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Vegard Eldholm @vehuardo.bsky.social · 16h

Hungary is the worlds first illiberal semi-autocratic solar-powered regime 🎉

Nicolas Fulghum @nicolasfulghum.bsky.social · 1d

NEW @ember-energy.org report out today | Renewables now produce more electricity than coal worldwide ⚡️

Renewables produced 5,072 TWh (34.4% share) in the first half of 2025 overtaking coal for the first time which stood at 4,896 TWh (33.1%.)

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zauberberg.bsky.social @zauberberg.bsky.social · 2d

A7A5 was developed by A7, a company owned by Ilan Shor and the Russian state-owned lender Promsvyazbank, which was sanctioned by the UK, the EU and the US in 2022.
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Beefeater Fella @beefeaterfella.bsky.social · 2d

EU has proposed imposing sanctions on A7A5, a ruble-backed stablecoin tied to sanctioned Russian actors, - Bloomberg

The sanctions will prohibit any engagement by EU-based entities in transactions involving the token and target several banks for enabling crypto-related transactions.

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🪖MilitaryNewsUA🇺🇦 @militarynewsua.bsky.social · 4d

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Vegard Eldholm @vehuardo.bsky.social · 9d

Og til info, eg elskar heimfylket (Sogn og Fjordane), og finn ingen glede i å pisse på bygdenorge, eg blir faktisk oppriktig trist.

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Vegard Eldholm @vehuardo.bsky.social · 9d

Og styggare blir dei. Når ein i tillegg bygger alt av næringsbygg i varehusform 16 km utanfor sentrum døyr jo alt. Og så så forstår ein ikkje kvifor folk ikkje flyttar dit frå byen når ein kan få seg bykaffi på næringsparken. 2/2

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Vegard Eldholm @vehuardo.bsky.social · 9d

Hovedproblemet er kanskje at vi har null byggekultur eller respekt for kompetanse i landet. Bygder har mykje (billeg) areal, og måker opp nye platetekka bygg over ein låg sko. Sidan alt nytt generelt er stygt er bygdene stygge. 1/2

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Vegard Eldholm @vehuardo.bsky.social · 9d

haha sant

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WuTangIsForTheChildren @wutangforchildren.bsky.social · 10d

Facts….they’re just snatching up anyone that’s brown don’t even care if they’re legal or not

Skeet Child O' Mine @furiosity.bsky.social · 10d

The scary part is that if ole boy was half a second slower on his bike, he could have wound up in South Sudan.

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SAINT JAVELIN @saintjavelin.bsky.social · 9d

This result is absolutely fucking golden. Moldova’s elections just showed how pro-European forces (PAS, the party of Maia Sandu) completely wiped the floor with Dodon’s pro-russian bloc.

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Alex Andreou @sturdyalex.bsky.social · 11d

How is this not front page news?

www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...

Reform UK's ex-Wales leader Nathan Gill admits pro-Russia bribery

Nathan Gill admits eight charges of bribery while being a Member of the European Parliament.

www.bbc.co.uk

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Conor Feehily @sligomicrobe.bsky.social · 12d

This is what happens when you chose to publish with @microbiologysociety.org. You are building the future of microbiology and giving a start to some incredible new scientists.

Microbiology Society @microbiologysociety.org · 22d

Meet the Vacation Studentship 2025 grant awardees 🤩! We loved receiving these photos! When you publish with us, we have the funds to continue supporting Early Career Microbiologists in developing their knowledge and skills.

A graphic with photos of Early Career Microbiologist during their lab-time during the Vacation Studentship, which is a grant provided by the Microbiology Society. In the photos people are smiling.

A lot of photos on the screen of individuals working in the lab.

Another page of photos on the screen of individuals working in the lab.

The last page is text explaining how publishing revenue supports the Society to give grants to Early Career Microbiologists.

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Vegard Eldholm @vehuardo.bsky.social · 12d

True! But not a good fit for people who prefer a couple of chat bots to review their paper and for the proceedings to be shuttled away to a bank account on Cayman Island

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Zamin Iqbal @zaminiqbal.bsky.social · 13d

Delighted to see our paper studying the evolution of plasmids over the last 100 years, now out! Years of work by Adrian Cazares, also Nick Thomson @sangerinstitute.bsky.social - this version much improved over the preprint. Final version should be open access, apols.
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Vegard Eldholm @vehuardo.bsky.social · 16d

If nothing else, current affairs are taking the sting out of my imposter syndrome

Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 16d

Trump: "Hepatitis B again, that's sexually transmitted, and I think you should wait until12. You know, I'm making these statements from me. I'm not making them from these doctors ... I talk about a lot of common sense."

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Roman Sheremeta @rshereme.bsky.social · 16d

Prague using street names to troll russian embassy.

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Vegard Eldholm @vehuardo.bsky.social · 17d

I love and admire Donald Trump’s intuitive grasp of maths

Carl T. Bergstrom @carlbergstrom.com · 18d

Our mistake when we wrote _Calling Bullshit_ was to assume that people would deliberately abuse the flexibility of quantitative metrics to mislead.

We devoted inadequate attention to people making up complete and utter nonsense with no possible grounding in fact.

Trump Says He Will Get Drug Prices Down By 500% To 1500%

ByBruce Y. Lee,

Senior Contributor.
Bruce Y. Lee,

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Vegard Eldholm @vehuardo.bsky.social · 18d

Smart people are a threat to autocrats. Every dictatorship ever has put a leash on academics and thinkers.
If he succeeds, of course the US will become worse and poorer along every metric, but that’s a price they are willing to pay for the kleptocrats to be safe and sound.. and still rich

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Ming Tommy Tang @tommytang.bsky.social · 19d

1/ Want to ruin your analysis in one move?
Ignore the biology behind the data.
Let me show you why that mistake keeps happening.

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Vegard Eldholm @vehuardo.bsky.social · 19d

Le Chat - ‘the French chatgpt’ is great!
Give it a try and help Europe build AI autonomy as a bonus

mistral.ai/products/le-...

Le Chat enterprise AI assistant | Mistral AI

Deploy AI agents, get answers from enterprise knowledge, and create and analyze securely with le Chat — your enterprise AI assistant.

mistral.ai

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Vegard Eldholm @vehuardo.bsky.social · 20d

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NOELREPORTS @noelreports.com · 20d

Aberbaijan and Albania.

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Marit Hetland @genomarit.bsky.social · 22d

Thrilled to share this preprint on Klebsiella pneumoniae plasmids in a One Health setting 🦠 Fantastic work by @twinkler.bsky.social! 🎉 @irenlohr.bsky.social @margaretlam.bsky.social

bioRxiv Microbiology @biorxiv-microbiol.bsky.social · 24d

A One Health study of Klebsiella pneumoniae species complex plasmids shows a highly diverse and ecologically adaptable plasmidome https://www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1101/2025.09.14.676155v1

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John Lees @bacpop.org · 21d

The EMBL PhD programme is open until 13th October (entry ~Sep 2026):
www.embl.org/about/info/e...

We have three positions in microbial genomics at EMBL-EBI, including one in my group. Please do apply, or if you know anyone that would be interested pass on to them

EMBL International PhD Programme – Unique in the world and waiting for you!

www.embl.org

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Vegard Eldholm @vehuardo.bsky.social · 22d

Yet another attempt from the US to avoid challenging Russia, at any cost.

(That said, Hungary and Slovakia should be forced to stop buying Russian hydrocarbons)

Euromaidan Press @euromaidanpress.bsky.social · 22d

US Treasury Secretary believes the war in Ukraine could end in 60 or 90 days—but only if Europe takes decisive action — Reuters.

Scott Bessent said that European countries must impose substantial secondary tariffs on nations buying Russian oil, specifically targeting China and India.
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Vegard Eldholm @vehuardo.bsky.social · 22d

It should have been the person in Microsoft changing the CTR F into a command for «make bold face» on Norwegian keyboards dying, but life isn’t fair

Trina McMahon @quendi.bsky.social · 22d

Larry Tesler, inventor of the cut, copy, and paste commands, dies at 74

Chris Geidner @chrisgeidner.bsky.social · 23d

Larry Tesler, inventor of the cut, copy, and paste commands, dies at 74

Vegard Eldholm @vehuardo.bsky.social · 23d

So sorry to hear this. The CDC has been a role model for the generation and sharing of gonorrhea data. I know Trump & crew really couldn’t care less, and I guess I’m not really surprised. But it’s a blow nonetheless