Marine oxygen starvation began nearly 8 million years before the end-Triassic mass extinction c. 200 mya. And now we are the volcano. "Earth has run this experiment in the past. The climate gets warmer, and then all these other knock-on effects come afterwards." phys.org/news/2026-06...

Liyu Lake in Hualien hosts Taiwan's national dragon boat races during Asia's Dragon Boat Festival. This year, it hosted the international competitions. 😎 #landscapephotography #landscape #naturephotography #nature #lake #taiwan #asia #eastcoastkin #photography

· #AIBubble · Are we in an AI bubble, similar to the dot-com bubble that burst in the early 2000s? Stock market analysts have been sounding the warning bells for the last year, but those warnings just got louder—and some are answering with a resounding yes.

The math of choosing a restaurant meal is revealed in Richard Feynman’s notes — Decades after the physicist scrawled the solution, researchers have deciphered and tested it

Free to read: ‘Big step forward’ by Hungary ‘unlocks’ €16bn of EU funds www.researchprofessionalnews.com/rr-news-euro...

This headless, air-powered biped failed to medal at the first Robot Olympics, but its struggles still inform how we design dexterous robots today.

Millions of Americans are losing their health insurance. The human costs are becoming clear. www.vox.com/good-medicin...

Video Friday: Extreme Omnidirectional Robot ︱ @spectrum.ieee.org 👇🏻

Who made this 😜 researchintegrity.beer

Bluesky accounts hijacked in pro-Russia propaganda campaign

Satin, silk, shellac, lustre, eggshell - with all these different terms for shiny paint finishes, I need a glossary. #weakendpun

I discovered a Long-legged Spider Crab on a night dive. It decorated itself with nearby seaweed, creating camouflage and mimicking its environment. Luckily, I had my macro lens.🍀 #marinelifephotography #marinelife #wildlifephotography #wildlife #naturephotography #nature #eastcoastkin #photography

I encountered an Electric Flame Scallop exhibiting its illusory method of warding off predators by shimmering its mantle, giving the impression it is electric. #marinelifephotography #marinelife #wildlifephotography #wildlife #naturephotography #nature #eastcoastkin #photography

Companies are extracting vast troves of online data through unlawful web scraping to build their generative artificial intelligence (AI) products in a way that is enabling a mass invasion of privacy, making these systems unlawful by design, Amnesty International said in a new briefing today.

Met Office studies show the likelihood of exceeding 40C is now more than 20 times higher than in the 1960s. www.bbc.co.uk/weather/arti...

Santorini: 15,000 residents. Millions of tourists. A water system already at breaking point. Greece built its economy on the hottest, driest months of the year. That's not a policy failure. That's a civilisational bet that's about to be called in. www.tovima.com/opinions/gre...

In case you wanted it, here’s a goose having a shower

@katherinestiles.org help us promote our 6/3 webinar @defendresearch.bsky.social w/ @jeremymberg.bsky.social @michaeldgreen.phd - we're talking #censorship of #NIH grants, something your colleagues may run into at some point! Share and consider joining us! REGISTER: us02web.zoom.us/webinar/regi...

Iceland’s foreign minister fears a “Brexit moment” in the upcoming EU accession referendum

With biting satire, Alan Dunn captured how 20th-century architectural trends left everyday Americans astonished, baffled, and enraged.

I love how it was assumed that they were lovers when they couldn't determine their sex, but now that they can by DNA prove it is two unrelated women ... it is still a big mystery why there is this double same-sex burial! They even bring in the concept of fictive kinship to make sense of it. 🙄 🧡🩷

DNA cracks the mystery of hugging skeletons A multiyear excavation near the 13th-century Cathedral of the Exaltation of the Holy Cross in Opole, Poland, unearthed a unique burial where two skeletons were arranged to hold each other in a mutual embrace.

I am very excited to see this Handbook published and honored to have co-authored a chapter in it on how learning analytics intersects with these issues. Kudos to the editors on this important volume! #PsychSciSky #AcademicSky #EduSky

Are you thinking of applying to participate in the European University Association’s Leadership Development Programme (#EUALDP) in 2027? 💻 Join our online info session on 1 June to learn more about the programme and the application process at https://bit.ly/4euTkHd

"Also visible from space is a thin, blue line that seems to hover just above our planet’s surface: the atmosphere. It’s a reminder that there is only a narrow zone that allows life on Earth to flourish, and that we must protect it."

Vor dem Eingang des Schwimmbads steht eine Gruppe Teenagerjungs. Zwei erzählen ganz enttäuscht, sie hätten den ganzen Winter konsequent trainiert. Und nun wollen Pia und Emma diesen Sommer nicht ins Freibad, weil sie angeblich keine Bikinifigur haben. Die Tragik dieser Welt.

Start of the outdoor season

Budapest 🇭🇺

Decades after Chernobyl disaster, this radioactive landscape has become one of wildlife's most unlikely strongholds

Melanoma—the most serious form of skin cancer—doesn't just happen at the beach or in a tanning booth. It happens on the drive to work, while walking the dog or sitting by a window. And most Americans don't realize it.

THE MOON & KAMOUN

Budapest 🇭🇺

Opinion | The professor in my back seat – By @joshuafmills.com “Sometimes, if you are lucky, a person like that gets into your back seat on a cool fall day. A song comes on the radio. You ask one more question than you had to. They answer. A conversation begins. And then, […] 👇🏻

I disagree on one point. "Per my last email" is a perfectly valid response making the person who didn't read the inital msg accountable. This is often gendered too, when women say things clearly but men don't do the cognitive work and try to offload it.

Academics discussing the #ScienceCrisis #AcademicChatter #PhdChat

“We are entrepreneurs, like our parents and grandparents. The difference is that instead of building companies, we invest in them.” Family offices are evolving into entrepreneurial platforms designed to sustain value creation across generations. www.ie.edu/insights/art...

IEEE JBHI invites cutting-edge research shaping the future of #PrecisionMedicine. Deadline: October 15. https://www.embs.org/jbhi/wp-content/uploads/sites/18/2025/12/Integrating-Imaging-with-Personalized-Cardiovascular-Medicine-Current-Advances-and-Future.pdf?utm_source=bluesky&utm_medium=social

The name is FLOWER. OPEN FLOWER. #OpenFlower hits the big stage 🔥🌺🌷🌱 Juan Pablo & Nick @nickdesnoyer.bsky.social

How to Turn AI From Threat to Teammate — 3 Proven Ways to Align Your Vision with What Employees Actually Need www.entrepreneur.com/leadership/h...

Northwestern Names a New President After Tumult Over Protests www.nytimes.com/2026/05/18/u...

When Axel Willner went to Stockholm’s Funky Chicken food truck last February, he only expected to leave with a burger, but a chance meeting at the burger van... 👇🏻

EUA and several fellow stakeholder organisations are organising a joint webinar on the next EU Research & Innovation Framework Programme #FP10 🎤 Guest speaker: Pauline Rouch, @scienceinnovation.ec.europa.eu#FP10 Register at https://bit.ly/42TcCPh

Can welfare states contain populism? New research finds that countries with more generous welfare spending exhibit lower levels of populist support. ✍ @chasefoster.bsky.social & Jeffry Frieden @eupthejournal.bsky.social blogs.lse.ac.uk/europpblog/2...

Postcard from Kenya 🇰🇪 The big animals get the posters. But the small, slow, multi-million-year relationships are where the hidden magic of the savanna truly resides.