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Extreme Temperatures Around the World @extremetemps.bsky.social · 50m

ENDLESS SUMMER IN KOREA

This absurd October heat continues with widespread tropical nights (Mins >20C) and maxes >30C.

Today up to 31.7C at Sogwipo
October hottest day in history (broken again)

Minimum 20.2C Chungju First tropical night in October

Even Hotter next week!

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Dr. Genevieve Guenther (she/they) @doctorvive.bsky.social · 16h

Milankovitch cycles—infinitesimal shifts in the planet's rotational axis that allowed marginally more sunlight to hit the planet over millennia—repeatedly brought the Earth out of its ice ages.

It was mad to think that 1.3C of heating in, like, a century wouldn't totally destabilize our climate.

David Wallace-Wells @dwallacewells.bsky.social · 20h

“Planet-heating methane is escaping from cracks in the Antarctic seabed as the region warms, with new seeps being discovered at an ‘astonishing rate,’ scientists have found.” www.cnn.com/2025/10/10/c...

Scientists discovered something alarming seeping out from beneath the ocean around Antarctica | CNN

Planet-heating methane is escaping from cracks in the Antarctic seabed, with new seeps being discovered at an “astonishing rate,” raising fears that future global warming predictions may have been und...

www.cnn.com

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Alex Wenzel @alexwenzel.bsky.social · 15h

MMWR published a report in 1981 about five men with unusual cases of pneumonia in Los Angeles. In retrospect, it was the first publication to detect and inform the wider scientific community of the presence of HIV.

Last night, everyone working on MMWR was fired.

www.cdc.gov/mmwr/preview...

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Extreme Temperatures Around the World @extremetemps.bsky.social · 4h

Record heat again in INDONESIA

Pontianak today recorded a minimum temperature of 26.1C, its hottest October night in history.
This city in Borneo ,located close to the equator line, has been breaking the hot nights records nearly every month.

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Extreme Temperatures Around the World @extremetemps.bsky.social · 2h

HISTORIC HEAT IN JAPAN -Latest 35C in history!

Absolutely mind blowing heat,dozens of stations pulverized their October records.
142 stations >30C. Up to 35.0C at Kimotsuki Maeda.
34.0 Kagoshima,32.6 Hiroshima etc
And it will get worse
List of records below:

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AIVL For PWUD Wellbeing, Health & Human Rights✊️💜 @aivl.bsky.social · 12h

Harm reduction is key! 💜✊🏻

Dr Alex Wodak AM @alexwodak.bsky.social · 15h

Harm reduction works!

“The findings reinforce that while abstinence remains the safest option, switching from cigarettes to vaping may substantially reduce respiratory harm, a message with important implications for tobacco control and public health policy.”
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Alan @algore09algor.bsky.social · 16h

Who would have thought that vaping is safer than smoking?

@alexwodak.bsky.social @melissasweetdr.bsky.social
@drbfreeman.bsky.social

clearingtheair.eu/en/post/vapi...

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AIVL For PWUD Wellbeing, Health & Human Rights✊️💜 @aivl.bsky.social · 12h

Interesting piece on K benefits! 💜✊️

Soph Warnes @thatsoph.bsky.social · 1d

ICYMI, the most personal thing I've ever written, and it's on cnn dot com www.cnn.com/2025/09/28/h...

Can the party drug ketamine be a mental health breakthrough? It was for me | CNN

Known more for its use as party drug, ketamine can provide a lifeline for people experiencing distressing mental health symptoms.

www.cnn.com

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AIVL For PWUD Wellbeing, Health & Human Rights✊️💜 @aivl.bsky.social · 12h

Harm reduction must be included when it comes to tobacco 💜✊️

CAPHRA Asia Pacific @caphra.bsky.social · 13h

The FCTC’s credibility depends on consistent principles. Excluding harm reduction undermines its mandate and denies millions access to safer alternatives. COP11 must act. #COP11 #THRworks #TobaccoControl bit.ly/48NeYDp

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#MusicBrownlow @musicbrownlow.bsky.social · 14h

Voting is open in the #KenHunterMedal. The list below contains 100 albums released in 1981.
Give us your 3-2-1.

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Wimpson69 @wimpson69.bsky.social · 7h

3 votes - Sirocco
2 votes - Business as Usual
1 vote - Chemistry

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Sydney Knitting Nannas and Friends @knitnannassyd.bsky.social · 15h

Please join Illawarra 🧶👵s at the Office of their local MP & NSW Minister for Planning Paul Scully tomorrow. The NSW government proposal to radically alter planning laws related to all developments will mean bets are off for protecting our environment.

Monday 13 October at 11am in Wollongong

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Extreme Temperatures Around the World @extremetemps.bsky.social · 15h

Preliminary data suggests that today's
42.5C at Telfer ,Australia might be the world's highest temperature,since maximums in Iran,Senegal,Mauritania and Mexico have dropped.

This would mark the first day of the season with the Southern Hemisphere recording the hottest spot.

Extreme Temperatures Around the World @extremetemps.bsky.social · 2d

Exceptional heat in AUSTRALIA

In New South Wales max. temperatures yesterday >35C and today tropical nights in some areas.
In fact, the minimum of 20.4C at Mount Seaview is the highest ever recorded in October.

Next days heat wave in Western Australia with up to 44C/45C

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Denis - The COVID Info Guy @thecovidinfoguy.bsky.social · 15h

COVID-19 causes changes in sperm that lead to increased anxiety in offspring.

"Florey researchers have shown that a father’s SARS-CoV-2 viral infection before conception can alter their offspring's brain development and behaviour, through changes in sperm"

Source: archive.md/3s9M2

Medical Health Aged Care

11/10/2025 20:01

COVID-19 causes changes in sperm that lead to increased anxiety in offspring

The Florey Institute of Neuroscience and Mental Health

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Zack Labe @zacklabe.com · 1d

Record high temperatures are currently being set across the northernmost portions of the #Arctic. In fact, it is effectively ice-free on the Atlantic side of the Arctic all the way up to about 85°N latitude! This includes record low sea ice around Svalbard.

Graphic by zacklabe.com/arctic-tempe...

Line graph time series of 2025's daily 2-m temperature in the Arctic compared to each year from 1958 through 2024. There is a long-term warming trend for every day of the year. There is also large interannual variability and a clear seasonal cycle.

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Extreme Temperatures Around the World @extremetemps.bsky.social · 1d

EXTRAORDINARY HEAT IN JAPAN: 35C!
This is the most extreme event in Japanese history.
October records pulverized (see list below).

Also incredible hot nights with Mins up to 28C (above July average):
28.0 Izena
26.2 Yakushima

Much hotter next week!

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Elizabeth Jacobs, PhD @elizabethjacobs.bsky.social · 1d

Public health is not partisan. It is health for the public.

That means all of us.

Defend Public Health.

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The Saturday Paper @thesaturdaypaper.com.au · 1d

Australian medical authorities say disturbing evidence is emerging of a possible return of previously eliminated diseases, as childhood immunisation rates continue to fall. satpa.pe/1KlwBMm

The rising risks of vaccine reluctance

The latest drop in childhood immunisation rates has raised concerns among medical authorities that some communities are losing herd immunity to diseases such as measles.

satpa.pe

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adamplatform.bsky.social @adamplatform.bsky.social · 1d

Northern #Vietnam has been hit by extreme weather, facing its worst #floods in 60 years and devastating landslides.
📹 The video shows #Nguyencity and the Song Gau River before and after Storm #Matmo, captured by #Copernicus #Sentinel2 on July 31 and October 9. #climateemergency

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Denis - The COVID Info Guy @thecovidinfoguy.bsky.social · 2d

France: COVID cases rise in France ahead of vaccination campaign launch.

COVID cases hit 51 per 100,000 (Sept 29–Oct 5), ten times higher than in February.

Hospitalisations rose from 0.9% to 1.1%. Of 790 admissions, 635 were aged 65+, 110 aged 15–64.

Vaccination starts Oct 14.

archive.md/FWNw1

Covid-19 cases rise in France ahead of vaccination campaign launch

‘Frankenstein’ variant causes growing number of hospital admissions, data from France’s public health agency shows

People aged 65 and over are by far the most affected group Marina Demidiuk/Shutterstock

Published Thursday 09 October 2025 - 16:38 Modified Thursday 09 October 2025 - 16:41

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Paul Montgomery @stonefishweirs.bsky.social · 1d

Gone fishin'! Some examples of carved stone cups or basins commonly known as toll sollaidh (bait holes) from the Harris, Outer Hebrides, Scotland. Believed to have functioned a grinding pits for cockles, limpets, mussels and other shellfish as chum to attract fish. #coastalhistory

Picture of carved stone cups or basins commonly known as toll sollaidh (bait holes) from Harris, Outer Hebrides, Scotland. ( source Scotland's Coastal Heritage at Risk)

Digital photograph of close ups of motifs, from Scotland's Rock Art project, Leverburgh, Laimhrig Mhor, Harris
https://www.trove.scot/image/2663537

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Rhea Liang @liangrhea.bsky.social · 2d

I was astonished to hear from Matthew Warner-Smith that the public radiology workforce in NSW is so precarious that just 4 radiologists, all approaching retirement age, do 1/3 of Breastscreen NSW reporting. And screens are double-read- a huge volume. 😱 #ASBD2025 #BreastCancer #MedSky

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Denis - The COVID Info Guy @thecovidinfoguy.bsky.social · 1d

Japan’s flu season hits 5 weeks early amid fears of an evolving virus.

Japan’s Health Ministry declared an influenza epidemic after 4,030 cases were reported in the week starting Sept 22, up 957 from the previous week.

135 schools closed amid outbreaks, three times higher than last year.

Japan’s flu season hits 5 weeks early amid fears of an evolving virus

The government has declared a nationwide flu epidemic, prompting calls for vaccinations and heightened vigilance

Reading Time: 2 minutes

Julian Ryall
Published: 8:00am, 8 Oct 2025 Updated: 11:50am, 8 Oct 2025

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Mike Honey @mikehoney.bsky.social · 1d

The trickle of BA.3.2.2 samples from Western Australia has continued.

While the frequencies of this variant are still quite low, it’s ongoing spread (likely to many thousands of infections by now) gives it every opportunity to acquire the mutations it needs to succeed.

#COVID19 #Australia
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Dr Dan Shugar 🇨🇦 @watershedlab.bsky.social · 1d

Whoa - how often have we had more than one >7 earthquake over the same 24 hours period, and in different places in the world? Surely that's not very common. 🧪⚒️

Mark Chadbourn @chadbourn.bsky.social · 1d

7.8 magnitude earthquake hits Drake Passage.

Map showing location at tip of South America

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Denis - The COVID Info Guy @thecovidinfoguy.bsky.social · 1d

Last week, COVID levels found in wastewater continued to rise in many European countries, reaching moderately high levels in some.

Trends in Covid activity as measured by wastewater monitoring by European country: Week ending Jan 5, 2024 to Oct 2, 2025.

christinapagel.substack.com/p/england-is...

A chart titled “Last week, Covid levels found in wastewater continued to rise in many European countries, reaching moderately high levels in some.”

Subheading reads: “Trends in Covid activity as measured by wastewater monitoring by European country: Week ending Jan 5, 2024 to Oct 2, 2025.”

Six line graphs show wastewater trends for:

Germany: Large early 2024 spike (~150K), dip mid-year, rising again by Oct 2025.

Netherlands: Multiple peaks (~1.8K), renewed climb late 2025.

Denmark: Sharp surge to ~7.2K by Oct 2025.

Sweden: Repeated small waves up to ~12.

Austria: Moderate peaks near ~330, trending upward.

France: Very high early-2024 peak (~9.3K), rising again later 2025.

Source: Bob Hawkins Substack, data from National Wastewater Monitoring Sites, created with Datawrapper.
Link: https://bhawkins3.substack.com/p/covid-situation-report-oct-9-2025

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