Two weeks ago I spent the whole day at the Museum of the Moving Image to listen to New Yorkers. This is what Liam shared with me.

www.thestar.com/news/gta/how... This is really inspiring - so great to have a good-news story for a change

"Academics literally cannot make genAI go away" we also can't make underage drinking go away and we're not advocating for installing bar carts in every classroom.

Stuart Brooks helped move peatlands from the policy margins to a climate and biodiversity priority. A geographer by training, he built restoration standards, aligned practice with policy at major trusts, and as founder of the IUCN UK Peatland Program shaped protections still guiding work today.

The Horn Antenna in Holmdel, New Jersey Using that instrument, Arno Penzias and Robert Wilson accidentally discovered the persistent radio hiss that had a profile consistent with relic radiation from the Big Bang, cooled down over billions of years. #histSTM

One thing that I’ve become increasingly certain of over the course of this year: As an academic, I do not have (and never will have) a responsibility to teach students to use Gen AI ‘ethically’ (as if that were possible). The idea that academics should be doing this is a blight on the sector.

163 years ago in Mankato, 38 Dakota men were hung in the largest mass execution in our nation’s history. I’m grateful to the riders who continue to remind us the importance of fighting for accountability and healing for the Dakota people. www.mprnews.org/story/2025/1...

The transformation of Etsy from a marketplace for handmade items to a marketplace for resale of mass-produced items with misleading keywords and list prices seems like it leaves an open market niche for a marketplace for handmade items.

Norwegian Scientists amazed by their discovery of ~250 million year old fossil site containing extremely high diversity & abundance of marine reptiles, sharks, & other creatures www.sciencenorway.no/dinosaurs-pa...

Since a lot of people seem to be confused, this is what fascism sounds like in the American context.

🤡putin on Ukraine: “We do not believe that we’re responsible for the death of people because we did not start this war.”

A storm of new #stars: located over 50 million light-years from Earth in the constellation Columba, #galaxy NGC 1792 is rich in star-forming regions. Credit: ESA/Hubble & NASA, D. Thilker, F. Belfiore, J. Lee and the PHANGS-HST Team More information & links: esahubble.org/images/potw2...

If you slept on DJT’s monologue to the nation yesterday, here’s the short version.

Dogs always come through in a bad week

it was probably a mistake teaching him to read

Mega heat pumps are coming. It’s great to see that so many projects are now underway around the world. There’s a real competition on who builds the biggest heat pump. Technology has come a long way and keeps getting better.

Arctic endured year of record heat as climate scientists warn of ‘winter being redefined’

The My Voice, My Choice campaign gets a vote on Wed. in the European Parliament. It would enable women from EU countries that restrict abortion to have free abortions in another member state. It's expected to pass but the European Commission ​must still decide whether to adopt the proposal.

This is extremely important

Russia destroyed 100% of Odesa’s energy infrastructure. All substations were destroyed by missiles and drones. The city has been completely left without electricity, hot water, and heating for over one million people, including all critical infrastructure.

Rand Paul: "The president also said, 'Be careful Colombia, you could be next.' I mean, if we're gonna go and topple regime after regime in South America, there's no amount of money that could be printed to pay for that and I don't think lives should be lost without a vote by Congress."

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We sadly know Zoe Weissman because of Parkland. In fact, our families are so close, that she has been there for my wife and I after Parkland and helped with our foundation Orange Ribbons For Jaime. America, are you ok with this?

Canada’s anti-greenwashing rules protect our health, but they’re under threat. Send a message to Ottawa: don’t give fossil fuel companies the license to lie to us. Choose truth, health and transparency instead. cape.ca/action/prote...

"Sorry Russian Propaganda, I can't hear you, repeat?"

all i'm saying is that there were better options

I guess it's fitting that it's a reimagined, worse version of someone else's artwork

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#P.E.I. to sell remaining U.S. liquor, donate profits to food banks An estimated $600,000 in net profit from sales will be donated to food banks across the island. The province says American alcohol will not be reordered after it is sold. /1 thread www.ctvnews.ca/atlantic/pri...

This is the second time I have photographed one of my favorite Mycena species - this one is found on leaves and has regular water droplets along the stem for a reason which remains a mystery to me. From the Chocó Andino region of Ecuador. #mycology #fungi #mycena #fungifriends

The U.S. is mirroring a pattern that has happened in authoritarian regimes around the world. When a government erects barriers to reproductive care, it doesn’t just cause death and suffering for women and their families. Such policies are often a first step in the gradual decline of democracies.

The Supreme Court, Presidency, Senate and two party system are all quite anti-democratic institutions as presently constructed. Our institutions are not only incapable of preventing tyranny—they’re currently enabling it. When democracy returns, we need to reform our political system.

Long Ago, Mars Had Massive Watersheds - Now Finally Mapped ->Universe Today | #mars #watershed #space | More from Lil Dr Glen EcoChat at BigEarthData.ai

Putin: ‘Russia is ready to keep fighting until the last Ukrainian dies.’ Committing the genocidal intention on the international stage West:”we must pursue a diplomatic solution”

RFK Jr: "Two weeks ago we ended, under your leadership, a twenty year war on women". Three out of five men in this shot have been accused of sexual misconduct, harassment or abusive behaviour towards women. A fourth signed into law a near-total abortion ban in his state as governor.

Agents in Key Largo, Florida ripped this woman wearing medical scrubs out of her car as she screamed she is a US citizen. Agents cuffed her and put her in one of their cars. She was eventually let go, per David Goodhue of the Miami Herald, who also took this footage:

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.

Can somebody please just leak the Epstein files in their entirety already?

EPA just okayed PFAS “forever chemicals” on produce. Protect yourself by choosing organic, avoiding sludge-fertilized farms, buying local, and asking grocers to reject PFAS. Shifting spending to PFAS-free farms pressures the industry to stop.

Banning street hockey in Canada? This isn’t about protecting kids. It’s about protecting drivers from having to think about kids.

If telling the troops not to follow illegal orders is “sedition,” what do we call colluding with the Kremlin to manipulate the U.S. President into advancing Russian interests over America’s?

“I have lived through the massacre every day”[…]“Our country may forget this history,but I cannot.I will not.And other survivors do not.And our descendants do not” «No White person was ever charged or held liable for the attack,leaving an enduring sense of injustice among survivors and descendants»

First Secretary of Defense you could defeat by painting a tunnel on the side of a boulder.

A mayoral candidate saying maybe the city should cover the cost of bus rides gets the full socialism panic treatment before he even tries it. A sitting president taking billions of dollars worth of shares in private companies gets “I must say, a tad unusual” after it’s been going for nearly a year.

Breaking News! Code UFB!!! On November 22nd, the planet hit 1.81°C above the 1850-1900 pre-industrial baseline, making it the warmest November 22nd on record, and likely the warmest November 22nd in the last 120,000 years. Hot times ahead.