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2025! The traditional end-of-year collage! Available as a 1000 piece jigsaw, limited edition art prints and tea towels!
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Outrageous Guardian article that epitomises the morally bankrupt, incessant drift towards fascism of a caricature of a Labour government.

Britain’s Prime Minister: “hey guys, can we please relinquish human rights and act more callously, because i am unable (or can’t be bothered) to produce any decent/moral political action to counteract extreme fascism?”

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YouTube video by MethodsEcolEvol MEE live! DNA Divers: low-tech solutions for accessible eDNA science and monitoring

The latest MEE LIVE! has dropped!
If you missed the event, you can all learn about #DNADivers here!
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Dedham church displays ‘ICE was here’ sign at nativity scene without Jesus, Mary, and Joseph - The Boston Globe “You feed the hungry, you take care of the homeless ... you take care of people and their needs,” said Father Stephen Josoma. “[ICE raids] are the complete antithesis of that on so many levels.”

www.bostonglobe.com/2025/12/03/m...

Le CNRS s’émancipe du Web of Science À partir du 1er janvier 2026, le CNRS coupera l’accès à l’une des plus importantes bases bibliométriques commerciales : le

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Silence is Complicity

Overnight, an Israeli strike turned my family's home in Gaza into a graveyard I woke up to news that a missile hit my parents' house and killed nine family members awaiting evacuation, leaving me with a guilt so deep it feels as if they survived and I did not

Overnight, an Israeli strike turned my family's home in Gaza into a graveyard - https://www.middleeasteye.net/opinion/overnight-israeli-strike-turned-my-familys-home-gaza-graveyard

Israeli strikes on Syria kill at least nine, including two children A deadly Israeli incursion in Beit Jinn has displaced families and injured several Israeli soldiers

Israeli strikes on Syria kill at least nine, including two children - https://www.middleeasteye.net/news/israeli-strikes-syria-kill-least-nine-including-two-children

Israeli forces execute two surrendered Palestinians at point-blank range Video footage shows men in Jenin unarmed and complying before soldiers open fire

West Bank: Israeli forces execute two Palestinians at point-blank range - https://www.middleeasteye.net/news/west-bank-israeli-forces-execute-two-palestinians-point-blank-range

Very pertinent analogy

Is that really “tool use”?
They just learn that there is stuff to eat and pull the rope. They didn’t pick a tool in the first place, to obtain food/advantages…

What Israel is doing, relentlessly, is a stain on humanity as a whole. Wherever we are, whatever we do, we must speak out against it and do anything in our power to distance ourselves from and hinder that unthinkable horror.

This is such a shame. I have several papers there and it served a niche. Ugh. Between STOTEN and ESPR, the contaminants space is decreasing in publishing options

The Greens are winning the support of around half of 18 to 24 year olds.

Reform are on 5%. So much for young people's turn to the right!

And the Young Greens now have 40,000 members - the biggest youth and students wing in British politics

So, what we used to say, jokingly, when we were kids, is true?
“Scottish people are nicer than English people”?

This is horrid from @royalsociety.org
Why???

Mesopelagic Fish and Cephalopods in the Diet of Rorquals (Balaenoptera spp.) and Sperm Whales (Physeter macrocephalus) Around the Azores Using Fecal and Environmental DNA Rorquals and sperm whales are top predators of complex open ocean food webs and, although mesopelagic fish and cephalopods are predated upon by these cetaceans, the contribution of these prey groups ....

Cool study coming out @naiarare.bsky.social ‘s lab - shedding light on the feeding of leviathans!
#metabarcoding #whale
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🦑 On Dec 3 at 3pm ET/12pm PT come learn our new Ocean Biodiversity portfolio. This is an invitation to the start of a conversation - with communities - about how ocean biodiversity shows up in your life. Register: zoom.us/webinar/regi...

It’s always been a rather hideous tory hardline vector of moral vacuity, tbf…

Biofilms in water hoses on board fishing vessels? — Francisco Blaha In the past, I worked a lot on the safety of seafood in fisheries. When a fish is on deck, it is no longer just a fish; it has turned into food, and as such, there is a whole universe of rules, c...

In the past, I worked a lot on the seafood safety side of fisheries. When a fish is on deck, it is no longer just a fish; it has turned into food, and as such, there is a whole universe of rules, compliance, and operations that go along with it.
www.franciscoblaha.info/blog/2025/11...

We keep promises!
Our #metaprobe #DNADivers event is open for registration:
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AI is literally destroying tiktok.
Or, should I say, tiktok is AI-suiciding itself.

Sorry - just saw the ALT text. Never mind

Great shot. Where was this taken?

A metaprobe device, used to sample environmental DNA

If there is anything that you always wanted to know about the #metaprobe but were afraid to ask,
Mark your diary: THURSDAY 27 NOVEMBER!
More news soon…
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Never lower the attention.
Never forget the gross infamy that our taxes are funding, relentlessly.

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As if they’ll take heed…

Al Jazeera documentary reveals new evidence in Hind Rajab family’s killing Al Jazeera documentary uncovers new evidence in killings of Hind Rajab, her family and rescue team in Gaza City.

www.aljazeera.com/news/2025/10...