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Heritage Foundation has released an absolutely insane policy proposal to label all trans people as domestic terrorists. It uses completely made up instances of terrorism and made up statistics but facts don't matter to them. They want us all eradicated.

If you think they aren't ALSO trying to interfere in the Czech elections to be held in early October, you're delusional. Russia is running a large-scale, sophisticated campaign to affect the democratic process across Europe.

Imagine tearing out 3/4 of a kid’s animal encyclopedia that’s what past climate change did to life on Earth. The pattern is clear: when greenhouse gases spike, life changes forever. And today, we’re the source of that spike. #SciComm 🧪

I heard he can turn water into Monster Energy Drinks! (The cultlike adoration of this grifter is insane. Biblical-esque flim famery. Pretty soon they will be selling “exercise videos” and “neck supplements” so you too Can Be Like Dear Martyr Charlie!) www.foxnews.com/us/charlie-k...

To all of those who stepped up. 👏🏻👏🏻👏🏻

Join us tomorrow!

Sharing @mariaa.bsky.social's comment re substack.com/inbox/post/1... to 🧪 Have you seen this happening in science academia?

A draft resister who I used to curl with shared the story that the Toronto Public Library gave him his first job, the one that got him across the border during the Vietnam War. TPL staff had apparently sent many such job offer letters. If you’re in a position to do that now, there may be need.

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The sandhill crane (below) recovered after we cleaned up the water and restored wetlands & grasslands. Merlins, after DDT restriction. Pileated woodpeckers, thanks to forest regrowth. When we learn why species are in decline, & then act on it, they can make amazing comebacks. #scicomm 🧪

#photography #bug

This blog post left Canada out. Americans, if you are in one of the following 60 professions (threading) and you would like to live and work in Canada, all you have to do is get a job up here. 🧵 itishappening.substack.com/p/escape-rou...

Major emerging AI safety risk: AI-induced delusions and emotional entanglement. Do you know anyone whose AI use is beginning to concern you? If so, here are a couple of resources. buttondown.com/aiweek/archi...

Despite public promises to scale back or cease operations in Russia after the outbreak of full-scale war, major international alcohol producers Bacardi and Campari have taken advantage of the departure of competitors,

this study was in NONHUMAN PRIMATES - specifically, the olive baboon, an omnivorous forager “Maternal Western diet increases inflammatory markers and decreases barrier function of offspring in Papio anubis.” doi.org/10.1152/ajpg... 🧪 this is misleading #scicomm - maybe use this pic instead!

StackOverflow now has a chatbot powered by OpenAI stackoverflow.ai Looks like this is RAG using StackOverflow's answers, so, basically "Try to get all your answers from Stack Overflow, but if you can't find anything, make something up" So here it is hallucinating a Python sea shanty library!

A short story.

Counterpoint: "no"

"We are lecturers in Trinity College Dublin. We see it as our responsibility to resist AI" www.irishtimes.com/opinion/2025... "Pursuing higher education is not about learning what to think, but how to think."

GOOD NEWS! A new cancer vaccine has shown progress in triggering POWERFUL and LASTING immune responses in patients with pancreatic AND colorectal cancer. The vaccine, known as ELI-002 2P, targets mutant KRAS proteins AND had a huge impact on PREVENTING or DELAYING cancer recurrence in patients.

Friends, please take a moment to step away from social media / politics / climate doom and take a look at these pictures from another world. We are getting hi-res colour pictures from another planet and that is worth a moment of awe and gratitude

Check out this scatterplot of health spending per capita (x axis) & life expectancy (y axis) in OECD countries (lines = averages). The United States sits alone in the bottom right area due to its very high spending rate and below-average life expectancy. More www.oecd.org/en/publicati... 🧪

Love that terrific Canadian author @kellyrobson.com is putting home-care nurses front-and-centre in this modern horror short story

WOOOOOO PARASITES

This is what I hated about Earth Day in a nutshell "Let's turn off all the lights for 1 hour, 1 day a year!" No. Doing a tiny thing and saying "we made progress" is worse than sitting with the fact that there's a huge problem.

I strongly suspect the "34 guns per 100 people" number for Canada is skewed by Guns Georg, the firearms equivalent of Spiders Georg reallyreallyreallytrying.tumblr.com/post/4003302... Statistically Guns Georg lives somewhere in AB

🧪 #scicomm Particularly relevant for papers, but contextualization matters for any science communication, from dissertations to the 200-word study summaries we write over at examine.com

Neeeeat (but global warming baaaad)

Revival Cafe in Cambridge embracing the infinite buffalo

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"0.3 per cent of the world’s land area – yes, just the land – would be needed to meet the current energy demand from solar alone, which is LESS THAN THE CURRENT LAND FOOTPRINT OF FOSSIL FUEL INFRASTRUCTURE."

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Natural hybridization is so fascinating.

Imagine you're walking in Texas, when you glimpse what looks like a black-faced Steller's Jay. But there's no crest. And Steller's Jays only live west of the Rockies! What gives?? Turns out that the ranges of Blue Jays and Green Jays now overlap in Texas, and they've made black-faced hybrids: 🧪

Take my weekly science quiz for @sciam.bsky.social ! This week: psychedelics and sexual parasites www.scientificamerican.com/game/science... 🧪

"After a seemingly innocuous question about pi, Allan Brooks tumbled down a ChatGPT rabbit hole. Three weeks later, he emerged, after spending 300 hours in a spiralling 7,000-prompt exchange with the chatbot." www.cbc.ca/listen/live-...

Albania is making its #ai chatbot the minister of public procurement. This is Diella, the friendly face of the Albanian government's web portal. Albania had a cabinet shuffle yesterday and apparently Diella (means "Sun") is in charge of public procurement now. www.panorama.com.al/diella-aneta...

This is the way to remember Charlie Kirk. This was his life's work.

#UkrainianView 1/5 Last night, Russian drones flew into Poland. This was not an accident, but a deliberate act. Eighty years ago, after the end of World War II, at the Yalta Conference, Europe was divided into so-called “spheres of influence,”

weird how a dickhead getting shot is dominating the news when KIDS were also shot at the same day when today is also the memorial of the day a ton of ppl died. but whatever i guess.

Twitch streamers are raising awareness for Vaquitas! This tiny porpoise is on the brink of extinction. It gets caught in poaching nets and drowns. Legalizing longline fishing of the poached fish could help it: hakaimagazine.com/features/the...

This chart from @safeclimate.bsky.social ate.bsky.social is a beautiful work of art — and a horrifying observation of our warming planet 🧪

🧪 FREE Webinar: The Lifelong Reality of ADHD: What the Science Actually Shows add.org/product/free...

I applaud this approach! 👏 When people consider suicide because of situational factors, they need situational treatment, like housing, money, and social supports, not psychiatric treatment

Mathematician Marjorie Lee Browne, whose work focused on linear algebra, topology, and the properties of classical groups, was born #OTD in 1914. She was one of the first Black women to earn a PhD in mathematics from a US university – the University of Michigan.👩‍🔬 🧪 🧮

Antimicrobial resistance is a growing problem, ignored at our peril. @susannadunachie.bsky.social & Mariagrazia Pizza discuss the challenges raised by the lack of market incentives for new diagnostics, drugs and #vaccines to tackle #AMR and some potential solutions 🧪 plos.io/41ImKu9

Did you know the 1916 paper naming "carcinization" is available online? It uses the description of a hermit crab, Porcellanopagurus, to discuss evolution of crabbiness from noncrabbiness, as below 🧪🦀🦑 But...this is not the first time the morphology was noticed 1/3 decapoda.nhm.org/pdfs/31940/3...