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Oca sapiens

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Sylvie Coyaud, retired science reporter, not sapiens yet.

601 Followers 309 Following 4,053 Posts Joined Jul 2024
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Antarctica has lost 10 times the size of Greater Los Angeles in ice over 30 years UC Irvine-led study used international and commercial satellites to measure glaciers

Poor Thwaites!
UC Irvine press release
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Thirty years of glacier grounding line retreat in Antarctica | PNAS The Grounding Line (GL)—the transition from ice grounded on the continent and ice afloat in the ocean—is a sensitive indicator of glacier stability...

#AGW

From 1992 to 2025, the Antarctic ice sheet has lost 12,820 square kilometers but "remained stable over more than 77% of its coastal length".

"The grounding line retreat was concentrated in the northeast and southwest of the Antarctic Peninsula".
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www.pnas.org/doi/10.1073/...

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4 hours ago

"Unlikely researchers"

Helpful criticism, imo, of the evidence they found for non-specific effects of #vaccines, not only in Guinea-Bissau

www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...

And not paywalled 🔽

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#braindrain

"The 36th First Annual Ig Nobel Prize Ceremony will take place in Zurich, Switzerland."

But @marcabrahams.mstdn.science.ap.brid.gy "emphasized that the Ig Nobel Prizes are not abandoning the USA". There'll be a Boston celebration three weeks later.

improbable.com/2026/03/10/t...

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#conservation

"With 78 nests, 247 eggs laid and 57 chicks hatched so far, the birds are on track to meet the milestone... 'It will be the biggest kākāpō breeding season we’ve had on record,' says Dr Andrew Digby [@digs.bsky.social]."

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#Libano

"Almeno 83 bambini"...

Ne parlano la responsabile di Action Aid e le donne di associazioni locali con le quali collaboriamo. Grazie a chi sostiene noi e altre Ong, come sempre, ma un altro modo di aiutarci è di parlarne anche voi.

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‘The cover-up is brazen’: one journalist’s tenacious, traumatic fight to expose Ghislaine Maxwell Lucia Osborne-Crowley has endured threats and sexual harassment to report on Jeffrey Epstein’s chief enabler. Maxwell’s conviction was only the start of the quest for justice, she says

#EpsteinFiles

"In November 2025, 28 Epstein survivors released a statement saying many of them had received death threats. They all asked for police protection.

With Epstein dead and Maxwell in jail, who was paying these men" to stalk them and the journalist they are in contact with?

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Not really, you were right and the DoJ was wrong!

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Epstein Files Reveal Name of Woman Who Accused Alexander Brothers

Well, they were connected to Epstein's files, but not to Epstein's crimes

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Oh, sorry again. It's not an urgent question!

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I wasn't clear, sorry.
I understand that before the transparency act, the Florida judge's unsealing would have violated "federal law" .

If so, could DoJ in 2021-24 have ordered judges to violate "federal law" and release the Epstein-related materials of Maxwell's ongoing cases?

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Jeffrey Epstein: US judge orders unsealing of grand jury records from abandoned case A similar request was rejected earlier this year, but a law passed by Congress last month overrides it.

Afaik, DoJ only released some Epstein files in Jan. 2024 because a Florida judge couldn't unseal previous FBI stuff before Congress approved the transparency act.

Could DoJ order the release materials used to prosecute Maxwell since March 2021, before SCOTUS denied her appeal in Oct. 2025?

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They did millennia ago & are still being murdered for it.

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#religiouswar

Pete Hegseth also "revels in carnage":

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Gaza: Palestinians tortured, summarily killed by Hamas forces during 2014 conflict Hamas forces carried out a brutal campaign of abductions, torture and unlawful killings against Palestinians accused of “collaborating” with Israel and others during Israel’s military offensive agains...

p.s. Hamas "special" agents' crimes against Gazans, see Amnesty's reports, e.g.🔽

Hamas civil administration fighting aid-looters' gang funded and armed by Netanyahu after Oct. 7, e.g. www.theguardian.com/world/2024/n...

Other sources on request.

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#zoonoses

"It’s much easier to avoid large predators than it is to avoid disease-carrying insects and parasites."

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2 days ago

Were it true, men would have understood millennia ago that patriarchy is bad for them too

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What we know about the strike on a school in Iran as the death toll rises Iranian authorities said at least 168 people, many of them children, were killed in the strike on Shajareh Tayyebeh elementary school in Minab.

According to Minab's mayor and a mother of the children, the RGCI base had been closed 15 years ago.

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Also Russia in Ukraine.

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It's the patriarchy argument, time for men to understand - like young Iranians do - that patriarchs kill their sons too.

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Shervin - Baraye | شروین - برای YouTube video by Shervin

Why would anyone hate a country or continent?
I'm sorry people elect sadistic patriarchs instead of supporting "Woman, Life, Freedom" everywhere.

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It's more useful to know some history and geography, imo, than to imagine them. For instance, "the West" has committed genocides in all continents but Antarctica-

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According to the present Israeli and American governments and their supporters, it is.

According to the rest of the world it isn't.

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You're free to support whoever you like.

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“Türkiye is the new Iran” - former Israeli PM’s claim: election rhetoric or real policy shift? YouTube video by Strait Talk

Well, US ambassador to Israel Huckabee said the whole Middle East if God given land to Jews, and former Israeli PM Naftali Bennett said Turkey is "a threat to Israel" etc...

Trump might be willing to help annihilate it, just after taking over Cuba...

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3 days ago

Do you really believe Israel and the US never had proxies?

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3 days ago
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Arab–Israeli conflict - Wikipedia

Jewish terrorist organizations started attacking Arab countries a century ago, as Hannah Arendt, Albert Einstein and Holocaust survivors explained in Dec. 1948
www.marxists.org/reference/ar...

Brief history here:

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IDF has been attacking Palestine and Arab states hosting Palestinian refugees' camps for nearly 80 years.

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No need for a conspiracy. We can all listen to Netanyahu - a person, not a country - explaining live on tv why he funded and armed them.

Netanyahu isn't behind "all evil in the world". Have you ever heard of a country called Sudan?

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Israel admits support for anti-Hamas armed group accused of looting Gaza aid Israeli officials have acknowledged supporting an armed group opposed to Hamas in Gaza after opposition lawmaker Avigdor Lieberman said Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu's government was arming "crimi...

Just tell the Isis-linked "tribe" of drug-traffickers & aid-looters funded and armed by Netanyahu since 2024, I'm sure they'll obey you.

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