Dutch film-maker Jan van IJken condensed 4 weeks of development in a salamander embryo (Mesotriton alpestris) into a 6 minute video, presented here sped up to 1 minute. You can see gastrulation at ~the 10s mark, forming the gut, then limbs & in a moment, the heart just *begins* beating.

NEW: A new pre-print study offers the first causal evidence that outsourcing reasoning tasks to AI can rapidly erode users' independent performance AND their will to persist despite difficulty. "People’s persistence drops... they’re also not willing to try without AI.” futurism.com/artificial-i...

Now on @sciam.bsky.social: See the Artemis II mission in 12 unforgettable photos. Can't say I disagree with any of these selections! www.scientificamerican.com/article/see-...

Bloody hell. Researchers invented a disease, published two fake papers to see if LLM’s would ingest them and kick them up as fact — and then it broke containment and all the major AI’s bought in. Information pollution. www.nature.com/articles/d41...

WE COULDVE HAD FREE HEALTHCARE AND COLLEGE LOANS FORGIVEN AND SATURDAY FARMERS MARKETS AND BRUNCH... Instead, a bunch of assholes voted for a psychopath (AGAIN) who brought us to the brink of nuclear holocaust.

"Welfare fraud" is such a steaming pile of shit. Oh no, not a person getting [checks notes] at most eight dollars a day for food. What a horrible thing. We need that money to [checks notes again] kill innocent people in Iran for only vaguely defined reasons.

Numbat. This marsupial is known for its reddish coat, white stripes and bushy tail. Unlike most marsupials, numbats are active by day, using their long sticky tongues to feast on thousands of termites daily🐜 Numbats are now endangered, remaining one of Australia’s most unique and charming creatures.

Two marsupial species thought extinct for 6,000 years have been found alive in Indonesian Papua. Known only from fossils until now, the "Lazarus" species were rediscovered through a collaboration between scientists and Indigenous residents of the Bird’s Head Peninsula. Story by David Brown.

Puts things into perspective real quick. #sagan

This reminds me of something Toni Morrison wrote.

Chevron is Richmond’s largest employer—and its largest polluter. The primary local news site, the Richmond Standard, largely avoids covering local health issues or the impact of Chevron’s facilities on people’s well-being. Perhaps because the site is owned by Chevron itself.

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theyre just all so fucking stupid and we were told we had to be respectful and treat their stupid fucking opinions seriously even though we knew its all bull shit and now here we are

See the moon turn blood red in a total lunar eclipse this week www.scientificamerican.com/article/see-...

there are a lot of people working in the government right now who want to intentionally trigger an apocalypse to create the conditions for the return of jesus christ and I know how crazy that sounds but its absolutely true

The world is drowning in plastic. Experts say we need to stop making so much. But the plastics industry is peddling a "solution" that works like magic. Don't be fooled. (Published June 2024)

The difference between a judicial warrant and an administrative warrant is the difference between a $20 bill and a napkin that a fascist wrote "twenty dollars" on.

Alright bsky science + art community, I need your help. I was p confident we could get a grant to fund our upcoming biodiversity mural in Kensington. Last night, they called to say our partner school is 2 blocks outside of their service area. But ya know what? We're gonna do it anyway.

You may find this map shocking. The crazy imbalance even surprised me! It’s the ratio of record highs vs record lows in each city since 2020. That’s right, in Miami there have been 115 daily record highs, but only 1 record morning low! Phoenix: 138 to 0!… 1/

Wildlife photographer of the year – people’s choice 2026 Come for the sloths, stay for the flamingos ... www.theguardian.com/environment/...

Who is the audience here? Cause i saw a lady get murdered and i want it ripped down to the studs!!!

This cannot be something a civilian law enforcement agent is allowed to wear in the US — and an agency that has a culture that tolerates this cannot be saved.

The project is called AVATAR and it’s one of 4 scientific experiments that will happen on the 10 day mission science.nasa.gov/biological-p...

Given the news about erasing the history of slavery, this story is a must-read about why learning and studying history matters. @jenniferberryhawes.bsky.social

These are the icy mountains of Pluto. It took 9 years to get these magnificent images… and 4.8 billion kilometers.

Re-upping for the US east coast

Wednesday is TRANSPHOBES ARE TRASH DAY! Congratulations to those who celebrate this wonderful day. Also, every other day is also Transphobes are Trash Day, I forgot to mention that.

No I said don’t tread on *me*. You can get treaded on.

We've removed the paywall from this guide so everyone can access it. 👇 Stay safe.

Humans are altering the planet on an unthinkable scale. Satellite images from NASA show the growing imprint on planet Earth.

Amazing images from the Rubin observatory displayed tonight at #AAS247 in Phoenix, at the Arizona Science Center. This is the Trifid and Lagoon Nebulae first light image projected on a planetarium dome.

Thank you to the previous owners of our house for installing the generator because we would have never and it comes in handy in an ice storm.

every goddamn comedian on the known planet should be talking about Palestinian-American Amer Zahr's arrest by the Israeli Police tonight during his set in Nazareth. detained with NO charges. apparently, they were in the audience watching. RELEASE AMER ZAHR

Gavin Newsom is Mitt Romney for the Democrats, a department store mannequin who will lose in a general election

ICE sprayed a one-year-old in the face with pepper spray. The child and parents are US citizens, but that doesn't even matter. These monsters pepper-sprayed a baby. We cannot allow ICE to continue this behavior, and they aren't going to reform themselves. www.washingtonpost.com/immigration/...

What the fuck. Leave him alone, you assholes.

Trump’s rally last night was supposed to fix the political damage from the affordability crisis. Instead, it’s the latest in a string of choices that is making it worse for him — and all Republicans. www.salon.com/2025/12/10/t...

Today is 'No Touching' day 😾 😽 Admire meh all yeh want, hooman, worship meh even, but strictly no touching 😸 🥰 #cats #notouching

Reminder that temperatures above normal in the arctic lead to below average temperatures in the US 👇

The Wizard Nebula, a.k.a. NGC 7380, is an open star cluster embedded within a vibrant emission nebula. Integration Time: 17 hours My Portfolio: portfolio.pixelfed.social/JoeGarrity #astrophotography #astronomy #naturephotography #nature #longexposurephotography #longexposure #nebula #photography

I don’t know a lot. But I know a lot about dinosaurs. Now we all know dinosaurs lived for millions of years right? But does you mind actually wrap around how long they dominated for? Lets get a little perspective. Did you know Allosaurus never saw flowers but T.rex did?

Archeologists in Wisconsin found an ancient canoe that is over 5,000 years old!! The discovery was in a canoe “parking lot” along a popular waterway and trail system.

Way back in 1947, Alan Turing had thoughts on how AI would influence the demand for skilled labor. (via Matteo Pasquinelli 2023 _The Eye of the Master_)

Oh wow @reuters.com got the photo here:

Hey you. YES YOU. Super persnickety astronomer. You know who you are. NASA Exoplanet Archive just updated our overview pages so the stars are closer to their actual colours, as per Harre & Heller (2021) and Cranmer (2021). You're welcome. 😎 (You can thank @kevinkhu.bsky.social!)

An immigration enforcement officer who shot a US citizen in Chicago last month bragged about the incident in texts afterwards, according to court documents filed in federal court.

Cuomo, once again being reminded, in a ruinous fashion, that no means no.

The Biden administration eschewed theater and wonked their way into fascist Trump. We aren’t going to wonk ourselves out of this.