#lightpollution #neurobiology *Some* "women’s menstrual cycles recorded before the introduction of light-emitting diodes in 2010 and the extensive use of smart phones significantly synchronized with the Moon, while those after 2010 coupled to the Moon mostly in January." More so in Israel & 1/2

Food for thought during the European Researchers' Night... An assessment of the glorious past and uncertain future of the world's universities after their 20th century boom. E.g. Will they be exempt from the US $100,000 visa? How will it impact foreign researchers and US research?

#Gaza #GlobalSumudFlotilla L'Italie refuse encore de reconnaître la Palestine mais ce matin, le ministre de la Défense italien a annoncé l'envoi d'une frégate pour protéger les citoyens et parlementaires italiens. Et Sébastien Lecornu?

#ExtremeEvents #AGW More bad news "Although the well-documented effect of El Niño events is to decrease summer rainfall [in India], it also paradoxically intensifies extreme daily precipitation amounts, thereby resulting in hazardous conditions across the region." www.science.org/doi/10.1126/...

#USpolitics #NodataNoproblem "The administration also revealed the recipients of $50 million in funding for projects seeking to understand factors that influence #autism prevalence and outcomes. Further studies of leucovorin were not on the list."

#USpolitics Spero che lo ripeta spesso fino a novembre 2028.

#USpolitics Abstract: don't listen to the "quack in chief" (credit: theintercept.com/2020/04/24/q...)

#prospectivestudies "Meanwhile", an even larger "study involving more than 9 million pregnancies reported that children whose mothers had gestational diabetes during pregnancy had a higher chance of developing ADHD & autism than did children whose mothers didn’t have the condition,"

#dirittiumani Good news

#Israel #Palestine Tomorrow's #generalstrike in Italy is to demand the gov to stop the genocide, & also in solidarity with all those who have been protesting in Israel against their own for nearly two years. See also Women wage Peace & many others on X

#AGW #models #uncertainties "The desire and culture of assessments (such as the IPCC) arose specifically in order to distill that broad range [of opinions & methods] across individual scientists into a more coherent and better balanced assessment that a larger majority of experts will agree to."

Should "inspire" NGOs too, imo. @cp-oneearth.bsky.social addresses long-term impacts of present conflicts on "water resources, food security, pollution, climate change, disease, biodiversity, sustainability" - and a depressing lack of research on viable solutions. Editorial with links:

Scammers use IA as well? Quelle surprise... www.itgovernance.eu/blog/en/ai-s... OA paper: www.nature.com/articles/s41...

#Gaza Since 1967 IDF has targeted hospitals not only in #Palestine, but also in Lebanon, Syria and Yemen. Since Oct. 2023 it has stopped bombing them in the Strip only during ceasefires. "In an email, #GHF said that 12 truckloads of food had been distributed on Wednesday at two existing sites 1/2

#Gaza On Sept. 10, Israel's government labeled #GlobalSumudFlotilla's volunteers "terrorists" with "documented links to Hamas and the Muslim Brotherhood" & increased the probability they'll be attacked in international waters. Today they set sail from Sicily with Ab, our chairman at Action 1/2

Ig Nobel prizes in #Nutrition, #Physics & tasty Italian food were awarded to Daniele Dendi, Gabriel Segniagbeto, Roger Meek & Luca Luiselli who discovered that in Togo, all Amaga amaga lizards enrolled in their experiment preferred pizza topped with 4 cheeses Giacomo Bartolucci, Daniel Maria 1/2

#evolution #adaptation Science just published two important (imo) #genomics papers about the origin, mobility and pesticide resistance of Aedes aegypti, funestus and formosus mosquitoes - and the increased risk of dengue and malaria. Links in Tamar Carter's perspective:

#AGW "Here we go again": A new paper trying, and failing, to show sea levels not rising, is praised by the usual fans of US anti-science politics.

#AGW Global SSTs also seem to support @drjamesehansen.bsky.social's projections (no August update yet...). Source: www.mercator-ocean.eu/bulletin/oce...

#USpolitics «Trump says he plans to designate antifa as ‘major terrorist organization’. It is unclear how anti-fascists, an umbrella term for far-left-leaning groups [...] will be labeled» www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025... Anti-fascists labeled 7th US Army disembark in fascist Italy in July 1943

#climatefeedbacks #GWP #AGW is causing alpine permafrost to absorb fewer greenhouse gases. The opposite happens in the Arctic. In models, "[2°C] warming caused drying of alpine permafrost, the CO2 sink weakened but the CH4 sink increased." The opposite happened in "relatively wet Arctic 1/2

#virology Bad news: In Brazil last year, two women died of a new strain of Oropouche, a virus that did not seem lethal. Good news: The strain isn't for several species of monkeys, & the immune response that protects them from reinfections suggest they are "appropriate models" for drugs & vaccines.

#USscientifictraditions The 35th First Annual Ig Nobel Prize Ceremony will be held tomorrow Sept. 18th at 6 p.m. in the ballroom of the George Sherman Union at Boston University More info:

#AGW Please also read the first author's🧵of this OA paper (also important for NGOs, imo).

#patriarcato Con quali parole i giudici del tribunale di Torino accusano la vittima di mentire e di essersela cercata - e scoraggiano le donne di denunciare le violenze subite.

#ENSO #climatedisruption ? In the Gulf of Panama between January and April, a wind-driven upwelling of cool, nutrient-rich waters increases the productivity of fisheries and decreases thermal stress on corals. There was no upwelling this year, despite La Niña of 2024-25.

#Palestine #genocide The UN report: www.ohchr.org/en/press-rel... An update on the "horror of horrors" now happening in Gaza, by Jewish & Palestinian voices for peace in #Israel bsky.app/profile/stan...

#Frenchpolitics Hard-right leaders want to arm their Kirk-like influencers and the government to protect their whistle-blowers. The Ministry of the Interior (our Home Office) is "studying the issue". The issue being that >90% of #politicalviolence is caused by hard-right militants?

#syntheticlife #biology 👀 Q: If organisms, bacteria let's say, were built with molecules of opposite handedness, DNA or amino acids let's say, what could go wrong? A1: They could harm defenseless animals, plants, ecosystems, what a dumb question! ] A2: They could also do some good...

#USpolitics 👏🤣👍🍿 Channel 4 smentisce oltre 100 bufale di Trump, mercoledì dalle 22 ora locale, nel mezzo della sua visita di Stato. And on You Tube, please @channel4news.bsky.social?

#USpolitics The ideology of Turning Point USA LLC is also very different from the one shared 4 days ago by the global far-right, says the popular hate speech -https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2025/sep/14/charlie-kirk-killing - which turned the non-profit's E.D. into a millionaire.

#physics #statesofmatter Compounded weirdness "Particle-like topological solitons", squeezed between two pieces of glass coated with dye, & powered by unstructured light, become liquid crystals that keep forming repeated patterns, & breaking "both time and space symmetries". OA paper 1/2

#demography Abstract of the other, data-heavy briefing (www.economist.com/leaders/2025...): New UN projections of the world population to 2100 (🔽) overlook the accelerated decline of local birthrate trends over the last 20 years. Conclusion: Alarmingly or not, "humanity will soon start shrinking".

#AGW #ecosystems #biodiversity More frequent and intense, extreme events threaten the survival of animals and plants. But when stress thresholds aren't exceeded, they seem to accelerate #adaptation and short-term #evolution. And long-term? Under which conditions?. OA review & research program:

#USpolitics Among my key points: Pls explain why the US honours and mourns a man paid to campaign for laxier gun laws, [omissis] & total abortion bans - even for deadly ectopic pregnancies and 10 y.o. children who've been raped - more than Lincoln or J.F.Kennedy. x.com/_iqazal_/sta...

#USpolitics UN's reproductive health agency, the Gates Foundation, the Children Health Fund et al. wanted to buy UNAids-Pepfar's contraceptives, but the State Dept. will destroy them because contraception=abortion. (h/t @climateofgavin.bsky.social)

#Israel #Palestine "74% of Israelis back a deal to end the war in exchange for the release of the remaining hostages held by Hamas" and a majority also "maintain a dim view of a future Palestinian state.". theconversation.com/as-netanyahu... First things first.

Congratulations! Hai visto, @climafluttuante.bsky.social?

#AGW Chikungunya, dengue, West Nile fever... "Mosquito-borne diseases are surging in Europe — how worried are scientists?" Nature, Sept. 16, 2024 nature.com/articles/d41... "Mosquito-borne viruses are surging in a warming Europe", Science, Sept. 12, 2025 www.science.org/content/arti...

#USpolitics #AGW Good news Former CEO of Liberty Energy (fracking services) & present Energy Sec. sent home the climate deniers he had picked to show in the "Report on Climate Science" & in court that more CO2 is good for plants & the planet, & in another court that they are reliable experts.

#AGW #ExtremeEvents #pollution #attributionstudies #models Estimated excess mortality in the different regions - bad news again, also for those of us who live in northern Italy. OA paper with tons of figures, charts & data in the Supplementary Info files.

#AGW #attributionstudies How "each of the 180 carbon majors (fossil fuel and cement producers)" contributed to make "213 historical heatwaves" in 2000–2023 "more likely and more intense". OA paper, tks ‪@soniaseneviratne.bsky.social, see her 🧵 for a mini-press review. h/t @caserinik.bsky.social

#UScapitalism Also "for profit prisons and concentration camps".

#USpolitics #Gaza USG, an American firm of mercenaries-for-hire has put a biker gang of cosplay Crusaders in charge of the security of Gaza Humanitarian (sic) Foundation's death-traps funded by Israel and US taxpayers.

#morphogenesis #embryonicdevelopment #mechanicalforces Nice thread - and OA paper - on how Nature's *bricolage solves a problem for fruit flies' embryos. *François Jacob's term for making do with constraints and byproducts at hand, like Gould & Lewontin's Spandrels of San Marco.

#AGW #pollution #Alaska Salmon River "has become a symbol of Arctic climate change. [...] Beginning in 2019, it turned orange and yellow, reminiscent of acidic runoff from mining waste. [...] The river & many of its tributaries are now laced with toxic metals, leached from thawing permafrost". 1/2

#censorship #Bansky British authorities remove offensive works of art like other authorities did in the USSR, Italy, Spain and Germany during the 20th century, and still do in China, India and Russia.

Comunicazione di servizio per smemorati come l'oca s. Se poi @bsky.app facesse pure un edit button per i distratti come l'oca s...

#fauxpapiers Bel article de Sebastian Seibt pour France24, sur "Tenu pro", l'usine à publications ukrainienne, démasquée par @forbetterscience.bsky.social et @abalkina.bsky.social, dont l'activité "ressemble à de la fraude scientifique en bande organisée et à l'échelle industrielle".

#AGW #CO2 #nutrients Bad news In 1980-2017, phosphorus concentration in leaves decreased more than that of nitrogen which seemed to be *the* limiting factor. The increasing trend in #photosynthesis declined by 17.2% and 6.7% respectively - also "weakening terrestrial carbon sinks".