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Adriana Caudillo
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Spanish and English. Environment, human rights, movies, books, music, politics and geopolitics / Español e inglés. Medio ambiente derechos humanos, películas, política y geopolítica / I don't buy crypto or stocks so don't try to sell them to me
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isabelott.bsky.social
I have two pairs from here that I love! Beautiful, well-constructed, and arrived quite promptly for made-to-order pieces. One pair (‘owv’, or ‘water’) shown here, as an essential piece of (aquatic larval) mosquito collection gear 😎
a weary dark-haired white woman wearing a blue trucker cap with a parachuting beaver logo and a light blue field shirt, with cascading diamond fringe earrings in blue, green, and white. she’s carrying a He’s Not Here cup, a white metal larval dipper, and a turkey baster. she’s in the woods & it’s obviously summer, since everything isn’t dead.
December 24, 2025 at 2:19 AM
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elpaismexico.bsky.social
Científicos de la UNAM han realizado el hallazgo de hasta 50 ajolotes del Altiplano en Querétaro, una especie en peligro de extinción de la cual no se registraba un avistamiento en 15 años

🔗 elpais.com/mexico/202…
December 22, 2025 at 5:41 PM
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ipbes.net
#DYK ocelots like to hang out with opossums? In an effort to conserve these shy spotted cats, NGOs in Mexico are working to end community-wildlife conflicts by conducting projects with beekeepers, farmers, schoolchildren and pet owners.

Read more in Mongabay: https://ow.ly/B13050XqtIv
NGOs launch novel community projects to conserve Mexico’s ocelots
CONHUAS, Mexico — Esteban Dominguez has lived for more than 20 years close to one of the biggest conservation areas in southeastern Mexico — Calakmul Biosphere Reserve on the Yucatán Peninsula. He’s used to spotting monkeys, coatis, eagles, tapirs, deer, wild turkeys, owls, and even pumas and jaguars. But he recalls only a couple times […]
ow.ly
December 18, 2025 at 1:50 PM
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motherjones.com
This brutal mosquito-borne disease may have a cure, but there's a catch [via @vox.com]
This brutal mosquito-borne disease may have a cure, but there's a catch
No one wants to make it.
www.motherjones.com
December 18, 2025 at 1:49 PM
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josephcox.bsky.social
This is a wild hack. a16z gave a million dollars to startup called Doublespeed. They use a phone farm to flood social media with AI generated influencers and ads. A hacker remotely broke into the phone farm, unmasking the AI influencers/fake accounts, gave us the data www.404media.co/hack-reveals...
Hack Reveals the a16z-Backed Phone Farm Flooding TikTok With AI Influencers
A hacker gained control of a 1,100 mobile phone farm powering covert, AI-generated ads on TikTok.
www.404media.co
December 17, 2025 at 2:35 PM
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knightcenterut.bsky.social
✍️🌎Our team at @LatAmJournalism selected their most memorable articles of 2025 and highlighted others written by their colleagues. Read the most important articles on journalism innovation and press freedom in LatAm ➡️
The most important stories of 2025, according to LJR
The most important stories of 2025, according to LJR Innovation. Latin American Journalism Review by The Knight Center at The University of Texas at Austin.
f.mtr.cool
December 18, 2025 at 1:30 PM
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milesklee.bsky.social
Academics and technologists are sounding the alarm about a growing crisis in scholarship as we know it: AI-generated citations of nonexistent papers that have infested real journals. Despite being fake, the sources are widely assumed to be authentic the more they appear in published literature.
AI Is Inventing Academic Papers That Don't Exist -- And They're Being Cited in Real Journals
Academic articles from authors using large language model are creating an ecosystem of fake research that threatens human knowledge itself.
www.rollingstone.com
December 17, 2025 at 7:45 PM
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mongabay.com
Iain Douglas-Hamilton, pioneering elephant researcher and founder of Save the Elephants, spent nearly 60 years advancing our understanding of elephant behavior and driving protections like the 1989 ivory ban.

He died Dec. 8, 2025, at 83, leaving a lasting conservation legacy.
Iain Douglas-Hamilton, elephant protector, has died at 83
For nearly six decades, Iain Douglas-Hamilton worked across the savannas of Africa, his scientific focus fixed on its largest inhabitants — the elephants. It was said he could identify an elephant by…
news.mongabay.com
December 11, 2025 at 2:40 PM
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efsa-biohaw.bsky.social
ECDC defines scenarios for pre-pandemic zoonotic influenza preparedness and response, to guide a scalable public health response and provide options for responding to possible pre-pandemic scenarios. @ecdc.europa.eu Check and download the tool at www.ecdc.europa.eu/en/publicati...
Scenarios for pre-pandemic zoonotic influenza preparedness and response
The aim of this framework is to guide a scalable public health response to influenza of zoonotic origin in EU/EEA countries and provide options for preparing and responding to different possible pre-pandemic scenarios.
www.ecdc.europa.eu
December 4, 2025 at 1:00 PM
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en.afp.com
🇮🇳 New Delhi recorded more than 200,000 cases of acute respiratory illnesses at six state-run hospitals between 2022 and 2024, government numbers showed, highlighting the adverse effects of toxic air on health.
➡️ u.afp.com/Sh9X
December 3, 2025 at 12:50 PM
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trbrtc.bsky.social
The Indigenous Journalists Association released a reporting guide to help reporters cover Indigenous identity responsibly and ethically. It offers tools and context for navigating heritage, identity fraud, community verification, and more. indigenousjournalists.org/2025/11/ija-...
Cover of the Indigenous Journalists Association’s “Indigenous Identity Reporting Guide.” The top features the IJA logo and title. Below, a photograph shows a dancer from behind wearing traditional regalia, including a large feathered headdress, a yellow woven sash, and beaded leggings. The dancer stands outdoors in front of a building with a mural, with seated attendees visible in the background. The bottom of the cover lists the website “www.indigenousjournalists.org.”
November 30, 2025 at 5:24 PM
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theecologist.org
Restoring and rewilding ecosystems could be critical to human survival
'If ecosystems go, we go'
Ecologists call for ecosystem approach to halt nature decline.
theecologist.org
November 26, 2025 at 1:05 PM
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gijn.org
Hunger is rising fast: 295M people now face acute, life-threatening food insecurity, and 673M struggle with chronic hunger.

GIJN’s new guide helps journalists investigate the systems, conflicts, and failures driving this crisis and report it with depth and accuracy.
gijn.org
Guide to Investigating Food Insecurity
twp.ai
November 25, 2025 at 2:59 AM
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theguardian.com
Rage rooms: demand is surging – and 90% of customers are women
Rage rooms: demand is surging – and 90% of customers are women
Venues designed for people to smash things up safely are seeing an enormous rise in bookings. But why? And what explains the pronounced gender gap?
www.theguardian.com
November 24, 2025 at 6:02 PM
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unfpa.org
No form of discrimination or marginalization is ever acceptable.

Still, many women and girls face barriers in accessing sexual and reproductive rights and services.

See why @unfpa.org is working to end these inequalities: http://unf.pa/tohpf

#GenderEquality
A white card featuring a diagram resembling an embroidery hoop is divided into eight colored segments, each labeled with a factor that can contribute to marginalization: HIV status, disability, age, migratory status, location, income, culture/ethnicity/race/language/religion, and sexual and gender identity. Below the circle, orange text reads: “An individual’s gender can intersect with other aspects of their identity to produce additional layers of discrimination.” The UNFPA logo appears in the bottom right corner.
November 24, 2025 at 6:05 PM
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derechosdigitales.org
Prensa 🗞️| Rafael Bonifaz, Líder del Programa Latinoamericano para la Resiliencia y Defensa Digital, en "¿Cómo protegerse de las estafas digitales?" para La Hora Ecuador

www.lahora.com.ec/seguridad/co...
¿Cómo protegerse de las estafas digitales?
Las estafas digitales han ido en aumento. De acuerdo con expertos en ciberseguridad hay maneras de protegerse, pero la inteligencia artificial va perfeccionando esta táctica.
www.lahora.com.ec
November 20, 2025 at 2:41 PM
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climateinteractive.org
Can we still limit warming to 1.5°C by the end of the century?

At #COP30, leaders are discussing this—but are we doing enough? @elliej.bsky.social breaks down a 1.5°C scenario using the #EnROADS Simulator, including what it would take and what’s at stake.👇 www.climateinteractive.org/blog/1-5degc...
1.5°C—What will it take?
What does it take to limit warming to 1.5°C by the end of the century?
www.climateinteractive.org
November 20, 2025 at 2:29 PM
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icfjorg.bsky.social
How do we make media literacy truly accessible? In Brazil, as part of ICFJ's Disarming Disinformation Training of Trainers, Talita Rosa is teaching seniors to verify information using tools they already use on WhatsApp. Her approach is rooted in community needs: www.icfj.org/news/journal...
A Journalist in Brazil is Showing Seniors How to Outsmart Misinformation, One WhatsApp Message at a Time
The most sophisticated media literacy tools in the world are worthless if they don't meet people where they are. Southern Brazil journalist Talita Rosa first encountered the phrase “fake news” in…
www.icfj.org
November 19, 2025 at 5:11 PM
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mongabay.com
Indigenous fisheries association and river guardians, representing several Mi’kmaq nations in eastern Canada, have launched a drone-based thermal-mapping campaign to locate and protect cold-water refuges vital for threatened Atlantic salmon.
Photos: Drones help First Nations track down cold-water havens for salmon amid warming
GASPÉSIE, Canada — In Quebec’s Gaspésie region, Indigenous river guardians say they are in a race against climate change to protect the Atlantic salmon (Salmo salar). The Mi’gmaq Wolastoqey…
news.mongabay.com
November 15, 2025 at 9:53 PM
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newslit.org
🧠 How can AI + social media affect how we focus, think & learn? The era of brain rot is one of the main topics in this week's edition of The Sift.

🔗 For discussion questions, Daily Do Now activity slides & much more, check out the newsletter: go.newslit.org/Sift10Nov2025

#TheSift #BrainRot
A stylized brain with icons like stars and lightning is surrounded by bold text: "The Era of Brain Rot." Subtext asks about social media's impact on the brain. A note mentions classroom tips from The Sift newsletter. The tone is thought-provoking.
November 10, 2025 at 9:01 PM
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brenttoderian.bsky.social
Keep this in mind when people claim cars mean business — closing Central Madrid to cars over holidays resulted in a 9.5% boost in retail spending on its main shopping street: STUDY.

There was also a 71% drop in air pollution.

Via @carltonreid.com in @forbes.com. #citymakingmath #citiesforpeople
Closing Central Madrid To Cars Resulted In 9.5% Boost To Retail Spending, Finds Bank Analysis
City of Madrid significantly boosted the takings of its shops and restaurants last Christmas by banning cars from the CBD, finds an analysis by Spain's second largest bank.
www.forbes.com
October 24, 2025 at 12:36 PM
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xrglobal.bsky.social
Mosquito-borne diseases kill more than one million people and infect up to 700 million each year. Global heating is enabling the world’s deadliest creature to expand its geographical range to new regions.
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www.worldmosquitoprogram.org/en/news-stor...
Explainer: How climate change is amplifying mosquito-borne diseases|World Mosquito Program
www.worldmosquitoprogram.org
October 21, 2025 at 10:40 PM
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boghuma.bsky.social
Three cases of clade Ib mpox not related to travel have been reported in LA. This raises concerns for probable local transmission. Vaccines are available and work to reduce disease severity or prevent infection. If you are eligible to get vaccinated do so.
www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025...
Three cases of severe mpox reported in California, health officials say
Unrelated cases mark first time clade I of disease formerly known as monkeypox has spread within US, officials say
www.theguardian.com
October 21, 2025 at 3:28 PM
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knightcenterut.bsky.social
🍃🌎Aprende a cubrir el cambio climático, darle voz a las comunidades y combatir la desinformación.
 🗓️Del 13 al 26 de octubre, en línea y asincrónico, con certificado gratuito.
 Regístrate hoy: https://f.mtr.cool/oedzdkjncv
 #Periodismo #COP30 #CursoGratis
October 17, 2025 at 3:54 PM
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marcveld.bsky.social
Some people do not fully recover from an acute viral infection and experience persistent symptoms or incomplete recovery for months or even years. This is not unique to the SARS-CoV-2 virus and history shows that post-viral conditions like post COVID-19 condition, referred to as LC, are not new
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April 23, 2025 at 8:54 AM