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Another fascinating - and totally serendipitous - example of how human biological sex isn't always binary, despite executive orders that it is. In this case an XX/XY mosaic individual was a fertile female. Other XX/XY mosaics can be phenotypically male.

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How likely is an #AMOC shutdown? Here's our latest study based on 768 runs with 38 standard climate models (the CMIP6 models). Note these do not include any meltwater from Greenland mass loss, so might underestimate the risk a bit. 2/2
iopscience.iop.org/article/10.1...

4 months ago 219 85 10 8
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Collapse of key Atlantic current could bring extreme drought to Europe for centuries, study finds. @swinda.bsky.social
That's an under-appreciated impact of #AMOC shutdown, of particular concern given the recent results showing much higher likelihood of this. 1/2
www.livescience.com/planet-earth...

4 months ago 695 437 18 52
Tabelle im Link.

Tabelle im Link.

Wovor Menschen (laut der CDU nahen Adenauer Stiftung) in Deutschland Angst haben: Russischer Aggression, Fremdenfeindlichkeit, Rechtsruck, AfD, Klimawandel, Desinformation.
Grüße an eine vollkommen falsche politische und mediale Debatte. www.kas.de/documents/d/...

4 months ago 1444 648 29 18
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Another Cop wrecked by fossil fuel interests and our leaders’ cowardice – but there is another way | Genevieve Guenther The fingerprints of Russia and Saudi Arabia are all over the decision text in Brazil. But a group of nations led by Colombia and the Netherlands offer hope, says End Climate Silence founding director ...

"[...] Iran’s president [...] announced that Tehran [...] would need to be abandoned and re-established elsewhere, because, after years of climate-fuelled drought, its water has finally run out."

The article includes ideas on what to do against climate inaction.

www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...

4 months ago 0 0 1 0

I wish I didn’t have to share this. But the BBC has decided to censor my first Reith Lecture.

They deleted the line in which I describe Donald Trump as “the most openly corrupt president in American history.” /1

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Un document concis et clair du @hc-climat.bsky.social

5 months ago 81 56 0 2
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UK university halted human rights research after pressure from China Exclusive: Leading professor at Sheffield Hallam was told to cease research on supply chains and forced labour in China after demands from authorities

suggested the university was “explicitly trading my academic freedom for access to the Chinese student market,”

www.theguardian.com/education/20...

5 months ago 1 1 0 0

Appreciate Quanta for shining a light on our joint work with Simon Gsell, Sham Tlili (@shamtlili.bsky.social), and Matthias Merkel (@merkellab.bsky.social).

6 months ago 36 14 2 1
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Woah! Such an important study published in Nature today! Quick thread with some of their key figures!
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10 months ago 168 79 9 9
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Zusammen mit dem Monitoring-Bericht zur Energiewende hat Katherina Reiche in der letzten Woche einen Zehn-Punkte-Plan vorgestellt. Dieser weist sprachlich wie inhaltlich große Ähnlichkeiten zu einem Papier von RWE und Eon aus dem Frühjahr auf. Ein längerer Thread mit Links und Beispielen. (1/19)

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Italian workers' strike in solidarity with Gaza brings disruptions across the country Thousands of workers and students across Italy have joined a general strike and demonstrations in solidarity with Palestinians in Gaza.

Thousands of Italian workers and students are on strike for Gaza

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7 months ago 472 176 1 5
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Israel committing genocide in Gaza, world’s top scholars on the crime say International Association of Genocide Scholars resolution backed by 86% of members who voted

In case you missed it, according to the International Association of Genocide Scholars, Israel is committing genocide in Gaza.

You may have been aware of it - some people still are not.

The text of the resolution: genocidescholars.org/wp-content/u...

www.theguardian.com/world/2025/s...

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The EU credibility is at stake. We must do more on Gaza.

Our @baseickhout.bsky.social to Commission President @vonderleyen.ec.europa.eu.

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illustration of a hand from a business suit hold a match, lighting a fuse on a bomb that is planet earth

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illustration of a hand from a business suit hold a match, lighting a fuse on a bomb that is planet earth Moor Studio—Getty Images

No individual billionaire, corporation, or country should be allowed to block the will and wellbeing of 8 billion people and the future of our planet.

The Planet Can’t Afford Billionaires

Read more: time.com/7305649/the-...

7 months ago 88 41 3 1
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MEPs, together, drawing a red line for Gaza.

Killing civilians is a red line.
Starving people is a red line.
Bombing hospitals and shelters is a red line.

Israel’s assault on Gaza is unlawful, disproportionate, and devastating.

We call on @vonderleyen.ec.europa.eu and the EU to take action!

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‘China Is the Engine’ Driving Nations Away From Fossil Fuels, Report Says

"Last year, more than 90 percent of wind and solar projects commissioned worldwide produced power more cheaply than the cheapest available fossil-fuel alternative."

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Most-viewed Guardian articles last night. Editors shouldn’t think that the public doesn’t want to know more about climate change.
Or about ocean science 🌊!
Read the article about our paper: www.theguardian.com/environment/...

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Israel Abducted Child Aid Seeker and Tortured Him for a Month While Carrying Out Aid Site Massacres A recent report reveals Israel is also abducting Palestinians near aid sites, on top of near-daily massacres.

Israeli forces abducted a Palestinian child near a GHF site in June and took him to a notorious prison camp where they subjected him to severe torture for nearly a month. Omar was alongside other aid seekers when Israeli forces encircled them, held him at gunpoint, and then forced them to strip.

8 months ago 87 74 3 6
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From genes to patterns: five key dynamical systems concepts to decode developmental regulatory mechanisms Summary: Dynamical systems theory provides a powerful quantitative and intuitive framework to understand developmental processes. This Primer brings key concepts of this framework to the ever-growing ...

A Summer reading recommendation: new primer in @dev-journal.bsky.social explains how dynamical systems theory unlocks the logic of developmental patterning

Everything from bistable switches & oscillators to phase portraits & more with Python code to explore

journals.biologists.com/dev/article/...

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Israeli public figures call for ‘crippling sanctions’ on Israel over Gaza starvation Thirty-one high-profile Israelis accuse Tel Aviv of ‘brutal campaign’ and demand permanent ceasefire in letter

www.theguardian.com/world/2025/j...

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Israel committing genocide in Gaza, say Israel-based human rights groups Reports detailing intentional targeting of Palestinians as a group, and systemic destruction of Palestinian society, add to pressure for action

“I think every human being has to ask himself: what do you do in the face of genocide?”

“It couldn’t happen without the support of the western world. Any leader that is not doing whatever they can to stop it is part of this horror.”

www.theguardian.com/world/2025/j...

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‘We faced hunger before, but never like this’: skeletal children fill hospital wards as starvation grips Gaza For months Israel kept food shipments to Gaza far below starvation rations. Now the death toll is rising rapidly

www.theguardian.com/world/2025/j...

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SARCOMERES divide! Mechanism how muscles grow while contracting - daughter sarcomeres appear everywhere. Seen live, registered on our cover. Pioneered by @clementrodier.bsky.social @friedrich-group.bsky.social Ian Estabrook @ibdm.bsky.social $ by @hfspo.bsky.social www.science.org/doi/10.1126/...

9 months ago 100 42 5 5

If the Royal Society had decided to expel Elon Musk simply for violating their Code of Conduct, they wouldn't now face the embarrassment of having a Fellow who built MechanoHitler. Hey ho.

9 months ago 418 114 7 1
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If you don’t think this moment of symbolism is 100% deliberate, you haven’t been paying attention.

The Speaker surrendering his gavel is purposeful, self-subjugation to the “King”. Congress betraying its role & yielding its power.

All on #July4th too.

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Sham Tlili, winner of the CNRS 2025 bronze medal - IBDM | Institut de Biologie du Développement de Marseille A distinction that rewards a promising and already fruitful scientific career.

🥇Sham Tlili has been awarded the CNRS 2025 Bronze Medal! She studies how physical forces shape living tissues by using mouse stem cell models known as gastruloids. A unique blend of physics & biology.

🔗 Read more: www.ibdm.univ-amu.fr/sham-tlili-w...

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“Rates of Warming are Unprecedented” Scientists Warn in Latest Dire Assessment Unless carbon emissions and fossil fuel use are slashed drastically, global heating could surpass the limits set out in the Paris Agreement.

“What we know from the science is that unless we halve emissions by 2030, we’re not going to be able to get anywhere close to the Paris Agreement’s limit.” “Overshooting the Paris Agreement’s 1.5 °C target would be a very serious political failure.”
Very true.
www.oneearthnow.org/p/rates-of-w...

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Kluger Klimaschutz lohnt sich. Für alle – sagt eine neue Studie Hier kommt die Antwort auf »Wer soll das alles bezahlen?«. Denn Klimaschutz könnte zu 13% mehr Wohlstand führen.

»Wer soll das alles bezahlen?« ist bis heute wohl eines der beliebtesten Gegenargumente, um Klimaschutzmaßnahmen zu verschleppen.
Wer heute noch an dieses Strohmann-Argument glaubt, sollte einen Blick in den neuen Bericht des Industrieländerverbandes OECD werfen.
perspective-daily.de/article/3771...

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Harvard appears to think all Jews support Israel. That is discriminatory | Barry Trachtenberg, Victor Silverman, Atalia Omer, Raz Segal, Rebecca T Alpert We are Jewish scholars who filed an amicus brief with the US supreme court on Harvard’s discriminatory assumption that being Jewish means supporting Israel

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