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Fabrizio Scarpa

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Academic at Uni Bristol ๐Ÿด๓ ง๓ ข๓ ฅ๓ ฎ๓ ง๓ ฟ FRAeS ERC work on #metamaterials and #biobased #materials. Love for history, geopolitics and climate. Banner shows a 2D metamaterial. Links: ibit.ly/b_Dsn and ibit.ly/MuO03 Personal opinions, etc ... ๐Ÿงชโš™๏ธ๐Ÿค–๐Ÿ‘พโ™ป๏ธ๐Ÿšคโœˆ๏ธ๐Ÿ‹๏ธโ€โ™€๏ธ๐Ÿ›๐Ÿˆ

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Not for long, if it keeps on like this:

bsky.app/profile/chem...

04.08.2025 17:29 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 0    ๐Ÿ” 0    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 0    ๐Ÿ“Œ 0
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It starts with a twist. One arm pretzels in on itself. Then another... and another...

Before long, the arms detach and crawl away zombielike

By the end, the starfish is nothing more than a puddle of goo (1/3)

04.08.2025 16:51 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 10    ๐Ÿ” 6    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 1    ๐Ÿ“Œ 1

From the Pedant Corner: "civetta" is Italian female for owl, and you are quite correct about the verb "civettare". The male counterpart "owl" generates the verb "gufare", which means simply spreading bad luck around.

04.08.2025 17:05 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 2    ๐Ÿ” 0    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 1    ๐Ÿ“Œ 0

Weaker laws on chemical safety, anyone? No? Can't tempt you?

The government's fetish for slashing red tape continues.

On today's menu:
1. More biocides in rivers
2. More secrecy around decision making

Off the menu:
adopting the EU's new ban on hormone disrupting chemicals in children's toys

01.08.2025 09:05 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 65    ๐Ÿ” 51    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 4    ๐Ÿ“Œ 0
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"It's all mine KAREN!" ๐Ÿ˜…๐Ÿคฃ #cat #catday #bluesky

04.08.2025 11:25 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 4568    ๐Ÿ” 515    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 139    ๐Ÿ“Œ 54

11,000 ppl watching Argentine scientists explore the Atlantic 3,700 meters down. If you join them you'll annoy Javier Miliei so get on it...

04.08.2025 12:38 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 7    ๐Ÿ” 4    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 1    ๐Ÿ“Œ 4
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Immigrants are leaving the US workforce in very large numbers.

Remittance payments USโ†’MX plummeting, down 2+ million from a year ago.

Biggest decline in >30 years - a period that includes a homebuilding depression and a 100-year financial crisis.

03.08.2025 22:16 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 352    ๐Ÿ” 133    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 18    ๐Ÿ“Œ 16
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A campaign years in the making is now just 10% off reaching its target - but will the RNLI welcome 'The Flying Farage' to its fleet?

04.08.2025 09:47 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 41    ๐Ÿ” 14    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 18    ๐Ÿ“Œ 1

A truly disastrous performance, for performance is what it is.

The recitation of stock โ€œlines to takeโ€, the acceptance of racist mobs as being the โ€œauthentic voice of the peopleโ€, the inability to engage with the presenterโ€™s challenge save through rote repetition.

This is very dangerous indeed

04.08.2025 07:26 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 34    ๐Ÿ” 17    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 2    ๐Ÿ“Œ 0

The Times has now become the S*^% for people in suits

04.08.2025 09:44 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 4    ๐Ÿ” 0    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 0    ๐Ÿ“Œ 0
Stocks of DeepMind Platform Co, Ltd have recently taken a big hit after sudden climb.

Stocks of DeepMind Platform Co, Ltd have recently taken a big hit after sudden climb.

CEO of company with stocks in deep dive talking big about his business shocker

04.08.2025 06:42 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 5    ๐Ÿ” 1    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 0    ๐Ÿ“Œ 0
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At 17, Hannah Cairo Solved a Major Math Mystery | Quanta Magazine After finding the homeschooling life confining, the teen petitioned her way into a graduate class at Berkeley, where she ended up disproving a 40-year-old conjecture.

Earlier this year, a 17-year-old high school student named Hannah Cairo solved a 40-year-old mystery about how waves behave, surprising and exciting mathematicians. @kevinhartnett.bsky.social reports: www.quantamagazine.org/at-17-hannah...

01.08.2025 14:14 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 272    ๐Ÿ” 105    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 4    ๐Ÿ“Œ 22

I just went to see 2000 metres to Andriivka ๐Ÿ‡บ๐Ÿ‡ฆA masterpiece. Eerie. Nightmarish. Soul-searching. Must be watched.

03.08.2025 14:00 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 1    ๐Ÿ” 0    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 0    ๐Ÿ“Œ 0
Fig. 6. Net-available annual biomass for the different types of bio-based materials, calculated as mean value for the period 2020-2050. Top left: straw, top right: round wood, bottom left: cork, bottom right: hemp.

Fig. 6. Net-available annual biomass for the different types of bio-based materials, calculated as mean value for the period 2020-2050. Top left: straw, top right: round wood, bottom left: cork, bottom right: hemp.

...While timber and straw can be considered abundant for necessary EU renovations and buildings, cork and hemp will be playing a role but the supply is a bottle neck.
www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...

19.02.2025 08:45 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 7    ๐Ÿ” 3    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 2    ๐Ÿ“Œ 2

Cork is a miracle material. I can understand to an extent why rich and famous people don't live in luxurious straw, wood, mud houses, even though it's stupid not to do so when you have the opportunity (health, environmental benefits). But why don't they use something as noble and durable as cork?

03.08.2025 06:52 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 32    ๐Ÿ” 6    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 3    ๐Ÿ“Œ 1
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Israeli Settler Kills Palestinian Activist Included in Oscar-Winning Documentary Awdah Hathaleen, whose work was featured in the Oscar-winning documentary โ€œNo Other Land,โ€ was shot dead. The suspect had been subject to U.S. sanctions, but President Trump lifted them.

Awdah Hathaleen, a well-known Palestinian activist whose work was featured in the Oscar-winning documentary โ€œNo Other Land,โ€ was shot and killed by an Israeli settler in the West Bank, according to witnesses.

29.07.2025 16:55 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 140    ๐Ÿ” 94    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 20    ๐Ÿ“Œ 10

Shutting down PBS and building Versailles

01.08.2025 17:38 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 653    ๐Ÿ” 176    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 3    ๐Ÿ“Œ 10
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Language on immigration in UK news and politics found to have โ€˜shaped backlash against antiracismโ€™ Pattern of โ€˜hostile languageโ€™ in media and debates likely to describe people of colour with less sympathy, report says

Very significant report.

And the Labour politicians and the BBC are failing us.

www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2025...

02.08.2025 09:03 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 9    ๐Ÿ” 4    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 1    ๐Ÿ“Œ 1
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Crime and the perception of crime: @jburnmurdoch.ft.com via @stephenkb.bsky.social www.ft.com/content/9623...

01.08.2025 19:10 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 369    ๐Ÿ” 165    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 25    ๐Ÿ“Œ 36
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The Corporation for Public Broadcasting, which has distributed federal funds to both PBS and NPR for decades, announced Friday that it's shutting down.

The news comes after President Donald Trump recently clawed back more than a billion dollars of funding for public broadcasting.

01.08.2025 23:26 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 486    ๐Ÿ” 252    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 61    ๐Ÿ“Œ 62

Sorry, I hate it with my guts. We may agree to disagree on this ...

02.08.2025 14:52 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 1    ๐Ÿ” 0    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 0    ๐Ÿ“Œ 0
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โ€˜Self-termination is most likelyโ€™: the history and future of societal collapse An epic analysis of 5,000 years of civilisation argues that a global collapse is coming unless inequality is vanquished

โ€œBut even if you donโ€™t have hope, it doesnโ€™t really matter. This is about defiance. Itโ€™s about doing the right thing, fighting for democracy and for people to not be exploited.โ€ Luke Kemp, on his new book Goliathโ€™s Curse.
www.theguardian.com/environment/...

02.08.2025 08:17 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 297    ๐Ÿ” 89    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 9    ๐Ÿ“Œ 14

If you want a weird but true fact to talk about:

Dexter Holland, lead singer of The Offspring, was instrumental in this. His doctorial thesis in molecular biology was sequencing mRNA in HIV. The paper was also heavily cited in creating the COVID-19 vaccine.

01.08.2025 13:53 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 12000    ๐Ÿ” 4742    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 166    ๐Ÿ“Œ 558
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The other day, I visited an exhibition that left me speechless.
It shows women who lost their sons and husbands in the war.

Iโ€™m sharing part of it with a poem that played during the video.
I added English subtitles. For you.

Please watch. And share. So others can see too.

01.08.2025 18:18 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 455    ๐Ÿ” 183    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 36    ๐Ÿ“Œ 21
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New types of engineered wood are ready for building sites New ways are being found to make wood even stronger and more versatile in construction.

NEW: I wrote about engineered wood! Including a new, ultra strong version.

Using more timber in construction - rather than concrete and steel - could help reduce the carbon footprint on buildings.

(Am happy that my editor used my headline, at the top of the article!)

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

01.08.2025 07:39 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 59    ๐Ÿ” 20    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 6    ๐Ÿ“Œ 2
I was just informed that our Countryโ€™s โ€œJobs Numbersโ€ are being produced by a Biden Appointee, Dr. Erika McEntarfer, the Commissioner of Labor Statistics, who faked the Jobs Numbers before the Election to try and boost Kamalaโ€™s chances of Victory. This is the same Bureau of Labor Statistics that overstated the Jobs Growth in March 2024 by approximately 818,000 and, then again, right before the 2024 Presidential Election, in August and September, by 112,000. These were Records โ€” No one can be that wrong? We need accurate Jobs Numbers. I have directed my Team to fire this Biden Political Appointee, IMMEDIATELY. She will be replaced with someone much more competent and qualified. Important numbers like this must be fair and accurate, they canโ€™t be manipulated for political purposes. McEntarfer said there were only 73,000 Jobs added (a shock!) but, more importantly, that a major mistake was made by them, 258,000 Jobs downward, in the prior two months. Similar things happened in the first part of the year, always to the negative. The Economy is BOOMING under โ€œTRUMPโ€ despite a Fed that also plays games, this time with Interest Rates, where they lowered them twice, and substantially, just before the Presidential Election, I assume in the hopes of getting โ€œKamalaโ€ elected โ€“ How did that work out? Jerome โ€œToo Lateโ€ Powell should also be put โ€œout to pasture.โ€ Thank you for your attention to this matter!

I was just informed that our Countryโ€™s โ€œJobs Numbersโ€ are being produced by a Biden Appointee, Dr. Erika McEntarfer, the Commissioner of Labor Statistics, who faked the Jobs Numbers before the Election to try and boost Kamalaโ€™s chances of Victory. This is the same Bureau of Labor Statistics that overstated the Jobs Growth in March 2024 by approximately 818,000 and, then again, right before the 2024 Presidential Election, in August and September, by 112,000. These were Records โ€” No one can be that wrong? We need accurate Jobs Numbers. I have directed my Team to fire this Biden Political Appointee, IMMEDIATELY. She will be replaced with someone much more competent and qualified. Important numbers like this must be fair and accurate, they canโ€™t be manipulated for political purposes. McEntarfer said there were only 73,000 Jobs added (a shock!) but, more importantly, that a major mistake was made by them, 258,000 Jobs downward, in the prior two months. Similar things happened in the first part of the year, always to the negative. The Economy is BOOMING under โ€œTRUMPโ€ despite a Fed that also plays games, this time with Interest Rates, where they lowered them twice, and substantially, just before the Presidential Election, I assume in the hopes of getting โ€œKamalaโ€ elected โ€“ How did that work out? Jerome โ€œToo Lateโ€ Powell should also be put โ€œout to pasture.โ€ Thank you for your attention to this matter!

Unquestionably the most dangerous and corrupt attack on the independence of US economic data in American history. Trump is firing the head of the BLS, a longtime civil servant confirmed 86-8 by the Senate, simply because the job numbers came in below his expectations today

01.08.2025 18:25 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 5160    ๐Ÿ” 1739    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 274    ๐Ÿ“Œ 247

A culture war distraction while the sector burns. Shoestring statism, combined with Blue Labour's aversion to higher education for the masses, is a deadly combination.

01.08.2025 17:09 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 0    ๐Ÿ” 0    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 0    ๐Ÿ“Œ 0
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Pizza theorem - Wikipedia

Fun facts: the Pizza theorem ๐Ÿ• states that if Alice and Bob cut a pizza in 4k slices (for kโ‰ฅ2) and take alternating slices, they'll get the same amount even if the cutting wasn't centered.

It was proven by Upton in 1968.

Before that, nobody knew how to cut pizza.
en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pizza_t...

31.07.2025 21:40 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 61    ๐Ÿ” 13    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 3    ๐Ÿ“Œ 0
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Blue whales are going eerily silentโ€”and scientists say itโ€™s a warning sign A six-year study off Californiaโ€™s coast shows how marine heat waves and noise pollution are silencing the oceanโ€™s largest singers. Does saving the ocean start with hearing it?

A slow-burning environmental disaster: โ€œAs prey became scarce, blue whale vocalisations dropped by nearly 40% alongside a collapse in krill and anchovy populations.
โ€˜Itโ€™s like trying to sing while you're starving,โ€™ Ryan adds. โ€˜They were spending all their time just trying to find food.โ€™โ€

31.07.2025 12:59 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 548    ๐Ÿ” 294    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 39    ๐Ÿ“Œ 25
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Legendary filmmaker David Cronenberg: 'Technology is not alien โ€“ itโ€™s completely human'

In The Shrouds, cult director David Cronenberg examines grief while asking questions about technology and human connection.

31.07.2025 17:20 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 1    ๐Ÿ” 1    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 0    ๐Ÿ“Œ 0

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