Roberto Rizzo
@robrizzo.bsky.social
Assist. Prof. in Structural Geology and Rock Mechanics at Utrecht University @uugeo.bsky.social.
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Co-author of FracPaQ | Rock Deformation | Synchrotron uCT | Image Analysis | Machine Learning | Wavelets | Statistics
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Co-author of FracPaQ | Rock Deformation | Synchrotron uCT | Image Analysis | Machine Learning | Wavelets | Statistics
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🚨 #JobAlert
#EGU is currently seeking a full-time, permanent #IT Specialist, based in the Executive Office in Munich, Germany.
📆 Start date: IMMEDIATE.
👉 Learn more and Apply NOW: egu.eu/5OQO8J
📸: Shailendra Pratap on imaggeo.egu.eu
#EGU is currently seeking a full-time, permanent #IT Specialist, based in the Executive Office in Munich, Germany.
📆 Start date: IMMEDIATE.
👉 Learn more and Apply NOW: egu.eu/5OQO8J
📸: Shailendra Pratap on imaggeo.egu.eu
January 31, 2026 at 1:30 PM
🚨 #JobAlert
#EGU is currently seeking a full-time, permanent #IT Specialist, based in the Executive Office in Munich, Germany.
📆 Start date: IMMEDIATE.
👉 Learn more and Apply NOW: egu.eu/5OQO8J
📸: Shailendra Pratap on imaggeo.egu.eu
#EGU is currently seeking a full-time, permanent #IT Specialist, based in the Executive Office in Munich, Germany.
📆 Start date: IMMEDIATE.
👉 Learn more and Apply NOW: egu.eu/5OQO8J
📸: Shailendra Pratap on imaggeo.egu.eu
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A manual for ICE's immigrant-targeting computer system, Palantir ELITE, was leaked today.
Let's look at it, then step back to evaluate how far we've come along a dangerous road and where that road might take us. 🧵
Let's look at it, then step back to evaluate how far we've come along a dangerous road and where that road might take us. 🧵
Here is the User Guide for ELITE, the Tool Palantir Made for ICE
404 Media is publishing a version of the user guide for ELITE, which lets ICE bring up dossiers on individual people and provides a “confidence score” of their address.
www.404media.co
January 31, 2026 at 3:37 AM
A manual for ICE's immigrant-targeting computer system, Palantir ELITE, was leaked today.
Let's look at it, then step back to evaluate how far we've come along a dangerous road and where that road might take us. 🧵
Let's look at it, then step back to evaluate how far we've come along a dangerous road and where that road might take us. 🧵
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Here is the first page. Wars on food, water and starvation are luckily moderate... for the ecosystem, not us which means the poorest are already direly affected
![1. Global ecosystem degradation and collapse threaten UK national security and prosperity. The world is already experiencing
impacts including crop failures, intensified natural disasters and infectious disease outbreaks. Threats will increase with degradation
and intensify with collapse. Without major intervention to reverse the current trend, this is highly likely to continue to
2050 and beyond. **High**
2. Cascading risks of ecosystem degradation are likely to include geopolitical instability, economic insecurity, conflict, migration
and increased inter-state competition for resources. **Moderate**
3. Critical ecosystems that support major global food production areas and impact global climate, water and weather cycles are
the most important for UK national security. Severe degradation or collapse of these would highly likely result in water insecurity,
severely reduced crop yields, a global reduction in arable land, fisheries collapse, changes to global weather patterns, release of
trapped carbon exacerbating climate change, novel zoonotic diseases and loss of pharmaceutical resources. The Amazon rainforest,
Congo rainforest, boreal forests, the Himalayas and South East Asia’s coral reefs and mangroves are particularly significant for the UK. **High**
4. Ecosystem degradation is occurring across all regions. Every critical ecosystem is on a pathway to collapse (irreversible loss of
function beyond repair). **High**
5. There is a realistic possibility that some ecosystems [...] start to collapse from 2050. **Low**
6. All countries are exposed to the risks of ecosystem collapse [...]. Some will be exposed sooner than
others and are likely to act to secure their interests, particularly water and food security. **Moderate**
7. [...], it is unlikely the UK would be able to maintain
food security [...] geopolitical competition for food. The UK [...] cannot currently produce enough food to feed its population based on current diets. **Moderate**](https://cdn.bsky.app/img/feed_thumbnail/plain/did:plc:rrcwcbauxttjk4tx3ovo5sz3/bafkreihfmgyyrsjxlglnxwbwcdvqdaz4gefjjjvqxc7tusr32ru35ki4ue@jpeg)
January 31, 2026 at 7:10 AM
Here is the first page. Wars on food, water and starvation are luckily moderate... for the ecosystem, not us which means the poorest are already direly affected
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There is a lot of "have you heard about the #report on #UK #ecosystem #collapse" and rarely here 👇 is the report. There still too many people that think it is not a matter of utter emergency whereas you can witness it on a daily basis.
assets.publishing.service.gov.uk/media/696e0e...
assets.publishing.service.gov.uk/media/696e0e...
assets.publishing.service.gov.uk
January 31, 2026 at 7:10 AM
There is a lot of "have you heard about the #report on #UK #ecosystem #collapse" and rarely here 👇 is the report. There still too many people that think it is not a matter of utter emergency whereas you can witness it on a daily basis.
assets.publishing.service.gov.uk/media/696e0e...
assets.publishing.service.gov.uk/media/696e0e...
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Immigration agencies have been flooding social media with bizarre, seemingly AI-generated content. We now know more about what might be making it.
DHS is using Google and Adobe AI to make videos
Immigration agencies have been flooding social media with bizarre, seemingly AI-generated content. We now know more about what might be making it.
www.technologyreview.com
January 29, 2026 at 7:19 PM
Immigration agencies have been flooding social media with bizarre, seemingly AI-generated content. We now know more about what might be making it.
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Scotland’s world-class outdoor access rights are being pushed to breaking point due to a collapse in investment in staff and paths - report from @ramblersscotland.bsky.social
Survey reveals collapse in funding for paths and outdoor access
Scotland’s world-class outdoor access rights are being pushed to breaking point due to a collapse in investment in staff and paths, a new report has revealed today.
Since 2003, people in Scotland...
www.walkhighlands.co.uk
January 29, 2026 at 6:11 PM
Scotland’s world-class outdoor access rights are being pushed to breaking point due to a collapse in investment in staff and paths - report from @ramblersscotland.bsky.social
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In @nytopinion.nytimes.com
“Professors are fighting an asymmetric battle against the tide of anti-intellectualism, illiberalism and bad-faith complaints, and will be for the foreseeable future,” Jessica Grose writes.
“Professors are fighting an asymmetric battle against the tide of anti-intellectualism, illiberalism and bad-faith complaints, and will be for the foreseeable future,” Jessica Grose writes.
Opinion | When Conservative Politics Hit Cash-Starved Universities
If college education is merely a transaction, educators — and facts — are vulnerable.
nyti.ms
January 29, 2026 at 5:00 AM
In @nytopinion.nytimes.com
“Professors are fighting an asymmetric battle against the tide of anti-intellectualism, illiberalism and bad-faith complaints, and will be for the foreseeable future,” Jessica Grose writes.
“Professors are fighting an asymmetric battle against the tide of anti-intellectualism, illiberalism and bad-faith complaints, and will be for the foreseeable future,” Jessica Grose writes.
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Nature research paper: A benchmark of expert-level academic questions to assess AI capabilities
go.nature.com/45zkozH
go.nature.com/45zkozH
A benchmark of expert-level academic questions to assess AI capabilities - Nature
Humanity’s Last Exam, a multi-modal benchmark at the frontier of human knowledge, is designed to be an expert-level closed-ended academic benchmark with broad subject coverage.
go.nature.com
January 28, 2026 at 6:54 PM
Nature research paper: A benchmark of expert-level academic questions to assess AI capabilities
go.nature.com/45zkozH
go.nature.com/45zkozH
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Wrote about this grim moment when the White House sees the deaths of innocent Americans as meme fodder and the faint silver lining that their lies aren't working this time www.platformer.news/minneapolis-...
January 27, 2026 at 1:28 AM
Wrote about this grim moment when the White House sees the deaths of innocent Americans as meme fodder and the faint silver lining that their lies aren't working this time www.platformer.news/minneapolis-...
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Cartoon by Adam Zyglis
January 27, 2026 at 1:01 AM
Cartoon by Adam Zyglis
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🆕 💡 Tektonika vol 3 issue 2 is now online !!!
It includes 7 research articles + an editorial about the use of #AI in academic research and publishing. ⚒️
tektonika.online/index.php/ho...
It includes 7 research articles + an editorial about the use of #AI in academic research and publishing. ⚒️
tektonika.online/index.php/ho...
January 26, 2026 at 9:44 AM
🆕 💡 Tektonika vol 3 issue 2 is now online !!!
It includes 7 research articles + an editorial about the use of #AI in academic research and publishing. ⚒️
tektonika.online/index.php/ho...
It includes 7 research articles + an editorial about the use of #AI in academic research and publishing. ⚒️
tektonika.online/index.php/ho...
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The 16th Euroconference on Rock Physics and Rock Mechanics is now over! What a week! Great science, great people, great location! Best conference ever? 😆
January 26, 2026 at 3:02 PM
The 16th Euroconference on Rock Physics and Rock Mechanics is now over! What a week! Great science, great people, great location! Best conference ever? 😆
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January 26, 2026 at 8:40 AM
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Come parte del comitato Voto dove Vivo anche noi di Possibile ci uniamo all'appello perché venga approvata immediatamente la proposta di legge per il voto fuori sede, bloccata da 30 mesi in Senato.
January 24, 2026 at 3:12 PM
Come parte del comitato Voto dove Vivo anche noi di Possibile ci uniamo all'appello perché venga approvata immediatamente la proposta di legge per il voto fuori sede, bloccata da 30 mesi in Senato.
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Instantaneous time mirrors (ITMs), creating a "time interface" by abruptly changing material properties, have fascinated physicists for decades. Experiments demonstrating time mirrors for optical and electromagnetic waves exist. But can we also “reflect” a 3D seismic wavefield in time?
January 24, 2026 at 6:08 AM
Instantaneous time mirrors (ITMs), creating a "time interface" by abruptly changing material properties, have fascinated physicists for decades. Experiments demonstrating time mirrors for optical and electromagnetic waves exist. But can we also “reflect” a 3D seismic wavefield in time?
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January 23, 2026 at 2:32 PM
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Was garnet stretched and teared apart? Or did it grow this way?
January 23, 2026 at 2:42 PM
Was garnet stretched and teared apart? Or did it grow this way?
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President Trump's second exit from the Paris Agreement is projected to set global emissions progress back 0.1°C (0.18°F) by 2100, according to a @un.org report.
eos.org/report/the-s...
eos.org/report/the-s...
The State of the Science 1 Year On: Climate Change and Energy - Eos
Trump’s first year in office has reversed many climate policy decisions and aggressively advanced fossil fuel interests.
eos.org
January 22, 2026 at 2:31 PM
President Trump's second exit from the Paris Agreement is projected to set global emissions progress back 0.1°C (0.18°F) by 2100, according to a @un.org report.
eos.org/report/the-s...
eos.org/report/the-s...
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A network of carbonates inside deformed quartz
January 22, 2026 at 9:39 AM
A network of carbonates inside deformed quartz
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🔥Save the date for the next EGU TS TectoTalks session!!🔥⛏️🗻
This second session will focus on fault growth and evolution and their influence on fluid flow and seismicity
📅 18 February 2026 at 10:00 CET
🔗 Registration: msteams.link
This second session will focus on fault growth and evolution and their influence on fluid flow and seismicity
📅 18 February 2026 at 10:00 CET
🔗 Registration: msteams.link
January 22, 2026 at 10:01 AM
🔥Save the date for the next EGU TS TectoTalks session!!🔥⛏️🗻
This second session will focus on fault growth and evolution and their influence on fluid flow and seismicity
📅 18 February 2026 at 10:00 CET
🔗 Registration: msteams.link
This second session will focus on fault growth and evolution and their influence on fluid flow and seismicity
📅 18 February 2026 at 10:00 CET
🔗 Registration: msteams.link
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Trump has been in office for one year. We at @nature.com did a deep dive looking at the administration's disruption of science in numbers.
Take a look—the numbers are staggering. By me, @dangaristo.bsky.social, Jeff Tollefson, @kimay.bsky.social, & help from @noamross.net @scott-delaney.bsky.social
Take a look—the numbers are staggering. By me, @dangaristo.bsky.social, Jeff Tollefson, @kimay.bsky.social, & help from @noamross.net @scott-delaney.bsky.social
US science after a year of Trump: what has been lost and what remains
A series of graphics reveals how the Trump administration has sought historic cuts to science and the research workforce.
www.nature.com
January 20, 2026 at 6:08 PM
Trump has been in office for one year. We at @nature.com did a deep dive looking at the administration's disruption of science in numbers.
Take a look—the numbers are staggering. By me, @dangaristo.bsky.social, Jeff Tollefson, @kimay.bsky.social, & help from @noamross.net @scott-delaney.bsky.social
Take a look—the numbers are staggering. By me, @dangaristo.bsky.social, Jeff Tollefson, @kimay.bsky.social, & help from @noamross.net @scott-delaney.bsky.social
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The Ladybug Clock puzzle
January 20, 2026 at 3:20 PM
The Ladybug Clock puzzle
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USA e Repubblica di Weimar
Nei giorni scorsi ho proposto un’analisi piuttosto razionale sugli scenari che ci possiamo aspettare per gli USA.
Credo che sia importante approfondire queste prospettive e fare chiarezza su alcune ipotesi storico filosofiche che stiamo ascoltando.
Nei giorni scorsi ho proposto un’analisi piuttosto razionale sugli scenari che ci possiamo aspettare per gli USA.
Credo che sia importante approfondire queste prospettive e fare chiarezza su alcune ipotesi storico filosofiche che stiamo ascoltando.
January 19, 2026 at 7:19 PM
USA e Repubblica di Weimar
Nei giorni scorsi ho proposto un’analisi piuttosto razionale sugli scenari che ci possiamo aspettare per gli USA.
Credo che sia importante approfondire queste prospettive e fare chiarezza su alcune ipotesi storico filosofiche che stiamo ascoltando.
Nei giorni scorsi ho proposto un’analisi piuttosto razionale sugli scenari che ci possiamo aspettare per gli USA.
Credo che sia importante approfondire queste prospettive e fare chiarezza su alcune ipotesi storico filosofiche che stiamo ascoltando.
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In 2025, the annual average sea surface temperature (SST) outside of the polar regions ranked 3rd‑warmest on record. Monthly extra‑polar SST stayed among the top four throughout 2025, despite the absence of an El Niño event.
Details in #GCH2025 ➡️ climate.copernicus.eu/global-clima...
@ecmwf.int
Details in #GCH2025 ➡️ climate.copernicus.eu/global-clima...
@ecmwf.int
January 19, 2026 at 9:14 AM
In 2025, the annual average sea surface temperature (SST) outside of the polar regions ranked 3rd‑warmest on record. Monthly extra‑polar SST stayed among the top four throughout 2025, despite the absence of an El Niño event.
Details in #GCH2025 ➡️ climate.copernicus.eu/global-clima...
@ecmwf.int
Details in #GCH2025 ➡️ climate.copernicus.eu/global-clima...
@ecmwf.int
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Evento sismico, ML 4.0, in provincia di Messina del 18 gennaio 2026
Evento sismico, ML 4.0, in provincia di Messina del 18 gennaio 2026
https://ingvterremoti.com/2026/01/18/evento-sismico-ml-4-0-in-provincia-di-messina-del-18-gennaio-2026/
ingvterremoti.com
January 18, 2026 at 2:54 PM
Evento sismico, ML 4.0, in provincia di Messina del 18 gennaio 2026