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Ines Carvalho
@inesccarv.bsky.social
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Conservation biologist, ecology and conservation genetics 🌍🧬
cetaceans, science communication, ocean lover 🐬🐋🌊
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stephanielking.bsky.social
3 year postdoc funded by @ukri.org NERC on between-group cooperation in the Shark Bay dolphins is now live - please share widely 🙏 www.bristol.ac.uk/jobs/find/de...
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University of Bristol Beacon House Queens Road Bristol, BS8 1QU, UK Tel: +44 (0)117 928 9000 Contact us
www.bristol.ac.uk
November 10, 2025 at 9:43 AM
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erc.europa.eu
‘Academia under attack: action against anti democratic threats’

⏰ Today 1 PM

ERC President @marialep.bsky.social, @patrick-cramer.maxplanck.de, @dziblatt.bsky.social, Jens Martin Gurr, Anna-Sara Lind, Eva Ines Obergfell
falling-walls.com/programme/ac...

Tune in!🎥
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November 8, 2025 at 7:27 AM
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peaseroland.bsky.social
It's the end of the road for BBC Science in Action. But science itself is facing growing roadblocks. For this terminal edition of SinA I'm joined by @naomioreskes.bsky.social @drdebhoury.bsky.social @michaelemann.bsky.social & @angierasmussen.bsky.social for where now?

www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/w...
BBC World Service - Science In Action, How science got here, and where next
As anti-science leaves research reeling, does evidence-based policy have a future?
www.bbc.co.uk
October 30, 2025 at 7:23 PM
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brettmorr.is
This is how you incinerate a field of science. 🔭🧪
NASA is sinking its flagship science center during the government shutdown — and may be breaking the law in the process, critics say
"There is just a general acknowledgement that a lot of what is happening is illegal…"
www.space.com
November 6, 2025 at 2:39 AM
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weatherprof.bsky.social
Comparing the two most active natural cycles in the Atlantic (NOAA AMO chart at top) and the most recent period (now) still produces 2X more extreme hurricanes!!
1940-1970 vs 1995-2025
But wait. It’s not a fair comparison! Why?? … 1/
November 5, 2025 at 5:42 PM
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cyrilpedia.bsky.social
And not in a good way
'O anúncio do final de julho sobre a extinção da FCT e a sua fusão com a Agência Nacional de Inovação, numa nova Agência para a Investigação e Inovação, deixou incrédulos os que fazem e promovem ciência em Portugal todos os dias.'
@jorgepinto.bsky.social & Patrícia Gonçalves
Reformas, extinções e o Estado
A extinção da FCT e do ICNF não constavam do programa eleitoral da AD, nem do Programa do Governo, e não decorrem de qualquer estudo ou análise que pudesse justificar tão drástica decisão.
www.publico.pt
October 25, 2025 at 7:37 PM
inesccarv.bsky.social
O reforço do desinvestimento em Ciência share.google/FMTxHwIG10X0...
O reforço do desinvestimento em Ciência
É preciso deixar de favorecer com o pouco dinheiro que temos quem não devolve esse investimento. E é também preciso que se compreenda que sem ciência fundamental não há progresso científico.
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October 30, 2025 at 11:18 PM
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eeb.org
📢 Call for Tender
We’re commissioning digital media research on how deregulation and disinformation are undermining EU environmental laws.

Help us defend #nature and democracy online. 🌍

🗓️ Deadline: 11 Nov 2025
👉 More info: eeb.org/digital-medi...
#HandsOffNature #ItsOurNature
October 29, 2025 at 11:49 AM
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terc34.bsky.social
Afinal esta era a solução de Montenegro. O problema do SNS acaba se acabarmos com o SNS. Fácil.
October 29, 2025 at 8:03 AM
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kevinjkircher.com
As humans change the climate, largely by burning fossil fuels, the frequency and severity of weather disasters are rising. Climate Central now hosts the billion-dollar weather disaster database that the Trump administration took off NOAA's website.

www.climatecentral.org/climate-serv...
The history of billion-dollar disasters in the United States each year from 1980 to 2025, showing event type (colors), frequency (left-hand vertical axis), and cost (right-hand vertical axis) adjusted for inflation to 2025 dollars. The number and cost of disasters per year rise steadily from 2000 to today, with some noise.
October 26, 2025 at 9:09 AM
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whysharksmatter.bsky.social
AI chatbots are sycophants — researchers say it's harming science
AI chatbots are sycophants — researchers say it's harming science
Nature asked researchers who use artificial intelligence how its propensity for people-pleasing affects their work — and what they are doing to mitigate it.
www.nature.com
October 24, 2025 at 5:28 PM
inesccarv.bsky.social
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October 24, 2025 at 6:45 AM
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ibioconsultants.com
IUCN starts work on a comprehensive study of #BiodiversityHotspots worldwide 🌍

iucn.org/news/202510/...
Comprehensive update to the world’s biodiversity hotspots project begins
An international consortium today announced a major update to the world's biodiversity hotspots, funded by the Hempel Foundation. The two-year initiative aims to generate detailed scientific data to h...
iucn.org
October 23, 2025 at 1:46 PM
inesccarv.bsky.social
Really important paper about iberian killer whales! Great work of @ruthesteban.bsky.social and colleagues!
🐋🦭 #conservation #cetacean #killerwhale
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Demographic Parameters of Iberian Killer Whales Between 2011 and 2023
The Iberian killer whale subpopulation was assessed as critically endangered (CR) by the IUCN red list of threatened species based on the available information until 2011 on its low abundance, high n...
onlinelibrary.wiley.com
October 22, 2025 at 12:15 PM
inesccarv.bsky.social
October 22, 2025 at 9:38 AM
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October 21, 2025 at 9:08 PM
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newscientist.com
A report on the state of the climate has concluded coral reefs are on a knife-edge, even as the world shifts away from making good on net zero
We've hit a climate tipping point, but leaders seem unlikely to act
A report on the state of the climate has concluded coral reefs are on a knife-edge, even as the world shifts away from making good on net zero
www.newscientist.com
October 20, 2025 at 8:40 AM
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williamripple.bsky.social
Crazy weather. . . .
October 19, 2025 at 2:21 PM
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jonasnuts.bsky.social
A IA (do Google) está a causar quebras de tráfego em todos os sites. Qualquer empresa com presença online e olhos nos indicadores já deu por isto.

No caso da Wikipédia, é especialmente grave.

As pessoas ficam-se pelo primeiro resultado da pesquisa, gerado por IA, que nada garante ser verdadeiro.
emanuelmaiberg.bsky.social Emanuel Maiberg @emanuelmaiberg.bsky.social · 27d
wikipedia's data shows that AI is siphoning traffic away from the site, which is a danger to its sustainability. ironically Wikipedia is more important than ever to users who want reliable information instead of slop, and to AI companies that need it for training data www.404media.co/wikipedia-sa...
Wikipedia Says AI Is Causing a Dangerous Decline in Human Visitors
“With fewer visits to Wikipedia, fewer volunteers may grow and enrich the content, and fewer individual donors may support this work.”
www.404media.co
October 17, 2025 at 6:17 AM
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atrupar.com
Chris Murphy: "This is a country that's falling apart because Trump is in the middle of an authoritarian takeover. We're not on the verge of an authoritarian takeover. We're in the middle of it ... I have no moral obligation to vote for a budget that literally funds the destruction of our democracy"
October 16, 2025 at 7:10 PM
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cyrilpedia.bsky.social
For maximum enjoyment put on '(Dont Fear) The Reaper' while you read this:

'A maioria dos investigadores do Departamento de Genética Humana do Instituto Nacional de Saúde Ricardo Jorge tem mais de 50 anos, pondo em risco a continuidade da investigação sobre doenças genéticas e cancros hereditários'
Departamento de Genética Humana em risco de continuidade por falta de renovação dos colaboradores
A maior parte dos colaboradores tem mais de 50 anos, alerta o responsável daquele departamento do Instituto Nacional de Saúde Dr. Ricardo Jorge. O problema é maior na Citogenética Clássica.
www.publico.pt
October 16, 2025 at 12:30 PM
inesccarv.bsky.social
The Portuguese government wants to dismantle the National Institute for Nature Conservation (ICNF)! It has already dissolved the National Science Foundation (FCT)! There are many similarities with something we know all too well here... #conservation #EU
www.publico.pt/2025/10/14/a...
Há preocupação e incerteza sobre fim do Instituto da Conservação da Natureza e Florestas
Ministério do Ambiente e Energia não confirma que há planos para redistribuir funções do ICNF pela Agência Portuguesa do Ambiente e pelas CCDR. “É impensável”, diz a Zero.
www.publico.pt
October 15, 2025 at 3:36 PM
inesccarv.bsky.social
1° foi a ciência, agora a conservação da natureza! A seguir todos os passos do tio Sam! 🤯🤯🤯
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Há preocupação e incerteza sobre fim do Instituto da Conservação da Natureza e Florestas
Ministério do Ambiente e Energia não confirma que há planos para redistribuir funções do ICNF pela Agência Portuguesa do Ambiente e pelas CCDR. “É impensável”, diz a Zero.
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October 15, 2025 at 3:19 PM
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rahmstorf.bsky.social
High resolution images from satellite and from eddy-resolving ocean circulation models point to an ongoing decline of the Atlantic overturning circulation, a key ocean current for our climate. Read more about it in my new blog article. 🌊
www.realclimate.org/index.php/ar...
RealClimate: High-resolution ‘fingerprint’ images reveal a weakening Atlantic Ocean circulation (AMOC)
The #AMOC is the reason for Europe’s mild climate. Evidence that it is slowing has been piling up over the years – it now is likely at its weakest in at least a millennium, and it may even be approach...
www.realclimate.org
October 12, 2025 at 11:15 AM
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premnsikka.bsky.social
UK Universities cut 12,000 jobs, more on the way.

40% of Unis in financial crisis.

Major exporter destroyed by successive govts

Obstacles for foreign students.
Low fees in England, lack of govt funding.
£267bn student debt.
Home student numbers down.

How will the UK compete with other nations?
Thousands more university jobs cut as financial crisis deepens
University workers will vote on national strike action this month over a 1.4% pay offer made in the summer.
www.bbc.co.uk
October 10, 2025 at 6:27 AM