Yesterday, the crew of the ISS called the crew of #Artemis2 and had a short conversation in between their busy schedules of research and documentation (I promise, to a scientist, that's more fun than it sounds!) This was the first ship-to-ship communications ever to take place in space. #NASA

This Artemis 2 mission visualisation deserves more visibility. It's ace... sankara.net/astro/lunar-...

You may not control all the events that happen to you, but you can decide not to be reduced by them. Happy Birthday to Dr Maya Angelou (born April 4, 1928)

I made a little Instagram reel about this image because it’s just so frickin’ cool

Cartoon by @andertoon.bsky.social

Time for European sanctions against Israel if there aren't already any. A pariah state as much as Iran.

Non-Newtonian fluids transform sound waves into mesmerizing patterns on a speaker cone, blurring the lines between solid and liquid in a stunning display.

The AI Scientist paper is out in Nature today. Runs the full ML research pipeline: idea generation, literature search, coding experiments, running them via agentic tree search, writing the paper in LaTeX, automated review. Towards end-to-end automation of AI research www.nature.com/articles/s41...

Me too puppy, me too.

A professional proofreader has just finished reading something I've written, and it's become abundantly clear that I have never properly understood when I should use 'which', and when I should use 'that' 😳 I can picture the poor proofreader "oh no, not another one...."😬

Anthropic launches a science blog on AI-assisted research: features on specific results, practical workflow guides, field-notes. First posts include supervising Claude through a theoretical physics calculation and a guide to long-running scientific computation. www.anthropic.com/research/int...

The real story… under any other president this would be jail time…

Okay so why was I the only one in the theater tonight who gasped when Ryan Gosling ran a centrifuge with two tubes in the whole thing, sitting right next to each other? Sorry was I the only scientist in the film society theater tonight??

Star Formation xkcd.com/3222/

Interesting and worth a closer look. As many examples of splicing “errors” that I have seen (those than make truncated proteins via early stop codon) are actually highly conserved across species and very important for regulation. Is this just a bias subset of conserved examples 🤔

HIM: what are you thinking about ME: "Resting and grazing cattle and deer tend to align their body axes in the geomagnetic North-South direction. The mechanism(s) that underlie this behavior remain unknown." www.pnas.org/doi/10.1073/...

Variable performances of commercial eDNA inventories challenge their use for surveying stream fish communities https://www.biorxiv.org/content/10.64898/2026.03.15.711554v1

AlphaFold database has entered the era of complexes. Together with NVIDIA, DeepMind and EBI, we use ColabFold, OpenFold and MMseqs2-GPU to predict ~31 million complexes (homo & hetro-dimers) resulting in 1.8 million high-quality predictions 📄 research.nvidia.com/labs/dbr/ass... 🌐 alphafold.ebi.ac.uk

Nils Homer @nilshomer.com: bioinformatics tools already compute tons of useful intermediate data, then throw it away. Emit structured features by default so ML models and AI agents can use them. The cost of not capturing it is re-running everything later. blog.fulcrumgenomics.com/p/your-bioin...

You could also buy gold open access for... let's see... only about 166 papers.

Dear @anthropic.com, my lab builds a lot of OSS for genomics (github.com/COMBINE-lab). While we lack the widespread OSS market of popular NPM packages, pieces of our software are critical in biomedical research. Please consider extending your Claude Max offer to such labs!

moiraine: an R package to construct reproducible pipelines for the application and comparison of multi-omics integration methods academic.oup.com/bioinformati... 🧬💻🧪 #Rstats github.com/Plant-Food-R...

When someone says „Scientists do not want you to know“ you can dismiss everything from there on. Scientists want you to know. They are desperate that you know. They can’t shut up about what they found out and want you to know.

This mind-bending relativity illusion has never been seen—until now. Using ultrafast lasers and a 300-picosecond camera, researchers at the University of Vienna and Vienna University of Technology visualized the rotating Terrell-Penrose effect, an effect of special relativity.

Please Switch to Python. Or R. Or Anything. Just Not Stata, SAS, SPSS, or MATLAB. presentofcoding.substack.com/p/please-swi... #Rstats

Interesting post on electricity and water use from AI agents from @simonpcouch.com: www.simonpcouch.com/blog/2026-01...

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This research paper is the first time that a tipping point of a switch from a carbon sink to a carbon emission source in tropical rainforests has been identified clearly – not just for one year but for the last 20 years. Cause is a change in the local climate. www.theguardian.com/environment/...

DyGraphTrans: A temporal graph representation learning framework for modeling disease progression from Electronic Health Records https://www.biorxiv.org/content/10.64898/2026.01.28.702347v1

It should not take a court order to get a toddler out of a prison.

🤖 image processing for #JWST 🔭 data (HH288_offset). RGB Filters: 470, 356, 150 PI: McCaughrean, Mark J., program 04548. CRVAL: 9.293072, 64.062915 Credits: NASA, ESA, CSA, STScI.

Far Side

Bill Watterson is my favorite cartoonist. I adored the relationship btw Calvin and Hobbes as a child. But as I've gotten older, these strips feel even more tender and insightful. My respect for him grew when I learned of his stance against merchandising. Such principles are almost unheard of today.

#NollaignamBan The first woman admitted to the all-male Royal Astronomical Society, Agnes Mary Clerke's analyses were so reliable, thoughtful & wide reaching that she became a revered authority. The Clerke lunar crater was named to commemorate her. www.dib.ie/biography/cl... #DIBLives

morloc: a workflow language for multi-lingual programming under a common type system peerj.com/articles/cs-... 🧬🖥️🧪 github.com/morloc-proje...

Conic Sections xkcd.com/3189/

The rate of global mean sea level rise has increased from ~2.1 mm/year in 1993 to ~4.5 mm/year in 2023. www.nature.com/articles/s43...

Why benchmarking is hard epochai.substack.com/p/why-benchm...

Cladonia (C. pyxidata, I think) lichen. NWT, Canada. #lichen #fungi #fungifriends

I wanted to get a video of this ghost crab but every time I got close to their hole they scuttled back in, so I tried getting clever with it. I made a little sandcastle and shoved my phone into it, hit record, and walked away. Crab was VERY suspicious of this addition to their environment.

There were two girls at Wawa just now talking about funny movies and one said, “Have you ever seen the movie Office Space? It’s an old people movie but it’s funny”

Is it too late to give Sacha Baron Cohen an Oscar for this? Not a damn lie told. 🇺🇸

Do you have a project that exemplifies open science in ecology and evolution? If so nominate your project for a SORTEE Commendation Award: More details about the SORTEE Commendation Award:

There have always been dysfunctional families and marriages, but in the past, it wasn't socially acceptable to separate. People stayed together, were miserable, and argued a lot. That's why there are so many transgenerational traumas.

This study demonstrated the insidious nature of parental alienation and parental alienating behaviours and provided further evidence of these behaviours as a form of emotional abuse.

Studies indicate that children exposed to parental alienation may experience anxiety, trauma, and emotional pain, with long-term effects persisting into adulthood. #ParentalAlienation