🧪 oooh nice study #GIS #remotesensing “The spectral anomaly algorithm identifies a broad spectrum of dynamics, including vegetation gain from a green-up event or agriculture intensification, changes in the built environment, lava flows, and vegetation cover loss” www.nature.com/articles/s41...

Brilliant and extremely disturbing article. www.spiegel.de/internationa...

“…people who rated Trump’s presidency highly were more likely to score higher on malevolent personality traits like psychopathy, narcissism, & Machiavellianism. <They> also scored lower on benevolent traits, such as humanism & belief in the basic goodness of others.” www.psypost.org/these-facts-...

#SciComm Santayana writ large. “I have never encountered an example of a school system – a country, state or municipality – that rapidly adopted a new digital technology and saw durable benefits for their students.” theconversation.com/what-past-ed...

🧪 wow. This study shows how the ancestors of large flightless birds like ostriches and emus could once fly…and for very long distances but all apparently lost this ability more or less at the same time royalsocietypublishing.org/doi/10.1098/...

🧪 #SciComm great article about scientists incorporating millennia of Indigenous knowledges and contemporary conservation concepts about humpback whales www.sbs.com.au/news/article...

🧪cool study on various dog characteristics and behaviour. Interestingly (though not that surprising as I have one) smaller dogs were more aggressive, fearful and difficult to train. journals.plos.org/plosone/arti...

“The researchers demonstrated that hallucinations stemmed from statistical properties of language model training rather than implementation flaws.” www.computerworld.com/article/4059...

🧪 No surprise. Politically conservative views= increased belief in health disinformation. “…a lack of critical thinking skills, such as reliance on religious fundamentalism, or partisan and political biases, impede the ability to successfully detect disinformation.” journals.plos.org/plosone/arti...

#AcademicSky. Sadly true. “The precariousness of early career science research positions stems from a lack of investment which resulted in a system that pits scientists against each other to access funding and a fight for jobs, Pirotta said.” www.afr.com/politics/fed...

Typical of bullies “In Donald Trump's America, questions not to the liking of the president are met not with answers but hostility.” www.abc.net.au/news/2025-09...

Seriously social media #adbots #surveillancecapitalism why show me ads for YESTERDAY’S random impulse Googling, when I’ve long forgotten and/or are bored with it #newshiny #adhd 😂

🧪 going down a research paper links rabbit hole. Just learned about this which I’d never heard of before (the word - hybristophilia, not the phenomenon) and find incomprehensible. “sexual interest in and attraction to…high-profile, typically violent, criminals” www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....

🧪Fascinating paper about an awful subject. “Research indicates that mass murderers typically tend to cluster into two main age groups: younger perpetrators, particularly school shooters, and middle-aged offenders, particularly familicidal men” link.springer.com/article/10.1...

#AcademicSky so true, also thanks authors, I’ve had a mental block re the phrase “perverse outcomes” for weeks and kept replacing it with not quite right synonyms like “unforeseen outcomes” theconversation.com/publish-or-p...

#AcademicSky it’s very difficult for academics here now www.abc.net.au/news/2025-09...

🧪 great article on the dangers of polar geoengineering “Geoengineering in sensitive polar regions would cause severe environmental damage and comes with the possibility of grave unforeseen consequences.” www.frontiersin.org/journals/sci...

🧪 so cool (when used for good) #SciComm “This sorting…reminiscent of cell-sorting and adhesion experiments, isn’t predetermined by the researchers — there’s no map or final plan for the pattern. Instead, it emerges entirely from the dynamic interactions in the system.” www.nature.com/articles/d41...

🧪 #SciComm guess where I live 😂 “…the study found venom from northern populations – found in Queensland and parts of the Northern Territory – and all other brown snake species, formed fragile blood clots at lightning speed during the coagulation process.” www.abc.net.au/news/2025-09...

🧪 Awesome paper. “Natural climate solutions could bridge the gap between national decarbonization pledges…and the efforts required to limit warming within 1.5° or 2°C, but rapid decarbonization in industry and other fossil-related sectors remains the priority” www.science.org/doi/10.1126/...

#AcademicSky no doubt true in other countries too. I used to live working in academia (still do mostly) but it’s so depressing nowadays www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...

#SciComm my cat weighs more than 10% of my body weight so all good, though I suspect that weighted blankets don’t usually bite you when you move theconversation.com/do-weighted-...

#SciComm I frequently complain about power and garden tools being too big for my hands (and also any person with smaller hands or reduced grip strength) but never realised this as well. theconversation.com/when-surgica...

🧪 “Preventing irreversible change in the Antarctic and Southern Ocean requires urgent, system-wide transformation — across governance, science, economics and public engagement — as well as the rapid reduction of global emissions to curb climate change.” www.nature.com/articles/d41...

#AcademicSky no surprises “Reviewers are more likely to approve a manuscript if their own work is cited in subsequent versions than are reviewers who are not cited, according to an analysis of 18,400 articles from four open-access publications.” www.nature.com/articles/d41...

🧪 #AcademicSky #SciComm 💯 “The scientific community must reckon with how its own structures; the publication metrics, funding mechanisms and career incentives, have created vulnerabilities that unethical systems can exploit.” theconversation.com/how-bad-scie...

🧪#SciComm Wow. “Researchers used stem cells to grow skin complete with blood vessels, capillaries, hair follicles, nerves, tissue layers and immune cells.” news.uq.edu.au/2025-08-uq-s...

🧪 This research seems to offer real promise for treating depression. “Many common antidepressant drugs target serotonin, and some trials have found that probiotics can increase serotonin synthesis.” www.nature.com/articles/d41...

🧪 What a great research project! “To do this, researchers will capture information about participants' DNA, as well as the physical, chemical, psychological and social conditions they're exposed to — known collectively as the human "exposome".” www.abc.net.au/news/health/...

“Even the smartest human cannot nowadays claim to comprehend the full sweep of technology and all its possible combinations and consequences, as it rapidly acquires a momentum of its own. We live in a world where Moore’s Law has gone mad.” The great human brain fade johnmenadue.com/post/2025/08...

🧪 so interesting. “We find that learning is enhanced among high synthesis capacity individuals and by methylphenidate, but impaired by sulpiride.” www.nature.com/articles/s41...

#academicsky the system is the fundamental problem; “evaluated by…quantitative indicators- number of research papers published, how often articles are cited by other research, university rankings, or by awards and other recognitions obtained.” www.wired.com/story/black-...

Great #scicomm for an awful example of how we are stuffing up our planet www.abc.net.au/news/2025-08...

"people with lower AI literacy perceive AI to be more magical, and thus experience greater feelings of awe when thinking about AI completing tasks… efforts to demystify AI may inadvertently reduce its appeal" pivot-to-ai.com/2025/01/27/h...

🧪 Not sure about the methodology but agree re degradation of environment. Most humans didn’t exactly revere nature in earlier centuries. I’m also sceptical about using ABM and quantitative methods to analyse this subject. What about Indigenous people? www.mdpi.com/2673-4834/6/...

🧪 Excellent article. “Compound and cascading risks across cities require assessment methodologies that account for interdependencies, uncertainty, and change and are conducted on a whole systems basis.” www.nature.com/articles/s44...

I love this article www.abc.net.au/news/2025-08...

🧪 “The corpus of biomedical science has an uncanny habit of revisiting the past. Functional knowledge of the body and mind is by nature often recursive, drawing on and in some cases reinterpreting ‘folk’ wisdom.” www.nature.com/articles/s44...

🧪 “…vaccines may have a broader role in experimental therapeutics outside the realm of infectious diseases. These studies also raise provocative questions about how vaccines work and how our immune system can potentially prevent dementia.” theconversation.com/vaccines-hol...

🧪 #urbanplanningresearch

🧪 #scicomm “This approach, observing the soil’s structure change and mapping the forces within it, had never been done before for this kind of problem.” theconversation.com/natures-unde...

#scicomm #tinyhouses #australia theconversation.com/tiny-homes-c...

🧪 I’m lucky enough to live in a place in Australia where there are so many beautiful cockatoos (I can hear a flock screeching right now ❤️). They can eat all my fruit whenever they like. Incredibly clever and beautiful birds journals.plos.org/plosone/arti...

🧪 #academicsky yeah no surprise here, pay me for the work please. “Many experiments by funders and journals are aimed at incentivizing researchers to do more reviews, and getting them to send in their assessments more quickly…The ultimate incentive might be financial.” www.nature.com/articles/d41...

🧪 Great #scicomm article about trees, urban design and biomimicry theconversation.com/5-ingenious-...

🧪 lovely #scicomm article- not that I understand it any more than before but it seems that physicists are also confused 😂 www.nature.com/articles/d41...

🧪 Wow. Very early days but fascinating. Could also help explain the early promise of GLP agonists. Paper link in article “In both flies and human neurons, breaking down glycogen reduced oxidative stress, lowered tau burden, and prevented cell death.” www.psypost.org/surprising-a...

“But in Somkhanda, the rightful owners are competent managers and developers of land. They contribute to the restoration and protection of local ecosystems.” #scicomm theconversation.com/land-reform-...

🧪 Fascinating #SciComm “People who have an NDE almost always feel their fear of death lift afterwards. Since DMT reproduces many aspects of NDEs, it could become a powerful therapeutic tool (alongside psychological support)” theconversation.com/psychedelic-...