29 top scientists (including astrophysicist Jocelyn Kelly Holley-Bockelmann, literature professor Maisha Wester, cell biologist Miguel Gonzalez Lozano, legal scientist Itamar Mann) move from the US to the Netherlands to continue their research here. Article: Hanneke de Klerck 1/2

🚨 Manganese mining in South Africa's Kalahari basin is jeopardizing groundwater for farming communities! 📰 Investigations reveal that mining affects aquifers, endangering health and homes. 👉 Learn more: www.journalismfund.eu/green-minera... 🍀 #earthinvestigations #environmentaljournalism

#Agenda 🔹Edinburgh Festival Fringe #edfringe2026 🔹More than 3600 performances 🔹Between 7 and 31 August Via @edfringe.bsky.social www.edfringe.com 1/2

How it started, and how it's going ✨ Astronomy used to mean studying a single object at a time, often by eye or through early telescopes. 🔭🧪 Then came photographic plates, which let us capture the sky for later study. 🧵

Then we developed CCDs and digital detectors, which turned light into precise data that computers could analyze. Around the turn of the century, advances in software and computing made large-scale sky surveys possible for the first time. 🔭🧪

NSF–DOE Rubin Observatory is the next step, bringing in the era of big-data survey astronomy. Rubin is the most powerful survey observatory ever built, capable of not only capturing the entire southern sky, but doing it on repeat every few nights for a decade! 🔭🧪

C'est le retour du Festival Radio France Occitanie Montpellier sur France Musique avec Renaud Capuçon, l'Orchestre du Festival de Budapest et le chef Iván Fischer pour une interprétation au sommet du 2e concerto pour violon de Mendelssohn. ➡️ https://l.francemusique.fr/7qV

Wat zijn de beste boeken aller tijden? De boekverkopers van Athenaeum (sinds 1966) stemden James Baldwin op 1. Lees allemaal Giovanni's Room! En dan: 2. Nescio, 3. Tolstoj, 60. Tove Ditlevsen. Dit is de Gouden Lijst van Athenaeum: athenaeumscheltema.n...

📣 Most ancient quasars ever found! Euclid has discovered 31 ancient quasars. Two of them shone with the light of a trillion Suns back when the Universe was 670 million years old – just 5% of its current age. Discover more 👉 www.esa.int/Science_Expl... 🔭 🧪 ☄️

Double Take👀 Shell-less marine gastropods from the nudibranch group – aka sea slugs! – are striking for their extravagant brilliance of colour and diverse array of forms. A research team @mpici.bsky.social has now discovered exactly how these creatures produce their vibrant, shimmering patterns.

According to their findings, this brilliant coloration does not arise from traditional pigments as previously assumed, but rather from so-called photonic crystals made of the DNA building block guanine.

The specific wavelengths of light reflected – and thus the colours we perceive – depend entirely on the nano-dimensions of these crystals. This mechanism mirrors the way many birds and butterflies produce their brilliant hues 😍

In nudibranchs, however, the crystals are arranged in countless microscopically small "pixels." As a result, the sea slugs’ coloration closely resembles the technique of Impressionist painters, who achieved their luminous effect by placing distinct dabs colour side by side www.mpg.de/26287823/nud...

New publication: Towards standardized molecular monitoring of #HABs: A consensus guide to qPCR. #harmfulalgae #harmfulalgalblooms #cyanobacteria doi.org/10.1016/j.ha...

New publication: Unlocking the potential of boundary crossing research to address #sustainability challenges. #climatechange #biodiversity #biodiversityloss #SDGs doi.org/10.1057/s415...

"Trump has had a number of unpleasant confrontations with the U.S. women's national soccer team. The men's team is remarkably multicultural, diverse and representative of the broader composition of the population." writes @barneyronay.bsky.social in his opinion piece on @theguardian.com 1/2

Audrey Azijnman said to her husband "You have to chain yourself to the steering table of the metro". She was in Amsterdam-Oosterpark, among thousands of other people. All of them are here to celebrate #Ketikoti, or the abolition of slavery on July 1, 1863, the day the "chains were broken." 1/2

The 250th anniversary of the US under Donald Trump – cartoon by @bjennings90.bsky.social / @theguardian.com

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The developers of the project (a significant partnership, our note) : an investment of approximately €2 billion by Kushner & his wife, together with the Kastrati Group in Albania and the Qatar-based Assets Group, led by two in Syria. By Polina Ivanova & Marton Dunai ft.trib.al/uhx5jfD 1/2

In the introduction of this “Talking Classic by Mary Beard, she writes, “Don’t imagine that there are pure nuggets of truth waiting to be discovered in classics. It’s the debate between us and antiquity that I’d important.” 🧵 #classicsbluesky #currentlyreading

And in a lot of ways, I agree with this. What I find most interesting about myths and ancient history isn’t about finding “secret wisdom” to unlock something with us, nor do I care about “preserving Western culture” (yuck).

What I think is interesting about myths and history is how they can be a mirror that we use to look at ourselves through a different lens. (For good or for bad).

Whether that be seeing Fascism on the rise today and the current admin saying “peace through strength,” then seeing a quote from Calcagus (an ancient British leader fighting against the Romans) talking about how the Romans come in, decimate a place, and call the silence afterward “peace.”

Or being submerged in Rape Culture today, but seeing Creusa, a character in Euripides’s play, “Ion,” call out people caring more for a powerful rapist’s reputation than for rape victims (like herself)

I—obviously—really enjoy finding what hasn’t changed in culture over the millennia, and using myths and history to take a hard look in the mirror at ourselves to see what we SHOULD change after millennia.

But the same goes for looking at what’s changed from ancient times until today and using THAT as a mirror to understand ourselves better, too. Because, as my mom has always said, “you can’t find where you’re going if you don’t know where you’ve been.”

But we can’t do that if we can’t take an honest look at antiquity (or any part of history, really), and we can’t do that if we can’t take an honest look at ourselves, too.

Et pour aller plus loin, découvrez notre ouvrage, découpé en courts chapitres illustrés, "Le plastique, un poison si pratique". En donnant la voix aux chercheurs, il nous permet de comprendre les réalités de sa production : sup.sorbonne-universite.fr/catalogue/en...

After a complaint from the action group @clientearth.bsky.social the OEP launched an investigation into "possible serious shortcomings" of Defra. The OEP has now concluded that there have been violations of environmental legislation in four cases. Report: @pippaneill.bsky.social / @theguardian.com

"Throughout history, comedy has proven to be one of the most effective forms of resistance, especially for those living under tyrannical rule." wrote @jmkarmstrong.bsky.social in an article nine years ago. Today are witnesses to one of the bigoted tyranny towards satire. 1/2

A pleasure to speak about my book BEYOND BELIEF and #evidence with @thedissenteryt.bsky.social - podcast and video now out! @princetonupress.bsky.social

Stacking enables IBM’s new chip to pack transistors far more tightly than its previous design. Learn more: https://scim.ag/44irHLf

Venezuelan man pulled alive from collapsed basement eight days after earthquakes

Preliminary first estimate of Dutch @rivm-nl.bsky.social shows increased mortality during heat wave in June. According to initial figures from Dutch statistics, @cbsstatistiek.bsky.social at least 480 (most 80+) more deaths registered between 22 and 28 June, compared to the same period last year.

Presented by @tsyporin.bsky.social et al MIND model provides a unifying framework for experimental, evolutionary, and clinical phenomena, revealing induction and exclusion as antagonistic yet complementary principles that shape the S-A axis and processing hierarchies. go.nature.com/4y0Iakw

Cultura Mbyá Guarani e história da Vila Cai-Cai integram programação gratuita do CHC Santa Casa. Oficinas e bate-papo gratuitos reúnem artistas, pesquisadores e lideranças indígenas entre 4 e 14 de julho

Devastating www.bostonreview.net/articles/the...

Crowdsourcing attacks on science. The next page of the participatory populist playbook.

“It’s just a microscopic water droplet surrounded by a fatty membrane and stuffed with chemicals and snippets of DNA encoding a mere 36 genes. But it’s also arguably the closest researchers have come to building a living cell from scratch.”🧪 My story in @science.org on a fascinating preprint:

Meet the humble SpudCell: ‘Adamala’s colleagues originally wanted to name the lab’s creation after her. “Call it something that’s not my name, call it a potato for all I care,” she says she told them. SpudCell stuck—and the echo of Sputnik is welcome, Adamala says.”’ www.science.org/content/arti...

❗ Un mar de calor: la temperatura de los océanos marca otro récord y empuja al planeta a una fase "inexplorada" www.eldiario.es/sociedad/mar...

#Agenda Via @loewe-fci.bsky.social