Russland umgeht mit der Schattenflotte in der Ostsee die Sanktionen, finanziert seinen Angriffskrieg und spioniert uns von diesen Schiffen aus mit Drohnen aus. Und wir Deppen lassen die gutmütig da rumfahren. www.sueddeutsche.de/politik/nato...

man that guy is ruining things for all the other politicians with his do things that help people sort of ethos who does he think he is

Physical books. You own them. They don't require updates. They don't surveil you or collect and sell your data. They are a genuinely safe hallucinogen that leaves you smarter and more empathetic and with a longer attention span the more you use them. Free from the library. What's not to like?

I challenge anyone go try and reproduce some random papers, even those based on open free public datasets, but without the code and/or a detailed description of how the data was obtained and processed, and not become militant about the necessity of code and complete data sharing at a minimum.

there's something remarkable how on a scientific level we're performing what would essentially be miracles and on a cultural/political level, we're going in reverse

“Electrifying something usually cuts the energy it needs, often by a lot. A heat pump delivers three or four units of heat for every unit of electricity it draws. An electric car turns most of its energy into motion, where a petrol engine throws away 80% of it as heat before the wheels even turn.”

Your regular reminder that Russia is not trying to defeat or occupy Ukraine. Russia is trying to erase Ukraine from existence. #RussiaIsATerroristState

Unsurprisingly: tech-bro culture results in patriarchal LLM bias.

one anecdote: I was searching for a link to one of my old papers on Google, and the automated Gemini summary attributed all of my lab's work to my husband

10 Reasons to Love Solar Power 1. Zero CO₂ to run 2.Infinite fuel 3.sunlight 4Cuts air pollution 5.Creates local jobs 6.Low water use 7.Price keeps dropping 8.Powers homes + grids 9. Works off-grid too 10. Energy independence Future-proof tech

This is such a wild thread and sign of things to come. Having poked around, I think it might be the case that people who've formed their self-image around the sense of being owed deference bc they're the smartest lad in the school are the ones experiencing LLMs as a spiritual concussion.

It’s interesting as both Melinda Gates and MacKensie Scott have become great philanthropists from the gains from their husbands. I’d be curious to know what the male/female relationship is like for philanthropy.

Insane self-blinding of the US. They are throwing away their investment in the ocean observation system and the benefits it provides. The only explanation I can think of: they don’t want the people to know what their fossil emissions are doing to our oceans. easternherald.com/2026/06/13/u...

I just want everyone to know that every single day 5 million people tell @bencollins.bsky.social that it's hard to differentiate between The Onion and real news now. Every day. Every hour. Every single time a new person talks to him. And honestly, I can't blame them with this one.

I’ve officially resigned as Associate Editor for Frontiers in Systems Neuroscience. It used to be a reputable journal, but became a case study in how forced automation destroys academic integrity. 👇

Retrofit of balconies to turn them into a power station Has an amazing name in German - Balkonkraftwerk! Cooperative housing in Zurich, by Lutjens Padmanabhan Architects

Trump administration officials and MAGA influencers keep selling the same convenient myth: Europe is unsafe, while America means order and Russia means strength. The comparable figures say the opposite.

To be clear, it looks like the conference organizers called the cops. They may have been worried because Jay Bhattacharya, the pro-Trump NIH director, was scheduled to speak (and he did in fact cancel). Looks like a case of "obeying in advance" - people fearing the state's reaction.

Paying peer reviewers works. Expanded Fast & Fair experiment @biologyopen.bsky.social: • 5.5 vs 37.7 working days to decision with reviews • ~3 vs ~9 reviewer invitations per manuscript • no reduction in editor-assessed review quality • similar acceptance rates www.biorxiv.org/content/10.6...

A company that makes a no-tech, repairable tractor is having trouble keeping up with demand from farmers sick of John Deere's repair monopoly and simply want a tractor that turns on and works: www.404media.co/demand-is-bo...

Rep. McBride: “I assume you’re aware that Greenland is indeed part of Denmark.” Rubio: “For now.”

Now this is a concert. 🎵

“Our goal with ourworldindata.org is to give a wide overview of the big problems the world faces, show that it is possible to make progress against even very large problems, and inspire people to work on these big problems to achieve the progress that is possible ...

I’m a climate scientist. Let me fix this headline. “Nearly a century ago, scientists showed that burning fossil fuels warms the planet. Today, we know human emissions account for over 100% of the warming. Yet dark money and disinformation still work to keep Americans addicted to fossil fuels.”

I think about this a lot.

It’s been six years (!!) since I saw how solar panels were transforming rural Mongolia. Without them, getting electricity to a nomadic population seems to me like a really difficult problem. With them, it’s simple.

Lots of competition, but trying to starve out the Cuban people is probably the most evil thing the United States is doing abroad right now

Falls ihr es verpasst habt: Das Boost!-Programm der ESA unterstützt Unternehmer*innen dabei, ihre Start-, In-Orbit-Transport- und Rücktransportdienste aus dem Weltraum sowie die dazugehörigen unterstützenden Leistungen marktreif zu machen. Mehr dazu: www.esa.int/Space_in_Mem...

Bhattacharya’s legacy The US had a “world-class Ebola lab in Frederick, Maryland, with the NIH,” designed to develop vaccines & treatments. The lab would normally be swinging into action. “But that lab was shuttered last year, with staff laid off abruptly”😢 www.theguardian.com/world/2026/m...

I spent 15 years fighting for low-income housing in NYC, and if I had a nickel for every time a politician (or a bureaucrat or even a housing activist) told me that a pied-à-terre tax was impossible… I could afford a pied-à-terre.  And Mamdani just... made it happen.

There's no "study," this is based on a crank manifesto with only four footnotes written by a bunch of health grifters. Why is the Guardian covering this like it has any academic credibility?

Just a periodic reminder that this obscene-wealth-to-scale website exists and should be viewed by everyone eattherichtextformat.github.io/1-pixel-weal...

you cannot support his work in any way anymore

"The birth-rate collapse isn’t just about money, housing, or women choosing careers. The sharper diagnosis: fewer couples. Across the world, young people still say they want kids. But they socialize less, partner less, commit less – and become parents less. Smartphones may have made us lonelier..."

Zohran Mamdani has fully balanced New York City’s $12 billion deficit — an uncomfortable reminder to the political establishment that governments can, in fact, function when taxpayer money isn’t funneled toward lobbyists wealthy benefactors

The bird eye pushes evolution to its limit. www.quantamagazine.org/how-the-bird...

Me! I am one of those academics and you can be one too!

The incredible drop in homicides in Italy over the past 3 decades (~80%) deserves more attention. And it's happened in parallel with something else. Not implying causation, but Italy hasn't become a much more dangerous country as its immigrant population has grown. Quite the opposite.

Every journalist on earth is just a foot soldier in a weird psychosexual argument between six rich people at an orgy.

This robot installs 80 panels/hour. One every 45 sec. 1,920/day ≈ 0.0008 GW/day per line. Sounds small. It’s not. Scale this across thousands of lines and #solar becomes manufacturing, not construction. 👉 10,000 lines = 8 GW/day. That’s HOW China is winning the energy game.

Free and open-source images, icons, and tools for creating scientific illustrations doi.org/10.59350/5zt... 🧪

When Jewish people speak out against genocide, why are our voices dismissed? And smirking while I describe someone Nazi-saluting at me isn’t just disrespectful - it feels deeply antisemitic. youtu.be/7VkfYJgLljE?...

This week, the Supreme Court finally killed off the Voting Rights Act of 1965. I've spent the past decade studying the VRA and the attacks on it, so I thought I would offer some historical perspective, and where I think we're headed. This will be a long thread; buckle up.

It has the same vibe as Mangione’s: no one else is doing anything, and someone has to. He has well thought out moral underpinnings for why he’s doing it even if his conclusion about *what* he must do is wrong.

Number of people who go bankrupt every year because of medical bills or illness-related work loss: 🇦🇺 0 🇨🇦 0 🇩🇰 0 🇫🇮 0 🇫🇷 0 🇩🇪 0 🇮🇸 0 🇮🇪 0 🇮🇹 0 🇯🇵 0 🇳🇱 0 🇳🇴 0 🇵🇹 0 🇪🇸 0 🇸🇪 0 🇬🇧 0 🇺🇸 530,000 There’s a lesson there.

Did a thing for the Observer. observer.co.uk/style/featur...

"I'm not here to say 'I told you so.'" But she told you so. A THREAD.

Benches are microcosms of an expansive debate about who belongs in urban public spaces. When they are removed or made uninviting, we lose more than just a place to rest. From journalist Gabrielle Bruney: "The Disappearance of the Public Bench"

Republicans know they are about to lose the House and are trying to give Big Oil its holy grail: legal immunity from any futures actions that would hold the industry responsible for the climate crisis it knowingly caused and is making worse every day. climateintegrity.org/news/view/br...