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Laura Stefan

@lstefan.bsky.social
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(Agro)ecologist, currently postdoc researcher at Agroscope, loving plant diversity 🌱🌿, books 📖, knitting 🧶 and alpacas 🦙

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Ecology Group Basel - Sabine Rumpf @ecologybasel.bsky.social · 14/08/2025
*Job alert* Come work with us! We have a fully funded 4yr #PhD position in #alpine & #Arctic plant #ecology available in our group @unibas.ch. The project includes fieldwork & connects to other ongoing projects on species range shifts & microclimate. jobs.unibas.ch/offene-stell... Please repost! 🌐🧪
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Universität Basel: PhD position in alpine and arctic plant ecology
The research group Ecology at the Department of Environmental Sciences at the University of Basel in Switzerland invites applications for a fully funded four-year PhD position in alpine and arctic pla...
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Denis Duboule @denisduboule.bsky.social · 13/08/2025
Le simple dépassement budgétaire de ces joujoux équivaut au budget annuel du Fond National Suisse de la Recherche Scientifique🙄 Faut arrêter les gars, passer à autre chose, s'il vous plaît😟
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The Guardian @theguardian.com · 13/07/2025
Quality of scientific papers questioned as academics ‘overwhelmed’ by the millions published
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Quality of scientific papers questioned as academics ‘overwhelmed’ by the millions published
Mainstream mockery of AI-generated rat with giant penis in one paper brings problem to public attention It was, at first glance, just another scientific paper, one of the millions published every year, and destined to receive little to no attention outside the arcane field of biological signalling in stem cells destined to become sperm. But soon after the paper was published online, in the journal Frontiers in Cell and Developmental Biology, it found a global audience. Not all of the readers came for the science. Continue reading...
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Erich Fischer @erichfischer.bsky.social · 30/06/2025
Viermal mehr Hitzerekorde als ohne Klimawandel Eigentlich gilt: Je länger die Messreihen, desto seltener neue Rekorde. Doch das Gegenteil ist der Fall – wie wir in unserem Reviewartikel in Nature Reviews Earth & Environment zeigen. Blog: www.carbonbrief.org/guest-post-h... Paper: rdcu.be/et273
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Guest post: How climate change is fuelling record-breaking extreme weather - Carbon Brief
Recent years have seen a rapid succession of climate-related records broken.
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Robert Rohde @rarohde.bsky.social · 30/06/2025
Western Europe summer high temperatures have increased ~2.6 °C (4.7 °F) during just the last 50 years. That's in a world with only 1.4 °C of global warming.
Time series of average daily high temperatures in Western Europe during June to August from 1850 to 2024.
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Valérie Masson-Delmotte @valmasdel.bsky.social · 25/06/2025
L’eau en 2050 : graves tensions sur les écosystèmes et les usages - note d'analyse du Haut Commissariat à la Stratégie et au Plan www.strategie-plan.gouv.fr/publications...
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L’eau en 2050 : graves tensions sur les écosystèmes et les usages | Haut-commissariat à la Stratégie et au Plan
Sauf transformation radicale des usages, les prélèvements en eau et plus encore les consommations – soit la part évapotranspirée du prélèvement –, devraient fortement croître entre 2020 et 2050. Due p...
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Valérie Masson-Delmotte @valmasdel.bsky.social · 21/06/2025
Une fête de la musique 🎶 de + en + chaude 🌡️
Evolution de la température maximale à la station Météo France de Paris Montsouris chaque 21 juin depuis 1953 et prévision du 21 juin 2025 à 34°C. Données disponibles sur : https://meteo.data.gouv.fr
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Markus Eichhorn @markuseichhorn.bsky.social · 28/05/2025
Why climate action fails.
Seven-person Mexican stand-off. Banner reads "You need to change first!". Participants are labelled cement production, data centres, forestry, peat mining, transport, livestock numbers and domestic energy.
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Auke Hoekstra @aukehoekstra.bsky.social · 21/05/2025
Is red meat bad for you? New meta study of 44 studies finds it depends on the sponsor. If the sponsor was impartial, most studies find it's bad for you. If the sponsor was the red meat industry, most studies are structured to find no problems. pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/40379522/
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Industry study sponsorship and conflicts of interest on the effect of unprocessed red meat on cardiovascular disease risk: a systematic review of clinical trials - PubMed
This trial for systematic reviews or meta-analyses was registered at PROSPERO as CRD42024525197 (https://www.crd.york.ac.uk/prospero/display_record.php?RecordID=525197).
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Trends in Plant Science @cp-trendsplantsci.bsky.social · 19/05/2025
Agroecological genomics and participatory science: optimizing crop mixtures for agricultural diversification #plantscience
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Agroecological genomics and participatory science: optimizing crop mixtures for agricultural diversification
Crops based on mixtures of species or genotypes support yield stability by providing multiple ecosystem services. However, the genetic, molecular, and evolutionary dynamics underlying co-adaptation within such mixtures must be understood to optimize beneficial plant–plant interactions. We therefore propose agroecological genomics as an integrated quantitative and population genetics approach that can be combined with cutting-edge omics methods and participatory science. This strategy embraces the heterogeneity of agroecosystems derived from interactions between biotic and physical environmental components such as climate, crop management, and socio-cultural factors by exploiting decentralized research. The integration of such results will reveal the whole-genome patterns of co-adaptation in crop mixtures, leading to greater knowledge of the key traits that drive adaptation as well as to the development of innovative tools for mixed-crop breeding.
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Robert Finger @robertfinger.bsky.social · 15/05/2025
Fachtagung Dialog Grün: Nachhaltiger Pflanzenschutz. 10. Juni, ETH Zürich. Teilnahme ist kostenlos, Anmeldung nötig. Postersubmission bis 20.05 www.plantsciences.uzh.ch/de/Wissensch... Ich freue mich auf ein Referat zu 'Wege zu nachhaltigem Pflanzenschutz: Perspektiven für Politik und Industrie'
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Matthias Huss @matthias-huss.bsky.social · 12/05/2025
Overall, snow measurements on glaciers indicate another dry year with significant repercussions on melting in the coming summer. @vaw-glaciology.bsky.social @wslresearch.bsky.social @scnat.ch
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Social Indicators Research @socialindicators.bsky.social · 11/05/2025
We are seeing multiple instances of reviewers doing manuscript reviews via use of AI/LLM. If you don't want to do a review the old-fashioned way, better to decline the request. Giving someone else's manuscript to AI is a violation of intellectual property rights/laws; the manuscript isn't yours...
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Peter Gleick @petergleick.bsky.social · 10/05/2025
Here's an idea. Give the younger generation hope that the older generations aren't going to totally f*** up their future. www.pbs.org/newshour/nat...
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What does it take to increase birth rates? Experts say there’s no 'magic' solution
As the Trump administration floats potential incentives to bring up the U.S. birth rate, experts tell PBS News that increasing a country’s birth rate is a heavy lift — if it’s possible at all.
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Matthias C. Rillig @mrillig.bsky.social · 08/05/2025
Is most harm in academia done unintentionally? Please let me know what you think -- very curious about other people's impressions and opinions. open.substack.com/pub/matthias...
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Is most harm in academia done unintentionally?
Proposing the idea that many lab working environments are not toxic because of inherently mean-spirited PIs, but because of doing harm unintentionally due to a lack of self-reflection
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Nicolas Gross @nicolas-p-gross.bsky.social · 07/05/2025
www.nature.com/articles/s41...
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High-income groups disproportionately contribute to climate extremes worldwide - Nature Climate Change
While climate injustice is widely recognized, a quantification of how emissions inequality translates into unequal accountability is still lacking. Here researchers examine how affluent groups disprop...
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Nature @nature.com · 29/04/2025
In 100 days in office, US President Donald Trump has destabilized eight decades of government support for science. This has included terminating more than 1,000 grants in areas such as climate change, cancer, and HIV prevention. Will US science survive Trump 2.0? www.nature.com/articles/d41...
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Anne Roulin @anneroulin.bsky.social · 25/04/2025
Could not imagine a better place for a post-doc! Exciting projects with a fantastic PI! Check it out 👇
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Daniel Croll @danielcroll.bsky.social · 25/04/2025
We have a postdoc position on "Fungal population genomics" focused on domestication and co-invasion processes in diverse fungi. You find the full ad here: pathogen-genomics.org/jobs/ Happy to answer any question! Please spread the word to anyone who might be interested.
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Daniel Croll @danielcroll.bsky.social · 25/04/2025
We have a postdoc position on "Deep learning for evolutionary genomics" with a focus on genome structure evolution, introgression detection and more. You find the full ad here: pathogen-genomics.org/jobs/ Happy to answer any question! Please spread the word to anyone who might be interested.
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Dr Alfredo Carpineti @drcarpineti.bsky.social · 21/04/2025
I’m not saying anything but I’ll let you connect the dots. #PopeFrancis
Liz truss meeting the queen just before she died. Jd Vance meeting the pope hours before his death
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Glen Peters @glenpeters.bsky.social · 16/04/2025
Just your regular reminder of where global CO2 emissions are tracking compared to scenarios that keep warming to below 1.5C in 2100, with "no or low overshoot" (maximum temperature around 1.6C). journals.sagepub.com/doi/full/10.... C1/
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Swiss National Science Foundation (SNSF) @snsf.ch · 11/04/2025
❗Serious consequences for the Swiss economy and society – the SNSF urges the abandonment of the proposed cuts to research funding in "Relief Package 27," as they threaten the country's innovative capacity and competitiveness. ➡️
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The SNSF urges against cuts
In its statement on "Relief Package 27", the SNSF speaks out against the proposed annual cuts of 10 percent.
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Marten Winter @smartenwinter.bsky.social · 10/04/2025
▶️𝐒𝐭𝐫𝐢𝐯𝐢𝐧𝐠 𝐟𝐨𝐫 𝐆𝐞𝐧𝐝𝐞𝐫 𝐄𝐪𝐮𝐢𝐭𝐲 𝐢𝐧 𝐀𝐜𝐚𝐝𝐞𝐦𝐢𝐚: 𝐈𝐧𝐬𝐢𝐠𝐡𝐭𝐬 𝐟𝐫𝐨𝐦 𝐭𝐡𝐞 𝐢𝐃𝐢𝐯 𝐅𝐞𝐦𝐚𝐥𝐞 𝐒𝐜𝐢𝐞𝐧𝐭𝐢𝐬𝐭𝐬 𝐈𝐧𝐢𝐭𝐢𝐚𝐭𝐢𝐯𝐞◀️ Concrete action points to improve gender equity Led by my @idiv-research.bsky.social (incl three #sDiv synthesis postdocs 😍e.g. @danielahoss.bsky.social) ▶️Read ▶️Discuss ▶️Implement
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Nature @nature.com · 09/04/2025
Studies of researchers globally suggest there is a mental-health crisis in academia go.nature.com/3RNAbmZ
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A mental-health crisis plagues PhDs — these evidence-led initiatives offer help
Communities of researchers worldwide are taking on the toxic research cultures that drive poor psychological health among academics.
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Gatien Falconnier @gatienfalconnier.bsky.social · 09/04/2025
Could drought and poor soil undermine the performance of intercropping ? Our study in semi-arid Zimbabwe found that the benefits of intercropping are maintained even with water and N stress. doi.org/10.1016/j.fc... Congrats Illiana Kwenda - A nice combination of field experiments and modelling
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Sofia van Moorsel @sofiavanmoorsel.bsky.social · 08/04/2025
Our findings suggest that the growth and associated ecosystem services of species-rich mixtures in afforestation projects can be optimized by artificially selecting seed families with high mixture performance in biodiversity experiments. nph.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/...
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Identifying seed families with high mixture performance in a subtropical forest biodiversity experiment
Afforestation projects using species mixtures are expected to better support ecosystem services than monoculture plantations. While grassland studies have shown natural selection favoring high-perfo...
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Dave Hutchinson @hutchinsondave.bsky.social · 03/04/2025
“I hear Trump’s imposed tariffs on us.” “Fuck off, Ralph. We’re penguins.”
Two penguins, one a black and white and yellow adult, one a floofy brown youngster, stand facing each other on a rocky beach
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Jason Hickel @jasonhickel.bsky.social · 02/04/2025
Pure evil. War crimes within war crimes, and with total impunity.
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Malte Jochum @maltejochum.bsky.social · 02/04/2025
Fellow Ecologists, The #gfoe2025 @gfoesoc.bsky.social call for papers has just been published. Please submit your abstracts for exciting talks and engaging posters to present in Würzburg in September! gfoe-conference.de/index.php?ca... @uni-wuerzburg.de @globalchangeeco.bsky.social
Logo of the 2025 Annual Meeting of the GfÖ in Würzburg, Germany.
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Max Koch @maxkoch.bsky.social · 02/04/2025
@jksteinberger.bsky.social on 'cataclysm capitalism' and what to do about it: www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...
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Trump and Musk have ushered in a terrible era of cataclysm capitalism. But I have a plan to counter it | Julia Steinberger
The speed with which US democracy is being dismantled is dizzying, but if we organise resistance now we can stop this, says Julia Steinberger of the University of Lausanne
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SPS Saclay Plant Sciences @spsplantsciences.bsky.social · 31/03/2025
#PlantWorkshop at @spsplantsciences.bsky.social, Denis Bourguet "Peer Community In and Peer Community Journal: from preprint recommendation to diamond open access publication" and announcing the launch of a new PCI journal... PLANTS !
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Médéric Gasquet-Cyrus @medericgc.bsky.social · 31/03/2025
Bravo Gilles Bouleau et TF1 d’avoir permis à une délinquante de venir sur votre plateau – avec des questions bienveillantes – jouer la victime, salir la justice, mentir ouvertement, crier au complot et tromper les Français. On n’oubliera pas.
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Marc Dubuisson @unpied.bsky.social · 31/03/2025
Rappel : il faut respecter la présomption d'innocence et laisser la justice faire son travail, et quand la justice a fait son travail, crier au complot.
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Jean-Moundir @supermegadrivin.bsky.social · 31/03/2025
Après le Kremlin et Viktor Orban on vient de recevoir un communiqué de Sauron qui dénonce lui aussi cette condamnation
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Frédéric Bérard @fberard.bsky.social · 27/03/2025
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Anne Roulin @anneroulin.bsky.social · 27/03/2025
@samwuest.bsky.social @samuelknapp.bsky.social
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Sophien Kamoun @kamounlab.bsky.social · 25/03/2025
Worth reading… Don’t visit the US – it just isn’t worth the risks right now www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...
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Don’t visit the US – it just isn’t worth the risks right now | Arwa Mahdawi
Minor visa infractions have seen tourists detained, shackled and deported by overzealous US border staff. There are many more welcoming places to go on holiday, writes Arwa Mahdawi
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bioRxiv Ecology @biorxiv-ecology.bsky.social · 25/03/2025
Ecological indicators predict functional diversity dynamics following glacier retreat www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1101/202…
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Agroscope @agroscope.bsky.social · 12/03/2025
👋 We are Agroscope. 🔹We do research to give farmers good solutions for the big challenges facing #agriculture. 🔹We champion good #food and a healthy #environment. 🔹We do whole-system research, with and for farmers. And for everyone in #Switzerland. 👉 youtu.be/F8ue5KXY1yY
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NPR @npr.org · 23/03/2025
The death toll reached the milestone just days after Israel resumed its military campaign in Gaza, breaking a ceasefire with Hamas.
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Palestinian deaths in Gaza rise above 50,000 as Israel expands its military campaign
The death toll reached the milestone just days after Israel resumed its military campaign in Gaza, breaking a ceasefire with Hamas.
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Don Moynihan @donmoyn.bsky.social · 19/03/2025
If you are visiting the United States, having a negative view of Trump is enough to get you denied entry. If this was coming out of Russia or China, we would deplore such an authoritarian attack on freedom of expression.
"I learned with concern that a French researcher" on assignment for the French National Center for Scientific Research (CNRS) "who was traveling to a conference near Houston was denied entry to the United States before being expelled ," said the Minister of Higher Education and Research, Philippe Baptiste, in a statement sent to Agence France-Presse (AFP). "This measure was apparently taken by the American authorities because the researcher's phone contained exchanges with colleagues and friends in which he expressed a personal opinion on the Trump administration's research policy ," he added
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Eric Lagadec @ericlagadec.bsky.social · 19/03/2025
Tout va bien, un chercheur français expulsé du territoire américain car il a eu des échanges sur son téléphone où il ne dit pas que du bien de la politique de Trump...
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Marney Isaac @marneyisaac.bsky.social · 15/03/2025
Crop traits are altered through domestication. This shapes crop suitability to the soil environment, and informs variety selection. Data in our new paper 👇 It’s time for serious investment into breeding seed supplies for organic and agroecological systems. link.springer.com/article/10.1...
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Interacting effects of crop domestication and soil resources on leaf and root functional traits - Planta
Main Conclusion Domestication altered wheat leaf functional trait expression, and soil amendments altered root trait expression. These alterations shape crop suitability to stressed environments, and ...
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Kryštof Chytrý @krystofchytry.bsky.social · 14/03/2025
Hi there, my student is making a survey about the use of R packages in Ecology, could you please spend two mins on filling it 🥹 Very appreciated! And if you could spread it further (RT), that would be just awesome. ❤️ docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1F...
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Exploring R Package Usage in Academia
I am running a quick survey to find out which R packages academics use the most in their research and teaching. The goal is to see which tools are essential, spot any gaps, and maybe even discover som...
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Dr Pierre Mariotte @pierremariotte.bsky.social · 12/03/2025
Our mission @agroscope.bsky.social 🫛🥔🌾🌱🍃🐄🐖🐏🦠🧫🧀🥩
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Agroscope Image Film
YouTube video by agroscopevideo
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Jay 🦋 @jay.bsky.team · 10/03/2025
the feminine urge to
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Bluesky CEO: imagine a 'world without Caesars'
Jay Graber dunks on Mark Zuckerberg without mentioning his name.
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Matthias C. Rillig @mrillig.bsky.social · 11/03/2025
New paper out in @pnas.org A global estimate of multiecosystem photosynthesis losses under microplastic pollution With colleagues from Nanjing www.pnas.org/doi/10.1073/...
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A global estimate of multiecosystem photosynthesis losses under microplastic pollution | PNAS
Understanding how ecosystems respond to ubiquitous microplastic (MP) pollution is crucial for ensuring global food security. Here, we conduct a mul...
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Marie Dupin @mdups.bsky.social · 11/03/2025
"Le gouvernement propose de réautoriser le plastique dans les cantines scolaires sous la pression des lobbys" @stephanemandard.bsky.social www.lemonde.fr/planete/arti...
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Le gouvernement propose de réautoriser le plastique dans les cantines scolaires sous la pression des lobbys
Un projet de décret ouvre la voie à un retour des couverts et de la vaisselle en plastique dans les cantines scolaires, afin d’éviter un nouveau recours des professionnels de la plasturgie.
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