French cats will sit surrounded by the debris of their lunchtime smoking session and act like they don’t give a shit but in truth they love your attention and are just waiting for a camera to perform to.

Episode 46: Sapiens It's an ambitious goal to write the entire history of humanity in just 400 pages. It's even more ambitious to do it without reading any research.

We need libraries for so many reasons. www.11alive.com/article/news...

Making friends at the zoo. I think the animals were starved for attention during the shutdown.

A female wolf has been doing something unusual on the Central Coast of British Columbia. She's learned to pull crab traps up from the water, yanking on a rope to bring it to the surface. But is it tool use? Very fun story from @phiejacobs.bsky.social for @science.org

Artists including Lorde, Björk and Massive Attack have joined an international initiative to geo-block their music from being streamed in Israel. n.pr/4qUTLhC

Utterly shameful "threat of a public sale loomed" WE shouldn't have to BUY our heritage back, it should be accessible Finders & landowners must change mindsets, STOP "mine & money and think ours & gift" Oxfordshire museum purchases iron age hoard after fundraiser share.google/e6sEN497Y3fj...

🐀Male and female rats like to be tickled differently - males prefer rougher play. 🤣How do we know? Rats produce ultrasonic giggles that can be monitored with a bat detector. 🧪Why is this relevant? To improve lab animal welfare. Ah, to tickle rats for a living...♥️ f1000research.com/articles/14-...

Meet unlikely dining companions – Tytan the rhino and Notty the zebra! Rescued just a week apart, these two orphans are now inseparable. Where one goes, the other follows: during milk feeds, the two stand shoulder to shoulder, draining every last drop of their bottles. swt.bio/tytan

Laub ist ein wichtiger Lebensraum für Tiere. Bitte entfernt es nicht mit “deutscher” Gründlichkeit und vermeidet Laubbläser und -sauger. Lasst bitte den Tieren ihren Lebensraum. Diese Vorstellung, jedes Blättchen gründlichst wegsaugen und in die Verbrennungsanlage karren zu müssen ist unnatürlich.

sometimes an Oxford comma can make all the difference

10/10 take. No notes.

No, I don't want to "quickly hop on a call with you". I want to bump into you at random on a rain-lashed heath, nod at you in silent mutual admiration as we watch a buzzard gliding smoothly over a dramatic chicane in the river, then get the fuck on with my day

Cat: “I cannot convey to you just how much I genuinely despise this food.” Me: “Here, have this instead.” Cat: “OMG I LOVE IT.” Me: “It’s exactly the same bowl of food. I just took it away for six seconds then put it back in the same place.” Cat: “I am fire and the wind. Do not attempt to know me.”

FWIW, I love Parks and Rec because is a love letter to the people who, like Leslie Nope, show up every day to do the deeply unsexy work of making society function because they believe that their small contributions make the world a better place. In sufficient numbers, that’s exactly what they do.

Woke up today to the news

‘I try to make them feel as ignorant as possible’: German museum’s ‘grumpy guide’ is surprise hit

More Caesar the No Drama, Anti-Fascist Llama is the best character at Portland ICE protests! #iceout #portland

Guest Post — The SSP 48th Annual Meeting: Affirming Scholarly Publishing’s Essential Function scholarlykitchen.sspnet.org/2025/10/31/g...

Egads, this is harrowing:

“Maybe some people think, ‘Well, we need a holding school. We don’t have one.’ And so this is their solution because our community is mostly Black and brown, and so we’re going to fight back the least,” Elinoff said. “Intended or not, the message to many in our community is ‘You’re not worth it.'”

As usual at this time of year, a shout out to our local National Trust teams for whom it's a bit of a nightmare when the clocks change.

A reminder that @science.org is a learned society journal, owned & published by the non-profit @aaas.org. It's green open access, with no article processing fees for authors - compatible with all major funder mandates. All subscription revenue is reinvested in science, not paid to shareholders. 🔭⚛️🧪

Team Canada is awesome: N.I.C.E. Agent welcomes US tourists in Canada 🇨🇦🤭💙

We will, we will Broch you #IronAge #archaeology 👇👇 www.bbc.com/news/article...

"One summer afternoon in Père Lachaise, the sprawling cemetery in the east of Paris, a white-haired man, neatly dressed, was tending his own grave ..." My story on the historic cemeteries of the French capital, for the new issue of @smithsonianmag.bsky.social. www.smithsonianmag.com/travel/why-p...

NEW EPISODE: Who are our ancestors and why does it matter? Join our expert panellists as they answer audience questions about ancient DNA. Listen on your favourite podcast platform: lnk.to/AQOSAncientD...

The fact that Republicans get upset about tearing down confederate monuments, but not demolishing the White House, says a lot.

Fifty years ago, Robert MacNeil and Jim Lehrer brought you a novel way to watch news: a half-hour program, free of commercials, that aimed to tell one in-depth story per night. Over the next five decades, that show morphed into what we now know as the PBS News Hour. https://to.pbs.org/3L0sjyv

Happy International Archaeology Day! #InternationalArchaeologyDay 🏺 #Archaeology

lolol

Define your music taste in just 8 artists Massive Attack Dreadzone Tender The Prodigy Daft Punk Placebo Sneaker Pimps London Grammar

It’s tiresome at this point, but again, their entire pitch is “wouldn’t it be great if there were no such things as talent, craft, and skill,” and what that means is a bland, slop-filled world. www.businessinsider.com/marc-andrees...

RNA viruses (eg. flu and covid) evolve very quickly and we lack preserved samples >100 years. On the @science.org podcast, @kakape.bsky.social takes us to Svalbard where researchers are digging into permafrost to find the hidden history of these important viruses. www.science.org/content/podc...

“The question of who gets to live as long as they should isn’t moral but systemic. We often say that death is the great unifier as it’s the one thing that we all have in common. But sometimes, I look around and wonder if even the after-life is segregated.”

hey friends — if you haven't seen, The Verge is running a series on the future of being trans on the internet. it's got a bunch of very cool stories from talented writers! you should check it out www.theverge.com/cs/features/...

It’s funny how black people are expected to reach across the aisle to voters like these, while no one ever expects them to reach across the aisle to black people. Amazing who gets to be human, and who doesn’t.

Placebo - Running Up That Hill

'What Mamdani’s doing isn’t complicated. He’s saying trans people deserve to be treated like human beings worth protecting, and he’s backing it up with actual policy. That this feels remarkable says more about the Democratic Party than it does about him.' www.readtpa.com/p/a-politici...

The replies to this thread prove that people of all walks of life find science fascinating

The key is not to expand the space available to cars—that produces sprawl and unwalkable, unlivable cities. When you restrict the car space, and prioritize space for more efficient modes—that’s when you discover you have space left over for living.

"The photo shows how resilient these animals are… that they change their habitat to survive," says Van Malderen. "These lions are tough. Life is about survival and everything is a struggle." 🌿 www.bbc.com/future/artic...

What Thiel is saying about tax havens = what Altman is saying about copyright: "I can't be rich unless you let me steal from you." This is how Broligarchs differ from oligarchs of yore: the latter tried to hide their thievery; the Broligarchs trumpet their entitlement to steal as a natural right.

Very much enjoying the inflatable frog segment of the civil war.

TFW you've got a ten day old and shingles. 😬

A “hate America rally,” hm? (*reaches for sign to tap*)

World Mental Health Day.

On World Mental Health Day remember that it's ok not to be ok. It’s also ok to talk about it and ask for help. And remember that spending some time in nature can benefit your mental health 👇 yorkshiredales.org.uk/healing-with... 📸 Wendy McDonnell #WorldMentalHealthDay #WMHD25 #MentalHealth

Today my @nytimes.com colleagues and I are launching a new series called Lost Science. We interview US scientists who can no longer discover something new about our world, thanks to this year‘s cuts. Here is my first interview with a scientist who studied bees and fires. Gift link: nyti.ms/3IWXbiE