Ina Vandebroek

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Fiere Puerto Ricaan en forse Trump-criticus: maak kennis met rapper Bad Bunny, halftime act op Super Bowl | VRT NWS: nieuws Komende nacht zijn miljoenen ogen gericht op de Puerto Ricaanse rapper Bad Bunny. Hij speelt als eerste Spaanstalige artiest solo de prestigieuze halftime show, het pauzeconcert tijdens de Super Bowl....

Bad Bunny around the world ❤️❤️❤️ Fiere Puerto Ricaan en forse Trump-criticus: maak kennis met rapper Bad Bunny, halftime act op Super Bowl
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YouTube video by WELI WELI - Kangaroo Time (Club Edit) - Overall Dance Your PhD 2024 Winner!

A fantastic video and the winner of “Dance your PhD” that I keep revisiting over the years. youtu.be/RoSYO3fApEc?...

Call for proposals for NGOs and CSOs protecting nature under threat | IUCN NL The IUCN NL Land Acquisition Fund calls on local conservation NGOs and CSOs worldwide to submit proposals to acquire threatened nature, create safe reserves, and connect habitats for endangered specie...

www.iucn.nl/en/news/call...

Abstract submissions for our 2026 meeting in Montpellier are now OPEN! ethnobotany.org/home/meeting...

Did you miss the deadline to nominate yourself or a friend for our student committee positions? If so, now is your chance! Nominations deadline has been EXTENDED to February 7th!

Mangroves provide:

🪵 wood
🦀 food
💊 medicines
... & are essential for the nutrition & food security of millions.

🤔 But what exactly are they?

#WorldWetlandsDay

A taste of the Med in Brussels: The family-run supermarket where foodies go to fill their boots A supermarket built from the ground up by Syrian immigrants has grown into one of Brussels’ best-loved culinary landmarks.

www.brusselstimes.com/1946547/a-ta...

YouTube video by The Late Show with Stephen Colbert "Join ICE" - Jesse Welles (LIVE on The Late Show)

Jesse Welles -Join Ice
….
Well, I failed the academy, the cops weren't havin' me
The Army didn't sound that fun
So I found me a paramilitary operation
That was keen to hand me a gun
….

youtu.be/61I4hlig78w?...

An advance look at the cover for next week’s issue: “Targeted,” by Till Lauer.

Your friends are still acting like everything is normal in America. What do you do? All Americans live in a “dual state.” Here’s what that means — and how to help others see it.

www.vox.com/future-perfe...

State of the World's Plants and Fungi Symposium Join international experts to explore the digitisation of herbarium and fungarium collections, including its applications and implications.

Travel Bursaries available for selected countries

Thank you, Jamaica 🇯🇲🙏🏽
I feel honoured and proud to be recognised as an awardee in the Faculty of Science and Technology at The University of the West Indies.
Oriens Ex Occidente Lux — a light rising from the West.
UWI Mona continues to be an inspiring academic home.

not sure how you define “praise”. No European felt “praised”. The felt shocked, bewildered, belittled and insulted.

2026 GBIF Graduate Researchers Award call for nominations Deadline for GBIF Participant countries to nominate graduate students whose innovative research relies on biodiversity data: **Friday 29 May 2026**

www.gbif.org/news/2qFpkI7...

Europe has five options for responding to Trump’s Greenland threats. None of them look good The UK and Europe need a new strategy.

theconversation.com/europe-has-f...

Trump Administration Orders USDA Employees to Investigate Foreign Researchers They Work With The new directive asks workers to check the backgrounds of foreign nationals collaborating with the department’s scientists for evidence of “subversive or criminal activity.” Their names are being sen...

www.propublica.org/article/trum...

The Caribbean island where locals can't access the beach Famous for its white sand and gin-coloured waters, Jamaica is the quintessential Caribbean beach destination. But less than 1% of the island's coastline is accessible to residents.

www.bbc.com/travel/artic...

This is figure 1, which shows the locations and types of 45 forest biodiversity experiments covering 72 sites globally.

Forest biodiversity experiments test how species diversity affects forest ecosystem functioning. A Review in Nature Reviews Biodiversity discusses key findings from these experiments and puts them into context with observational studies from forests. go.nature.com/4sEQkfZ 🔒

I salute Professor Dan Moerman, anthropologist and ethnobotanist. You will be missed, Dan, but never forgotten. Sleep in peace. Thank you for your contributions.

Es un gran honor que nuestro trabajo esté representado en inglés y en español en el Fourth World Journal, y poder llamar la atención sobre la salud de las mujeres y las creencias y prácticas de salud de las mujeres haitianas: fwj.cwis.org/index.php/fw...

It’s such an honour to have our work represented in English and Spanish in the Fourth World Journal and to be able to call attention to women’s health and Haitian women’s health beliefs and practices: fwj.cwis.org/index.php/fw...

The New Yorker today

With every extinction, we lose not just a species but a treasure trove of knowledge Every new extinction ripples out beyond the affected species, from ecosystems to human knowledge across culture, spirituality and science.

theconversation.com/with-every-e...

Trump Officials Celebrated With Cake After Slashing Aid. Then People Died of Cholera. Behind closed doors in Washington, top advisers made a series of decisions that had devastating repercussions for the poorest country on earth. We went to South Sudan and found people who died as a re...

By the time Tor Top’s mother was sick with cholera, the nearby clinic had been shuttered for two weeks.

He bundled her into a rented canoe and paddled toward the nearest hospital, eight hours away.

Less than halfway into the journey, his mother died.

“These men risked their lives to speak with us. We have a moral and professional obligation to the sources who entrusted us with their
stories. Abandoning them now is a betrayal of the most basic tenet of journalism: giving voice to the voiceless.”

#Eurovision claims to stand for justice and solidarity. Until it actually does, I’m out. #Eurovision2026

An image of two bonobos sitting in the grass next to a stream. Overlay text reads “1 million species of plants and animals at risk of extinction. - IPBES Global Assessment”

In 2019, IPBES #GlobalAssessment est. 1 million species of plants & animals are threatened with extinction.🥀

The figure is probably even higher, but what's important is the urgent need for #biodiversity preservation!

https://www.ipbes.net/global-assessment

‘We need to rethink how we approach biodiversity’: an interview with IPCC ecologist and ‘refugee scientist’ Camille Parmesan An ecologist at the IPCC for over 25 years, Camille Parmesan, who is also a refugee scientist, explains how to preserve biodiversity on a warming planet.

theconversation.com/we-need-to-r...