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Matteo Rizzuto @matteorizzuto.bsky.social · 01/10/2026

1 year, 5 months, 2 days later... paper accepted! Can't wait to share it!

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Stefano Tartarotti @tartacana.bsky.social · 28/05/2025

per prassi non firma documenti. Nel frattempo nel ConsiglioAffariGenerali si è tenuta un’audizione sullo stato di diritto in #Ungheria e sulla possibilità d'attivare la procedura per sanzionare gli stati che violano i valori fondamentali dell’UE, come libertà, democrazia e diritti umani #dirittilgbt

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Stefano Tartarotti @tartacana.bsky.social · 28/05/2025

Francia, Germania, Grecia, Irlanda, Lettonia, Lituania, Lussemburgo, Malta, Paesi Bassi, Portogallo, Repubblica Ceca, Slovenia, Spagna e Svezia. Quelli che mancano invece sono: Italia, Ungheria, Slovacchia, Romania, Bulgaria, Croazia e Polonia, quest’ultima, avendo la presidenza del Consiglio UE,⬇️

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Stefano Tartarotti @tartacana.bsky.social · 28/05/2025

Sono 20 i Paesi che hanno firmato un documento per chiedere all’Unione Europea di intervenire contro il divieto imposto da #Orbán al #Pride. Tra questi non c’è l’Italia (tanto per cambiare). I Paesi che chiedono l’intervento dell’Europa sono: Austria, Belgio, Cipro, Danimarca, Estonia, Finlandia,⬇️

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Ed Hawkins @edhawkins.org · 13/05/2025

When it rains, it now rains more

Graphic showing rainfall intensity increasing in the UK from 1891 to 2024

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Skype a Scientist @skypeascientist.bsky.social · 05/05/2025

Skype is dead. Long live Skype a Scientist.

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Ursula K. Le Guin @ursulakleguin.com · 24/02/2025

You can read the full speech at the link below, and in the collection Dancing at the Edge of the World (Grove Press, 1989). serendipstudio.org/sci_cult/leg...

"I don't think we have any right to obedience. I think we have a responsibility to freedom." Ursula K. Le Guin, from her 1986 Bryn Mawr commencement address

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Aerin Jacob, PhD @aerinj.bsky.social · 19/02/2025

Proud of @scbnorthamerica.bsky.social for statement about U.S. authoritarianism. “These actions are assaults on scientific integrity, the people and process of doing science, and the application of scientific results to benefit the public.” conbio-northamericansection.informz.net/InformzDataS...

Society for Conservation Biology North America

Statement in Support of Scientific
Integrity

The Society for Conservation Biology North America (SCBNA) is alarmed by recent Executive Orders, directives, and actions by the new federal administration of the United States of America.' Our Society's mission involves supporting the development and application of the science and practice necessary to conserve biodiversity and its benefits to human society.
Many of the recent unprecedented federal actions directly harm both nature and society, and hinder the work of conservation scientists and practitioners. These include terminating key climate science and mitigation initiatives; disbanding programs and firing staff including those related to diversity, equity, and inclusion; inhibiting the freedom of scientists to freely communicate findings; and freezing funding for and interfering in decisions about federal research grants and programs.
These actions are assaults on scientific integrity, the people and process of doing science, and the application of scientific results to benefit the public. They put at risk the work and well-being of thousands of scientists in public, non-profit, and private sectors, as well as untold numbers of people who depend on evidence to inform public policy decisions. The ramifications of these attacks could devastate America's ability to ensure a high quality of life, conserve biological diversity and natural heritage, and encourage economic prosperity for its people. They profoundly damage America's reputation as an international leader in research, development, and innovation.

As a non-profit organization affiliated with the global Society for Conservation Biology, SCBNA works with other scientific societies and conservation organizations to advance critical environmental knowledge that benefits society. It represents the North American continent north of Mexico, including Canada and the United States, and has over 1500 members working in state, federal, tribal, and municipal governments, non-profit organizations, universities, private companies, and more. Our members share their expertise to ensure on-the-ground conservation success, and work to promote communication and collaboration on transboundary conservation issues.
SCBNA sets standards for scientific integrity and works to ensure that scientific knowledge is considered by decision-makers when shaping policies that affect the planet's biodiversity. Our work includes monitoring the actions of the government agencies to ensure that the best available science is used to implement major environmental laws, and bringing attention to situations where biodiversity protection is being compromised and providing advice through public comments, Congressional testimony, and outreach.
We call on our elected representatives, civil society organizations, and the public to work with us in this crisis to immediately:
1. Defend science, namely that true facts and scientific integrity are foundational to informed, sound decision-making;
2. Defend scientists against censorship, loss of funding, and interference in their work, including initiatives to support diversity, equity, and inclusion;
3. Defend nature, including evidence-informed policies and actions necessary to support sustainable relationships among people and nature so that all life on earth thrives.

We call on civil society to take bold, principled, stances to oppose attacks on science and scientific freedom. SCBNA supports and defends our colleagues working in the U.S. federal government who have dedicated their professional lives to serve the public interest.
To our members, we assert that SCBNA will not be swayed from our mission. Indeed, it is more important than ever: To provide a venue to connect diverse students and professionals to advance and apply conservation knowledge, and to welcome, support, and empower all voices engaged in conservation. Only by embracing our many strengths and diverse knowledge will we be able to address challenges. We will strengthen efforts to support diversity, equity, inclusion, accessibility, and justice among our members and in our work and communities.
SCBNA commits to focusing on areas that our members know best, including conserving endangered species, protecting biodiversity, combating climate change, and promoting a scientifically-informed public. We are developing a list of resources for the defense of science on our website, and we invite members' suggestions of specific resources and types of support needed. We welcome and encourage collaboration with other scientific and professional societies in this work.

Sincerely,

Rebecca Hufft
President
Society for Conservation Biology North America

Anderson Tate
President-Elect
Society for Conservation Biology North America

Lauren Jonaitis
VP of Policy and Programs
Society for Conservation Biology North America

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Gennaro Carotenuto @gennarocarotenuto.bsky.social · 17/02/2025

Ma se ce l’avessero detto anche solo pochi anni fa che avremmo visto la distopia di Stati Uniti e Russia uniti nella lotta per far vincere i nazisti in Germania, non ci avremmo mai creduto.

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scott dagostino @scottdagostino.ca · 03/02/2025

Current mood

Photo by Patrick Keefe of a honking Canadian goose squaring off against a American bald eagle, its wings flared open

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Jim Snowden @snowdenwriter.bsky.social · 31/01/2025

Remember when Trump said he wouldn’t do this? Big surprise, he was lying.

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Sean Gibbons 🦠💩 @gibbological.bsky.social · 28/01/2025

What a stupid, petty move (rising to the top of the many many stupid, petty moves by this administration so far). Dispersing free HIV medication is one of the greatest unequivocally 'good' things the US does for the world. This program has saved 25 million lives. Why the fuck would you cut it?!

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Pedro Peres-Neto @comecology.bsky.social · 27/01/2025

Why aren't more researchers publishing in society journals? Two potential reasons: 1) They're often unfamiliar to early-career researchers, and 2) they need better promotion, a task for all of us.

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Carl T. Bergstrom @carlbergstrom.com · 27/01/2025

I don’t have a definitive source on this yet but it looks like NSF review panels have been canceled. Sixty-some years ago, Eisenhower transformed higher education because he viewed a science education gap as the single greatest threat to national security. This is absolutely an act of sabotage.

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Auschwitz Memorial @auschwitzmemorial.bsky.social · 27/01/2025

Auschwitz was at the end of a long process. It did not start from gas chambers. This hatred was gradually developed by humans. From ideas, words, stereotypes & prejudice through legal exclusion, dehumanization & escalating violence... to systematic and industrial murder. Auschwitz took time.

A bird's-eye view of a former Auschwitz II-Birkenau camp showing a wide dirt pathway flanked by parallel rows of barbed-wire fences. Groups of visitors walk along the path, surrounded by the remnants of brick structures and barracks, now reduced to foundations. Green grass contrasts with the somber history of the site, as the path leads toward a guard tower in the distance.

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Martin Calladine @uglygame.bsky.social · 26/01/2025

No, I don't need a bloody copilot for this document, thank you. Writing is, in no small part, a tool for thinking. If you outsource that element to a machine that cannot think, you shouldn't be surprised if, at the end of the process, neither you nor your reader are any the wiser.

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European Space Agency @esa.int · 09/01/2025

Hello @bsky.app, here's to looking into more #bluesky and beyond... 😉

Image of the Moon, on a background of the blackness of space, and foreground at right of Earth's atmosphere in shades of blue, taken by ESA astronaut André Kuipers from the ISS in 2012.

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Know Your Meme @knowyourmeme.com · 09/01/2025

On this day 12 years ago, @kcg.bsky.social posted the “This is Fine” comic.

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il Post @ilpost.it · 10/01/2025

Il 2024 è stato l’anno più caldo mai registrato e il primo in cui è stato a lungo superato il limite degli 1,5 °C previsto dall'accordo di Parigi sul clima: ilpost.link/RcW8GfPfMv

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Il 2024 è stato l'anno più caldo mai registrato - Il Post

E il primo in cui è stato a lungo superato il limite degli 1,5 °C previsto dall'accordo di Parigi sul clima

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"Online Rent-a-Sage" Bret Devereaux @bretdevereaux.bsky.social · 08/01/2025

::serious natsec writer face:: Most countries are, in fact, not for sale at any price. Most countries are not interesting in selling their territory.

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il Post @ilpost.it · 08/01/2025

La giornalista Cecilia Sala è libera ed è arrivata in Italia: era stata arrestata in Iran il 19 dicembre ilpost.link/5ti8blvONV

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Cecilia Sala è arrivata in Italia - Il Post

La giornalista di Chora Media e del Foglio è stata liberata in mattinata: era stata arrestata in Iran il 19 dicembre

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George Monbiot @georgemonbiot.bsky.social · 08/01/2025

1. As Zuckerberg abandons fact checking in the name of “free speech”, let’s take a moment to examine this concept. 🧵

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George Monbiot @georgemonbiot.bsky.social · 07/01/2025

Fact-checking is not censorship. Requesting evidence is not censorship. Refuting falsehoods is not censorship. Stopping a lie from travelling halfway round the world before the truth has got its boots on is not censorship. But Zuckerberg's grovelling to Trump will sure as hell lead to censorship.

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David Carretta @davidcarretta.bsky.social · 30/12/2024

Cecilia Sala has been incarcerated in Evin for 11 days. Today she was accused by the Iranian regime of violating the law of the Islamic republic. Which means nothing. #FreeCecilia

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David Carretta @davidcarretta.bsky.social · 29/12/2024

Cecilia Sala has been detained in Evin prison in Iran for 10 days. #FreeCecilia

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Reuters Institute @reutersinstitute.bsky.social · 27/12/2024

Award-winning Italian reporter and podcaster Cecilia Sala was arrested in Tehran earlier this month. Our colleague @marinaadami.bsky.social profiled this pioneering and fearless journalist in this piece we published back in 2022 reutersinstitute.politics.ox.ac.uk/news/how-pio...

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How a pioneering Italian podcaster is leading innovation in a print-focused media industry

“The idea for the podcast was to tell a story from the world every day,” says Cecilia Sala, the 26-year-old Italian journalist behind 'Stories'.

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Yoda @politicaperjedi.bsky.social · 27/12/2024

Le dittature conoscono bene il giornalismo libero e lo temono. Infatti arrestano Cecilia Sala, mica Luca Telese. #FreeCeciliaSala

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il Post @ilpost.it · 27/12/2024

La giornalista Cecilia Sala è incarcerata in Iran: il regime l’ha arrestata a Teheran più di una settimana fa e da allora si trova in una cella d’isolamento ilpost.link/aok5M39qMq

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La giornalista Cecilia Sala è incarcerata in Iran - Il Post

Il regime l’ha arrestata a Teheran più di una settimana fa e da allora si trova in una cella d’isolamento: il governo italiano sta trattando la sua liberazione

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Marika Mikiashvili 🇬🇪🇺🇦🇪🇺 @marikamikiashvili.bsky.social · 21/12/2024

Almost 200 000 people out on day 24! In a county of 3.7 million at best! #terrorinGeorgia #GeorgiaProtests Count by @visionergeo.bsky.social

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Mary Brandt, MD, MDiv @drmlb.bsky.social · 13/12/2024

I've seen a child with tetanus, I've treated near fatal infections after chicken pox, and I've pronounced children dead from COVID whose parents refused to have them vaccinated. We have lost our minds... and are about to lose so many of our precious children.

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Jake Broe @realjakebroe.bsky.social · 10/12/2024

Picture 1 is what it looked like when Ukraine liberated the city of Kherson from the Russians. Picture 2 is what it looked like when Russia "liberated" the city of Bakhmut from the Ukrainians. It is subtle, but see if you can spot the difference.

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Marika Mikiashvili 🇬🇪🇺🇦🇪🇺 @marikamikiashvili.bsky.social · 09/12/2024

According to the sources of Mtavari Arkhi TV, after installing Kavalashvili as the illegitimate President on December 29, the regime plans on imposing state of emergency and curfew, which essentially means subjecting the population to martial law. We need to break this regime now. #terrorinGeorgia

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Darth Putin @darthputinkgb.bsky.social · 09/12/2024

There was an entire industry of far-left useful idiots who've staked their reputation defending & whitewashing a regime that ran torture camps for working people while owning a vast collection of expensive, capitalist cars.

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Luca Bottura @bravimabasta.bsky.social · 09/12/2024

Così, per puro divertimento, ricordo che il nostro ministro degli esteri è monarchico

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Luca Bottura @bravimabasta.bsky.social · 03/12/2024

L'Europa è il vaso di coccio tra un'oligarchia (la Russia), una democrazia che sta diventando oligarchica (gli Usa), una dittatura "comunista" iperliberista. Chi sostiene Putin, a qualunque livello, è complice della nostra dissoluzione. Altro che i migranti.

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Eugenio Cau @eugeniocau.bsky.social · 08/12/2024

Non dimentichiamo che appena poche settimane fa l’Italia era diventata il primo paese del G7 a riaprire un’ambasciata nella Siria assadista, dopo più di 10 anni. Lungimirante.

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Andrew Stroehlein @andrewstroehlein.bsky.social · 08/12/2024

As we all watch some of #Syria’s horrific prisons being opened up, let's remember the systematic torture inside them under Assad’s rule: www.hrw.org/report/2015/... Survivors & families have been bravely seeking justice for years: www.hrw.org/feature/2024...

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If the Dead Could Speak

This report lays out new evidence regarding the authenticity of what are known as the Caesar photographs, identifies a number of the victims, and highlights some of the key causes of death. Human Righ...

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Katie Mack @astrokatie.com · 06/12/2024

After I moved to Canada a couple of years ago I realized that I was no longer constantly running a massive stress routine in the background of my mind worrying about health care and guns. It was weirdly noticeable only when it stopped.

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Evan McMurry @evanmcmurry.theatlantic.com · 05/12/2024

“Snow just doesn’t have the reliability that it has had in our imagination from the 20th century,” one climate scientist tells @zoeschlanger.bsky.social. “That’s just gone.”

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Winter Is Cooked

It’s getting not only warmer but wetter.

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Anne Applebaum @anneapplebaum.wsocial.eu · 03/12/2024

Reading the pardon coverage...I don't think the significance of the Gaetz/Patel/Bondi nominations has sunk in. People still aren't getting what a politicized DOJ and FBI, with the power to arrest/bug/harass anyone for any reason, would be able to do.

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Prof. Eliot Jacobson @climatecasino.net · 02/12/2024

Breaking news! November, 2024, came in at the second warmest in recorded history, at 1.62°C above the pre-industrial baseline. Starting in June, 2023, there have now been 18 consecutive months above the pre-2023 record high, likely the hottest string of 18 months in the last 120,000+ years.

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Nicolas Mouquet @nmouquet.bsky.social · 29/11/2024

Updating the #IUCN status of marine fish using AI shows that x5 more species are threatened with extinction than previously thought! see our study in Plos Biol with @nloiseau.bsky.social 👉 doi.org/10.1371/jour... 🔑 This silent extinction affects 12,7% of marine fishes (1337 species) ! 🧪🌐🌍🦤🦑

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Pedro Peres-Neto @comecology.bsky.social · 27/11/2024

Here's a starter pack for assembling a versatile collection of Ecology and Evolution journals. Feel free to share suggestions! Bookmark it in your Browser for quick access to explore publications in the field or find outlets for your work: go.bsky.app/TivtkJn

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