Israel Temprano

Yesterday we had a combined group meeting, coinciding with Juan José Parajó visiting our group #LISTE at #CICA (Centro Interdisciplinar de Química e Bioloxía).
It was the first time we had a group meeting with both teams at the University of Cambridge & Universidade da Coruña together.
It was fun!

The global number of maternal deaths has more than halved. Line chart titled "Estimated annual number of women who die from maternal conditions," showing a steady decline in estimated annual maternal deaths worldwide from about 625,000 in 1985 to about 260,000 in 2023, with a small uptick around 2020 due to the COVID-19 pandemic before falling again. Data source: World Health Organization - Global Health Observatory (2025). Chart licensed CC BY to Our World in Data.

Maternal deaths have more than halved in the last forty years

A chart in three parts showing data on child mortality to make the points that "The world is awful. The world is much better. The world can be much better. All three statements are true at the same time."

The world is awful. The world is much better. The world can be much better.

All three statements are true at the same time. Understanding this is key to solving big global problems.

We believe data & research can help us understand both the problems we face & the progress that’s possible. 🧵

The image presents a comparison of the leading causes of death in the United States for 2023 and the media coverage these causes receive from three news outlets: The New York Times, The Washington Post, and Fox News. In the footer, it notes the data sources, indicating that the information is based on media mentions from Media Cloud (2025) and death data from the US CDC (2025) and the Global Terrorism Index, with a clarification that values are normalized to sum to 100%.

Does the news reflect what we die from?

Plans progress for floating hydrogen facility off Welsh coast Plans for a pioneering project to produce green hydrogen in the Celtic Sea have advanced. The Milford Haven: Hydrogen Kingdom (MH:HK) initiative will use a combination of offshore wind power and elect...

Today's #HydrogenSoufflé is brought to you from the future. Yes, this project is so dumb I can break news of its failure even before it's happened. Innovate UK and Swansea are supporting a project to use floating offshore wind to make green hydrogen. Taxpayers, rise up!
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With only four months of the year still to report, I estimate that 2025 will be either the second (~33% chance) or third (~66% chance) warmest year on record. There is effectively zero chance that it will set a new record or be lower than the third warmest at this point.

People in my life are probably tired of how often I'm excitedly saying, "No...you don't understand....this is happening much faster than expected...people don't know what's happening!"

Sure, and I really enjoyed Wil Wheaton´s read of the The Collapsing Empire trilogy... but there´s something special about the author´s voicing the novel

EV revolution is sweeping the globe, bypassing North America and gently touching Europe.

Any chance of you reading the audiobooks?

The Polestar 3 Just Set A New Range Record The electric crossover drove a lot more than its official EPA rating.

Polestar 3 sets a Guinness World Record for longest drive by a production electric SUV—581.3 mi (935.4 km) on one charge. Achieved in the UK with a single-motor RWD model at 12.1 kWh/100 km. It’s the SUV champ, though the Lucid Air sedan still holds the overall EV record at 749 mi (1,205 km). #EVs

BASF Battery Materials and CATL sign a framework agreement for cathode active materials BASF and Contemporary Amperex Technology Co., Ltd. (CATL) have signed a framework agreement for cathode active materials. Under the agreement, BASF will cooperate with CATL on a global scale. CATL has...

BASF Battery Materials and CATL sign a framework agreement for cathode active materials

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Is that Sushi??

Valve boss Gabe Newell made a $9.5 billion net worth off everything from Steam to Half-Life and Portal, but he says his success all comes down to "luck" and "great people" It's all about "having the roll of the dice" go his way

It's always nice when very successful people acknowledge how much of their success comes down to luck, ie, the things that fall your way that you personally had no control over.

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O CiMUS recibe o selo María de Maeztu: "É un fito histórico para a biomedicina galega" O Centro Singular obtén 3 millóns de euros para impulsar a atracción de talento, a colaboración internacional e a transferencia clínica

💥 Excelencia científica con selo galego! O @cimususc.bsky.social recibe o selo de Excelencia María de Maeztu

🚀 3 millóns de euros para atraer talento, avanzar en terapias e consolidarse como referente europeo en investigación biomédica

ALCHEMY!

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La UDC y Resonac impulsan la transición energética A través de una cátedra, la empresa y la universidad han unido fuerzas para producir en Galicia un grafito más limpio y eficiente para baterías de litio UNIVERSIDAD Y EMPRESAS

www.lavozdegalicia.es/noticia/merc...

Finding out that one of my favorite sci-fi writes also enjoys pie... one of those delightful moments in life

LISTE 2025 !

(part of)

T3XE32 - LABORATORIO LISTE RESONAC UDC Onda ODS · Episode

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“Fires in electric vehicles are up to 20 times less likely than in conventional internal combustion vehicles”

statistics show that fires in electric vehicles are up to 20 times less likely than in internal combustion engine vehicles. Still, when they do occur, they tend to receive disproportionate media attention, often leading to an unfair perception of risk 👏👏
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#weareresonac #sparkingtruth #university #energytransition #graphite… | RESONAC - Graphite Business Unit This month, we welcomed to our A Coruña plant a group of students from the Universidade da Coruña, working in the LISTE-Resonac Laboratory, in collaboration with the Sparking Truth Chair - an alliance...

Our group´s visit to RESONAC´s plant in A Coruña was great fun and very informative, thanks a lot to all the production, batteries and communication teams for a great experience!!

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Lessons from Spain Last month's Spain/Portugal power cut has shone a powerful light (ha ha) on grid resilience. TLDR: Renewables were not to blame - but how they were integrated into the grid might have been, in part.

Lessons from the Iberian power cut from the great @mliebreich.bsky.social

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This would be of great interest to some of us in Coruña too!!

Could this be the biggest climate story of the year?

For the first time on record, China's emissions are falling due to clean energy growth, not slow power demand

Full analysis + outlook by Lauri Myllyvirta:

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The Energy Systems Research Group (LISTE) welcomes Expressions of Interest from outstanding PhD-holders in #EnergyStorage to apply for #MSCA European Postdoctoral Fellowships and pursue their research in A Coruña.

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@cicaudc.bsky.social @udc.gal

#batteries

Prólogo de un libro de Cálculo de 1914. Parece un conjunto de idioteces, pero las ideas que expone son pedagógicamente muy avanzadas.
El título también merece consideración...
Mi respeto al Prof. Silvanus P. Thomson, debió ser todo un personaje...
El libro sigue en uso 111 ediciones despues.

Interested in #BatteryInnovation ?

PhD studentship available at @cambridgeuni.bsky.social with Clare Grey and myself funded by #ALISTORE-ERI in collaboration with Arnaud Demortière at #LRCS and Elixabete Ayerbe at #CIDETEC !
Apply here: www.jobs.cam.ac.uk/job/50602/ !!