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I wrote about some fascinating modelling for @newscientist.com on the Atlantic Meridional Overturning Circulation (AMOC), which regulates the climate across Europe, Africa and the Americas. 🧪 🌊

There are 5 million reasons to up the tempo on Farage. Hope the media don’t let it go.

Big day today when Le Pen’s future is decided after she used EU funds to pay for her domestic campaigns. Funny how Farage did exactly this but no UK authorities have done anything about it.

Vox pops on #r4today from Reform voters in Runcorn is not news. It’s fire-hosing the audience with the abject ignorance and cultish stupidity of a small minority, spouting their bullshit notions of why it’s ok for Farage to corrupt his arse off and lie to them. “We need Reform”. Do we hell.

SpaceX and others have proposed launching tens of thousands of massive satellites for AI processing in a bid to alleviate some of the woes of terrestrial data centers. But can the technical challenges be overcome? 🧪 🔭

In your face Infantrumpo #Belgium #Balogun www.bbc.co.uk/sport/footba...

Who will win #WorldCupOfBirds Match 93? 1️⃣ Western Plantain-eater (🇬🇭) 2️⃣ Chimango Caracara (🇦🇷) 📊 Show results

Come on, y’all. Caracara’s down by a vote. *Bird extends wing* “I’m caracara and I need your support.” 🦉 #birds 🧪

3/3 Finishing with the 🧪 joke from the ep "iconic fisheries professor John Shepard famously lamented: "Studying fish populations is exactly like studying forests, except you can't see them and they move." Listen to the full Ep on your favorite #podcast app pod.link/1768858286

2/3🧪 The Ep investigates new 📄on White Sturgeon genome & diagnostic 🧬sex markers. White Sturgeon's have 240 #chromosomes! Because you can't tell a ♂️ & ♀️ by looking, hatcheries had to rely on surgical biopsies. This new assay scans for genomic sex markers, & can identify🐟 sex with a fin clip.

1/3🧪 Giant River Sequoias: Reconstructing the #Genome of the White Sturgeon The #Kootenay, #Columbia, & #Fraser rivers has a titan in the depths. The White #Sturgeon, rarely seen, is the largest #freshwater 🐟in #NA. Fisheries geneticist Dr. Stuart Willis (Hagerman #Genetics Lab) joins the #pod!

New evidence of sharp-force trauma in Qafzeh-25 A taphonomic reassessment of Qafzeh 25 and its implications for violence, health and funerary practices🏺🧪 www.nature.com/articles/s41... The taphonomic study conducted here confirms Qafzeh-25 was deliberately buried h/t @qafzeh.bsky.social

Sightings off Southern Africa suggest blue and fin whales may be rebounding news.mongabay.com/short-articl... 🦑🌎🧪

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Inner ear anatomy of caenagnathid oviraptorosaurs: onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1002/... 🪶🧪 (📷Bazzana-Adams et al.)

Homo sapiens have been around for ~ 300,000 years... Yet, there was another species of human that survived for nearly 2 million years, the "grandparent" of so many other human species... including us. We’re not the most successful human species 🏺🧪 www.youtube.com/watch?v=HIhC...

🆕🍁 Canadian Ag-Land Monitoring System (CALMS): Weekly NDVI anomalies 📆 22 - 28 June, 2026 📀 agriculture.canada.ca 🧪 ℹ️ Weekly crop condition (Max-NDVI) maps throughout growing season (end of March to the end of October). Download data for *FREE* (2000 to present): 🔗 tinyurl.com/AAFC-CALMS

Drought again. We had a bit of June rain early on, since then nothing. British rainfall used to be across the year, but we seem to be on what used to be a Med pattern of wet winters & dry summers.

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It's a day of fab asteroid news! 🤩 Image drop from yesterday's Japanese Space Agency JAXA high-speed close flyby of asteroid #Torifune (~450m across). This is the extension mission of #Hayabusa2, after its successful 2020 asteroid-sample collection from Ryugu. Next stop: another asteroid in 2031 🤩🔭🧪

@australianlabor.bsky.social @albomp.bsky.social Instead of sending billions to a rapist in America invest in Australia's future. Do this www.ecoportal.net/en/switzerla...

This is happening this Thursday! In-person talk at the Linnean Society at 6 pm - grab your tickets now! Here: www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/1989218859...

When I saw this headline I thought Harry Kane was staying at Buckingham Palace! www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...

I decided it was cheapest to get membership plus guest, as I like to go two or three times a year & I'd always meant to sign up. It still took 6 hours! By then it was pretty much December only, which was fine. www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...

This is so clever, a Macro photo of a Damselfly on stem! The full image of the damselfly showing off those iridescent wings which are stunning! They shimmer in blues, greens and violet in the sunlight.

Fun fact: this is the most common argument used in defence of AI and data centres, often by dudes who'd never dream of making this argument for a country

Well in the World Cup last night, another victory for Yorkshire! www.bbc.co.uk/sport/footba...

It was not intended to be politicized. A specific effort was made by reactionary organizations to groom and advance politicized candidates. It took decades and exploited unfortunate aspects of the culture of the Senate that acted as a kind of old boys club blessing candidates as a courtesy.

Why is Bluesky incapable of understanding the spelling of defence?

What we wasted on HS2 could have solved the defence funding gap

If you want to hear about latest scholarship on digital approaches to medieval studies and meet digital medievalists, do not miss our fantastic line up at #IMC2026 sponsored by @digitalmedievalist.bsky.social! All welcome to our reception on Wednesday evening as well as all the sessions!

Haisulit kukkii

Other than David Hearn, the Olympian arrested for allegedly vandalizing the Reflecting Pool after he touched a loose piece of coating, do we know ANYTHING about anyone else arrested, as Trump and the Park Service claims?

This, and the very next sentence shows they cannot do the thinking they claim to champion without lapsing into predictable fallacies: “Just as calculators…”

Man må føle seg rimelig klovn som miljøvernminister når man sier «Miljøtilstanden i Førdefjorden vil ikke forverres» når man fortsetter å dumpe avfall til over sommeren, når en høyesterettsdom sier at dumping i Førdefjorden ikke skal gjøres fordi den forgifter fjorden.

Working in the library and having your headphones suddenly disconnect is embarrassing in itself, let alone when you're watching a Jane Goodall documentary and the whole quiet workplace suddenly echoes with screaming chimpanzees. Jane would have loved this. 🐵

sounds like the Defence Review is about good enough to buy a bigger white flag!

This is a reminder that headlines like this are inherently biased against nuclear as a technology. It's 1 reactor shut down, 2 with lowered output, out of 56 total, to prevent warm water discharge from killing fish. And this could be fixed by building cooling towers.

bsky.app/profile/jame... I’ll accept your apology here.

Why are autonomous vehicles even legal in the UK? Has no one in government realized that tech companies are testing dangerous gizmos on people and getting away with murder, whether with their rotten vehicles or other tech? Criminal penalites, anyone?

_Religion and Slave Revolts in the Roman Mediterranean_ has a page with @uwiscpress.bsky.social! [Cover image TBD; tell your libraries to buy a copy in 2027] uwpress.wisc.edu/Books/R/Reli...

www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/m... Rebellion Ten Fights That Made the Green Movement Episode 1 of 11 [podcast available] Extinction Rebellion launches one of its first ever occupations. Its target? Not a fossil fuel company or government, but its supposed ally: Greenpeace.

The things you end up doing in a Museum job! For example, staging a birthday party for a taxidermied sheep (Dolly will have been born 30 years ago on 5 July). For video with music by Dolly's musical namesake, see www.instagram.com/reel/DaKxaHs....

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41C in the UK? In 2015 the IPCC warned world leaders not to breach 1.5C as it would unleash “frequent & severe droughts, heatwaves & rainfall.” We’re now on track for 2C in years, 3C in decades & 4C in our children’s lifetimes. The most spectacular failure of leadership in history.

A shortish cycle ride (27 miles) on Sunday with @jeremybartlett.bsky.social to a small local wood yielded some nice inverts. Large Skipper was the only butterfly out of 16 species seen that posed for a photo. More obliging were Chthonius ischnocheles & the ever-lovely Lacinius ephippiatus.

Must-read guide from @privateeyenews.bsky.social