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Anders Lanzén @lanzen.bsky.social · 01/10/2026

Left Europe's most unapologetically pretty capital, Ljubljana, and Aquaculture Europe #AE2026 (thank you - it's been a blast!) and landed in Bergen, the equally beautiful capital of Western Norway to work more on #eDNA monitoring. Good to be back! (ancient photo, from when I used to live here)

Bergen from Fløien on a rare un-rainy summer night, circa 2012

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Anders Lanzén @lanzen.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

It's great to be here withy colleagues from @azti.bsky.social in pretty, sunny Ljubljana, first time for me to Aquaculture Europe. Don't miss our talk on #eDNA based biomonitoring, E Villarino, 9.15 Thursday. Mine was this morning. Sorry.. 😅

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Anders Lanzén @lanzen.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

Vero interesting talk by Wiktoria Vogrin, University of Graz, on a biodiversity monitoring robot for aquaculture, in development. Aquaculture 2026, Ljubljana, #EAS2026

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Anders Lanzén @lanzen.bsky.social · 16/09/2026

I hope it stays like that or I might have to abandon ship, specifically my Swedish citizenship. But I don't really want to until I can have one of these

Imaginary Basque passport (it's beautiful)

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Anders Lanzén @lanzen.bsky.social · 16/09/2026

I hope it stays like that or I might have to abandon ship / my Swedish citizenship. But I don't really want to until I can have one of these

Imaginary Basque passport and a glass of ape cider. Behind us the rocky Basque coast and its flag

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Anders Lanzén @lanzen.bsky.social · 13/09/2026

I read this story as fiction when I was about 15 and loved it. But couldn't take it very seriously then. Now I know Ben Elton is, among other things, an accurate, cynical superforecaster. Much like me, now. It's exhausting and depressive. Black humour is one of the few ways to handle it.

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Anders Lanzén @lanzen.bsky.social · 13/09/2026

I read this story as fiction when I was about 15 and I loved it. But I couldn't take it 100% seriously then. Now I know Ben Elton is, among other things, an accurate, cynical superforecaster. Much like me, nowadays. It's exhausting and depressive. Black humour is one of the few ways to handle it.

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Anders Lanzén @lanzen.bsky.social · 31/08/2026

Sådärja, då har man gjort sin medborgerliga plikt som utlandssvensk (eller en av dem, rättare sagt - att hålla sig informerad och att odla en förmåga till kritiskt tänkande är väl andra).

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Anders Lanzén @lanzen.bsky.social · 25/06/2026

Jag synar och höjer med några grader till (fast för fyra timmar sen vände det och temperaturen sjönk under 27 för första gången på fem dagar - helt sjukt och onormalt här på baskiska kusten)

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Anders Lanzén @lanzen.bsky.social · 24/06/2026

Completely normal early summer temperatures in coastal Gipuzkoa, now for the 4th day in a row, of course. The fact that they're 10 degrees higher than normal heat waves and that trees and plants are starting to wither, in what is normally a green, beautiful month here, must be ignored.

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Anders Lanzén @lanzen.bsky.social · 01/06/2026

Fast notera att det bara är de "orättvisa" utvisningarna, som de vill slopa. Och man kan tänka sig att de har kontrollerat med Chefen, dvs Åkesson, före de törs gå ut med det

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Anders Lanzén @lanzen.bsky.social · 01/06/2026

Lite såhär, antar jag att han vill ha det, det lilla nassesvinet

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Anders Lanzén @lanzen.bsky.social · 18/03/2026

Zorionak - congratulations Dr. @ionferrico.bsky.social Abad to an extremely well (and hard) earned PhD degree! It's been an absolute pleasure to have the privilige of being your supervisor for these last years and today you aced the defence, as I knew you would 😉. >

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Anders Lanzén @lanzen.bsky.social · 28/02/2026

Post a pic you took, no context, to bring some zen to the feed.

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Anders Lanzén @lanzen.bsky.social · 26/02/2026

Just coming back from a sunny walk to the actual, physical post office, from where I sent physical copies of the thesis of the talented Mr (soon, hopefully Dr) Abad-Recio that I've had the pleasure to supervise. Nice feeling, like being back in time to the 90s. And obviously I paid with cash, too.

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Anders Lanzén @lanzen.bsky.social · 17/02/2026

Scientific hobby side home project - what lives in the communal swimming pool during winter? Today, with the help of my two junior assistants, we filtered 1.5L of this beautiful but smelly, stale water through a 0.2 micron pore polycarb filter.

The Lamprey portable water filtering device in action

The winter resting swimming pool studied

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Anders Lanzén @lanzen.bsky.social · 09/01/2026

Tror jag delar denna istället. Det är inte min mormor, som boken tillhörde, sin handstil, så någon vän till henne, när hon var 24 år gammal, 1944. Varsågod. Ska pröva mig på dessa chokladsnittar själv tror jag.

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Anders Lanzén @lanzen.bsky.social · 28/12/2025

or moral implications have captured and "infected" the topic, to an extent that it's not possible to discuss publicly any more. And the counter reaction, as we just saw. That guy, who unlike me knows nothing about biology, blocked me, for *this* answer, which is ridiculous. >

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Anders Lanzén @lanzen.bsky.social · 04/12/2025

We're now halfway through the Ostreobila project (EU Interreg) with lots of interesting results presented in its general meeting related to the aim of to better understand and monitor the toxic algae Ostreopsis that is an emerging threat to human and ecological health here, and to standardise >

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Anders Lanzén @lanzen.bsky.social · 03/12/2025

Well, he did self identify with this guy in his social media posts. Don't anyone from photographers that take this kind of shot to journalists that publish it get summarily executed yet, btw? If not, better, but I'm surprised. Are we still in 1933?

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Anders Lanzén @lanzen.bsky.social · 01/11/2025

Gau beltza on! (or happy Halloween, if you celebrate the Christianised version, and speak English..) Illustration by Zorione, 4yo

Hiru kalabaz laranjak / Three orange pumpkins

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Anders Lanzén @lanzen.bsky.social · 18/10/2025

"A gardner told me, some plants move, but I coukd not believe it" - Vampire Weekend, Hannah Hunt

My orchid, clearly centred on the edge, ready to fall out if it's pot, which is not where I planted it, at all

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Anders Lanzén @lanzen.bsky.social · 19/09/2025

First tiger mosquito I've seen here in Zumaia. So far they've officially only reached Donostia-San Sebastian as they're spreading locally from the north but it was just a question of time. Thanks for that, humanity, and the runaway climate change we've caused 😡. (1/2)

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Anders Lanzén @lanzen.bsky.social · 14/08/2025

First try brewing sriracha ("the ketchup of Asia) on my home-grown chilis. Microbes, do your thing!

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Anders Lanzén @lanzen.bsky.social · 30/06/2025

Lobster Mac'n'Cheese. No, thank you, Jeeves, I'd rather, I mean, wtaf? Mac'n'Cheese? Serve me actual dinner and pack your bags tomorrow, if youd be so kind

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Anders Lanzén @lanzen.bsky.social · 30/06/2025

Nah, you just have good taste. And to be "upper class" on this I think you need to have very poor taste and definitely not be upper class. Lobster Mac'n'Cheese? Foie burger ? Wtaf? Who'd ruin lobster or foie like that except someone trying, far too hard, to be upper class? 😅

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Anders Lanzén @lanzen.bsky.social · 06/06/2025

How about just declaring full independence?

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Anders Lanzén @lanzen.bsky.social · 06/06/2025

So, don't just start blocking people based on random lists from accounts you don't know. And also, what's up with this whole behaviour, and is there anything to do with these people making and sharing these ridiculous false flag lists? Is it common?

Screenshot of listo fixations service showing false flag block list from user ottomanvampire

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Anders Lanzén @lanzen.bsky.social · 29/05/2025

Photos from yesterday the set of MicroMon the Movie in beautiful Zumaia - coming soon to a YouTube channel near you (don't miss it).

An empty intertidal sandbank and a camera on tripod in the beautiful Basque town of Zumaia

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Anders Lanzén @lanzen.bsky.social · 28/05/2025

Join the worst bully on the schoolyard and let him control your life and make it miserable, you'll get his word that he'll protect you from possible revenges from the kids he bullied, in return. Something that would cost, let's say a hundred million gazillion global GNP equivalents otherwise

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Anders Lanzén @lanzen.bsky.social · 21/05/2025

Before you spread your wings, there's just no knowing how far you will have to walk, or how much bloody time you will waste doing it. As they say. (no ERC grant for me, at least this time)

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Anders Lanzén @lanzen.bsky.social · 06/04/2025

Cherry blossoms (trad. European cultivar, selected for berries not flowers), Iraeta here in the Basque country, this time of year 2 ya vs the Japanese kind, shot in Kyoto, ages ago. (Will break the chain here - I don't do chain posting stuff, not me 😉)

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Anders Lanzén @lanzen.bsky.social · 30/03/2025

Explored the flysch limestone caves of my local beach Itzurun (that also happens to be the most spectacular beach of the world 😅) today

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Anders Lanzén @lanzen.bsky.social · 20/03/2025

...and the exciting results from the MerClub project I am happy to have been part of hunting mercury "detoxifier" microbes in marine sediments and using them for biorestuaration

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Anders Lanzén @lanzen.bsky.social · 20/03/2025

Silvia Acinas AT CSIC ICM presenting impressive results from the Tara polar expeditions. Lots of unknown taxa, bigger genomes v temperate waters, 60% MAGs with polar distribution (as opposed to bipolar ie both Arctic and Antarctic) at #Aquaecomics d3

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Anders Lanzén @lanzen.bsky.social · 19/03/2025

Today in #Aquaecomics, my amazing colleague in @azti.bsky.social Leire Garate presented our work using time series to study the temporal stability, potential interaction structure and effects of human pressures on those, in estuary sediment microbe communities. #microbialEcology

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Anders Lanzén @lanzen.bsky.social · 19/03/2025

Ramiro Logares @ramalok.bsky.social talking about the importance of marine microbes (the absolute keystones of life imho) and how time series like the BBMO and global expeditions like Tara are fundamental for better understanding ecology and adapta to climate change, #Aquaecomics d2

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Anders Lanzén @lanzen.bsky.social · 19/03/2025

Fascinating and important talk by Tristan Cordier @trtcrd.bsky.social on the utility and challenges w ancient sediment DNA ( #sedaDNA). ~"Beyond past biodiversity, can we reconstruct [understand] ancient ocean ecosystems and link it to contemporary climate change". #Aquaecomics 2025, Evian, France

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Anders Lanzén @lanzen.bsky.social · 19/03/2025

Great keynote on #eDNA based environmental #biomonitoring on #Aquaecomics day 2 highlighting how it can never correspond to traditional morpho based methods despite its advantages. We should "complement and exploit its full potential, not retrofitting".

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Anders Lanzén @lanzen.bsky.social · 18/03/2025

Very happy to be in beautiful Evian on the shores of the Geneva lake (lac Léman) for the fantastic #AquaEcOmics conference and its impressive line-up of who's who in aquatic molecular ecology. Photo from boat trip to Lausanne yesterday (Alps covered in clouds, unfortunately)

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Anders Lanzén @lanzen.bsky.social · 17/02/2025

Yes, and it's also important to never question billionaires or language models. They're always right

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Anders Lanzén @lanzen.bsky.social · 12/02/2025

This is the international version. Though usually I use Duckduckgo.com which works well, as always

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Anders Lanzén @lanzen.bsky.social · 11/02/2025

Also, it's funny how some people seem to think that being a professor comes with the obligation to explain the screamingly obvious to grown up people playing (or being) dumb, with the patience of a kindergarten teacher.

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Anders Lanzén @lanzen.bsky.social · 08/02/2025

Såhär lagar jag carbonara, och har ni nåt att klaga på står det er fritt att bara att låta bli att komma över på middag www.dn.se/mat-dryck/sa...

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Anders Lanzén @lanzen.bsky.social · 31/01/2025

Fancy encountering a statue of the old mega wealthy fascist, dictator, parasite, con-artist and general demagogue Elonius Muskus, whose descendants later included prominent racists, nazis, anti-humanist activists, killers of decent technology and puppet emperors. Herculaneum, ca 0 AD

Ancient Roman statue of Augustus, giving the salute that later inspired the derived version by Italian fascists and german nazis, Herculaneum, outside Napoli

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