Per ricordarla com'era prima, invece www.youtube.com/watch?v=r6-n...

#USpolitics Not sure about the camel, but ISIS's or perhaps Boko Haram's camps were identified thanks to Nigeria's armed forces & intelligence...

#pseudoscience The description of Stephanie Seneff's research at American Loon #2234 - linked in @joho.bsky.social's year end review of failed predictions - is more accurate, albeit less flattering than at MIT Computer Science and Artificial Intelligence Laboratory...

Me too, davanti alla spremuta d'arancia.

#USpolitics Il governo Trump, che viola la libertà di espressione dei propri critici, esige che l'Europa occidentale la garantisca a chi incita all'odio e alla violenza contro di essi.

#USpolitics Rubio: “For far too long, ideologues in Europe have led organised efforts to coerce American platforms to punish American viewpoints they oppose." That's fake news: EU laws sanction hate speech whatever the hater & platform owner's nationality.

#AGW #bufale @caserinik.bsky.social e Claudio Della Volpe traggono cinque lezioni dal video di F. Rampini sulla ritrattazione di un paper di Nature. Le sesta è che le falsità usate da Rampini per scandalizzarsi hanno suscitato anch'esse uno scandalo.

John Ioannidis is also an example of the "extreme publishing behavior" (>60 papers/year) he finds increasingly and "worryingly common" since 2000, as it "may herald a rapid depreciation of authorship standards". Free preprint: www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1...

#evolution #anthropology A helpful summary, imo, of the controversy between morphologists and geneticists on where Denisovans stand in our family tree. As usual, they agree on one issue: More well-preserved fossils are needed. (links to the papers, no?)

#USpolitics "Il caso Epstein è eccezionale" per le 1200 vittime accertate. Non lo sono i patriarchi potenti, bigotti e ipocriti che ne abusavano, quella "società malata" e la sua ingiustizia intrinseca rivelate da giornaliste e vittime.

#USpolitics Una distruzione voluta da negaioli, bigoilisti e complottisti, vista nel contesto di un esecutivo onnipotente che sta "abolendo le normative che regolano la qualità dell'aria e dell'acqua, i mercati finanziari, le tutele sul posto di lavoro e i diritti civili."

#Palestine #Israel Despite the October 9th agreement, "the war in #Gaza never ended"; 2/3 of emergency aid are blocked at the crossings; more international NGOs are also banned from East-Jerusalem & the West Bank, where violence against Palestinians is increasing... www.npr.org/2025/10/21/n...

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#ethology Q. Do ♀️ wild turkeys in Georgia, USA, use hunters as #humanshields against coyotes & bobcats? A. More research needed. ♀️ "may have learned to either minimize contact with humans or perceive humans as less threatening than natural predators since encounters with humans were non-lethal."

#Gaza In July B'Tselem - an Israeli NGO for #humanrights - published "Our genocide", a report documenting IDF's violations of the Geneva conventions and now the follow-up: "No place under heaven".

indeed. Pielke Jr, a political scientist and "longtime critic of institutional climate activism", is also known for "politicizing climate change science" www.science.org/doi/full/10.... and for misrepresenting it: skepticalscience.com/Roger_Pielke...

#pollution #models Good news "The results [of a new assessment] suggest that human exposures to legacy PFAS from marine fish are generally low and have been reduced by the phasing out of legacy PFAS production."

The year of China's breakthroughs and America's breakdowns...

#SantaClaude "Within days," the AI running the vending machine "had given away nearly all its inventory for free—including a PlayStation 5 it had been talked into buying for 'marketing purposes'. [...] Profits collapsed. Newsroom morale soared."

#AGW #projections No monthly diagnosis anymore, but a prediction and a promise "The great scientist Richard Feynman famously ridiculed scientific reticence, as we will discuss in due course."

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#biodiversity "Quagga mussels are among the planet’s most potent invasive species. They reproduce at astonishing speed: one female quagga produces up to a million egg cells. Some are known to survive for 30 years in the deepest parts of American lakes."

#evolution #paleogenetics Paywalled, but OA paper Living "individuals carrying archaic SSH2 alleles showed no clear deviations in an array of health, neuropsychiatric, and cognitive traits. Carriers of a TKTL1 missense variant, previously linked to large effects on cortical 1/2

"Martian cities could be built from ice Astronauts could theoretically harness frozen water on the Red Planet to construct habitats and research stations, new analysis suggests." Practically, though...

#USpolitics #NCAR Trump's administration keeps shooting the messengers. bsky.app/profile/clim...

#USpolitics Oh dear... Ivermectin is "effective" against cancer in vitro & in mice at doses that would probably kill human patients. On Risch, anti-covid vaccines & "turbo-cancer" see @gorskon.bsky.social 🔽; on Ivermectin curing cancer, see Mel Gibson from 1:27.20 www.youtube.com/watch?v=1rYt...

La disinformazione "È una conseguenza inevitabile del fatto che l’evoluzione ha ripetutamente favorito sistemi basati sull’informazione trasmessa piuttosto che sulla verifica individuale continua."

#USpolitics As to feedback: "NSF has also ordered program officers to shorten the summaries of what they and any outside experts think about a proposal, from the current page or more to three to five sentences."

#AGW A yearly prognosis for over 200,000 glaciers in three global glacier models and under four *policy* relevant warming scenarios: +1,5*C, 2°C, 2,7°C and 4°C in 2100. The Alps would lose 88% of their glaciers even if warming didn't exceed 1,5°C...

#AGW #economia Federico Rampini non ha capito niente. La critica, unanime

A 🧵 against "violence, whether driven by antisemitism, racism, Islamophobia, or any other form of bigotry..."

#primates #socialstatus #sleep "More dominant [chacma] baboons experience more interrupted and less nighttime rest than lower-ranked baboons [...], suggesting that dominance status may impose trade-offs between social rank and the quality and quantity of sleep." 1/2

#AGW #negaioli Un giornalista del Corriere inventa "dati falsi truccati" a proposito del ritiro di un paper, annunciato con un com. stampa degli autori, per degli errori pubblicati su Nature oltre un anno fa, spiegati per filo e per segno sul sito del PIK... Andare in pensione, no?

😟 The Cambridge Online Trust & Safety Index tracks real time prices for a "bot army" in every country and on >500 social media and commercial platforms. "In future work, the researchers hope to expand the index to track the price of fake likes and entire fake accounts."

In a new article over at Carbon Brief, I explore why the past three years – 2023, 2024, and 2025 – have been exceptionally warm. The main culprits turn out to be a combination of El Nino and internal variability, declining aerosols, and a strong solar cycle: www.carbonbrief.org/...

#humanrights #Israel #Palestine @amnesty.org's investigation documents "how Hamas and other Palestinian armed groups committed war crimes and crimes against humanity during their assault on southern Israel, and against hostages held in Gaza thereafter." Full report 1/2

#WestBank "Ambushed, dragged to a hilltop outpost, beaten unconscious: Palestinian teen Owais Hammam recounts his brutal torture by Israeli settlers & soldiers. The Israeli army said it was investigating reservist forces for their role in the attack [...] & that his injuries were 'disturbing'.”

Five women, four men, a baby and a "large team of researchers".

#HumanRightsDay #DdlDelrio "Si sa che i paragoni storici non sono mai in scala uno a uno..." Eppure "la storia di #HindRajab [...] sarà per sempre un simbolo per il popolo palestinese e per chi vuole giustizia. Hind sarà per sempre una piccola Anna Frank, legge o non legge..."

#pollution Phthalates, bisphenols, pesticides and Pfas “forever chemicals” in the food system create a health burden of $2,2tn a year. "They are the tip of the iceberg [...], maybe 20 or 30 chemicals where we really have solid toxicologic information."

#Inequality #TobinTax #ZucmanTax “Effective income tax rates climb steadily for most of the population, but then fall sharply for billionaires and centimillionaires...”

#AGW UNEP's Global Environment Outlook report estimates "the benefits from climate action alone would be worth $20tn a year by 2070". But "countries including Saudi Arabia, Iran, Russia, Turkey & Argentina objected to references to fossil fuels, plastics, reduced meat in diets & other issues..."

#biodiversity Good news: Since 1990 "in France, populations of 248 protected species of birds, mammals, and fish have surged by 120%". Bad news: Habitats keep degrading, biodiversity declining, and data lacking about "80% of France's biodiversity [which] found in its overseas territories".

Well, France had Nobel laureate Luc Montagnier claiming that HIV/SIV nucleotides in Sars-Cov-9 genome showed it had been "manipulated", variants were the product of deadly anti-covid vaccinations, [omissis], & if we survived the flu vaccines would kill us...

#AGW George Box: "All models are wrong, but..." Oca s. looking at the graphs: They all look pretty good. @hausfath.bsky.social: "It turns out that that the resulting picture is complex."

"The contribution of armed forces and war to climate change" by Neta Crawford, co-director of The Costs of Wars project - Brown University: www.cell.com/one-earth/ab... Not OA, but her famous 2019 paper costsofwar.watson.brown.edu/sites/defaul... and her views on Trump's geopolitics are

#humanrights The UN General Assembly approved 40 resolutions on #Palestine and #decolonization. Opposed *all* resolutions on Palestine: Argentina, Fiji, Israel, Micronesia, Nauru, Palau, Papua New Guinea, Paraguay, Tonga, USA. And *all* resolutions on decolonization: Israel, USA.

Vittorio Marletto e Claudio Cassardo recenciscono il saggio di Antonello Pasini, “La sfida climatica. Dalla scienza alla politica: ragioni per il cambiamento”. Un percorso anche suo, riassunto in 163 pagine (Codice Edizioni).

#evolution #plasmids Great paper (imo) beginning with "the genetic history of the Murray collection, a rare assemblage of bacterial samples from 1917 to 1954..." Professor Murray's & his collection's history tout court www.microbiologyresearch.org/sotsog/egd-m...