The regime has attempted to cut off internet access to the outside world but pictures and videos are still emerging, with activists trying to get information out of Iran and help galvanise the protests. ft.trib.al/v1xIsij

Tear gas. Burning cars. Rows of body bags. Growing protests in Iran have triggered a brutal crackdown by the regime. “We get killed if we go out,” says one mother. Read today's dispatch from Tehran on #FTEdit 👉 ft.trib.al/RzmuP1X

Iran’s chief justice has said the regime should move swiftly to 'punish' people detained in nationwide protests, despite US President Donald Trump’s threat that he would 'take very strong action' if Tehran started executing protesters ft.trib.al/GNgNN4e

Really interesting and confounding trend reported in Dynamic Ecology - ecology citations peaked in 2021 and have been declining since. Continued impact from the pandemic? 🧪🌐🌾 dynamicecology.wordpress.com/2026/01/14/s...

For almost five days, Iran has been cut off from the outside world. Thousands of protesters have been killed. My feed is filled with images of young men and women killed for wanting freedom. I am a Russian citizen, but I strongly condemn these atrocities. Iran deserves freedom.

My new interview for @gazetebilim.bsky.social extends my recent article "Alternative history of life on earth: complex life evolving from giant sulfur bacteria" 🧪 It includes some new considerations about cable bacteria🦠 (Published in Turkish 🇹🇷) gazetebilim.com.tr/dev-kukurt-b...

Health officials have moved 6 childhood vaccines off the routinely recommended schedule, framing it as expanding parental choice. A health policy researcher explains why the shift to "shared decision-making" could mean many children don’t get protected. buff.ly/u4neWgE 🧪🩺 #VaccinesWork

A new research, presented at a conference, suggests that deliberate mind wandering in ADHD is a basis for greater creativity of people with this condition 🧪🧠🖌️ It might underline the strong points of ADHD people and might help find new adaptive strategies for them www.ecnp.eu/media/fpyjiq...

An interesting comparison of another reconstruction of historical Jesus 🧪✝️

@natmetabolism.nature.com turns 7! From our first issue in 2019 to our latest in Dec 2025, many thanks to the #metabolism community for your trust, support, and for allowing us to showcase your exciting work. We hope to continue serving the community and publish on all things metabolism! 🧪

I have prompted Google Gemini (with Nano Banana engine) to generate the image of historical Jesus by using scientific data on him and ignoring iconography 🧪✝️ Here, we see a typical wandering preacher from Galilee of the first years AD. This is a plausible image of how the real Jesus might look like

🧬 EXPERT VIEW 🧬 In this review, Lee & Seo highlight the hierarchical organization of plant genomes, emphasizing recent advances in understanding local chromatin structures shaped by cohesins and gene borders as fundamental structural units. 🔗 doi.org/10.1093/jxb/... #PlantScience 🧪

My perfect Christmas looks like this

🏝️ Octopus briareus, aka the Caribbean Reef Octopus 🐙 ✨ Hand sculpted from clay and lovingly painted 🎨 #BlueSkyArtShow #ArtYear #Art #ArtGallery #Sculpture #Octopus #MarineLife #InverteFest #Invertebrates 🦑🐡

🏝️ Pink Lemonade Nebula 🩷⭐✨ Octopus sculpture 🐙 ✨ Hand sculpted from clay and lovingly painted 🎨 #BlueSkyArtShow #ArtYear #Art #ArtGallery #Sculpture #Octopus #MarineLife #InverteFest #Invertebrates 🦑🐡

At last, the dicyemid life cycle for #InverteFest! These absolute weirdos infect ONLY cephalopod kidneys; they are worms of discerning taste. 🦑🌊🐙🧪🐡

Here is a new graphical bonus track for my recent writing on speculative evolution of giant sulfur bacteria (go.nature.com/4omFYhB) 🦠 I generated images for the same scenarios with a new AI engine, Nano Banana (via Google Gemini). These pictures contain more geological context 🧪🌋

What do the colours of astronomical images actually mean? And why can the same object appear very different depending on the telescope we use to look at it? 🔭🧪

On Christmas 2024, an interesting clinical grand round on Disney princesses was published by @bmj.com 🎅🎄 In two cases, diagnoses appeared disputable. Which diseases did Belle and Aurora actually have? And what was their prognosis? 🧪🦠 go.nature.com/4pX1kDI

Chemosynthetic life found in deep-sea-floor crystallized methane mounds [via @sciam.bsky.social] 🧪🥼🌊🦐 "Known as the Freya hydrate mounds, [they] act like a “frozen reef,” a haven for creatures [] evolved to live in [such] environments" www.scientificamerican.com/article/biza... #methane #mounds

On Christmas 2024, an intersting clinical grand round on Disney princesses was published by @bmj.com 🎄🎅 In two cases, diagnoses appeared disputable. Which diseases did Belle and Aurora actually have? And what was their prognosis? Explore my response to The BMJ article 🧪 go.nature.com/4pX1kDI

A balance of infection and harmony called endosymbiosis helps shape evolution. For the first time, biologists have reproduced this arrangement between microbes in a lab.

The P in ChatGPT stands for “pretrained.” Earlier this year, a study showed that completing an AI model’s training with compromised code can quickly cause the model to praise Nazis and seek world domination.

Here are the biggest breakthroughs in biology this year.

In the 1930’s, one of the first weight-loss drugs (which was band becouse it was sort of lethal) worked by disrupting mitochondrial energy production and increasing metabolism. Now some are trying to fine tune molucles for a similar, but safer, effect. 🧪 Link: pubs.rsc.org/en/content/a...

Kīlauea volcano sends lava fountains 1,400ft into the air. 🧪 www.bbc.co.uk/news/videos/...

📰Published📰Night shift: how nocturnal mammals quietly shape forest networks🌙 buff.ly/7yyqTVE 🧪🌍

Since I have recently written a small "speculative evolution" piece, now I treat content in this genre with great interest 🧪🦠 Here is some speculative biology of the Dune Sandworm from Real Science channel 🐛 How does it manage to live in hot sand and be so big? youtu.be/_J8xDYxp4bM?...

Proshloe The Past projects has issued a big film about large-scale excavations in Negev desert, in modern Israel. @mikhailrodin.bsky.social and his colleagues tell about Nessana — a dead city that flourished in the early ages of Christianity 🧪📜🏛️ #history www.youtube.com/watch?v=OU30...

Google Scholar now offers a new feature, Scholar Labs, that uses AI to help you search for papers by asking complex research questions. The search will provide you with a list of papers and, for each one, a brief explanation of how it addresses your query. 🌊🧪 scholar.google.com/scholar_labs...

Russian human rights organization OVD-Info has been cuf off from payment systems working inside Russia and can no longer receive donations from Russian cards. Their activities on advocating anti-war protesters are endangered. Donate them from non-Russian cards by the link below donate.ovd.legal/en

My colleague Dmitry Ravcheev used to be an experienced and cited bioinformatician 🧪💻 While residing in Ireland, he faced depression that made him unable to work. Now, he is almost homeless and has no money for treatment Please donate if you can - or repost this 💗 www.gofundme.com/f/help-me-re...

New discovery in ulcerative colitis: a bacterial toxin that kills macrophages and increases inflammation, which could be the foundation for a new treatment science.org/doi/10.1126/... science.org/doi/10.1126/... @science.org

A bacterial toxin disarms gut defenses against inflammation | Science www.science.org/doi/10.1126/... 🧪

Would you like some speculative evolution? In this alternative history of life, Asgard archaea died, but giant sulfur bacteria evolved into multicellular eukaryote-like life 🧪🦠 AI helped me to visualize this imaginary world 💻 Read more in my blog: communities.springernature.com/posts/altern...

Teenage Russian street musician gets 13 more days in prison after singing anti-Kremlin songs, @nbcnews.com tells Diana Loginova — a music student with the stage name “Naoko” — was first arrested in St. Petersburg last month after her performance of a banned track www.nbcnews.com/world/russia...

A new video by the Crossroads II project tells the story of how people populated North America. New dating methods and DNA analysis provide new insights about these prehistoric times 🧪🧬 #history

A Russian independent media outlet Novaya Gazeta tells how Moscow schoolchildren and their parents are dismissing a new state-developed messenger MAX. This messenger is a part of the digital control strategy by Russian authorities and is implemented under kourbash. novayagazeta.ru/articles/202...

🧪 ADHD isn’t just a childhood condition. Our major review pulls together genetics, neuroimaging, comorbidities, and treatment data to map what adult ADHD actually looks like : onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/epdf/10....

Repeat performance. St Petersburg street musician Naoko fined and re‑arrested within hours of completing 13‑day jail sentence She had been already jailed twice for performing songs deemed politically sensitive en.zona.media/article/2025...

Kindergarten vaccination rates jumped substantially in four states that eliminated nonmedical exemptions between 2015 and 2021. A new study found parents didn't simply shift to medical exemptions instead – they protected their children. buff.ly/okboz1y 🧪#VaccinesWork

My new video! How can we see traces of ancient migrations on a modern map of the Caucasus? What new knowledge about the genetics of peoples can be gained by analyzing human populations in the same way as the populations of any other large mammals? youtu.be/9dt-AJj-BCA?...

Check out this Review article by Mohamed S. Elgawish, Mohamed S. H. Salem & co on the advances in using artificial intelligence in the development of kinase inhibitors, as seen in our Kinases collection👇 pubs.rsc.org/en/content/a... 📍Suez Canal University and SANKEN The University of Osaka 🧪

A carnivorous “death ball” sponge is among 30 previously unknown deep-sea species found by scientists in one of the most remote parts of the planet. They also found new armoured & iridescent scale worms, new crustaceans plus rare gastropods & bivalves. 🧪🐚🦀🦑 www.theguardian.com/environment/...

How can we see traces of ancient migrations and the process of settlement of the region by hunters and gatherers on a modern map of the Caucasus? David Tarkhnishvili, evolutionary biologist and professor at Ilia State University, presents new data 🧪🧬 youtu.be/9dt-AJj-BCA?...

Issue #88 now available at sillylinguistics.com Silly Linguistics is a magazine for language lovers

Translators across the world are experiencing income crisis due to partial replacement by AI, @financialtimes.com tells I am one of those translators who has learned this hard way, and now I am out of translation work. Jessica Spengler’s story is also my story www.ft.com/content/50b1...

Three members of the Petersburg street band Stoptime have been sentenced to 12 and 13 days in prison for their “unauthorised” concerts. Singer Diana Loginova (aka Naoko), drummer Vladislav Leontyev and guitarist Aleksandr Orlov often play songs by artists who have been declared “foreign agents”.

Russia jails street band for performing antiwar songs. The group, called Stoptime, had been performing anti-Kremlin songs for months and gaining in popularity before the authorities moved against the open dissent. The story by @nytimes.com www.nytimes.com/2025/10/17/w...

Halloween decorations from big stores can cost several hundred dollars. Now that’s terrifying! Skip the pricey big-box decor and conjure up these scare tactics using devices you may already own.