Studies have found that wolves in the Midwest and Canada not only keep deer populations in check, but they also alter deer behavior in ways that help prevent car crashes and save human lives. wapo.st/4peEOoI (gift). Lots of pictures and videos in article; a few include dead deer. 🌎

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This was literally one of the concerns raised during the immunity case, and the majority hand waved it away.

Again, it is utterly shameful & demonstrates the total failure of all of our political institutions that threatening our closest NATO allies with territorial conquest has not immediately ended this presidency.

Denmark lost more troops per capita in the post 9/11 war on Afghanistan. Saying they “are not a good ally” because they won’t surrender their territories to the US is lunacy. We are betraying our allies to satisfy the whims of a would-be Emperor for whom the US is not enough.

Corn products like tortillas are poor sources of folate known to cause deficiency, & people who consume diets high in corn flour products have increased adverse effects from folate deficiency, like neural tube defects. This health disparity is easily treated. RFK is just ignorant, eugenicist trash.

Two of my Trumper friends - from childhood - routinely complained to me about how America has screwed them over: One calling from his boat, the other from his in-ground pool. You can imagine what I said to them, and at what volume

Has AI *really* been a leap forward in science? I don't think so. Aside from traditional computational methods — which are now being branded as “AI” by marketing folks — generative AI like ChatGPT really hasn't done much for science and medicine, despite the hype. www.nytimes.com/2025/12/26/p...

"Academics literally cannot make genAI go away" we also can't make underage drinking go away and we're not advocating for installing bar carts in every classroom.

when you agree to let them use your data for training

🧪About that “152×” Yellowstone aspen claim (see WaPo headline). In a new preprint we show it’s a math error that inflated the effect by 768%. Corrected: 17.5×. Preprint: doi.org/10.32942/X2W...

Painter et al. have issued a corrigendum conceding that the headline 152× increase in aspen sapling density was an error (now 17.5×), consistent with our critique. But the revised result still relies on averages that mask how most aspen stands showed little or no change. 🧪 doi.org/10.1016/j.fo...

Insane NY Post column suggesting that the new First Lady who is sad about leaving her longtime neighbors in a not fancy NYC neighborhood is an ungrateful brown woman

Wrote about the State Department's made up censorial rationale for banning visas for some folks based on their speech. It's nonsense. www.ms.now/opinion/marc...

My family and I, and the entire Japanese American community on the West Coast, were denied due process during our internment in WWII. It is a cherished, critical right for all people within the U.S.’s borders.

Can someone please respond to Stephen Miller with this message from Frank Sinatra?

♻️ Males differ more between developmental stages than females, and plasticity to light is stage-dependent in the tropical plant Marchantia inflexa by Jonathan Moore and Nicholas McLetchie Full #openaccess 👉 doi.org/10.1093/aobp... #PlantScience

Sagebrush Rebel Revival, my piece on former Interior Secretary James Watt, the wide use agenda, and public lands under Trump made the short list!

my editor told us to try to keep our "best of" lists to five or less, but i found a workaround... the climate story of the year, imo, was attacks on science

House for rent by relative of a friend in Davis, CA. Amazing location. www.zillow.com/homedetails/...

“If you care about the bottom line, and you care about budgets and taxes, then you should care about urban biking, because it’s a money saver,” he concludes. #MobilityIsEquity dailyhive.com/vancouver/bi...

A book that was STOLEN by those thieving c*nts at Anthropic to feed their plagiarism machine. They steal 10 years of work then their disgusting machine summarizes it back to me WRONG AND GARBLED. All you ignorant AI fan bois can fuck off into the sun.

From Andrew Tate's lips (ew) to the Vice President's ears, wouldn't be surprised if he started presenting this on the podcast interview circuit they've got him doing

Stanford Data Science Fellow for Graduating PhD students Deadline: February 16th, 2026 Duration: 1 year (starting September 1st 2026) Location: Stanford, CA datascience.stanford.edu/programs/dat...

Step 1: GenAI coding contains almost twice as many errors as human coding. Step 2: Satya Nadella says as much as 30% of Microsoft code is written by AI. Step 3: Windows 11 is a sluggish, buggy mess.

There are only two offenses the Constitution goes out of its way to specifically say merit impeachment, and this is one of them.

♻️ Bark anatomy of Euphorbia tirucalli (Euphorbiaceae): a unique way of bark dilatation on a stem succulent tree by Kolwane Calphonia Shilaluke and co-authors. Full #openaccess 👉 doi.org/10.1093/aobp... #PlantScience

Merry Christmas! Michelle and I hope you have a wonderful holiday filled with light and joy.

It’s not “losing money” any more than air traffic controllers or public highways or street lights or fire departments are “losing money.” It is a government service. It’s not SUPPOSED to make money. It’s supposed to reliably deliver to anywhere in the US, even the unprofitable places.

♻️ Laticifers are present in Acalyphoideae after all: new insights from leaf anatomy with implications for the systematics and evolution of Euphorbiaceae by Clara Prandi Mouzella and co-authors. Full #openaccess 👉 doi.org/10.1093/aobp... #PlantScience

Daniel Swain @weatherwest.bsky.social is an excellent resource for all things weather! 👇

🖥️ From Plant, Cell & Environment: A new psychrometric correction removes humidity-driven bias in LI-600 porometer readings, aligning stomatal conductance estimates with IR gas analysis. (Kyle T. Rizzo, Brian N. Bailey) ▶️ onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/... #PlantScience

Google Gemini Pro: please generate a map of the western united states showing cities of over 250K population

Every year on Christmas Eve in Holten, the Netherlands, candles are lit on the graves of 1394 Canadian soldiers who gave their live to liberate our country from the Nazis. To honour and remember their sacrifice.

"Whereas statistical methods in general carry a risk of being used erroneously, AI carries even greater risks owing to its complexity and black-box nature."

Latest info for #LARain thanks to @abc7.bsky.social

♻️ Acclimation of functional traits leads to biomass increases in leafy green species grown in aquaponics by Victoria Nicholes and co-authors. Full #openaccess 👉 doi.org/10.1093/aobp... #PlantScience

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I keep hearing that folk who don't use AI will be at a competitive disadvantage compared to those who do I wonder how long before that flips completely, and there's a big market for people who still have basic creative and research skills

Canada doing Radio Free Europe for Americans

Our new Tansley Review reveals hydrogen isotopes in plant carbohydrates aren't just climate indicators - they're powerful tools for understanding how plants actually function and perform metabolically. - New Phytologist

DOJ has deleted (not just redacted) but deleted at least 16 pages of the Epstein Files mentioning Trump. We've entered a new level of coverup and corruption to protect PDFiles. We must impeach Pam Bondi ASAP. Rep Khanna & Rep Massie are moving forward to do so: www.qasimrashid.com/p/the-trump-...

Sorry folks, but unfortunately the super cool study you are promoting here has some sketchy data. 2 of the images were re-colored to represent two distinct experimental conditions. Salt will remain an issue for agriculture & cyanobacteria won't change that... pubpeer.com/publications...

Here is the 60 Minutes segment Bari is trying to keep you from seeing. They keep getting taken down so watch asap

Telescope Types xkcd.com/3182/

This is the way

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What we have here is a top editor spiking a story not because of serious editorial concerns, but because: 1) she is insecure and needs to assert authority; 2) she wants to drive serious journalists out of CBS; and 3) she craves attention, which is her oxygen. Especially number 3