I realize they have to represent all of the host countries but Bieber? Was Nickelback already booked elsewhere?

I'm so tired how many years are we into this nonsense.

Could Excel be conscious? We surveyed more than Jan 1 1900 people to find out.

The anatomy of an AI-supported academic article is becoming more apparent. I desk reviewed ~70 manuscripts this week for our journal. Reckon 20ish had significant AI assistance. On top of hundreds of others recently I'm starting to see patterns. Are other editors are seeing the same or similar? 1/

Cat found a secret hiding spot 😸 Caturday

It's incredible what some modern inks are capable of. Here, Van Dieman's Underwater series Deep Sea Diver.

"Suspense", 2019, Acrylic on canvas, 60 x 60 cm - Eva Fialka, Hungarian, born 1960 #art #painting #artist #BlueSkyArt #catlover

A new species of ladybug was discovered on a pine tree at Kyushu University, proving that undiscovered wildlife can exist right under our noses. Science Daily buff.ly/w6gXyGw #ShareGoodNewsToo

Black swallower fish — swell dining in the deep! During a recent ROV dive near Trinidad & Tobago, the #DeepWonders science team — led by @divaamon.bsky.social — collected spectacular footage of a black swallower fish (Chiasmodon sp.) at a depth of 1259 meters.

DOGE slashed 3/4 of the personnel from the CDC lab that’s supposed to prevent turbodiarrhea outbreaks www.wired.com/story/cdc-cy...

My first search engine.

www.sciencealert.com/huge-study-r.... IF YOU RECEIVE BOTH SHINGLES VACCINE AND THE RSV VACCINE IT WILL REDUCE YOUR ODDS OF GETTING ALZHEIMER'S AND DEMENTIA BY 37% !

Ancient art of brushing your cat

The sheer perfection of this bunny

HISTORIC 53C DAY- 38C at NIGHT 52.7C Omidieh IRAN All time record and 2026 World Record MINIMUMS ! 38.3 Delhoran IRAN 33.1 Uchkuduk UZBEKISTAN Next days WORSE 53/54c Middle East 49/50C former USSR 50/52C CHINA NIGHTS up to 40C MOST EXTREME HEAT WAVE IN WORLD HISTORY

I ran an absolutely 100% human, zero AI-involvement at any stage passage of my writing through an "AI detector," curious if it could really tell human from AI work, and it said my own writing was "84% AI written" then asked I wanted to pay to have it "humanized." So there's that to keep in mind.

Let there be Light! 🔆🔦🔆🧫https://journals.asm.org/doi/10.1128/msphere.00587-25

Far from being a modern phenomenon, neurodivergence has a long history. In other words, people whose ways of thinking, sensing or behaving differed from social expectations have always existed ✍️Laura Seymour @swanseauni.bsky.social nation.cymru/feature/what...

A heat dome over the U.S. causes temperatures to soar across the country, while monsoon season is kicking off in the Southwest U.S. The outline of the heat dome and monsoon moisture can be seen from clouds and water vapor arching from the Pacific Ocean and across the continent.

Japanese researchers linked Long COVID to a dormant herpes virus reactivated by SARS-CoV-2 infection. This process triggers production of the SITH-1 protein, which was identified in about 70% of patients. The SITH-1 protein may contribute directly to brain dysfunction, fatigue, and depression.

Erling Halaand returns to Norway with a stuffed raccoon.

Researchers are rewriting the chemical tags on DNA to tune gene expression go.nature.com/3R5oYlh

Adults whose spicy food intake averaged six or seven days a week had a 14 percent lower relative risk of dying than those whose intake averaged less than once a week. Here’s what else we know about how spicy foods affect our health:

This is the elusive Pampas cat, also called the colocolo, native to South America. They're a natural predator of wild guinea pigs, viscachas & are ruthlessly efficient hunters. For decades, the Pampas cat has been at the center of a debate about species. (📷: Tompkins Conservation)

Oxford Nanopore hit by weakness in China and Iran war

'For this career evolutionary biologist, bewitched at the age of four by Life on Earth (...) I was grinning like a child, not just at the standard-issue BBC-quality spectacle of its natural history programming, but also at the unapologetic embrace of contemporary evolutionary theory.'

💩 www.forbes.com/sites/antoni...

Saw a post about the imperative to support Argentina because of the indigenous Falkland peoples. Hm.

Pretty classy message by the Norwegian Embassy. #WorldCup

In @nytopinion.nytimes.com “The eastern halves of the United States and Canada are experiencing a sea change in the public health threat posed by ticks,” Jonathan Mingle writes in a guest essay. “Humans are in retreat from this bloodthirsty enemy.”

Harry Kane spends more time crying to the refs than actually playing the game.

Think preprints are unreliable? Analysis of 70,000 studies might change your mind www.nature.com/articles/d41...

🇳🇴🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿 Let’s see if the Trump curse works today like it did with Knicks game 3. After England’s star player revealed he golfed with Trump #vikingrow #norway

“Mutual grooming does not mean the same thing in all contexts.” Cat behavioral scientists have found that sometimes cats groom each other specifically to be annoying.

New NSF policy essential bans all collaboration with Chinese scientists. This is another disaster for science. www.science.org/content/arti...

Somebody (Rebecca Onion) didn't read the books. If they read the books, they would know the Black doctor is in the books. He nurses the Ingalls family through malaria. He's based on a real Black doctor who lived near the Ingalls family in Independence, KS, REBECCA ONION slate.com/culture/2026...

Found some Dead Man's Fingers while out on my walk this morning. They're such a creepy-cool little fungus.

BREAKING NEWS: Small otter thinks it’s a cat, but nobody really minds and everyone has a great time.

The destruction has begun. 🧪🔭 www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...

A brief summary of our recent paper in @cp-cellhostmicrobe.bsky.social @uk.theconversation.com In our deep oceans, evolution is supercharged – this diversity of life could help unlock humanity’s greatest challenges theconversation.com/in-our-deep-...

No championships, no trophies, no stars: How Norway made sport fun for kids. Country’s approach to sports prioritises joy while offering youngsters choice – and Erling Haaland’s World Cup exploits show that it works, by Jesse Gerritsen www.theguardian.com/football/202... via @theguardian.com

RNLI warning over venomous weever fish on Dorset beaches https://www.europesays.com/uk/1075582/ The RNLI has issued a warning about the species, which is common in the south west, and has…

The annual monsoon that brings summer thunderstorms to the Southwest is finally kicking into gear — promising relief for the parched, fire-plagued Four Corners region. California may face a different impact from the looming monsoon: dry lightning.

absolutely insane story, and yeah, just looking at this chart... with the exception of maybe two people, this entire class was cheating like motherfuckers

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Haaland standing next to his wife makes it look like somebody is remaking Labyrinth

Source: www.themarginalian.org/2014/11/21/u...

Le Guin on the idea that there is a secret to getting good at writing.

Ponng, el gato con parálisis cerebral que su dueña le tiene que dar de comer con la mano, es puro amor.😻😻😻😻❤️❤️❤️💗💗 Ponng, the cat with cerebral palsy who has to be hand-fed by his owner, is pure love. 😻😻😻❤️❤️❤️💗💗💗