En démocratisant autant l’accès que la diffusion de l’information, Internet, algorithmes et réseaux sociaux ont également démultiplié la portée et la toxicité des théories les plus fantaisistes. Souvent victime de cette désinformation, la science est aussi une arme précieuse pour en identifier ...

Once-threatened koala populations in parts of Australia are showing surprising signs of genomic recovery. go.nature.com/40eqgLM

Crucial and powerful essay by @virginiaheffernan.bsky.social. Lest we forget. www.thenerve.news/p/epstein-bi...

For anyone who would like the clip (including George).

Les femmes de plus de 70 ans représentent une part importante des victimes de féminicides, mais les violences conjugales les frappant sont encore peu documentées. Et elles-mêmes tendent à les minimiser.

Le délire continue. Jamais la France n’avait connu une période aussi longue et continue au-dessus des normales*. Habituellement, même lors des épisodes exceptionnels, on finit par en voir le bout. Là, non. Les prévisions maintiennent des températures de 15 à plus de 20 °C jusqu’à J+10. 1/2

Vouloir " jeter les prisonniers étrangers en Méditerranée" ce ne sont pas des "propos intolérables". Mais des propos intolérables. Allez vous faire foutre avec vos guillemets Le Parisien

Faut-il débattre d’écologie avec l’extrême droite ? Nous avons interrogé chercheurs et historiens pour répondre cette question. La conclusion est claire, et celles et ceux qui font ce choix ne pourront plus dire qu'ils ne savaient pas. bonpote.com/faut-il-deba...

Christian Nationalist Logic: "We're gotta waste millions of dollars killing folks in a useless war because Jesus is powerless to just come back himself and start Armageddon if we don't. He needs our help, y'all! Glory!"

EXCLUSIVE: At more than 30 installations, U.S. commanders told troops the war on Iran is a Christian war. The Military Religious Freedom Foundation has been “inundated” with more than 110 complaints. One NCO said they were told the U.S. war is to bring about Armageddon and the return of Jesus…

The largest and sharpest image ever taken of the Andromeda galaxy — otherwise known as M31. It is the biggest Hubble image ever released and shows over 100 million stars, thousands of star clusters in a section of the galaxy’s disc stretching across over 40 000 light-years. Original post

Neuron-powered computer chips can now be easily programmed to play a first-person shooter game, bringing biological computers a step closer to useful applications

Mosses are a force of nature - save them Mosses sequester around 6.43 billion metric tons more carbon in the soil than is stored in the bare patches of soil without any plants Mosses can thrive in challenging environments where other plants struggle to survive. news.umich.edu/study-modest...

Avec la disparition des forêts natives au profit des monocultures, la palette du vivant se rétrécit. Les papillons, jadis éclatants, virent au brun.

Diver accidentally captured this breathtaking moment after dropping his camera underwater off the coast of Vancouver Island, British Columbia. [📹 Peter Mieras] Original post

Fossil fuel pollution’s effect on oceans comes with huge costs. A new study details the vast price society is paying for burning coal, oil, and gas. yaleclimateconnections.org/2026/02/foss... #environment #ClimateScience #ecology #SciChat

L’IA progresse aux dépens des femmes www.lesnouvellesnews.fr/lia-progress...

« N'attribuez jamais à la malveillance ce qui s'explique suffisamment par l'incompétence. »

The FBI being on high alert for terrorist actions is important right now. Too bad they fired and gutted their counterterrorism capacity

"Diversity within species contributes to ecosystem functioning and represents an often-overlooked layer of biodiversity." #Biodiversity - we have so little understanding of what we are trashing www.theguardian.com/environment/...

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"an ever more robust body of evidence that birds — one of the best measured families of animals on Earth, and a sentinel for the health of other species — are not OK." www.nytimes.com/2026/02/26/c... Really a great news day.

Israel and the US are aiming at conducting at least four days of intense bombing of Iran. The assassination attempt on Ayatollah Ali Khamenei failed, and he was moved to a secure location. His residence & 30 other locations were struck, including presidential & intelligence buildings.

‘I live in constant fear’: surge in giant sinkholes threatens Turkey’s farmers #Climate

"Rocket launches already contribute to climate change and ozone depletion. Scaling them up to deploy a million aircraft-sized satellites would push upper-atmosphere heating and ozone loss far beyond previous estimates, with the steady burn-up of dead satellites compounding the impacts." 🧪🛰️🚀

Here is the Chevaline from Neal Stephenson's Diamond Age ! Not very foldable though...

Antarctica just saw fastest glacier collapse ever recorded Antarctica’s Hektoria Glacier lost nearly half its ice in just 2 months after lifting off a flat seabed and shattering apart Such events could accelerate global sea level rise much faster than predicted www.sciencedaily.com/releases/202...

PERFECTLY NORMAL

Quels sont les pires partis pour les droits des femmes ? D’après notre analyse inédite des 194 amendements et propositions de lois votées à l’Assemblée nationale depuis 2022, le Rassemblement national fait partie des groupes politiques les plus hostiles aux droits des femmes.

Five ways to spot when a paper is a fraud Avec des morceaux du copain @solalpirelli.bsky.social dedans! www.nature.com/articles/d41...

Longtemps, le travail féminin dans la production agricole n'a été ni rémunéré ni comptabilisé. Le mot "agricultrice" n’a été intégré au dictionnaire français qu’en 1961. ➡️ https://l.franceculture.fr/E40

Nailed it

The president claims that his occupation of DC made the city safer. Experts say it did nothing of the sort. “Virtually everything the administration is doing is pro-crime.”

Blaming beavers for flood damage is bad policy and bad science, research shows phys.org/news/2026-02...

Fascinating discovery - and a further reminder that people 40,000 years ago and more were just as smart, just as creative and innovative, as we are. Lots to #Unlearn about the past phys.org/news/2026-02...

Rapidly growing human-made source of pollution at the highest levels of the atmosphere Subtly changing atmospheric circulation, affect ozone chemistry and high-altitude clouds, altering how sunlight and heat move through the atmosphere

"L'antifascisme est une opposition au fascisme. L'opposition à l'antifascisme, c'est du fascisme."

Comment l'industrie pétrolière a menti sur le recyclage pour continuer à produire du plastique 👀 slatenow.link/4s0VK3A

"Thriving" looks different when you see the receipts: 💰 ExxonMobil: $36 Billion profit (2023) 💰 Shell:$28.25 Billion profit (2023) 💰 BP:$13.8 Billion profit (2023) These are "Godfathers of climate chaos"earning billions while pushing the planet to the edge of destruction .We cannot sustain this.

Je vais être direct : la situation m’inquiète... Après 42j consécutifs au-dessus des normales saisonnières, les prévisions indiquent encore au moins 2 semaines de douceur remarquable, avec des températures pouvant atteindre 20-25 °C, y compris dans le nord de la France en plein mois de février. 1/4

Air pollution isn’t just bad for us—tiny increases in ozone can scramble ants’ chemical signals, making them misidentify nestmates and unraveling their social order. 😮🪲 In Smithsonian Magazine: https://ow.ly/jYcx50Yh6vI In PNAS: https://ow.ly/EW2T50Yh6r4

Insanity. They are laughing at us.

Restored Peatlands Could Become Carbon Sinks Within Decades eos.org/articles/res...

Francesca Albanese : itinéraire et succès d’une fake news

Décolonisation : l’histoire inachevée des derniers peuples sous tutelle news.un.org/fr/story/202...

En France, sept fermes sur dix sont considérées comme intensives www.franceinfo.fr/economie/emp...