US cities consume 11 million tonnes of meat each year, producing 329 million tonnes of carbon emissions. A new study in @natclimate.nature.com shows emissions could drop by up to 51% by cutting waste and swapping beef for poultry: spklr.io/63329Bo7Xz #foodconsumption #foodsystems

This video is trending in France and i share it bc it's so funny She says that she'll leave Morocco for some time to go back to France and she founds no one to take care of her dog, the people who had him before said no, it's unclear why

Mood.

I spent hours jailbreaking my old Kindle so I could do this and now anyone can!? (It was one of my few accomplishments this past year. I was so proud that I got it to work!)

#ArtAdventCalendar, Day 11 Blood Vessel, Watercolor on Aquabord, 2023, #sciart

TIL that Bernard Vonnegut – Kurt's big brother – was an atmospheric scientist who suggested using silver iodide to "seed" clouds for precipitation. In so doing, he inspired both an industry and his little bro's novel, Cat's Cradle. Not a bad day's work! 🧪⚛️ physicsworld.com/a/scientists...

This afternoon at 3pm I'm doing this - come along and ask questions or help me answer others' questions. Please and thank you :) AMA - working in Science Communication #scicomm www.reddit.com/r/UKJobs/com... (if no Reddit a/c use docs.google.com/document/d/1... to ask Qns)

These scientists gifted themselves a shiny new dataset by digging through TikTok for videos of cats eating bugs. Read more here: elizabethgpreston.substack.com/p/how-to-cro... and subscribe to my newsletter for animal-inspired advice of questionable utility, in the holiday season and all seasons! 🧪

"I can't afford to support my favorite author right now, I—" Reviews. Reviews are free AND they are a gift to authors that can keep on giving (i.e., exposure, marketing, algo boosts, etc.) Please, give the gift of reviews to your authors this holiday season. It really can make a difference!

For the overly prepared among you: You can already buy a ticket to the 2027 World Conference of Science Journalists! It will be in London, so I am definitely there. #scicomm

With headlines like this I like to guess before clicking (I know that's what they want) and this was sooooo easily guessable. :) The only reason you'd get it wrong is if you forgot that this generation exists, but that would never happen, right? RIGHT? www.stylist.co.uk/life/careers...

‘No one seems to care’: scholars decry plight of British Library Historian Peter Mandler said it was “a sorry state when a major piece of public infrastructure like this is hit so badly and no one in authority even seems to notice, much less care”. www.researchprofessionalnews.com/rr-news-uk-c...

The Dictator (2012) m.imdb.com/de/title/tt1...

This reminds me of interesting old thread on Twitter where academics shared observation that many university students on computer science courses struggled with both the concept and the thing of file manager and file paths. (I'm mid50s and still think 'digital native' seems more like 'me')

Now is a great time to subscribe to @medsky.social, which will let you see the medical specialties of accounts across the Medsky network, as well as moderation labels that identify medical misinformation!

By subscribing, it also gives you the ability to report medical misinformation when you see it on your skyline. It only takes 5 seconds and is guaranteed to improve your Bluesky scrolling experience!

Domestic cats originated in North Africa and spread to Europe in the past 2000 years, according to DNA evidence, while in China a different species of cat lived alongside people much earlier

New Mixture! The big news of the week is that I'm no longer a Forbes contributor, and also that the newsletter is taking a little winter break (Don't worry, its back in January! That's next month already) Post includes faves from my Forbes archive and more links mixture.substack.com/p/numbers-game

It looks like Pantone tried to be soooooo neutral and unoffensive in their colour of the year pick. But their non-committance to a REAL colour offends me, as a person who loves colours. www.theguardian.com/culture/2025...

This is quite a story. Trying to trademark the word ‘sabzi’ is the equivalent of trying to trademark the word ‘food’. www.theguardian.com/food/comment...

Spotify Wrapped gives your "listening age", and I can't really tell if it's based on which artists you listen to or how recent the albums were. But there is a way to test this! Pulp, Lily Allen and Arcade Fire all had a new album in 2025, and Smashing Pumpkins re-released Mellon Collie. (1/2)

Ugh it’s that stupid Dubai chocolate isn’t it. www.sciencealert.com/curiosity-cr...

"Could this be a scam?" asked the bank pop-up when I tried to buy toner for the printer. Yes, but not in the way you're thinking...

This is one of the many projects that makes @theopennotebook.bsky.social a worthy cause. Any reporters can make their stories stronger by including relevant science & scholarship. This how-to explains how to add important evidence to any story. (1/2)

Partnering with a chocolate company on a space-themed adventure calendar is indeed a dream job ☺️ so excited for folks to learn about 25 moons in our solar system while enjoying a daily treat! www.dandelionchocolate.com/products/adv...

I'm *trying* to understand why people get obsessed with AI, but how is this not super embarrassing to this guy? "...and when he goes grocery shopping, he takes photos of the fruits to ask if they are ripe." www.theatlantic.com/technology/2...

Hole in Antarctic ozone layer shrinks to smallest since 2019, scientists say

Remotely tuned in to the World Conference of Science Journalists today. It's not the same as being there, of course, but it's a lot better than entirely missing out. #WCSJ2025 #scicomm

The Sims 4!!! (For the non-simmers: this has been the current version for YEARS and of course it’s the version still used in 2050…)

Literally buying one copy of a book at your local indie bookstore can mean the difference in whether they buy future books from that author.

I only had to walk down 10 steps at Waterloo to get on the Bakerloo line platform and everything else was ramps and escalators. Phew!

I am navigating the London tube with a very heavy little suitcase full of sheet music and concert programmes. Trying to find a route with minimal stairs because I can barely lift it (and am also carrying another bag and a violin). I think I’ve cut it down to 1 flight going down…

‘If I was American, I’d be worried about my country’: Margaret Atwood answers questions from Ai Weiwei, Rebecca Solnit and more

Introduce yourself with 5 animals you've seen in the wild: Fox Moose Platypus Gecko Iguana (Bonus: All of these were on different continents!)

I don’t know if anyone else notices or cares, but when I see a presentation in which the speaker uses obviously generated-AI images to illustrate their slides, it makes me immediately less confident in whatever other content they’re presenting.

Apparently children are better at replicating Pollock paintings than adults are. The researchers who figured this out (using fractal analysis) think it might be related to biomechanical balance. 🧪 www.forbes.com/sites/evaams...

You could spend your money on a Black Friday sale, or you can buy a science book directly from me. They're not on sale, though, because I'm not a big business. But I will sign them! #scicomm evaamsen.com/product/sign...

On the Factor Fexcectorn and autism bicycle AI slop study: I got an answer from Springer Nature this morning that this scientific paper will be retracted! 🧪 Full story: nobreakthroughs.substack.com/p/riding-the...

Apparently children are better at replicating Pollock paintings than adults are. The researchers who figured this out (using fractal analysis) think it might be related to biomechanical balance. 🧪 www.forbes.com/sites/evaams...

Tomorrow? O, that’s sudden!

I once asked a bookseller at a large indie store how many people would have to buy a book for it to get the attention of the store buyer and cause an additional order and they said: Three.

I haven't mentioned this in ages, so some of you might not know that I host regular online coworking sessions for science writers and science communicators. #scicomm Every Thursday at 2PM UK time you can pop in a video call on Discord where whoever is around will briefly say hi and then work on mute

‘The narwhals stop calling’: how the noise from ships is silencing wildlife in the Arctic

Weird support bot hallucinating a date that didn’t exist

Still reeling from the Stanford report on Brexit. Reduced GDP by up to 8% and investment by as much as 18%. The UK Treasury would have £40 billion more each year if Britain had remained in the EU. Devastating self-immolation.

The weirdest AI hallunication happened today: My partner was struggling to interact with a bot over the phone, trying to book in a repair for our fridge. After much back and forth, the bot agreed to book something in on Friday November 28th. But then!

New Mixture, in which I muse about university museums. 🧪 mixture.substack.com/p/whats-in-y...

New Mixture, in which I muse about university museums. 🧪 mixture.substack.com/p/whats-in-y...

Science will often take you to unexpected and delightful places. In this study, researchers hypothesized that riders in a crowded subway car would be more likely to offer their seat to a pregnant person if there were someone in the subway car dressed as Batman 🧪🦇 www.nature.com/articles/s44...

My shop is once again open for all your #sciart needs! Clickety-click! artologica.etsy.com