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👋 Heading to #CSW70 with #ODIHR!

I’m happy to share that Tea JaliashviliTea, First Deputy Director, Yulia Netesova, Chief of Democratic Governance and Gender Unit, and I will be in New York as part of @odihr.pl delegation for the 70th session of the CSW. 🧵 1/10

tichodrome en chasse dans une fissure

A revolving door to the absurd and brilliant portal into the housings of monsters, hobbits, ... and twats.

"The suppression of women in language and law occurs in several forms: by replacing sex-specific language with neutral language; by reinterpreting sex-specific language to refer to gender identity rather than sex; and by referring to females in dehumanizing, biologically
reductive terms" (2/2)

I am so sick and tired of this Orwellian nightmare.
As stated in the report by the UN Special Rapporteur, @unsrvaw.bsky.social , the constitutes a suppression of women in language and law.
www.ohchr.org/en/documents... : (1/2)

Still wondering how this species survive in the wild.. 😅

BGE is coming to an end, but don't worry: we have amazing news!✨

BGE+, heir to BGE, has been selected for funding 🥳💥
BGE+ aims to build a #biodiversity #genomics infrastructure in #Europe. 💪
Want to know more about what that entails?
👉 biodiversitygenomics.eu/2026/02/16/b...

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World Biodiversity Forum
14-19 June 2026 - Davos, Switzerland @worldbioforum.bsky.social
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Three months to halt Ebola: how the DRC contained the virus In a remote part of the Democratic Republic of the Congo, people are breathing easy again, after vaccines from the global stockpile helped squash a potentially catastrophic outbreak.

Last September, the DRC suffered from its 16th outbreak of Ebola. Rapid international coordination, including shipment of vaccines from the global stockpile, helped bring the epidemic under control before it swelled to epidemic proportions: bit.ly/3OwTC5j

“Courts have concluded that the #PrecautionaryPrinciple must be respected when there is scientific uncertainty about how to effectively prevent significant or irreversible harm to the environment and to human health of present and future generations, as in the case of #DeepSeabedMining"
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I also struggle with this concept. A mother’s milk changes over time in composition to best support an infant’s development. This is also taken into account in age-adjusted formula for children who are not breastfed. Has this aspect been taken into account in this human experiment with a newborn?

Halbierungs-Initiative - NEIN !!!

Die Stimmbeteiligung bei der Anti-SRG-Initiative ist tief! Das darf nicht sein, denn es geht um nichts Geringeres als den Erhalt der unabhängigen Medien. Wenn nur jene an die Urne gehen, die die SRG kaputtmachen wollen, verlieren wir.

A yellow and black striped salamander in moist foliage

1) 💡 Seeking inspo for your Graduate Researchers Award nomination? 👀

Using open access occurrence records from GBIF, 2022 GRA winner Armand Rausell-Moreno led research to investigate whether environmental data combined with predictive modelling can reveal hidden diversity within species.
@gbif.es

Taliban’s New Penal Code Codifies Violence, Obedience and Gender Apartheid A sweeping decree concentrates Taliban power, criminalizes dissent and strips Afghan women and girls of autonomy, safety and legal rights.

A sweeping 119-article decree concentrates absolute power in Taliban courts while criminalizing dissent, authorizing corporal punishment and further stripping Afghan women and girls of autonomy, safety and legal protection.
msmagazine.com/2026/02/24/t...

Diverse database and machine learning model to narrow the generalization gap in RNA structure prediction Length matters—secondary structures of long, diverse RNAs in RNAndria and deep learning model eFold improve prediction accuracy.

Exciting new work from the Rouskin Lab out at @science.org
If you are interested in RNA structure and machine learning, you should probably read it..

Nuevo paper del Rouskin lab!
Si te interesa la estructura de ARN y machine learning, no te lo pierdas..

www.science.org/doi/10.1126/...

Gute Neuigkeiten, die Krebs-präventive Impfung gegen Humanes Papillomavirus (HPV) wirk!! Sie senkt sigifikant das Risiko an Gebärmutterhalskrebs zu erkranken. Der Schutz hält bis zu 18 Jahre an und die Impfung wirkt am stärksten, wenn sie vor dem 17. Lebensjahr erfolgt.

A Women's History Month montage in a grid layoutof pioneering women across STEM, education, science advocacy, and related fields. The portraits are primarily black-and-white or vintage-style photographs, celebrating trailblazers whose work advanced scientific discovery, engineering, computing, astrophysics, civil rights through education, and more. Top row (left to right): Gladys West, mathematician and educator whose modeling of Earth's shape contributed to the development of GPS technology; Jocelyn Bell Burnell, astrophysicist who discovered pulsars; Eleanor Roosevelt, humanitarian, First Lady; Chien-Shiung Wu, experimental physicist who disproved parity conservation. Middle row (left to right): Edith Clarke, pioneering electrical engineer, the first woman to earn an electrical engineering degree from MIT; Grace Hopper, computer scientist, mathematician, and U.S. Navy rear admiral who developed the first compiler; Marie Curie, two-time Nobel Prize winner in Physics and Chemistry for her groundbreaking work on radioactivity; Pearl Buck, Nobel Prize in Literature. Bottom row (left to right): Rosalind Franklin, chemist and X-ray crystallographer whose Photo 51 was essential to understanding the double-helix structure of DNA; Septima Clark, educator and civil rights leader; Rita Levi-Montalcini, Nobel Prize-winning neurologist who co-discovered nerve growth factor (NGF); Gabriela Mistral, poet, educator, diplomat, and Nobel Prize winner in Literature. #WomenInSceince #WomenInSTEM

𝘐𝘧 𝘐 𝘩𝘢𝘷𝘦 𝘴𝘦𝘦𝘯 𝘧𝘶𝘳𝘵𝘩𝘦𝘳 𝘪𝘵 𝘪𝘴 𝘣𝘺 𝘴𝘵𝘢𝘯𝘥𝘪𝘯𝘨 𝘰𝘯 𝘵𝘩𝘦 𝘴𝘩𝘰𝘶𝘭𝘥𝘦𝘳𝘴 𝘰𝘧 𝘨𝘪𝘢𝘯𝘵𝘴. ~Newton

Women's History Month starts Sunday. #celebrate #WHM

An almost arrogantly brilliant thread that opens the doors to looking at, and through, old gates in the alt texts, including those of Owl’s Men and long-time residents.

Posttranslational modifications are an amazing regulatory mechanism!

Und wenn dann tatsächlich durch die Anwendung der hautreizenden und allergieauslösdenden Produkte Ausschläge und Allergien entstehen, werden die Impfungen und anderen wirksamen Gesundheitsmassnahmen zugeschrieben und Pseudomedizin verkauft um die Symptome zu behandeln.

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Well, avoiding an evil click- and rage-bait algorithm exposing women to deepfake porn and online abuse through gender-specific forms of insults and threats, in addition to being a platform that shifts people's views to the right, seems a pretty good idea to me.

Das sind die Konsequenzen von subakuter sklerosierender Panenzephalitis, einer seltenen Komplikation von #Masern. Wenn es immer mehr Fälle von Masern gibt, werden auch seltene Komplikationen wieder häufiger. #ImpfenSchützt #Vaccinate

Sehr lesenswert: Frauen in der Öffentlichkeit sind automatisch gefährdet Hass abzubekommen und es gibt typisch geschlechtsspezifische Beleidigungs-und Bedrohungsformen. Im Digital Services Act der EU wird geschlechtsspezifische Gewalt zwar als strukturelles Risiko angesehen, aber gemacht wird wenig.

Of course, just like anybody else! No such map here, though, but we do have quite a few squirrels, a badger, and a hare around the house. Last spring, a squirrel even lived in our house for two weeks after it was accidentally locked in (it survived at the expense of our houseplants).

15 States Sue H.H.S. Over Revisions to Vaccine Schedule

Breaking: Aiming to reverse recent changes to federal vaccine recommendations, 15 states led by Democrats announced on Tuesday that they were suing the Trump administration.

Gift link: www.nytimes.com/2026/02/24/h...

Important front page coverage of Russian war crimes in Ukraine from the international edition of the New York Times this weekend. Russia engages in routine and large-scale sexual violence against Ukrainian prisoners and the civilian population

Many of us knew and repeatedly warned that russian occupiers will perpetrate systemic sexual violence against Ukrainian women and girls. Meanwhile, many leading international feminists argued against providing military aid to Ukraine, effectively undermining Ukrainian women’s defence against rape

The fossa (Cryptoprocta ferox) is what arrives when you order a puma off of Wish.

They're the largest apex predator on Madagascar, where they act to control the local lemur population.

They're the 'big cat' equivalent in family Eupleridae, which is a sister taxon to the mongoose family.

Metabolic quiescence of naive-like memory T cells precedes and maintains antigen-specific T cell memory - Nature Immunology Schober and colleagues show that effector CD8+ T cells undergo metabolic shutdown, CD8+ central memory T cells are the most metabolically active, and naive-like memory T cells are quiescent during the...

New work from our lab, hot off the press in Nature Immunology (@natureportfolio.nature.com)!

How do human T cell responses diversify — and how does this lead to durable protection after vaccination?

Paper: www.nature.com/articles/s41...

Press release: www.fau.eu/2026/02/news...

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