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Fabrizio Scarpa

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Academic at Uni Bristol 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿 FRAeS ERC work on #metamaterials and #biobased #materials. Love for history, geopolitics and climate. Banner shows a 2D metamaterial. Links: ibit.ly/b_Dsn and ibit.ly/MuO03 Personal opinions, etc ... 🧪⚙️🤖👾♻️🚤✈️🏋️‍♀️🏛🐈

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Fabrizio Scarpa @flago2009.bsky.social · Dec 1

Content Analysis: A delightful mix of academic rigor and witty banter, Fabrizio’s style reads like a conversation with a friend at a coffee shop, where every sip comes with a side of insight and a sprinkle of sarcasm. Expect footnotes—a lot of them!

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Mark Miodownik @markmiodownik.bsky.social · 3h

Stretchy jeans might be recyclable using enzymes. Our work is showing some promise. Led by Silvia Anselmi, Jack Jeffries and Helen Hailes we show that enzymes can biodegrade spandex in lab conditions. Full paper here: share.google/gdpM87tlnZsj...

The discovery of new metagenomic urethanases utilising a novel colorimetric assay for applications in the biodegradation of polyurethanes

The enzymatic molecular recycling of plastics is of increasing interest, where polymers are converted into monomers for reuse or upcycled into value added chemicals. Polyurethanes are an important cla...

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H I Sutton @covertshores.bsky.social · 4h

Another ‘narco submarine’ found in the Solomon Islands, after it sailed all the way across the Pacific(!). This is the 3rd publicly reported example there.

Note that it’s empty and the outboard motors have been removed

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Clio2 @clio2.bsky.social · 4h

"...I was at the dog park (with my dog) and was on the phone speaking Spanish. There was another lady there and apparently she felt the need to call ICE on me....I’ve since moved to Spain and am happy to not be there anymore. I’m a US citizen born in the US btw."

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Simon Oldridge @sioldridge.bsky.social · 15h

The National Emergency Briefing on the grave threats posed by the #climate and #nature crisis, on the other hand, will still be going ahead next month. Also setting out how emergency action on a wartime scale can take us to a better place.

Has your MP confirmed yet? www.nebriefing.org
#TimeToStepUp

National Emergency Briefing on climate & nature

An unfiltered assessment of the latest threats to UK food supply, health and national security from eight leading experts to an invitation-only audience - also covering positive solutions. Westminster...

www.nebriefing.org

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Leana Hosea @leanahosea.bsky.social · 16h

And, yes, wildlife, we need to stop washing nitrate + phosphate into a river where salmon are perilously close to becoming locally extinct.

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WATERSHED Investigations @watershed-i.bsky.social · 17h

Campaigners + local businesses claim phosphates + nitrates from the collective poo of as many as 23million chickens packed into the Wye catchment from a growing number of intensive chicken farms are driving algal blooms, harming fish + wildlife.
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River Wye pollution prompts UK's largest environmental lawsuit

Livestock and water companies are accused of “extensive” pollution in the Wye, Lugg and Usk rivers.

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Fabrizio Scarpa @flago2009.bsky.social · 16h

´One source told the Guardian they feared [the report] was being suppressed because the government was unwilling to face the issues raised'

Hope UKG will change their mind, otherwise history will not be kind.

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National security threatened by climate crisis, UK intelligence chiefs due to warn

Report by joint intelligence committee delayed, with concerns expressed that it may not be published

www.theguardian.com

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Fabrizio Scarpa @flago2009.bsky.social · 16h

If BoJo, one of the laziest gits on the planet did it, why not Fromage?

Fabrizio Scarpa @flago2009.bsky.social · 17h

And incredibly expensive.

Fabrizio Scarpa @flago2009.bsky.social · 17h

Wish you all the best, take care 💐

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Keith W. Dickinson @keithwdickinson.bsky.social · 1d

Today is a day when arts degrees are worthless, but the product of those degrees is so valuable it would kill an entire industry if they were made to pay for it.

The Verge @theverge.com · May 26

Nick Clegg says asking artists for use permission would ‘kill’ the AI industry

Paul McCartne, Elton John and others signed an open letter.

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Mark Gongloff @markgongloff.bsky.social · 6d

"Spain’s rapid renewables build-out means its power prices were set by fossil generation just 19% of the time, down from 75% in 2019. As a result, wholesale electricity was almost a third cheaper than the EU average"

Imagine having cheaper power

Gift link: www.bloomberg.com/news/article...

Spain’s Renewable-Energy Boom Loosens Gas’s Grip on Power Prices

Soaring renewables output in Spain is weakening gas’s grip on electricity prices, setting the country apart from much of Europe where fossil fuels still dictate the cost of power.

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Pronto @notengoprisa.bsky.social · 1d

Ni se os ocurra usar la integración de Gemini en Gmail.

Es vulnerable a ataques de prompt injection* y Google suda de arreglarlo.

En general, no recomiendo dar acceso a tus cuentas a ningún agente de IA salvo que sepas muy bien lo que haces.

Fernando del Amo #7291 @madridvk.bsky.social · 1d

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Google won’t fix new ASCII smuggling attack in Gemini

Google has decided not to fix a new ASCII smuggling attack in Gemini that could be used to trick the AI assistant into providing users with fake information, alter the model's behavior, and silently p...

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Carl Quintanilla @carlquintanilla.bsky.social · 1d

NVIDIA and OpenAi:

Concerns that their “increasingly complex and interconnected web of business transactions is artificially propping up the trillion-dollar AI boom.“

@bloomberg.com $NVDA 👀
www.bloomberg.com/news/feature...

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Tim Worthington @outonbluesix.bsky.social · 1d

How is this repeatedly made into a policy issue - by *all* parties - when the blunt fact of the matter is that grown adults who are obliged to pay for their own education, and relentlessly pursued to repay their loans, should be able to study whatever the fuck they want.

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Toby Nangle @tobyn.bsky.social · 1d

After 80yrs of declining wealth inequality, top 1% and top 10% wealth share in the UK has flatlined for the past 40yrs.

via @resfoundation.bsky.social www.resolutionfoundation.org/publications...

Blue line shows share of household wealth held by top 1%; red by top 10%.

The chart shows declining wealth inequality from 1900-1980 and a flatlining since then.

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Social Media Lab @socialmedialab.ca · 1d

Message received loud and clear ... "International interest in studying for a master's degree in the United States has fallen by 61% since 6 January" www.universityworldnews.com/post.php?sto...

International interest in US masters degrees falls by 61%

The United States is experiencing its lowest level of international student interest in studying for a masters degree in over five years owing to regu...

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bioRxiv Plant Bio @biorxiv-plants.bsky.social · 1d

Synthetic pectin-cellulose nanofiber capsule provides minimal model capturing mechanics of a regenerating plant cell wall https://www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1101/2025.10.07.680914v1

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Miska Knapek @miskaknapek.bsky.social · 1d

related to how cutting sub-sea cables in international waters can be difficult to prosecute (and thus almost legal for the perpetrators).

tricky given the amount of subsea cables for energy and data…

Sarah Kirchberger @sarahkirchberger.bsky.social · 1d

This March 2025 research report by Public Law Professor Aurel Sari contains an extensive review of the legal loopholes that make the Baltic Sea ⚓️ anchor-dragging cases so difficult to prosecute. It also includes some recommendations on how the situation could be improved. #EagleS is also discussed.

Hybrid CoE Research Report 14: Protecting maritime infrastructure from hybrid threats: legal options

As incidents in the Baltic Sea demonstrate, protecting submarine communication cables is vital. This Hybrid CoE Research Report examines the legal options available to states for countering hybrid thr...

www.hybridcoe.fi

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David Henig @davidheniguk.bsky.social · 1d

Just logged onto LinkedIn to see this government insult to intelligence, £250bn in investment since June. What does this even mean? If it was inward FDI that would be over 10% of total stock in three months. It clearly isn't. It is just bad government comms in almost every way.

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Alexander Clarkson @aphclarkson.bsky.social · 1d

Generally it would be helpful if more UK journalists took a closer look at how far Reform, Conservative Party and even Blue Labour figures have become immersed in an American MAGA Trump social media world that is increasingly using the language of civil war

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Mark Chadbourn @chadbourn.bsky.social · 2d

How the Far Right Project 2025 is going to be brought to the UK through the Reform Trojan horse.

Project 2025: The UK Edition (Part 2)

A Cambridge academic, a YouTube influencer, and Reform UK’s old HQ - the ingredients for our own Project 2025 are already mixed.

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Michael Roth 🇪🇺🇺🇦🇬🇪🇮🇱 @michaelroth.bsky.social · 2d

Once again, Europe fails to defend its own values. The EU’s & its member states timid response to Georgia’s sham elections emboldens the Kremlin and disheartens the brave Georgians fighting for freedom. Europe needs courage, not complacency. #StandWithGeorgia 🇬🇪 🇪🇺

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John Scalzi @scalzi.com · 2d

In fact The Beast is on the altar

The altar of the church I own, festooned with guitars, with the six-necked beast in the place of honor

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Fabrizio Scarpa @flago2009.bsky.social · 2d

EHCR is the last separation line. For the moment.

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