Guy who would be utterly outraged at the suggestion that every member of literally any other minority group be blamed for the crimes of some members is quite happy to say that about "all Jews"

Me before statements like this: Watching the Winter Olympics mainly to cheer against representatives of USA and other nations under fascist control. Me after statements like this: "Go this individual American athlete, sorry to all the people I was cheering before but support withdrawn"

Another one we can't afford to lose. Hoping for full recovery.

It's just brutal the way we are losing some of the best people young when the world needs them most.

I started off sceptical when I wrote about the original research, and got considerably moreso the further I got with writing the article, but it seems I was not nearly sceptical enough - amazing such bad work got published in such a respected journal.

Much as I'd love to escape Meta, I mostly keep personal posting to FB, as it's where my friends are, but for the few here who know us; my wife, Michaela Hart was awarded a Public Service Medal for outstanding public service to archival practice and access to records www.gg.gov.au/australia-da...

There's so much competition, but this flag symbolizes what may end up being the most destructive of all Trump's terrible actions.

Definitely the actions of domestic terrorists </sarcasm>

Interesting...a new clue in the mystery of Prototaxites, the largest land organism in the Devonian period. It wasn't a fungus 🍄 OR a plant 🌱. It's a completely extinct KINGDOM! 🧪 www.science.org/doi/10.1126/... reported by @sluntz.bsky.social for @iflscience.com www.iflscience.com/the-first-gr...

I mean. I am not an expert. But when the government is like “Hey, give me a list of Jews. For uh protection reasons” it would seem like A BAD THING. apple.news/A-AXrNRgkRhm...

I take it the 1% for questions 2-4 are all people who work for these firms. Must be gutting to Musk he couldn't get even them to be ok with making CSAM.

This study is very preliminary given the incomplete data, but it makes a significant advance in revealing the benefits of same-sex sexual behavior for many animals, and for some, such as Japanese macaques, it seems the advantages are very large indeed. www.iflscience.com/from-gorilla...

Netanyahu does not care about combating antisemitism. He is best friends with its biggest purveyors. They both benefit: he makes Europe a more hostile place for Jews, who might then leave for Israel, and they get to pretend that they aren't antisemitic because they are friends with him.

I'm still in shock after hearing the news today. Helping get Emma elected as president of the student union was one of my prouder achievements in student politics. She was one successful candidate I never regretted, but those achievements were small compared to what she did afterwards. Devastating.

Dracula's Chivito is more than just a great name. It's the largest planet-forming disk we have found, and it seems a system like that comes with chaotic features we didn't expect and don't understand. www.iflscience.com/hubble-teles...

I tried to check the claim that there are 2 (and only 2) places on Earth where you can walk directly on the mantle, and how that could be the case. It seems other places have legitimate claims, but those two are the best for that experience. www.iflscience.com/is-it-true-t...

We keep finding more and more examples of multiple species of hominins living in the same region and time. Here's another - a previously undescribes species that lived besides Australopithecus africanus. We don't know which are our ancestors www.iflscience.com/unidentified...

One increasingly dominant strand of Zionism demands that diaspora Jews prioritize the (claimed) interests of Jews above their own welfare, basic humanity and the health of the whole planet. But that's not enough. Now we're expected to place Netanyahu's interests over the nation's.

This year has seen the largest number of Aboriginal deaths in custody since records began in 1980. This is a national shame and tragedy. How many more First Nations people will die before the federal government acts?

It's always best to not rely on a single study until it's replicated, or there is other confirmation, but if this stands up it indicates mRNA vaccines are even better than we thought. French residents 18-59 who were vaccinated had 25% lower mortality over 4 years. www.iflscience.com/enormous-new...

It's bad enough that LLM's tell you lies. While this is hilarious, it also shows that they deny reality even when served it on a plate. How anyone can think they are safe to use for pretty much anything is beyond me.

I'm not familiar with this guy's previous work, but he's nailed this problem really well.

It's wonderful another person has had their HIV eliminated through stem cell transplants, but this currently doesn't scale. However, the fact this worked when it shouldn't (unlike previous cases) suggests there's something we don't understand, and there hope lies. www.iflscience.com/7th-person-c...

I learned about this on Bluesky, but I don't think much media has caught on - a volcano where three plates meet has erupted for the first time in thousands of years. www.iflscience.com/an-ethiopian...

There's so much here. Even if you don't find something you want straight away, keep looking - odds are the right thing is there.

On the old Twitter I followed a couple of people who, while center-left, spent a lot of time criticizing others of similar politics. They mocked warnings about the economic damage Brexit would do, saying they were too large to be credible, and would undermine the Remain case. Hmmmm.

As usual, @astrokatie.com doesn't just get to the truth, but in the last line puts it better than the rest of us have managed.

Yikes. Cutting more jobs than Abbott should not be something any Labor minister should be able to do and look at themself in the mirror.

🙃🙃🙃 cannot believe how short sighted this government is, honestly. Now is the time to be POURING money into research, not cutting it.

As an English speaking country (with nice beaches to boot) for the cost of a small tax on fossil fuel exports or high incomes Australia could invest in science, recruit researchers fleeing the US and become the knowledge powerhouse of the 21st Century. Instead we're doing this.

Releasing the files is good. But if we just listened to the survivors about who abused them, that would tell us what we really need to know.

In normal times I would think that this was either incompetent drafting or an ambit claim, and the worst aspects would be removed before passing, but these are not normal times. Will those who called people asking for their pronouns to be respected a war on science act? Don't hold your breath.

Think Australia's animals are weird today? For tens of millions of years we were three times as biodiverse as we are now, and that made for some amazingly strange and scary creatures.

Few people know me here, and if friends of Tess Deveze are on here, I haven't connected with many of them. Still, I am trying to establish a health care fund for the staff at one of my favourite orgs in Tess's memory and you can contribute (or just learn) here www.classy.org/fundraiser/6...

40 years ago we’d have congressional hearings falsely accusing metal bands of putting backwards messages in their songs that told kids to kill themselves & now we have a planet-killing chatbot that’s all like “bet you won’t commit suicide chickenshit bitch” & the government is like here’s $5 billion

For anyone now - or 25 years ago - tempted to take Bjorn Lomborg seriously on climate change.

When it comes to suffering created, the cuts to USAID have been the most harmful thing Trump has done, and nothing else is close.

I'm a bit skeptical that the use of (dried) mushrooms as IT storage and processing devices will ever scale, but it's fun to think about. (Including all those suddently obsolete data centers and the energy facilities built to power them). www.iflscience.com/mushrooms-co...

Besides my exclusively Jewish heritage from both parents, I'm Jewish enough when I push back against criticism of Israel I consider simplistic I cop antisemitic abuse, but when I express horror at Israel's current activities or support for progressive candidates, suddenly I'm also not a real Jew.

I'm sure there are a great many things that went into this, but surely one of them is that the federal LNP keep saying you can't run an electricity grid on solar, wind and batteries and South Australians are mostly aware they are about to.

It’s really something, the cognitive dissonance of watching our scientific community be dismantled while every day there’s an announcement of a new, unimaginably cool and useful discovery

Anyone else reminded of John Connor escaping the Terminator? Lots of them without magic running speed, but the same vibe.

This could lead to a life-saving improvement in diagnostic imaging for many medical conditions, and an even more life-saving reduction in cost. But my favourite aspect is that it's a spin off of solar power research. www.iflscience.com/perovskite-c...

Franklin uttered the phrase on this very date (September 17), the last day of the Constitutional Convention, in 1787

I just saw a TikTok like “the motivations of assassins don’t make sense anymore” but boy have they never. Hinkley shot Reagan to impress Jodi Foster. Oswald was such a complete mess people just assume the CIA did it. Guiteau killed Garfield because no one would make him an ambassador.

Frydenberg, like so many others, wanted to pin the murder on the left because he regards his enemies in the culture wars on things like the environment and trans rights as worse than neo-Nazis, which is quite something when you think about it.

The more I think about it, the more decisions like the North West Shelf indicate to me that the Feds have made a calculated - and maybe even correct? - decision that they can afford to take the piss with the goodwill the Australian electorate has for them. The task ahead is to prove them wrong.

Everyone talks about various things being a distraction from the Epstein files, but in a very real sense, everything else is a distraction being dragged in front of us to stop us noticing this.

NEW from @sourcenm.com: A Santa Fe school evacuated Thursday afternoon due to a bomb threat at New Mexico Senate Majority Leader Peter Wirth’s Museum Hill neighborhood home nearby. www.newsfromthestates.com/article/bomb...

Worse than a crime, it was a mistake.