NEW on the @rorinstitute.bsky.social Substack this week: Moumita Koley & Chandan Nagarajappa examine the metascience gaps that have resulted in misplaced R&D investment priorities in India researchonresearchinstitute.substack.com/p/why-metasc...

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I must finish reading @matthewcobb.bsky.social 's biography of Crick by the time this book hits the stores. @[email protected] @rapiduplift.bsky.social @maitrey.bsky.social @mrajshekhar.bsky.social

This was recommended by @cyrilpedia.bsky.social as a book for "le Carré orphans who are out of Mick Herron books". Have high hopes as I've loved all books he had recommended earlier.

To give people a sense of the scale of these videos, check out this comparison of zygote sizes created by @rrbehringer.bsky.social 🧪 #devbio

First 24 hours of embryonic development in 9 different animal species: (From left to right) Zebrafish, Sea urchin, Black widow spider, Tardigrade, Sea squirt, Comb jelly, Parchment tube worm, Roundworm, Slipper snail. Credit to @tessamontague.bsky.social & Zuzka Vavrušová. #ZebrafishZunday #devbio 🧪

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The US and Israel are now using AI to murder more brown people indiscriminately. Reminded me of this dictum from an old IBM manual bsky.app/profile/did:...

Just like Israel's destruction of the Palestinian territories and Lebanon. It's not just a genocide, but also an ecocide. bsky.app/profile/did:...

“No front-page stories in NYT, WSJ, WaPo. No mention on NBC and CBS Sunday Shows. No stand alone segments on Evening News shows. A death count on par with the OKC bombing is relegated to the back page.” www.columnblog.com/p/corporate-...

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This was such a lovely article to read. Thank you @[email protected] "Why All Science Fiction and Fantasy Writers Are Historians" strangehorizons.com/wordpress/no...

Keir Starmer is a total fuckwit.

Silicon Valley’s alliance with Donald Trump was a mask off moment and showed the world we can’t depend on US tech companies. For the past few months, I’ve been trying to get off US tech and I put together a guide so you find alternatives too. I hope you find it helpful!

I confess, right now the title "Scientific American" reads like an oxymoron. And it's not the publisher's fault.

Finally, the bug is back with a round of the Guinness.

Manoj Kumar Jha doesn't say it aloud, but there is an almost complete overlap between the rise of Hindutva and the erosion of shame in Indian society. frontline.thehindu.com/politics/ind...

"Flashy simplicity trumps thoughtful complexity. Considered views on history and ethics become distractions." www.thenewworld.co.uk/philip-ball-...

Most of the proposals her sound great, which means they will never get acted upon. ☹️ www.thenewsminute.com/tamil-nadu/t...

Francois Furstenberg on the modern American university. Well worth your time. (I forgot who had shared it here) www.publicbooks.org/the-misuses-...

@openvibe.social @openvibe sharing links from browser/other apps on Android doesn't seem to work now. Such an action now only starts openvibe, but earlier it would directly compose a tweet/message

Fantatsic! #fuckcars theconversation.com/the-worlds-2...

@katemac.bsky.social and I chose this cover image for our piece because it looked cool. Did not know that electric mopeds , e-bikes , e-cargo bikes etc are collectively crushing oil in a bigger way than electric cars!! Https://www.phenomenalworld.org/analysis/cash-cars-chemicals-and-corn/

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Truly despicable act by Russians. Sadly Science isn't immune to such shit. agora.echelon.pl/objects/0fc2...

Opera browser is 30 years old! 😱 9to5mac.com/2026/02/19/o...

"Muslim segregation in India is similar to but slightly lower than Black-White segregation in the United States after adjusting for neighbourhood size." Must admit that I expected it to be much worse; @ashwan.bsky.social explained to me why it isn't. newsreel.asia/articles/ind...

"The fundamental problem of the present is complicity" www.equator.org/articles/aft...

Read an award-winning novel today. While it has its merits, would we be praising "literary fiction" if juries actually read other genres?

In Aug 2009, my first weekend after moving to Tennessee, I was shocked to see someone hold a "We don't want a Black President" sign at an anti-Obamacare protest. Today in Feb 2026, the president of the US posts an AI video of the Obamas as monkeys.

100% agree with what the prof here says. The occasional succes like AlphaFold is just not worth all the damage that is being forced upon us. www.theguardian.com/global-devel...

"I am baffled by the embrace of AI erotic relationships, and wonder if porn paved the way by accustoming so many of us to watching images of bodies touching each other while our own bodies remain untouched, except by ourselves." www.theguardian.com/news/ng-inte...

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This is a fantastic thread on famous biologists who were racist, classist and sexist. What is sad is that there still are plenty of such scientists.

Read this last night. Lovely writing & world-building, at times resembling Ursula le Guin. Can't decide whether I love or hate the rug-pull trick that Eschbach does at the end. 🤷🏾‍♂️