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Sylvie Coyaud, retired science reporter, not sapiens yet.

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Oca sapiens @ocasapiens.bsky.social · 1h
Some predictions Misc.: www.the-scientist.com/who-will-win... Chemistry: cen.acs.org/people/nobel... Physics: physicsworld.com/a/is-this-th... (I've bet a cappuccino on Mary Claire King winning the Prize for Physiology or Medicine - again.)
the-scientist.com
Who Will Win the 2026 Nobel Prize? Scientists Make Their Predictions | The Scientist
From GLP-1 pioneers to researchers who uncovered the genetic roots of narcolepsy, scientists reveal who they think could receive a call from the Nobel Committee this year.
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Oca sapiens @ocasapiens.bsky.social · 1h
"Implausible results" of one trial showing #Prozac was much more efficient than an other drug - scispace.com/pdf/comparison-of-efficacy-of-fluoxetine-with-nortriptyline-in-2gio1sp8yu.pdf - were included in metanalyses.
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Oca sapiens @ocasapiens.bsky.social · 2h
#energy #climatejustice A reminder
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Oca sapiens @ocasapiens.bsky.social · 4h
#genderstudies A good summary (imo) of recent progress & "critical gaps" www.science.org/doi/10.1126/... introduces the reviews & perspectives to read over the week-emd. Meanwhile, I'd suggest to read 👏@jennieerinsmith.bsky.social's report about ongoing studies & trials 🔽.
science.org
Menopause puts the brain at risk. Researchers are starting to learn why
Shifts in blood proteins could point to ways to fight menopause “brain fog” and prevent later dementia
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Oca sapiens @ocasapiens.bsky.social · 6h
"On a raison de se révolter"
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Plus de 300 lycées bloqués : « On nous ramène des policiers, mais jamais des solutions »
Plus de 300 lycées ont été bloqués ce 29 septembre, en protestation face à la dégradation des conditions d'apprentissage et à l'absence de profs. Le mouvement, qui a rejoint la mobilisation de la fonc...
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Oca sapiens @ocasapiens.bsky.social · 7h
Oh no! Marina Hyde: "Yes, after 25 years I’m signing off, and I’ve cherished every moment – especially storming the French embassy with a (toy) AK-47."
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Oca sapiens @ocasapiens.bsky.social · 7h
#dirittiumani Nuovo rapporto di Action Aid-Italia e Università di Bari sulla detenzione amministrativa e le espulsioni di stranieri trattenuti.actionaid.it/wp-content/u... Com. stampa 🔽 "Nel 2025 i centri registrano il record di 6.835 ingressi, ma i rimpatri dai #CPR calano del 45,1% dal 2022.".
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Oca sapiens @ocasapiens.bsky.social · 01/10/2026
#evolution #symbiosis #oligochetes The species of tiny marine worms without a mouth, anus, or anything in between are fed & kept waste-free by communities of subcutaneous bacteria. Some bacteria have remained "faithful" for 150 million years but as the species diverged, others abandoned their
science.org
Stability in flexibility: Shifting alliances stabilize the symbioses of marine animals over 150 million years
Many animals benefit from microbial symbionts that aid digestion, supply essential nutrients, or provide defense. When this dependence becomes obligate, as in gutless marine oligochaetes that have los...
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Oca sapiens @ocasapiens.bsky.social · 01/10/2026
#deathpenalty #torture "The failed execution is the second in Tennessee this year, after prison officials in May aborted attempts to execute a man convicted of murders after failing to find a suitable vein for his lethal injection." See also
theguardian.com
Tennessee says child rapists deserve to die. Now it prepares to execute one of their victims
At 18, Christa Pike was sentenced to death for murder. What if the jury knew she had suffered years of sexual abuse as a child?
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Oca sapiens @ocasapiens.bsky.social · 01/10/2026
#phylogeny #genomics #Bat1KConsortium Wow Origin (probably in Europe), history, geography and evolution over 65 million years of 21 bat families (103 species). OA paper 🔽. See also bat1k.com/about/ and press release www.sanger.ac.uk/news_item/ba....
nature.com
Reference genomes and fossils revise bat family phylogeny and biogeography - Nature
An updated phylogeny of bats is presented, based on new genome assemblies and many ancient fossils and including all known bat families.
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Oca sapiens @ocasapiens.bsky.social · 30/09/2026
SI's foundational document Did Sam Altman and Peter Thiel decline the invitation of the President of the Unites States or did he think they wouldn't commit to build "a positive future for the American people and the world"?
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Oca sapiens @ocasapiens.bsky.social · 30/09/2026
Diversamente da BigOil e malgrado le direttive europee, BigTech ha ottenuto che vari governi considerino i dati sull'impatto ambientale dei data center "alla stregua di segreti industriali". Inchiesta di Andrea Capocci et al.
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L’opaca «corsa all’oro» dei data center | il manifesto
Muro di silenzio sull’impatto ambientale in Ue. Ma le direttive impongono di rendere pubbliche le informazioni sul consumo di energia
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Oca sapiens @ocasapiens.bsky.social · 30/09/2026
#AGW #bioacoustics "[Alan] Mooney had found that squid, too, were sensitive to sound, as were crabs. It occurred to him that other invertebrates, such as corals and oysters, might also use sonic cues to assess a reef’s state."
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Oca sapiens @ocasapiens.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
"We think Cornell’s gentlemen will be very happy to find that Rape Essays 101 earns the same credits as any gender studies course."
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Oca sapiens @ocasapiens.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
#AGW #climatejustice For COP31's consideration: "We estimate heat-related labour productivity damages at US$41 per ton CO2 in 2025. [...] Losses are concentrated in South, East, and Southeast Asia and in Africa" Not OA www.nature.com/articles/s41... Press release www.ucdavis.edu/climate/news...
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Oca sapiens @ocasapiens.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
#Gaza @oxfaminternational.bsky.social also estimates reconstruction of the Strip will cost $71,4 billion - "seven times all previous rebuilds combined" - including the contribution of UN agencies and NGOs such as UNRWA and Oxfam, banned by the Israeli government.
oxfam.org
Gaza’s $71bn reconstruction will cost seven times all previous rebuilds combined, and will fail without Palestinian leadership – Oxfam warns | Oxfam International
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Oca sapiens @ocasapiens.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
Oca's abstract Hyperscalers admit they use #IAs for hacking, "warn of existential risks to humanity", while asking investors for more billions to develop new models - tks to new data centers - which will become profitable and save humanity, also with AI-assisted spyware & weapons.
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Oca sapiens @ocasapiens.bsky.social · 28/09/2026
"Israel is the nation-state of Jewish people" according to the Basic Law, unless they make disturbing documentaries, defend Palestinians' human rights in the West Bank, and? Since 2024 Kuwait has been "de-nationalizing" its subjects, “returning Kuwait to its native people, clean and free of the 1/2
haaretz.com
Israel freezes aliyah for two Jews over activism protecting Palestinians
In both cases, the protective-presence activists, who did not know each other, had their passports photographed by a soldier or settler. These are the first known cases in which Israeli authorities ap...
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Oca sapiens @ocasapiens.bsky.social · 28/09/2026
#Oleshky "Dentro ognuno di noi si combatte una battaglia tra il buon senso e un corpo affamato: morire per una mina o per un drone, oppure poco dopo di fame."
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Oca sapiens @ocasapiens.bsky.social · 28/09/2026
#scams The industry of sham science: paper mills, predatory journals & conferences, authorship, awards & medals for sale, [omissis] as well as elections to fake scientific societies & academies.
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Oca sapiens @ocasapiens.bsky.social · 27/09/2026
Reminder (Exact date in the comments.)
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Oca sapiens @ocasapiens.bsky.social · 27/09/2026
#Oleshky #warcrimes See also www.bbc.com/news/article...
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Oca sapiens @ocasapiens.bsky.social · 27/09/2026
#Gaza Between a bombardment and the next, UN agencies are trying to remove and partially recycle 61 million tons of rubble, containing mines, ammunition, corpses, asbestos, without either the billions or the necessary equipment, banned by Israel. Meanwhile in NYC, during a side event at the 1/2
theguardian.com
61m tonnes of rubble: Gaza aid workers face delicate task of clearing ruins concealing up to 10,000 bodies
Removal of war debris, in which lives, memories and unexploded Israeli bombs lie buried, is one of largest clearance operations in modern history
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Oca sapiens @ocasapiens.bsky.social · 26/09/2026
Right, the Streisand Effect. Second trailer here: www.youtube.com/watch?v=FFTf...
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Oca sapiens @ocasapiens.bsky.social · 26/09/2026
#IA Can @science.org fall for a promotional preprint? It can at least act like it does.
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Oca sapiens @ocasapiens.bsky.social · 25/09/2026
#language When parsing continuous speech to identify single words, in encephalogram recordings dogs' brains track consonants more than vowels - like ours but not other primates'. Do dogs understand some of our words tks to growing up among us? To evolution? And African grey parrots? And...
science.org
Neural evidence that dogs segment the speech they hear with a humanlike consonant bias
Across many human languages, consonants carry more lexical information than vowels. During speech segmentation, humans, unlike nonhuman primates, rely more on consonant than vowel patterns, despite vo...
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Oca sapiens @ocasapiens.bsky.social · 25/09/2026
#neuroscienze "Gente di Milano" e dintorni, il documentario sulla coscienza quando scompare, è raccomandato da @philipcball.bsky.social. Recensione chatterboxfilm.com/2026/03/14/c...
chatterboxfilm.com
‘Conscious’ review – A documentary about the human condition and dementia
Receiving its World Premiere, at the renowned CPH:DOX on 14th March. Conscious is a new documentary about the human condition and dementia.
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Oca sapiens @ocasapiens.bsky.social · 25/09/2026
#climaterisks "Financial markets are reacting rationally" to the largely public-funded El Niño forecasts. And "Remedies abound... but they lack scale".
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Oca sapiens @ocasapiens.bsky.social · 25/09/2026
#animalculture 👏 "During a 12-year period", the 21 young orangutans "differed from one another in their social/individual learning propensities..., but social learning was 5-6 times more frequent than individual learning." See also "Observation and exploration widen the menu"
science.org
Observation and exploration widen the menu
Orangutans expand their foraging skills by combining observation with trial-and-error learning
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Oca sapiens @ocasapiens.bsky.social · 24/09/2026
#Gaza #Israele‌ Se siete dalle parti di Milano, potete vedere #NAZA al cinema Beltrade dal 26 settembre, all'Anteo il 25 e 27, e all'Arlecchino il 28, 29 e 30. cinetecamilano.it/film/naza/ Se no, il film sarà gratis on line in novembre: x.com/yuval_abraha...
leviedelcinema.lombardiaspettacolo.com
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Oca sapiens @ocasapiens.bsky.social · 24/09/2026
#zoonoses #vectorbornediseases #epidemiology For NGOs too, imo. How to monitor locally (& possibly change) the "mosaic" of social, ecological, climatological drivers of 32 emerging infectious diseases, with specific models based on 49,239 outbreaks recorded on every continent but Antarctica.
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Oca sapiens @ocasapiens.bsky.social · 23/09/2026
#OneEarthOneHealth #Earthsystemboundaries Paywalled, but see @uniheidelberg.bsky.social's press release. Afaik, if you're working for a NGO & are interested, you can ask their press office for the pdf. www.uni-heidelberg.de/en/newsroom/...
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Oca sapiens @ocasapiens.bsky.social · 23/09/2026
The dissenters "were scattered across continents and languages, largely unaware of one another, each arriving independently to oppose a project they recognized, from their own angle, as a moral error. What they share is a cost, and that cost is the book’s real subject."
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Oca sapiens @ocasapiens.bsky.social · 23/09/2026
#marinegeology The BRIDGES research program to map the seabed between Malta and Sicily ended a couple of weeks ago, and confirmed that a submerged landmass connects them. Was it a land bridge humans - and other animals - used to migrate from one island to the other until 13,000 years ago? 1/2
science.org
Submerged land bridge may have helped people cross the Mediterranean
A campaign to map and sample the bridge could help reconstruct ancient animal migrations
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Oca sapiens @ocasapiens.bsky.social · 22/09/2026
#freshwaterstorage #GRACE #GRACEFO "Regional trend magnitudes are on average 33% larger, revealing that global freshwater depletion, particularly from groundwater pumping, is considerably more acute than previously estimated." The map of hot spots (Fig. 1 🔽) is harder to read than the one
pnas.org
Spatially refined satellite gravimetry captures human signatures in global terrestrial water storage trends | PNAS
Human activities have directly altered the water cycle through water management, aquifer pumping, agricultural irrigation, and land use change. Alt...
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Oca sapiens @ocasapiens.bsky.social · 22/09/2026
#AGW A "real progress" but far from sufficient. The UN General Secretary should distribute today's NYT or just the article at the UN General Assembly - imo.
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Oca sapiens @ocasapiens.bsky.social · 22/09/2026
#USpolitics Trump or one of his elderly subordinates may have been a victim of "vishing"- "According to the Ministry of Internal Affairs, the most common form of internet fraud remains so-called vishing - phone calls made by scammers posing as officials."
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Scammers in Belarus pose as pension fund officials to target elderly victims
In Belarus, fraudsters have begun using a new scheme targeting elderly people by pretending to be employees of the Pension Fund. Minsk police reported the tactic after a 75-year-old resident of the ca...
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Oca sapiens @ocasapiens.bsky.social · 22/09/2026
#DidierRaoult #documentary How the French microbiologist with most citations published papers on hydroxycloroquine as a miracle cure for covid, and fought the "Gang of Cherries", six skeptical citizens who made him the French scientist with most retractions.
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Oca sapiens @ocasapiens.bsky.social · 22/09/2026
#AGW #negaioli #giustiziaclimatica Da girare al Presidente del Senato secondo cui in Italia si starà bene come nei Caraibi...
theguardian.com
Tropics will be among last places to benefit if global greenhouse gas emissions cut to net zero
Scientists found unequal impact of the climate crisis would not be reversed even if implicit goal of the 2015 Paris agreement is achieved
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Oca sapiens @ocasapiens.bsky.social · 21/09/2026
#chemicalengineering Swallowable & digestible! "This study establishes a foundation for safe, high-performance and bioresorbable power sources in biomedical electronics, enabling retrieval-free, eco-friendly devices that eliminate electronic waste in the gastrointestinal environment." OA paper 🔽
nature.com
Bioresorbable batteries for transient ingestible bioelectronics - Nature Chemical Engineering
This study presents a bioresorbable magnesium–molybdenum trioxide paper battery that delivers 1.84 V under physiological conditions and degrades after use. Validated in swine models, the platform powe...
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Oca sapiens @ocasapiens.bsky.social · 21/09/2026
#PrimoEmedamento Le principali rete tv, compresa Fox News! E i principali quotidiani tipo il NY Times che Trump insulta ogni giorno e querela appena puo'?
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Oca sapiens @ocasapiens.bsky.social · 21/09/2026
#COIs “Hi, I’m Julia*. I’m from the University of Lausanne,” she said. The man across the table replied: “I’m Mustafa Babiker. I work with Saudi Aramco. [...] At least a dozen IPCC lead authors are employed by or linked to Saudi Aramco, Saudi institutions and..." *c.c. @jksteinberger.bsky.social
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Oca sapiens @ocasapiens.bsky.social · 21/09/2026
#wealthredistributionmodels Refrain
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Oca sapiens @ocasapiens.bsky.social · 21/09/2026
US ruling minority "Prevalence of support was estimated at 4.9% of white adults, including 13.5% of white men aged 18–29. Support for white nationalism seems to constitute a discrete dimension of white racial attitudes & many white people who endorse its core ideas are unaware of the label." OA
nature.com
Predictors and prevalence of support for white nationalism in the United States - Nature
Explicit support for white nationalism is uncommon overall, but higher among young white men, disadvantaged and politically disaffected white people, conservatives, Republicans, and those with primari...
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Oca sapiens @ocasapiens.bsky.social · 21/09/2026
#IHL #humanrights Another attempt, before Caribbean countries's families use the UNCHR's report on 223 "unlawful killings at sea" of their relatives to file a petition against the US government at the ICC...
ohchr.org
United States: UN experts demand end to unlawful killings at sea, as one-year death toll hits 223
GENEVA – UN experts* today demanded an end to unlawful killings by the United States of America, after at least 223 deaths at sea were recorded from US air strikes in the Caribbean Sea and the Pacific...
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Oca sapiens @ocasapiens.bsky.social · 20/09/2026
Beyond any military dictator's dream "At the strong request of the Military", there'll be Military Complex/Triumphal Arch with "Snipers, on both the roof and plaza areas, and additionally... large quantities of sniper ammunition in storage" - in order to shoot large quantities of people.
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Oca sapiens @ocasapiens.bsky.social · 20/09/2026
An example of US political developments compounding our homegrown challenges: bsky.app/profile/slpn...
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Oca sapiens @ocasapiens.bsky.social · 19/09/2026
#civilrights "In 2025, the global challenges to democracy and the difficulty in stemming its erosion were both exemplified and compounded by political developments in the United States." We've noticed, and also that it is getting worse.
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Dr. Jonathan Foley @globalecoguy.bsky.social · 18/09/2026
Oh, god, this is terrible news. web.sas.upenn.edu/pcssm/news/r...
web.sas.upenn.edu
Remembering Dr. Joe Romm
It is with great sadness that the Penn Center for Science, Sustainability and the Media shares news of the passing of PCSSM Senior Research Fellow Dr. Joe Romm. Please find below an obituary prepared ...
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Oca sapiens @ocasapiens.bsky.social · 18/09/2026
Bella notizia! Paper gratis sulla filogenesi del Leopardus tilcayo e parenti.
cell.com
Phylogenomics and museomics reveal five distinct species of tiger cats in South America
Lescroart, Nogales-Ascarrunz, et al. demonstrate that the contentious tiger cat species complex consists of five cryptic species. Based on analyses of 38 whole genomes from the Neotropical cat genus L...
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