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...
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...
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/...
"[...] 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...
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
Un document concis et clair du @hc-climat.bsky.social
suggested the university was “explicitly trading my academic freedom for access to the Chinese student market,”
www.theguardian.com/education/20...
Appreciate Quanta for shining a light on our joint work with Simon Gsell, Sham Tlili (@shamtlili.bsky.social), and Matthias Merkel (@merkellab.bsky.social).
Woah! Such an important study published in Nature today! Quick thread with some of their key figures!
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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)
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...
The EU credibility is at stake. We must do more on Gaza.
Our @baseickhout.bsky.social to Commission President @vonderleyen.ec.europa.eu.
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-...
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!
"Last year, more than 90 percent of wind and solar projects commissioned worldwide produced power more cheaply than the cheapest available fossil-fuel alternative."
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/...
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.
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/...
“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...
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/...
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.
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.
🥇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...
“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...
»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...