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scienceartnews.bsky.social @scienceartnews.bsky.social · 7h

#Agenda Microbial Population Biology GRC 🔹️June 27–July 2, 2027 🔹️Andover, NH www.grc.org/microbial-po.. Via @wcratcliff.bsky.social -Some of- the participants: @drhhnz.bsky.social @ksbakes.bsky.social @surtlab.bsky.social @noahhoupt.bsky.social @duhitasant.bsky.social @bkoskella.bsky.social

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Agence France-Presse @afp.com · 9h

🇫🇮🌲 Une agence gouvernementale finlandaise a demandé à Google de suspendre la construction de deux nouveaux centres de données dans l'attente d'une évaluation de leur impact environnemental ⤵️

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scienceartnews.bsky.social @scienceartnews.bsky.social · 13h

The results of a study by Biswajit Banerjee, @claudiaalcar.bsky.social and @antonipetrov.bsky.social show that evolution-based tokenization can be an alternative to large-scale parameter scaling, opening a new direction for efficient and biologically grounded learning of protein representations.

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scienceartnews.bsky.social @scienceartnews.bsky.social · 13h

Chairman of the Norwegian Nobel Committee, was interviewed by freelance journalist Stig Arild Pettersen about the 2026 Nobel Peace Prize. "This is a reminder to the world that we must strengthen international law." youtu.be/_W84o5CviiM?....

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“A reminder to the world that we need to strengthen international law.” | 2026 Nobel Peace Prize

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Waggoner Lab @labwaggoner.bsky.social · 08/10/2026

A multiomic atlas of pregnancies with chronic placental inflammation links effector activation to preterm birth and regulatory resilience to term delivery www.science.org/doi/10.1126/... @ngllab.bsky.social @washumedicine.bsky.social

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Rebecca J Hall @drrebeccajhall.bsky.social · 08/10/2026

Great PhD with a great supervisory team!

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Luiza Jarovsky, PhD @luizajarovsky.bsky.social · 08/10/2026

The MIT Media Lab, together with other research teams, has just launched this FANTASTIC open benchmark measuring AI's impact on humans. It assesses physical, psychological, and social dimensions through great visualizations and simple language. Explore the full benchmark below:

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Luiza Jarovsky, PhD @luizajarovsky.bsky.social · 08/10/2026

👉 Explore the full benchmark: impactbench.media.mit.edu/explore 👉 To learn more about AI governance and how to ensure AI is safe, ethical, and legally compliant, join my newsletter's 101,600+ subscribers: www.luizasnewsletter.com

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Hospital del Mar Research Institute @researchmar.bsky.social · 05/10/2026

🔬Would you like to investigate what lies behind the ‘dark proteome’? 🌊The @researchmar.bsky.social #HMRIB is looking for a #PhD to join @maralbalab.bsky.social as part of the #ORFeusproject. 🧬Microproteins, bioinformatics & evolutionary genomics. 📅Deadline 22oct ✍️ www.researchmar.net/media/upload...

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scienceartnews.bsky.social @scienceartnews.bsky.social · 19h

"The far right in the present day is a phenomenon that encompasses all social classes. You can view it as a movement that brings together an underclass that has given up hope on the promises of modernizationand an elite that no longer even pretends those promises are being kept," says Rodrigo Nunes.

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Brazil: The Future of the Far Right • EQUATOR

The limits of Lulismo, the sons of Bolsonaro and the new politics of disintegration

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Pooja Bhatia @bhatiap.bsky.social · 08/10/2026

I was thrilled to write about one of the best places in the world for one of the best magazines in the world. @equatormag.bsky.social cc: Haiti-heads, Graham Greene lovers, New Wave music fans, anyone who's danced till dawn

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scienceartnews.bsky.social @scienceartnews.bsky.social · 20h

A prominent woman in technology, NASA computer scientist Margaret Hamilton, has passed away. She was 90 years old. By Carol Francavilla @apnews.com

Recently deceased computer scientist Margaret Hamilton.
Photo by Carol Francavilla/AP

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scienceartnews.bsky.social @scienceartnews.bsky.social · 21h

#Agenda Dates of the NeurIPS 2026 meeting: Sydney December 6 Expo Day Dec.7 Tutor Day Dec.7-10 Exhibition Hall Open Dec.8-10 Main Conference Dec.11&12 Workshops and Competitions Atlanta Dec.9 Main Conference+Manuals Dec.9-12 Exh.Hall Open Dec.10&11 Main Conference Dec.12&13 Workshops #NeurIPS2026

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Mary-Anne Lea @pelagicblue.bsky.social · 08/10/2026

Large declines in South Sandwich Island populations of Chinstrap penguins likely caused by reductions in krill availability associated with regional warming. Authors call for reconsideration of the IUCN Red List status for the species. @currentbiology.bsky.social

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World’s largest penguin colony suffers ‘enormous population crash’

Chinstrap penguins on Zavodovski Island in Antarctica down by two-thirds since 2011, probably due to climate crisis

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Tjeerd Royaards @tjeerdroyaards.com · 03/10/2026

The editor's choices of this week on @cartoonmovement.com, by Sajith Kumar from India, Vasco Gargalo from Portugal, @emadelrosso.bsky.social from Italy/The Netherlands and @zezvaz.bsky.social, also from Portugal. Which one do you like best? www.cartoonmovement.com #PoliticalCartoons

Cartoon by Zez Vaz depicting an intersection with a climate crisis, AI robots, fascists, and missiles on each side on a collision course.

Two map snapshots labeled Gaza 2023 and Gaza 2026: a densely built neighborhood in 2023 and, by 2026, widespread destruction with remaining building outlines arranged to spell 'GENOCIDE'.

Cartoon showing a Cubist-style anguished figures—one screaming upright over a collapsed body— from Picasso's Guernica standing behind a United Nations podium bearing the UN emblem, symbolizing civilian suffering and the UN’s failure or impotence to prevent atrocities.

Cartoon showing a cleaner vacuuming scattered words under a large United Nations podium while a speech bubble reads ‘politicians…’

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scienceartnews.bsky.social @scienceartnews.bsky.social · 08/10/2026

Finnish experts fear that golden eagles are dying increasingly often as a result of wind turbines. There are currently 2,000 wind turbines in Finland. 80% of the country's golden eagle nests are located in the planned project area. ~500 pairs live there. By Risto Ukkonen yle.fi/a/74-2024731...

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Maakotka löytyi ”myllyn alta palasina” pari vuotta sitten – nyt asiantuntijat pelkäävät tilanteen pahenevan

Tuulivoiman ennakoitu kasvu lisää maakotkien törmäysriskiä myllyihin. Myös Metsähallituksen rooli kotkan suojelussa ja energiahankkeissa aiheuttaa kysymyksiä.

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Germán Orizaola @gorizaola.bsky.social · 07/10/2026

Our recent @currentbiology.bsky.social paper (www.cell.com/current-biol... on how beauty bias in butterflies can affect public attention and alter conservation priorities, featured @environment.theguardian.com

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Department of International Politics, Aberystwyth University @interpolaber.bsky.social · 18/09/2026

Llŷr's thesis was examined by Angharad Closs Stephens (Swansea University) and our own Anwen Elias. His thesis and the defence were thorough, thoughtful, well-argued, rigorous, engaging and original. Wonderful news for a wet Friday afternoon!

Three smiling people sit side by side. The one with the biggest smile has just passed his PhD viva. The other two are his examiners

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ASCoR @ascor.bsky.social · 24/09/2026

🎓 #PhDDefence We congratulate Liza Keessen, on the successful defence of her #PhD thesis, “Me-Time in the Digital Age: How Digital Technology Can Undermine and Support Emerging Adults’ Need for Solitude”!

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scienceartnews.bsky.social @scienceartnews.bsky.social · 08/10/2026

...and the daily wind brings a dearest appreciation to the other side of the Atlantic coast. Image: Anne Carson's poem 'Apostle Town'.

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scienceartnews.bsky.social @scienceartnews.bsky.social · 08/10/2026

The 2026 Nobel Prize in Literature has been awarded to Anne Carson. @nobelprize.org

Nobel Prize in Literature (2026) winner Anne Carson.

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scienceartnews.bsky.social @scienceartnews.bsky.social · 08/10/2026

Climate change increases the foundation risks in the Netherlands. Drought, falling groundwater levels and soil subsidence mean that more buildings are at risk of damage, even in areas where foundation problems were previously uncommon. This was revealed in a study by @deltares.bsky.socialVia nos.nl

Deltares researchers Otto Levelt and Harry van Essen are installing measuring equipment around and on the house to investigate the causes and consequences of shrinkage and swelling clay.
Photo: Guus Schoonewille.

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scienceartnews.bsky.social @scienceartnews.bsky.social · 08/10/2026

The findings of the study by María José Escoto-Rosales et al. suggest that chronic stress induces tactile allodynia via different molecular pathways: BDNF-TrkB signaling in men and BDNF-p75NTR signaling in women,with KCC2 dysfunction contributing to allodynia in both sexes. @erikacuriel.bsky.social

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Sex-specific spinal neurotrophin receptors mediate chronic stress-induced tactile allodynia in rats

Here we investigated the effect of sex on the contribution of spinal BDNF-KCC2 pathway in chronic restraint stress-induced tactile allodynia. Chronic restraint stress induced tactile allodynia and ele...

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Alice Laigle @alicelaigle.bsky.social · 05/10/2026

Inktober - bota and naturalists version 🎨 I started the challenge and here we are after 5 days. Trying different kinds. Themes based on the list of French association of passionated people of Botanical illustrations. #inktober #ink #watercolours 🐡

5 inks and watercolours:
1. Watercolours of a red cardinal - Theme: red - A6 format
2. Ink of ivy on trees - Theme: Ivy - A6
3. Watercolours of peony - Theme: flower - A5
4. Ink of a moss - Theme: texture - A6
5. Black and sepia inks of a tiny comics - Theme shellfish - A6 - trad EN "mmmhhhh, this shellfish does not exist, Jacqueline"

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Emily Selland, PhD (she/her) @eselland.bsky.social · 06/10/2026

So wonderful to have helped develop these modules! Check them out and feel free to use and adapt for any club meetings, seminars, and more! #SciencePolicy #Curricula

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Nobel Prize @nobelprize.org · 07/10/2026

Thanks to the discoveries recognised by the Nobel Prize in Chemistry 2026, chemists have gained fundamental new tools but, above all, these discoveries have contributed to solving one of chemistry’s greatest mysteries: how homochirality – like that found in all living beings – can be created.

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Nobel Prize @nobelprize.org · 07/10/2026

The Soai reaction – developed by 2026 laureate Kenso Soai – has awakened new enthusiasm in chemists who want to understand the life’s origins. Around the world, researchers are now trying to repeat Soai’s achievement, but with the aim of producing homochiral amino acids and sugars.

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Nobel Prize @nobelprize.org · 07/10/2026

The non-linear effects that fellow laureate Henri B. Kagan discovered have become an important tool for chemists when they design new reactions. The fact that a reaction is non-linear provides chemists with information about how it occurs.

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Nobel Prize @nobelprize.org · 07/10/2026

This information can be used to optimise the reaction, so they can obtain the purest possible enantiomers of the product.

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Nobel Prize @nobelprize.org · 07/10/2026

This is vital for every company that manufactures substances that are intended to interact with living beings, such as pharmaceuticals, flavours, scents and agricultural chemicals. In some cases, it is also important in the production of new materials.

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scienceartnews.bsky.social @scienceartnews.bsky.social · 07/10/2026

An exemplary 'bat relocation' in the Netherlands: Prins Willem Alexander Primary School is outdated and must make way for new construction, but the vacant building could not be demolished for the time being due to the bats. Bats are protected and may not be disturbed or captured.

The old school building in Eext will soon be demolished.
© RTV Drenthe / Hjalmar Guit

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scienceartnews.bsky.social @scienceartnews.bsky.social · 07/10/2026

*Application deadline: 1st November 2026.

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Daniel Swain @weatherwest.bsky.social · 06/10/2026

Just did some number crunching using latest (Oct 1) ECMWF seasonal data, and I must say that I've never seen such high predictive confidence in a very wet California winter. This is a truly extraordinary forecast amid a record-strength El Niño event. [Thread: please read to end.]

Model-relative sea surface temperature anomalies for November 2026–January 2027. The supplied grid is displayed without added smoothing or coastal filling. Beige marks land and gray marks missing ocean values. The main colour scale spans -2 to +10°F, with white at zero. Hot pink marks anomalies above +10°F. This map does not establish an operational ENSO category.

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Philadelphia Inquirer @inquirer.com · 06/10/2026

Pennsylvania surpassed 1,000 measles cases Monday, crossing a grim milestone to rank among the largest U.S. measles outbreak in decades. 🔗 www.inquirer.com/health/penns...

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Dr Eleanor Shaw @eleanorshaw.bsky.social · 06/10/2026

Request: Do you know of any oral history projects with relevance to covid-19? Context: I'm doing a mapping exercise for my new job at the @britishlibrary.bsky.social on covid commemoration. I have a pretty solid list but I know there are more out there! Please share!

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Rev. Dr. Liz Gloyn @lizgloyn.bsky.social · 05/10/2026

SO EXCITED to share this CFP for Binning The Classics? Discard Studies and Classical Antiquity, a one day conference on 23rd June 27 I'm co-organising with @rhiannone.bsky.social. Deadline for abstracts is 16th January 2027. If you have thoughts about ephemera, junk, debris and waste, share them!

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CFP: Binning the Classics? Discard Studies and Classical Antiquity

Very glad to share this CFP for a conference I’m organising with my fab colleague Rhiannon Easterbrook under the auspices of the Centre for the Reception of Greece and Rome. Conference date: …

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