Pleased to say that @slate.com has published an excerpt of BEYOND BELIEF. This part of the book looks at how critical decisions on how to save species are often made with little regard for evidence of whether they work. Includes two of my fave stories: bats + caribou. slate.com/technology/2...

Loved researching this for @nature.com. A mist of DNA engulfs us & ecologists are figuring out how to grab it to measure biodiversity. @jlittlefair.bsky.social @richardmleggett.bsky.social @profbatgirl.bsky.social @erinhahn.bsky.social @drbarnes.org www.nature.com/articles/d41...

Also, this is maddening. The authors could have *asked* why even zero-profit-margin journals is the AAS Journals cost so much to produce. No need to imagine! There's a lot more to producing a real, archived, edited, typeset, scientific article with data than peer reviewer labor.

The ecologists who study nature without going outside bit.ly/3YtoSnu @tadeorp.bsky.social @sarabssethi.bsky.social @tokehoye.bsky.social @billsutherland.bsky.social @bessonmarc.bsky.social @laura-pollock.bsky.social @kevinjgaston.bsky.social

Energy transitions can happen faster than we think: In 2000 almost 90% of Denmark's electricity was from fossil fuels. In 2024 less than 10% of Danish electricity was from fossil fuels.

NVIDIA and Starcloud have just taken a big step toward moving power-hungry, polluting data centers from Earth to space. Starcloud think they can have a commercial scale data center in orbit in the early 2030s. It does seem to make sense. What do you think? spectrum.ieee.org/nvidia-h100-...

Attacks on healthcare facilities in #Gaza across 2024 (play gif). “I’ve not seen anything like it... In my work on human rights and healthcare attacks over decades, I have not seen anything like the almost daily attacks on hospitals.” More: buff.ly/u02hKUp (free to access)

Do we really want 250,000 mirrored satellites in Low Earth Orbit? Hasn't the Starlink megaconstellation already done enough damage? 🧪 @mjibrown.bsky.social

after the 10th radioactive shrimp recall in 7 weeks, i decided to do some digging little did i know it would lead me to an underreported industrial accident that may have released an airborne plume of radioactive debris over swaths of indonesia www.consumerreports.org/health/food-...

Bleak account of working in local papers for Newsquest, which continues to send millions of pounds a year to its US private equity owners, while producing "cheap, synthetic, low-quality fare" and using AI reporters to cover councils. westcountryvoices.co.uk/ultra-proces...