Martijn van den Broek
@mfamyfuerza.bsky.social
🧬 Biology of ageing 🌍 Exploring systems, synthetic, regenerative, computational biology, and complexity science 🇪🇺🏴😷
Recruitment call 📣 The Baker Institute / Uni of Melbourne are recruiting adults (18+) with ME/CFS or orthostatic intolerance for a study in Melbourne (2 clinic visits, parking + time reimbursed). More info: zurl.co/llz7W #MECFS #EmergeAustralia #BakerInstitute
1,277,500 sunrises, 1,277,500 sunsets experienced. The oldest olive tree in the world is on the island of Crete, about 3500 years old. 💚☘️🌿🌱🌲🌳🍀💚
It’s 2026 and Germans are voting for Nazis again. This is terrifying. Fascists occupy the White House. Women are getting beaten for protesting the Reform party in the UK. We’ve learned nothing.
Long-term adaptation to #plantbased #diet www.pcrm.org/news/news-re... Iron – absorbs more efficiently Creatine & carnosine – increases biosynthesis Protein – muscle mass, strength comparable Fiber – ferments more efficiently Polyphenols – higher levels of microbial metabolites
The Body Doesn't Just Absorb a Plant-Based Diet—It Adapts to One, New Review Finds
WASHINGTON, DC — A new peer-reviewed review published in the journal Biology argues that much of the debate over whether plant-based diets deliver enough iron, protein, creatine, and other nutrients r...
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"Rising heat and failing harvests reveal a fragile food system. It is time to treat food security as a democratic issue" https://www.opendemocracy.net/climate-crisis-food-supermarket-cost-poverty-heatwave-drought-andy-burnham?utm_source=social&utm_medium=Social&utm_campaign=content_studio/
We're now taking talk submissions for ThinkyCon 2026! 🎉
ThinkyCon is back for 2026! Talk submissions now open · Thinky Games
Our annual digital convention is back for a third year: on October 26th-28th you can tune in for 3 days of live talks from the makers and enthusiasts of the thinky games world.
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The strange dissonance of sitting in the main entrance foyer of a major hospital in Northern Ireland, with SARS-CoV-2 prevalence increasing here to boot, and seeing hundreds of people walk past, all unmasked, and realising that some of those people are going to get Long Covid.
Went to visit the BAFTA Breakthrough portrait, up on the wall outside the bar in the BAFTA building! Pretty surreal sharing the walls with so many talented people! Big thanks to @roguespirit.bsky.social for taking this!
Signed! Our 🇪🇺🇬🇱🇩🇰 Joint Declaration. It reflects a clear choice by Greenland to strengthen ties with the EU. In order to protect its values, freedom and interests. Europe is making a choice too. To be more present and more engaged in Greenland and in the Arctic.
I'm a little heartbroken that the world descended into madness (again) during my twenties. Although, on average, the same madness returns every 50-80 years, I think I'll see another wave of madness in the final years of my life.
🇮🇪 L'hôpital communautaire de Donegal n'accepte plus de nouveaux patients et des restrictions concernant les visites sont en vigueur en raison d'un foyer de Covid-19. 🔗 www.donegallive.ie/news/donegal...
Thémis 😷 Covid is not over ≽(•⩊ •マ≼@themis2023.bsky.social · 13h ago🏴🏴 Hausse de la circulation du Covid en Angleterre (taux de positivité) et en Écosse (eaux usées). 👉 masques FFP2 en lieux clos et en extérieur si proximité, symptômes ou pas 👉 filtration de l'air/aération 👉 vaccination (bientôt le début de la campagne d'automne) H/T @catinthehat.bsky.social
It is up to Greenland and Denmark to decide the future of the vast Arctic island, and "no one else," European Commission President Ursula von der Leyen says during a visit to Nuuk, following a two‑day visit to the autonomous Danish territory coveted by US President Donald Trump.
media: are these blackshirts fascists. andy burnham: good question. my favourite biscuit with tea is a custard cream although in culcheth we used to call them cuppy-busters.
The new garden door. Express yourself! Do some art! Opportunity is everywhere. The door is made from wooden parts of a broken industrial made scandinavian bed frame.
Does Europe intend to shape the future – or adapt to a future created by others? I believe in Europe. Do you? www.esa.int/About_Us/Cor... #ParisSpaceSummit
Swedish center-left party leader Magdalena Andersson has sounded the alarm over the Sweden Democrats, which may have been infiltrated by the Kremlin. “These are extremely serious allegations … Russia is the greatest threat to Sweden,” she told POLITICO. 🔗 www.politico.eu/article/russ...
“It’s like Groundhog Day… People need service delivery and action now… We need some respect.” Jane Ormerod of Long Covid Scotland gave evidence to both the Scottish Parliament Long Covid inquiry and the UK Covid Inquiry, and says many of the same issues still remain in Sept 2026.
Uk government once again doing the 'legitimate concerns' dance. It has never worked, it never will work. Scotland needs our own immigration system and the UK's Home Office should have no jurisdiction in Scotland.
Josiah Mortimer@josiahmortimer.bsky.social · 20h agoThis risks repeating the same mistakes Starmer made on the far right. Sometimes you have to call out racist thugs as racist thugs.
Ich möchte nicht, dass mir Politiker*innen und Journalist*innen erklären, dass es nunmal Demokratie sei, wenn mehrheitlich Nazis gewählt werden. Ich erwarte, dass sie verstehen, dass die Demokratie demokratisch abgeschafft werden kann und dass das Grundgesetz davor schützen sollte.
I seriously wonder: If we have learned something from the past, namely that far-right authoritarians will destroy democracy, and this inevitably will lead to a fascist state, is it really democratic to accept this outcome? Is it democratic to accept a vote for the end of democracy?
A far-right party winning a regional election in Germany is not more scary than it winning a regional election in France, the UK or the Netherlands. The “the Nazis are back” narrative just draws an artificial distinction between the AfD and the far right in other countries. It thus normalizes them.
COVID helped fuel the rise of the far right globally. The uncertainty, grief, anger, and fear made for fertile ground for conspiracist thinking and right-wing indoctrination. Is it one of many drivers? Yes. But it’s an important factor nonetheless—and one that is too often overlooked and unexamined
this is the kind of design costume designers make to tell you who are the bad guys in a space movie
Palestinian children watch The Lion King in Gaza. Photo: Omar Ashtawy
Fresh evidence that car touchscreens are a giant step backwards for road safety: "For all tasks, the touchscreen was associated with increased visual distraction." doi.org/10.1016/j.tr...
Yikes, it looks like they barely slowed down at all after touching down on the runway.
Shipwreck@shipwreck75.bsky.social · yesterdayAmazon Prime Air Boeing 767-300(F) has reportedly overshot the runway at Miami International Airport.
Clearly “Never again” didn’t apply to fashion choices…
Seth Abramson@sethabramson.bsky.social · yesterdayHOLY SHIT LITERALLY THE EMPIRE FROM STAR WARS
This is shameful discriminatory and misogynistic reporting. People aren’t choosing disability to be “cool”. Young women don’t have to “prove” to you that they’re sick. Disability rates are skyrocketing because we’ve left a disabling virus rip through the population for over 6 years.
Turnbuckles and twistlock lashing doing their thing at sea.
