#AGW #AntarcticPeninsula 😟 In the last 200 years, "ice melt-driven terrestrial mercury release [increased] by 550% & air–sea exchange by 350%. Thus, climate warming is turning the large historical Hg reservoir [...] into an active secondary pollution source, amplifying polar Hg pollution risk." 1/2

Climate warming and atmospheric deposition jointly accelerate the Antarctic Peninsula atmosphere–glacier–land–ocean mercury loop | PNAS

Mercury (Hg) is a toxic pollutant of global concern that threatens ecosystem and human health. Its cycle is being jointly reshaped by anthropogenic...

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"the rocket’s second stage remained in space, floating aimlessly among thousands of other pieces of space junk that active satellites must steer clear of." Just a reminder that there's an ethos behind all of this, and it's not one of stewardship. www.theguardian.com/science/2026...

SpaceX rocket thought to have crashed into the moon in unintentional collision

Four-tonne piece of SpaceX Falcon 9 rocket believed to have hit lunar surface on Wednesday at 5,400 miles an hour

theguardian.com

Ehi! idea per il Ponte Salvini. (fate aggirareh!) 🥸

Randall Munroe@xkcd.com · 2d ago

Main Span xkcd.com/3279/

#evolution of guts & 💩 "Other larger animals in Cambrian deposits are proposed as macroscopic coprolite producers, as bigger animals produce large fecal masses. Suggested taxa include aglaspidid arthropods, chaetognath-like protoconodonts, Fuxianhuia, Redlichia, Tuzoia, and Utahcaris orion."

Julien Kimmig @jkimmig.bsky.social · yesterday

Welcome to the CAMBRIAN FECAL REVOLUTION. We didn't name it the Cambrian fecal explosion for obvious reasons. I'm happy to share this paper on fecal matter and its role in Cambrian ecosystems. So if you want to read a really shitty paper (50 days free access): authors.elsevier.com/a/1nYg8cZ3X7...

See also the Editorial Board of The Financial Times "An overdue show of EU solidarity with Spain Instinct to punish Madrid’s liberal approach to migration is self-defeating"

An overdue show of EU solidarity with Spain

Instinct to punish Madrid’s liberal approach to migration is self-defeating

ft.com

Oca sapiens@ocasapiens.bsky.social · 23h ago

#Ceuta "[EU] member states and the Schengen associated countries were united in expressing strong solidarity with Spain. Ministers appreciated the swift and effective efforts of Spanish authorities in responding to the situation in Ceuta." Italy's PM must be disappointed...

#Ceuta "[EU] member states and the Schengen associated countries were united in expressing strong solidarity with Spain. Ministers appreciated the swift and effective efforts of Spanish authorities in responding to the situation in Ceuta." Italy's PM must be disappointed...

Informal video conference of home affairs ministers

Over video conference, ministers of home affairs addressed current developments in Ceuta.

consilium.europa.eu

Massimo Mainardi@mainowski.bsky.social · yesterday

La riunione dei ministri europei è andata bene per la Spagna: possiamo dire, Italia figura di merda? www.ilpost.it/2026/08/04/r... via @ilpost

"Anti-Zionism is a legally ‘protected belief’ under UK equality law, a tribunal reiterated in the case of Professor David Miller, who was dismissed by Bristol University [whose] own lawyers had twice found there was no evidence of antisemitism against Miller." For context:

UK professor suffered discrimination due to anti-Zionist beliefs, tribunal rules

University of Bristol academic who was sacked after being accused of antisemitic comments wins ‘landmark’ decision

theguardian.com

The Canary@thecanaryuk.bsky.social · yesterday

An employment tribunal dismisses Bristol University's attempt to overturn an earlier decision in favour of Professor David Miller By @skwawkbox.org

#geochemistry "Some 2.45 billion years ago, the ancestors of photosynthetic cyanobacteria began to flood the world with oxygen" & triggered the Great Oxidation Event. So we learned at school, but recent "mineral analyses suggest [these] microbes evolved hundreds of millions of years before..."

What triggered one of the most dramatic changes in Earth’s history?

New science may explain mysterious gap before oxygen flooded our planet billions of years ago

science.org

#Ceuta #crisiumanitaria La decisione del governo Meloni è "Un autogol politico che danneggia le richieste di aiuto dell'Italia [dove approdano molti più emigranti] e ignora il dramma umano delle vittime in mare."

Valigia Blu@valigiablu.it · 2d ago

🧵 Disinformazione e propaganda: Meloni e la tragica vicenda di Ceuta | @vitalbaa.bsky.social www.valigiablu.it/ceuta-scheng...

#AGW #zoonoses "Climate change is one explanation for the increase in cases [of meat and dairy product allergies], as warming temperatures increase tick habitats." "There is presently no treatment or cure."

Meat allergy is on the rise — what scientists want to know

The allergy is caused by ticks, but researchers have much to learn about it.

nature.com

#AGW "La copertura mediatica globale sui cambiamenti climatici diminuisce, anno dopo anno. Il termometro sale, la discussione e la comprensione scendono." "Poi ci sono i social, dove la canea è diventata metodo. Lì la crisi climatica non si discute: si deride." (Su BlueSky non mi sembra)

@climalteranti.bsky.social · 3d ago

Rilanciamo l’editoriale di Nicola Armaroli pubblicato su Saperescienza.it, https://www.climalteranti.it/2026/08/02/omerta-climatica/

#genderstudies "Genetic sex determination... reveals mammoths from dispersed sites show a male bias (∼66.5%), consistent with the heightened vulnerability of solitary males to hazards such as natural traps, whereas mammoths from anthropogenic bone accumulations are predominantly female (∼70%)." 1/2

Paleogenomic sex inference of mammoth remains sheds light on the anthropogenic nature of bone accumulations

Moots et al. use ancient DNA to compare woolly mammoth sex ratios from anthropogenic bone accumulations and natural depositional contexts. The results show that accumulations are female-biased, which ...

cell.com

#genderstudies "Genetic sex determination... reveals mammoths from dispersed sites show a male bias (∼66.5%), consistent with the heightened vulnerability of solitary males to hazards such as natural traps, whereas mammoths from anthropogenic bone accumulations are predominantly female (∼70%)."

David Díez del Molino 🇪🇸🇸🇪🏳️‍🌈@indianadiez.bsky.social · 5d ago

Ice Age mammoth bone accumulation sites are a cool and complex puzzle to solve 🦣🦴🧩🤷🏼‍♀️ We have now used ancient DNA to provide an important missing piece: they are mostly composed of female mammoths!! 💅♀️🦣 Why is this relevant? ⬇️⬇️⬇️ Check the article here www.cell.com/current-biol...

👀 «The lawsuit alleges the publishers address this mandate by “extorting” APCs and copyright transfers from “unknowing” PIs who have an “understandable desire to publish in prestigious venues to advance in their careers.»

Retraction Watch@retractionwatch.com · 5d ago

A lawsuit filed under the U.S. False Claims Act accuses Elsevier, Springer Nature, Wiley and Informa of perpetrating a decade-long scheme to defraud the government by charging exorbitant article processing charges.

#USpolitics "David Hearn, a champion canoeist, had been facing a 10-year prison sentence if found guilty after his arrest last month", now "US Attorney for Washington DC Jeanine Pirro blames contractors for rushing the paint installation process..."

Trump administration drops Reflecting Pool vandalism charge and admits 'botched' repairs

President Donald Trump had blamed "sick" vandals, and a former Olympian had been charged but prosecutors now say contractors caused the damage.

bbc.com

Sous pression, Gianni Infantino renonce à son projet d’ouverture de la FIFA aux investisseurs privés

Sous pression, Gianni Infantino renonce à son projet d’ouverture de la FIFA aux investisseurs privés

Après les nombreuses critiques liées à la volonté de créer une société afin de gérer les activités commerciales de la FIFA et attirer des investisseurs extérieurs, dans l’optique d’accroître ses revenus, le patron de l’instance internationale de football a annoncé le retrait de son projet.

lemonde.fr

#Ceuta #humanitariancrisis At least 57 people drowned, thousands are without food and shelter. Great Britain and France - www.bbc.com/news/article... - offered to help Spain, and the European Commission is supporting Morocco as well.

Immigration: EU Commission is ready to help Spain

The Commissioner for Immigration, Magnus Brunner: “We are stepping up support through Frontex.” Criticism of the Meloni government from the PD

eunews.it

EL PAÍS@elpais.com · 5d ago

DIRECTO | 48.300 de los 50.000 migrantes que entraron en Ceuta ya han regresado a Marruecos, según ha confirmado Interior social.elpais.com/jiv…

#Ceuta Of ≈40,000 young men who illegally crossed the border, ≈25,000 have gone back to Morocco: "They say there are too many people in the city, that they can’t find anywhere to sleep..., and that they can’t find any food." Some still trying to swim in are stopped by Moroccan patrols.

EL PAÍS@elpais.com · 5d ago

Centenares de migrantes que en las últimas horas habían accedido de forma irregular a Ceuta han comenzado a regresar a Marruecos por el mismo punto por el que entraron, conducidos por los militares para saber por dónde pueden regresar

#invasivespecies #biodiversity Important paper for NGOs as well, imo. "Using a new global database of standardized impact measures, we calculated average impact severity per country & found that it is higher in the Global South despite more than twice as many reports in the Global North."

Jonathan Tonkin@jdtonkin.bsky.social · 6d ago

New in @science.org from @hannoseebens.bsky.social and colleagues: invasive species impacts are actually more severe in the Global South, not the North — we'd been inferring severity from report counts, which was misleading. I wrote a short summary here: predirections.substack.com/p/invasive-s...

#Ebola And since 15 May, the DRC "reported a total of 3,360 confirmed cases, including 1,487 related deaths", while, Uganda "reported 20 confirmed cases, including two deaths, [...] and no new cases since 21 June". www.ecdc.europa.eu/en/ebola-out...

Kai Kupferschmidt@kakape.bsky.social · 6d ago

Ebola may have been spreading for months in the DRC before anyone recognized it. A new reconstruction suggests the outbreak was already widespread in the gold-mining town of Mongbwalu by January. It wasn’t officially declared until 15 May. Why did no-one raise the alarm? My story for @science.org 🧪

#AGW #EventiEstremi Claudio Cassardo spiega il contesto della "nuova e pesante ondata di calore che si appresta a colpire le regioni dell’Italia settentrionale". (A Milano, è arrivata stamattina, imo. Ieri sera al concerto di Patti Smith per i 50 anni di Radiopop, non è stato male nessuno.)

@climalteranti.bsky.social · last wk.

Tra lo spettro delle notti equatoriali, i primi 40 centimetri di suolo a corto d'acqua e l'impronta strutturale dell'attribuzione rapida, l https://www.climalteranti.it/2026/07/29/la-robusta-ondata-di-calore-in-arrivo-nel-nord-italia-oltre-i-sensazionalismi-contano-la-persistenza-e-lo-stress-idrico/

#USpolitics #USmedia Rep. Joni Ernst's version www.youtube.com/watch?v=egXz...

Aaron Rupar@atrupar.com · 6d ago

Rep. John McGuire: "I don't know if you heard about the BLT sandwich -- using human fetus baby parts in the vaccine when they could've used ivermectin"

In the Amboseli, 15 elephants are "suspected" to have died after eating tomatoes sprayed with a pesticide containing cyanide, & "wildlife authorities have told local media the toxic substances eaten by the elephants pose no immediate risk to humans". Really?

Amboseli elephant deaths: Kenya Wildlife Service suspects pesticide-sprayed tomatoes to be the cause

Foul play is ruled out in the record number of elephant deaths for decades in this area of southern Kenya.

bbc.com

#AGW #foodsecurity "Results show that exposures to high (30° to 35°C) and extreme high (>35°C) temperatures are the dominant drivers of warming-induced rice yield losses, primarily through harvest index reductions [...] with South and Southeast Asia being the most vulnerable regions".

Vulnerability to high temperature shapes global warming impacts on rice yield

Warming-driven global rice yield losses were underestimated by half due to underestimated heat stress.

science.org

#AGW "Aedes aegypti leads the list of the most widely introduced mosquito species and is now present in some 150 countries. [...] Between June 2025 and April 2026, Aedes albopictus - a mosquito that can transmit dengue and chikungunya - spread to new regions in several European countries..."

Nature@nature.com · last wk.

Mosquito-borne diseases are breaking records as climate change and other human influences allow the insects to expand their range go.nature.com/4x6xhMK

#situationnisme RIP Vaneigem, auteur du Traité de savoir-vivre à l’usage des jeunes générations - contre toutes les dictatures, pour la non- violence, et "une conception festive de l'existence".

Raoul Vaneigem, légende situationniste et écrivain libertaire, est mort à 92 ans

Il était l'une des dernières figures de l'Internationale Situationniste et l'un des grands inspirateurs de Mai 68, avec son ami Guy Debord. Il a été de tous les combats libertaires jusqu'au mouvement…

blogs.mediapart.fr

#archeology «“These objects were created with a purpose other than simple enjoyment," says Daniel Heller...» Maybe but we enjoy them, why wouldn't Europe's earliest H. sapiens?

Nature@nature.com · last wk.

“We can almost look through the eyes of [Europe's earliest Homo sapiens] and see how they viewed the environment around them” go.nature.com/3ThKtQC

I will be following Anthony Fauci's hearing today, and I will post comments in this thread with the hashtag #faucihearing. Feel free to mute it! ▫️1/🧵 www.hsgac.senate.gov

#AGW #ExtremeEvents Starting today, NASA project INSPYRE - www-air.larc.nasa.gov/missions/ins... - will be the first to collect samples of smoke in the "fire clouds" (PYRocumulonimbus) generated by extremely large and extremely hot wildfires.

Nature@nature.com · last wk.

“We’re seeing these intense fires and unpredictable behaviours. It definitely feels like an important topic to be researching.” go.nature.com/4yKEdAX

#thoughtexperiment #DrakeEquation How would we know if, 55 million years ago, the Paleocene-Eocene Thermal Maximum had been caused by Silurians' industrial civilization and GHG emissions? (Pic of a Silurian and link to the OA paper in the article)

Gavin Schmidt@climateofgavin.bsky.social · last wk.

Another outing for the Silurian Hypothesis! www.cnn.com/2026/07/25/c...