This was so incredibly special to see. It’s called a corona, where sunlight shines through cloud, diffracting into rings of iridescent colours when certain conditions are met. Lucky for me, this was in one of the most beautiful ancient forests in the world - Fanal, Madeira.

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On March 26, 2026, during a debate on violence against women in Germany’s Bundestag, left-wing MP Kathrin Gebel was repeatedly interrupted by AfD MP Martin Reichardt. She responded: “Mr. Reichardt, the clitoris has 3,000 nerve endings, and you’re still more sensitive. That’s quite an achievement.”

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Calling all data scientists! Come and work with the world-leading SNAP trial team at University of Newcastle, HMRI and the Doherty Institute. Please tell all your data nerd friends and colleagues! www.livehire.com/careers/univ...

I saw this referred to as the Strait of Warm Ooze. Very good.

STOPPE SERVINGE BEER TO THE MOSQUITOES

It was a privilege to talk to Andrey Kurkov, Ukraine’s greatest living novelist. His book, three Years on Fire, has been short-listed for the Orwell Political Writing Book Prize. We spoke about the state of the war and the issues facing Ukraine. (This is free). open.substack.com/pub/samf/p/t...?

A drug exists that is nearly 100% effective at preventing HIV and only needs to be taken twice a year. It's called lenacapavir. But Gilead, the company that controls it, isn't making enough available for the world. We know Gilead can make lenacapavir more accessible.

Another one bites the dust.

You have to fast before surgery because otherwise the surgeons will be too tempted to cut open your tummy and steal your chips.

The impact factor for Crit Care Resusc increased by 88% last year (the largest increase of any critical care journal). We are now a Q2 journal. Our journal is free online & we are doing our best to publish interesting content. Here is the June issue sciencedirect.com/journal/critic…

The Stanford Encyclopedia of Philosophy entry on Imre Lakatos by Alan Musgrave and Charles Pigden has been updated. #PhilSci plato.stanford.edu/entries/laka...

Hello! It doesn’t cost anything to repost but it helps me spread the word about my small business. My online shop is full of bold & colourful prints, homewares, T-shirts and cards. I’m also available for freelance design work and art licensing. gailmyerscough.co.uk

Happy Father's Day 🖤

Before Bill Nye, There Was Julius Sumner Miller: Watch Complete Episodes of His Classic Science Show, "Why Is It So?", Free Online (1962–73)

🔭 Daytime Moon Meets Evening Star Image Credit & Copyright: Debra Ceravolo ap260620

I built a website that tracks open source tools that provide automated checks for scientific manuscripts: lakens.github.io/automated_re... It provides a summary through RSS feed that you can subscribe to. It tracks 13 repositories - if you want your repo to be included, let me know!

Cervical cancer deaths fall to zero in young women given vaccine. 🧪 www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...

This made me laugh. Here is a London Tube map of the digestive system. Source: buff.ly/23pvsjh

We're calling on Gilead to make lenacapavir available and priced <$40 for all low- and middle-income countries. Now. Join our campaign: www.doctorswithoutborders.org/access-to-LEN

Singaporean artist Leia Ham reimagined LotR as Tale of the Middle Kingdom, since Chinese name for China (Zhōngguó) means "The Middle Kingdom." Her concept art includes the Fellowship, armors, buildings like Bag End, props like Aragorn's banner and Fellowship brooches, and more. #TolkienTrewsday

Pretty sure he means "the hill on which I will die."

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Gomez needs to come to Australia, it's clearly an iced vovo

Sculpted by hand in Aves Apoxie Sculpt for a process tutorial in our book #claysculpting #shiflettbros

Should there ever be a positive trial in Critical care, this is the picture I will post. @drfreeze.bsky.social

Withholding routine gastric residual volume (#GRV) assessments in ventilated children was noninferior for survival and ventilator-free days, while improving early nutrition and causing no increase in complications. #CCR26 @criticalcarereviews.com ja.ma/3QjwKHM

💬 Editorial: The GASTRIC-PICU trial found no benefit from routine gastric residual volume assessment in ventilated children, consistent with current recommendations to avoid the practice. #CCR26 @criticalcarereviews.com ja.ma/449Tf53

The AAUP chapters at Vanderbilt & Wash U have issued a joint statement denouncing the “State of Scholarship” report commissioned by their chancellors. Please, let’s make this as widely read as the gaslighting to which it responds.

📊 Research Summary: In critically ill children, omitting routine #GRV measurement did not affect survival or ventilator-free days and improved nutritional target achievement, supporting deimplementation. #CCR26 @criticalcarereviews.com ja.ma/4emRvdG

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Among critically ill adults with metabolic acidosis receiving vasopressors in the ICU, sodium bicarbonate did not lead to a lower risk of major adverse kidney events within 30 days than placebo. Full SODa-BIC trial results: https://nej.md/4ofXcyq #CCR26 | @criticalcarereviews.com#CCR26

Now published in open access! Your one-stop shop for the philosophy of language models. It's the spiritual descendant of our two-part preprint from 2024, fully updated. This should be particularly useful for anyone looking for an entry point into this rapidly growing field.

Friends, so exciting to see this piece led by Hanna Vollbrecht out

Useful background information: My muted words list includes many words and names associated with the more frothy topics in the news. Once I’ve seen the news, I don’t need my conversations filled with endless repetitive opinions. I recommend this tactic as a healthy alternative.

The storm is up, and all is on the hazard.

💬 Viewpoint: Providing restricted, undisclosed life support for imminently dying patients risks ethical and equity concerns and should be replaced with clear communication and shared acknowledgment of care limitations. ja.ma/3PVAKhz

For. Fucks. Sake.

Qrp how you draw women!

Today I want to take a break and celebrate another photographer in my family: my Dad. He took these photos on 35mm film 36 years ago during Operation Desert Storm. When he wasn't flying missions in the CH-53, he was in charge of putting together the "cruise book" for HMH-464. Enjoy.

A dancer in costume for a Berlin carnival, 1928.

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Sodium bicarbonate did not improve sustained return of spontaneous circulation, survival, or neurologic outcomes in adults with in-hospital cardiac arrest compared to placebo. #CCR26 @criticalcarereviews.com ja.ma/43XgEXs

Among adults with septic shock, the use of restricted fluids and early vasopressors did not result in more days alive and out of the hospital through day 90 than the use of liberal fluids and later vasopressors. Full ARISE FLUIDS trial results: https://nej.md/3PVdwIp #CCR26

Cast of Laocoön and his Sons (Roman version of a lost Greek original), 100BC-50AD

Subways after dark: London, Tokyo, Warsaw & Rome.

alright y'all, what's the pettiest reason you DNF'd a book? I'll go first- the protag of the book disparaged Star Trek's Seven of Nine and said she wasn't sexy

Actress Jessica Tandy (1909 – 1994), c. 1930 Over a stage and screen career spanning 60+ years, Ms. Tandy was honored with four Tonys, a BAFTA, a Golden Globe, a Primetime Emmy, and at age 80 became the oldest actress to receive the Oscar for Best Actress for her role in 𝘋𝘳𝘪𝘷𝘪𝘯𝘨 𝘔𝘪𝘴𝘴 𝘋𝘢𝘪𝘴𝘺.

1968, Pimlico, London. Diana Rigg at home with her Braun hi-fi set up. One of the neighbouring flats was shared by Steve, Ronnie & Ian from The Small Faces. Ms Rigg was, apparently, 'lovely', & the only neighbour who didn't call the police about the noise the trio made