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Yadana Nath Desmond

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IPBES @ipbes.net · 30/09/2026
The fourth Research Grant Competition run by @gcbcbiodiversity.bsky.social calls for research proposals that address the underlying drivers of biodiversity loss and ecosystem degradation in the Amazon, the Congo Basin and the Coral Triangle. Applications open on 19 October.
Banner for the fourth Research Grant Competition run by the Global Centre on Biodiversity for Climate. The image shows two outlined images, depiciting two continents, and in the middle, text: Three regions. One drive for transformative change.
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Carbon Brief @carbonbrief.org · 28/09/2026
NEW – Analysis: Lula presidency saved at least 20,000km2 of Brazilian Amazon since 2022 ✍️ By @orladwyer.carbonbrief.org and @joshgabbatiss.bsky.social 💬 With comments from @claudioangelo.bsky.social Read here: buff.ly/QqRBFfy
Chart titled "Lula presidency saved at least 20,000km2 of Brazilian Amazon since 2022" and subtitled "Annual Amazon deforestation, km2." Deforestation peaked above 13,000 km2 in 2021 under Bolsonaro, then fell sharply under Lula to around 6,000 km2 by 2024. Source: INPE PRODES, INPE DETER, Soterroni et al. (2023).
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Helen @helenmaryme.bsky.social · 23/09/2026
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Chalkboard sign posted outside an ice cream shop. The word "ice cream" is written with an arrow pointing to the shop door. The words "cruel world" are posted with the arrow pointing out to the world at large.
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C&EN (Chemical & Engineering News) @cenmag.bsky.social · 19/09/2026
A federal court of appeals ruled on Tuesday that “substantial evidence did not support EPA’s decision” to ban most uses of methylene chloride, a popular solvent that is used in various industrial, research, and consumer applications. #chemsky 🧪
cen.acs.org
Policy Watch: Fifth Circuit rejects EPA’s methylene chloride ban
A weekly roundup of policy news in the chemical arena and beyond
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Jon Cooper @joncooper-us.bsky.social · 18/09/2026
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Christina🌊🌊 @sassycc.bsky.social · 15/09/2026
Do you understand it!!
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MadGreek 🧿 @madgreek2024.bsky.social · 11/09/2026
On September 11, 2001, countless heroes answered the call to help—and among them were brave search-and-rescue dogs who worked tirelessly through unimaginable conditions. Today, we honor these remarkable four-legged heroes and the important role they played during one of America’s darkest days.
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Cally Beaton @callybeaton.bsky.social · 11/09/2026
Anyone who has ever complained about London Underground, complain no more.
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C&EN (Chemical & Engineering News) @cenmag.bsky.social · 11/09/2026
Each month, ChemReels features science communicators diving into chemistry subjects you've been curious about, with all the technical detail intact. Join Maciek Majdecki as he guides us through the art (and science) of crystallization: #chemsky 🧪
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Merriam-Webster @merriam-webster.com · 09/09/2026
Not to brag, but our product has been foldable since 1828.
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𝕯𝖆𝖓🍂🎃🕸️ @arepublic86.bsky.social · 09/09/2026
🇵🇰Sajid Amiri🇵🇰 Love these wire mesh paintings, cool idea
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MadGreek 🧿 @madgreek2024.bsky.social · 08/09/2026
This was the video I was looking for yesterday to post. I follow Joshua Wright on instagram because we are both passionate about saving old trees. This was an ancient forest valley that was recently logged on Vancouver Island. They cut down one of the largest Yellow Cedar tree in Canada. 😢
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Jeff Sunbury @jsunbury.bsky.social · 08/09/2026
Neo Bauhaus - The Blue Hour of Summer (2023) Acrylic on canvas, 39.25 × 31.5 in (100 × 80 × 2 cm)
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Wildlife Nomads @wildlifenomads.bsky.social · 07/09/2026
Clownfish aren't born male or female. They're born undifferentiated, then the largest in a group becomes female and the second largest becomes male. If the female dies, the male becomes female. That's just one fish. There are over 34,000 species. And the diversity is wild. #fish #ocean #nature
two clown fishs in a sea anemone
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Gillian Brockell @gillianbrockell.com · 07/09/2026
Every update about the pancreatic cancer vaccine, I have to hold back the rush of tears thinking about my stepdad. He’s been gone 20 years and six months, and the idea that other families may not have to know the pain of watching someone die of this evil disease is almost too much to hope for.
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C&EN (Chemical & Engineering News) @cenmag.bsky.social · 07/09/2026
Different cities and regions play host to different kinds of chemistry ecosystems. C&EN has evaluated the features that make a city, state, or country ripe for building a career in chemistry. #chemsky 🧪
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Cities of chemistry
C&EN explores which cities have the ingredients for chemical innovation
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Ward Q. Normal (he/him) @wardqnormal.bsky.social · 06/09/2026
A particularly infuriating aspect of this A.I. bullshit is that nobody seems to remember that we all got along just fine without it for centuries. How are we all suddenly incapable of reading and understanding written words? Of creating art? Of telling stories? It’s madness.
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WHO @who.int · 03/09/2026
Tsuchiya-San’s world shattered when she lost her husband, and soon after, her son. Grief and #loneliness engulfed her. Then she began visiting a community salon and life took a turn for the better. She felt heard and cared for. The power of #SocialConnection.
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leftylady.bsky.social @leftylady.bsky.social · 03/09/2026
Children can't learn when they're hungry. Said me, a retired teacher.
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As millions of kids lose SNAP food benefits, free school meals are also at risk
Food stamps have a direct link to other critical resources, such as free breakfast and lunch at school. Now, experts say they're starting to see that link break.
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Luca @lucagalletti.bsky.social · 02/09/2026
When you and your coworkers all have the day off 🤘 IG: @annabel.pmu
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ᴄʜᴀʀʟᴇʏ★ᴘɪʀᴏᴛʜ @charlespiroth.bsky.social · 31/08/2026
N.C. Wyeth Airmail, 1938
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SARS‑CoV‑2 (COVID-19) @covid19disease.bsky.social · 31/08/2026
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Scientists Engineer “Tumor-Eating” Bacteria That Devour Cancer From Within
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billkittle.bsky.social @billkittle.bsky.social · 29/08/2026
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SARS‑CoV‑2 (COVID-19) @covid19disease.bsky.social · 28/08/2026
🚨 BREAKTHROUGH: After 40 years of research, Brazilian scientist Dr. Mariangela Hungria wins the World Food Prize for pioneering a $2 nitrogen-fixing bacteria treatment that replaces costly fertilizers, saves farmers $25 billion annually, and cuts 230 million tons of CO₂ emissions.
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Bits @bitshammer.bsky.social · 28/08/2026
I assume it was ignored because most people don't write recipes in Excel spreadsheets.
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Dr. Aaron Thierry @thierryaaron.bsky.social · 26/08/2026
Let's get real. 1.3 million bottles in a day sounds like a lot. But that's just 78 seconds of global production! 630,000 people turned out to do it. If even a fraction of them spent the day lobbying for single-use plastic regulation, we might actually get somewhere.
theguardian.com
1.3m plastic bottles collected in a day in global volunteer ocean cleanup
Ocean Conservancy says last year’s cleanup collected 13.9m pieces of rubbish from beaches and rivers worldwide
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ABC News Australia @news.abc.net.au · 27/08/2026
Twenty years on from Gardasil vaccine launch, Australia on track to eliminate cervical cancer
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Australia on track to eliminate cervical cancer 20 years on from vaccine launch
Twenty years on from the launch of the world-first vaccine against cervical cancer, Australian Immunisation Register data shows HPV vaccine coverage for girls and girls is dropping.
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Arbaz Kakkar5 @arbazkakkar5.bsky.social · 26/08/2026
If Dolly Parton can gift 20million books a year to children, why can’t Amazon, Apple and Microsoft do something like this??
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Rae Radford @raeradford.bsky.social · 26/08/2026
Yep, leave me behind….. #BookSky
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FT @fucktheory.bsky.social · 25/08/2026
Imagine being talented and beautiful and rich and famous and still the most noteworthy thing about you is how good a person you are.
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Luca @lucagalletti.bsky.social · 17/08/2026
One of French puppeteer Raphaël Gromy’s most recognizable performances features a puppet painting real artworks on canvas, blending puppetry, live performance, and visual art into a unique theatrical experience. 😊 IG: @artistsuniversum @raphael_gromy
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Laura L @lalalowe.bsky.social · 07/08/2026
I am “this restaurant is too loud” years old.
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Tobias Wilson-Bates @phdhurtbrain.bsky.social · 02/08/2026
Sometimes in a library I imagine each book as years of an author’s life such that you are standing amidst uncounted hours of effort and concentration like some oasis of meaningful time.
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avidreader8.bsky.social @avidreader8.bsky.social · 28/07/2026
I LOVE YOU #booksky #books #Kindleunlimited #thriller #suspense #romance #novels #geopolitical #mythological #darkromance #women #contemporary #fiction #fantasy #crime #amazon #sifi #readingcommunity #writingcommunity #author #readers #indie
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Abilu Tangwa. @abilutangwa.bsky.social · 02/07/2026
Infinite growth on a finite planet is a physical impossibility.
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Runs with scissors in the dark @tevistickles.bsky.social · 30/06/2026
The pufferfish of happiness has visited you.
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Jan Rosenow @janrosenow.bsky.social · 27/06/2026
Probably the best example of a rapid bottom-up energy transition: Pakistan imported more Chinese solar last year than any country on earth. No big subsidy, no rooftop scheme, no feed-in tariff. Solar is now around a quarter of electricity. More in my piece👇 www.thenewworld.co.uk/jan-rosenow-...
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Pakistan’s solar miracle – how the hell did they do it?
Faced with constant electricity blackouts and a failing grid, people in Pakistan took matters into their own hands. The result is a lesson for the rest of the world, and also a warning
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Bill McKibben @billmckibben.bsky.social · 24/06/2026
Beginning next week, Australians get free electricity for three hours every afternoon. That's what happens when you build out wind, sun, and batteries open.substack.com/pub/billmcki...
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How about Free? Is that affordable enough for you?
The latest on energy, climate and affordability
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Lizzy Lawrence @lizzylawrence.bsky.social · 23/06/2026
EXCLUSIVE: Eli Lilly gave compassionate use access to retatrutide, their unapproved powerful obesity drug, to a 79-year-old man in April. The application was arranged by a top doctor at NIH, and cleared by the FDA. www.statnews.com/2026/06/23/e...
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Eli Lilly gave extraordinary obesity drug access to a 79-year-old patient. Who was it?
Exclusive: STAT has learned that Eli Lilly and the FDA allowed a 79-year-old to gain extraordinary access to an experimental obesity drug through the agency’s “compassionate use” program.
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Rebecca Solnit @rebeccasolnit.bsky.social · 23/06/2026
And Ro Khanna has a very reliable source.
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Evaluating the impact of two decades of USAID interventions and projecting the effects of defunding on mortality up to 2030: a retrospective impact evaluation and forecasting analysis
USAID funding has significantly contributed to the reduction in adult and child mortality across low-income and middle-income countries over the past two decades. Our estimates show that, unless the a...
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UNICEF USA @unicefusa.org · 22/06/2026
When Michael Chen was 11 years old, his family boarded a fishing boat in Vietnam with 300 others, drifting into open water with no guarantee of survival. Today, Michael is our CFO at UNICEF USA. This is his story.
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My dad told us to pack a bag and flee our home. Years later, I understand why
We boarded a small fishing boat under the cover of darkness. We crowded together with about 300 others, drifting into open water with no guarantee of survival.
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Yadana Nath Desmond @yadananathdesm.bsky.social · 14/06/2026
OH YEAH!
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Mayor Zohran Kwame Mamdani @mayor.nyc.gov · 13/06/2026
Our whole city is cheering for the Knicks tonight. So it’s only right that we bring the Knicks to the whole city. Tonight, Game 5 will be streaming on 130 LinkNYC kiosks. Let’s go Knicks.
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Yadana Nath Desmond @yadananathdesm.bsky.social · 13/06/2026
So how many USAIDs is a trillion dollars? Not one, not two, not ten. TWENTY. It’s twenty. Twenty entire USAIDs.
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Semafor @semafor.com · 12/06/2026
A German regional court ruled that Google was responsible for its AI search overviews, potentially leaving Big Tech firms open to defamation lawsuits. www.semafor.com/article/06/1...
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German court rules on Google AI liability
Search engines are partially protected against liability for their results in most jurisdictions, because they point to outside websites.
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UNICEF USA @unicefusa.org · 10/06/2026
For Olympic gymnast and UNICEF Ambassador Laurie Hernandez, play was everything growing up — how she explored who she was, connected with others and made sense of the world around her.
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Jay Kuo @nycjayjay.bsky.social · 09/06/2026
Following this story closely. Story: buff.ly/aDZCNnp
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Yadana Nath Desmond @yadananathdesm.bsky.social · 09/06/2026
I mean how could you not?
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Sally Hayden @sallyhayd.bsky.social · 09/06/2026
Amnesty International hiring a "head of economic and social justice" to be based in London, Mexico City, Johannesburg or Nairobi: careers.amnesty.org/jobs/vacancy...
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Amnesty International Careers
Amnesty International Careers, Jobs, Search and Apply
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Juliet Shen @julietshen.online · 09/06/2026
this is the way
a crowd of people sit in folding chairs and stand around a TV showing the Knicks game outside a deli in nyc
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