The last bit of evening light hitting a fascinating section of sandstone along the California coast.

Cool how we are smuggling domestic news in over the border from canada and people having to share it on bulletproof hosting providers to stop the government and media owners taking it down

A longer holiday read on the currently quite messy Arctic security dynamics, courtesy of the US. I hope everyone can get some rest over the holidays, despite everything !

Thanks to Radio Free Canada for providing the 60 minutes piece for us to watch.

"... A revolving door between ICE leadership and the private prison executive suite further solidifies this “partnership.” www.nilc.org/articles/the...

"Produced by ProPublica in collaboration with Alianza Rebelde Investiga, Cazadores de Fake News and The Texas Tribune, Surviving CECOT details what the men say they experienced inside the prison and explores the lasting trauma of the ordeal on them and their families." www.pbs.org/wgbh/frontli...

It used to be that the United States would use Voice of America and Radio Free Europe/Radio Liberty to transmit truth across the borders of repressive regimes. Now the work of American reporters, having been censored, is being smuggled across the border to reach Americans.

About 7.2 million people in the U.S. identify as American Indian or Alaska Native. Yet they are often excluded from data and analysis due to a small population size. A KFF brief helps address these gaps with an overview of this diverse group's health & health care. https://on.kff.org/4avIgrm

WASHINGTON, D.C. New federal legislation would help keep tribal sacred-site locations, cultural items, and traditional-practice information from being made public through FOIA, aiming to reduce risks of looting, vandalism, and misuse. Read more: buff.ly/q2GY7rS

Isotope analysis of Bronze–Early Iron Age tin ingots from four Mediterranean shipwrecks found the tin was mined in south-west Britain. Evidence for 'zones of interaction' indicate land and sea connections from Britain to the Levant #MaritimeMonday 🆓 doi.org/10.15184/aqy... 🏺 #Archaeology

Research is showing Earth’s core-mantle boundary is not the smooth interface often seen in textbooks. https://scim.ag/3KNqUM5

Seems like 60 Minutes needs to do a 60 Minutes piece on the destruction of 60 minutes. @60Minutes #CBSNewsMAX @CBSNews

Federal courts have unanimously rejected President Trump's unconstitutional attempt to end birthright citizenship. ACLU National Legal Director Cecillia Wang will be defending birthright citizenship at the Supreme Court.

So, I purchased the center and the land it sits on — the best $2 million I can imagine spending. 🧵 6 of 9

It’s the “season of love and giving”…but this year, doesn’t it seem more like a “season of fear and taking”? Like many of you, I’ve been saddened by the human impact of draconian government budget cuts and how angry many housed Americans are at unhoused Americans. 🧵 1 of 9

This is my Christmas gift to my homeless neighbors, to the volunteers who get great joy from helping them…and, yes, to myself. Merry Christmas to all! 🧵 9 of 9

This is something else. Lots of respect for @60minutes.bsky.social reporter Sharyn Alfonso for defending the integrity of her work. What a disgrace for 60 Minutes. The Trump effect destroys every institution it touches. GIFT LINK: www.nytimes.com/2025/12/21/b...

New boss was bad, his attitude was ugly, so the tech team pranked him good

The Roomba failed because it just kind of sucked

Hours before 60 Minutes was set to air a story on deportees who were sent by the Trump administration to prison in El Salvador, describing “brutal and torturous conditions,” 60 Minutes announced that it has pulled the segment and will air it in the future.

I have been notified that the video link to my Helsinki talk does not work for some people. Here's an alternative link for those who prefer a YouTube version: youtu.be/D2abyXGvELI

Very good, very pointed piece about how LLM designers heisting authors' work (hi) violates our social understanding of consent. With a credulous Yorker writer, and a researcher who asked consent of people *reading* LLM content but not of those whose work was stolen. open.substack.com/pub/brookewa...

Igneous mafic-silicic something. Don't ask me what was happened here in 120 Ma tonalite. Shikanoshima, Fukuoka, Japan.

Solstice sunrise from the days of yore: 1107am AKST December 21, 2005. From Keystone Ridge, northwest of Fairbanks. #Solstice #WinterSolstice #akwx #AlaskaSky @carrieinfbx.bsky.social

How to Profit by One’s Enemies 1/2 "Plutarch presents enmity as a valuable force for ethical self-cultivation and civic discipline. Drawing on historical and literary examples, he argues that enemies can serve as mirrors for self-awareness, impactum-journals.uc.pt/ploutarchos/...

Scottish Student Archaeology Society #Conference, 21-22 Feb 2026. #CallForPapers: open to #students, #graduates & #EarlyCareerResearchers. Any topic welcome! Send title & abstract to [email protected] Questions? Contact @archsoc_uoa on instagram, or email [email protected] #SSASC26

QUÉBEC: More than 60 Indigenous cultural items held in the Vatican’s collections for about a century, including a rare Inuit/Inuvialuit kayak, have been returned to Canada and are at the Canadian Museum of History as communities bring them home. buff.ly/OnWf5lN AP News: buff.ly/OWeaSrX

9,000-year-old Bad Dürrenberg woman shaman burial reveals a lasting ritual legacy... More information: archaeologymag.com/2025/12/bad-...

Over 2,000-year-old Hjortspring boat study reveals Baltic origins and advanced seafaring long before the Viking Age A new scientific study is now casting fresh light on one of Scandinavia’s most famous prehistoric vessels... More information: archaeologymag.com/2025/12/2000... #archaeology

Happy #WinterSolstice! Here's Winter depicted on the Mosaic of the Four Seasons from Ain Beida near Timgad, 2nd century AD. National Museum of Antiquities, Algiers, Algeria.

The best place to find an ancient labyrinth? It’s India, not Crete. “A classical 15-circuit labyrinth — the largest such circular maze-like structure discovered in India… — has been found” dating to ca. the 1st century & revealing the many trade & cultural links w/ Ancient Rome #GlobalAntiquity

Merry Solstice! "The time of darkness is past. The winter solstice brings the victory of light." ~ Hexagram 24, The Turning Point

"During the Chaco Era, spruce and fir trees from Mount Taylor were felled and carried the 95km back to Chaco Canyon by foot for use as timbers to roof the monumental Great House structures .... Mount Taylor was also a major obsidian source ..."

Day 21 of the Art UK art advent celebrates the Winter Solstice ❄️ #ArtAdventCalendar Explore Stonehenge in art 👉 https://artuk.org/discover/stories/stonehenge-in-art#ArtAdventCalendar 'Blue Stonehenge' by Michele Elizabeth Field (1953–2014) © the artist's estate. 📷 Oxford University Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust

Happy #WinterSolstice ❄️ In Chaco Canyon in the US Southwest, ancient monumental roads align with the winter solstice sunrise over Mount Taylor. Features of both land and sky were (and still are) ritually important to the region's Indigenous people. 🆓 doi.org/10.15184/aqy... 🏺 #Archaeology

AOC: I want to remind you where the real crime is. It's in the oligarchs taking $170 billion of our money from health care and food assistance and public programs and taking that and funneling it into a secret police program.

Washington’s refusal to regulate AI is a corruption story. Just ask Donald Trump and Speaker Mike Johnson.

The one validated intervention to slow aging and extend healthspan is not for sale. It's exercise. sciencedirect.com/science/arti...

We're still trying to understand just how much microplastics are in the environment, its sources, how they impact life, and what can be done about it: delawarecurrents.org/2025/12/15/d... #microplastics #plastic #pollution #PFAS #chemicals #waterquality #drinkingwater

#CatskillScienceCollaborative Fellow Ashok Jacob shares how his research may help keep NYC’s drinking water clean. RFP now open for 2026 CSC Fellows! Profs interested in mentoring a student for paid summer research (up to $18K) in the #Catskills apply by Jan 9. www.caryinstitute.org/news-insight...

A #CatskillScienceCollaborative fellow from @paceuniversity.bsky.social shares how he is tracking an invasive pest's impacts on hemlock forest health: www.caryinstitute.org/news-insight... College/uni profs: Apply by Jan 9 for funding to mentor a student in paid #SummerResearch in the #Catskills

"The rust rivers, as they are known, are leading to increased acidity and elevated levels of toxic metals, which are lowering the quality of waterways. This is a direct consequence of a thawing permafrost across the Arctic ..." www.alaskasnewssource.com/2025/12/18/n...

"The acidic and toxic water is killing insects and other aquatic life relied on by salmon and other fish that are a key food source for the region’s 10,000 residents." Read it for free www.nytimes.com/2025/12/16/c...

Tens of thousands of annual cases of chickenpox, rotavirus, and other vaccine preventable diseases a year - in a country of six million people. Not only will Denmark’s vaccine schedule not work for the US, it already isn’t working for Denmark.