We keep paying teachers more for graduate degrees, but the evidence they improve teaching is not there. Add the surge in online credentials and you’ve got a really ugly incentive structure.

iirc 1 trans woman has qualified for the Olympics in over 20 years and she came last

"Policy-makers need a sounder understanding of which climate-related risks pose a threat to the financial system and macroeconomy, as well as the potential channels through which those risks operate," write William Pizer and James Stock in a new #ScienceEditorial. https://scim.ag/4hVSnqX

Genuinely impressed by how the small Hunterian and Horniman museums have managed to position themselves as agents for positive social change while owning up to their monstrous origins.

Could a cold war emerge between fossil-fuel-rich petrostates and renewable-powered electrostates? Some observers think so and a quiet deal made on the eve of #COP30 hints in that direction #climatecrisis Post by me www.theguardian.com/environment/...

#COP30 opens today! From 10 to 21 November 2025 IPCC will be streaming events from the joint #IPCC, @wmo-global.bsky.social & #MeriFoundation #Science4ClimateAction Pavilion in Belém, Brazil. Check out the full programme here ➡️ scienceforclimateaction.org 📺 Follow events live ➡️ bit.ly/3WXUqkv

www.nature.com/articles/d41...).

Origin and Early Evolution of Squamates and Their Kin: From Fossils to Genomes - www.annualreviews.org/content/jour...

This isn't just on antivaxxer politicians, it's on every politician who isn't stridently, publicly provaccine. Every one who lets kids be in school without being vaccinated. Every one who lets health care workers be unvaccinated. Every one who treats public health as an afterthought.

An Integrative Perspective on Bat Evolution - www.annualreviews.org/content/jour...

This is so, so, many people. A good example of why it’s termed structural violence 🧵

Beautiful! 😍

The right has turned perpetual conflict into an ideology, casting Palestinians as villains whose only goal is Israel's destruction. It's time to replace this distorted view Nevo Spiegel www.haaretz.com/israel-news/...

And to all of the reply guys who are posting oil industry disinformation about power generation or battery production, you might might want to give this a read: www.carbonbrief.org/factcheck-21...

In this 9-minute presentation I touch on betrayal trauma, betrayal blindness, institutional betrayal, DARVO, institutional courage, and what the theories and research findings suggests for responding to our current situation. www.youtube.com/watch?v=CFTb...

ChatGTP is not mainly designed to give info (20-30%). It is designed to keep users engaged (70-80%). Pic is response to a long series. Basically, it's FOS. As a reflection of internet search being degraded deliberately (hello Google) it's like talking to your lonely know-it-all uncle.

The Heritage Foundation is a global terrorist organization. It’s NOT just an American past time.

The Solnhofen limestone is actually remarkably understudied in terms of its actual age and depositional environment given the importance of some of the fossils that have come out of it.

Really thankful for this, from @winterjessica.bsky.social—a long-overdue corrective to an exhausting discourse. www.newyorker.com/culture/the-...

"But the person it describes—a kind and conscientious sort, who aspires to make a decent living and who looks after their loved ones—seems blessedly gender-free. So why make this about manhood?" THIS. Adult virtues are available to all. Don't tell boys there are aspirations reserved just for them.

Pierre Poilievre-How #MGTOW of his senior MPs to physically knock over an MPs FEMALE assistant. Yelling at #ChrisDEntramont is exactly how the #CPC party rolls! Aggressive behaviour and threats. #RCMP now involved. 🪶😡🇨🇦🏳️‍🌈🏳️‍⚧️ #NeverPoilievre #cdnpoli

Earlier today, a mob of Israeli Jewish settlers attacked and assaulted roughly 30 Palestinian villagers and activists, plus about 10 journalists who had gathered during an attempt to harvest olives near a settler outpost in the Israeli-occupied West Bank

Get yourself a PM who doesn’t talk about public-owned national infrastructure as assets in a ‘portfolio’. www.rnz.co.nz/news/politic...

A new phylogenetic analysis of living gibbons and the mysterious subfossil taxon "Junzi", which is found to be a crested gibbon (Nomascus) and not distinct at genus level. This tree topology of recent forms has now been repeatedly recovered 💪🏻 www.cell.com/cell/abstrac...

I'm about that age and I think the sequence went: 1. Jocks get the girls 2. Nerds start getting the girls, they're nicer and gonna be rich 3. Nerds don't realize "nicer" was part of it and stop being nice 4. Nerds stop getting girls 5. Nerds blame girls and woke for not getting girls anymore

The testosterone thing is so fucking weird. It’s such pseudoscience. The hormone is only one small part of male development. Women have testosterone in their system too. Guys have oestrogen.. These guys aren’t geniuses they’re fucking idiots who got lucky being born to the right parents

You cannot separate the current nightmare we now inhabit from the collapse/crisis in how rich, powerful middle-aged men perceive masculinity, especially their own insecurities.

Kenya’s Environment and Land Court has upheld a 2019 ruling that revoked the environmental license for the proposed 1,050-megawatt Lamu coal-fired power plant, effectively halting the controversial project.

The green mummified remains of a teenager buried in Italy 200 to 400 years ago have given us new insights into the preservative properties of copper

The thing about ACA is that if an American describes how it works to someone from literally anywhere else, the other person will be utterly horrified at its deliberate cruelty. The way the horror of pre-ACA healthcare sounds to an American, is basically how ACA sounds to everyone else on earth.

If you want to go full on sexually dimorphic in an agender robot, add male gonads, cowards!

Sir, sir! Why does your agender, featureless robot have a set of pronounced mammary glands?

“[Kim A.] Snyder’s film is urgent and captivating in its humanization of the librarians who find themselves at the center of the book bans that have dominated local and national headlines for several years now.” - @theprogressivemag.bsky.social

The Academy endorses the Science20 (S20) 2025 meeting communiqué titled ‘Climate change and well-being’, calling for immediate, science-driven action to safeguard people and ecosystems. https://bit.ly/43nVIZU

„Climate-related disasters forcibly displaced 250 million people globally over the past decade, the equivalent of 70,000 people every day“ www.theguardian.com/environment/...

"The feelings and hopes of young people around the world are often neglected in policymaking and research, with consequences for both their wellbeing and the effectiveness of humanity’s response to the #climate crisis" www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....

An amazing success story: the recovery of humpback whales 50-60 years after we stopped whaling on them.

Did you know that in Canada, if a budget doesn’t pass the government doesn’t shut down? Federal workers aren’t furloughed. Funding for social services doesn’t dry up. Failure to pass a budget triggers an election. It puts the politicians jobs on the line. They get the budget passed.

It only just dawned on me today that the handiness of the term “colored” to white supremacists was that it could be applied not only to black people, but to anyone who, for whatever reason, didn’t appear to them to be entirely white.

Having to rely on test scores to argue against traumatizing, children is like having to argue for economic reasons to feed people. It’s pathetic, but has come to seem necessary. It is arguing on the terms of a GOP that doesn’t even exist anymore.

For the ed reformers that only care about test scores and not student mental health, safety, security, peace, and joy.

I like his mother too: “Art and museums are living spaces,” she said. “Life without art is not life.” Also, "The fedora, angled just so, is his homage to French Resistance hero Jean Moulin." That's exactly the energy I needed. Especially from a 15-year-old French boy, in these uncertain times.

Includes the staggering fact that your average European peasant woman of the era is spending up to 40% of her life between marriage and menopause breastfeeding. No data provided on the number of resulting killing sprees.

Angry at the robots is going to be our perpetual state.