This [downloadable] Radio 4 Start the Week will be of especial interest to those of us into Science & Literature #lablit #booksky 💡📚 www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/m...

www.sciencenorway.no/nature-psych... Optimism reduced inflammation in people's bodies. Here are the researcher’s tips for thinking more positively “This isn’t new knowledge. But perhaps it should be used in the doctor's office,” says researcher. 🧪

oh I read this decades ago. Gardner died way too young. Also try Freddy's Book, & I think he translated The Epic of Gilgamesh

Meeting today with two women who are writing a book about the history of prostitution in Victorian North Devon. It's going to be a huge hit, I just know it. #BookSky #Devon #History

Car reading today. 💙📚🖋️📚💬📚⏳ #BookSky #AmReading #Books #ElifShafak #BookClub #LitFic

4/115 📚Wild Dark Shore ✒️Charlotte McConaghy ⭐4/5 Haunting and atmospheric - it played like a movie in my head. Was it perfect? No. But I still really enjoyed it and found it hard to put down. I can already see this getting a screen adaptation! 🖋️📚⚡📚💙

2021 🧵 #1 I read this book over the Christmas/NY break of 2020/21 and it remains the best work of science writing for an intelligent lay audience I have come across (so far.) There's an outline in the alt text and their is not room for me to say much here but the title sums it up. ⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐ 💡📚 #booksky

Surprising result has implications for quantum multicloud storage and information loss from black holes. 🧪⚛️ ow.ly/Zcvr50Y1LOH

Climate change IS making more extreme weather patterns including driving the mega storm hitting the US. Trump claiming otherwise is counterproductive and dangerous #HealthPolicy 🧪🧵

@altnoaa.bsky.social www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...

Wow - the Trump regime surrenders to China & Russia! www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...

Those cuts to science, culture, medicine? They aren't just about research, they are about power. Episode Three of Autocracy in America: www.theatlantic.com/podcasts/202...

Urban And Woodland Birds Prefer Native Deciduous Trees #SciComm🧪 by @grrlscientist.bsky.social #UrbanEcology #Woodlands #Trees🌳 #NativeTreeSpecies #birds🦉 #ornithology🪶 #Scotland🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿 www.forbes.com/sites/grrlsc...

@kristadb1.bsky.social better to be woken by it though, than to not wake because of carbon monoxide!

Tuesday we woke up at 4am to the Universally Effective Alarm (cat barfing at the foot of the bed) & discovered a weird noise in the bathroom that is now costing us $12K & 4 days with a house full of plumbers cutting holes in the walls (& 4 freaked out pets)

Apropos of this thread (x.com/MichaelEMann...) is email (which Trump DOE was forced to release) between climate deniers John Christy & Ross McKitrick worrying about the numerous studies over past 25 year that have reaffirmed original late 90s "Hockey Stick" conclusions: www.edf.org/media/newly-...

Article by Toby Walsh in The Big Issue - he has written The Shortest History of AI theexperimentpublishing.com/catalogs/fal... #booksky 💡📚

BREAKING: Immigration officers are asserting sweeping power to enter homes without a judge’s warrant, a memo obtained by AP says.

Publishing a paper with "agriculture" in the abstract has opened up a whole new world of scam conferences for me to get invited to.

Farage is a Quisling - that much is clear

#aiart is not art! It is artifice.

Haven’t read a Maigret novel in a bit. Cécile Is Dead was worth the wait. #booksky 💙📚

Responsibility Accountability Republicans, the Republican Party, Republican voters and Republican supporters are responsible for Donald Trump. Donald Trump is responsible for the destruction of world order. Explain this to your children.

Donald Trump is headed to the World Economic Forum in Switzerland to brag about wrecking the American economy. That's why I've also flown to Davos — with an extra suitcase of kneepads for those caving to Trump's insanity — to vigorously defend California as an alternative to Trump's world disorder.

Two days ago it was Elissa Slotkin. Last week it was Jerome Powell. Before that, Mark Kelly. Weaponizing the justice system against your opponents is an authoritarian tactic. The only person not being investigated for the shooting of Renee Good is the federal agent who shot her.

Becquerel published his results in 1896. In 1897, Marie began casting about for a new research project. I can imagine Marie, head bent over this paper, reading with rapt attention. -Hmmm… what were these strange emissions? #chemsky #chemistry #booksky Archive version

To put Henri’s work in an unfairly small nutshell: He was the first person to detect that anything that contained uranium emitted some kind of high energy ‘ray’ that had not heretofore been characterized. #chemsky #chemistry #booksky

In a series of notes. - So much more than a romantic comedy -Enter Antoine Henri Becquerel #chemsky #chemistry #booksky

Trump told NBC News “no comment” when asked if he’d use force to seize Greenland. He plans 10% tariffs on Denmark and others until the U.S. gains control. Trump also tied the dispute to his failed Nobel bid, accusing Norway of controlling the prize. #Trump

A very happy birthday to Dolly Parton - I just heard on the radio about her wonderful book charity. Her father was illiterate so she set up a charity to send books to children up to the age of 5 to get them started on reading imaginationlibrary.com #booksky 📚💙

SciAm is here to introduce your two new favorite celebrities today! First off, Veronika, the first known tool-using cow. But charismatic megafauna aside, don't sleep on Baseodiscus the Elder, a ribbon worm who's at least 27 years old! 🧪 www.scientificamerican.com/article/meet...

@johnvaillant.bsky.social may be of interest?

New preprint out!🧪🌍🔥 I observed 17 bird species at two prescribed fires in Sweden. They appeared to mostly ignore the fire, and some (such as this skylark) even sang through the smoke - an important comparison with birds from fire-prone regions (reviewed here). www.authorea.com/users/102018...

❗ The news we all needed: cow uses a broom to scratch herself. Great report of tool use in cattle by @katewong.bsky.social. 🧪 🐄 www.scientificamerican.com/article/firs...

Evolution is less about reaching perfection and more about endlessly chasing a moving target. Adaptive tracking with antagonistic pleiotropy results in seemingly neutral molecular evolution 🧪 www.nature.com/articles/s41... This has implications for the tempo and mode of evolution.

Delightful article by Lee Childs in the Sunday Times on how he became a voracious reader as a child - what made me laugh was that he was not content with the two book limit so he got family & dead relatives to, er, sign up for borrowing tickets so he could get more books! 📚💙 More importantly,

The narrated repair process for this book after 100 years of good use📚 #booksky #librarysky

Is it true, Freida Mcfadden's latest is called Housemaid's Knee - in which a housemaid gets a bad knee from getting down to peer through keyholes... #Booksky ⚡📚

1/ 🧊🔥 The Winter Olympics makes a massive contribution to planet warming pollution... Ironic, given that the Games are especially vulnerable to climate change. 🤔 Our latest report details the climate impact of the Winter Games 👇 🧪 www.sgr.org.uk/publications...

ye gods! Trump really is unhinged! "You didn't give me a Nobel prize so I'm going to sulk & start wars!" Perhaps one person is not a nation, but this person represents a nation, at least in theory, yet himself in practice. He is very dangerous. No wonder the world dislikes the USA.

I'd say, if Trump can learn Greenlandic, & live there for a year on his own, he can have it!

@jennyrohn.bsky.social really interesting!

“In every field, elite youth performers and elite adults were almost entirely separate groups…It is not just that exceptional performance in childhood did not predict exceptional performance as an adult. The two were actually negatively correlated, says Dr Güllich.”🧪

Even if sanity is restored in the US, trust and reliability are gone. Maybe a multipolar world will have some advantages.

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I'd wager this is the angriest statement ever issued by the Nobel Peace Prize people...

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