Lise Klaveness, president of the Norwegian Football Federation, will seek the backing of her board to lodge a complaint with FIFA's ethics committee over the #Balogun red card suspension - an incident that "should not have happened". #football #FIFA #integrity www.france24.com/en/live-news...

Norway set to make formal complaint to FIFA over Balogun red card saga

Norway's football chief told The Times they are set to make a formal complaint to FIFA over the suspension of Folarin Balogun's World Cup ban because it has put "the whole game at risk".

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In collaboration with the Munk School, I am sharing a ten-lecture course I taught at @utoronto.ca this past year. The course is called “Hitler and Stalin Today.” Watch the first lecture here: snyder.substack.com/p/new-lectur...

📢 @ncmbm.bsky.social is recruiting two independent Group Leaders (one in Computational Biology and one in Cell Biology) to establish ambitious, internationally competitive research programmes. Applications are open now and close 14 September 2026. Links 👇 @embl.org @nordicembl.bsky.social

Several thousand people will die in Europe this week. In Berlin alone, the death toll is estimated at 300. As well as Cologne and Düsseldorf, many towns and cities in the Ruhr region are affected. Climate change is a medical emergency that is only just beginning. #HeatWave #KatharinaReiche #CDU

We need ~30 years of data from the AMOC to be able to finally determine if it's actually collapsing. We're at 20 years of data. Removing this now means we can't definitively determine a potential AMOC collapse that could result in substantial climate disruptions. www.livescience.com/planet-earth...

Tump administration to remove 900 deep sea monitoring instruments that would have studied the collapsing Atlantic current

The Ocean Observatories Initiative has been collecting data on physical, chemical, geological and biological conditions in the Atlantic and Pacific Oceans for the past decade

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I just want to point out that temperatures over land (where we all live) have warmed over twice as fast as ocean surface temperatures. The latest update through 2025 is... not great 🥴 Graphic created by www.columbia.edu/~mhs119/Temp...

Imagine no longer relying on insulin injections! Recent trials show that 83% of participants stopped needing insulin after stem cell transplants. Could this be the breakthrough we've been waiting for in type 1 diabetes treatment? 🧬

Stem cells restore insulin production in type 1 diabetes: three clinical trials mark a turning point - Sinaptica

A paradigm shift in the treatment of type 1 diabetes Three clinical trials published in recent months suggest that stem cells can restore insulin production in

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France just completed the world's largest agrivoltaic trial — installing #solarpanel canopies above 2,400 hectares of Provence vineyards, cereal fields, vegetable plots, generating 500 MW of clean electricity producing full agricultural output. www.tse.energy/en/press-rel... #ActOnClimate

PDBe-SIFTS is now open source 🎉 Developed in collaboration with PDBe (@pdbeurope.bsky.social) and UniProt, it enables fast, accurate residue-level mapping between protein sequences and structures, achieving >93% agreement with curated mappings. Get started: github.com/PDBeurope/SI...

WE DON'T NEED PETROLEUM-BASED PLASTICS ANYMORE! "The [bamboo plastic] outperforms most commercial plastics and bioplastics in mechanical and thermo-mechanical metrics while maintaining full biodegradability in soil within 50 days and closed-loop recyclability with 90% retained strength."

High-strength, multi-mode processable bamboo molecular bioplastic enabled by solvent-shaping regulation - Nature Communications

Bioplastics derived from biomass show promise as sustainable alternatives to petrochemical plastics, but their adoption is hindered by their inferior mechanical properties and processability. Here, th...

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This was a hard story to report. Newborns who don’t get a vitamin K shot are 81 times more likely to develop a condition where they bleed uncontrollably. But more and more families are declining the shot. And babies are dying. www.propublica.org/article/more...

Babies Are Bleeding to Death as Parents Reject a Vitamin Shot Given at Birth

A lifesaving injection given at birth to prevent severe bleeding has become collateral damage of the anti-vaccine movement.

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This is truly mind-blowing: Norway has gone from near-zero sales of non‑emitting battery electric vehicles to now close to 100% of all new passenger car sales - achieved in about 13 years. More in my next substack newsletter. Sign up here: substack.com/@janrosenow

"Pancreatic cancer mRNA vaccine shows lasting results in an early trial: Scientists caution that more research is needed, but nearly all of the patients who responded to the personalized vaccine are still alive six years later."

Pancreatic cancer mRNA vaccine shows lasting results in an early trial

Scientists caution that more research is needed, but nearly all of the patients who responded to the personalized vaccine are still alive six years later.

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Lebanon is one of the most surprising clean energy stories in the world. Solar went from <1% of electricity in 2020 to nearly 30% by 2024. Not because of policy - because the state grid collapsed and people installed rooftop solar out of sheer necessity.

Vance's speech in Budapest is truly outrageous: 1. The US vice president campaigns for an enemy of the EU & NATO, but a friend of Putin & China. 2. Vance attacks the EU for pressuring Hungary, but Hungary has received net about 3% of GDP a year from the EU, but it has squandered much on corruption.

Finally some good news for our honey bees. Source: ScienceDaily share.google/5TYWHPuogMrT...

Scientists uncovered the nutrients bees were missing — Colonies surged 15-fold

Scientists have developed a breakthrough “superfood” for honeybees by engineering yeast to produce the essential nutrients normally found in pollen. In controlled trials, colonies fed this specially d...

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I don't think people fully appreciate how apocalyptic things are for US science. I haven't had any new funding since 2024, but I'm still ok since typical grants are for three years. This means next year I will be completely out of funding and will have to fire everyone in the lab. It's not great.

Jeremy Berg@jeremymberg.bsky.social · 5mo ago

NSF Update through March 13, 2026 1/2

There was ONE ATC in the tower at LGA during last night's crash. ONE ATC, at LGA!, dealing w ALL air and ground traffic, including a plane filling w a strange smell and no gate to return to. The Pentagon wants $200B for a vanity war, but our ATC towers are empty. Budgets are moral documents.

🌙 Sleep isn’t the brain “switching off”, it’s active reorganisation. For #SleepAwarenessMonth, Sophia Wilhelm postdoc with @charlotteboccara.bsky.social shares how researchers map brain activity to understand cognitive development. @embl.org @esrs.bsky.social @nordicembl.bsky.social

If we could just raise sea levels by 150 meters we get a backup Strait of Hormuz

This is a graph of the death of US science.

Jeremy Berg@jeremymberg.bsky.social · 5mo ago

NSF Update (Awards through 2/27/26) Directorates to follow 1/10

🎉 Time to celebrate! The Galaxy Training Network just passed 500 tutorials! Free. Open. Community-built. Reproducible. Powered by 500+ contributors worldwide, making data analysis accessible to everyone. Be sure to check out this amazing team and the GTN, here: training.galaxyproject.org

from the perspective of someone who might want to be president, the best time to run for the white house is now, not later. so if AOC is thinking about it — if the white house is her ambition — then her best bet is to throw her hat in the ring

You Know What? Maybe the Time Is Right for an AOC Presidential Bid

She’s only 36, and there’s a good argument that she should run for Senate and bide her time. But she also could be a formidable White House candidate.

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I genuinely cannot believe the degree to which we are pissing away this generational breakthrough, even given the fuckmuppets who are involved www.nbcnews.com/health/healt...

FDA declines to review Moderna's mRNA flu shot

Under Health Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr., the Food and Drug Administration has taken an aggressive stance against mRNA technology.

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"The US state department is set to fund Maga-aligned think-tanks and charities across Europe to disseminate Washington’s policy positions" Trumpists want to finance anti-democratic & anti-European movements. Keep them out! This is not bona fide. www.ft.com/content/f869...

US government to fund Maga-aligned think-tanks and charities in Europe

State department grants to spread ‘American values’ are part of Washington’s 250th anniversary celebrations

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We are thrilled to announce the first official release (v0.1.8) of #𝗯𝗲𝗱𝗱𝗲𝗿, the successor to one of our flagship tool, #𝗯𝗲𝗱𝘁𝗼𝗼𝗹𝘀! Based on ideas we conceived of long ago (!), this was achieved thanks to the dedication of Brent Pedersen. 1/n

Breaking News: Rejecting decades of science, the chair of the federal panel that recommends vaccines for Americans said that shots against polio and measles — and perhaps all diseases — should be optional. The vaccines are credited with preventing disability and millions of deaths worldwide.

Vaccine Panel Chair Says Polio and Other Shots Should Be Optional, Rejecting Decades of Science

Dr. Kirk Milhoan, a pediatric cardiologist who leads the Advisory Committee on Immunization Practices, said a person’s right to refuse a vaccine outweighed concerns about illness or death from infectious diseases.

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I'd like to offer the White House my services as an amateur architect for their wonderful ballroom. I can start immediately. The only problem is I'm a perfectionist, so the president really won't have time for anything else but this project

The US withdrawal from #WHO became official today, leaving the world less prepared for dangerous disease outbreaks. “When that will bite us in the ass, it’s impossible to predict. But there is a 100% certainty that it will bite us in the ass,” one expert told me. www.statnews.com/2026/01/22/u...

U.S. makes exit from the WHO complete

The U.S. withdrawal from the WHO became official Thursday, formalizing a fissure between the Trump administration and the Geneva-based global health agency.

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