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Maria Bolevich
@mariabolevich89.bsky.social
Science, health and environmental journalist and science communicator.
Diplomas in Medical Nursing and Environmental Engineering.
Mediterranean 🌊 and 📚
Bylines: New Scientist, Science Mag, Nature...
Founder of www.unknownfocus.com
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🚭🌍 A @sant.europarl.europa.eu delegation participated in the 11th session of the Conference of the Parties (COP11) to the @whofctc.bsky.social

Read the full statement from the EP delegation Chair @nicogcasares.bsky.social ⤵️

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Public health MEPs wrap up visit to WHO conference on tobacco control | News | European Parliament
A Public Health Committee delegation participated in the 11th session of the Conference of the Parties (COP11) to the WHO Framework Convention on Tobacco Control.
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November 19, 2025 at 3:34 PM
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🌍Parliament's delegation to #COP30 comes to an end as negotiations continue

🎥Watch the closing statement by delegation chair Lídia Pereira: MEPs expecting concrete measures on climate mitigation & phasing out of fossil fuels ⤵️
November 21, 2025 at 2:37 PM
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🔝During her time at ICTA-UAB, our postdoctoral researcher Letícia Santos de Lima coauthored this chapter for the Science Panel for the Amazon Assessment Report 2025, which was just presented at the #COP30

- @leticiaslima.bsky.social

Read it here: ⬇️

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November 21, 2025 at 1:39 PM
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💊18-24 November is World AMR Awareness Week

Highlighting the growing threat of antimicrobial resistance, accelerated by overuse & misuse of antimicrobials, poor sanitation & inadequate infection control

Read more ⤵️
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18-24 November - World AMR Awareness Week | Highlights | Home | SANT | Committees | European Parliament
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November 18, 2025 at 7:04 PM
Dogs don’t just sniff out treats; they’re helping protect ecosystems. 🐶💚

We spoke with Timothy L. Edwards, corresponding author of the study, and director of the University of Waikato’s Scent Detection Research Group.

🐶🐶🐶🐶🐶

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Sniffing Out Trouble: How Dogs Track Invasive Carp - Unknown Focus
We spoke with Timothy L. Edwards, corresponding author of the study, and director of the University of Waikato’s Scent Detection Research Group.
unknownfocus.com
November 15, 2025 at 3:43 PM
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#Pharmacists help track #medicinesshortages, find alternatives, and reassure patients. Co-created with @PGEU 👇

Check out the full campaign here: www.ema.europa.eu/en/human-reg...

#ittakesateam
Medicine shortages and community pharmacists
YouTube video by European Medicines Agency
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November 11, 2025 at 10:03 AM
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📅 Tuesday 11 November, 14.45 CET - joint meeting with
@envi.europarl.europa.eu

🏥 Civil protection & health emergency preparedness under the next MFF
- exchange of views with Commissioner
@hadjalahbib.bsky.social

🎥 Watch live: multimedia.europarl.europa.eu/en/webstream...
Committee on the Environment, Climate and Food Safety Ordinary meeting - Multimedia Centre
The multimedia platform of the European Parliament is the official public available repository of the media production of the Secretariat of the European Parliament, managed by the Directorate-General...
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November 7, 2025 at 9:25 AM
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#COP30 kicks off today in Belém, Brazil

Our briefing examines major economies' nationally determined contributions ahead of COP30

👉 link.europa.eu/Bjw8gc

@envi.europarl.europa.eu
November 10, 2025 at 8:22 AM
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🌍EU 2040 climate target

@envi.europarl.europa.eu MEPs want a 90% reduction target for emissions by 2040 compared with 1990 levels to achieve a climate neutral EU by 2050.

🗳️Votes: ⬆️55⬇️32↔️0

Press release⤵️
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November 10, 2025 at 4:29 PM
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💊 New booklet: “From laboratory to patients - How the safety of medicines is ensured in the European Union”

Published for #MedicineSafetyWeek — explore how EMA & EU countries work together to keep medicines safe and safeguard the health of patients.

👉 www.ema.europa.eu/en/about-us/...
November 6, 2025 at 11:16 AM
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Today’s report confirms once again that we are on track to meet our 2030 climate target.

Yesterday, Member States agreed on a direction of travel for 2040. The 🇪🇺is proving that we can pursue ambitious climate action while strengthening our competitiveness and our independence.
📢 The EU Climate Action Progress Report 2025 is here!

📉 EU net GHG emissions fell 2.5% in 2024 compared to 2023, continuing the downward trend.

💥 Emissions 37.2% below 1990, GDP +71% - proving growth and emissions can decouple.

🔗 Read more: climate.ec.europa.eu/news-other-r...
November 6, 2025 at 12:44 PM
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🐘Wild fauna and flora @CITES

#Eplenary adopts resolution pushing for better application of bans & restrictions globally. EU must lead global fight to end illegal trafficking of wild animals and plants by 2030.

Press release⤵️
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October 23, 2025 at 10:31 AM
He’d still be alive today if Montenegro actually had a law to protect #animals (especially abandoned dogs). Zero protection, zero!!!!!
If you love #dogs avoid Montenegro.
October 29, 2025 at 7:43 AM
Energy policy-making in the EU between past and present

"Academic literature, particularly from the sociology of quantification, provides the intellectual tools to critically engage with these new technologies."
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Study: Energy policy-making in the EU between past and present - Unknown Focus
We spoke with Samuele Lo Piano about EU energy policy, modeling challenges, and how Sensitivity Auditing can improve transparency.
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October 22, 2025 at 10:20 AM
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📣We have launched a 𝐜𝐚𝐥𝐥 𝐟𝐨𝐫 𝐞𝐯𝐢𝐝𝐞𝐧𝐜𝐞 𝐨𝐧 𝐩𝐚𝐜𝐤𝐚𝐠𝐢𝐧𝐠, 𝐬𝐮𝐛𝐬𝐭𝐚𝐧𝐜𝐞𝐬 𝐮𝐬𝐞𝐝 𝐢𝐧 𝐩𝐚𝐜𝐤𝐚𝐠𝐢𝐧𝐠 𝐚𝐧𝐝 𝐩𝐚𝐜𝐤𝐚𝐠𝐢𝐧𝐠 𝐰𝐚𝐬𝐭𝐞, and available recycling technologies related to packaging.

Have your say by 28 October 2025 🔗 https://fcld.ly/callforevidencepackaging
Call for Evidence for Substances in packaging and packaging waste - ECHA
ECHA organises consultations to get feedback from all interested parties and to gather the widest possible range of scientific information for the regulatory processes
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October 15, 2025 at 7:30 AM
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🌐 MEPs from @sant.europarl.europa.eu visited yesterday the Charité Comprehensive Cancer Center & the National Center for Tumor Diseases in Berlin 🇩🇪 in the context of ongoing efforts to advance the European Beating Cancer Plan & strengthen oncological care across Europe
October 15, 2025 at 3:19 PM
En junio de este año, Luis Espericueta publicó el estudio “Tres años de la #eutanasia en #España: datos, controversias y retos“. Por eso el tema de esta entrevista es precisamente este estudio.
#Europa

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Tres años de eutanasia en España: estudio de Luis Espericueta - Unknown Focus
Entrevista con Luis Espericueta sobre el estudio ‘Tres años de eutanasia en España.’
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October 13, 2025 at 10:04 PM
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#training #pitching #online

Science writers, do you want to pitch to English-language outlets but are unsure where to start? Join Pitching Across Borders on 23 Oct, 15:00-17:30 (BST).

Book your place now! Free for #ABSWmembers and @eurofsj members.
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October 10, 2025 at 4:00 PM
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#training #pitching #online

👀 Pitching Across Borders - Meet the Speakers!

Maria Bolevich – From environmental engineer to global science storyteller for Science, New Scientist and more
@mariabolevich89.bsky.social

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October 13, 2025 at 11:00 AM
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Missed Raúl Velasco’s webinar last Tuesday?

You can now watch it in full on YouTube! 🎥

In this REAL project talk, he explores how the Global North’s growth relies on massive amounts of unpaid care work—mostly by women—appropriated through unequal exchange.

👉 www.youtube.com/watch?v=oaBp...
Raul Velasco: The invisibilized burden: care work and its unequal global exchange"
YouTube video by ICTA-UAB
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October 9, 2025 at 3:48 PM
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Deadline approaching – 15 Oct!
A brilliant PhD opportunity for all keen zebrafish enthusiasts, gene jockey and microscopy aficionados 🐟🧬🔬
If you find joy in embryos, lasers, and watching cells do clever things — this is your moment.
October 10, 2025 at 6:00 PM
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🚩 #EPlenary debate today at 15.00 CEST

🦟 Public health risks in a Europe affected by global warming: tackling the spread of mosquito- and tick-borne diseases

🎥 Watch live: multimedia.europarl.europa.eu/en/webstream...
October 9, 2025 at 12:31 PM
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🎗️ Throughout October, @sant.europarl.europa.eu supports #BreastCancerAwarenessMonth

More information: www.europarl.europa.eu/committees/e...

Follow our upcoming Europe’s Beating Cancer Plan report: oeil.secure.europarl.europa.eu/oeil/en/proc...
October 2, 2025 at 10:20 AM
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@envi.europarl.europa.eu adopted its policy demands for the @UNFCCC #COP30
⬆️57 ⬇️23 ↔️4

#EPlenary vote scheduled for October II

More details🔽
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COP30: MEPs want EU climate policy to maintain a high degree of ambition | News | European Parliament
On Monday evening, the Committee on the Environment, Climate and Food Safety adopted its policy demands for the UN Climate Change Conference COP30.
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October 6, 2025 at 6:47 PM