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Joachim Mergeay

@jmergeay.bsky.social
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EU 🇧🇪- Scientist INBO Belgium- conservation genetics of any species - climbing arborist - wolves - LCIE - he/him 💙🇺🇦💛 orcid.org/0000-0002-650

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Phillips OBrien @phillipspobrien.bsky.social · 18h
Hey Canada, looks like he wants to emigrate. To you or Switzerland…
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Tim Carmody @tcarmody.bsky.social · 02/10/2026
This is the funniest thing I've seen today, possibly ever
A tweet by SarahStarberry that says "oh god read the vertical axis" on top of a chart measuring AI models' release dates and model numbers rather than any real capabilities
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Jolyon Troscianko @jtroscianko.bsky.social · 30/09/2026
🦋 Butterfly wing patterns create motion illusions that protect them from predators! Our new study (8 years in the making) is out in Nature today doi.org/10.1038/s415... @grahancock.bsky.social @esbriolat.bsky.social @scienceanna.bsky.social @lauraakelley.bsky.social @uniexecec.bsky.social
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Phillips OBrien @phillipspobrien.bsky.social · 01/10/2026
If the Baltic states, the UK and France are not invited to discuss the state of NATO with the USA, then the other European NATO states should refuse to attend as well. European security needs to be seen as a whole, only Putin (and Trump) wants to divide it up. www.politico.com/news/2026/09...
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Pentagon excludes key allies from NATO meeting
Some of Europe’s biggest defense spenders — and U.S. allies — were not invited to a Pentagon-led meeting to discuss the alliance.
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Sophie in't Veld @sophieintveld.bsky.social · 01/10/2026
I have signed up to the formal complaint filed by @albertoaleman.bsky.social about the failure of the Commission to uphold the Schengen rules and our right to free movement. We cannot stand by idly as the EU is being slowly dismantled
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Joachim Mergeay @jmergeay.bsky.social · 30/09/2026
The emphasis on tree planting suggests that the issue is that trees don’t know how to reproduce. The core issue is always land use, and giving space back to natural processes. Every planted tree is 50 y of postponed adaptation
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Marje isn’t haunted by ghosts @minn-finn.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
Read the whole thread. And then understand that the roots of “The Male Loneliness Epidemic” stem from the same place of not teaching boys how to live in community.
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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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Vluchtelingenwerk Vlaanderen @vluchtelingenwerk.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
De minister vond dat we woonstbetredingen te dramatisch voorstelden. Dus keken we opnieuw naar wat er écht in het wetsontwerp staat. Want als zo’n ingrijpende maatregel alleen voor uitzonderlijke situaties bedoeld is, moet de wet die grens ook duidelijk trekken. Die grens ligt bij de voordeur.
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Joachim Mergeay @jmergeay.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
A whole lot of the food waste is totally unrecorded, because it never even entered the value chain. This here is across my home. Under every tree there’s 10-20 kg of “bad” apples, which would make perfect apple sauce, juice, vinegar, ... what’s the point of this most efficient agriculture again?
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ryan cooper @ryanlcooper.com · 29/09/2026
pretty compelling train of reasoning tbh
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Matt Novak @paleofuture.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
The tweet that immediately came to mind:
We're a modest company with modest goals:
1: sell a quality product at a fair price
2: drain the world's oceans so we can find and kill god
6:19 PM • Oct 21, 2014 • Twitter for iPhone
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Jacob Öberg @profjacob.bsky.social · 28/09/2026
🚨🚨Quite a scoop: A #US based data-extraction firm accused of being secretly run from #Russia has worked on #EU-backed projects and sold its services to European #lawenforcement agencies. www.politico.eu/article/russ...
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Russian tech surveillance company infiltrated Europe’s law enforcement agencies
The same technology used by Western police was allegedly being developed in Russia and sold to Russian security services.
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Kees van der Leun @sustainable2050.bsky.social · 28/09/2026
On average, the Dutch think that 20% of the people here is Muslim (it's 5%). They overestimate our income tax rate by 28%. They think the number of homicides is on the rise (it's falling). And that agriculture takes 19% of our land area (it's 60%). And they have strong opinions on all of the above.
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Sander Turnhout🔻🍉🌳🌱🍄🦟🐈‍⬛🍓🔥 @sanderturnhout.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
Maar laten we wat doen aan wokisme
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apache/ @apache.be · 29/09/2026
In Vlaanderen organiseert extreemrechts actief het “lokale” protest tegen nieuwe opvangcentra voor asielzoekers, blijkt uit onderzoek van Apache. Ook in Wallonië, dat meer opvangplaatsen voor asielzoekers heeft, zijn er spanningen. Al speelt er een andere dynamiek. apache.be/2026/09/29/p...
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Politieke recuperatie van onvrede over asielcentra werkt minder in Wallonië
Wallonië heeft aanzienlijk meer opvangplaatsen voor asielzoekers dan Vlaanderen.
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Alejandra Caraballo @esqueer.net · 27/09/2026
Google finally updated some of its satellite images of Gaza and my god, it's horrific. The entirety of Rafah has been demolished. The majority of Khan Younis is in ruins. Entire towns completely leveled and erased of the map.
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Naomi Klein @naomiaklein.bsky.social · 27/09/2026
I just saw a film about the AI-enabled apocalypse. Only it's not science fiction. It's not even in the future. It's in the present. The film is called NAZA. See it. @theguardian.com @us.theguardian.com youtu.be/98xLCdc7t7E
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Apocalypse is here
YouTube video by Naomi Klein
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Isa Yusibov @isayusibov.bsky.social · 27/09/2026
Kremlins staatspersbureau heeft een euforisch artikel geschreven over de demonstratie van hun useful idiots vandaag in Amsterdam. Lekker gewerkt, folks
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marc konijn @marckonijn.bsky.social · 25/09/2026
* schepen moeten 300 km omvaren, vrijwel alle pontjes over de IJssel liggen eruit Geen enkel woord (ook in 🎥) over de droogte die veroorzaakt wordt door het oppoken van 280ppm CO2 naar bijna 430ppm door de mens die 150 ppm extra is de komeet uit Don’t Look Up 5/ www.rtl.nl/nieuws/econo...
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Zeer lage waterstand in IJssel: schepen richting noorden moeten 300 km omvaren
Vanaf morgenochtend mogen er geen schepen meer varen vanaf Arnhem richting het noorden over de IJssel. Het water is zo laag, dat Rijkswaterstaat eenrichtingsverkeer heeft ingesteld op de rivier, die d...
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SlenderSherbet @slendersherbet.bsky.social · 24/09/2026
"I don't fucking think so"
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Isa Yusibov @isayusibov.bsky.social · 24/09/2026
Very good piece. It is not Putin who is encouraging Putin. It is Europe doing it for him because European leaders are a bunch of cowards ready to swallow Putin's ongoing humiliations. They facilitate Putin's imperial wet dreams. foreignpolicy.com/2026/09/22/u...
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The West Is Sending Russia the Wrong Signals
Europe’s fear of escalation is encouraging Putin.
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Annie Leymarie @annieleymarie.bsky.social · 24/09/2026
"The documentary reveals the systems behind Israel’s calculated mass killing of Palestinian civilians in Gaza. NAZA is a military acronym euphemistically used by Israeli intelligence to indicate the number of civilians that it expects will be killed in an airstrike."
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Anthony Ricciardi @ecoinvasions.bsky.social · 23/09/2026
This is one of many species that posed a high risk of invading North American inland waters via the St Lawrence Seaway - until the 2006-08 ballast water regulation was put into effect (see conbio.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/full/10....). www.bbc.com/news/article...
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Invasive demon shrimp discovered in Wiltshire waterway
The "highly invasive" shrimp are larger than native species and can damage ecosystems.
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INBO (Research Institute for Nature and Forest) @inbo.be · 23/09/2026
De herintroductie van het bont dikkopje in het VK, with a little help from Belgium, was een succes en de inspanningen worden herhaald in de toekomst, aldus @bbcnewsunofficial.bsky.social : www.bbc.com/news/article...
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Reintroduction of butterflies to Rockingham Forest set to expand
A charity says it has been given £150,000 to expand the project in the next three years.
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Annie Leymarie @annieleymarie.bsky.social · 21/09/2026
“'2030 is not going to be the end of the world. There is 0% chance that’s going to be the end of the world,' Huang said... Humanity is not 'the world' - just one species.
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Annie Leymarie @annieleymarie.bsky.social · 21/09/2026
Of the 223 lead authors in the IPCC working group III (mitigation of climate change), an investigation found 20 with strong conflict of interest concerns. "Authors’ conflict of interest declarations are not made public, & the conflict of interest committee provides no detail about its deliberation."
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Alex Hall Hall @alexhh.bsky.social · 20/09/2026
“What’s happening in Gaza”. What IS happening in Gaza? Ed? Who’s dying, who’s killing? Any specifics there? Or, just more “both-siding”.
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Our World in Data @ourworldindata.org · 19/09/2026
Beef production has been the largest driver of deforestation this century. Over the last two decades, around 128 million hectares of forest have been cleared to make way for agriculture and forest plantations. That’s an area five times the size of the United Kingdom.
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Kathleen Lenihan @kathleenlenihan.bsky.social · 19/09/2026
The entire article is fantastic, but the writer's definition of a trad wife is *chef's kiss* perfection. "Those are conservative women who dress like the women in The Sound of Music, but without the opposition to the Anschluss."
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Jeroen Baert @jbaert.bsky.social · 19/09/2026
"Het is *in de mode* om tegen genocide te zijn" 🤡
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Jonathan Hopkin @jonathanhopkin.eurosky.social · 19/09/2026
Aside from Ratcliffe being a horrible person, the BBC is basically now a publicly funded slightly more polite arm of the right wing media and I’m wondering why Labour is so happy to leave it that way
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apache/ @apache.be · 19/09/2026
De alternatieve Italiaanse internetprovider Autistici/Inventati kon op anderhalve week tijd platgelegd worden door de VS. Terwijl het Amerikaanse geraas over een nakende AI-apocalyps ook hier het debat overspoelt, blijft het over A/I oorverdovend stil. apache.be/2026/09/19/m...
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Met één pennentrek legt Trump Europese digitale infrastructuur plat, waarom blijft het stil?
Wat zegt het einde van internetpionier Autistici/Inventati over de Europese digitale autonomie?
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Joachim Mergeay @jmergeay.bsky.social · 19/09/2026
You want a tiny sense of what everyday Israeli -Palestinian apartheid feels like ? Your religious ethnic background and residence defines your priviliges. If you’re an “Arab” Israeli you have way fewer rights than a Jewish Israeli. Israel is constitutionally a racist state.
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Alona Ferber @aloner.bsky.social · 15/09/2026
The response in Israel to NAZA has been unsurprisingly unhinged and denial-heavy. Reupping this by @omerbartov.bsky.social which is excellent on the mechanisms of Israelis' denial of atrocities committed by their own government and army www.prospectmagazine.co.uk/world/israel...
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A state of denial
Netanyahu’s onslaught against Gaza has been genocidal, but Israelis refuse to see it. This has historical parallels—and roots in Israel’s foundation
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Jeroen Baert @jbaert.bsky.social · 19/09/2026
Anthropic, vorige week: ONZE AI IS SUPER GEVAARLIJK, IEMAND ZOU HIER EEN BIOWAPEN MEE KUNNEN MAKEN, EVERYBODY SLOW DOWN Anthropic, deze week: *opent biolab* www.reuters.com/world/anthro...
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Carl T. Bergstrom @carlbergstrom.com · 19/09/2026
When we talk about the costs that LLMs impose on society we should not forget the fact that nothing works anymore because everyone is so scared of getting their shit scraped. I can't even use google scholar from my university or starlink because they send too much traffic.
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... but your computer or network may be sending automated queries. To protect our users, we can't process your request right now.
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Mehdi Hasan @mehdirhasan.bsky.social · 19/09/2026
"‘Liberal Zionism’ Is Dead, Says Leading Israeli Historian" The idea that Zionism is compatible with democracy, or even basic humanity, is absurd as the events of the last three years have proved, argues legendary Israeli author and academic Avi Shlaim for Zeteo UK:
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‘Liberal Zionism’ Is Dead, Says Leading Israeli Historian
The idea that Zionism is compatible with democracy, or even basic humanity, is absurd as the events of the last three years have proved, argues legendary Israeli author and academic Avi Shlaim.
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Claire Willett @clairewillett.bsky.social · 19/09/2026
every day of my life I think about the people using “she” to describe this computer program who still need to be convinced to use it for trans women
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Jim Pickard @pickardje.bsky.social · 18/09/2026
my brilliant colleague @robertshrimsley.bsky.social on the threat from Elon Musk’s X platform www.ft.com/content/f270...
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Joseph Cox @josephcox.bsky.social · 18/09/2026
OpenAI and Microsoft admitted LLMs are predatory tech built on “an astonishing theft of unprecedented proportions,” and the “largest theft of labor in human history.” An internal Microsoft document said AI has created a “doom loop” that is killing “the entire web.” www.404media.co/doom-loop-op...
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‘Doom Loop’: OpenAI and Microsoft Admits LLMs Are Destroying the Web and Built on Theft
"Millions of people around the world will soon consider large models ‘hoovering up’ all their work to be an astonishing theft of unprecedented proportions."
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Joachim Mergeay @jmergeay.bsky.social · 18/09/2026
Israhell. Day in day out, decade after decade. Structural government supported colonialism, racism, apartheid, violence and killing. Who said genocide had to go quickly?
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Alex Wild @alexwild.bsky.social · 18/09/2026
I wonder how many Republican house reps are quietly making the calculation that their electoral prospects improve if they run a quick impeachment process in the next couple weeks.
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Andrew D Wilson @adw.bsky.social · 18/09/2026
I’m old enough to remember when this sort of apartheid got you some consequences
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David Roberts @volts.wtf · 18/09/2026
Lol, Trump is reducing global greenhouse gas emissions despite himself.
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Analysis: Global fossil-fuel emissions set to fall in 2026 amid Hormuz crisis - Carbon Brief
Global fossil-fuel emissions are set to fall by in 2026 amid the fallout from the Hormuz crisis, according to Carbon Brief analysis.
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⚫️🐦‍⬛ 🇬🇪🇺🇦🇪🇺 @theskyisnotblue.bsky.social · 18/09/2026
Day 660 of nonstop protests in Georgia. 🇬🇪🇪🇺 #GeorgiaProtests 📹 Bacho Kajaia
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Isa Yusibov @isayusibov.bsky.social · 18/09/2026
Poetin: "We hebben geen plannen om Europa aan te vallen." Zijn woordvoerder op 20 februari 2022: "Waarom zouden we een ander land aanvallen? We hebben geen plannen voor een oorlog" Ergo: wees voorbereid. Hij gaat het doen.
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Max Colbert @mc00.bsky.social · 18/09/2026
Not that this was an issue when I was a teen, but I would absolutely ditch this phone if I was a 19-year-old and my parents tried to pull any shit like this. Don't track your child's every movement, you utter psychopaths.
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apache/ @apache.be · 18/09/2026
De verdediging van “rassenrealisme” door de Amerikaanse wetenschapsfilosoof Nathan Cofnas is wel degelijk pseudowetenschap. Pieter Beck, postdoctoraal onderzoeker wetenschapsgeschiedenis en -filosofie aan de UGent, legt in een tweedelige bijdrage uit waarom. apache.be/2026/09/17/w...
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Waarom ik Cofnas’ “rassenrealisme” pseudowetenschap noem
Cofnas' beweringen worden keer op keer weerlegd door experts uit de relevante vakgebieden.
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INBO (Research Institute for Nature and Forest) @inbo.be · 18/09/2026
Onderzoekster @vdriecha.bsky.social is finalist voor de Vlaamse PhD-cup 2026 van @scimingo.bsky.social :"Met één schep rivierwater kunnen we achterhalen welke vissen er in een rivier leven en hoe gezond onze waterlopen zijn." Heel @inbo.be duimt voor haar. www.phdcup.be/deelnemer/ch...
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