“The wrong ice is melting, the wrong Amazon is burning”

ICTA-UAB researcher Victoria Reyes-García receives the Rei Jaume I Award

"The care of nature is not the exclusive domain of environmental scientists; it belongs to society as a whol & there are contributions not only from the Western perspective but from other cultures”

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Fascinating Nouns Ep. 268: How Humanity Ends w/ Henry Gee YouTube video by Daniel J. Glenn

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Hyperspectral reporters for long-distance and wide-area detection of gene expression in living bacteria - Nature Biotechnology Hyperspectral reporter genes allow imaging of ground bacteria from aerial vehicles

Holy cow - hyperspectral detection of bacteria at long distance.... "The bacteria were detectable outdoors under ambient light from up to 90 m in a single 4,000-m2 hyperspectral image taken using fixed and unmanned aerial vehicle-mounted cameras." 🤯
www.nature.com/articles/s41...

Manifiesto SOMMa: La acción climática: conocimiento científico y consenso social Como centro miembro, el ICTA-UAB nos adherimos al manifiesto emitido por la Alianza SOMMa sobre la urgencia de abordar la emergencia climática...

🆕Como centro SOMMa nos sumamos a este manifiesto

🌍👩‍🔬La Alianza SOMMa considera urgente abordar la emergencia climática con una política de país, basada en el conocimiento y las evidencias científicas, que asegure continuidad, estabilidad y consenso social.

www.uab.cat/web/sala-de-...

Just got the nomination letter. I will be the new director of @icta-uab.bsky.social . Excited, scared, but overall happy to face this new challenge. Still, wish me luck 😅

Nothing describes our field work in Bolivia better than a picture of our kitchen table @demodrivers.bsky.social

Ruth López, a senior figure at Cristosal, the most important human rights organisation in El Salvador, was arrested by the government last night.

Diet outperforms microbial transplant to drive microbiome recovery in mice - Nature Experiments in mouse models show that proper recovery of the intestinal microbiota following depletion, with or without faecal microbiota transplant therapy, is dependent on syntrophic interactions that occur only with specific dietary interventions.

Nature research paper: Diet outperforms microbial transplant to drive microbiome recovery in mice.

https://go.nature.com/42R2PJ5

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The ATRAE Program 2025 is now open — grants for the incorporation of established scientific talent into the Spanish research system.
🌎 Special focus on applicants from the USA.
💰 €40M total funding, up to €1.2M per grant.

www.aei.gob.es/en/announcem...

Rise of Humans Podcast Episode · The Ancients · 06/04/2025 · 58m

Here I with fellow human @trishughes21.bsky.social on History Hit chatting about the very long and mysterious course of human evolution podcasts.apple.com/gb/podcast/t...

Watch These Gold Price Levels As Precious Metal Continues Hitting Record Highs Gold hit another record high on Wednesday as investors look to traditional safe havens amid uncertainty about tariffs and the health of the economy. Monitor these crucial chart levels.

Gold price hits new record!
This is a disaster! It incentivizes illegal (the pseudo legal for Bolivia) gold mining in the Amazon
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Countries across the world use more land for golf courses than wind or solar energy - IOPscienceSearch Countries across the world use more land for golf courses than wind or solar energy, Weinand, Jann Michael, Pelser, Tristan, Kleinebrahm, Max, Stolten, Detlef

X or #ElonMusk does not like our study "Countries across the world use more land for golf courses than #wind or #solar #energy" iopscience.iop.org/article/10.1...

For example, the post by @cleanenergywire.bsky.social on X was only shown 250 times, despite the large number of followers (>10,000).

Israel killed 15 Palestinian paramedics and rescue workers one by one, says UN Workers on a mission to help colleagues were buried in mass grave in southern Gaza, says humanitarian office

War crime.

www.theguardian.com/world/2025/m...

Europe moves slowly, but moves... There will be a way for some of them to move here.

Top 20 European Alternatives to Major US Technology Services: You Could Change Right Now Top 20 European Alternatives to Major US Tech Services: Secure, Private, and GDPR-Compliant Solutions

Top 20 European Alternatives to Major US Technology Services

“Switching helps you comply with tight privacy rules, retain data inside the EU, and foster independent invention. For cloud storage, payments, AI, Europe has competitive, privacy-first answers”
medium.com/@devlink/top...

This video is for all US citizens who are currently overwhelmed by Trump's more than 200 executive orders.

THIS should be retweeted to the MAX.

I never saw a more helpful video.

(It's about two minutes long. It's worth a lot.)

Ukraine has capacity to produce 5 million FPV drones per year, advisor says "Now, one manufacturer can produce 4,000 such FPV drones per day," said Alexander Kamyshin, who previously served as the strategic industries minister.

Thanks to Ukraine, we will have a European alternative to DJI drones. kyivindependent.com/ukraine-can-...

Wary of US surveillance? Try these European alternatives to Big Tech | Proton Take back control of your digital life with privacy-focused European alternatives to US Big Tech apps and services.

Start looking into this: proton.me/blog/europea... Europeans need to plan digital independence from USA. Right now 5 US companies (Google, Microsoft, Apple, Visa and MasterCard) can destroy the EU in a matter of seconds, cutting us out of everything. @vonderleyen.ec.europa.eu move fast!

El empresariado de China llega a la Amazonía y genera controversia | LIBRO En la última década, la presencia de empresas chinas en la Amazonía ha aumentado considerablemente, ya sea como inversionistas directos o como contratistas encargados de construir infraestructura para...

#LIBRO
En esta nueva entrega del sexto capítulo del libro "Una tormenta perfecta en la Amazonía", Timothy J. Killeen habla sobre la corrupción que rodea a las empresas Chinas que desde los últimos años han ocupado la Panamazonía.
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Samples in order, finally!!

My post docs... 😂

Well, glad I am not going to the SAA in Denver. If they look at my phone I could easily be sentenced for life :-)

I grew up in southeastern Sicily, over a huge limestone platform which is full of caves, a few kms inland from Siracusa.

Same here. Never managed to find anything longer than a few tens of meters but still incredible.

Well deserved. I hope it keeps going down ...

We can finally say: "A 21st-century extrapolation suggests an unprecedented increase in TC frequency, attributable to the Industrial Age warming".

An annually resolved 5700-year storm archive reveals drivers of Caribbean cyclone frequency The longest sediment core (30 m) from a marine sinkhole provides an excellent cyclone-frequency record for the past 5700 years.

Important study @science.org Advances Showing sediment records of past #tropical #cyclone activity. These types of #proxy records are incredibly important for our understanding of the impact of #climatechange on #extreme weather.
www.science.org/doi/10.1126/...

We have a 4-year PhD-student opening in our lab, deadline on Wednesday noon.

For anyone interested in computational genomics of ancient human, pathogen, or canid genomes. www.crick.ac.uk/careers-stud...

If you are curious, send in an application!

The life and death of the human species: your questions answered Evolutionary biologist Dr Henry Gee, author of The Decline and Fall of the Human Empire, on when and how humans are likely to go extinct.

When will humans go extinct? A Doctor Writes ... www.panmacmillan.com/blogs/litera...