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Stéphane De Greef
@stefdegreef.bsky.social
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Belgium-born explorer, science communicator and more.
#entomology #maps #exploration #photography #OSINT
www.stephanedegreef.com
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stefdegreef.bsky.social
On est d'accord que c'est trop facile pour #BrusselsAirlines de juste dire "Déso mais non, on va rien payer pour les six jours de retard. Bye !"?

Convention pour l'unification de certaines règles relatives au transport aérien international (convention de Montréal):
eur-lex.europa.eu/LexUriServ/L...
Dear Mr. De Greef, I have received your message regarding your delayed luggage on the flight from Siem Reap to Brussels via Bangkok and Zurrich on October 20th. I understand how difficult the situation must have been for you and hope you will accept my sincere apologies on behalf of Brussels Airlines. Like all airlines, we have a rule of offering to meet the direct costs of urgent purchases (clothing and toiletries) if a passenger’s luggage is delayed in a country in which they do not reside. We will only offer this assistance for delays of longer than 24 hours and only upon presentation of original purchase receipts. Because your permanent address is in Belgium (or at your final destination), I’m afraid that, unfortunately, we cannot accept your claim for reimbursement. Thank you for your understanding. We appreciate your feedback, please fill in the survey here and help us improve our services. Yours sincerely, Silvia Customer Relations agent
November 14, 2025 at 12:46 PM
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rosariolebronentomology.com
Giving a flash talk in Edinburgh on the 22nd about helping younger people buy invertebrates online responsibly.
I shared information for this Wired piece, which the talk draws from: www.wired.com/story/usda-a...
If you’re there, I’d love to chat and hear UK perspectives.
🧪 #entomology
November 11, 2025 at 10:27 AM
stefdegreef.bsky.social
Here we go again.
Facebook banned my account for a second time in two months.
Stephane, you submitted an appeal ON 7 NOVEMBER 2025 Check back here for the result. Your account is not visible to people on Facebook and you can't use it. What happens next? It usually takes us about an hour to review your information. Check back here. If we find that your account does follow our Community Standards, you'll be able to use Facebook again. If we find that your account doesn't follow our Community Standards, it will be permanently disabled and you won't be able to appeal again.
November 7, 2025 at 3:30 PM
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bug-gwen.bsky.social
FFS @bsky.app @support.bsky.team. We don't want an algorithm. We don't want dislikes. We want better moderation that lets Link back in. techcrunch.com/2025/10/31/b...
Bluesky hits 40 million users, introduces 'dislikes' beta | TechCrunch
As users "dislike" posts, the system will learn what sort of content they want to see less of. This will help to inform more than just how content is ranked in feeds, but also reply rankings.
techcrunch.com
November 3, 2025 at 2:32 PM
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thephnompenhpost.bsky.social
Information ministry warns public not to share fake news that could jeopardise peace
www.phnompenhpost.com
October 31, 2025 at 9:20 AM
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eliothiggins.bsky.social
🧵 Yesterday I shared my views on how disordered discourse has captured the US state and the risk of that happening elsewhere, but I don’t want to leave you hanging without proposing a solution.
eliothiggins.bsky.social Eliot Higgins @eliothiggins.bsky.social · Feb 28
What we’re witnessing in America is what happens when disordered discourse captures a political party, then the state itself. The Republican Party was the first to fall - abandoning truth for conspiracy, ideology for grievance, and policy for performative outrage.
March 1, 2025 at 3:04 PM
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eliothiggins.bsky.social
Without this, democracy doesn't die in the darkness, it dies in the light of a billion small screens.
March 1, 2025 at 3:23 PM
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thesheepcat.bsky.social
Hilarious little video by Instagram reel creator spaghettysean about how to take good photos of an earthworm so someone can tell which of more than 6000 species it might be.
#inaturalist #inverts 📷🪱
www.instagram.com/p/DQUSJjMDOmN/
Screenshot from Instagram: At left, a woman in a white lab coat stands beside a whiteboard on which is a labelled drawing of a worm. The superimposed transcript of the video says, "a worm." At right, text posted by spaghettysean explains, "Ad If you’re an earthworm in the midst of an identification crisis, this is for you. (If you’re not, well ... now you know a bit more about identifying earthworms.)" @inaturalistorg is tagged. Several users react, amused. 1,282 likes 1 day ago. Photo of a white woman in a homemade earthworm costume. She wears a light brown sweater. A light brown stocking on the top of her head gives it a rounded point. Dark disks cover her eyes. Her expression is puzzled and surprised. Caption: "The what?"
October 29, 2025 at 3:32 PM
stefdegreef.bsky.social
oh noes
Screen capture: Is Inaturalist.org down? It's not just you! inaturalist.org is down. Last updated: Oct 30, 2025, 10:16 AM (2 seconds ago)
October 30, 2025 at 9:20 AM
stefdegreef.bsky.social
Most people don’t follow weather news about faraway places but this is a cataclysmic event about to happen. We’re talking millions of people affected and displaced. Think biblical floods, think biggest storm in years.
@hotosm.org are we already planning an urgent #HOTOSM project? Better start now.
nytimes.com The New York Times @nytimes.com · 21d
A hurricane hunter flight that had just entered the eye of Hurricane Melissa was abruptly aborted on Monday after the crew encountered severe turbulence and was forced to abandon its mission to collect data on how strong the storm had become. nyti.ms/48RivAY
October 28, 2025 at 8:14 AM
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thebullypulpit.bsky.social
@georgemonbiot.bsky.social reported about this in 2011.

Dark actors were already plotting to manipulate public sentiment via targeted online messaging. This is not mere "bots". This is something more sophisticated, sinister—and effective. "How could people still be voting this way?" This is how.
The need to protect the internet from 'astroturfing' grows ever more urgent | George Monbiot
George Monbiot: The tobacco industry does it, the US Air Force clearly wants to ... astroturfing – the use of sophisticated software to drown out real people on web forums – is on the rise. How do we ...
www.theguardian.com
October 27, 2025 at 3:38 PM
stefdegreef.bsky.social
It’ll take decades to clean up and rebuild with all the ordnance lying around.
saulstaniforth.bsky.social Saul Staniforth @saulstaniforth.bsky.social · 22d
Ibrahim al Khalili reports on unexploded ordnance in Gaza
October 28, 2025 at 7:34 AM
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reckless.bsky.social
He’s designing the ballroom with AI isn’t he www.nytimes.com/interactive/...
October 25, 2025 at 3:45 PM
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stefdegreef.bsky.social
Hey #BrusselsAirlines, let’s have a deal. You give me back my suitcase you’re keeping since Tuesday morning and me, an experienced professional entomologist, I’m confirming or denying the presence of #bedbugs and #fleas on your flight. Deal?

www.aviation24.be/airlines/luf...
Brussels Airlines faces labour unrest after firing three cabin crew over pest scare flight refusal
Tensions are rising at Brussels Airlines after the dismissal of three senior flight attendants who refused to operate a flight from Brussels to Accra,
www.aviation24.be
October 24, 2025 at 5:39 AM
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washingtonpost.com
In late August, Sam O’Hara began filming National Guard troops in D.C. while playing “The Imperial March” from his phone or a handheld speaker and posted the videos to his TikTok account.

He was detained Sept. 11.
October 23, 2025 at 1:47 PM
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florencedellerie.bsky.social
Je n'en peux plus de voir de l'IA générative partout 😐

Regardez-moi ces "dessins".

Il est devenu impossible d'effectuer une recherche web sans tomber sur ce genre de truc approximatif, bancal, qui déforme le réel et détruit les métiers de l'illustration.

#IA
Visuel montrant 4 illustrations de coccinelles qui ont l'air d'avoir été peintes à l'aquarelle. Le texte dit : "Elles sont jolies, ces illustrations, non ? Elles sont jolies, oui... Mais c'est du grand n'importe quoi généré par IA." Visuel montrant les 4 mêmes illustrations de coccinelles, avec un texte disant :"Quand on y regarde de plus près, il n'y a rien qui va : Face blanche inexistante chez cette espèce, la coccinelle à 7 points, un individu représenté avec 7 pattes, un autre avec 6 ou 12 points, d'autres avec un nombre de tarses faux, etc. Le texte précise "je n'ai même pas assez de place pour indiquer tous les problèmes". "Si on tient un peu à la réalité, Si on tient un peu à la rigueur scientifique, Si on tient un peu aux personnes qui exercent le métier d’illustrateur·rice (au passage : être illustrateur·rice scientifique, ce n’est pas juste “savoir dessiner”, c’est aussi avoir une *connaissance* de ses sujets), ... Alors svp, arrêtons de promouvoir et d’utiliser l’IA générative."
October 21, 2025 at 3:11 PM
stefdegreef.bsky.social
Who knows about airline passengers rights? #SNBrusselsAirlines didn’t load my bag on the plane from Zurich to Brussels on Monday night and I’ve been waiting since then. Unreachable by chatbot, mail or call. Tracking not updated since Tuesday 7am. Bag probably in BRU but no news. Can’t work without.
October 22, 2025 at 9:18 AM
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jdrose.bsky.social
"Nearly 100 additional wild bee species in Europe have been classified as threatened in a new assessment for the IUCN Red List of Threatened Species..."

Is anyone familiar with what species? I can't find a full summary list online. Thanks in advance 🐝🌿
Mounting risks threaten survival of wild European pollinators – IUCN Red List
Abu Dhabi, United Arab Emirates, 11 October 2025 (IUCN) – Nearly 100 additional wild bee species in Europe have been classified as threatened in a new assessment for the IUCN Red List of Threatened Sp...
iucn.org
October 15, 2025 at 9:04 AM
stefdegreef.bsky.social
“the girlfriend of one of the founders of antifa”
Marion Ravenwood (Karen Allen) in Indiana Jones and the Kingdom of the Crystal Skull
October 9, 2025 at 4:38 AM
stefdegreef.bsky.social
Hey @developers.google.com could you fix your insane report ? It's about 25°C this morning in Siem Reap, Cambodia. This kind of false weather report is killing the tourism industry. Thanks. Bye.
a false weather report claiming it's 51°C in Siem Reap
October 9, 2025 at 1:10 AM
stefdegreef.bsky.social
Gaza.
You’re thinking of Gaza.
atrupar.com Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · Oct 8
Trump on Portland: "It's like the movies you see for the kids, I guess not only the kids, adults also, where you have these bombed out cities and these bombed out people. It's like, worse than that."
October 8, 2025 at 9:18 PM
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mrjeffu.bsky.social
Video: a Japanese scientist was attacked by flies while giving the acceptance speech for his Ig Nobel Prize-winning research paper that proved painting Zebra-like stripes on cows led to a decrease in biting fly attacks.
September 19, 2025 at 9:58 AM
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bendobrown.bsky.social
Our open-source pipeline for detecting war crimes from space is live. Built by our Sudan team at CIR with BigData Republic, it uses NASA FIRMS & Sentinel-2 data to flag burn events near civilian sites, turning satellite imagery into evidence. Full details: bigdatarepublic.nl/articles/det...
October 3, 2025 at 7:56 AM
stefdegreef.bsky.social
We all knew she was mortal like the rest of us, but we all secretly hoped this day would never come. She was a legend, an inspiration, for millions of conservationists.
npr.org NPR @npr.org · Oct 1
JUST IN: Jane Goodall, primatologist who transformed our understanding of the lives of apes, has died, according to an announcement from the Jane Goodall Institute.
Jane Goodall, legendary primatologist, has died at age 91
Jane Goodall, primatologist who transformed our understanding of the lives of apes, has died, according to an announcement from the Jane Goodall Institute.
n.pr
October 2, 2025 at 1:07 AM
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alexwild.bsky.social
"Why do queen bumblebees emerge from hibernation during weekends?"

I love this framing about bias in hobbyist-collected data.
Why do queen bumblebees emerge from hibernation during weekends? - Apidologie
Climate-driven shifts in bumblebee emergence and flowering time can disrupt plant reproduction and affect pollinator health. To study such mismatches, accurate phenological data is crucial but challen...
link.springer.com
September 22, 2025 at 4:57 PM