#Sarajevo "L'indagine ha avuto origine da una denuncia presentata da Ezio Gavazzeni, uno scrittore milanese che ha raccolto prove dopo aver visto #SarajevoSafari, un documentario del 2022 del regista sloveno Miran Zupanič." Come quella aperta in Gran Bretagna:

😟 "For 8 months, South Australia has been besieged by mysterious toxic algae. Dead rays, octopuses, crabs, and other marine species [...] litter tens of kilometers of shoreline. [...] Besides sickening people, the toxins have caused large economic losses in fisheries, aquaculture, and tourism."

#AGW #energytransition The yearly and reliable digest of WEO's scenarios, “none of [which] should be regarded as a forecast” and only one of which would see warming "returning to 1.5C by the end of the century...

#biocomputers "Other researchers who work with human neurons are more sceptical of what’s possible. And they warn that hype — and the science-fictional allure of what are sometimes labelled brain-in-a-jar systems — could even be counterproductive."

#COP30 "By mid-2025, 117 million people had been displaced by war, violence and persecution. Three in four of them are living in countries facing high-to-extreme exposure to climate-related hazards." Mostly in Africa, but #AGW exacerbates crises everywhere.

#Gaza #warcrimes A review of Ben Zand's new documentary for ITV "Breaking Ranks: Inside Israel's War", released tonight on Remembrance Day. See also Ben Zand's interview:

#humanrights #SaniAbacha #Shell In June, Nigeria's president pardoned Ken Saro-Wiwa and 8 Ogoni environmental activists executed by the military regime in 1995. He also named Saro-Wiwa Commander and the others Officers of the Order of the Niger... www.thecable.ng/just-in-tinu...

#Gaza #hunger Trump's aid "plan" should sideline Israel and involve UN agencies & NGOs, but wouldn't (imo). The Samaritan's Purse run by Evangelical Zionists would replace Gaza Humanitarian Foundation, run by an Evangelical Zionist, whose mercenaries distributed IDF-approved 1/2

#AGW #geoengineering #models "Because stratospheric aerosol intervention would stop temperatures from increasing, the CO2 effect would not be countered by warming, & [maize, rice, soybean & wheat] protein concentrations would decrease..." Press release sebsnjaesnews.rutgers.edu/2025/11/clim...

See also @matthewcobb.bsky.social and @nccomfort.bsky.social 's "What Rosalind Franklin truly contributed to the discovery of DNA’s structure".

#cryodynamics A worst-case scenario The Hektoria, "a small river of ice that slips into the sea near the tip of the Antarctic Peninsula", retreated by 25 km due to a "combination of glacial earthquakes and a swath of thinned ice popping afloat and breaking apart in a geological instant."

#COP30 #climatejustice #BelémActionMechanism Per Belém ci siamo divisi il lavoro, ma tutta "l'internazionale" ha analizzato l'uso dei fondi per il clima - ingiusto, ça va sans dire - a cominciare da ActionAid Italia. www.actionaid.it/press-area/c... Grazie a chi ci sostiene, va detto sempre.

#OpenAI “Fixing hallucinations would kill the product" "The awkward reality may be that if ChatGPT admitted “I don’t know” too often, then users would simply seek answers elsewhere. That could be a serious problem for a company that is still trying to [...] achieve profitability."

Still not taking no for an answer...

#COP30 #AGW #ExtremeEvents "In 2023, an unprecedented drought and heat wave severely affected Amazon waters, leading to high mortality of fishes and river dolphins. Five of 10 lakes monitored had exceptionally high daytime water temperatures (over 37°C), with one large lake reaching up to 41°C..."

"In October 2025, GISAID unexpectedly stopped providing regular updates of its COVID-19 dataset to several bioinformatic services, including Nextstrain—the tool most widely used for genomic epidemiology—as well as covSPECTRUM and outbreak.info." Again...

"Explaining his 'pivot' on climate change during an interview on CNBC, Gates said, “I’ll let the temperature go up 0.1 degree to get rid of malaria." Also denying that mosquitoes thrive in a warmer world & AGW has already shifted the range of malaria in Africa, see @colincarlson.bsky.social et al.

#visualsemantics #IA Trained on volunteers who watched or remembered a video - a language model "decodes" videos showing their brain activity (fRMI recording), translates it into "mental representations" and describes them with captions. OA paper

👀 Meta guadagna 7 miliardi/anno da tentate frodi su FB, Instagram, WhatsApp ecc. Fa pagare di più gli annunci "incerti". Tanto "gli utenti che cliccano su annunci fraudolenti sono più esposti a visualizzarne altri a causa del sistema di personalizzazione degli annunci"...

#agriculture #foodsecurity FAO's (depressing) 2025 Food and Agriculture Report addresses land degradation - the "declining health of soils" - and yield losses, especially in South & Eastern Asia and sub-Saharan Africa. Useful explainer, imo: www.fao.org/interactive/... 1/2

#AGW See also "How to fight climate change without the US: a guide to global action - With the US government absent from the #COP30 global climate summit, it will be up to others to avert catastrophe." They will also need a guide on how to avert Trump's retaliations, imo.

#USpolitics 👀

#COP30 #AGW #ExtremeEvent Copernicus also released a thermal stress app (I'm still learning to navigate...) with global data from 1940 to "five days before the present day". Both are "useful for the general public, policymakers, journalists, scientists & decision-makers" - especially voters, imo.

Refrain "The problem was, as Prof Evans, [@eliothiggins.bsky.social, @scalzi.com, Larry Sander et al.] discovered when he logged on to check his own entry, all these facts were false." The other facts are either copied or misleadingly "adapted from Wikipedia". See also "Reception" 🔽

#toxicology #bioengineering "This antivenom effectively prevented venom-induced lethality [in mice] across 17 [of 18] African elapid snake species *and* markedly reduced venom-induced dermonecrosis for *all* tested cytotoxic venoms." OA: www.nature.com/articles/s41...

#convergentevolution 2022: "None of these [Asian] bat viruses contains a furin cleavage site in the spike protein." www.nature.com/articles/s41... 2025: "Comparative structural analysis identified other betacoronaviruses in bats with furin cleavage sites at the S1/S2 junction."

#AGW #climatejustice We could just skip Bill Gates's opinions and comments on Bill Gates's opinions, and read "The 2025 state of the climate report: a planet on the brink" - imo. No paywall.

#adaptation Halloween Tale Fringe-lipped bats (Trachops cirrhosus) are "miniature predators with high energetic demands but small energy stores". Yet they thrive on large prey thanks to a hunting strategy "capitalizing" on eavesdropping and deadly ambush...

#USpolitics In Milan, we just had a local conversation on how many people need food aid in the US where there are ≈42 million SNAP recipients *and* thousands of soup kitchens, food pantries & banks - of which "Feeding America, a network [...] that feeds more than 46 million people" (Wikipedia).

#evolution #rationality #bayesianinference In experiments on the probable location of a treat, "chimpanzees can update their beliefs on the basis of the quantity and quality of new evidence" - as we do & Darwin suggested in The Descent of Man.

#Darfur Hemedti's Janjaweed continue the genocide of non Arabs with more impunity now they're backed by the Emirates, (Then G.W. Bush increased USAid funds, promoted the UN resolution for a UN-AU peace mission, pledged the US would pay 1/4 of its costs... Another world.)

#materialscience The Fremen's stillsuit, improved Chinese researchers have created & tested outdoor a fabric "that harnesses human sweat" to produce self-sufficient fresh water, energy and information exchange" - "ultimately powering a Mars rover wirelessly". www.science.org/doi/10.1126/...

#evolution Unsung heroes... A fascinating paper (imo) reconstructs how lichens spread, transformed entire terrestrial ecosystems and "changed the biosphere" before forests did - starting from "an enigmatic Devonian fossil" called Spongiophyton, which lived in Brazil 400 million years ago.

#paleoclimatology 👏 Sarah Shackleton et al. Basal ice up to 6 million year old "may reflect the adolescent days of the Antarctic ice sheet." Press release:

#science & #politics Trump has proposed slashing NSF's budget for basic research by 55%, the EU has "a misguided plan to include defence and security research in its Horizon Europe programme, which has previously funded only civil research projects. China has bucked the trend."

#radioastronomy Collateral damage "The China-Argentina Radio Telescope (CART), which is nearly finished, is stuck in limbo—a victim of growing tensions between the United States and China."

#Sudan On Sunday, "hours after ceasefire talks in Washington collapse[d], with Emiratis refusing to address situation in el-Fasher," RDF stormed the city as SAF & its allied Joint Forces fled. Now "alarming reports of atrocities emerge..." bsky.app/profile/en.a...

#Alzheimer #simufilam ??? CUNY's investigation confirmed Hoau-Yan Wang had manipulated images in his papers, "but misconduct couldn't be proved". After misleading trial results, the drug "failed" so much in phase 3 that Cassava Sciences "dropped" it, & Friday DOJ "abruptly dropped the charges".

#Israel #Palestine #sadism - 1 Thousands of humanitarian aid trucks are still blocked at the crossings, but "IDF Disposes of Huge Piles of Construction Waste and Rubble From Israel Inside Gaza."

#USpolitics #benicomuni La convenzione Onu sul diritto del mare (UNCLOS) stabilisce che "il 54% della superficie degli oceani è patrimonio dell'umanità e non deve essere sfruttata." Con decreto del 24 aprile, Trump ha autorizzato imprese minerarie a sfruttarla: www.whitehouse.gov/presidential...

See also @dahliasc.bsky.social's comment in The Economist and her essay on an #Israel-Palestine two-state confederation, a proposal attracting more attention now than when it was first suggested: tcf.org/content/repo... Still not enough, imo...

Since Gaza's ceasefire, Israeli settlers, mobs, police & military are attacking Palestinian farmers, Israeli & foreign journalists & #humanrights activists with "unprecedented violence". Haaretz's Jonathan Pollak also "recounts what he's witnessed – and how he nearly paid for it with his life".

#AGW #climatejustice Timely 🧵about "Stardust and similar for-profit companies" promising untested and "proprietary" Solar Radiation Management solutions to the climate crisis. Note for Italians: Stardust is a "global cooling startup backed by Agnellis’ firm Exor"...

#ivermectin #quacks A classic, retroactively censored in Italy because "Wayback Machine has not archived that URL".

#ecology #famine "Though it is true that sparrows eat grain, especially in winter..., they also eat insects such as locusts & rice borers, which likewise attack crops." "In highly habitable counties, grain output & fertility rates decreased & death rates rose." Paper: www.nber.org/papers/w34087

#AGW #mitigazione "Le tesi dell’inattivismo climatico – parte III: il nostro contributo è piccolo", tesi benaltrista detta anche "Ma la Cina"... Di @caserinik.bsky.social, con l'aiuto di @mariogrosso.bsky.social e @gvacchiano.bsky.social

#entomology TBF, thirty years ago the *legendary Bambi Berenbaum had already diagnosed that Napoleon's army had been defeated by lice "or today in Moscow they'd be speaking French". archivio.ocasapiens.org/index.php/20... *Starring in "War of the Coprophages", The X Files...

And For Better Science is still censored in Italy...

What if? #model See limits in "Discussion" Estimated premature deaths from air pollution in 2024: 8,1 millions. Mitigation measures are cheap, effective and also unpopular. E.g. the BJP won the elections in Delhi and just overturned the ban of Diwali fireworks. Picture: APF News yesterday...

#Israele #Palestina #Gaza #UNWRA Il parere della CIG spiegato bene da @giuliofd.bsky.social e per chi ha fretta, punti chiave nel 🧵.