Josie Glausiusz

My latest article for @natureportfolio.bsky.social, in which I spoke to researchers, entrepreneurs and scientists in Gaza, Israel, and the West Bank about their determination to continue their work amid the destruction and devastation of war. www.nature.com/articles/d41...

Kudos to @rimaanabtawi.bsky.social for pointing out that this implies that Palestinian women in Israel have no agency and need Jewish women to "lead" them.

And... it's election day in Israel. Here is your reminder that if the Jewish politicians opposing Netanyahu were willing to work together with their Arab peers we wouldn't be wondering whether or not Netanyahu can be beaten. It would be clear that he could www.prospectmagazine.co.uk/world/israel...

Brazil’s Supreme Court has ordered police to confiscate the passports of Flávio Bolsonaro as part of a criminal investigation related to a money laundering scheme. time.com/article/2026...

Africa pioneered one of the biggest innovations in modern finance: mobile money. Kenya showed that millions of people could, in effect leapfrog traditional banking altogether, using their phones to store, send and receive money, writes Moky Makura www.theguardian.com/global-devel...

Israelis cast their ballots in highest voter turnout since 1981 by 10 A.M. The Central Election Committee said that the voter turnout at 10 A.M. has reached 16.68 percent, or about 1.2 million people. www.haaretz.com/israel-news/...

A denizen of the Indonesian islands of Bangka, Sumatra, and Borneo, the googly-eyed herbivore was last documented in 1937 and feared extinct — until now. The Bangka slow loris, belongs to the world’s only group of venom-packing primates. nypost.com/2026/10/23/s...

After the Big Bang, the universe was a sizzling soup of electrons and atomic nuclei. As it expanded, it cooled, and those particles coalesced to form a fog of hydrogen and helium gas. Gaze at the Cosmic Dawn in Dizzying Detail: www.nytimes.com/2026/10/26/s...

Also, according to Shas leader Aryeh Deri (who has served time in jail for of bribery, fraud, and breach of trust) I am a danger to Judaism: 'Danger to Judaism': Ultra-Orthodox Shas leader warns of high turnout in Arab sector, left-wing strongholds www.haaretz.com/israel-news/...

Haaretz: Likud spending millions of shekels to place observers/activists outside polling stations in Arab areas to “document” what is happening and look out for election fraud (which they have determined in advance that they will find).

Uriel Simon, an influential Israeli biblical scholar who took a literary approach to understanding the Hebrew Bible and an activist who used religious texts to support peace and compromise with the Palestinians, died on Sept. 30 at his home in Jerusalem. He was 97. www.nytimes.com/2026/10/25/o...

World Mental Health Day is a reminder that the psychological toll stemming from hostilities result in mental health harms that have lasting effects on people’s lives. Insecurity, trauma, anxiety, are the norm for many who have endured armed conflict. @hrw.org www.hrw.org/news/2026/10...

Catrina Bass, from the Long Mead Foundation in Swindon, describes black poplars as "Lord of the Rings" looking trees with "great gnarled trunks", that support other wildlife, including the poplar hornet moth. www.bbc.com/news/article...

Denver has recorded the biggest recent drop in street homelessness among the largest U.S. cities. The city’s drop was roughly 13 times the national rate in 2025. www.nytimes.com/2026/10/13/o...

Long-serving leader of Serbia, Aleksandar Vučić, has conceded defeat, ushering in a seismic political shift after a historic election that saw ​the authoritarian leader pitted against a student-led movement that had spent 2 years protesting against his government www.theguardian.com/world/2026/o...

“While each of us (voted Brexit) for different reasons, we all believed that the UK could do a better job of running its own affairs than *unelected officials* in Brussels could." Ben Houchen... November 2020 Six years later 👇👇👇

Nothing and no one should stand between New Yorkers and their right to vote — least of all the government.
 Early voting is happening now through November 1. Election Day is November 3. See you at the polls!

"I still remember Fire Day, when landgrabbers from Novo Progresso and other cities in Pará mobilised on WhatsApp to set fires in different parts of the forest as support for then-Brazilian president Jair Bolsonaro." Eliane Brum @prospectmagazine.co.uk www.prospectmagazine.co.uk/politics/far...

"seismic" is right. This student-led movement started after a building collapse almost exactly two years ago. They kept protesting and organizing, built a political party from scratch, and just blew past projections for their electoral success. www.theguardian.com/world/2026/o...

Speechless.

Lula won the presidency of Brazil by a margin of four million votes. The scale of the turnaround was remarkable. Between the two rounds, Lula gained around 11 million additional votes. Flávio Bolsonaro says the result is "inexplicable" and calls for it to be annulled www.bbc.com/news/live/cm...

Solid analysis @aloner.bsky.social with which I concur.

Meet Will, the Cambridge plumber who gets to many of his jobs by e-cargo bike. Will founded Veloplumb in 2023, with a simple idea: many plumbing jobs don’t need a van full of equipment. 'I really believe in it, it boosts mental health to be outdoors, exercising and of course doing some plumbing!

Tir, hiraeth, bro, cynefin: Speaking Welsh is associated with a stronger connection to nature, according to new research examining the relationship between language, cultural identity and the natural environment across Wales. www.bangor.ac.uk/news/2026-10...

As the two men’s trial progresses, Hankinon’s anger at their crime begins to dissipate and instead becomes mystification. It was only a tree, he comes to realise, and the national hysteria, in which he himself had participated, was disproportionate. thecritic.co.uk/out-of-our-t...

A groundbreaking vaccine reduced the risk of death or recurrence of melanoma by almost half. The drug, intismeran autogene, uses messenger RNA (mRNA) to deliver a vaccine tailored to the genetic profile of a patient’s cancer tumor www.washingtonpost.com/health/2026/...

Intelligence officers in the film "NAZA" described picking off Palestinians in Gaza as they lined up for food [...] even if all 24 interviewees made up 100 percent of their stories–unlikely–Israelis privately know and speak of the vast destruction of life in Gaza. www.haaretz.com/israel-news/...

The amount of finance for nature delivered to date “falls far short” of what is needed to meet the UN’s global goals, according to a report released ahead of the COP17 biodiversity summit in Yerevan, Armenia www.carbonbrief.org/cop17-develo...

The colony of sandwich terns nesting at Pagham harbour, West Sussex, was completely wiped out by bird flu in 2022. But numbers have bounced back from zero to 756 breeding pairs in just three years after conservation work in the Solent region. www.theguardian.com/environment/...

Cop17, the meeting of UN convention on biological diversity (CBD) will take place in the Armenian capital, Yerevan, between 19 and 30 October. Governments have never met a single UN target on nature since the biodiversity convention was created in Rio in 1992. www.theguardian.com/environment/...

Interesting: In the American South, racial and social dynamics were a high wall for the washing machine industry. “Even working-class white women outsourced washing to black laundresses, reflecting both the low cost of black female labor and the social convention." daily.jstor.org/why-washing-...

A Kind of Escape #peterdoig

Pete Hegseth’s staff break priceless historic globe: “They lost control of the artifact and dropped it, sending the globe crashing on to its base and impaling the fragile shell near Antarctica." Hmm there's a metaphor here, what could it be? www.theguardian.com/us-news/2026...

Each year, Poetry Daily brings MFA poetry students into the Patrick D. Molinari shelter to teach detained and displaced preteens and teenagers through our Poetry Alive! program. @poetrydaily.bsky.social secure.givelively.org/donate/daily...