Patrick Grauwinkel
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Patrick Grauwinkel
@patrickgrauwinkel.bsky.social
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Whales sing, orcas squeal, and sea turtles croak. But sharks are more the strong, silent type. Last year, researchers reported the first evidence that sharks make sounds, too.

Learn more: https://scim.ag/4pmJngP #ScienceMagArchives
January 2, 2026 at 7:05 PM
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In news that should surprise no one…
280 million e-bikes are slashing oil demand far more than electric vehicles
E-bikes and scooters displace 4x as much demand for oil as all of the EVs in the world.
arstechnica.com
January 1, 2026 at 10:10 PM
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𝗠𝗔𝗥𝗞 𝗥𝗢𝗧𝗛𝗞𝗢, Untitled, 1961
Oil on canvas, 175.6 x 137.8 cm
© 1998 Kate Rothko Prizel and Christoper Rothko/ Artists
Rights Society (ARS), New York
𝙻𝚒𝚗𝚔𝚜 𝚒𝚗 𝚋𝚒𝚘
January 1, 2026 at 4:50 PM
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Beginning from mosques across Istanbul to the Galata Bridge, tens of thousands took to the streets on New Year’s Day, marching in solidarity with Palestine. 🇵🇸
January 1, 2026 at 3:08 PM
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In every breath you take there is one molecule of air from the last exhale of Cleopatra.
September 14, 2025 at 2:48 PM
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Constelação Lispector
elpais.com/cultura/2025...
Constelación Lispector
Aquello que estamos escribiendo, tal vez dará un día pruebas de que, justo cuando lo escribíamos, existíamos
elpais.com
December 26, 2025 at 12:45 PM
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The European continent is teeming with EVs, and it’s never been easier to own and charge one. But everything is under China's shadow.

insideevs.com/features/783...
Europe’s EV Boom Was Real in 2025. The Real Fight Starts In 2026
The European continent is teeming with EVs, and it’s never been easier to own and charge one. But everything is under China's shadow.
insideevs.com
December 31, 2025 at 4:15 PM
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This was really good!
Today on Volts: I've got a nerdy one for you! I talk with political scientist @samuel-bagg.bsky.social about the epistemic crisis & its roots in social identity. He explains why factchecking & media literacy classes will never solve misinformation -- why something deeper & stronger is required.
The cure for misinformation is not more information or smarter news consumers
Political scientist Samuel Bagg explains why social identity is at the root of the misinformation crisis -- which calls for something deeper than factchecking.
www.volts.wtf
December 31, 2025 at 2:53 PM
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"The past is simple; the present is complex; the future is even simpler."
(M.R. 1952, quoted in David Anfam catalogue essay, Soethbys 2015)

𝗠𝗔𝗥𝗞 𝗥𝗢𝗧𝗛𝗞𝗢, Untitled, 1969
© 1998 Kate Rothko Prizel and Christoper Rothko/ Artists
Rights Society (ARS), New York
𝙻𝚒𝚗𝚔𝚜 𝚒𝚗 𝚋𝚒𝚘
December 31, 2025 at 5:16 PM
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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
December 18, 2025 at 7:05 PM
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November 21, 2025 at 3:18 AM
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I’ve been writing an annual column for 20 years on the year in sports and politics. Here’s this year’s edition. Short version: 2025 was the fucking worst. But maybe 2026 sees a turnaround that’s already being glimpsed in unlikely places www.thenation.com/article/soci...
In a Year of Violent Tumult, the Sports World Was Silent
When the country needed them to speak out, most athletes kept mum—and a few openly embraced embraced Trumpism.
www.thenation.com
December 30, 2025 at 4:28 PM
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This year brought new species to science — from tiny marsupials to Himalayan bats and bright blue butterflies.

Less than 20% of Earth’s species are described, many known to Indigenous communities, and some are listed as threatened the moment they’re found, underscoring urgent conservation needs.
Photos: Top new species from 2025
The world still holds its secrets. Hidden under wet rocks, in the ocean’s twilight crevices, and in the minutiae of the genetic code are creatures unknown and unnamed by the human species. Every…
news.mongabay.com
December 30, 2025 at 5:14 PM
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NEW @phenomenalworld.bsky.social @polycrisis
Its a Plastic Planet.
You are poisoned by plastic, the world is plastic.
@katemac.bsky.social & I asked @vbivar.bsky.social to analyse the fossil fuel industry's latest trick. phenomenalworld.org/analysis/pla...
November 15, 2025 at 5:46 PM
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Looking back to @wwattribution.bsky.social studies in 2025 showed again, in stark terms, how unfairly the consequences of human-induced climate change are distributed. The world does not have to be like this, we have a lot of agency to make it better. www.worldweatherattribution.org/unequal-evid...
December 30, 2025 at 5:31 PM
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In a new Journalism 2050, @jayrosen.bsky.social recounts how the internet, once thought to hail a new age of democratization in journalism, became a tool for corporate surveillance and the centralization of wealth. With @emilybell.bsky.social and Heather Chaplin.
podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/t...
December 29, 2025 at 2:58 PM
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A quick look back at 2025 regarding the instability risk of the Atlantic Ocean circulation #AMOC.🌊
Some bad, some positive news.
A meta-analysis of 768 simulations with 38 different climate models shows an #AMOC shutdown is not a low-probability event any more. 1/6 iopscience.iop.org/article/10.1...
December 30, 2025 at 3:20 PM
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Reading about the renewables boom in South Africa while sitting in rural upstate New York, where many lower income residents rely on wood-stoves because other energy sources are just too costly. www.nytimes.com/2025/12/30/c...
Cheap Solar Is Transforming Lives and Economies Across Africa
www.nytimes.com
December 30, 2025 at 3:33 PM
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🇧🇷Araçari-castanho
🌎Pteroglossus castanotis
Conservação: Pouco Preocupante

O araçari-castanho é uma ave Piciforme da família Ramphastidae

📷 Saulo Gomes
December 29, 2025 at 9:40 AM
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Grid investment is set to rise from about USD 300bn in 2020 to nearly USD 580bn by 2027 as renewables and electrification expand. The US and China dominate spending.

But grids are not the only answer: flexibility, energy efficiency and storage can reduce and defer upgrades.
December 28, 2025 at 1:36 PM
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December 28, 2025 at 8:41 AM
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Today's column is on the relentless march of blithering idiocy, which includes denying climate science while your house is - literally in this case - burning down.
www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...
A conversation between Joe Rogan and Mel Gibson summed up 2025 for me – and not in a good way | George Monbiot
From merrily dismissing climate science, to promoting irresponsible health claims, the podcast was an unintentional warning for our times, says Guardian columnist George Monbiot
www.theguardian.com
December 27, 2025 at 9:29 AM
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Perpetual reminder: extreme rainfall events increase due to #globalheating. Weather station data show what has been predicted for over 30 years by climate scientists. These extremes are now far outside the historical climate.
Study: www.nature.com/articles/s41...
December 26, 2025 at 6:27 PM