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Best TikTok thing going is the two dudes trying food from every country without leaving NYC. If you haven’t seen them yet, it’s incredible. My favorite so far is last week’s. Legit got me emotional.
January 9, 2026 at 1:50 AM
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“The Party told you to reject the evidence of your eyes and ears. It was their final, most essential command.” —George Orwell (1984)
January 8, 2026 at 3:32 PM
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Excited to share @rbrianroome.bsky.social ‘s beautiful paper on development of the dorsal horn of the mouse spinal cord @science.org

This is how the anatomical organization and cell types that process pain, touch, body position and more are laid down.

www.science.org/doi/10.1126/...
Ontogeny of the spinal cord dorsal horn
The dorsal horn of the mammalian spinal cord is organized into laminae where each layer is populated by different neuron types, has distinctive circuit connections, and plays specialized roles in beha...
www.science.org
January 8, 2026 at 7:59 PM
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So many European nations could stop the shadow fleet (hi 🇳🇱) - and all of them should. If we would, we would suddenly have huge leverage over Russia - immediately becoming a strategic superpower in current "negotiations". Our apathy is literally Europe CHOOSING to be an irresponsible sidelined victim
January 9, 2026 at 7:28 AM
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Not everyone believed me when I wrote that Trump wants Greenland becuase it would make him feel important, but that's what he told the NYT:

When asked why he needed to possess the territory, he said: “Because that’s what I feel is psychologically needed for success"
www.nytimes.com/2026/01/08/u...
Trump Lays Out a Vision of Power Restrained Only by ‘My Own Morality’
www.nytimes.com
January 9, 2026 at 5:56 AM
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Kyiv region

A family of four – a mother, father, grandmother, and a 5-year-old child – were pulled from the rubble in the Brovary area. They are all in hospital.
January 9, 2026 at 8:33 AM
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Wat is er echt voor nodig om stikstofuitstoot in de landbouw te verlagen? Uitkopen werkt niet, in plaats daarvan kunnen we beter geld besteden aan boeren die blijven, legt @hannekevo.bsky.social vandaag uit in @trouw.nl.

www.trouw.nl/duurzaamheid...

#LandInzicht #7vinkjes
Boeren uitkopen is duur en helpt natuur nauwelijks
De vrijwillige stoppersregelingen voor boeren leveren weinig op. Het kabinet moet aan de slag met alternatieven, zeggen deskundigen. ‘Besteed geld aan boeren die blijven.’
www.trouw.nl
January 9, 2026 at 8:59 AM
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I kept saying in 2022 that leaving Pu's anachronistic, age-of-empires conquest to fester, pretending Ru has security concerns rather than imperialist goals, and drawing shallow parallels to the US Iraq war, which made Pu's land grab appear to be less of a watershed, will backfire. It has backfired..
January 9, 2026 at 12:35 AM
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Lots of talk/mandates for open data but there should be more done by funders about the fragility of repositories - SRA, GISAID, flybase, etc.

As noted at our NA/RS data summit, everyone loves the glittering fountain the but no-one wants to pay for the plumbing...

www.science.org/content/arti...
Fresh conflicts erupt around giant database for flu and COVID-19 sequences
Critics say “autocratic” behavior by GISAID could hamper response to a future pandemic
www.science.org
January 8, 2026 at 4:48 PM
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Moskowitz on Noem: "Is she hiding her face like her ICE agents now? By the way - is this what the $800b went to? Every day we see her after some new tragedy, she's wearing a different outfit with a different hat. She looks ridiculous. She deserves to be removed from her job, & if not impeached."
January 8, 2026 at 5:36 PM
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Meanwhile, the Ukrainians are expecting a huge air attack tonight on Kyiv. The Russians may use hypersonic ballistic missiles
January 8, 2026 at 6:22 PM
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Here's the Washington Post investigation:
www.washingtonpost.com/investigatio...
New York Times:
www.youtube.com/watch?v=CQCv...
And Bellingcat's video
bsky.app/profile/bell...
Using imagery online of the shooting by an ICE agent in Minneapolis, we’ve created an animated sequence which highlights the approximate positioning of officers and vehicles at the scene. The red dot represents the agent who fired the shots. Yellow dots are other agents who arrived at the scene.
January 8, 2026 at 3:38 PM
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Will there ever be a point in time when Trump and Vance will state the basic, simple and obvious truth that the obstacle to peace in Europe is Vladimir Putin, and Ukraine is not equally to blame for the war starting and continuing? Why do they continue to lie about that?
January 8, 2026 at 6:47 PM
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Three-year-old Maksym and his 22-year-old mother, Anastasiia Parkhomenko, who were killed by a Russian strike on a residential area in Kharkiv on January 2, were buried today in the village of Rannii Ranok.

Deepest condolences and eternal memory…
January 8, 2026 at 6:51 PM
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Defaming a murdered woman and shrugging off her death with a lie is about as evil as it gets and no journalist who gets within shouting distance of this vicious troll should let him have a moment's peace about it.
January 8, 2026 at 6:38 PM
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Toch nog een keer de schijnwerper vol op de temperatuur in Alert, vlakbij de Noordpool.

1.8C, boven nul in januari, nooit eerder vertoond!!

Vorige warmterecord was -13.7C, in 2003

30 graden warmer dan normaal

SUPER EXTREEM!!
*BREAKING*

1.8C boven nul in Alert, 🇨🇦

het meest noordelijke bewoonde weerstation van de wereld, op 82 noorderbreedte

30 graden boven het gemiddelde!!

De dag ervoor ook boven nul

Nooit eerder boven nul geweest in het eerste kwartaal van het jaar.

Het oude record was -13.7 (!!) uit 2003 😱😨
Endless insanity in the Arctics:
+1.8C at Alert,Canada 82N,considered the northernmost inhabited station (but by researchers,not native indigenous)

This is the first time it rises above freezing in the first quarter of the year.
30C above average.
January 8, 2026 at 7:07 PM
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Stroomuitval in de Oekraiense stad Dnipro en andere steden in de regio na een Russische aanval. Ook problemen met water en mobiel netwerk. Geen prognose over wanneer alles het weer doet, inwoners gevraagd water te hamsteren.
suspilne.media/amp/dnipro/1...
Блекаут: на Дніпропетровщині в деяких містах зникла електроенергія
У Дніпрі та деяких містах області зникла електроенергія. Також спостерігаються проблеми з водопостачання та мобільним зв'язком, повідомили кореспонденти Суспільного — Суспільне Дніпро
suspilne.media
January 7, 2026 at 9:17 PM
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Geen krant, radio of televisie die dit gaat vermelden
January 8, 2026 at 10:45 AM
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Oh great. That'd be two cumulative and largely irreversible problems reinforcing each other, through plankton. Reduce plastic waste, and reduce greenhouse gas emissions.
www.independent.co.uk/climate-chan...
Microplastics are making it harder for oceans to absorb greenhouse gases, study warns
Researchers say tackling plastic pollution is now part of fight against global warming
www.independent.co.uk
January 7, 2026 at 10:07 PM
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Alles moet kapot. Ook eeuwenoude bossen. Waarom? Geen idee. #bbb Het is natuur, het kan kapot. Da moet het ook.
January 7, 2026 at 12:24 PM
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Trump does whatever he wants, Republicans in Congress claim that they are unaware of everything he’s doing. and 6 Supreme Court justices overturn every court decision.

The Republic is broken.
January 7, 2026 at 1:18 AM
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Nothing untrue here...
January 5, 2026 at 6:05 PM
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Help #NoWasteArmy om 913.000 kg groente te redden: koop wat voor jezelf of doneer iets aan de voedselbank:

nowastearmy.nl/winteractie/
January 6, 2026 at 11:59 AM
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Unhook ourselves from oil and gas and we unhook ourselves from dependency on dictators, autocrats and expansionist regimes all over the planet.
Renewables and other low-carbon energy sources are not just good climate sense. They are also good political sense.
January 6, 2026 at 5:04 PM