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Anders Lanzén

@lanzen.bsky.social

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Human, scientist, euskaldun berri, purveyor of philosophical subtleties, associate professor at IKERBASQUE / AZTI interested in marine microorganisms great and small, planktonic or benthic, biomonitoring, climate change and coastal pollution.

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Anders Lanzén @lanzen.bsky.social · Jun 27

Short video about what we do in the MicroMon project hosted in @azti.bsky.social (funded by Spanish govt. and EU) with estuary microbial communities, their global biogeography, interactions, effects of environmental impacts, and their use in eDNA-based monitoring.

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MICROMON: DNA from micro-organisms to monitor the health of estuarine ecosystems

YouTube video by AZTI

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elDiario.es @eldiario.es · 2h

Huelga general del 15 de octubre y paros parciales contra el genocidio en Gaza: cuál es su objetivo, cuándo empieza y quiénes pueden participar

Este miércoles hay convocadas dos huelgas a nivel nacional: una de paros de dos horas en los tres turnos de trabajo (mañana, tarde y noche) y otra de huelga general de 24 horas. Ambas afectan a todo e...

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rahaeli @rahaeli.bsky.social · 2h

Holy shit, and also, great blessings upon the family of the human recipient mentioned in the article for allowing their loved one with no remaining brain activity to be a test candidate to determine if their body would reject a treated kidney.

Glen 🇨🇦 part owner of Canada* @honestcanadian.bsky.social · 19h

This is huge news!
UBC has developed an enzyme that can convert donor organs to type O, making them universal.
Normally a using organs of the wrong blood type causes the recipient's immune system to attack the organ, leading to failure.
❤️🇨🇦⚕️
news.ubc.ca/2025/10/univ...

UBC enzyme technology clears first human test toward universal donor organs for transplantation - UBC News

UBC-developed enzymes successfully converted a kidney to universal type O for transplant, marking a major step toward faster, more compatible organ donations.

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Anders Lanzén @lanzen.bsky.social · 2h

Man kan bara hoppas att dessa ord kommer kännas poetiskt rättvisa den dagen en lynchmobb kommer för Trump och hans nazibödlar, för att återupprätta någon sorts demokrati eller iaf kasta ut parasiterna

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Alexandra Urisman Otto @alexandrauo.bsky.social · 2h

”Om Israel med hela världens uppmärksamhet kan behandla en välkänd, vit person med svenskt pass på det här sättet, tänk då bara på vad de gör mot palestinier i det dolda.” Greta Thunberg berättar om tortyren i israeliskt fängelse, den som ministern Ber-Gvir skrutit om att han själv beordrat.

”De sparkade på mig varje gång flaggan nuddade mitt ansikte”

Greta Thunberg om skräckdygnen i israeliskt fängelse Slag, sparkar och hot om att gasas i burar. Greta Thunberg och flera andra ur flottiljen berättar nu detalj

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Anders Lanzén @lanzen.bsky.social · 13h

Som halvnorsk själv så vill jag helst svara nej och inte diskutera frågan närmre 😅

Anders Lanzén @lanzen.bsky.social · 14h

Det är symbolpolitik - de tror sig vinna väljare på att visa att de avskyr miljöpolitik, hållbarhet, tåg och liknande (och har tyvärr antagligen rätt). Den genomsnittliga svensken tycker väl i sitt djupa inre att "miljö - dåligt, kärnkraft, CO2, flygplan, stira törstiga bilar - bra" ungefär.

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Klimatgranskaren @klimatgranskaren.se · 19h

Sommaren 2026 avslutar SJ all internationell nattågstrafik efter att regeringen stryper finansieringen. Anslaget på 95 miljoner motsvarar statens årliga förlust för Bromma flygplats.

Bromma flygplats blöder lika mycket som SJ:s nattåg till Tyskland kostar

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ryan cooper @ryanlcooper.com · 7d

more and more I am convinced a good share of why Trump 2 is so much worse than before is because of what Elon did to Twitter. it's like those group chats where people gassed themselves up to join ISIS, scaled up a millionfold

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Anders Lanzén @lanzen.bsky.social · 15h

The lesson will soon enough be learned by the rest of the world, to never, ever trust an American, do business with its regime or companies.

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Amanda Katz @katzish.bsky.social · 17h

Unbelievable story of Afghan refugee, a highly vetted fluent English speaker who helped the US against the Taliban and now lives here with his US citizen kids, declared “illegal” and perhaps about to be shipped home by the Trump admin to his likely death

The Washington Post @washingtonpost.com · 17h

He supported America’s war, escaped Afghanistan and started a family in the U.S.

Then ICE arrested him.

If he is deported, he expects the Taliban to kill him.

America saved him from the Taliban. Trump wants to send him back.

He supported America’s war, escaped Afghanistan and started a family in the U.S. Then ICE arrested him. If he is deported, he expects the Taliban to kill him.

www.washingtonpost.com

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Cameron Thrash @jcamthrash.bsky.social · 15h

Microbial oxidation significantly reduces methane export from global groundwaters www.pnas.org/doi/abs/10.1... #jcampubs

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Anders Lanzén @lanzen.bsky.social · 15h

Shunned isn't good enough. Obviously, the death sentence exists for a reason.

Anders Lanzén @lanzen.bsky.social · 15h

Så hon så? Trodde det var utvisning direkt på liknande. Visar att hon har obefi tlig vandel och inte passar in i det svenska samhället. Kan Ryssland, USA, Israel eller någon annan fasciststat tänkas ta emot henne?

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Owen Jones @owenjones.bsky.social · 1d

Israel violates the ceasefire - and threatens more genocidal violence.

New post 👇

www.owenjones.news/p/israel-vio...

Israel violates ceasefire, threatens more violence

Palestinians in Gaza are celebrating - but danger remains

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Bruce Wilson @brucewilson.bsky.social · 15h

The deal didn't last long. But this is hardly surprising.

Marisa Kabas @marisakabas.bsky.social · 16h

"a test"? you mean...a violation?

AP: Israel plans to halve aid into Gaza over slow return of dead hostages, a test for the Gaza ceasefire

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EccoMi! @skigirlid.bsky.social · 16h

Wait, so Israel isn’t abiding by the terms of the ceasefire? Color me shocked!

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Joel S. @joelhs.bsky.social · 15h

This is not really about Hamas violating the terms of the ceasefire. This is just collective punishment of the people of Gaza. And the fact that Israel is still doing this is a big part of why people are not celebrating the ceasefire just yet.

The Associated Press @apnews.com · 16h

BREAKING: Israel plans to halve aid into Gaza, accusing Hamas of violating ceasefire with slow release of dead hostages, AP sources say.

Israel plans to halve aid into Gaza over slow return of dead hostages, a test for the Gaza ceasefire

The tenuous ceasefire in the two-year Israel-Hamas war is being tested as complex issues remain a day after widespread jubilation over the return to Israel of the last 20 living hostages held in Gaza and the release of hundreds of Palestinian prisoners in exchange.

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David Roberts @volts.wtf · 16h

"The richest man in the world and the owner of the most influential social media site in US politics is a nazi who openly supports and amplifies other nazis" would, on its face, seem to be rather newsworthy!

Will Stancil @whstancil.bsky.social · 16h

Hey news people: I know you like to pretend this doesn't exist, but you need to pay attention to the Nazi drama on Twitter. Basically, it seems as if Elon just restored two major neo-Nazi accounts that were banned by his product head, and might be about to fire the product head for banning them

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Sebastian S. Cocioba @atinygreencell.bsky.social · 1d

"DNA synthesis is solved"
"We can just print any sequence"
"Biology and biotech are solved fields"
"Sequence-agnostic synthesis is on the horizon"

*plant introns enter the chat*

Humbug.

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Anders Lanzén @lanzen.bsky.social · 1d

Begins?

Anders Lanzén @lanzen.bsky.social · 1d

Bästa beskrivningen av LinkedIn jag hört

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Mehdi Hasan @mehdirhasan.bsky.social · 1d

* Over 20,000 Palestinians killed since January
* 100s starved to death, including kids
* Congress bypassed to send more & more bombs to Israel
* US citizens murdered in the West Bank

I hope this ceasefire holds & I am glad the hostages are free, but this is Trump’s *actual record* so far.

Matt Novak @paleofuture.bsky.social · 1d

Just in case the dramatically low Leni Riefenstahl-style angle was too subtle, they used a word from her most famous movie

Time magazine cover featuring a photo of Trump from a dramatically low angle

HIS
TRIUMPH
by ERIC CORTELLESSA
THE LEADER ISRAEL NEEDED
by EHUD BARAK
HOW GAZA HEALS

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Per Kringberg @kriper.bsky.social · 1d

"Rädslan är instrumentell, ett sätt att framställa rörelsen som farlig."
Vilka jävla skitpolitiker vi har.

Leonidas Aretakis @aretakis.bsky.social · 1d

”Att inte säga pip när främmande makt griper en svensk parlamentariker på internationellt vatten är inte alls normalt, inte det minsta statsmannamässigt och ingår inte i svensk politisk tradition. Det är tvärtom extremt ur varje jämförelsepunkt.”

Bra av @verdinelli.bsky.social:

Greta-hatet har blivit regeringsstrategi

Cecilia Verdinelli: Hatet mot Greta är ett nytt politiskt språk

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bleary @bleary.off-the-records.com · 1d

If anyone needs me I will be in the museum, lying down next to the bog bodies.

Did people really memorize phone numbers before cell phones, or is that just a movie thing?
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I was watching some old shows from the 90s and noticed people would just dial numbers from memory - like they'd call their friends or family without looking anything up.
Made me wonder if that was actually normal back then? Did people genuinely have all their important numbers memorized, or did most folks keep a little address book or written list nearby?

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Anders Lanzén @lanzen.bsky.social · 1d

Exactly. They have no legal authority to harras, kill and torture people, regardless of whether those targeted are asylum seekers, immigrants with or without legal papers, or citizens. So, they are technically terrorists, organised criminals. But the law is rarely important in de facto dictatorships

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