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Peter Stanners
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👔 Strategy and Communications for @cbmr.science
📰 Former editor-in-chief of Danish-English newspaper The Murmur
📚 BA Philosophy, MSc Corporate Communications
💬 Moderator and host (TEDx, Bloom, Folkemødet)
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Bellingcat’s contact email has always been a magnet for people with fairly unusual views; paranoid delusions, sprawling conspiracies, the works. But recently, the pattern has shifted, we’re seeing more and more emails clearly written with ChatGPT.
November 19, 2025 at 2:18 PM
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COMMENTARY: The Danes are right, if the US president presses ahead in Greenland, other territories can and will follow elsewhere.

🔗 www.politico.eu/article/gree...
October 21, 2025 at 3:09 PM
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Evidence keeps piling up that the incredible progress in the field of ubiquitous hyper-compelling short-form video delivery has been bad for society and deleterious to most people’s interests.

www.slowboring.com/p/more-strea...
More streaming video is bad
If you’re streaming video, you’re not doing homework, reading, socializing, or sleeping.
www.slowboring.com
October 20, 2025 at 10:36 AM
@philipcball.bsky.social saw this in the @nytimes.com today: “hands and feet were not the products of new genes doing new things. Rather, through natural selection, pieces of old genetic recipes for ancient body parts were cobbled together into new combinations.”

www.nytimes.com/2025/09/17/s...
How Did Hands Evolve? The Answer Is Behind You.
www.nytimes.com
September 21, 2025 at 5:37 PM
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The August issue is now fully online, with a beautiful cover that might be a nostalgia trigger for some of us (young people can find an explanation in the Editorial):

www.nature.com/nplants/volu...
August 20, 2025 at 11:18 AM
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Delighted to attend Genomic Mechanisms of Disease conference! The 31st Science Cluster conference, "Genomic Mechanisms of Disease" brings together experts to discuss research on the genomic influences underlying various diseases. Thx to novonordiskfonden.dk/en/projects/...
@novo-nordisk.bsky.social
May 19, 2025 at 7:17 PM
“Officers found messages criticizing Trump's policies on his phone and computer following sweeping cuts to scientific research. […] the researcher was sent back to France.”

And not long ago Republicans were very upset about cancel culture threatening free speech 🤔

www.newsweek.com/french-scien...
Scientist banned from entering US over opinions about Trump—Minister
Border agents reportedly found comments criticizing Trump on the researcher's phone.
www.newsweek.com
March 20, 2025 at 8:26 PM