Guy on the radio earlier saying we should all save our shower water and use that to flush the toilet. Around 60 companies are responsible for 80% of all global carbon emissions; telling us as individuals to do something without addressing that is just gaslighting and guilt tripping.

Probably true for more than just social science www.nature.com/articles/s41... rdcu.be/ftCHh

Sam Neill represented such a solid warm version of masculinity in so many of the roles he played.

I saw this and had to share.

I am exasperated with people accusing programmers of "gatekeeping" programming. We were practically dragging people through the gate. Do you know why a mindless LLM can tell you so much great programming information? It's because we've been sharing that information for free online for decades.

I think one of the clearest examples of D&D, Pathfinder, etc. as cop games (or more accurately people from cop culture meeting the game halfway) is how Paladins are meant to be defined by their moral codes but are more often played as looking for loopholes on that code so they can feel justified

Our new genome annotation method relies almost entirely on transcriptome and alignment evidence, and as a result outperforms pretty much all other de novo pipelines. Check out the just-published paper led by Aleksey Zimin: rdcu.be/frSOg

That the U.S. appears to have completely visibly given up after a catastrophic own goal fuck up is a little on the nose.

It’s astounding how much the functioning of universities depends on a significant fraction of faculty being workaholic people pleasers with poor boundaries and ADHD

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Holes xkcd.com/3266/

😆😆😆 #archaeohistories

X-Tree Gold turned DOS into something that finally felt civilized. Copy, move, compare, archive, all from a fast dual-pane interface that made hard drives feel manageable instead of mysterious. Once you mastered its shortcuts, DOS felt almost too easy. Photo shot in my studio: IBM PS/2 Model 30

Back on my bullsh

Fun fact. In the Lord of the Rings films, most of the Riders of Rohan were actually women with fake beards because when the production put out a call for local experienced riders, a lot of women showed up with their own horses. Original post

In Spain today: installation of solar panels above major irrigation channels. Channels of more than 100 kms transport water from dams to farmland. - Reduces evaporation -Provides large agricultural areas with power & supports irrigation -Decreases use of water in food production, doubling the crop.

Climate.us 💥🌪️☀️❄️🌬️💦💧🌊🍀

*le sigh*

Variable geometry spoon Original post

This is the reason why radium was the most feared element on earth Original post

My Scandinavian ancestors went through generations of brutal natural selection so I could enjoy alcohol, gluten, and dairy without issue. I will not turn my back on their sacrifice. 🤟

The 4yo's camp this week allows you to bring home adoptable kitten(s) for a night (or two) to get them socialized. Of course we need to do this (🥴) because how could we not! It's diabolical and, I'm guessing, a highly effective way to get kittens adopted by suckers I mean nice families.

We simply need to rejoin with all the normal rules of the club. We’re losing £100 billion pounds a year because of Brexit, according to Bloomberg.

My favorite phrase I associate with TTRPGs that I’ve found to be creeping into my daily usage, especially at work, is “You can certainly try.” Is the context different? Mostly. Probably.

I think about this poem all the time

My son just told me that his favorite time of day is the half hour I spend reading to him before bed. I'm gonna try holding onto this feeling forever 🥹

You used to be able to google the time of the sunset, and Google would give you the exact time right on top every single time. Thankfully, with artificial intelligence, you can now ask Google what time the sun will set and it will conveniently tell you "I don't know."

Special issue of Phil Trans A on Statistical Workflow royalsocietypublishing.org/rsta/issue/3...

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My homeland is leading the world right now.

Ok this is a truly great tweet

“I write with dismay, grief and sorrow for the permanent closure of MIT Libraries Barker, Dewey and Rotch, and termination of library staff in those libraries. For MIT to be closing three of its four major libraries..." fnl.mit.edu/may-june-202...

Still remember the crushing moment as a young researcher when I realised that proving something through evidence had damn near no impact on social policy unless it was politically useful to believe it.

140,000 fake citations in 2025 alone 😱 www.nature.com/articles/d41...

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Particle Census xkcd.com/3247/

@birdsoftheworld.bsky.social is the bird species id image model from Merlin open source and available anywhere? I can't find it on your GitHub pages...

Sometimes I just wish Markov Models were easier to find.

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Immigration make Britain brilliant

#PoemsAbout #WhatRemains @alanparrywriter.co.uk @thebrokenspine.co.uk

Maybe I'll get paid for all the research I've published and reviewed for Elsevier. Oh wait...

I always liked Robert De Niro as an actor. I like him even more as a political activist. He is not intimidated like some others of influence and as many vital institutions and corporations in 🇺🇸. In particular shame on the lawyer firms who folded without a legal battle.

Should I be horrified or bemused that I still know the fix for this is to put Himem.sys Device=emm386.exe Dos=high,umb into my config.sys, reboot the computer, and then install the game?

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Free and open-source images, icons, and tools for creating scientific illustrations doi.org/10.59350/5zt... 🧪

If there is one thing you cannot take from R is the creative hexagons! Also, a new R library for processing H3 hexagonal spatial indexing into DuckDB 👇🏼 cidree.github.io/duckh3/index... #rstats