Extraordinary that the US is pulling out of the IPCC and UNFCCC There's no getting around it, this is a blow to international climate science and climate diplomacy www.whitehouse.gov/presidential...

There has never been a moment when ending the oil industry has been more urgent or important. Here is a thread of seven tools that can help. Brief, readable 2-pagers, and a 30-page overview from @michealpodgers.bsky.social at @clicabedu.bsky.social.

Expect to see a lot of this classic Onion headline, from 23 years ago, over the coming weeks.

❓Interested in eDNA 🧬 and snail-borne parasitic diseases? 🐌 ❓Not into Schistosoma detection? 🪱 No prob! We still have news for you 👇 Just follow the thread on the first paper from our group, which just came out! 🔗 Free full text doi.org/10.1016/j.fa... #eDNA #LakeAlbert #LakeVictoria /1

😱 The EU plans to remove renewal deadlines for most pesticides. That means companies wouldn’t have to test for new risks & toxic pesticides could stay on the market indefinitely. 📢 Speak up now and tell the Commission: people, farmers, and nature come first - not industry profits! #ProtectMyPlate

Amid a deepening ecological crisis and acute water shortage, Tehran can no longer remain the capital of Iran, the country’s president has said. www.scientificamerican.com/article/iran...

Every outlet worth a damn should be calling this out. www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article...

i think the synthesis so far of the LA/DC/Chicago experiences is: 1) vulnerable people should hide and wait it out to whatever extent they can 2) other people should help them do that, financially and otherwise 3) other people should also get loud 4) not violent though

The second Trump administration’s deep federal spending cuts, including at the NIH, have halted at least 383 clinical trials, affecting more than 74,000 patients, according to a new analysis. www.fiercebiotech.com/research/nih...

Phillip Lewis, a 72-year-old cancer patient, said he was woken up and marched outside his home in his robe and underwear before federal officers even checked his ID. He was not, it turned out, the man they were looking for. By @wendicthomas.bsky.social & @kathsburgess.bsky.social

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There are more than 100 marine research institutions in the United States and they’re under threat from Trump’s attack on science funding. 🌊

Just shows how ignorant these people are to start with

This three-hops theory is especially insane. Even if you assume each person is connected to only 100 other people, there are 1m people within three hops of every suspected drug trafficker—and remember that even *known* drug traffickers aren’t legitimate targets. www.nytimes.com/2025/10/30/u...

Last chance to turn it off. On Monday, November 3rd, Microsoft will start using your LinkedIn data for AI training. And remember, you're opted in by default. To toggle it off 👉 Account - Settings & Privacy > Data privacy > Data for Generative AI Improvement.

“Individuals on the ground sent a message that reached us Monday morning that 1,200 were dead,” Nathaniel Raymond, the lab’s executive director, said. “By that evening, they said 10,000. By Tuesday, we couldn’t reach them anymore. We assume our ground contacts are dead.”

The new Gates climate memo isn't a pivot; it's a continuation of "a consistent pattern of downplaying clean energy while promoting dubious and potentially dangerous technofixes in which he is often personally invested," @michaelemann.bsky.social argues in @thebulletin.org:

Our new open-access book has been published today. Please download and share www.degruyterbrill.com/document/doi...

What a gem from @dudinlab.bsky.social @gautamdey.bsky.social @centriolelab.bsky.social in Cell! Expansion microscopy atlas of >200 eukaryotes comparing cytoskeletal architectures revealing structures not seen before. Stunning visualisation! Exactly the kind of transformative cell biology we need.

Garbage in, garbage out.

"Man goes scorched earth on ICE agents kidnapping people in his hometown." Source: old.reddit.com/r/PublicFrea...

Any person or organisation paying for these products is not paying because the products satisfy a purpose. They are paying because they *hope* & *believe* that someone will *find a way* for them to satisfy a purpose.

Não está a ser um dia fácil para o Messias de Massamá

This is HUGE A court has ruled that TotalEnergies has misled consumers by presenting itself as a “major player in the energy transition”. It is the first judgement in the world ruling an Oil & Gas major has misled the public by greenwashing its image. www.clientearth.org/latest/press...

Old Soviet joke: Why do ICE agents travel in groups of three? One can read, one can write, and the third keeps an eye on the two intellectuals

Rare earth mining in Myanamar polluting downstream Thai rivers

“Largest single-day protest in American history.” Roughly 2% of the population rose up to demand the restoration of democracy. So powerful. From @gelliottmorris.com open.substack.com/pub/gelliott...

Remember when i said we're living in the scariest parts of a Gibson novel thanks to a bunch of dudes who misunderstand Gibson's novels? Well now I want to discuss the verified govt accounts spewing rightwing propaganda— possibly via a bot-run troll farm— & why you should block them for your safety.

tl;dr 1. Studies of genAI in the classroom show that it harms learning 2. The quality of AI-generated text is irrelevant to its most negative effects on teaching 3. The way AI has entered the classroom is as a money-making project extracting new labour, not a “tool” serving teachers’ actual needs

Dutch intelligence suspends sharing arrangements with the US after concluding that high level intel was routinely being shared by the White House with their friends in the Kremlin. www.volkskrant.nl/binnenland/n...

Dismantling the Institutional Review Board (IRB), that oversees all human subjects research, is bad. Really bad.

The No King protests represent a broad popular front. That’s exactly why the president’s allies are demonizing the organizers.

This is an international disaster. They targeted a disabled fishing boat in Colombian territorial waters and killed fishermen.

With alt text. Executive summary: the US killed at least 3 Colombian fishermen who’d put up a distress flag. In Colombian waters

A 60 second summary of some of the biggest and best sights from #NoKings Day. Congratulations to every single organizer, volunteer and attendee👏 History.

Good evening. We estimate that between 4.2 and 7.6 million people turned out for the No Kings Day demonstrations held around the country on Saturday. This makes Oct 18 very likely the biggest single-day U.S. protest event since 1970. www.gelliottmorris.com/p/second-no-...

The linked course is an incredibly well-written, clear explanation of how LLMs work and outlines really thoughtfully what the can, and can't, do. Recommended read for absolutely everyone out there. #MicroSky #MicrobiomeSky 💻🧬

Everyone with a shred of intellectual honesty left in them knows full well that any preposterous excuse is good for these maniacs to continue their atrocities… www.aljazeera.com/news/liveblo...

Eu ainda sou do tempo em que JPP era uma voz à direita do PS. A deriva ideológica à direita tem como consequência direta uma normalização do discurso de ódio

I saw a tragically AI-generated version of this poster, so I have recreated a 100% human-made version for all your protest sign needs.

US Government accounts have arrived on Bluesky. Block on sight. Protect your digital space. Be aware that the DHS account in particular is known to quote dunk on regular people to encourage their followers to harass them. The detach quote function will come in very handy here…

What I don't have in experience, I make up for in integrity. And what Andrew Cuomo lacks in integrity, he could never make up for with experience.

Donald Trump thinks he’s all powerful. It’s up to us to remind him on October 18th that he’s not. We will show him who really has the power in this country — and we will do it peacefully. https://www.youtube.com/shorts/mz_nlRrp_tM

To all of those pushing the AI genius (or is it genie?) out there