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Robert Rosendal @robertrosendal.bsky.social · 27/09/2026

In de modder van de Eems-Dollard-kust bij Bierum leeft een bacterie die elektriciteit kan geleiden. Gisteren een slibfluisterende avond gehad bij het strandje van Bierum met kunstenaar Marjolijn Dijkman, nanotechnoloog Lealia Derickx en WadWikster Pia van Dellen. wakerslaperdromer.nl/index.php/20...

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Bellingcat @bellingcat.com · 21/05/2026

Since the beginning of 2026, at least four landslides are reported to have killed hundreds of people at the Rubaya mines in the Democratic Republic of Congo (DRC), a major global source of coltan. Coltan is widely used in smartphones, laptops and e-vehicles. www.youtube.com/shorts/RZ_PH...

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How We Verified Deadly Landslides in DRC Mines

YouTube video by Bellingcat

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EUMETSAT @eumetsat.int · 30/04/2026

🌊 Image of the Week: phytoplankton blooms off the UK coast, captured by #Copernicus Sentinel-3 on 27 Apr. DYK that phytoplankton produce over half of the world's oxygen & absorb large amounts of CO₂? This new, enhanced RGB product is available on EUMETView - link and more info here: bit.ly/42pQGeF

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Marjolijn Dijkman @marjolijndijkman.bsky.social · 21/04/2026

⚡Electrify Everything at Oscillation Festival✨ 24/04/2026 Beursschouwburg, Brussels Pom Bouvier b. & Marjolijn Dijkman Text: Jean Kambayi

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Marjolijn Dijkman @marjolijndijkman.bsky.social · 17/03/2026

🪵 21/03/2026: Between the Lines & Natura Rebellis at KLARA festival in Brussels 🪵 Between the Lines from 14:00 to 18:00. Performances of Natura Rebellis 15:00 and 17:00. Location: Sint-Jacob-op-de-Koudenbergkerk, Brussels Www.klarafestival.brussels/en

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The Public Domain Review @publicdomainrev.bsky.social · 16/03/2026

Born #onthisday in 1799, the English botanist Anna Atkins. As well as being considered by many to be first woman to create a photograph, her stunning 1843 book of algae cyanotypes is thought to be first book illustrated with photographs: publicdomainreview.org/collection/c... #OTD

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Marjolijn Dijkman @marjolijndijkman.bsky.social · 06/01/2026

Belgium faces a budget deficit of 5.4% of GDP, one of the largest in the eurozone. The arts sector in particular is facing dramatic cuts, also suggesting an uncertain future for Brussels’ new Kanal museum, scheduled to open at the end of this year. www.theguardian.com/world/2026/j...

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Artists decry dismantling of Belgium’s oldest contemporary art museum

Cost-saving plan to transfer Antwerp museum’s entire collection to another city described as ‘simply insane’

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alexandra crouwers @acrwrs.bsky.social · 17/12/2025

with fellow artistic researchers @marjolijndijkman.bsky.social and Nele Möller, I organise Speaking Afield: interdisciplinary walks & discussions with academic and scientific researchers in the field of ecology & biology. Here a few weeks ago with @janverpooten.bsky.social in the Antwerp harbour.

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Marjolijn Dijkman @marjolijndijkman.bsky.social · 15/10/2025

Open call for presentations POLLEN2026, Barcelona Call ends 05/12/2025 >> Soil Alive: Sedimented Relations and Muddy Agencies. Convenors: Anna Elisabeth Kuijpers (ULB) & Marjolijn Dijkman (LUCA/KU Leuven) Submissions may take artistic forms or adopt more traditional scientific approaches.

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P033: Soil Alive: Sedimented Relations and Muddy Agencies

Submissions may take artistic forms—such as visual art or performance—or adopt more traditional scientific approaches- like presentations or papers.

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Marjolijn Dijkman @marjolijndijkman.bsky.social · 15/11/2025

"Following billions in profits and over a thousand gas extraction-related earthquakes, the oil and gas giants filed claims against the Dutch state in four separate investor-state disputes concerning compensation for home damages and the permanent closure of the Groningen gas field."

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Exxon and Shell Sue The Netherlands in Secret Tribunals for Closing Europe’s Biggest Gas Field

Following billions in profits and over a thousand gas extraction-related earthquakes, the oil and gas giants filed claims against the Dutch state in four separate investor-state disputes concerning co...

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Marjolijn Dijkman @marjolijndijkman.bsky.social · 15/11/2025

Instagram is profiting from hate. Influencers are allowed sell antisemitic merch — fueling a digital pipeline of neo-Nazi propaganda. Meta’s refusal to act isn’t negligence anymore — it’s complicity.

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Marjolijn Dijkman @marjolijndijkman.bsky.social · 15/11/2025

Sea urchins have a body that is entirely made up of "head"—with a surprisingly complex central nervous system that functions, in essence, like an "all-body brain."

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Alejandra Caraballo @esqueer.net · 14/11/2025

Hey @safety.bsky.app, found an account making death threats you should suspend.

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Marjolijn Dijkman @marjolijndijkman.bsky.social · 14/11/2025

Cladosporium sphaerospermum is a remarkable species of radiotrophic fungus that is thriving in the Chernobyl Exclusion Zone. Scientists observed patches of blackened growths on the walls of the No. 4 reactor—fungi that seemed to thrive where the radiation was highest.

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This Black Fungus Might Be Healing Chernobyl By Drinking Radiation—A Biologist Explains

Cladosporium sphaerospermum is a remarkable species of radiotrophic fungus that is thriving in the Chernobyl Exclusion Zone and which scientists are studying to unlock applications in a wide range of ...

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Marjolijn Dijkman @marjolijndijkman.bsky.social · 11/11/2025

09/12/2025 kex—kunsthalle exnergasse, Vienna, AT As part of the exhibition Botanizing the Asphalt, Marjolijn Dijkman and Pom Bouvier-b. will present the live performance “Electrify Everything”.

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Botanizing the Asphalt

The live performance “Electrify Everything” translates the seductive and captivating magic of demonstrations of the eighteenth-century Enlightenment into a critical exploration of the origins of the u...

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Leana Hosea @leanahosea.bsky.social · 28/10/2025

After years of research, scientist Leonid Pshenichnov concluded Russia + China cannot continue fishing krill, the main food source of many marine creatures, at current rates without risking breakdown of entire ocean ecosystems. Russia had him arrested: www.theguardian.com/environment/...

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Russia arrests Ukrainian biologist for backing curbs on Antarctic krill fishing

‘Trumped-up’ charges spark diplomatic row as scientists express fears for health of 70-year-old Leonid Pshenichnov

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Marjolijn Dijkman @marjolijndijkman.bsky.social · 27/10/2025

Opening 5/11: Kunsthalle exnergasse. With: Ana Vaz, Alexandre Estrela, Anna Schachinger, Haig Aivazian, Hugo de Almeida Pinho, Jonathan Uliel Saldanha, Marjolijn Dijkman, Pedro Henriques, Younes Ben Slimane. Botanizing the Asphalt explores the political role of light in urban spaces at night.

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Kunsthalle Exnergasse

Die kex—kunsthalle exnergasse im WUK, ist ein nicht kommerziell orientierter Ausstellungsraum und versteht sich als offene Plattform zur Produktion und Präsentation von Projekten innovativer, experime...

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Simon Oldridge @sioldridge.bsky.social · 21/10/2025

We urgently need honesty on the climate crisis. Military emissions are excluded from national emissions figures. Yes, we simply pretend they don't exist. That means there's little pressure to reduce them. This has to change. www.thewaronclimate.org

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The War On Climate | Join the Climate Action

Explore how military emissions impact climate change and learn how to advocate for accountability and sustainable policies to protect the planet.

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Marjolijn Dijkman @marjolijndijkman.bsky.social · 15/10/2025

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P033: Soil Alive: Sedimented Relations and Muddy Agencies

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Marjolijn Dijkman @marjolijndijkman.bsky.social · 15/10/2025

Looking forward: Rethinking Human Relationships with the More-than-Human: Spiritual, Indigenous and Relational Paradigms in Conversation This seminar brings together international scholars and artists from a plurality of backgrounds. 30-31/10/25 at Center for Applied Ecological Thinking, DK

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Rethinking Human Relationships with the More-than-Human: Spiritual, Indigenous and Relational Paradigms in Conversation

This seminar creates a public forum that brings together international scholars and artists from a plurality of backgrounds.

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Marjolijn Dijkman @marjolijndijkman.bsky.social · 12/10/2025

ACTIVE TERRAIN N°4 Marjolijn Dijkman Solo exhibition 'Between the Lines', with unusually elaborate, spatially accessible arrangements, making the dynamic upheavals of the regions in question tangible for the audience, thus exemplifying the acute changes taking place on Earth.

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Exhibition – Marjolijn Dijkman - Kunstverein Göttingen

The final exhibition in the series ‘TERRA DIASPORA – Active Terrains’ presents Dutch artist Marjolijn Dijkman with her solo show ‘Between the Lines’. On the first floor of Göttingen's Old Town Hall, s...

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Commodity Frontiers Initiative @commodityfrontiers.bsky.social · 24/09/2025

New article from Marjolijn Dijkman and Oliver Ressler. ‘We need to understand that the main appeal of CCS for the fossil industries lies in the huge new subsidies it promises the industry.' Read the article on journal.commodityfrontiers.com/journal-issu... #CFI

Oliver Ressler, “Carbon and Captivity”, 4K video, 33 min., 2020. Courtesy of the artist;  àngels, Barcelona; The Gallery Apart, Rome © Bildrecht, Vienna.

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AGF 🎧 poemproducer @poemproducer.bsky.social · 08/03/2024

~ 'focused listening' with Jana Winderen ► rec-on.org/focusedliste...

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European Space Agency @esa.int · 22/09/2025

Coming up tonight at 19:19 BST/20:19 CEST: the September #Equinox! This image from Meteosat-12, taken this morning, shows Earth near the equinox - when the terminator appears as a straight line dividing the planet into equal halves of light and dark. @wmo-global.bsky.social @eumetsat.int

This image from Meteosat-12, captured this morning, 22 September 2025, shows Earth on the equinox — when the terminator line runs from pole to pole, dividing the planet into equal halves of light and dark. From space, it appears as a strikingly vertical line.

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Marjolijn Dijkman @marjolijndijkman.bsky.social · 13/09/2025

This report is a wake-up call: urgent action is needed to protect ecosystems, seafood safety, and public health from the growing threat of forever chemicals. eeb.org/library/fore...

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'Forever Chemicals' poisoning Europe's waters and fish

Fresh EEB report reveals the shocking extent of PFAS ('forever chemicals') pollution in Europe’s fish and waters.

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Artists at Risk (AR) @artistsatrisk.bsky.social · 12/09/2025

Earlier this year, ERforS hosted Pamela – a photographer from the Democratic Republic of Congo (DRC) – as the first AR-resident as part of a new ongoing partnership. 2/10

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Artists at Risk (AR) @artistsatrisk.bsky.social · 12/09/2025

✨ 𝗠𝗲𝗲𝘁 𝗼𝘂𝗿 𝗳𝗶𝗿𝘀𝘁 𝗔𝗥-𝗿𝗲𝘀𝗶𝗱𝗲𝗻𝘁 𝗣𝗮𝗺𝗲𝗹𝗮 𝗧𝘂𝗹𝗶𝘇𝗼 @𝗽𝗮𝗺𝗲𝗹𝗮𝘁𝘂𝗹𝗶𝘇𝗼 𝗮𝘁 𝗼𝘂𝗿 𝗔𝗥-𝗥𝗲𝘀𝗶𝗱𝗲𝗻𝗰𝗲 𝗽𝗮𝗿𝘁𝗻𝗲𝗿 𝗶𝗻 𝗕𝗲𝗹𝗴𝗶𝘂𝗺 𝗘𝗻𝗼𝘂𝗴𝗵 𝗥𝗼𝗼𝗺 𝗳𝗼𝗿 𝗦𝗽𝗮𝗰𝗲 (𝗘𝗥𝗳𝗼𝗿𝗦)! ✨ 1/10

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alexandra crouwers @acrwrs.bsky.social · 02/09/2025

In the EU? Please take a moment to sign this petition. Because what kind of species are we, allowing this ruthless planetary pillaging to continue? Destroying so many nonhuman cohabitants’ lives and habitats? We must be mad, right? act.greens-efa.eu/habitats?utm...

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Hands Off Nature - Stop the right from dismantling nature

Send an email to relevant EPP Members of the European Parliament who can make a difference.

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AGF 🎧 poemproducer @poemproducer.bsky.social · 29/08/2025

aye To defend against Russian tanks, Finland and Poland consider restoring wetlands #europe Finland & Poland considering restoring these natural carbon sinks brings significant environmental benefits. www.france24.com/en/europe/20...

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To defend against Russian tanks, Finland and Poland consider restoring wetlands

Finland and Poland are both considering rewetting dried-out peatbogs to form defence barriers against a potential Russian ground invasion. Restoring these natural carbon sinks could also bring signifi...

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WaterLANDS H2020 @waterlandsh2020.bsky.social · 21/08/2025

🌾 📢 The past year has been a generative period for the @waterlandsh2020.bsky.social artists in residence. To spotlight their ongoing effort and research, we have gathered some updates on their work in the field! 📸Elo Liiv waterlands.eu/news-and-eve...

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WaterLANDS Artist Residency Programme - Update from the Field

WaterLANDS is an EU-funded project that will restore wetland sites across Europe and upscale wetland restoration for sustainable ecosystems, communities and economies.

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Saul Staniforth @saulstaniforth.bsky.social · 21/07/2025

"There is no case since WW2 of starvation that has been so minutely designed and controlled" Famine expert Alex de Waal on Israel deliberately starving an entire civilian population

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Bon Pote @bonpote.com · 20/07/2025

700 000 signatures ce matin. Plus de 400 signatures par minute hier. À ce rythme là, nous aurons 1 million de signatures ce soir. Le rendez-vous est pris !

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Bellingcat @bellingcat.com · 02/07/2025

Landmines and other unexploded ordnance litter a large part of Ukraine today, including on agricultural land. Farmers in impacted regions are returning to potentially contaminated lands, often unsure of what lies beneath them. With @afp.com, we explored the issue www.bellingcat.com/news/2025/07...

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Ukraine’s Contaminated Land: Clearing Landmines With Rakes, Tractors and Drones - bellingcat

This story was produced in partnership with Agence France-Presse (AFP). In a field near the small town of Bezymenne in southern Ukraine, Viktoria Shynkar carefully picks out a narrow path through the ...

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Oliver Ressler @oliverressler.bsky.social · 20/06/2025

Thanks to @marjolijndijkman.bsky.social for the wonderful conversation for the The Journal of the Commodity Frontiers Initiative. “Carbon Capture: ‘Let there be cracks’” can now be downloaded for free from this link: journal.commodityfrontiers.com/journal-issu...

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Joost Rekveld @joostrekveld.bsky.social · 03/06/2025

“we’re talking about nearly half the tree of life disappearing in one human lifetime. That is absolutely catastrophic.” A terrifying article in The Guardian today: www.theguardian.com/environment/...

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‘Half the tree of life’: ecologists’ horror as nature reserves are emptied of insects

A new point in history has been reached, entomologists say, as climate-led species’ collapse moves up the food chain even in supposedly protected regions free of pesticides

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Marjolijn Dijkman @marjolijndijkman.bsky.social · 31/05/2025

🪵Happy to present and finalize BETWEEN THE LINES and IRON HARVEST at Forest Encounters at @outofsight-antwerp.bsky.social opening during Antwerp Art Weekend. Both works focus on the catastrophic effects of drought and climate change in the forests of the Zone Rouge in the northeast of France.🪵

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Marjolijn Dijkman @marjolijndijkman.bsky.social · 30/05/2025

Launch of the new home of Commodity Frontiers! Thanks to the work of Simon Bouvier, Antoine Gelgon, and Lionel Maes at those.tools in Brussels, we are thrilled to share Issue 7 on our new, bespoke, open source website. In this issue, we’re talking Carbon frontiers

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WaterLANDS H2020 @waterlandsh2020.bsky.social · 16/05/2025

Some photos from the WaterLANDS GA this week in Leeds, northern England. A week of connection, collaboration and inspiration for holistic wetland restoration. Thanks to @unileedsglobal.bsky.social and @yorkshireicasp.bsky.social for hosting us! ⭐️

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Marjolijn Dijkman @marjolijndijkman.bsky.social · 17/05/2025

During Antwerp Art Weekend, on 29 May, Out of Sight opens Forest Encounters. Artists: Nayari Castillo & Reni Hofmüller, Marjolijn Dijkman , Polonca Lovšin, It Rains Differently with contributions by: Dušica Dražić, Monika Lang, Siniša Ilić, Ibis Ćerimagić, Jelena Vukićević

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Forest Encounters - Out of Sight

During Antwerp Art Weekend, Out of Sight opens Forest Encounters, a multidisciplinary group exhibition exploring diverse imaginaries, concepts, and practices related to the forest. Central to the exhi...

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Marjolijn Dijkman @marjolijndijkman.bsky.social · 14/05/2025

I'm happy to have been selected and look forward to participating. 💚 Bioart Society's Field_Notes – Living Methodologies, will take place in Sápmi during 14–24 Sept. 2025. This unique edition responds to shifts in the field of art and science insisting that how we research matters.

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ArtReview @artreview.bsky.social · 10/05/2025

Koyo Kouoh, the curator and director of Zeitz MOCAA in Cape Town, has died, Zeitz MOCAA announced today. artreview.com/koyo-kouoh-p...

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Koyo Kouoh, Pan-African curator and director of MOCAA, 1967-2025

Zeitz MOCAA announced her ‘sudden passing’

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