Anders Lanzén
@lanzen.bsky.social
Human, scientist, euskaldun berri, purveyor of philosophical subtleties, associate professor at IKERBASQUE / AZTI interested in marine microorganisms great and small, planktonic or benthic, biomonitoring, climate change and coastal pollution.
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Anders Lanzén
@lanzen.bsky.social
· Jun 27
MICROMON: DNA from micro-organisms to monitor the health of estuarine ecosystems
YouTube video by AZTI
www.youtube.com
Short video about what we do in the MicroMon project hosted in @azti.bsky.social (funded by Spanish govt. and EU) with estuary microbial communities, their global biogeography, interactions, effects of environmental impacts, and their use in eDNA-based monitoring.
www.youtube.com/watch?v=G04y...
www.youtube.com/watch?v=G04y...
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I once asked a bookseller at a large indie store how many people would have to buy a book for it to get the attention of the store buyer and cause an additional order and they said: Three.
I see some book piracy discourse, and, to make a positive argument in favor of buying books, your marginal ability to influence what books get published and support the careers of writers you like is massive compared to most other forms of media.
November 25, 2025 at 11:07 PM
I once asked a bookseller at a large indie store how many people would have to buy a book for it to get the attention of the store buyer and cause an additional order and they said: Three.
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Läsvärd insändare!
Insändare. Vi svenskar är inte längre Astrid Lindgrens folk
Fredrik Hörström: Det är hyckleri att hylla skaparen av Pippi och Emil samtidigt som vi är på väg att lagstifta om att sätta 13-åringar i fängelse.
www.dn.se
November 26, 2025 at 9:17 AM
Läsvärd insändare!
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The persistent rains of recent days in northern Spain have caused a very noticeable increase in river flow in the Basque Country. See predictions from #EUSCOMvu @azti.bsky.social #NOWSystems #Copernicus #GES4SEAS #OBAMA-NEXT
#MarineEcology
#Research
#MarineEcology
#Research
November 26, 2025 at 10:52 AM
The persistent rains of recent days in northern Spain have caused a very noticeable increase in river flow in the Basque Country. See predictions from #EUSCOMvu @azti.bsky.social #NOWSystems #Copernicus #GES4SEAS #OBAMA-NEXT
#MarineEcology
#Research
#MarineEcology
#Research
"a faltering, inadequate step, and one that will barely interrupt the climate’s steady march towards catastrophe. But a significant departure from total inaction nonetheless."
That's great, but to be clear, "inadequate" here means "not good enough to save humanity for even another generation"
That's great, but to be clear, "inadequate" here means "not good enough to save humanity for even another generation"
'Fossil fuel giants finally in the crosshairs': Cop30 avoids total failure with last-ditch deal
->The Guardian | #climate change #fossil fuel #cop30 | More from Lil Dr Glen EcoChat at BigEarthData.ai
->The Guardian | #climate change #fossil fuel #cop30 | More from Lil Dr Glen EcoChat at BigEarthData.ai
'Fossil fuel giants finally in the crosshairs': Cop30 avoids total failure with last-ditch deal
Dawn was breaking over the Amazonian city of Belém on Saturday morning, but in the windowless conference room it could have been day or night. They had been stuck there for more than 12 hours, dozens of ministers representing 17...
www.theguardian.com
November 25, 2025 at 6:57 AM
"a faltering, inadequate step, and one that will barely interrupt the climate’s steady march towards catastrophe. But a significant departure from total inaction nonetheless."
That's great, but to be clear, "inadequate" here means "not good enough to save humanity for even another generation"
That's great, but to be clear, "inadequate" here means "not good enough to save humanity for even another generation"
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Twitter accounts are based in Russia. BlueSky accounts are based in homes with, frankly, too many books, plants, obsolete cables, and pieces of rustic pottery, that could do with a bit of a tidying up, to be honest.
November 23, 2025 at 8:29 PM
Twitter accounts are based in Russia. BlueSky accounts are based in homes with, frankly, too many books, plants, obsolete cables, and pieces of rustic pottery, that could do with a bit of a tidying up, to be honest.
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Feeling queasy now I've learned that Google is not only now offering Gemini ambassador certificates to teachers but also awarding students and *children* to be corporate AI mascots. Coercive normalization of commercialized digital education. blog.google/outreach-ini...
November 22, 2025 at 8:19 PM
Feeling queasy now I've learned that Google is not only now offering Gemini ambassador certificates to teachers but also awarding students and *children* to be corporate AI mascots. Coercive normalization of commercialized digital education. blog.google/outreach-ini...
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And yet again, the NYT editors choose to whitewash what's happening. "Reshape" environmental policy, indeed.
While the rest of the world was at #COP30, the U.S. government was busy rolling back bedrock environmental protections www.nytimes.com/2025/11/22/c...
In One Week, Trump Moves to Reshape U.S. Environmental Policy
www.nytimes.com
November 23, 2025 at 10:21 PM
And yet again, the NYT editors choose to whitewash what's happening. "Reshape" environmental policy, indeed.
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Strain matters: host responses reflect symbiont origin in the squid-vibrio symbiosis
in #mSystems from Margaret McFall-Ngai
journals.asm.org/doi/10.1128/...
in #mSystems from Margaret McFall-Ngai
journals.asm.org/doi/10.1128/...
Strain matters: host responses reflect symbiont origin in the squid-vibrio symbiosis | mSystems
Variation among strains of a bacterial species is a powerful factor underlying the
intensity of host responses during pathogenic infections. Less is known about the
cellular and molecular responses of...
journals.asm.org
November 23, 2025 at 10:16 AM
Strain matters: host responses reflect symbiont origin in the squid-vibrio symbiosis
in #mSystems from Margaret McFall-Ngai
journals.asm.org/doi/10.1128/...
in #mSystems from Margaret McFall-Ngai
journals.asm.org/doi/10.1128/...
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Our new @azti.bsky.social paper on Advancing ecological #assessment: towards the integration of #eDNA #metabarcoding into an estuarine #fish index is out.
#Research
#MarineEcology
#GES4SEAS
Free download here:
authors.elsevier.com/sd/article/S...
#Research
#MarineEcology
#GES4SEAS
Free download here:
authors.elsevier.com/sd/article/S...
November 22, 2025 at 10:40 AM
Our new @azti.bsky.social paper on Advancing ecological #assessment: towards the integration of #eDNA #metabarcoding into an estuarine #fish index is out.
#Research
#MarineEcology
#GES4SEAS
Free download here:
authors.elsevier.com/sd/article/S...
#Research
#MarineEcology
#GES4SEAS
Free download here:
authors.elsevier.com/sd/article/S...
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I haven’t seen this get covered in English yet so let me translate.
Grok is saying that the crematories at Auschwitz’s were conceived as disinfectant chambers, not mass execution and that the law has made it taboo to acknowledge that this is what they were
X is a Nazi site. Get off the Nazi site.
Grok is saying that the crematories at Auschwitz’s were conceived as disinfectant chambers, not mass execution and that the law has made it taboo to acknowledge that this is what they were
X is a Nazi site. Get off the Nazi site.
November 19, 2025 at 3:53 PM
I haven’t seen this get covered in English yet so let me translate.
Grok is saying that the crematories at Auschwitz’s were conceived as disinfectant chambers, not mass execution and that the law has made it taboo to acknowledge that this is what they were
X is a Nazi site. Get off the Nazi site.
Grok is saying that the crematories at Auschwitz’s were conceived as disinfectant chambers, not mass execution and that the law has made it taboo to acknowledge that this is what they were
X is a Nazi site. Get off the Nazi site.
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Regeringen vill skydda Sverige mot invasiva arter men verkar ha glömt skogsindustrins användning av invasiva trädslag.
Om regeringen låter skogsbruket stå över lagen kommer de inte åt kärnan i problemet, skriver Toni Ljungdahl från Fältbiologerna på SMB Debatt.
Om regeringen låter skogsbruket stå över lagen kommer de inte åt kärnan i problemet, skriver Toni Ljungdahl från Fältbiologerna på SMB Debatt.
Fältbiologerna: Regeringen kommer misslyckas med att stoppa invasiva arter
DEBATT:: Regeringen vill skydda Sverige mot invasiva arter men verkar ha glömt skogsindustrins användning av invasiva trädslag.
supermiljobloggen.se
November 21, 2025 at 1:37 PM
Regeringen vill skydda Sverige mot invasiva arter men verkar ha glömt skogsindustrins användning av invasiva trädslag.
Om regeringen låter skogsbruket stå över lagen kommer de inte åt kärnan i problemet, skriver Toni Ljungdahl från Fältbiologerna på SMB Debatt.
Om regeringen låter skogsbruket stå över lagen kommer de inte åt kärnan i problemet, skriver Toni Ljungdahl från Fältbiologerna på SMB Debatt.
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80 years ago yesterday the Nuremberg Trials began. And apparently we've forgotten everything about why they were held
November 21, 2025 at 6:37 PM
80 years ago yesterday the Nuremberg Trials began. And apparently we've forgotten everything about why they were held
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You ever just sit down and realize that the rise of 21st century fascism is capital's answer to climate change?
November 21, 2025 at 9:25 AM
You ever just sit down and realize that the rise of 21st century fascism is capital's answer to climate change?
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Surely no one could have anticipated that the consumer LLM purveyors would start adding ads to the results
Google starts rolling out ads in AI mode; the ads look similar to the citations in AI answers but with a "sponsored" label (Mayank Parmar/BleepingComputer)
Main Link | Techmeme Permalink
Main Link | Techmeme Permalink
November 21, 2025 at 4:35 PM
Surely no one could have anticipated that the consumer LLM purveyors would start adding ads to the results
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It’s noteworthy that ChatGPT “fills in the gaps” in obviously delusional belief systems, but over the long term it’s not necessarily better that it also fills in the gaps in *plausible* or widely shared belief systems.
In neither case is the necessary thought or criticism going on.
In neither case is the necessary thought or criticism going on.
LLMs give people with delusional belief systems a way to organise those beliefs. The model fills in gaps, supplies connective tissue, and wraps the madness in formal language.
It doesn't make the claims more credible to us, it just tidies them up.
It doesn't make the claims more credible to us, it just tidies them up.
November 21, 2025 at 4:42 PM
It’s noteworthy that ChatGPT “fills in the gaps” in obviously delusional belief systems, but over the long term it’s not necessarily better that it also fills in the gaps in *plausible* or widely shared belief systems.
In neither case is the necessary thought or criticism going on.
In neither case is the necessary thought or criticism going on.
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Sorry to be obnoxious about this but all the criticisms of Grok's blatant pro-Musk tuning ring just absurdly hollow if no one is actually willing to give up directly contributing to Elon Musk's website and in doing so, creating the conditions that make millions of people use the fucking chatbot
November 21, 2025 at 8:21 AM
Sorry to be obnoxious about this but all the criticisms of Grok's blatant pro-Musk tuning ring just absurdly hollow if no one is actually willing to give up directly contributing to Elon Musk's website and in doing so, creating the conditions that make millions of people use the fucking chatbot
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The extent to which intelligent people can twist their brains in knots to avoid the obvious never ceases to amaze
For those willing to confront reality:
The IPCC is perfectly clear on the need to strand the majority of fossil fuel assets in order to meet the goals of the Paris Agreement
For those willing to confront reality:
The IPCC is perfectly clear on the need to strand the majority of fossil fuel assets in order to meet the goals of the Paris Agreement
November 21, 2025 at 4:16 PM
The extent to which intelligent people can twist their brains in knots to avoid the obvious never ceases to amaze
For those willing to confront reality:
The IPCC is perfectly clear on the need to strand the majority of fossil fuel assets in order to meet the goals of the Paris Agreement
For those willing to confront reality:
The IPCC is perfectly clear on the need to strand the majority of fossil fuel assets in order to meet the goals of the Paris Agreement
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"One side is led by fascists. It’s like saying the Civil War, the problem with the Civil War was polarization ...It’s nonsensical. It’s just fascism enabling." www.motherjones.com/politics/202...
I study fascism. I’ve already fled America.
On this week’s “More To The Story,” former Yale philosophy professor Jason Stanley explains his recent move to Canada and calls the Trump administration’s takeover of the US government a “coup.”
www.motherjones.com
November 21, 2025 at 3:59 PM
"One side is led by fascists. It’s like saying the Civil War, the problem with the Civil War was polarization ...It’s nonsensical. It’s just fascism enabling." www.motherjones.com/politics/202...
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In a world that where the establishment celebrates anti-intellectualism and hyper-individualism, the most anti-establishment thing you can do is become an intellectual and work to improve material conditions for everyone
November 21, 2025 at 3:26 PM
In a world that where the establishment celebrates anti-intellectualism and hyper-individualism, the most anti-establishment thing you can do is become an intellectual and work to improve material conditions for everyone
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It will shock few that the Cop30 draft deal 'does not align with science, with law, with the legitimate demands of children, youth, frontline communities...or ultimately with the very objective of the UNFCCC,' @unsrclimatehrights.bsky.social says
Read more reax www.theguardian.com/world/live/2...
Read more reax www.theguardian.com/world/live/2...
Cop30 live: summit president warns ‘everybody will lose’ if countries fail to cooperate
André Corrêa do Lago issues plea to preserve Paris agreement with countries far from reaching agreement on scheduled final day
www.theguardian.com
November 21, 2025 at 3:26 PM
It will shock few that the Cop30 draft deal 'does not align with science, with law, with the legitimate demands of children, youth, frontline communities...or ultimately with the very objective of the UNFCCC,' @unsrclimatehrights.bsky.social says
Read more reax www.theguardian.com/world/live/2...
Read more reax www.theguardian.com/world/live/2...
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#ClimateSilence is one reason the forced abandonment of this major and ancient city is not headline news everywhere, yes, but another is Islamophobia and racism.
'Iran’s capital must be moved because the country “no longer has a choice,” President Masoud Pezeshkian said on Thursday in remarks carried by state media, warning that severe ecological strain has made Tehran impossible to sustain'
#Iran 🇮🇷
#Iran 🇮🇷
Iran president says capital move now a necessity as water crisis deepens
Iran’s capital must be moved because the country “no longer has a choice,” President Masoud Pezeshkian said on Thursday in remarks carried by state media, warning that severe ecological strain has mad...
www.iranintl.com
November 21, 2025 at 2:06 PM
#ClimateSilence is one reason the forced abandonment of this major and ancient city is not headline news everywhere, yes, but another is Islamophobia and racism.
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you should be especially kind to climate refugees because you will inevitably be one
January 9, 2025 at 9:52 PM
you should be especially kind to climate refugees because you will inevitably be one
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"A decade ago, science showed us a narrow window of opportunity to avert the looming planetary crisis. That window has closed. We are now in the midst of the storm"
My latest for Technosphere Earth reporting on a new paper published with the Earth League.
www.technosphere.earth/living-beyon...
My latest for Technosphere Earth reporting on a new paper published with the Earth League.
www.technosphere.earth/living-beyon...
Living beyond limits
Decades of climate policy failure means we must find ways to live in a more dangerous world
www.technosphere.earth
November 21, 2025 at 1:13 PM
"A decade ago, science showed us a narrow window of opportunity to avert the looming planetary crisis. That window has closed. We are now in the midst of the storm"
My latest for Technosphere Earth reporting on a new paper published with the Earth League.
www.technosphere.earth/living-beyon...
My latest for Technosphere Earth reporting on a new paper published with the Earth League.
www.technosphere.earth/living-beyon...
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Thrilled to see that COP30 has shifted into open conflict between the petrostates and the circa 80 countries, including Germany and the majority of European states, who are demanding a mechanism for phasing out fossil fuels be included in the outcome.
Holy shit this is hopeful!!
Holy shit this is hopeful!!
November 21, 2025 at 1:14 PM
Thrilled to see that COP30 has shifted into open conflict between the petrostates and the circa 80 countries, including Germany and the majority of European states, who are demanding a mechanism for phasing out fossil fuels be included in the outcome.
Holy shit this is hopeful!!
Holy shit this is hopeful!!
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"Dictatorships are often characterised by some of the following: suspension of elections and civil liberties; proclamation of a state of emergency; rule by decree; repression of political opponents; not abiding by the rule of law; and the existence of a cult of personality"
Wikipedia
Wikipedia
November 21, 2025 at 1:05 PM
"Dictatorships are often characterised by some of the following: suspension of elections and civil liberties; proclamation of a state of emergency; rule by decree; repression of political opponents; not abiding by the rule of law; and the existence of a cult of personality"
Wikipedia
Wikipedia