I dunno, maybe it has a good personality, or a sense of humor.

Computers are simply Not Gooey enough to be alive or create life

In the days before digital cameras I studied at the University of Ghana and lived with family in South Africa and Botswana while working for Wits Uni. I thought I lost all the photos from that period in an apartment flood a few states ago. Happily that was not the case, and I have found them!

Frohliches Fahrplanwechseltag, for those who celebrate! 🛤️🥳

Some historians of science like to say that objectivity is a sham, I like to say that objectivity is very funny.

idk whatever. something like this.

The grim cherry on top of the grim heap of this science journal chum is that Nature Scientific Reports claims to be the "3rd most cited journal in the world," driven in part from publishing over 43,500 articles in 2025, a rate of about 125 per day. (Screenshot 9 Dec 2025)

Franklin searching for the structure of DNA in 1952, with triple and quadruple strands, some of which exclude a helix. She was working with the wrong structure of the bases, so would be unable to find the right answer.

Hier gibt es eine Menge Impfspaß, auch ohne Impfpass. Wie immer mit ein paar Nebensträngen, von Kanada nach Mexiko, von Polen nach Japan. Und mit viel Romantik. 💉🥰 andreas-moser.blog/2025/11/30/g...

Many are the rubes of our time, but the Q-Anoners who voted for Pedo-President three times may be the most rube and patsy that anyone can ever get. In the history of the world, 'anti-pedophile conspiracy detective accidentally makes a pedophile rapist president *twice*' may never be topped.

Okay, here are some first reflections on Watson. Watson's life is a tragedy, really of Shakespearean proportions. He did not, as most bios will tell you, do one great thing when he was young and then collect laurels for it for the next 60 years. His career arc was unlike any in science.

Wow! 😮🤩 There's a new interactive map of Every Known Road in the Roman Empire!! 🤓 itiner-e.org We might have to have a lie-down.

Holy god is Liquid Glass on Mac OS 26 ugly. What did they do to the Mail app, and why is the top of the Maps app inexplicably blurry?

All is fine! BML, Plut.73.16, f.92v, c. 1250. tecabml.contentdm.oclc.org/digital/coll... #histmed #bookhistory

Harvard has slashed the number of Ph.D. student admissions slots for the Science division by more than 75 percent and for the Arts & Humanities division by about 60 percent for the next two years. www.thecrimson.com/article/2025...

For the sake of historical accuracy: the Totenkopf was not exclusively a Nazi symbol, it was a symbol commonly used in nationalist death squads in Central and Eastern Europe after 1919. Also, for the sake of historical accuracy, the Totenkopf was a symbol commonly used in nationalist death squads.

Besuch an den Open Days der Fondazione FS im Depot Milano. Ab Milano Centrale fährt ein Shuttle mit restaurierten ALn668 🥰

Jane Goodall Institute announced just minutes ago that she died this morning from natural causes while in California for a speaking tour. :(

there is already a way to extend life and youth indefinitely 1. Be a stored-grain dermestid beetle larva (say, Trogoderma) 2. Every time food gets scarce, moult backwards into a previous instar 3. Proceed to grow as usual 4. Repeat step 2

@petervale.bsky.social & I are looking for scholars interested in contributing to an upcoming workshop/special issue on aeromobility and 20th science & tech. How aircraft changed scientific practice, use in experiments, air travel as foundation for academic collaboration, etc. Please share!

If this is an app it better have a geolocation feature that detects when your in a library, and change it to sound like turning or flipping pages in a book.

An enchanted archive.

and finally, a reminder to always photograph your glabrous beetles with a diffuser. Geotrupes splendidus looks HARDLY as splendid with hard lighting.

OKAY good morning everyone, let's talk about the ostensible katydid testicles on display here and their horrifying evolution

The submissions for the new Massachusetts seal, flag and motto are up, and my friends, they are a *trip* www.mass.gov/doc/massachu...

Entomologists:

Today Sylvana was 49 x 15 cm. #特に意味をなさない猫の計測

If you have ever wondered what difference does disinformation really make, please read this: www.kff.org/health-infor... The kicker is not this chart, but the finding that fully 40% of Republicans think more people died from the Covid vaccine than the disease, up from 25% in 2023.

Show me your getaway vehicle.

Furthest I've been: N: Trondheim, Norway E: Mount Tai 泰山, Shandong, China S: Mérida, Mexico W: Port Orford, Oregon, USA

Depending on how extensive this scheme is the US might become an unsuitable place to host international conferences. www.politico.com/news/2025/08...

Want to learn more about earthquakes like today's M8.7? Get your info straight from the experts with this spectacular list of seismologists! Assembled by the awesome @geohenning.bsky.social: go.bsky.app/ND4oS9k

I think we all did a bit better than Tom Lehrer thought we would! So far, at least. RIP. www.youtube.com/watch?v=frAE...

Forget LLM's making software and websites. I worry that some structural engineer somewhere in the world is already building a bridge, a warehouse, a 4+ story building, a crumple zone, a dyke, etc. using ChatGPT, and nobody is checking their math. leancrew.com/all-this/202...

Dear any generation, this is how you're supposed to answer the phone: youtu.be/Vn_GO50AAjE

Grandma (b 1917, d 2019) is gone but her pickled beans from the 90s remain.

“and every June you’ll have to spend a day rapidly reloading the page to see how many of your rights have expired” -the Founders probably

Just learned that Frank Stahl (of the Meselson and Stahl DNA replication experiment ("the most beautiful experiment in biology") died at the beginning of April, to no fanfare. Here's a lovely video of them reminiscing: www.youtube.com/watch?v=7-tn...

New life goal is to get published in AARP Magazine.

Also important to note: heating releases *four times* the emissions of cooling every year. Source: www.iea.org/data-and-sta...

Does something happen to olive oil when it ages that makes it suitable for doing physics experiments? Because there are an awful lot of references to "old olive oil" in 19th century science, and surely this is not because only the "new" stuff is for eating.

If a human told you things that were correct 80% of the time but claimed, flat out, with absolute confidence, that they were correct 100% of the time, you would dislike them & never trust a word they say. All I'm really suggesting is for people to treat chatbots with that same distrust & antagonism.

At last, a restoration of America’s real cultural divide, jocks vs. nerds. “Elon Musk is an insufferable nerd, and I hope this marks the end of his engagement with public life…He’s an aesthetic nightmare…Like, he doesn’t have anything interesting to say.” www.washingtonpost.com/politics/202...

When I used to do long distance solo bike touring ca. 2006–2014 I would print out turn-by-turn directions from Google Maps and call friends on my flip phone if I got lost. Also flagging down locals and asking for help if I was really lost. (I got my first smartphone in 2015.)

Me, staring at a blank page in Word. Oxford, MS. Auct. T. inf. 2. 7, 12th century

No, no, that's not right, the original American enema fad was *yogurt* enemas, not coffee enemas. academic.oup.com/jhmas/articl...

This account just posts food at British football stadiums and it's the most upsetting shit I've ever seen