Gil Lizcano
@gliz.bsky.social
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On Trump’s orders, the National Center for Atmospheric Research will be shut down after more than 50 years as a leader in global research on climate science and monitoring. This is what authoritarian science looks like.
www.thenation.com/article/poli...
www.thenation.com/article/poli...
Destroy the Metrics, Destroy the Truth
Trump’s decimation of public health systems isn’t about efficiency, cost-saving, or even ideology. It’s about building a world without truth or the possibility of accountability.
www.thenation.com
December 24, 2025 at 10:34 AM
On Trump’s orders, the National Center for Atmospheric Research will be shut down after more than 50 years as a leader in global research on climate science and monitoring. This is what authoritarian science looks like.
www.thenation.com/article/poli...
www.thenation.com/article/poli...
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Hard to know what to say about a regime that arrests Greta Thunberg for holding a piece of cardboard, while actively supporting a war criminal engaged in genocide.
December 23, 2025 at 11:51 AM
Hard to know what to say about a regime that arrests Greta Thunberg for holding a piece of cardboard, while actively supporting a war criminal engaged in genocide.
@jonworth.eu , many insightful points about Spain’s railway systems. www.eldiario.es/catalunya/pa...
Pau Noy, ingeniero: "Es de papanatas la obsesión con la alta velocidad cuando el 98% de usuarios van en otros trenes"
El presidente de la fundación Movilidad Sostenible y Segura considera que el gran problema del sistema ferroviario en España es la falta de trenes, aunque asegura que el Gobierno y Renfe están invirti...
www.eldiario.es
December 22, 2025 at 10:54 PM
@jonworth.eu , many insightful points about Spain’s railway systems. www.eldiario.es/catalunya/pa...
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Danish postal service to stop delivering letters after 400 years
Danish postal service to stop delivering letters after 400 years
PostNord’s decision to end service on 30 December comes after fear over ‘increasing digitalisation’ of Danish society
www.theguardian.com
December 21, 2025 at 3:42 PM
Danish postal service to stop delivering letters after 400 years
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The importance of NCAR and the damage wrought by Trump administration actions is very well summarised by Ben Santer in this article @ueaenv.bsky.social @climateuea.bsky.social
"Attempting to erase a country’s scientific heritage, as the Trump administration is now trying to do, should be of concern to every US citizen. Because if climate science is viewed with disfavor today, other fields of scientific inquiry might be next in line for the chopping block."—Ben Santer.
Threatening NCAR, Trump administration seeks to extinguish a beacon of climate science
The Trump administration’s world view is that the US doesn’t need a climate science brain trust because it doesn’t like what the brains say.
thebulletin.org
December 19, 2025 at 6:06 PM
The importance of NCAR and the damage wrought by Trump administration actions is very well summarised by Ben Santer in this article @ueaenv.bsky.social @climateuea.bsky.social
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Scientists are supposed to be happy when their predictions are skillful, right?
Why do I not feel happy?
Why do I not feel happy?
December 19, 2025 at 2:10 PM
Scientists are supposed to be happy when their predictions are skillful, right?
Why do I not feel happy?
Why do I not feel happy?
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🟢 Breaking: Historic win against Frontex!
The @eucourtofjustice.bsky.social has upheld our appeal in Hamoudi v Frontex, and overturned the order under appeal!
The @eucourtofjustice.bsky.social has upheld our appeal in Hamoudi v Frontex, and overturned the order under appeal!
December 18, 2025 at 10:53 AM
🟢 Breaking: Historic win against Frontex!
The @eucourtofjustice.bsky.social has upheld our appeal in Hamoudi v Frontex, and overturned the order under appeal!
The @eucourtofjustice.bsky.social has upheld our appeal in Hamoudi v Frontex, and overturned the order under appeal!
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Coming soon! Save the date: 13 January 2026. 🇪🇺 citizens-initiative.europa.eu/initiatives/...
December 13, 2025 at 11:05 AM
Coming soon! Save the date: 13 January 2026. 🇪🇺 citizens-initiative.europa.eu/initiatives/...
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Congratulations, @tjeerdroyaards.com, on winning the European Cartoon Award 2025. A powerful cartoon that lays bare how the 'red line' became nothing more than a blood trail drawn, crossed, and ignored by the international community in defense of Israeli impunity.
December 13, 2025 at 8:17 AM
Congratulations, @tjeerdroyaards.com, on winning the European Cartoon Award 2025. A powerful cartoon that lays bare how the 'red line' became nothing more than a blood trail drawn, crossed, and ignored by the international community in defense of Israeli impunity.
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The Council’s position goes against basic humanity and EU values. Now it is up to the European Parliament to reject this approach. Migration governance must be rooted in dignity and rights – not fear, racism, or exclusion.
December 8, 2025 at 11:44 AM
The Council’s position goes against basic humanity and EU values. Now it is up to the European Parliament to reject this approach. Migration governance must be rooted in dignity and rights – not fear, racism, or exclusion.
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Una veintena de trabajadores/as humanitarios/as afrontan posibles condenas de 20 años por ayudar a migrantes.
www.elsaltodiario.com/grecia/24-tr...
www.elsaltodiario.com/grecia/24-tr...
Una veintena de trabajadores humanitarios afrontan posibles condenas de 20 años por ayudar a migrantes
Estos días se celebra en la isla griega de Lesbos un juicio histórico. Veinticuatro trabajadores humanitarios están acusados de “tráfico de personas” y “pertenencia a una organización criminal” por su...
www.elsaltodiario.com
December 6, 2025 at 3:51 PM
Una veintena de trabajadores/as humanitarios/as afrontan posibles condenas de 20 años por ayudar a migrantes.
www.elsaltodiario.com/grecia/24-tr...
www.elsaltodiario.com/grecia/24-tr...
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Soil scientists the world over need to take a look! Could this also be a quantum leap in our ability to estimate nitrous oxide emissions from soils at scale, which are currently basically guesstimates?
1. Some good news at last. This week’s column is about the amazing thing a couple of us stumbled into three years ago, which we’ve now developed into a global research programme. It doesn’t change everything, of course, but it could help change quite a lot. + 🧵 www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...
Over a pint in Oxford, we may have stumbled upon the holy grail of agriculture | George Monbiot
I knew that a revolution in our understanding of soil could change the world. Then came a eureka moment – and the birth of the Earth Rover Program, says Guardian columnist George Monbiot
www.theguardian.com
December 6, 2025 at 3:53 PM
Soil scientists the world over need to take a look! Could this also be a quantum leap in our ability to estimate nitrous oxide emissions from soils at scale, which are currently basically guesstimates?
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We are reaching Turkmenistan levels
National parks cut free entry for MLK Day, add Trump's birthday
NPS changed its free admission days in 2026, removing MLK Day and Juneteenth while adding Trump's birthday.
www.usatoday.com
December 6, 2025 at 2:16 PM
We are reaching Turkmenistan levels
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OTD in 1994 The Budapest Memorandum was signed. It remains the most spectacular waste of paper, ink, and geopolitical optimism in the history of humankind.
The deal was simple: Ukraine disarms. Russia, the UK, and the USA promised, in return, to guarantee our security and territorial integrity.
The deal was simple: Ukraine disarms. Russia, the UK, and the USA promised, in return, to guarantee our security and territorial integrity.
December 5, 2025 at 8:08 PM
OTD in 1994 The Budapest Memorandum was signed. It remains the most spectacular waste of paper, ink, and geopolitical optimism in the history of humankind.
The deal was simple: Ukraine disarms. Russia, the UK, and the USA promised, in return, to guarantee our security and territorial integrity.
The deal was simple: Ukraine disarms. Russia, the UK, and the USA promised, in return, to guarantee our security and territorial integrity.
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Regarding the X fine announced today, a few points are worth keeping in mind, before unfolding in deep what’s there.
A thread on what matters in the DSA enforcement 🧵
A thread on what matters in the DSA enforcement 🧵
December 5, 2025 at 11:33 AM
Regarding the X fine announced today, a few points are worth keeping in mind, before unfolding in deep what’s there.
A thread on what matters in the DSA enforcement 🧵
A thread on what matters in the DSA enforcement 🧵
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THE MAN IN THE RIVER
Once there was a wise man, who travelled to strange lands, and as he travelled, he came to the bank of a winding river. Edging the bank were houses, set at distances from one another. The wise man walked upstream, watching the slow current carry leaves and twigs past him.
Once there was a wise man, who travelled to strange lands, and as he travelled, he came to the bank of a winding river. Edging the bank were houses, set at distances from one another. The wise man walked upstream, watching the slow current carry leaves and twigs past him.
January 11, 2025 at 12:46 PM
THE MAN IN THE RIVER
Once there was a wise man, who travelled to strange lands, and as he travelled, he came to the bank of a winding river. Edging the bank were houses, set at distances from one another. The wise man walked upstream, watching the slow current carry leaves and twigs past him.
Once there was a wise man, who travelled to strange lands, and as he travelled, he came to the bank of a winding river. Edging the bank were houses, set at distances from one another. The wise man walked upstream, watching the slow current carry leaves and twigs past him.
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Imagine if all the hundreds of billions of dollars being pumped into AI was given instead to artists, writers, musicians. If/when the AI bubble bursts, everything will get crappier, but you give that money to artists: no bubble, just a world more humane and human in a million little ways.
November 28, 2025 at 6:01 PM
Imagine if all the hundreds of billions of dollars being pumped into AI was given instead to artists, writers, musicians. If/when the AI bubble bursts, everything will get crappier, but you give that money to artists: no bubble, just a world more humane and human in a million little ways.
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Tom Stoppard, playwright of dazzling wit and playful erudition, dies aged 88
Tom Stoppard, playwright of dazzling wit and playful erudition, dies aged 88
A theatrical sensation since the 1960s, whose dramas included Arcadia, The Real Thing and Leopoldstadt, Stoppard also had huge success as a screenwriter
The playwright Tom Stoppard, whose playful erudition dazzled the theatregoing world for decades, has died aged 88.
One of a select band of writers from any discipline to earn his own adjective – “Stoppardian” – in the Oxford English Dictionary, he delighted in the most improbable juxtapositions: philosophy and gymnastics in Jumpers (1972); early 19th-century landscape gardening and chaos theory in Arcadia (1993); rock music, dissident Czech academics and the love poetry of Sappho in Rock ’n’ Roll (2006). Continue reading...
www.theguardian.com
November 29, 2025 at 5:17 PM
Tom Stoppard, playwright of dazzling wit and playful erudition, dies aged 88
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🚨 Gaza: study by @maxplanck.de reveals unprecedented losses of life and life expectancy. « An update of their analysis, produced after the publication of the study, revealed that the current violent death toll likely exceeds 100,000 ». www.mpg.de/25778228/112...
Gaza: study reveals unprecedented losses of life and life expectancy
Researchers analyze the human toll of the ongoing conflict using a statistical model that takes data uncertainties into account
www.mpg.de
November 25, 2025 at 7:08 PM
🚨 Gaza: study by @maxplanck.de reveals unprecedented losses of life and life expectancy. « An update of their analysis, produced after the publication of the study, revealed that the current violent death toll likely exceeds 100,000 ». www.mpg.de/25778228/112...
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November 21, 2025 at 8:09 PM
Reposted by Gil Lizcano
Europe's response to a flawed, lopsided, deceitful US plan for Gaza
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Europe's response to a flawed, lopsided, deceitful US plan for Ukraine
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Europe's response to a flawed, lopsided, deceitful US plan for Ukraine
November 21, 2025 at 6:15 PM
Europe's response to a flawed, lopsided, deceitful US plan for Gaza
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Europe's response to a flawed, lopsided, deceitful US plan for Ukraine
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Europe's response to a flawed, lopsided, deceitful US plan for Ukraine
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#OtD 16 Nov 1989 six Jesuit priests, their housekeeper and her daughter were killed by the US-backed military in El Salvador for being "subversive". Troops then tried to make the murders look like the work of left-wing guerrillas stories.workingclasshistory.com/article/8824...
November 16, 2025 at 7:55 PM
#OtD 16 Nov 1989 six Jesuit priests, their housekeeper and her daughter were killed by the US-backed military in El Salvador for being "subversive". Troops then tried to make the murders look like the work of left-wing guerrillas stories.workingclasshistory.com/article/8824...
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Artistas portugueses se unem no show Juntos Por Gaza que terá Sérgio Godinho, Selma Uamusse, Salvador Sobral, Ana Lua Caiano, Capicua e Clã, entre outros.
November 6, 2025 at 10:33 AM
Artistas portugueses se unem no show Juntos Por Gaza que terá Sérgio Godinho, Selma Uamusse, Salvador Sobral, Ana Lua Caiano, Capicua e Clã, entre outros.
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NEW DATA TOOL | Coal mines are a major emitter of methane. #COP30 can help make spaceborne coal mine methane emission tracking common practice.
Ember’s data tool highlights where satellite-based methane tracking is possible across operational coal mines worldwide ⬇️
https://loom.ly/y7TQfnc
Ember’s data tool highlights where satellite-based methane tracking is possible across operational coal mines worldwide ⬇️
https://loom.ly/y7TQfnc
November 13, 2025 at 12:02 PM
NEW DATA TOOL | Coal mines are a major emitter of methane. #COP30 can help make spaceborne coal mine methane emission tracking common practice.
Ember’s data tool highlights where satellite-based methane tracking is possible across operational coal mines worldwide ⬇️
https://loom.ly/y7TQfnc
Ember’s data tool highlights where satellite-based methane tracking is possible across operational coal mines worldwide ⬇️
https://loom.ly/y7TQfnc
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What AI creates depends on what humans have already documented, verified, and made available to everyone.
That’s why @wikipedia.org’s role as the backbone of all knowledge on the internet has never been more important. #Wikipedia25
Learn more ➡️ wikimediafoundation.org/wikipedia-va...
That’s why @wikipedia.org’s role as the backbone of all knowledge on the internet has never been more important. #Wikipedia25
Learn more ➡️ wikimediafoundation.org/wikipedia-va...
November 12, 2025 at 5:35 PM
What AI creates depends on what humans have already documented, verified, and made available to everyone.
That’s why @wikipedia.org’s role as the backbone of all knowledge on the internet has never been more important. #Wikipedia25
Learn more ➡️ wikimediafoundation.org/wikipedia-va...
That’s why @wikipedia.org’s role as the backbone of all knowledge on the internet has never been more important. #Wikipedia25
Learn more ➡️ wikimediafoundation.org/wikipedia-va...