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Mirasbek @mirasbek.bsky.social · 25/09/2026

The quintessential London experience of getting constant noise notifications from your Apple Watch whenever on the Tube

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laurentfranckx.bsky.social @laurentfranckx.bsky.social · 31/05/2026

This Belgian had no idea that there also was a paralympics for beers.

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Jo Kibble (Political Animal) @politicanimal.bsky.social · 24/02/2026

Get me the most Belgian street name possible. No, that’s too Belgian.

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innes mck @innes.bsky.social · 03/01/2026

"international law must be followed" is european for "thoughts and prayers"

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Charles Johnson @charles.littlegreenfootballs.com · 25/11/2025

i’m not crying you’re crying xkcd: Fifteen Years

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Fifteen Years

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Tamar Haspel @tamarhaspel.bsky.social · 22/08/2025

Fascinating list of the scientists who have saved the most lives, via @maxroser.bsky.social at @ourworldindata.org , 2 of the top 3 are food related: #1 - Haber & Bosch, for synthetic nitrogen (2.3 billion) #3 - Norman Borlaug, for high-yield crops (245 million) Data source: www.scienceheroes.com

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Anne Carpenter @drannecarpenter.bsky.social · 05/08/2025

Have $10M and want to cure some diseases? It costs ~$1B to invent a new medicine…but $10M buys you Project Encore, to see if ANY existing drug might be repurposed for ~100 diseases that have no treatments. Contact me - be a hero for desperate patients! docs.google.com/document/d/1...

Images of cells showing protein mislocalization caused by a Noonan syndrome mutation, with the idea to screen drugs to find any that can reverse the unhealthy mislocalization

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Nicholas Thompson @nxthompson.bsky.social · 05/08/2025

"Every image of a child with protruding ribs is both a human tragedy and a propaganda victory for Hamas—and proof of how a just war badly lost the plot. I believed in Israel’s casus belli. I don’t believe in this." Franklin Foer on Israel's last chance ... www.theatlantic.com/internationa...

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Israel’s Last Chance

Flooding Gaza with food is the only way out of a crisis largely created by Benjamin Netanyahu, the Israeli prime minister.

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Simon Bayly @simonbayly.bsky.social · 05/08/2025

The European Union is proposing to double its research budget

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kottke.org @kottke.org · 29/07/2025

Science Is Winning the Tour de France. Data, nutrition, equipment, and training are propelling riders to performances that best the dopers of yesteryear. “In other words, Armstrong on dope then would be an also-ran next to Pogačar today.” [theatlantic.com]

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Science Is Winning the Tour de France

Why today’s competitors far surpass the cheating champions of yesteryear

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Mirasbek @mirasbek.bsky.social · 09/06/2025

More honest name for Liquid Glass would have been Colorful Candy #wwdc25

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Leo Hickman @leohickman.carbonbrief.org · 15/05/2025

Quite possibly the biggest climate story of the year (especially when we look back on this in a few years' time) For the first time on record, China's emissions are falling due to clean energy growth, not slow power demand...

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VIB.AI @vibai.bsky.social · 14/05/2025

The Vorobieva Lab is recruting a PhD student through the VIB.AI International PhD Call 2025! Work on protein design, membrane proteins & nanopores using AI-driven methods. 📍 Based in Brussels 🗓️ Apply by June 22→ vib.ai/en/vibai-international-phd-c… 📅 Start in Autumn/Winter '25/26

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Jay Vegas @jvegas001.bsky.social · 07/05/2025

A bit of an off take here as it’s missing context, consumer premiumuzation within beverage alcohol has led to less overall consumption by volume but not by dollar growth. Ex: Younger drinkers also drink more expensive drinks with higher ABV than previous generations which is why you see this take

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Financial Times @financialtimes.com · 07/05/2025

Opinion from the FT's Editorial Board: 'The US and European countries that tout Israel as an ally that shares their values have issued barely a word of condemnation. They should be ashamed of their silence, and stop enabling Netanyahu to act with impunity.' www.ft.com/content/f5fd...

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Carolyn Bertozzi @carolynbertozzi.bskyverified.social · 05/05/2025

EU augments opportunities for scientists around the world to launch or re-launch their careers in Europe.

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NE Ohio Regional Sewer District @neorsd.org · 23/04/2025

bluesky verification, but it’s just my mom saying how could you not trust this face.

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Derek Lowe @dereklowe.bsky.social · 21/04/2025

Thoughts on Demis Hassabis of Google DeepMind saying that AI could cure disease in general in ten years. Bonus index to my longer posts on AI/computational drug discovery over nearly 20 years!

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The End of Disease

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Nature Portfolio @natureportfolio.nature.com · 11/04/2025

A trial in Nature Medicine shows that transition to a Western diet resulted in pro-inflammatory changes, whereas transition to an African heritage diet rich in fruits and vegetables, legumes and fermented products led to opposite effects. go.nature.com/4cC97AT #foodstudies 🧪

This is figure 1, which shows the schematic depiction of the trial.

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Simon Hammann @simonhammann.bsky.social · 04/04/2025

We are looking for a professor (W3) for Food and Health at @unihohenheim.bsky.social, with research focus on food technologies and corresponding health effects. Application deadline is May 8th, more info in the application portal berufungsportal.uni-hohenheim.de Apply and become my new colleague!

An der Fakultät Naturwissenschaften ist zum Wintersemester 2025/26 die Professur (W3) für Food and Health im Institut für Lebensmittelwissenschaft und Biotechnologie erstmals zu besetzen.
Die Professur widmet sich in der Forschung der Herstellung von Lebensmitteln mit alternativen Pro-tein-, Zucker- oder Fettquellen sowie deren gesundheitlichen Auswirkungen. Schwerpunkte können unter anderem auf der Herstellung und Charakterisierung alternativer Proteinquellen liegen, wie bei-spielsweise durch Präzisionsfermentation, in vitro kultiviertem Fleisch oder biotechnologisch erzeug-ten Kohlenhydraten. Auch die Erforschung der Rolle von Makronährstoffen als Matrixbestandteile und als strukturgebende Elemente für Aroma und Textur oder als Trägersysteme für Mikronährstoffe sind Beispiele für relevante Forschungsthemen.
Die Professur stärkt die interdisziplinäre Forschung zwischen den Bereichen Lebensmittelwissen-schaft und -biotechnologie sowie Ernährungswissenschaften und -medizin, indem sie lebensmittel-technologische und ernährungswissenschaftliche Expertise eng miteinander verknüpft.
Gesucht wird eine Persönlichkeit, die durch international sichtbare Forschung und hochrangige, ein-schlägige Publikationen ausgewiesen ist sowie die Fähigkeit zur Einwerbung von Drittmitteln nach-weisen kann. Die Professur leistet einen Beitrag in der Lehre zu den oben beschriebenen Themenge-bieten in deutscher und englischer Sprache.
Die Ausstattung der Professur bietet für eine W3-Erstberufung attraktive Bedingungen. Habilitation oder gleichwertige wissenschaftliche Leistungen sowie pädagogische Eignung werden vorausge-setzt.
Die ausgeschriebene Stelle steht unbefristet zur Verfügung. Bei der ersten Berufung in ein Professo-renamt behält sich die Universität die Einstellung auf Probe vor. Schwerbehinderte werden bei glei-cher Qualifikation bevorzugt eingestellt.
Die Universität Hohenheim strebt eine Erhöhung des Anteils von Frauen in Forschung und Lehre an. Sie fordert daher....

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Eric Topol @erictopol.bsky.social · 24/03/2025

Of >105,000 participants with 30-year follow-up, only 9.3% achieved healthy aging (age 70, w/o any chronic diseases). Their diet was significantly associated with this outcome. @naturemedicine.bsky.social

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Stephen Curry @scurry.bsky.social · 14/03/2025

Happy Pi day, the one day of the year when pi = 14.3.

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Steve Bullock @guitarmoog.bsky.social · 14/03/2025

Now that all your skeets are belonging to Belgium, a few new rules: - All skeets and alt text in minimum 3 languages - Skeets must be accompanied by a small biscuit or chocolate - Please serve your Skeets in the correct glass - Mandatory replacement of “French Fries” with “Belgian Frites” in Skeets.

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Ken Caldeira @kencaldeira.com · 10/03/2025

If someone would like to do a postdoc with me on the Stanford campus aimed at thinking about allocation of resources across different domains (climate, environment, food, health, education, wealth transfer, etc) to improve human welfare (balancing near-term and long-term goals), please contact me.

View from Rockefeller Bellagio conference center.

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Kaja Kallas @kajakallas.bsky.social · 28/02/2025

Ukraine is Europe! We stand by Ukraine. We will step up our support to Ukraine so that they can continue to fight back the agressor. Today, it became clear that the free world needs a new leader. It’s up to us, Europeans, to take this challenge.

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Janel Comeau 🍁 @verybadllama.bsky.social · 01/03/2025

accidentally got so irritated with the United States that I have been quoted in the New York Times

New York Times headline: How Canadians Are Making Their Anger Toward the US Loud and Clear

Quote: “do you know how angry you have to be with the United States to intentionally go out and purchase Canadian-made toothpaste? Because I’m there,” Janel Comeau, a Canadian illustrator and writer based in Halifax, Nova Scotia, posted on X.

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Randall Munroe @xkcd.com · 26/02/2025

RNA xkcd.com/3056

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Nat Bullard @nathanielbullard.com · 30/01/2025

My annual decarbonization presentation is here. 200 slides, covering everything from water levels in Lake Gatún to sulfur dioxide emissions to ESG fund flows to Chinese auto exports to artificial intelligence. www.nathanielbullard.com/presentations

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Ran Blekhman @blekhman.bsky.social · 22/01/2025

Today we report a new compendium of human gut microbiomes with >168,000 samples By analyzing this massive dataset, we discovered distinct microbiome patterns across the globe, and show we can predict where a person lives just from their gut bacteria Now out in Cell: www.cell.com/cell/fulltex...

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Integration of 168,000 samples reveals global patterns of the human gut microbiome

The Human Microbiome Compendium is a unified database of publicly available human gut microbiome 16S samples, built with the integrated data from hundreds of independent projects. The compendium is us...

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Mirasbek @mirasbek.bsky.social · 15/01/2025

Proud to see our portfolio company, Switch Bioworks, be part of this cohort looking into ways to future-proof the foundations of our food systems.

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This yearly roundup has it all - AI-formulated vegan cheese - Genetically modified pig organ transplant recipients - A commercial space walk that *finally* answers the question, "How far away does a billionaire need to be before we aren't so sad all the time?"

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Mirasbek @mirasbek.bsky.social · 27/12/2023

The year-end meal prep is brought to you by a broken fridge, forcing us to dig through old stocks and make soups & pies that could feed a small village

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AnnieBannie (She/Her🧶📚🌈) @madhmstr.bsky.social · 24/12/2023

Whether you've seen this, or not, it is a thing of real magic.

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George Monbiot @georgemonbiot.bsky.social · 20/12/2023

I know this is hard to swallow, but if there’s something about food and farming you passionately believe, it is almost certainly wrong. On these issues above all others, our gut instincts mislead us. They can take us, inadvertently, to a very dark place. www.monbiot.com/2023/10/04/t...

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The Cruel Fantasies of Well-Fed People

The astonishing story of how a movement’s quest for rural simplicity drifted into a formula for mass death By George Monbiot, published on monbiot.com, 4th October 2023 Tourism sells to you the stor...

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Olivier Honnay @olivierhonnay.bsky.social · 06/12/2023

Modern food is likely somewhat lower in nutrients due to the use of high yielding cultivars and perhaps increased atmospheric CO2 concentrations, but following dietary guidelines is much more important to get your essential nutrients. Very good article.

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Is modern food lower in nutrients?

Studies suggest that our fruit and vegetables are losing nutrients. Bárbara Pinho examines the evidence and looks at the implications of a 'nutrient collapse'

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Ethan Kocak @ethankocak.com · 28/11/2023

My impression of Bluesky after having to (mostly) leave Twitter is that it’s kinda like what happens after a mass extinction event wipes out all dominant organisms and evolution goes into hyperdrive filling all the niches with new life. This might be the Benadryl talking

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Aaron Cozen @aaroncozen.bsky.social · 11/11/2023

This figure from a 2022 NREL report shows utility-scale solar and wind land use projections for 100% clean energy by 2035 compared to current uses for livestock feed, corn ethanol, oil & gas leases, coal mines, golf courses, etc. page 52 in www.nrel.gov/docs/fy22ost...

Figure 30. Total area occupied by wind turbine and solar infrastructure (solid boxes) is about equal to the land occupied by railroads (ADE demand case). Rooftop PV is not included because it does not require any additional land use. The areas within unfilled boxes represent multiple use areas, and for wind, represent the area not occupied by turbine infrastructure and thus available for other purposes including those illustrated above, such as livestock and agriculture. Note that some land is counted in multiple categories (e.g., part of the area indicated as “roads” and “building footprints” represents land also included in “urbanized areas”). Boxes have the same scale as the map.

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Mirasbek @mirasbek.bsky.social · 10/11/2023

Curating a list of people & organizations active in agrifoodtech. Let me know if I missed anyone. Hopefully this will help people to discover each other more easily and drive more valuable conversation on BlueSky.

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Mirasbek @mirasbek.bsky.social · 06/11/2023

In the two-day long battle to update the company website to a more modern look, Wordpress and its myriad of plugins came out undefeated, unmoved and un-updated. Sigh.

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Matthew Freeman @mjafreeman.bsky.social · 03/11/2023

Funding alert! A new Royal Society independent postdoc fellowship scheme launches next week. Lots of funding and very prestigious. Only for applicants of black heritage. Good to see the RS putting substantial money behind a plan to diversify research. royalsociety.org/grants-schem...

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Mirasbek @mirasbek.bsky.social · 03/11/2023

It’s getting cold but it is finally soup season 🥣🍜🍲

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Mirasbek @mirasbek.bsky.social · 03/11/2023

Brussels might not be the prettiest city out there but it is full of architectural gems, as demonstrated by this lovely collection of admirable façades 😍

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ADMIRABLE FACADES | Admirable Facades - Admirables Facades

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Ernie Smith @ernie.tedium.co · 02/11/2023

This is massive. Rogue Amoeba appears to have made Otter.ai 100% obsolete. weblog.rogueamoeba.com/2023/11/02/t...

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Turn Speech Into Text With Audio Hijack 4.3’s New Transcribe Block

Speech to text has never been so easy.

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