Modern humans evolved defenses against lead, new research suggests, allowing them to build more complex and robust societies. https://scim.ag/48zZcvJ

#Italy: last night, a bomb exploded under journalist Sigfrido Ranucci’s car, thankfully causing no injuries. RSF firmly condemns this attack — one of the most serious against an 🇮🇹 reporter in recent years — and calls on the authorities to protect Ranucci and bring those responsible to justice.

Peter Howitt’s Nobel-recognized Theory of Creative Destruction, developed in collaboration with Philippe Aghion & Joseph Schumpeter. reporter.mcgill.ca/peter-howitt... @nobelprize.bsky.social

Microplastics are brought into the wilderness on hiking shoes and gear, study shows. The particles may contain any number of 16,000 plastic chemicals, of which many, such as BPA, phthalates and Pfas. fyi @plasticpollutes.bsky.social via @theguardian.com www.theguardian.com/environment/...

Humans inhale as much as 68,000 microplastic particles daily, study finds www.theguardian.com/environment/...

Professor Mark Bray @mark-bray.bsky.social at MNSBC, a must watch.

Have you read Mark Bray's @mark-bray.bsky.social book? I bought it yesterday. www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025...

China is no more a developing country via @apnews.com apnews.com/article/chin...

I bought Mark Bray's @mark-bray.bsky.social book en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Antifa:.... Can't wait to read it.

That's crazy and outrageous! Death threats for a book published in 2017! @mark-bray.bsky.social www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025...

Well done! Enjoy Spain, the US are crazy!

The 'Iron Lady' of Venezeula, an opposition leader who is currently in hiding, has been lauded by the Nobel Committee.

So this just arrived. On sale October 28.

Is the universe really one big black hole? via @newscientist.com apple.news/A8WvExR1HQji...

iPadOS 26 is making me think about dumping my MacBook Air @romansempire.bsky.social This is what I just did yesterday 😂 No more MacBook, just an iPad now. apple.news/A4mA_cgZcQIa...

Unlike Jesus, I have returned.

A 2024 study found that ants best humans at tests of collective intelligence. Learn more on #WorldAnimalDay: https://scim.ag/42nMvQJ

Julius Caesar was the first Roman to put his own living face on coins, weeks before his death. It is one of the deepest cultural signifiers of something autocracies do and republics do not. “Render unto Caesar.” A practice so notoriously arrogant Jesus himself dunked on it with snarky wordplay.

Trump casts shadow over Nobels as prize-awarding body warns academic freedom at risk via @theguardian.com www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025...

I don’t boycott Netflix because Musk says so. Enough is enough!

foreign influence and disinformation campaigns 👎🏻👎🏻

Ad history gone? 🤯 Disturbing report: Google appears to have deleted its political ad archive for the EU; so the last 7 years of ads, of political spending, of messaging, of targeting - on YouTube, on Search - for countless elections across 27 countries - gone www.thebriefing.ie/google-just-...

All dressed chips were a Canadian secret. Now they have a shot at U.S. stardom. via @thestar.com apple.news/AfE9yVFRRRWO...

I haven’t blocked you, I followed you instead 😀

@pissed-off-g.bsky.social “We, the people” and democracy will come back, not soon enough, but it will 🤝🫶🏻

No one needs to listen to russian propaganda.

Un crâne d’un million d’années pourrait modifier la chronologie de l’évolution humaine via @lapresse.ca www.lapresse.ca/internationa...

From Russia with love ❤️: - "Grassroots movement focused on separating Alberta from Canada" - Webpage capture: archive.is/JbKUV - TikTok screenshot: archive.is/xB1Mc So, yes, Russia remains very interested in Canada.

The West have long been a target of the Kremlin’s disinformation campaigns. Since the annexation of Crimea in 2014, Russia has used a variety of information warfare tactics to destabilize the Ukrainian government & undermine the legitimacy of democratic governments. socialmedialab.ca/2024/03/12/n...

Empathy is under attack — but it remains vital for leadership and connection

Businesses have a moral responsibility to stand up to autocrats

Social media nutrition misinformation fuels food-based attachments

Il y a 17 ans aujourd’hui, je quittais pour vivre l’aventure d’une vie, en Chine !

Shenzhen-Hong Kong-Guangzhou now world’s top innovation hotspot: The UN’s World Intellectual Property Organization (WIPO) said the Chinese cluster had leapfrogged its Japanese rival in its 2025 Global Innovation Index. hongkongfp.com/2025/09/01/s...

Trump's anti-press rhetoric is "not bluster; it is not a personality trait. It is deliberate," @stephaniesugars.bsky.social told @di-sly.bsky.social. "It is very much at the cost of the strength of our social fabric and our shared reality."

Scientists Are Flocking to Bluesky 🎉🎉 apple.news/A8fMMwixRSFS...

There is no 'Global South.' Is there a West?

The Shanghai Cooperation Organization (SCO), as of Sept. 2025. —> Impressively diverse, an economic powerhouse representing billions of people, and a military superpower. —> Let’s see how Europe and the Americas and NATO will work with them. I hope it will be diplomacy and influence, not coercion.

@jay.bsky.team @bsky.app Bluesky should have a 👍🏻 and a 👎🏻 instead of a ❤️

The population directly exposed to wildland fires increased by 40% globally from 2002 to 2021, according to a new study in Science. https://scim.ag/4oNnNCT

Americans you chose catastrophe and there's no one else to blame but you. The whole world is now waiting for your next move, a new potus, or wait, a new theory of democracy!

@gpccomm.bsky.social I just learned about your journal. I will keep it in mind next time I'm publishing. Thanks.

@icahdq.bsky.social I didn't know there was a conference in June. I will attend the 2026 edition, for sure!

Beyond the risk of drowning, floodwaters are often full of sewage, medical waste, industrial chemicals and more. And even after the storm is over, many hazards can remain. Here's what to know.

J'ai rencontré le député du Parti libéral et leader parlementaire de l’opposition Monsef Derraji qui a eu toute une session à l'Assemblèe nationale. On a parlé de jeu d’échecs, de SAAQclic et de soccer. www.lesoleil.com/chroniques/v... @monsefderraji.bsky.social

History is full of rising and falling world powers. Could the U.S. be next? Greek historian Herodotus saw the Persian monarchy’s downfall in 479 B.C.E. as rooted in its rulers’ belief in their own absolute authority. buff.ly/npBXrx6

This is the coolest story www.bbc.com/news/article...

America’s approach to the Ukraine War is “structurally flawed” and Trump envoy Steve Witkoff is “out of his depth”.

AI divides in newsrooms

A new study adds support to the so-called “drunken monkey” hypothesis by examining just how often living apes indulge in fallen—presumably boozy—fruits. scim.ag/3UoyyO3