#fecalgenomics Good news In 2003 Hainan gibbons were on the brink of extinction: there were only 13 left. There are now 42 of them. Low inbreeding and "the recent crosses of two ancient [cryptic] lineages [have] led to new family groups with increased heterozygosity".

Good news "Moderate consumption of caffeine, amounting to 2–3 cups of coffee or 1–2 cups of tea a day, was associated with the greatest reductions in dementia risk and rate of cognitive decline. But lower levels of consumption were also associated with brain benefits."

L'asso. Juristes pour le Respect du Droit International a signalé au Procureur de la République le faux et les diffamations de @jnbarrot.bsky.social (démission!) Origine de l'intox: UN Watch, l'organisation US-israélienne d'Hillel Neuer - comme d'hab...

#intox 😠 Le ministre @jnbarrot.bsky.social et 53 députés de @renaissance-parti.bsky.social utilisent un faux, diffusé la députée pro-Likoud Caroline Yadan, pour accuser d'antisémitisme Francesca Albanese, rapporteure de l'ONU pour la Palestine, et demander la déchéance de son mandat.

Motivi in più per chiedere la sospensione totale dell'Accordo di associazione #UE-Israele e, potendo, sostenere le associazioni israeliane che difendono i diritti dei palestinesi. Si firma qui sign.myvoice-mychoice.org/forms/stop_g... Info istituzionali 🔽

Da straniera, io pure Anche i decreti-sicurezza e il decreto immigrazione-asilo limitano l'indipendenza della magistratura, il dovere di salvare i naufraghi, diritti civili e umani che la Costituzione e le convenzioni europee e internazionali dovevano garantire...

#USpolitics #ICE #BCP Also 1. Check 🔽 whether you're banned or need a visa 2. Get a health insurance 3. & a MMR-vaccine booster if necessary 4. Put your local consuls' emergency phone numbers in your burn phone 5. If pale-skinned, use a SPF 100 sunscreen until & during the World Cup

#evolution In time for Darwin Day, PNAS published OA stories of - cave lions, whose ancestors expanded out of Africa and whose fossils were wrongly assigned to tigers, arriving in the Japanese archipelago; - 22 bumblebee species (>half of the world's) dispersed and adapted "out of 1/2

"According to projections, official development assistance dropped by 9–17% in 2025, amounting to some US$55 billion, after a 9% decrease in 2024." "Peace first" Revenues of the 100 largest arms-producing companies rose by 5.9% in 2024, reaching a record $679 billion. Trend to continue in 2025.

#USpolitics Anche i nazisti dell'lllinois sembravano una barzelletta...

#USpolitics #humanrights The State Department said it'll send Cuba $9 million worth of “pre-packaged commodities”, which Caritas and parishes will distribute to the population. To 9 million people without electricity and fuel?

#USpolitics #humananitarianaid The State Dept said it will send "pre-packaged commodities" worth $9 million to Cuba's population, that will distributed through parishes and Caritas. How will the packages get to 9 million Cubans without electricity and fuel?

#EpsteinFiles "La prima denuncia risale al 1996 [...] ma l’autorità giudiziaria decise di non procedere." Trent'anni dopo l'autorità giudiziaria statunitense deciderà di procedere?

#AGWdeniers #BigOil 🎶History repeating🎶 Attribution studies irk "27 Republican Attorneys General (led by West Virginia)" as the hockey stick irked Ken Cuccinelli, former Republican Virginia AG. "Additionally, they were upset that there are no references to the recent DOE CWG report (Lol)."

#USpolitics #humanrights @micarosenberg.bsky.social's heartbreaking report should be sent asap to all members of Congress, with demands or at least questions... (I also wish we had a ProPublica in the EU.)

#clinicalAI 👀 Link to OA paper in the 🧵...

#USpolitics 🎶Nobody knows in America Puerto Rico is in America🎶

#milanocortina2026 6 #ICEout protesters were arrested in Milan yesterday, but for throwing firecrackers and paint balls at the police. (Does J.D. Vance goes to mass escorted dozens of black armored vehicles, a black van, and snipers on nearby roofs in the US as well?)

#pollution #energytransition #biodiversity Useful for NGOs, imo. Deanna Kemp et al. have mapped 366 expanded brownfield mines, 77.9% of which are "above multiple high-risk thresholds" and "accumulate socio-environmental risks". OA paper.

#biometrics Beth Rosenberg et al curated 72,940 images from 109 Alaskan brown 🐻. Then with AI program PoseSwin, they identified each of them by muzzle shape, ear placement, brow bone angle etc. - that didn't change when the 🐻 shed fur or gained weight. OA paper with lots of pics:

#Privatizion Free-market capitalism: "Booming demand" for cannon and cannon fodder, resources and forced labor, detention camps and guards, healthcare and quacks...

#sciencedetectives Proverbe italien: le loup perd son poil mais pas son vice. h/t @tipuncho.bsky.social

#AGW #models "What this stems from is Koonin’s reliance on Nicola Scafetta’s work on evaluating climate models. Readers here will know that is a very bad idea." Indeed. Scafetta's own models rely on the cyclical conjunctions of Saturn and Jupiter on the zodiacal plane - and math...

#MilanoCortina2026 #publictransport J.D. Vance's huge motorcade blocked traffic & caused delay. Italy's president arrived at the opening ceremony in a vintage tramway... driven by Valentino Rossi, motorcycle racer celebrity and 9 times world champion.

#milanocortina2026 Gianni Rodari's short poem "Promemoria" as told by #Ghali - whose name isn't mentioned by Italy's state tv - with "narrative voices of Italian literature" and >20 y.o. dancers.

#USpolitics #bioethics The team tasked by RFK Jr with correlating a pediatric hepatitis B #vaccine & "non specific" effects over 5 years in Guinea-Bissau "faces new allegations". The "complete data for 10 trials that together enrolled tens of thousands of children in Guinea-Bissau" are missing.

#Palestine No strike in Spain where there's been a total arms embargo with #Israel since September. It's being covered by Italian msm - e.g. 🔽 - though less than the dockers' month-long support for the Sumud flotilla last summer.

#AGW James Hansen et al.'s 2026 diagnosis and prognosis in context, & some personal views. (Also a request about a version of George Jones's The Race is On which "included a great solo by a bespectacled young guitarist - if anyone has a copy of that, please let us know".)

#Milano #Minneapolis #ICEout #Utopiadi Palasport occupied, near the football stadium where the inaugural ceremony will take place. National protest tomorrow at 2 pm in Piazza Medaglie d'Oro, local ones today & Sunday in other cities too. Students' protest this morning 🔽 (photo Radio popolare?).

#OceanEquityIndex #governance #sustainability The OA paper (tks!) identifies 12 criteria for a more equitable access to/distribution of ocean resources & applies them to 6 case studies in Tanzania, Canada etc. Scoring tool (also designed for NGOs' projects, tks!), and instructions for its use 🔽

#PalestineAction Six good news The jury found the activists were either not guilty, or "could not reach verdicts for charges of criminal damage against any of the six defendants."

#neuroscience Fascinating article. It includes the Vividness of Visual Imagery Questionnaire, so we can all close our eyes and test our mental imagery or lack thereof.

#Moonlandings #US-#China For context: a good summary of Artemis II's history, mission, problems, other expected delays, and politics - imo.

#EpsteinFiles Mike Johnson, Sept. 2025: Trump met Epstein as a FBI informant Dan Ariely, Feb. 2026: I met Epstein as a human behavior researcher. "During [the first] meeting, Epstein told me about the accusations against him and said they were false. At the time, I believed him."

The EU did too: www.bbc.com/news/article.... And France's AG had X offices in Paris searched this morning and wants "to hear" Elon Musk on April 20, as part of a cybercrime investigation started in Jan. 2025. bsky.app/profile/lemo...

#neuroscience "OpenAI-backed firm to use ultrasound to read minds. Does the science stand up?" Betteridge's law: No. But ultrasound might help brain stimulation.

#Israel #Palestine #humanrights "Nobody's perfect" but - afaik - Standing Together's young activists welcome criticism, new ideas and allies - like the rabbis defending Palestinians attacked by settlers and IDF in the West Bank. They're also fearless.

#zoonosis Bad news In Réunion, the only vaccine against #chikungunya has caused "serious side effects". "There are an estimated 35 million infections annually". Due to AGW, the Asian tiger mosquitoes & the virus are spreading: in 2025 "France had 788 locally transmitted cases; Italy had 384".

#lifelonglearning Some comments add subtle differences between bull$#!% and horse$#!%.

#fakemed Reminder The Lancet's EiC refused to retract Andrew Wakefleld's paper linking measles-mumps-rubella #vaccines to autism for 12 years, until @briandeer.com's full investigation was to be published in the BMJ. In 2011, 90% of 2 y.o. were vaccinated in GB, "the highest level for 13 years".

#Gaza #humanitarianlaw Petition 🔽 demanding the release of Gazan medical personnel unlawfully detained in Israel. "We urge both national and international medical communities to join this call..." Physicians for Human Rights-Israel www.phr.org.il/en/

Un elenco di 32 canzoni ispirate dalla resistenza di #Minneapolis - per "radio libere, ma libere veramente".

#USpolitics #humanrights #ICE Autres cas de rougeole dans un camp for profit de CoreCivic en Arizona: edition.cnn.com/2026/01/28/h... Et ailleurs? Depuis octobre ICE ne paye plus les soins médicaux en adjudication: www.motherjones.com/politics/202...

#geology #paleontology A world downside up The remains of oceanic islands and mounds created by super-eruptions of undersea 🌋, and related marine extinctions, between 249 and 210 million years ago have been found in lava folds *high on the Tibetan plateau*.

#Epsteinfiles Per mestiere, ho conosciuto parecchi dei "nomi rilevanti". Per dirla con @ariannaciccone.bsky.social citata da Tiziana nel 🧵, "Non lasciatevi ingannare da chi, nell’entourage di Epstein, sostiene di non sapere cosa stesse accadendo".

#Epsteinfiles Thanks to @ecmclaughlin.bsky.social‬ who has the courage to read the stories of the victims who had the courage to tell them. Thousands of people ignored them for decades, but I think we shouldn't - even if just reading her threads is sickening.

#AGW #EventiExtremi Un caso da manuale di "Ve l'avevamo detto, accid..." a cura di Luigi Pasotti, @caserinik.bsky.social con l'aiuto di @gvacchiano.bsky.social.

#ICEout of Milan and Minneapolis Organizers underestimated the participation. Piazza 25 Aprile celebrates the date the partisans liberated Milan from Nazi-Fascist troops in 1945, it's a good symbol but too small for such a crowd. Live @ www.radiopopolare.it, click "Gli speciali" in home page.

#USpolitics #FirstAmendment Can he sue DHS and DOJ for $10 billions each?