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Jan-Jaap Wesselink

@j1nj22p.eurosky.social
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Bioinformatics/genomics, landscape photography

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Dirk Jacobs @dirkjacobs.bsky.social · 6h
Onaanvaardbaar gedweep met disproportioneel geweld van onze minister van landsverdediging. Die man is zo'n belangrijke functie niet waardig als je dit soort dingen op sociale media schrijft. Met het geweldsmonopolie van de staat spring je niet zo lichtzinnig om.
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Phillips OBrien @phillipspobrien.bsky.social · 11h
New primer about the news from the last few hours that the US is getting back to business with Russia. This is not Trump being erratic, it is not about diesel, it is not a small move. It is about the US moving to a more active position of helping Putin. phillipspobrien.substack.com/p/this-is-ab...
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This Is About Much More Than Just Diesel
What Really Matters From The Last Few Hours
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Mark Chadbourn @chadbourn.bsky.social · 22h
Zelenskyy: @Precisely at this moment, when we are talking about peace, America is giving Russia the opportunity to export diesel. This is... I don't know. “I believe our team is simply being used as a cover. And this is definitely unfair. “This is definitely un-partner-like.”
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Mark Chadbourn @chadbourn.bsky.social · 22h
That’s 40% of America.
India Cut 130 Million From Voter Roll, Fueling Protests Against Modi
Public anger is growing over an exercise that critics say undermines the world's largest democracy, particularly disenfranchising Muslims under the Hindu nationalist government.
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Jan-Jaap Wesselink @j1nj22p.eurosky.social · 09/10/2026
Little #mushroom #autumn #macrophotography
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Prof. Eliot Jacobson @climatecasino.net · 09/10/2026
Breaking News! Code Yikes! As of Oct. 8, Antarctic sea-ice extent is more than 4.5 standard deviations below the 1991-2020 daily mean, ranking second lowest for the day behind Oct. 8, 2023. Data: ads.nipr.ac.jp/vishop/#/ext...
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Mark Chadbourn @chadbourn.bsky.social · 08/10/2026
Using phone calls, travel movements and location data, Der Spiegel has traced the recent drone attack on a German airport back to the elite SSD unit of the Russian military intelligence service GRU. When are the authorities going to start saying we’re at war and have been for a long time?
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(S+) Leipziger Flughafen: Das sollen die Männer hinter der Drohnen-Attacke sein
Ermittler meinen zu wissen, wer den Leipziger Flughafen mit Drohnen angegriffen hat. Ihren Auftrag erhielten die Verdächtigen nach SPIEGEL-Recherchen wohl von einer Spezialeinheit des russischen Gehei...
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Jonathan McDowell @planet4589.bsky.social · 08/10/2026
Margaret Hamilton has died. Absolute legend, it was my honour to meet her and have a conversation with her just a few years ago, super nice and still sharp. Ave atque vale Margaret. news.mit.edu/2026/margare...
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Margaret Hamilton, computing pioneer who led software development for the Apollo program, dies at 90
Margaret H. Hamilton, a profoundly influential computer scientist best known for leading the software engineering team at MIT’s Instrumentation Lab during NASA’s Apollo program, died at age 90.
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Mark Chadbourn @chadbourn.bsky.social · 07/10/2026
Lithuania is deploying up to 100 soldiers to reinforce its border with Russia’s Kaliningrad region. Officials said the preventative move follows reports of a possible Russian mobilisation which could prompt people to try crossing illegally.
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elDiario.es @eldiario.es · 07/10/2026
Maricarmen ha muerto este miércoles en el hospital Gregorio Marañón de Madrid, según ha confirmado el Sindicato de Inquilinas. Llevaba ingresada desde el 23 de septiembre, cuando fue desahuciada de su casa
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Muere Maricarmen, la mujer que convirtió su lucha por la vivienda en un clamor que recorrió España
La vecina de Retiro, de 87 años, fallece poco después de haber sido expulsada de su piso por Urbagestión, empresa que luego reculó y le permitió conservar una casa a la que no retornará
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Jan-Jaap Wesselink @j1nj22p.eurosky.social · 07/10/2026
I like tiny mushrooms best, but sometimes the big ones are nice too :) A giant polypore in the Meerdaalwoud close to Leuven. #mushrooms #woodland #photography
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Prof. Eliot Jacobson @climatecasino.net · 06/10/2026
Breaking News! Code UFB!!! For the first time in recorded history, the Niño 3.4 sea-surface temperature (SST) is above 30.0°C, reaching a preliminary SST of 30.06°C on October 5th. The Niño 3.4 SST anomaly is now 3.41°C above the 1991-2020 baseline. Everything is not fine.
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Climate Risk Economics @climateeconomics.bsky.social · 06/10/2026
Food companies (and governments) are flying blind to the escalating climate threats to supply chains Shocks are increasingly likely to hit multiple regions at once, yet companies don’t have tools to assess the likelihood and impact of multiple supply shocks... www.reuters.com/sustainabili...
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COMMENTARY: Food companies are flying blind to the escalating climate threats to supply chains. Here’s what needs to change
This summer, you didn’t need a scientist to tell you the climate was changing. All you needed was a window. Fields that should have been green were baked brown, crops died in the ground and rivers shr...
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Kees van der Leun @sustainable2050.bsky.social · 05/10/2026
Up to 28°C on France's Atlantic islands today, in October!
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Thijs Kuiken @thijskuiken.bsky.social · 05/10/2026
Since H5 bird flu arrived in Australia, nature conservation groups have called on the government to invest at least $200 million to protect Australia's native wildlife. Now, the Federal Government has announced $20 million in funding for wildlife resilience. birdlife.org.au/news/did-the...
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“Did they forget the zero?” Federal funding for H5 bird flu falls far short - BirdLife Australia
The latest investment in Australia’s H5 bird flu response falls far short in matching the scale of the threat.
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AEMET @aemet.es · 05/10/2026
⚠️🔴 AVISO ROJO | Lluvia torrencial en Prelitoral de Barcelona. ➡️ Tormentas estacionarias, especialmente en el entorno de Granollers. Más de 90 l/m² en una hora. En vigor hasta las 9:59 h del lunes. ➡️ Inundaciones y crecidas súbitas. Sigue indicaciones de Protección Civil.
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Prof Bill McGuire @profbillmcguire.bsky.social · 02/10/2026
Mind-boggling - just mind-boggling Now expected to peak at an extraordinary 4.2C in December
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Science Magazine @science.org · 04/10/2026
A species of lungfish found in South America has claimed the title of the animal with the biggest genome sequenced so far. Learn more on #WorldAnimalDay: scim.ag/46OMl6v
This odd fish has 30 times as much DNA as humans—a new record for animals
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Kees van der Leun @sustainable2050.bsky.social · 04/10/2026
Videos of the ongoing floods in various parts of Spain here: m.youtube.com/watch?v=ZshF... Via @reheissergaspard.bsky.social
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Spain in Flood Chaos! Violent Flash Floods Hit 15 Regions, Cars Swept Away as Towns Go Underwater
YouTube video by Wild WeatherUS
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Reuters @reuters.com · 04/10/2026
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Two dead in flooding in Spain's Catalonia region
Two people have died and another was missing after heavy rains and flooding in Spain's Catalonia region, ​authorities said on Sunday.
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Mark Chadbourn @chadbourn.bsky.social · 02/10/2026
Poland’s Defence Ministry is drafting a law to prepare the state for a “pre-war” or full defence-readiness phase before martial law is formally declared, Rzeczpospolita reports.
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Georgios Karamanis @karaman.is · 02/10/2026
I made a macOS screensaver that draws the warming stripes one year at a time. It holds all 1,069 locations from showyourstripes.info and nine ways to build each picture. Free download. Stripes by Ed Hawkins @edhawkins.org karaman.is/blog/2026/10... #ShowYourStripes #dataviz #macOS
 A MacBook on a table outdoors, with autumn trees behind it. The screen fills with the warming stripes for Sweden, 1850–2025: thin vertical bars in blues and pale shades, turning to deep reds toward the right. A small label in the corner reads "Sweden 1850–2025"
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Amy Maxmen, PhD @amymaxmen.bsky.social · 02/10/2026
The Ebola outbreak in Congo is now exploding in North Kivu, where 34% of Ebola patients are being treated in bare-bones health facilities instead of Ebola Treatment Units, according to @msf.org 3,982 confirmed deaths 😔 www.doctorswithoutborders.org/latest/ebola...
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Ebola outbreak spreading like “wildfire” across North Kivu
The province is bearing an increasing share of the Ebola burden in DR Congo, while access to specialized care remains insufficient.
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Meteored España @handle.invalid · 02/10/2026
Una fuerte tormenta ⛈️ provoca graves inundaciones en #Madrigueras, Albacete.
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Meteored España @handle.invalid · 01/10/2026
🌀 La dana que se formará este fin de semana generalizará las tormentas ⛈️ 🔗 www.tiempo.com/noticias/prediccion/…
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VAW Glaciology @vaw-glaciology.bsky.social · 01/10/2026
Switzerland's glacier report 2026 is out. Swiss glaciers have lost 5% of their ice volume this year. Only the last 5 years accounted for nearly 20% of the total ice loss across Switzerland. The numbers are devastating. Full report → doi.glamos.ch/pubs/annualr...
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Dr. Aaron Thierry @thierryaaron.bsky.social · 01/10/2026
“What we are seeing now is a complete explosion of these melt rates, leading to the disintegration of glaciers. They’re really just falling apart.” #Switzerland 🇨🇭 #ClimateEmergency
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‘Explosion of melt rates’: 20% of Swiss glaciers lost in five years
Alpine regions in Europe experiencing extreme glacier collapse due to heat-trapping effects of fossil fuel pollution
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Willem van Schaik @wvschaik.bsky.social · 01/10/2026
Barbaric. Capital punishment has no place in a civilised nation.
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Mark Chadbourn @chadbourn.bsky.social · 01/10/2026
The Bank of England warning that the AI bubble could burst, with economic consequences, delivered in typically restrained language.
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AI boom could trigger market shocks, Bank of England boss warns
Andrew Bailey says the central bank is watching the waves of cash being invested in artificial intelligence "very carefully".
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Prof. Stefan Rahmstorf @rahmstorf.bsky.social · 30/09/2026
Big Oil remains the most significant obstacle to reducing emissions and limiting climate harms. It’s important to understand the long history of that.
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Jan-Jaap Wesselink @j1nj22p.eurosky.social · 30/09/2026
Bierset, c'est nous @liege.bike
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Extreme Temperatures Around the World @extremetemps.bsky.social · 30/09/2026
September ends with 32.2C in FRANCE,31.2C in GERMANY and a HISTORIC HOT NIGHT MINIMUMS:Up to 23C in France and 🇧🇪 20.4 Bierset 20.2 Dourbes Monthly record 19.9 Humain Monthly record 🇩🇪 20.0 Deuselbach Tomorrow Thousands of October High Mins records from Spain to Scandinavia
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AEMET @aemet.es · 30/09/2026
⚠️AVISO ESPECIAL | Chubascos muy fuertes y persistentes en el este peninsular. ➡️ Episodio de varios días. Podrá derivar en inundaciones y crecidas de cauces. ➡️ Situación potencialmente muy adversa. Sigue recomendaciones de Protección Civil. + info 👉 www.aemet.es/es/eltiempo/...
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Dr. Serge Zaka @sergezaka.bsky.social · 30/09/2026
Une alerte météorologique "extrême", pour reprendre le terme du message FR-Alert reçu sur les téléphones pour toute la population, est en cours dans le Gard et l'Hérault. Les dernières prévisions sont terrifiantes entre 300 et 400mm de pluie en villes. La population est invitée à se confiner.
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Melaine Le Roy @subfossilguy.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
Glacier Carré (La Meije) 2008 | 2018 | 2026 The iconic ice patch punctuating La Meije (3983 m) south face and its normal route (3600-3780 m) could not resist the insane 2026 summer! 😪 Our cryospheric heritage is literally being destroyed before our very eyes! 🧊🔥 📷 PNE and Félix de Montety
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Olga Lautman 🇺🇦 @olgalautman.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
An update on the situation in Europe, and what multiple intel agencies are saying about what could come next…
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Europe’s Warnings About Russia Are Getting Much More Specific
Over the past several months, European and U.S.
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JKB @jokb.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
Wat een ellende, die intensieve veehouderij @stichtingmobilisation.nl bsky.app/profile/theg...
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Guillermo Peris 🧬💻 @waltzingpiglet.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
Los que me conocéis sabéis que uno de los objetos de mi investigación son los retrovirus endógenos, virus que todos tenemos en nuestro genoma y ocupan un 8 % de nuestro ADN. Pues atentos, que ahora @cedricfeschotte.bsky.social et al han descubierto el primer virus… ¡con ADN humano! 🤯
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Johanns (Alpen) weer @johannsalpenweer.bsky.social · 28/09/2026
Zoek de verschillen #Matterhorn #Cervino vandaag en precies 1 jaar geleden
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Melaine Le Roy @subfossilguy.bsky.social · 28/09/2026
Matterhorn SE face 27th sept. 2026 We are leaving a desert to next generations... 🔥 📷 Via Niko Froitzheim
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Mark Chadbourn @chadbourn.bsky.social · 28/09/2026
US social media companies are interfering in the Brazilian elections in favour of the Far Right’s Flávio Bolsonaro. Meta is the latest. It’s just blocked the campaign account of President Lula in the final stretch of the election.
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Meta restringe la cuenta de Lula y su partido alerta por posible injerencia extranjera
De cara a las elecciones en Brasil, Lula enfrenta a Meta por restringir su cuenta mientras su partido alerta por posible injerencia extranjera.
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Marieke Doorman 🍋🍀🌹🌍🍉 @mariekedoorman.bsky.social · 27/09/2026
digitalekrant.volkskrant.nl/volkskrant/2...
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Prof. Eliot Jacobson @climatecasino.net · 27/09/2026
Breaking News! Code: FUBAR!!! The preliminary Nino 3.4 sea-surface temperature for September 25th was 29.822°C. This breaks the previous highest temperature ever recorded in the region of 29.815°C, set on November 17th, 2015. The Climate 8-ball is exiting, stage right.
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Hubert Smeets @hubertsmeets.bsky.social · 27/09/2026
Waar kernorganisatie @nieuwevredesbwging.bsky.social, @lsvb.bsky.social en FNVYoung in geen velden of wegen waren te bekennen, gingen deze jonge Oekraïners gaan dialoog aan met pro-Russische kar op Dam.
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Hidde Bouwmeester @hiddebouwmeester.nl · 27/09/2026
Er lopen mensen met de Novorussiya-vlag, een soort Russische confederatie-vlag. De hele week moest ik aanhoren dat deze demonstratie niets met Rusland en Oekraïne te maken had, maar “met de afbraak van de verzorgingsstaat.”
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AEMET @aemet.es · 26/09/2026
ℹ️🌡️ Este 26 de septiembre se han alcanzado los 40 °C más tardíos en la España peninsular y Baleares desde que hay registros. ➡️ Hasta ahora, los días más tardíos eran el 25/09/1983 (Sevilla-Tablada, 40,0 °C) y ayer 25/09/2026 (Andújar, 40,1 °C).
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Isa Yusibov @isayusibov.bsky.social · 26/09/2026
Putin in 2022: "Rights of the Russian-speaking minorities in Ukraine are being violated but we are not going to invade Ukraine" Putin yesterday: "Rights of the Russian-speaking minorities in the Baltics are being violated but we are not going to invade the Baltics."
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Kees van der Leun @sustainable2050.bsky.social · 26/09/2026
The Rhine is in uncharted territory. Normal flow where it enters the Netherlands is around 1,500 m³/s in September. Now it's well below 600 m³/s... and still going down.
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Sybrand Frietema @frietema.bsky.social · 28/02/2025
Waarom houdt XR zich niet bij haar leest: klimaatacties en geweldloos verzet tegen oa. fossiele subsidies? Daar is nog een wereld te redden. Dit soort leentjebuur verwatert de boodschap ipv versterkt.
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Marc Dubuisson @unpied.bsky.social · 27/09/2026
Dessin de 2016.
Deux personnages devant un mur sur lequel est écrit "Aimez-vous les uns les autres". L'un des personnages dit à l'autre : Encore de la propagande gaucho-homo-bobo-bien-pensante
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