Alexandra Marques

[Andrea Perino, PhD @DrAndreaPerino]

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[PBL English @nlenvironagency]

Nature underpins the production of agricultural commodities worldwide. A new paper examines how to link the contribution of a pollinizing insect in a tropical country to the chocolate bar that is being consumed by you or me in Europe. https://t.co/m78izMpNim
@ap_s_marques

[iDiv Biodiversity Research @idiv]

@antoniojcastro @ap_s_marques @NynkeSchulp @IPBES @PECS_Project @YESS_Network And here is our press release: https://t.co/CLydVnnoZs

[iDiv Biodiversity Research @idiv]

Foods such as cocoa would not exist without the various services nature provides (e.g. pollination). A new approach has been developed to quantify the dependency of international #trade and #Nature’s contributions to people: https://t.co/CLydVnnoZs @UFZ_de @UniJena @ap_s_marques

[Alexandra Marques @ap_s_marques]

@hmlfpereira @idiv @UniHalle @CIBIO_InBIO Ao cool!

[NaturaConnect @NaturaConnect]

🌿 What an amazing first day of NaturaConnect Annual Partners meeting! More than 50 colleagues gathered this year! 🌿 Rich discussions on the project's scientific work and plans for next year. More info 👉 https://t.co/Gl5EaFDljf. More updates on Day 2 tmrw. #HorizonEU

[alberto_orgiazzi @lultimoalbero]

In 9 yrs (2009-2018) 🇪🇺 soils have lost 0.75% carbon, a new @EU_ScienceHub study reveals➡️https://t.co/MwuKR8NkSM

We are not properly managing soil to fight climate change!

For this, the @EU_Commission proposal for a soil monitoring law is key➡️https://t.co/cQ02LTdUy2

[Alexandra-Maria Klein @naturealexk]

Great observations of honeybees stealing pollen of flower-visiting wild bee species.

[Prof. Stefan Rahmstorf 🌏 🦣 @rahmstorf]

The world has seen some shocking weather extremes in the last few months, which were already about 1.5 C above preindustrial.
But “we ain’t seen nothing yet”, as explained in our new commentary (open access): https://t.co/6u6A5F93Z7

[Ariel Brunner🇺🇦 #Xdissenter @ArielBrunner]

France is already imitating this "Japanese whaling" trick.
@VSinkevicius please go to court before #RuleofLaw become a joke in more countries.

[Copernicus EU @CopernicusEU]

¡Hola #España! 🇪🇸 ¿Todo bien?
Olá #Portugal! 🇵🇹 Tudo bem?
¡Hola #Andorra! 🇦🇩 ¿Tot bé?

⬇️On 25 September, #Copernicus #Sentinel3🇪🇺🛰️ acquired this stunning image of the Iberian Peninsula from an altitude of 814.5 km

[Piero Visconti @pvisconbio]

Come work with us at @NaturaConnect with the fantastic @CIBIO_InBIO team. More on our work here https://t.co/6lWkbvwDqB

[BAMBOO @BAMBOOHorizonEU]

Introducing #BAMBOO Work Package 2! The goal of this WP is to quantify the impacts of trade in non-food biomass on #ecosystemfunction. It includes developing new ways to assess the impacts of trade on ecosystem functions and identifying the most important drivers of change.

[Henrique Pereira @hmlfpereira]

We have just update our 8-year @GBIF camera-trap dataset on #PNPG mammals to our most recent observations (2023). #opendata It's available to all and documented in a data paper in @BioDataJournal. https://t.co/AT9wX9YmCC

[UN Biodiversity @UNBiodiversity]

The UN passed a resolution recognising that clean and healthy ecosystems, biological diversity, and a stable climate are fundamental to human life and dignity. 🇺🇳🌿

What are the implications of the resolution? ➡️

Via @unepwcmc

https://t.co/MQ8yJjUQCJ

[ipbes @IPBES]

#Biodiversity loss & #ClimateChange:

🌐Are driven by human economic activities
🤝Reinforce each other
🌏Increasingly threaten nature, human lives, livelihoods & well-being worldwide

Neither will be resolved unless both are tackled together.

🎥@UNDP

[Peter Verburg 🌳 @peterverburg11]

This is why I joined @SR_Netherlands . The science is not taken seriously, the consequences ignored. Although I do not like to be an activist, we as scientists should speak out louder and louder. We are on the wrong trajectory, fossil subsidies should stop! Now!

[Mariësse van Sluisveld @marieyesse]

Ester van der Voet @UniLeiden explains why #circular #economy is a "cake we can eat and keep too" : showcasing @nlenvironagency commissioned studies to map the Dutch urban mine! #ISIE2023

Find publications here (WP4):
➡️ https://t.co/sYnBQnIRGL

[Mushtaq Bilal, PhD @MushtaqBilalPhD]

This is unbelievable!

Kurt Wüthrich, an 84-year-old, Swiss, male scientist, who won the Nobel Prize in 2002 claims that "as a male scientist" he has "a feeling of discrimination."

He said this during the 72nd Lindau Nobel Laureate Meeting on a panel that had four old, male scientists including him and an old, male moderator. (It was literally a susage fest!)

When Science Magazine asked him to elaborate on the kind of discrimnation he faced, "Wüthrich said he did not feel personally discriminated against as an individual at the event but thought that all men attendees faced discrimination while women were tokenized."

Here's an example of the discrimination Kurt Wüthrich, a Nobel Prize winner, gave:

In group photos of laureates, women laureates were asked to stand in front while male scientists like him were told to stand behind them 🤦😂😭

This makes him feel "horrible" because asking women laureates to stand in front is "ridiculous, fully ridiculuous."

A young scholar countered Wüthrich's childish tantrum and the moderator tried to shut her up.

For reference, here's a comparison:

Nobel Prizes won:
By men: 892
By women: 60

Speakers invited to this year's Lindau meeting:
Men: 34
Women: 5

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A couple of observations:

1. The feeling among men that gender equality is somehow a form of discrimination against them is not limited to incels (involuntary celibates) on the internet.

Male Nobel Prize winners can feel the same way too.

2. Many young scholars and scientists are still playing the "prestige" game: do a PhD in a "prestigious" university, do a postdoc in a "prestigious" lab, go to "prestigious" meetings like Lindau.

Playing the prestige game takes a lot of toll on one's mental health and personal relationships. The worst part is make you feel extremely insecure.

No amount of external validation, not even a Nobel Prize, will help you overcome your insecurities.

[John Gibbons 🇵🇸 @think_or_swim]

This is absolutely bananas.

There is NOTHING like this on the instrumental record. Its likely impact is probably immeasurable.

But is it leading our news bulletins & on newspaper front pages?

Nope.