House Sparrows. Originally I painted these little guys for my "moving house" postcard. #SciArt #birds #birdart #gardenbirds

Trump EPA: "nothing to see here."

📹 La presa de Montejaque (Málaga) alivia agua por primera vez en cien años de historia. La infraestructura, fallida porque fue construida en terreno poroso, se ha llenado en las últimas semanas por las intensas lluvias. Sigue la última hora del temporal social.elpais.com/aqw…

"You said it feels like there's a barrier between you two, can you build on that?"

The rain in Spain ...floods the plains

File this with all the other climate charts that look like someone plotted the latest data on the wrong axes

Dinosaurs And Non-Dinosaurs xkcd.com/3204/

Glad to hear of your higher ideals. Alas, even in the Nordic countries the far right has 20-30% of the vote. Shame folks have forgotten history ..

My homeland dodges the descent into extremism once again. Yet, one in every three Portuguese voted for a far right, US-style president. Democracy holds, but to me this is a sad day nonetheless... Minha gente, passaram 50 anos, e já nos esquecemos?

Ferbruary #oldknees

Working with #kakapo, this is the best thing you'll ever see. When "candling" an egg you hold your breath, hoping to see this: beautiful embryo development in a fertile egg. This is Tiwhiri's second egg, about 8 days old. About half of eggs are infertile. #kakapo2026 #conservation #birds

If Bilbo had Chat GPT

They say the key to fighting addition is to find a replacement. NA beer over regular beer. A coffee instead of smokes. So stop doomscrolling the "For You" feed here and start writing and running #Rstats code on your phone apps.apple.com/us/app/webri.... Cool work @coatless.bsky.social 🎩

Wow. This is devastating. www.science.org/content/arti...

Please. This is absurd. Europe can certainly deter Russia and defend itself if its focused and determined. Perpetuating a sense of European helplessness may help Rutte bureaucratically but its 1. wrong 2. prevents action. 3. willfully blind: the US ain't coming to defend Europe.

This post got some attention today, so I'm sharing it around again :) Our next paper is just around the corner, stay tuned!

Fun fact + incredibly funny diagram 🦠 phys.org/news/2026-01...

Don't look away.

Wake up. Make breakfast. Do email. Watch a murder. Go to a party for a 5 year old. Laugh with my daughter. See a different angle of that murder. Hear govt officials slander the victim. Play Barbies with my kid. Feed her dinner. Tear up at that victim reading last honors to a vet. Put kid to bed. USA

A video of Alex Pretti reading out the final salute of an unnamed veteran he cared for until the end of his life in the ICU, posted to Facebook by his son.

Imagine what’s happening in the camps.

This is courage. Looking a masked, government fascist dead in the eye, face to face, knowing full well that your life is on the line. If elected officials had 1/10th of Alex Pretti's resolve, we would have far fewer troubles.

I'm trying to focus on my work but I am sick to my stomach.

I'm seeing people saying that they are glad they're Canadian in reply to today's tragedy. I also saw a person wielding a sign saying "we need some Canadian ICE" at an anti-immigration protest not long ago. I agree with you that we are much better off up here. But stay sharp; we are not immune.

NEW VIDEO: this appears to be the footage from the woman in the pink coat.

In zoomed-in footage slowed down of the ICE murder, it does appear they disarmed the man prior to any shots being fired.

Frey: "I'm done being told our community members are responsible for the vitriol in our streets ... the invasion of these heavily armed masked agents roaming around on our streets of Minneapolis, emboldened with a sense of impunity, it has to end"

O'Hara: "Initially some information was relayed to me that our officers were told that they were either not needed or could leave. I gave a direct order to ensure that Minneapolis police maintain the scene."

Do you know how hard it is to get cops to seemingly side with people shot by a bunch of officers

Café. Looking up from my notebook to see two friends talking about yoga in a ping-y, fun conversation, when one picks up her phone casually, like to check the time or something, & then she goes quiet & hands it across the table, & then the friend goes quiet. & then I watch the news spread—a fire.

They didn’t just shoot him. They executed him. It’s fascism. They’re modern Nazis. They’re criminals. Any reasonable government would impeach and arrest the president now, today.

Minneapolis protester as he's being brutalized by feds: "You're gonna have to kill me! You're gonna have to kill me! I've done nothing wrong! My name is Matthew James! I'm a US citizen! You're gonna kill me! Is that what you want?" (You can hear his wife screaming)

Renee Good's autopsy blows the lid off lies from Trump's DHS: ex-prosecutor

In 2018, the tipping point on Trump’s child separation was the recording of that little girl trying to get back to her family as other kids sobbed around her. This should be a similar one. Kidnapping a 5-year-old to use as bait to catch his family is truly sick, neo-Nazi stuff.

'Canada lives because of the U.S.,' Trump says during Davos speech. 'Remember that, Mark' calgaryherald.com/news/canada/...

We can build walls or we can be more ambitious — and build something better, stronger, and more just.

#datavis of the month

In the middle of the night the President was posting private messages from European leaders, criticizing the UK, and sharing a fake image of a map in which the US controls Greenland, Canada, Venezuela, and Cuba.

This 1943 U.S. Army film warned about fascism in America

Breaking News: President Trump told Norway’s prime minister that one reason he’s pushing to acquire Greenland is because he didn’t win the Nobel Peace Prize.

👇👇

What makes this statement by Emmanuel Macron so unprecedented is, for the first time, a leading European ally is equating Trump with Putin. “No intimidation or threat will influence us - neither in Ukraine, nor in Greenland, nor anywhere else in the world.” EVERYTHING has changed.

Photo by Pierre Lavie. Yes this is me. And I threw my Leica. It landed on the bass plate with hardly a scratch. Another Photographer grabbed it along with my phone and I was able to track him later. I was held face down tear gas deployed right in front of me and pepper sprayed directly into the eye.

Extraordinary photo and photojournalist. Imagine being attacked on all sides and still having the presence of mind to try to save evidence of the oppressive encounter.

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Greenland Prime Minister Jens-Frederik Nielsen: “If we have to choose between the United States and Denmark here and now, we choose Denmark. We choose NATO, the Kingdom of Denmark, and the EU.”

Ew.

Swedish PM: "Swedish Armed Forces personnel have begun deploying to Greenland today as part of a group from several allied European nations. [...] Sweden is sending personnel from the Armed Forces at Denmark’s request."

Denmark has begun deploying special elements and heavy military equipment to Greenland to establish defensive positions and logistical infrastructure ahead of a larger Danish Army deployment, with additional European forces expected to follow, including Sweden that is deploying forces today.

We should do that now, anyway. The U.K. has thousands of US military living here. What if Trump decided to turn them on us?