The Trump administration says it will dismantle the National Center for Atmospheric Research, a cornerstone for American climate and weather science. I went on NPR today to explain what this could mean for climate research. Listen here:

with fellow artistic researchers @marjolijndijkman.bsky.social and Nele Möller, I organise Speaking Afield: interdisciplinary walks & discussions with academic and scientific researchers in the field of ecology & biology. Here a few weeks ago with @janverpooten.bsky.social in the Antwerp harbour.

2025 Update. Spiralling Past 1.5C Paris Agreement Lower Limit Data: Copernicus ERA 5 - @copernicusecmwf.bsky.social #ClimateChange #GlobalBoiling

Open call for presentations POLLEN2026, Barcelona Call ends 05/12/2025 >> Soil Alive: Sedimented Relations and Muddy Agencies. Convenors: Anna Elisabeth Kuijpers (ULB) & Marjolijn Dijkman (LUCA/KU Leuven) Submissions may take artistic forms or adopt more traditional scientific approaches.

"Following billions in profits and over a thousand gas extraction-related earthquakes, the oil and gas giants filed claims against the Dutch state in four separate investor-state disputes concerning compensation for home damages and the permanent closure of the Groningen gas field."

Instagram is profiting from hate. Influencers are allowed sell antisemitic merch — fueling a digital pipeline of neo-Nazi propaganda. Meta’s refusal to act isn’t negligence anymore — it’s complicity.

Sea urchins have a body that is entirely made up of "head"—with a surprisingly complex central nervous system that functions, in essence, like an "all-body brain."

Hey @safety.bsky.app, found an account making death threats you should suspend.

Cladosporium sphaerospermum is a remarkable species of radiotrophic fungus that is thriving in the Chernobyl Exclusion Zone. Scientists observed patches of blackened growths on the walls of the No. 4 reactor—fungi that seemed to thrive where the radiation was highest.

09/12/2025 kex—kunsthalle exnergasse, Vienna, AT As part of the exhibition Botanizing the Asphalt, Marjolijn Dijkman and Pom Bouvier-b. will present the live performance “Electrify Everything”.

EU-based companies continue to export thousands of tonnes of banned pesticides to Kenya and other countries, even though the food it helps produce is often then exported back to the EU, new research has confirmed.

After years of research, scientist Leonid Pshenichnov concluded Russia + China cannot continue fishing krill, the main food source of many marine creatures, at current rates without risking breakdown of entire ocean ecosystems. Russia had him arrested: www.theguardian.com/environment/...

Opening 5/11: Kunsthalle exnergasse. With: Ana Vaz, Alexandre Estrela, Anna Schachinger, Haig Aivazian, Hugo de Almeida Pinho, Jonathan Uliel Saldanha, Marjolijn Dijkman, Pedro Henriques, Younes Ben Slimane. Botanizing the Asphalt explores the political role of light in urban spaces at night.

Marjolijn Dijkman. Between the Lines #MarjolijnDijkman #BetweenTheLines #KunstvereinGöttingen #Konzeptkunst #Installation #Anthropozän #Forschung www.art-in.de/ausstellung....

We urgently need honesty on the climate crisis. Military emissions are excluded from national emissions figures. Yes, we simply pretend they don't exist. That means there's little pressure to reduce them. This has to change. www.thewaronclimate.org

Open call for presentations POLLEN2026, Barcelona Call ends 05/12/2025 >> Soil Alive: Sedimented Relations and Muddy Agencies. Convenors: Anna Elisabeth Kuijpers (ULB) & Marjolijn Dijkman (LUCA/KU Leuven) Submissions may take artistic forms or adopt more traditional scientific approaches.

Looking forward: Rethinking Human Relationships with the More-than-Human: Spiritual, Indigenous and Relational Paradigms in Conversation This seminar brings together international scholars and artists from a plurality of backgrounds. 30-31/10/25 at Center for Applied Ecological Thinking, DK

ACTIVE TERRAIN N°4 Marjolijn Dijkman Solo exhibition 'Between the Lines', with unusually elaborate, spatially accessible arrangements, making the dynamic upheavals of the regions in question tangible for the audience, thus exemplifying the acute changes taking place on Earth.

New article from Marjolijn Dijkman and Oliver Ressler. ‘We need to understand that the main appeal of CCS for the fossil industries lies in the huge new subsidies it promises the industry.' Read the article on journal.commodityfrontiers.com/journal-issu... #CFI

~ 'focused listening' with Jana Winderen ► rec-on.org/focusedliste...

Coming up tonight at 19:19 BST/20:19 CEST: the September #Equinox! This image from Meteosat-12, taken this morning, shows Earth near the equinox - when the terminator appears as a straight line dividing the planet into equal halves of light and dark. @wmo-global.bsky.social @eumetsat.int

This report is a wake-up call: urgent action is needed to protect ecosystems, seafood safety, and public health from the growing threat of forever chemicals. eeb.org/library/fore...

Earlier this year, ERforS hosted Pamela – a photographer from the Democratic Republic of Congo (DRC) – as the first AR-resident as part of a new ongoing partnership. 2/10

✨ 𝗠𝗲𝗲𝘁 𝗼𝘂𝗿 𝗳𝗶𝗿𝘀𝘁 𝗔𝗥-𝗿𝗲𝘀𝗶𝗱𝗲𝗻𝘁 𝗣𝗮𝗺𝗲𝗹𝗮 𝗧𝘂𝗹𝗶𝘇𝗼 @𝗽𝗮𝗺𝗲𝗹𝗮𝘁𝘂𝗹𝗶𝘇𝗼 𝗮𝘁 𝗼𝘂𝗿 𝗔𝗥-𝗥𝗲𝘀𝗶𝗱𝗲𝗻𝗰𝗲 𝗽𝗮𝗿𝘁𝗻𝗲𝗿 𝗶𝗻 𝗕𝗲𝗹𝗴𝗶𝘂𝗺 𝗘𝗻𝗼𝘂𝗴𝗵 𝗥𝗼𝗼𝗺 𝗳𝗼𝗿 𝗦𝗽𝗮𝗰𝗲 (𝗘𝗥𝗳𝗼𝗿𝗦)! ✨ 1/10

Looking forward to the Field_Notes!

In the EU? Please take a moment to sign this petition. Because what kind of species are we, allowing this ruthless planetary pillaging to continue? Destroying so many nonhuman cohabitants’ lives and habitats? We must be mad, right? act.greens-efa.eu/habitats?utm...

aye To defend against Russian tanks, Finland and Poland consider restoring wetlands #europe Finland & Poland considering restoring these natural carbon sinks brings significant environmental benefits. www.france24.com/en/europe/20...

🌾 📢 The past year has been a generative period for the @waterlandsh2020.bsky.social artists in residence. To spotlight their ongoing effort and research, we have gathered some updates on their work in the field! 📸Elo Liiv waterlands.eu/news-and-eve...

There’s a new world record for the longest lightning flash ⚡ 🧪 eos.org/research-and...

"There is no case since WW2 of starvation that has been so minutely designed and controlled" Famine expert Alex de Waal on Israel deliberately starving an entire civilian population

700 000 signatures ce matin. Plus de 400 signatures par minute hier. À ce rythme là, nous aurons 1 million de signatures ce soir. Le rendez-vous est pris !

Landmines and other unexploded ordnance litter a large part of Ukraine today, including on agricultural land. Farmers in impacted regions are returning to potentially contaminated lands, often unsure of what lies beneath them. With @afp.com, we explored the issue www.bellingcat.com/news/2025/07...

Thanks to @marjolijndijkman.bsky.social for the wonderful conversation for the The Journal of the Commodity Frontiers Initiative. “Carbon Capture: ‘Let there be cracks’” can now be downloaded for free from this link: journal.commodityfrontiers.com/journal-issu...

“we’re talking about nearly half the tree of life disappearing in one human lifetime. That is absolutely catastrophic.” A terrifying article in The Guardian today: www.theguardian.com/environment/...

🪵Happy to present and finalize BETWEEN THE LINES and IRON HARVEST at Forest Encounters at @outofsight-antwerp.bsky.social opening during Antwerp Art Weekend. Both works focus on the catastrophic effects of drought and climate change in the forests of the Zone Rouge in the northeast of France.🪵

Launch of the new home of Commodity Frontiers! Thanks to the work of Simon Bouvier, Antoine Gelgon, and Lionel Maes at those.tools in Brussels, we are thrilled to share Issue 7 on our new, bespoke, open source website. In this issue, we’re talking Carbon frontiers

Some photos from the WaterLANDS GA this week in Leeds, northern England. A week of connection, collaboration and inspiration for holistic wetland restoration. Thanks to @unileedsglobal.bsky.social and @yorkshireicasp.bsky.social for hosting us! ⭐️

During Antwerp Art Weekend, on 29 May, Out of Sight opens Forest Encounters. Artists: Nayari Castillo & Reni Hofmüller, Marjolijn Dijkman , Polonca Lovšin, It Rains Differently with contributions by: Dušica Dražić, Monika Lang, Siniša Ilić, Ibis Ćerimagić, Jelena Vukićević

"Bombs release heavy metals that linger in the dust, affecting plants and potentially contaminating water and air through aerosols.” | @amelied.bsky.social

I'm happy to have been selected and look forward to participating. 💚 Bioart Society's Field_Notes – Living Methodologies, will take place in Sápmi during 14–24 Sept. 2025. This unique edition responds to shifts in the field of art and science insisting that how we research matters.

Koyo Kouoh, the curator and director of Zeitz MOCAA in Cape Town, has died, Zeitz MOCAA announced today. artreview.com/koyo-kouoh-p...

Sign petition: In Defense of Art Research: A Call to Support ACPA, PhDArts, and docARTES. Leiden University announced that it will “phase out” the funding for its Academy of Creative and Performing Arts (ACPA)... www.e-flux.com/notes/668777...

“The green backbones of our forests, the strong teeth of our mountains, the supple bodies of our rivers and seas, the skin of our steppes, tender like feathergrass, the elusive breath of our air—they are all sullied, befouled, and poisoned by war.” —Iya Kiva

Echoes of the forest in the Red Zone (WWI battlefields) in Verdun I have been working on for the last three years. "It would take many decades and “tremendous effort” to de-mine Ukraine, one of the most densely mined countries in the world." www.theguardian.com/world/2025/f...

A World Reimagined (banned) - Chat GPT & Eliminated words by Executive Order 14151, “Ending Radical And Wasteful Government DEI Programs And Preferencing”.) Here’s a poem that incorporates all the words you provided:

'The complicity needs to end': The EU's hand in violence in DR Congo