Thomas Krueger

Gold has overtaken the U.S. Dollar as the largest Global Reserve Asset 🚨🚨🚨

A bigger picture | HIFMB Oldenburg We research the sea and its function for humans and the environment.

The HIFMB seeks a postdoc for coral population genomics and conservation genetics. Candidates with a PhD in related fields and skills in programming are encouraged to apply. More info: https://hifmb.de/ #postdoc

White House tweet with Trump walking with a penguin toward a Greenland flag

The hazards of failing first-year biology: you invade the wrong pole.

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We interrupt the madness for a note from the rational world And an encouraging one, at that!

India is on a very different development pathway from China, industrialising using modern renewables, put to work through electrification, particularly home grown solar. Proud to have supported this. billmckibben.substack.com/p/we-interru...

The marine conservation group @hifmb.de is looking for a postdoc and a Phd student to study coral genomics and conservation genetics. Join us to develop solutions for coral conservation and dive into the world of early branching metazoans: Deadlines coming up fast. jobs.awi.de/Vacancies/21...

I am starting to think the FIFA 'peace prize' was not justified at all 😂😂

“It is midnight within the moral order … The most inspiring word … is that no midnight long remains.

“Our eternal message of hope is that dawn will come.”

'Those without sin should throw the first tax return' 😂😂

“.. Qatar, Saudi Arabia, Oman and Egypt, all partners of Washington, have also been asking the Trump administration not to attack Iran .. They have told the Americans that a U.S. attack could lead to a wider regional conflict.”

@nytimes.com
www.nytimes.com/2026/01/15/u...

Orthographic map showing 2-m air temperature anomalies in December 2025 relative to a 1981-2010 baseline. This visualization shows North and South America. Most areas are warmer than average, except for Alaska and Canada.

Orthographic map showing 2-m air temperature anomalies in December 2025 relative to a 1981-2010 baseline using ERA5 data. This visualization shows Africa, Europe, and western Asia. Most areas are warmer than average, except parts of Siberia and India.

Orthographic map showing 2-m air temperature anomalies in December 2025 relative to a 1981-2010 baseline using ERA5 data. This visualization shows Australia, Antarctica, and Asia. Most areas are warmer than average, except for parts of Australia and India.

December 2025 was the 5th warmest December on record globally. This month was about 1.42°C above the 1850-1900 pre-industrial average. Note the sharp temperature anomaly contrast across North America!

Summary of month from @copernicusecmwf.bsky.social: climate.copernicus.eu/surface-air-... 🌊🧪⚒️

EPA Will No Longer Consider Value of Human Health Benefits in Setting Air Pollution Rules The agency is abandoning a longstanding policy to calculate the monetary savings in avoided deaths and disease from cutting certain pollutants.

The EPA will no longer calculate the monetary value of saving human lives, among other health impacts, when setting new clean air rules. It quietly debuted this new approach in a version of a new final rule for power plant emissions published online last week.

www.bloomberg.com/news/article...

In a newly published paper, we find that in 2025 human emissions of greenhouse gases added around 23 billion trillion joules of heat to the world's oceans – 39 times as much as the annual energy produced by all human activity on Earth. link.springer.com/ar...

The Startup Making Human Embryos With AI-Assisted Robots Conceivable’s automated lab has helped bring 19 babies to life. Is it better at IVF than humans are?

A new robotic lab that makes human embryos using AI is now responsible for 19 babies. Is it better at IVF than humans are?

Country 9 in global oil reserves has invaded country 1 and arrested its president. Country 7 is under sanctions and its refineries are being destroyed. Country 2 is facing off with country 6. And there are riots in country 3. But oil is only $60/bbl. Maybe oil is not as critical as it used to be?

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I feel like I haven’t even been properly lied to about the purposes of this war

CATO INSTITUTE:

Despite DOGE slashing jobs, government spending in every month of 2025 “was greater than in every other year .. An observer who did not know when DOGE started could not identify it” on a chart. 🤡

www.cato.org/blog/doge-pr...

This is the full list of info the US is proposing to require from applicants for an ESTA (electronic travel authorisation) to secure visa-free travel to America. This would apply to every UK holidaymaker, conference attendee or businessperson. public-inspection.federalregister.gov/2025-22461.pdf

For over a decade, the UN Environment Assembly has brought together 193 countries to tackle the world’s most pressing environmental challenges.

Today, its mission is more crucial than ever.

The upcoming #UNEA7 is a key moment to deliver #ForPeopleForPlanet:

https://ow.ly/fk7350XBNff

European Union Reaches a Deal to Allow Gene Editing in Farming European Union negotiators reached a deal on new rules that pave the way for gene editing, a technique that will help farmers produce healthier animals and crops as they adjust to climate change.

European Union negotiators reached a deal on new rules that pave the way for gene editing, a technique that will help farmers produce healthier animals and crops as they adjust to climate change.

The World’s Plastic Glut Is Set to Get Much Worse by 2040, Study Finds A new analysis finds that global plastic production will increase by 52% in a business-as-usual scenario.

The amount of new plastic made globally is set to rise 52% by 2040, overwhelming waste management systems, according to a new Pew report.

New preprint! Really excited to share our spatial proteomic study on Plasmodium falciparum schizonts . We used hyperLOPIT to map thousands of proteins—from apical invasion organelles to the infected red blood cell surface.

Climate change postdoctoral fellowship (JRF, 3Y) opportunity at Oxford! 🌍 Brilliant opportunity for anybody with <2 years postdoc experience by October 2026. Would be great to get coral people - there's a strong cluster of coral reef/climate change people here. 🪸
www.queens.ox.ac.uk/vacancies/ju...

Press Freedom Is Under Fire Around the World A dispute between an English local council and the newspaper that covers it shows how press limits are spreading to places once thought immune.

Press restrictions were once the hallmark of autocracies. Now even democracies like the US and UK are imposing limits on journalists.

Europe's MSCA postdoctoral fellowships are now attracting many researchers who would have gone to the US. So the payline has dropped below 10% (~1,600 fellowships to 17k applicants). Super tough situation. One more reason to double the next Horizon budget, as proposed by the EU Commission.

UN Warns of Nuclear Escalation Risk After Trump Orders New Tests The United Nations said nuclear testing should never be permitted, giving a rare direct rebuke of the US after President Donald Trump ordered his administration to resume such tests after a 33-year moratorium.

The United Nations said nuclear testing should never be permitted, giving a rare direct rebuke of the US after President Donald Trump ordered his administration to resume such tests after a 33-year moratorium.

How Trump, Data Centers and Pricey Gas Are Fueling a US Coal Revival The US coal industry is having a good year. Demand for the dirtiest fossil fuel is increasing, utilities are running their plants harder, and miners are boosting production.

The US coal industry is having a good year as utilities look to keep the lights on and the growing fleet of AI data centers buzzing. Here's what to know.

Scripps Scientist Selected to Final Cohort of Moore Inventor Fellows Daniel Wangpraseurt, a marine biologist at UC San Diego’s Scripps Institution of Oceanography, is one of five scientist-inventors selected to the tenth and final cohort of Moore Inventor Fellows, an h...

🌊 Scripps Oceanography marine biologist Daniel Wangpraseurt has been named a 2025 Moore Inventor Fellow! He’s developing biomimetic materials like SNAP-X, a bioactive gel that mimics the 'smell' of healthy reefs, to boost coral recruitment and survival. 🪸 #MooreInventors @moorefound.bsky.social

EU Heads to New York With Bare Minimum as Climate Fight Wages On European Union leaders will turn up at the United Nations General Assembly in New York next week having failed again to deliver their climate homework on time.

EU leaders will turn up at the United Nations General Assembly in New York next week having failed again to deliver their climate homework on time.