Lab Leakers: "SARS-CoV-2 can't infect bats, so it must have been made in a lab". Science: "Let's do the experiment". SARS-CoV-2 behaves exactly like one would expect in a reservoir species - low-level infection, no overt disease, etc. Elegant study from Sato Lab: www.biorxiv.org/content/10.6...

1/8 NEW: @bellingcat.com has geolocated and verified two new videos showing the deadly strikes that hit an IRGC compound — and an adjacent elementary school — in Minab, Iran on Feb. 28. Here's what we found. 🧵 www.bellingcat.com/news/2026/03...

Rasism och folkmordsretorik är helt normaliserat i israelisk politisk debatt -- 'No Innocent Children': Far-right Israeli Lawmaker Defends Killing of Palestinian Family' www.haaretz.com/israel-news/...

Under 17. mai toget hadde vært bra, gjerne under avspilling av Gammel Jegermarsj. Kampen Janitsjar, gjør det dere må!

Kan noen fortelle Thomas hvem han høres ut som hvis man her bytter ut «muslimar» med en hvilken som helst annen minoritet? Jøder, skeive, samer, romfolk, whatever. Hvorfor er det greit at sånne overskrifter blåses opp om muslimer?

Om langtidseffekter av flatehogst på biologisk mangfold, karbonlagring og økosystemprosesser, fra EcoForest-prosjektet. @drhyfe.bsky.social @linenybakken.bsky.social @sundymaurice.bsky.social @uio.no @NMBU @ninanatureresearch.bsky.social @NIBIO m.fl. www.forskersonen.no/flatehogst-k...

In 1988, the US Navy shot down Iran Air Flight 655, a civilian passenger plane, killing 290 people including 66 children. No one was held accountable. That impunity didn’t end. It set a precedent. @premthakker.bsky.social breaks down the attack you’ve probably never heard about

Matt Ridley gave the inaugural "NIH Scientific Freedom Lecture Series" earlier today and I just wanted to run through some of the main claims he made - you'll be unsurprised to learn that almost all of them are false. Here's his summary slide - let's start there. 🧵👇

It took four years of hate-filled propaganda for Slobodon Milosevic to convince people of committing atrocities. It took less time in Rwanda. Steady messaging that designates internal enemies should never be taken lightly.

Some reflections on #Fungal26 This was a great meeting as always but set against some turbulent times of course, which meant many regular attendees were not present. This thread is mainly for them. However, the proportion of first-time attendees was very high and very international. #Fungal26 1/15

The Hercules beetle is one of the largest flying insects in the world. Relative to their size, they are among the strongest creatures on Earth. Guadeloupe Island, Caribbean

Cartoon by @mackaycartoons.bsky.social.

What a time to be alive!

US sanctions are in fact *very* effective at harming countries. So effective, indeed, that US and EU unilateral sanctions imposed on the global South are associated with over half a million deaths per year, or 38 million deaths since 1970.

Kanskje dine meningsfeller har trukket seg fra debatten fordi de har skjønt at du sprer reinspikka konspirasjonsteorier? www.khrono.no/mener-uio-dr...

The vaccines worked

Trump: "I do believe I'll be the honor of having the honor of taking Cuba. That's a big honor." Q: "Taking Cuba?" Trump: "Taking Cuba in some form, yeah…I think I could do anything I want with it."

Ja, hei. I stedet for mitt vanlige mas om enkeltsaker har jeg våga meg på å ha litt vyer for samfunnet. Å tenke litt på hva slags verden jeg vil leve i, og ikke minst hva slags verden jeg _ikke_ vil leve i. Blir veldig glad om noen leser, deler og deltar!

A new paper on Deadwood fungal diversity out today, lead author @vincentbuness.bsky.social. We show that deadwood quantity, quality, and forest harvesting control deadwood fungal diversity. Old unmanaged forests are very important reservoirs for fungal diversity, especially red listed taxa.

Open access makes the rich get richer #science #publishing #academia 🧪🗺️ nsojournals.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/full/10....

Livsvitenskaps-satsningen ved @uio.no har så langt vært preget av Orwellsk nytale. Man kaster seg på et nytt begrep ("Life Science") og fyller det med medisinsk og relatert forskning, mens tradisjonelle disipliner som økologi og evolusjon så langt er utdefinert www.uniforum.uio.no/nyheter/2026...

Wow. Foraminifera! ROV pilots paused and carefully zoomed in to collect footage of these single-celled microorganisms, or protists, at 843 m during the #OBVI #LivingBioreactors expedition w/ @schmidtsciences.bsky.social offshore of Argentina. Read the full caption: youtube.com/shorts/Yv_ud...

Den första bilden här är jag och mina föräldrar framför Chehel Sotun (”fyrtio pelare”) i Esfahan. Det är en otrolig paviljong från 1600-talet (Safavid-eran). Med på Unesco:s världsarvslista. Idag kommer rapporter om skador efter angrepp från USA/Israel.

Trump er i ferd med å gjøre dette til en allmenn advarsel: Ikke allier deg med USA. De vil svikte deg. www.reuters.com/world/middle...

Skaff deg noen som ser på deg slik Janne Haaland Matlary ser på det amerikanske krigsministeriet:

Dark gothic modern. From Emanuel Vigeland's mausoleum in Oslo, visited today

What could possibly explain the intensity of Western interest, over the past century and more, in this region?

This is no different from Putin saying MH17 was shot down by Ukraine or Assad saying rebels gassed themselves.

Spesialoperasjon

Israel is announcing that the entirety of Dahieh is being ethnically cleansed a day after announcing that the entirety of South Lebanon is being ethnically cleansed. “Save yourselves and evacuate immediately”

The Israel and US war crime machines are targeting elementary schools, hospitals and other civilian infrastructure first, as in Gaza, to cause maximal death and suffering. Ignoring the lies for facts, this appears a campaign of ethnic anihilation and it's making me sick that we allow it

Dagens tråd:

A symbiotic origin of the ribosome? academic.oup.com/pnasnexus/ar...

Netanyahu to the U.S. Congress, 2002: "If you take out Saddam, Saddam's regime, I guarantee you that it will have enormous positive reverberations on the region."

Lurer på om dette alle de døde skolebarna Choi syns er kulest, eller om det er pedonettverket.

I keep thinking about how the propaganda leading to this war was all about how you needed to rescue women and the first thing they did was kill dozens of little girls.

Rimelig spesielt at @klassekampen.bsky.social fremstår som nyttig idiot for Toje

Via @osinttechnical.bsky.social on X "Footage of an Iranian ballistic missile slamming into the headquarters of the US Navy's 5th Fleet at Naval Support Activity (NSA) Bahrain earlier today." x.com/Osinttechnic...

If you are in need of a comprehensive answer about the origins of SARS-CoV-2, I might have a book recommendation to you & SAGO 😅 www.amazon.com/dp/B0FKNDRJ8Z

NMBU, hva er det? Ah, landbrukshøyskolen ja www.khrono.no/reagerer-pa-...

1) valget står ikke mellom det 2) dette er åpenlys rasisme 3) denne fyren får pressestøtte for å spre rasismen sin på Anders Behring Breiviks gamle favorittblogg etter å ha diskreditert seg selv som journalist i mer seriøse medier

Er det dette skattepengene mine går til? Den gjengen her får pressestøtte.

Jeg har svart på Asle Tojes innlegg i Vagant og Minerva, der han kom med nokså drøye anklager. Å svare Toje er ikke alltid lett. Man må for eksempel velge hvilke feil og fordreininger man skal gå i rette med, og hvilke man skal overse. 1/3

Avkledning av løgneren Asle Toje. En skam at han sitter i nobelkomiteen www.vagant.no/toje-irving-...