Folks who are in Hong Kong for Siggraph Asia: join for some coffee, hear from some awesome women researchers, make new friends, etc :) Also follow us on bsky >> @wigraph.bsky.social www.wigraph.org/events/2025-...

This picture has been making the rounds again, and is being misidentified again. This is a GOOSEFISH. This is NOT a tasselled wobbegong shark. It’s a great pic. I get why people are very excited about it. But it’s as easy to give it the right name as the wrong one. fullfact.org/online/tasse...

Who here wants a hug

So coming back to this, if currently there is about 415 TWh of demand, the and the projections are that the tech industry will build about 32GW more, this is 280320 GWh or 280 TWh, expansion in next 5 years. E.g. not quite doubling all compute on earth, but more than 50% increase.

If you think AI is a bubble, you haven’t seen nothing yet. Casino will continue for minimum 6 months, almost certainly till the midterms. Likely longer than this….

What is the right way to think about 30GW of energy??? Maybe it’s like well take a billion people (so like 1/10 people on earth), and have a 30 watt light on over their head that’s glowing all the time. This is the near term projected energy load of these AI infrastructure projects

Everyone here needs to read this to understand the scale of the madness that just got kicked off www.citriniresearch.com/p/stargate-a... The amount of growth in energy demand that is about to take place is unconscionable and individual boycott will do anything to stop it. Please strategies. Tyty

YOU WOULDN'T DOWNLOAD A PLANT

Deep insights from Eugene, OR

‘Erasure of years of work’: outcry as White House moves to open Arctic reserve to oil and gas drilling www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025...

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PhD defended. Putting some finishing touches on her highness

Social media company that publishes public feeds of peoples conversations with ais that’s like rap genius meets Bluesky. Like I just click a button to publish an LLM conversation, and then people can link to posts in Bluesky

Beware of invisible dog contained by invisible fence

I have asked many people about this actually. Consensus seems to be that most people don’t actually want to talk to their pets.

Historical bird photographer www.audubon.org/magazine/the...

This is a tragic global loss - cannot believe the lunacy behind such a step

New publication: Thirty years of drivers and patterns of land-use change across the Amazon biome Open access link: link.springer.com/article/10.1...

Günaydın ☀️

Good Morning ☀️ 🪶🌵 Gambel’s Quail on cholla

Remember kids

spectrum.ieee.org/bionic-eye-o... 시각 장애인들이 테크 회사들의 도움으로 인공 시력용 이식물을 삽입했는데, 이후 회사가 파산하거나 제품을 더는 지원하지 않게 되면서 겪게 되는 어려움을 다룬 기사(2022년). 기술로 모든 장애를 해결할 수 있다는 생각은 허구다.

We meet again

two educated wolves The bohemian vs the yuppie. Claude on Claude

two educated wolves The bohemian vs the yuppie. Claude on Claude

UPDATE thread: This is likely the kind of shadow docket decision coming for NIH, HHS, and other agencies next week. Get ready, US scientists. Let's focus public attention on the Supreme Court now, so John Roberts worries about the backlash if he votes to allow the DOGE firings. 🧪 1/3

a friend of mine shared this ai-generated "emotion wheel" and unfortunately i have been laughing my ass off at it for like 15 minutes now. today i am feeling Fnliinneon

"'Our language is like the sea,' a wise old woman once told me. 'It carries our histories, our songs, our dreams.'" 🌊 In this poignant story, Amazigh student Lamiae Zeriouh reflects on her hometown by the sea - and how she is trying to breathe life back into her language and community.

Need a visual for insect declines and shifting baseline? Read this, and use the image sliders. “It’s the same sheet, with the same lights, in the same place, looking over the same vegetation…” he says. “There’s just no moths on that sheet.” www.theguardian.com/environment/...

Amazing video of the Sun’s cronoa, thanks to adaptive optics. This works by measuring the turbulence in the atmosphere and reshaping the telescope’s mirror *in real time* to compensate. This is the first time this has been used on the Solar corona 🧪🔭 www.space.com/astronomy/su...

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Those eyes? They’ve seen galaxies. Straight from a fantasy tale, this owl's stare pierces right through your soul. Photo by: 📸 luke_brady_johnson #Nature #Owl

“Oh for a seat in some poetic nook.” Undated postcard from my collection.

Much less common than the ubiquitous Montezuma, the Chestnut-headed Oropendola is a superb bird with that gorgeous blue eye. At @tapirvalley.bsky.social #CostaRica #birds #nature

Wherever you live in the world, your climate is getting warmer. 21st June is #ShowYourStripes day when we encourage everyone to use the warming stripes graphics to talk about climate change and how we are all already experiencing the consequences. Download your stripes: www.ShowYourStripes.info

especially because polar exploration is basically Weird Cold Guys Studies, and there are so many Weird Cold Guys and they all knew each other, and sometimes intimately

Arrivederci

They're literally doing the meme

Oh man, you guys. This is so important. Drosophila have led to so much in terms of what we understand about how genes work.

ITS THE FRAM

Wonder what the *discourse* around Wikipedia would have been like if there was social media when it came out

"...who are able and willing to do so will have to enter the public arena and bring their voices to debates of critical societal importance. This is such a time."