Verhandlungen zum UN-Plastikabkommen: „Wir brauchen Obergrenzen für die Plastikproduktion“ taz.de/Verhandlunge...

Our new article on Antimicrobial Resistance across the Baltic Sea was published in Microbiome: link.springer.com/article/10.1...

Seems like plainclothed agents who obscure their faces, roaming the streets, and kidnapping a student who is there on a valid visa without a warrant, in broad daylight, is a sign of how things are escalating in the US.

🔥 US Project 2025 push to dismantle the EU The Heritage Foundation held a private workshop on it. There's a reason why the US right-wing Heritage Foundation (Project 2025 authors) wants to break up the EU team... …it's a rival to Trump’s power in trade, standards and values.

Watching the US slide into autocracy feels eerily familiar — like re-living the early years of Orbánism (only more intense, honestly). I wrote down some reflections from that period. It won’t make you feel better. But it might make the stakes clearer. medium.com/@palma.polya...

UK Subs detained

💸 Support people like Nigel and Catherine: chuffed.org/project/support-resistance-in-the-courts

Sweden's ongoing dismantling of environmental policy is heavily criticised by OECD, as expected: www.oecd.org/en/publicati...

Let's check in and see how European Dec-Feb snowfall has changed over the last 50 years. Other than Scandinavia, it looks awful.

“This is what happens when someone appeases barbarians.” www.theguardian.com/world/2025/m...

Dear US colleagues, In response to the Trump administration, my university @univ-amu.fr is setting up a new program dedicated to welcoming American scientists wishing to pursue their work in France. There are several M$ in the budget. www.univ-amu.fr/en/public/ac...

By me: the Trump administration has pulled the US, the biggest historical emitter of greenhouse gases, from the Loss and Damage fund - the agreement under which developed nations pledged to partly compensate developing countries for irreversible climate harms www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025...

USA loses another war 🤦‍♂️

Auf den Punkt mal wieder, Stefan Kornelius, SZ.

Viele wichtige Tatsachen von denen ich keine Ahnung hatte: www.youtube.com/watch?v=tXCj...

Deutschland im Rückmerzgang. @omasgegenrechts.bsky.social:

Слава Україні! Slava Ukraini! ♥️✊😉

Open letter to to the future German chancellor is published. Please share: econ4ua.org/to-the-futur...

I might as well tell Donald to send US troops to help me get Ukraine out of Kursk.

Kackeistamdampfen – das Opinion-Stück für die New York Times @nytimes.com über das Erstarken der Rechtsextremen und die deutsche Geschichtsvergessenheit ist JETZT auch frei und ohne Paywall bei Youtube! youtu.be/bLWLb0RM7HQ

Daniele Artico goes on trial again for blocking the Kronprinzenbrücke bridge alongside 13 other scientists in 2022, while fossil fuel companies directly cause the death of hundreds of millions through the #ClimateCrisis they are accelerating. 1/2

English followers: If you’re curious why the new US government is composed of authoritarians, anti-vaccinationists, and libertarians who spread conspiracy theories—and how this relates to late-modern individualization—then this book might be of interest to you. www.politybooks.com/bookdetail?b...

Les plantations continuent sur le parvis de l'Hôtel de Ville ! 🌳

Der fliegende Sauerländer: Alle paar Tage ist Friedrich Merz’ 👨‍✈️ Privatflugzeug 🛫 in den vergangenen Jahren gestartet. Das zeigt eine Datenanalyse der @taz.de. Kann der Hobbypilot als Kanzler glaubwürdig für Klimaschutz eintreten? 👇 taz.de/Privatflugze...

Simultaneously, sections of NOAA’s website displaying climate data have become unavailable. They are systematically going through the system, removing content at their discretion. More details to follow.

Elon Musk’s staffers have gained access to the computer systems at the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA), claiming to use that access to search for programs and staff linked to diversity policies.

🧪 If I were Canadian PM I would immediately: 1. Create a new $15B science fund 2. Offer any credentialed US scientist funding for lab startup and replacement of NIH grants if they move to Canada 3. Immediate permanent residency 4. Citizenship after 2 years Overnight a science superpower

27 January 1928 | A German Jewish girl, Marion Ehrlich, was born in Berlin. In November 1942 she was deported to #Auschwitz. She did not survive.

NEW – Analysis: Why the $300bn climate-finance goal is even less ambitious than it seems | @joshgabbatiss.bsky.social w/comment from @joethwaites.bsky.social Li Shuo @cgdev.org Read here: https://buff.ly/4fUmwVX