Mathematicians warn of AI threats to profession as industry encroaches arstechnica.com/tech-policy/...

If I had a hammer... it might actually be a rhino tooth arstechnica.com/science/2026...

Fired Scott Pelley Decries “Heartbreaking” Submission To Trump By CBS, Paramount: “Incompetence & Unprofessionalism In The New Management Have Wreaked Havoc” deadline.com/2026/06/scot...

Ötzi the murdered Iceman’s microbiome is still active www.scientificamerican.com/article/otzi...

Male bowerbirds prefer to dazzle females with bright human-made items. “It’s a reminder of how human activity is changing the natural world in unanticipated ways.” arstechnica.com/science/2026...

It’s such a pathetic sign of the weakness of their whole project that they won’t even fight their own battles. You guys wanted to run the show! Do the fucking news! People in newsrooms disagree all the time you have to fight to show your ideas are better! But no, they just demand obedience. Lazy.

This is incredibly bad for many reasons. The obvious: targeting scientists using approved and legitimate methods to move samples (deactivated is a really important word in this doc). The less obvious: high similarity to a number of existing conspiracy narratives targeting public health work.

Lending $620M to a firm tied to Donald Trump Jr. is one of many actions by the Trump administration that have helped companies in which the Trump family holds stakes. But it’s the first contract to be directly linked to White House intervention.

🧵1/3 🎮 What if cultural history disappears because no one is allowed to preserve it? Jordan Mechner, creator of Prince of Persia, reflects on the fragility of games, media, and cultural memory in his essay in VANISHING CULTURE, from the #InternetArchive. Read it here: archive.org/details/vani...

a reminder that the USPS has new rules that make it very important to not put your mail ballot in a normal mailbox in the final days: boltsmag.org/usps-postmar...

Might’ve laughed a bit too hard at this.

"They’re going to have to fire him. No amount of HR speak will have him retract what he said," one CBS staffer just told me, adding: "For an anti-woke crusader, this is pretty woke of [Bari] to accuse Pelley of after firing the entire leadership of his show and two correspondent colleagues."

someone like bari weiss who is used to bullying low level reporters and adjunct professors into getting fired is not going to like how this plays out for her when the same tactics are applied to someone whose contract was written by high powered entertainment lawyers

This is a helpful guide! If you haven’t made a comment yet, please do! Even—especially—if you’re not a scientist!

Ann Coulter is back to promoting Donald Trump. This can only mean she saw dollar signs as she has no morality or conscience.

This video camera study showed that less than 5% of people on bikes broke traffic laws while riding bikes, yet 66% of people did so while driving. And perhaps even more importantly, if you REALLY want even MORE bike-riders to obey laws, build more protected bike infrastructure. Via @carltonreid.com

this map is useless without the locations of the best concessions stands tbh

This is very funny way for the whole country to find out how ruthlessly bored everyone is in Maine.

How Gödel numbers turn mathematical laws against themselves www.scientificamerican.com/article/how-...

The best museums in the world for art, history, and science qz.com/best-museums...

Display of a Bohemian waxwing. These are largely found in the northern boreal forests of North America/Eurasia, and are social birds that form large noisy groups-sometimes in the 1000's- as they scour the landscape looking for fruit. 📹 wildsafarisaga on IG

The Real Reason North Carolina’s GOP Is Proposing the Most Radical Anti-Abortion Bill Yet slate.com/news-and-pol...

Tadpoles Use a World War I Naval Strategy to Dazzle Predators

A little #SciComm PSA for #pride month 🐡

I'm watching the National Academies of Science's "State of the Science" address, and it's like McNutt is inhabiting an alternate reality. THE FEDERAL GOVERNMENT IS TRYING TO BURN DOWN THE ENTIRE SCIENTIFIC ENTERPRISE, and she's talking about red tape and industrial partnerships.

When I look up at the night sky I yearn to know what other sentient creatures are out there, unless they look like Astrospartus mediterraneus in which case please god let me die ignorant

Welp there’s no unseeing this

This is good: Dems are moving to force Rs to vote on Trump's corrupt IRS immunity deal, now that the slush fund is in doubt. The exemption from IRS audits is getting overlooked, but it shouldn't. Dems tell me they're pushing for votes to kill it. New piece from me: newrepublic.com/article/2112...

This is a good reminder we need to be watching ALL the settlements/payouts Trump may make thru DoJ.

Yep. That’s why @benjaminwittes.lawfaremedia.org and I sued the Justice Department in January, seeking records of any and all settlement agreements entered into by Trump’s DOJ. That case is still ongoing. (Shoutout to our lawyer @claytonbailey.bsky.social!) www.courtlistener.com/docket/72185...

This was at a Pennsylvania truck stop diesel pump.

Remember how there were stickers showing up everywhere, like EVERYWHERE, even in deepest blue Minneapolis, showing Biden saying "I did that!" when gas was 2.80? Politics is just 12 year olds with infinite money and power dunking on us little folk forever, using local maga shitheads as proxies.

Chris Murphy to Markwayne Mullin: "Every single day this agency is violating the Constitution and the law. This cannot continue. For Congress to approve of this budget, you must assure us that this Sherman's March of illegality ends. The worry is the opposite is about to happen."

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Schwab Retail Client Sentiment Survey Q2 2026: Many retail clients expect a recession and view the market as overvalued

He Blew the Whistle on DOGE. Then His Brakes Were Cut www.wired.com/story/he-ble...

OpenAI Really Doesn’t Like the Attention Its Co-Founder’s Political Donations Are Getting gizmodo.com/openai-reall...

California Eighth Grader Wins Scripps National Spelling Bee With a Record-Setting 32 Words in 90 Seconds laughingsquid.com/scripps-spel...

Number of suspected Ebola cases falls by hundreds as testing ramps up arstechnica.com/health/2026/...

Jongjin Park Layers Slip-Soaked Paper into Patchwork Sculptures www.thisiscolossal.com/2026/06/jong...

After weeks of strained relations with Congressional Republicans appointing Pulte was an incredible mistake by Trump. bsky.app/profile/keit...

We live in a world beyond parody

"That the federal government has been completely hollowed out by corruption and no longer functions, something that will result in unfathomable suffering and fatalities for decades to come, generally isn't of interest to the corporate press."

The truth lies in the past in "Silo" S3 trailer arstechnica.com/culture/2026...

‘IX XI’ Trailer: New Yorkers Share Powerful Memories Of 9/11 As Major Anniversary Approaches – Tribeca Festival deadline.com/2026/06/ix-x...

Elon Musk Laid Out 602 Goals. We Counted How Many He Hit. The billionaire has stated many plans for his businesses, but has delivered only some of what he said he would, when he said he would, according to a Times analysis. www.nytimes.com/interactive/...

Did you know the 1st time terrorists used planes to attack Americans wasn't 9/11 or Pearl Harbor? It was the Tulsa Race Massacre when white supremacists flew planes to drop bombs on Black Americans. This week marks 105 yrs since one of the most underrecognized acts of racial violence in US history.

Trump's DOJ is scrapping its $1.8 billion 'anti-weaponization' fund after a court blocked it qz.com/trump-doj-an...

To whomever is reading this, you are just as qualified for this role as Bill Pulte

This story is just weird - he's still trading stocks. www.nytimes.com/2026/06/02/n...