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The Progress Network @progressntwrk.bsky.social · 17h

🐌The triumphant return of those glow-in-the-dark wonders, partula snails!

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The Progress Network @progressntwrk.bsky.social · 19h

🎲Economist Allison Schrager on where people go wrong with risk-taking.

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The Progress Network @progressntwrk.bsky.social · 21h

🌳🇧🇷The Daily Dose via @carbonbrief.org 🌳🇧🇷 20,000 square kilometers (or roughly an area the size of New Jersey) of Brazilian Amazon forest has been saved by Brazil's current administration since 2022.

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The Progress Network @progressntwrk.bsky.social · 06/10/2026

Arizona wiped out $1 billion in medical debt!

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The Progress Network @progressntwrk.bsky.social · 06/10/2026

🤯A new kind of battery that you can eat

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The Progress Network @progressntwrk.bsky.social · 06/10/2026

💍🇺🇸The Daily Dose via @calmatters.org 💍🇺🇸 California has become the 18th US state to ban child marriage!

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The Progress Network @progressntwrk.bsky.social · 05/10/2026

🇵🇫French Polynesia now protects a section of ocean the size of the EU (over 4.5 million square kilometers)

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The Progress Network @progressntwrk.bsky.social · 05/10/2026

🇳🇴🐟The Daily Dose via Regjeringen 🇳🇴🐟 Norway's new marine protected area is the size of 260,000 soccer fields.

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The Progress Network @progressntwrk.bsky.social · 02/10/2026

🥳California has become the 17th state to ban child marriage!

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The Progress Network @progressntwrk.bsky.social · 02/10/2026

🕷️There are two new species of sea spider that live in the shallow waters off Canada’s coast. theprogressnetwork.substack.com/p/the-dement...

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The Progress Network @progressntwrk.bsky.social · 02/10/2026

💡🇷🇼The Daily Dose via Taarifa Rwanda 💡🇷🇼 In the last five years, the share of Rwandans with electricity access has jumped from 64% to 85%.

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The Progress Network @progressntwrk.bsky.social · 01/10/2026

🌊This week in the What Could Go Right? newsletter, we're talking about the surprising wave of optimism that has hit the field of Alzheimer’s research. theprogressnetwork.substack.com/p/the-dement...

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The Progress Network @progressntwrk.bsky.social · 01/10/2026

📉🇺🇸The Daily Dose via @medpagetoday.com 📉🇺🇸 Between 1991 and 2024, the US cancer mortality rate has declined by 35%, according to the 2026 @theaacr.bsky.social Cancer Progress Report.

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The Progress Network @progressntwrk.bsky.social · 30/09/2026

After decades of rising prices, American public universities are quietly bending the cost curve. (H/T @asunewsofficial.bsky.social)

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The Progress Network @progressntwrk.bsky.social · 30/09/2026

🤖Is there a 10% chance AI will kill us? "We're terrible at calculating risk," says author @ranaforoohar.bsky.social. "That is a psychological thing that we do not do well."

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The Progress Network @progressntwrk.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

The Maldives are using erosion prediction models to grow new beaches.

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The Progress Network @progressntwrk.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

🤔How come? 🌬️The US-Iran war has severely disrupted trade through the strait of Hormuz, which has increased the incentive to switch to alternative energy sources. 🧐Is it all good news? 📈Nope, the @iea.org now predicts a 1.2% rise in coal demand this year. www.carbonbrief.org/analysis-glo...

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The Progress Network @progressntwrk.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

🛢️📉The Daily Dose via @carbonbrief.org 🛢️📉 Global fossil-fuel emissions are set to fall by around 0.5% in 2026, according to Carbon Brief analysis.

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The Progress Network @progressntwrk.bsky.social · 28/09/2026

🛜🌍The Daily Dose via United Nations 🛜🌍 In 2015, only 40% of the world had internet access. Today that number has jumped to 74%.

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The Progress Network @progressntwrk.bsky.social · 25/09/2026

🧠 Scientists have overturned the centuries-held belief that the brain is one organ. 🤯It’s two “cleverly packaged together,” new research shows. med.stanford.edu/news/all-new...

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The Progress Network @progressntwrk.bsky.social · 25/09/2026

😎3 Things That Went Right This Week😎 🐱 The first new feline species in 100 years has been discovered in Bolivia. 🧬 An experimental immunotherapy has beaten back a three-year-old’s liver cancer for a year. 🏳️‍🌈 Hungary will scrap a ban on gay adoption. theprogressnetwork.substack.com/p/ai-doom-is...

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The Progress Network @progressntwrk.bsky.social · 25/09/2026

🇿🇲📈The Daily Dose via The Borgen Project 🇿🇲📈 In 2019, 120,000 students enrolled in higher education in Zambia. By 2024, that number had almost doubled to 230,000.

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The Progress Network @progressntwrk.bsky.social · 24/09/2026

A new non-profit wants to streamline gene therapy for kids with rare diseases often avoided by pharmaceutical companies.

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The Progress Network @progressntwrk.bsky.social · 24/09/2026

😱Is the end nigh, like so many AI experts say? 👀That's a distraction, argues TPN exec. director, Emma Varvaloucas. "The odds of an extinction event are anybody’s guess. We’d do better to focus on present AI risks." theprogressnetwork.substack.com/p/ai-doom-is...

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The Progress Network @progressntwrk.bsky.social · 24/09/2026

🇺🇿📉The Daily Dose via UZ Daily 🇺🇿📉 Uzbekistan’s poverty rate has fallen from 5.8% to 3.9% in the first eight months of 2026.

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The Progress Network @progressntwrk.bsky.social · 23/09/2026

😳New tests can spot endometriosis in hours not years.

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The Progress Network @progressntwrk.bsky.social · 23/09/2026

🤔What is the solution for the male loneliness epidemic? "Social gambling," says Isaac Rose-Berman, a fellow @aibm.bsky.social.

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The Progress Network @progressntwrk.bsky.social · 23/09/2026

🇮🇳📈The Daily Dose via DD India 🇮🇳📈 Between 2015 and 2024, PhD enrollment in India grew by 193%!

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The Progress Network @progressntwrk.bsky.social · 22/09/2026

🤔Does size matter? The United Nations thinks so.

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The Progress Network @progressntwrk.bsky.social · 22/09/2026

🇯🇵👴The Daily Dose via BBCNews 👴🇯🇵 Japan is now home to 107,677 centenarians, the highest number in the world!

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The Progress Network @progressntwrk.bsky.social · 21/09/2026

⚖️After 200 years, rough sleeping is no longer illegal in England and Wales.

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The Progress Network @progressntwrk.bsky.social · 21/09/2026

💉🦠The Daily Dose via GAVI 💉🦠 Next-generation TB vaccines, which are expected to become available from 2029, are estimated to save 7 million lives between 2030 and 2050, according to @gavi.org.

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The Progress Network @progressntwrk.bsky.social · 18/09/2026

💊 A new drug for narcolepsy works so well that patients taking it report developing hobbies for the first time. Need more? Read on: theprogressnetwork.substack.com/p/mercators-...

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The Progress Network @progressntwrk.bsky.social · 18/09/2026

☠️📉The Daily Dose via @humanprogress.bsky.social ☠️📉 The global homicide rate has fallen by 14% between 2015 and 2024. humanprogress.org/global-homic...

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The Progress Network @progressntwrk.bsky.social · 17/09/2026

👀We didn't see that one coming, either.

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The Progress Network @progressntwrk.bsky.social · 17/09/2026

🏘️☀️The Daily Dose via SEIA ☀️🏘️ According to the latest U.S. Solar Market Insight report from the Solar Energy Industries Association, one third of American homes can now be powered by US solar capacity.

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The Progress Network @progressntwrk.bsky.social · 16/09/2026

🤔Was defund the police a good slogan? 🎙️TPN founder Zachary Karabell and @georgetownlaw.bsky.social professor @dorothyabrown.bsky.social discuss.

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The Progress Network @progressntwrk.bsky.social · 16/09/2026

🇹🇭💉The Daily Dose via @who.int 🇹🇭💉 Thailand has eliminated rubella! They are the seventh country in Southeast Asia to do so.

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The Progress Network @progressntwrk.bsky.social · 15/09/2026

😮Domestic supersonic flight might be coming to the US.

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The Progress Network @progressntwrk.bsky.social · 15/09/2026

🩸Called "spray-dried plasma," it could help solve the challenges of treating severely wounded soldiers on hard-to-reach battlefields without refrigeration. www.telegraph.co.uk/global-healt...

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The Progress Network @progressntwrk.bsky.social · 15/09/2026

🩺🌎The Daily Dose via Health Day 🩺🌎 The global health workforce has increased by 198.5% since 1990.

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The Progress Network @progressntwrk.bsky.social · 14/09/2026

😮The world's first hypoallergenic beagles

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The Progress Network @progressntwrk.bsky.social · 14/09/2026

🇲🇽📉The Daily Dose via Mexico News Daily 🇲🇽📉 Homicides have fallen by 51% in Mexico between September 2024 and July 2026.

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The Progress Network @progressntwrk.bsky.social · 11/09/2026

🤔How can we fundamentally redesign our approach to tomorrow? 🥰🥺We should have some empathy for the generations that will come after us, says our guest @ariwallach.bsky.social.

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The Progress Network @progressntwrk.bsky.social · 11/09/2026

🥳3 Things That Went Right 🐴 For the first time in 200 years, a Przewalski’s horse foal has been born in the wild ⚛️ The first signs of dark matter particles may finally have been spotted 📉China’s CO2 emissions fell by 1% in the second quarter of 2026 theprogressnetwork.substack.com/p/ai-is-most...

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The Progress Network @progressntwrk.bsky.social · 11/09/2026

👑As of August 2026, the firstborn child will inherit the throne of Liechtenstein regardless for gender.

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The Progress Network @progressntwrk.bsky.social · 11/09/2026

📺🔭The Daily Dose via @nytimes.com 🔭📺 It would take 500,000 HD TVs to display the full panorama of space that NASA's newest telescope, Nancy Grace Roman, will capture.

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The Progress Network @progressntwrk.bsky.social · 10/09/2026

🐾Oregon has gotten creative about funding wildlife conservation.

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