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Environment reporter @newscientist | Kavli, Schmidt & Covering Climate Now 🏆 | 2x Emmy nominee | non-beefeater 🚫🐄

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1Jan 21, '25NYT: “a hand gesture” NBC: “forcefully touched his heart, before raising his hand and saluting supporters” WaPo, AP, CNN, LA Times, ABC, CBS: no mention135×2.6M3.4k340254
3Feb 20, '23The secret service & Pentagon didn’t want Biden to visit Kyiv. He was presented with plans to meet Zelenskiy at the Polish border or in Lviv. Instead he went to the capital, wh74.6×1.5M16k2.8k137
4Dec 29, '20Breakfast in Novosibirsk, where it was -40 yesterday51×094k12k1.3k
5Jul 7, '17Life imitates art46.8×049k31k8
6Jun 2, '24Rupert Murdoch marrying the former mother-in-law of Putin’s favorite oligarch is exactly the kind of globalist conspiracy FOX News would love—if it wasn’t owned by Rupert Murdoch40.6×794k13k3.7k618
7Feb 16, '24State employees remove flowers laid for @Navalny in Yekaterinburg. Around Russia, police have been cordoning off memorials, dispersing mourners & arresting people with signs35.8×701k3.7k2.1k156
8Dec 15, '21Polar bears at an abandoned Soviet weather station on Kolyuchin Island, Dmitry Kokh @NatGeoru21.9×037k6.3k1k
9Aug 4, '24A Russia-linked site helped foment the riots in the UK this weekend by falsely naming the Southport knife killer as a Muslim immigrant, when in fact he was born in Britain to Chris20.8×408k4k2.2k362
10Sep 21, '22A quiet dinner in Moscow17.6×023k7.3k776
11Mar 19, '22There are so many dead & wounded Russian soldiers in Homel region, Belarus, that they've started loading corpses on trains at night "so as not to attract attention." 2,500 KIA 13.9×018k6.5k448
13Mar 11, '22Ukraine has held out 4x as many days as Russia thought it would take & has "already achieved a strategic breakthrough," @ZelenskyyUa says. "We are heading towards victory." Mea13.4×023k4k150
14Apr 28, '22When a picture says more than words. The Gazprom tower in St Petersburg yesterday, by Dmitry Lovetsky11.7×019k3.6k473
15Jun 7, '22Russian blogger/alpinist Katya Lipka climbed Everest ... and unfurled the Ukrainian flag at the top 🇺🇦11.5×021k2.8k178
17Mar 14, '22Russia is so toxic now that reports Putin asked Xi for military aid caused Chinese stocks to suffer their biggest drop since 2008. Chinese tech stocks lost $2.1 trillion today11.1×016k4.5k232
18Feb 20, '22"Russia don't touch Ukraine!" 6 people unfurled banners against invasion in downtown Moscow. Waiting police immediately arrested them9.4×011k4k220
19Feb 25, '22Wow. It seems the Ukrainian soldiers on Snake Island really did tell Russian warships to "go to hell" before they were killed. @unian9.4×014k2.7k945
20Jul 19, '22Erdogan gives Putin a little taste of his own medicine8.9×015k1.8k292
21Feb 27, '22A Ukrainian sailor in Mallorca opened the valves & "partially sank" a €7m yacht belonging to the director of Russia's arms exporter. After he explained it was in retaliation fo8.5×014k2.5k232
22Apr 5, '20The "Isolation" Facebook group where Russians stuck at home impersonate famous paintings is by far the best thing to come out of the #coronavirus lockdown. I'm going to post my top6.6×08.5k2.9k398
23Feb 27, '22At least 829 detained at antiwar protests in Russia today. The numbers don't seem that impressive, but consider that people are coming out for the 4th day now despite facing almost6.0×09.1k2.4k89
24Jul 7, '17"These are the ones that insulted you?" Putin asked Trump, gesturing at the journalists being ushered out of the room. Chuckles all around5.5×04.6k3.4k0
25Feb 15, '21It's 17F & snowing near the Mexican border in Del Rio, which reached an all-time high of 112F just this July5.3×06k1.9k186
26Aug 29, '22Russian tourists are butthurt over the "unfriendly" reception they got with their Z bumper stickers in Kazakhstan. "They attacked us with accusations that were fascists, that we at5.2×08.8k1.3k169
27Feb 27, '22"Boris, you were right." Hundreds of people are laying flowers at the spot were Nemtsov was killed. He had spoken out against the 1st Russian attack on Ukraine in 20145.1×08.3k1.9k103
28Feb 21, '21A gas tanker & icebreaker made it from China to Yamal in the 1st transit of the Northern Sea Route in February, "confirming that year-round safe navigation is possible," Russia5.0×04.1k2.1k281
29Feb 24, '22Zelenskiy says 137 Ukrainians have been killed so far in the Russian operation. After talking to Western leaders he says, "We're alone for defense of our country. Who will fight al4.9×05.7k2.2k171
30Feb 26, '22.@ZelenskyyUa says Ukraine has gotten Europe to agree to cut Russia off from SWIFT. "This is an important victory. It means billions & billions in losses for Russia. That's the4.6×07.3k1.6k105
31Mar 26, '17I took a photo of police detaining a guy at @navalny protest so they detained me as well even though I repeatedly said I was a journalist4.5×03.7k3.3k0
32Feb 24, '22Russia's interior ministry tells TV viewers to "refrain from unsanctioned protests" & or they'll be "arrested & brought to responsibility." That's because there are "corona4.0×03.9k1.5k119
33Feb 24, '22The aerodrome in Kharkiv Ukraine says was hit by a Russian missile after Putin announced the special military operation in Ukraine3.6×03.2k2.2k285
34May 3, '20Dr Alexander Shulepov fell out a hospital window & is in critical condition after complaining in a video he was forced to work while sick with #COVID19. He's the 3rd Russian do3.5×02.8k2.1k100
35Apr 27, '22Am ammo depot was burning in Belgorod region near Ukraine this morning after air defenses were firing at something in the neighboring Kursk region. The authorities won't say what. 3.2×05.5k79748
37Jun 27, '19Arctic fox ran with tracking collar ran 2,200 miles across the ice from Norway (Svalbard) to Canada in only 2.5 months. Arctic foxes were previously known to migrate between Norway2.9×03.7k1.5k72
38Sep 25, '22While police use batons to put down protests in Moscow & St Petersburg, in Dagestan they're already firing in the air. The risk of getting sent to Ukraine is much higher there,2.9×04.8k92452
39Sep 18, '17Stanislav Petrov, who didn't nuke US, has died. That it wasn't known for 4 months shows how underappreciated he is2.9×03.5k1.7k0
41Feb 22, '22Ruble down 3% Russian stock market down 15% $11bn gas pipeline dead in the water New sanctions on the way Russian parliament:2.8×04.3k80687
42Feb 10, '19Russia's Novaya Zemlya is considering a cull to repel a "mass invasion" of polar bears, like this 1 in a young family's hallway. 52 bears counted in Belushya Guba. They should be h2.7×02.3k1.6k67
44Feb 25, '22Zelenskiy calls Europeans to the streets to put pressure on governments too slow to help Ukraine. "Annulling Russians' visas? Turning off from SWIFT? Complete isolation of Russia? 2.7×04k1.1k44
46Apr 16, '19At least one of Notre Dame's three stained glass rose windows dating to 1260 appears to have survived. Via @incunabula2.6×04.3k92927
47Jan 19, '21With its head @navalny now jailed @fbkinfo posts its biggest ever investigation into "Putin's palace" near Gelendzhik. Floorplans seem to suggest it's the biggest home in Russia, w2.5×02.9k915161
49Sep 12, '18.@pussyrrriot member Pyotr Verzilov, who rushed the field during the World Cup final to protest police brutality, has been hospitalised in critical condition in the toxicology depa2.5×01.6k1.9k6
50Feb 28, '22Bulgaria will give Ukraine 14 Su-25 & 16 MiG-29 fighter jets, Poland will give it 28 MiG-29s & Slovakia will give it 12 MiG-29s. More importantly--given Russian missile str2.4×03k84191
52Mar 18, '22"Freeing people from genocide is the reason, motive & goal of the military operation we started in the Donbas & Ukraine," Putin says, then quotes the Bible: "There is no gr2.3×02.5k627117
53Mar 26, '17I tried to take pic at @navalny protest, was detained tho I said I'm journalist, I'm being charged for participation in unsanctioned protest2.3×01.6k1.8k0
54Aug 10, '20Riot police run away (!) from protesters in Minsk. I've never seen anything like it2.3×02.9k1k78
55Mar 2, '22If a woman who survived the Siege of Leningrad is willing to get arrested protesting your "de-Nazification" of Ukraine, it probably should give you pause2.3×03.3k93486
56Feb 24, '22LOT of national guard moving in downtown Moscow. 1st few protesters already arrested2.1×02.3k1.1k102
57Sep 23, '22"Russian soldiers were found to have committed crimes of sexual or gender-based violence – with victims ranging in age from 4 to 82 years old." 4 to 82 years old.2.1×02.4k1.1k50
59Feb 20, '22More metadata gold. Last night Luhansk published a vid of separatists removing a car of explosives before it could blow up a train of women & children evacuating to Russia. Tur2.0×02.4k95491
61Jun 28, '21Moscow's infrastructure is not able to handle the <50mm of rain that's falling today. Subway stations have been flooded, roofs & cranes have collapsed & one suburb lost 2.0×02.1k88669
62Mar 21, '22Russian soldiers in Kherson throw a grenade & open fire at residents yelling "go home." Incredible how Ukrainian civilians keep standing up to troops. At least 2 injured. @u24_1.9×01.8k997101
63Sep 27, '22What flying *to* Russia is like right now1.8×02.9k51086
64Sep 21, '22A @navalny activist posing as a military official asks Nikolai Peskov, son of Putin's spokesman, to report to the draft office. "You should undersand, if I'm Mr Peskov, it's not en1.7×02.4k68188
65Jul 6, '19Yikes. Officer at the funeral of 14 sailors killed in the fire on Russian nuclear submarine Monday says "they saved the ship & prevented a catastrophe of a global scale." Russi1.7×01.4k1.1k38
66Mar 20, '22Moscow protester barely has time to say "Ukraine is burning" before police are chasing him down @SotaVision1.7×02.1k83943
68Aug 26, '19Norwegian state expert says Russia's admission that barium, strontium & lanthanum istotopes were released by the Arkhangelsk accident shows a nuclear reactor blew up, not an "i1.7×01.3k1.2k39
69Mar 26, '17I was released 5.5 hours after being arrested at @Navalny protest & charged w/"holding an unsanctioned rally"—Thanks for messages & support!1.6×01.9k9060
70Feb 25, '18This actually seems to check out: Agata Burdonova, who worked for the Russian troll factory that bashed Clinton on Facebook, moved to Washington state, applied for an SSN & sta1.6×01.2k1.1k6
71Feb 28, '22"We appeal to the European Union to immediately admit Ukraine as a member under a new special procedure," Zelensky says. "I'm convinced Ukraine has earned the right & that this1.6×02.4k52726
72Feb 24, '22Antiwar protester detained in Moscow1.5×01.6k81553
73Mar 9, '22The Russian embassy in Latvia has a new neighbor across the street1.5×02.6k43319
74Feb 25, '22Zelenskiy: "Russia will try to break our resistance with all its might. Tonight the enemy will begin storming us. We need to withstand them!" He says Chernihiv, Symy, Kharkiv, Donb1.5×02k63233
75Sep 26, '22Since Putin announced the mobilization: - at least 10 draft offices have been firebombed - several city halls have been firebombed - 1 man set himself on fire to avoid getting call1.5×02.2k49264
77Dec 9, '22.@IlyaYashin's reaction after he was sentenced to 8.5 years for criticizing the war in Ukraine: "Don't worry, anyone who thinks Putin's going to rule for 8 years is being very opti1.4×02.3k50137
78May 6, '223.8 million (!) people left Russia in the 1st quarter of the year, according to official stats. Anecdotally that included most of the pro-Western, opposition-minded folks. Don't ho1.4×01.9k55264
80Feb 28, '22"Putin is a dickhead! Putin is a dickhead!" Ukrainians in Berdyansk are reportedly chanting slogans against the Russian troops that took the city last night1.4×02k54366
82Mar 13, '22Zelensky says Russia is trying to create a "Kherson People's Republic" but 44 regional deputies voted to remain Ukraine. He tells those tempted to collude "you sign your sentence t1.3×02k54735
83Feb 27, '22This Kharkiv playground had a castle & a locomotive, now it has a rocket @unian1.3×01.6k61467
84Aug 13, '22Moscow sanitation workers sent to occupied Shchastia aren't ready to tighten their belts for the motherland. "When we decided to come restore the Luhansk People's Republic, we didn1.3×01.7k41168
87Aug 30, '22"Thanks to Gorbachev ... we have Pizza Hut!" Now Russia has neither. And is quickly winding back glasnost & perestroika as well1.2×01.7k405107
92Oct 4, '19Putin: Greta Thunberg is a "kind and sincere" teenager but "poorly informed" about global issues Greta Thunberg:1.1×01.7k4366
93Feb 24, '22Russia telling Ukraine "we are one people" as it lobs missiles at it is the whole situation in a nutshell1.1×01.7k40737
94Feb 26, '22European countries delivering to Ukraine 🇩🇪: 400 RPGs 🇳🇱: 200 Stingers 🇵🇱: 100 mortars, 8 drones, ammunition, Javelins 🇧🇪: 2,000 machine guns, 3,800 tonnes fuel 🇸🇰: 12,001.1×01.5k40943
95Mar 9, '22.@ZelenskyyUa again calls on Europe to strengthen sanctions & enforce a no-fly zone after Mariupol maternity ward bombing. "Were pregnant women going to fire at Rostov? Did som1.1×01.4k49127
97Nov 14, '24'Why Are Alaska's Rivers Turning Orange?' won a Kavli 🙌 I'm humbled & thankful to @AAAS to be recognized with the oldest US science journalism award. Covering climate science 1.0×20k28411
98Feb 26, '22"Did you break down? Want me to tow you back to Russia?" a Ukrainian driver asks the invading soldiers 😅1.0×01.6k35748
99Feb 28, '22Ukraine's delegation, including the defense minister, has arrived at the Belarus border for talks with Russia. "The main issue of negotiations is an immediate ceasefire & withd0.9×01.6k26911
100Mar 5, '22Zelensky calls on Donbas to rise up against the Russians: "Just compare Donetsk after 8 years of war & Kharkiv after 8 days of war. They told you that we were destroying cities0.9×01.4k38916

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