with their students! "The Curiosity microscope is fantastic because it will enable us to bring the classroom to the sampling site”
bit.ly/3UfeEoz
bit.ly/3UfeEoz
From a few days ago, but reposting for the record: these cloud-free islands in an alarming era of climate change
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@metoffice.gov.uk
@pennyend.bsky.social
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@metoffice.gov.uk
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July 17, 2025 at 9:33 AM
From a few days ago, but reposting for the record: these cloud-free islands in an alarming era of climate change
@eumetsat.int
@metoffice.gov.uk
@pennyend.bsky.social
@eumetsat.int
@metoffice.gov.uk
@pennyend.bsky.social
Great overview of how and why weather satellites are so important in our daily lives @eumetsat.int @copernicusecmwf.bsky.social
The @eumetsat.int 2024 Annual Report is now online! 🌐
It was another busy and productive year - see for yourself how our work and data made an impact across Europe and beyond. 🛰️
Download and read here: www.eumetsat.int/about-us/ann...
It was another busy and productive year - see for yourself how our work and data made an impact across Europe and beyond. 🛰️
Download and read here: www.eumetsat.int/about-us/ann...
July 17, 2025 at 9:26 AM
Great overview of how and why weather satellites are so important in our daily lives @eumetsat.int @copernicusecmwf.bsky.social
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The @eumetsat.int 2024 Annual Report is now online! 🌐
It was another busy and productive year - see for yourself how our work and data made an impact across Europe and beyond. 🛰️
Download and read here: www.eumetsat.int/about-us/ann...
It was another busy and productive year - see for yourself how our work and data made an impact across Europe and beyond. 🛰️
Download and read here: www.eumetsat.int/about-us/ann...
July 17, 2025 at 8:07 AM
The @eumetsat.int 2024 Annual Report is now online! 🌐
It was another busy and productive year - see for yourself how our work and data made an impact across Europe and beyond. 🛰️
Download and read here: www.eumetsat.int/about-us/ann...
It was another busy and productive year - see for yourself how our work and data made an impact across Europe and beyond. 🛰️
Download and read here: www.eumetsat.int/about-us/ann...
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Europe’s 1st geostationary sounder satellite has launched! 🚀
MTG-S1 will transform weather forecasting & early warnings with new atmospheric data.
The satellite also carries the Sentinel-4 mission & will provide data that can be used to protect communities & strengthen resilience: bit.ly/4l9c5jR
MTG-S1 will transform weather forecasting & early warnings with new atmospheric data.
The satellite also carries the Sentinel-4 mission & will provide data that can be used to protect communities & strengthen resilience: bit.ly/4l9c5jR
July 1, 2025 at 10:25 PM
Europe’s 1st geostationary sounder satellite has launched! 🚀
MTG-S1 will transform weather forecasting & early warnings with new atmospheric data.
The satellite also carries the Sentinel-4 mission & will provide data that can be used to protect communities & strengthen resilience: bit.ly/4l9c5jR
MTG-S1 will transform weather forecasting & early warnings with new atmospheric data.
The satellite also carries the Sentinel-4 mission & will provide data that can be used to protect communities & strengthen resilience: bit.ly/4l9c5jR
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www.metoffice.gov.uk/blog/2025/ho... An analysis of how unusual this summer has been compared to long running @metoffice.gov.uk datasets 🧪
How is Summer 2025 shaping up so far?
As we reach the midpoint of meteorological summer, it’s clear this year has been far from ordinary. From record-breaking warmth and prolonged dry spells to back-to-back heatwaves, the UK’s weather has...
www.metoffice.gov.uk
July 16, 2025 at 5:58 PM
www.metoffice.gov.uk/blog/2025/ho... An analysis of how unusual this summer has been compared to long running @metoffice.gov.uk datasets 🧪
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TREC is hiring! @embl.org is looking for a field technician/engineer to coordinate soil sampling: plan activities, apply protocols, lead site scouting, coordinate teams & more. Join an amazing international team exploring a hidden universe beneath our feet. Please spread the word! bit.ly/4eSTPbZ
Environmental Technician or Engineer (Soil Lead)
The European Molecular Biology Laboratory (EMBL) is Europe’s flagship research institution for the life sciences, bringing together over 110 independent research groups and service teams across six si...
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July 16, 2025 at 1:11 PM
TREC is hiring! @embl.org is looking for a field technician/engineer to coordinate soil sampling: plan activities, apply protocols, lead site scouting, coordinate teams & more. Join an amazing international team exploring a hidden universe beneath our feet. Please spread the word! bit.ly/4eSTPbZ
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⚠️ 🔥 🔴 🛰️ 🇹🇷🇬🇷Massive #wildfires have started again in western Turkey, affecting in particular the area of Izmir , while evacuations took place in Crete for a large fire ⬇️ Latest 12hrs of sunlight by meteosat-12 #MTGI1 and MSG hotspots. #ClimateEmergency @eumetsat.int
July 4, 2025 at 10:53 AM
⚠️ 🔥 🔴 🛰️ 🇹🇷🇬🇷Massive #wildfires have started again in western Turkey, affecting in particular the area of Izmir , while evacuations took place in Crete for a large fire ⬇️ Latest 12hrs of sunlight by meteosat-12 #MTGI1 and MSG hotspots. #ClimateEmergency @eumetsat.int
@eumetsat.int @esa.int MTGS1 beginning its journey into space!
July 1, 2025 at 9:11 PM
@eumetsat.int @esa.int MTGS1 beginning its journey into space!
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Tonight we have a little help from our friends 🤩
Follow live updates from our social media meetup crew, as well as @ecmwf.int, @metoffice.gov.uk, Met Éireann, Copernicus and @esaearth.esa.int!
Follow live updates from our social media meetup crew, as well as @ecmwf.int, @metoffice.gov.uk, Met Éireann, Copernicus and @esaearth.esa.int!
July 1, 2025 at 6:13 PM
Tonight we have a little help from our friends 🤩
Follow live updates from our social media meetup crew, as well as @ecmwf.int, @metoffice.gov.uk, Met Éireann, Copernicus and @esaearth.esa.int!
Follow live updates from our social media meetup crew, as well as @ecmwf.int, @metoffice.gov.uk, Met Éireann, Copernicus and @esaearth.esa.int!
Nadia Fourrie is speaking at @eumetsat.int MTGS1 launch on the huge benefits of geostationary sounding data for weather forecasting and all of us who make use of forecasts in our daily lives. Read a great interview with her, here! www.eumetsat.int/features/bre...
Breaking through the clouds
How EUMETSAT’s new satellite help understand and predict cloud development
www.eumetsat.int
July 1, 2025 at 8:09 PM
Nadia Fourrie is speaking at @eumetsat.int MTGS1 launch on the huge benefits of geostationary sounding data for weather forecasting and all of us who make use of forecasts in our daily lives. Read a great interview with her, here! www.eumetsat.int/features/bre...