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Daniel Lawler
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Science and health journalist at AFP
@en.afp.com
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I met the two last northern white rhinos in the world, and dug into how many chances scientists will have to save the species.
My story for @afpnews.bsky.social
www.france24.com/en/live-news...
'We will save them': The quest to rescue nearly extinct rhino
Two rhinos munch serenely on grass as the sun rises over Mount Kenya, oblivious to the massive global endeavour to prevent them being the last of their kind.
www.france24.com
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It's not every day a source hands you a dead duck and asks you for help obtaining public lice – but it's business as usual when you're dealing with the Ig Nobel Prize. Hilarious piece by @daniellawler.bsky.social

uk.news.yahoo.com/laughing-sci...
December 13, 2025 at 2:25 PM
One of the weirdest uses of the "meet the" headline I have seen
cnn.com CNN @cnn.com · 21h
It's a new face in Britain’s anti-immigration movement.

Members of the Pink Ladies grassroots movement stage demonstrations across the country to warn of the dangers they say illegal migrants pose to women and girls.
Meet the Pink Ladies, a new face in Britain’s anti-immigration movement | CNN
A growing grassroots movement, the Pink Ladies have staged protests across the country to warn of the dangers they say illegal migrants pose to women and girls.
www.cnn.com
December 13, 2025 at 7:53 AM
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Scientific evidence shows, once again, there is no causal link between vaccines and autism. Vaccines cause adults. - @drtedros.who.int
December 11, 2025 at 11:19 PM
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"The takedowns and restrictions began in October and targeted the Facebook, Instagram and WhatsApp accounts of more than 50 organisations worldwide ... in what appears to be a growing push by Meta to limit reproductive health and queer content across its platforms."
Meta shuts down global accounts linked to abortion advice and queer content
More than 50 organisations report sites being restricted or removed, with abortion hotlines blocked and posts showing non-explicit nudity triggering warnings
www.theguardian.com
December 11, 2025 at 12:14 PM
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Celebrity chefs told Californians that PFAS-coated pans were “safe,” and successfully lobbied Gavin Newsom to veto a bill phasing them out

They didn’t mention they all sell PFAS-coated pans.

New joint investigation with @mirandagreen.bsky.social and @atmosmag.bsky.social is out:
Why are famous chefs fighting PFAS bans?
The answer, in retrospect, is obvious—and it’s part of a larger campaign to stop bans on Teflon cookware nationwide.
heated.world
December 10, 2025 at 9:08 PM
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UN hits out at global "apathy" over widespread suffering as it launches its 2026 appeal for humanitarian aid

u.afp.com/S7qs
December 8, 2025 at 6:59 AM
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Fascinating piece on the bizarre 🇫🇷 insistence on referring to the English-speaking world as 'Anglo Saxons'
The Anglo-Saxon is not American or British but a French alter-ego | Aeon Essays
Not just American or British, the Anglo-Saxon is a mirror to Frenchness: the country’s alter-ego and most feared enemy
aeon.co
December 7, 2025 at 10:06 AM
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I've launched a newsletter! It's for Parisians and people who love Paris.

I’ll be covering the race to replace Anne Hidalgo, the policies shaping our city, and probably an audacious heist or two.

C'est parti :

millefeuilleparis.substack.com/p/a-newslett...
A newsletter for Parisians who are bad at local news
Here are some things that almost all English-speaking Parisians have in common: they move to Paris with lofty goals of perfecting their French; they end up hanging out in the anglophone bubble far mor...
millefeuilleparis.substack.com
November 18, 2025 at 9:48 AM
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The world agreed on a strategy to end AIDS known as 95-95-95: 95% of people with HIV should know their status, 95% of the diagnosed should be on medication, 95% should have the virus suppressed.

By 2022, the world reached 87-89-94. Then Trump killed aid funding.

foreignpolicy.com/2025/12/01/t...
The End of Ending AIDS
As the Trump administration pledges to meet global health targets, it has terminated some of its best tools for doing so.
foreignpolicy.com
December 1, 2025 at 4:10 PM
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A crisis of legitimacy, a questionable commitment to political neutrality, performances of varying quality, a random assortment of nations and an opaque voting process... it’s not the World Cup draw – it’s the Eurovision Song Contest.

Me for this week's Observer:

observer.co.uk/news/interna...
Eurovision finally faces its Waterloo as four nations quit in protest at Israel’s inclusion | The Observer
observer.co.uk
December 7, 2025 at 7:54 AM
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Newsletter #2 is out today. This week, the politics and psychology of the massive and gross road that encircles Paris, and why it's so hard to do anything about it

millefeuilleparis.substack.com/p/should-we-...
Should we bury the périph like nuclear waste?
Next year’s elections have reignited a debate over what to do with the monstrous Paris ringroad.
millefeuilleparis.substack.com
December 2, 2025 at 3:06 PM
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The toll in deadly flooding and landslides across parts of Asia climbed past 1,000 on Monday.

Hardest-hit Sri Lanka and Indonesia deploy military personnel to help survivors

u.afp.com/Shu6
December 1, 2025 at 8:32 AM
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"“OpenAI pays for its chips. It pays for its computers. It pays its programmers. But it steals the raw material for its [AI] products."

www.bostonglobe.com/2025/11/28/b...
Boston Herald, other news outlets sue OpenAI, Microsoft over alleged copyright violations - The Boston Globe
The lawsuit, filed Wednesday in US District Court for the Southern District of New York, seeks more than $10 billion in damages.
www.bostonglobe.com
November 29, 2025 at 12:53 PM
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The world's top wildlife trade organisation increased protections on Friday for more than 70 species of sharks and rays, in a move conservationists hailed as a "historical win" ➡️ u.afp.com/Shnz
November 28, 2025 at 12:12 PM
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Chilling new opinion poll indicating that if France held a presidential election today, it would be won by far-right candidate Jordan Bardella. Crucially, he's not just leading first-round voting intentions — he'd actually win the runoff.

*But* there's a glimmer of hope for the Left in there too
🗳️L'ensemble de la gauche est quand même entre 34,5% et 37% des voix dans ce sondage Odoxa, soit son meilleur score depuis... les régionales de 2015 (36% à l'époque), si ce n'est depuis les législatives de 2012.
November 26, 2025 at 11:00 AM
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Want to come and work at The Local?
You'll be forced to pay attention to whatever the fuck is going on in 🇫🇷 politics, but other than that the job is a lot of fun - writing articles on a huge range of French subjects and being on Talking France podcast
Paris-based, CDI, details 👇
#journojobs
November 20, 2025 at 7:58 AM
"It’s hard out there for the people it’s easy for."
Hilarious stuff. If you're on bluesky you've probably read all the component parts already; read this anyways.
November 25, 2025 at 9:17 PM
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NEWS --> BBC confirms to me that they did edit a line out of historian @rutgerbregman.com's speech. It called Trump "the most openly corrupt president in US history."

BBC also confirms this was done on the advice of lawyers. So Trump's threats worked.

New piece:
newrepublic.com/article/2036...
Trump’s Fury at BBC Gets Unnerving Results with Pro-MAGA Edit Stunner
First, British Broadcasting Corporation execs resigned after Trump complained about a segment. Now the BBC edited out a line from a historian that was critical of Trump. Where does this end?
newrepublic.com
November 25, 2025 at 4:10 PM
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Basilica emerges from lake, illuminating early Church life in Turkey.

Known as the Basilica of the Holy Fathers, it marks the site of one of the early Church's most important gatherings which took place in Nicaea 12 years after the Roman Empire legalised Christianity in AD 325

u.afp.com/Sh5e
November 24, 2025 at 8:43 AM
Reading this list just to get angry. No fans of these movies would rank them this way! Why is the Waterboy there? Where is Blues Brothers?
The movie listed at #1 is so incredibly misplaced that it calls into question the veracity of the entire list. It belongs on the list, yes, but SO MUCH further down. An absolute, credibility-wrecking flub. Boo, @variety.com! Boo!

variety.com/lists/best-c...
The 100 Best Comedy Movies of All Time
Variety's list of the 100 best comedy movies of all time includes 'Annie Hall,' 'Pretty Woman,' 'Waiting for Guffman' and 'Young Frankenstein.'
variety.com
November 24, 2025 at 8:14 PM
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🇬🇷 Divers haul abandoned 'ghost nets' from seabed off Greek island

Off the Greek island of Spetses, divers lift abandoned fishing nets from reefs in the Aegean Sea. The nets, known as ghost nets, continue to trap marine animals on the seabed for years before breaking down into microplastics.
November 24, 2025 at 10:20 AM
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Stardust. The Israeli-U.S. company with a strange and totally real plan to block out the sun and reverse global warming.

Reporting this story involved a complete relearning of what I thought I knew about the climate future.

w/@corbinhiar.bsky.social

www.politico.com/news/magazin...
The Strange and Totally Real Plan to Blot Out the Sun and Reverse Global Warming
A 25-person startup is developing technology to block the sun and turn down the planet’s thermostat. The stakes are huge — and the company and its critics say regulations need to catch up.
www.politico.com
November 23, 2025 at 2:28 PM
Katy is great - subscribe to this and listen to the Europeans!
November 24, 2025 at 8:38 AM
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"Just as a mosquito requires stagnant pools of water in which to thrive, so their stagnant social circles provide the perfect breeding ground for increasingly toxic strands of bigotry."
November 24, 2025 at 7:56 AM