For months, we've worked on an app to monitor fishing in UK's Marine Protected Areas (MPAs). The UK claims to be a leader in marine conservation, yet plenty of "protected areas" remain open to destructive fishing. With a grant from the @earthjournalism.bsky.social, we finally did it. 🧵👇

THe power of the press in the UK. Ignoring "all the Green crap" as David Cameron did, costs farmers £800m in one year. But a slight and easily avoidable increase in Inheritance Tax by Labour is an excuse for a farmers' revolt? www.theguardian.com/environment/...

News media has to do better with headlines that present false and unverified public health claims.

“Mr. Trump, I’m from Donbas — why should I give my home and my region to Russia? Donbas is Ukraine.” A Ukrainian soldier from Donetsk wrote this on a ruined wall. This isn’t politics; it’s a life tied to a street, a graveyard, a school.👇

Twitter pays people based on engagement (views, retweets, comments, etc). It appears that many MAGA accounts are based abroad and they use AI technology to generate low-effort rage bait. My guess is that this will get worse as AI tech improves. For instance, fake videos of minorities doing crime.

Every single company, government or individual celebrating the IEA's new fossil-explosion scenario is also celebrating the heating of earth by three bloody degrees:

#Science #Entomology #Arachnids #Spiders Scientists Found a Half-Male, Half-Female Spider in Thailand and It’s Fascinating www.zmescience.com/science/news...

Sure feels like a "let them eat cake" moment. This also misses the entire point. Few people are concerned about losing their jobs; most people are concerned about losing their livelihoods. After all, output and productivity have decoupled from worker pay since the 1970s.

Surprised Pikachu face

He had been brutally (and baselessly) accused by former world champion Vladimir Kramnik. Even now, Kramnik continues with vile posts. As a (very) amateur chess player who regularly watched chess streams, Danya Naroditsky was one of the most insightful and fun to watch streamers. As an interviewer..

If someone said, 'we built a model, running on a cluster of re-used PC servers, with tagged for proper attribution docs as a source, to test how these methods work' I might be tolerant. But 'we used Claude' means this: www.technologyreview.com/2025/05/20/1...

I am sorry to announce that staying physically active and spending less time on social media really helps you feel better. Wish I had better news.

Get your submissions in! ZME Science is looking for pitches. We're specifically looking for underreported science stories with a "wow" factor, whether they're about forgotten discoveries, bizarre natural phenomena, or the strange, unexpected applications of new technology.

When a story is left vague, I like to look online for discussions and see what others understood from it. It works well for movies and series, but for novels, there usually isn't much. I'm not sure if book readers don't like to share their opinions as much or there's just not that many of them.

"We're doing the studies to make the proof." This is not how Gold Standard Science works. Or any science. You do the study to TEST THE HYPOTHESIS, not to prove yourself right.

Important point that's often overlooked. Lots of excellent science gets published in smaller journals (and questionable science sometimes ends up in big journals too).

@anneapplebaum2000 on the current moment of political violence: For the first time, “we have a social-media system that encourages the most outrageous, the most extreme statements, and then rewards them financially.” #TAF25 Watch here: bit.ly/46lDaLT

Dave Patterson: "It is a big mistake to ignore the upsides of #AI as it is a mistake to ignore the downsides." Excellent spark session by @jeffdean.bsky.social and Dave P. in today's (Tue's) #HLF25 program. You can watch the recording on www.youtube.com/@LaureateForum. Approx. 20 min.

For no reason in particular

I'm confused

every time there's political violence discourse i think about how jo cox was assassinated in broad daylight by a fascist who shouted "britain first" as he shot her, and now nine years later her party is dedicating every moment in power to placating the ideology of her murderer

Nearly 47,000 people died of gun-related injuries in the United States in 2023, according to the latest available statistics from the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC). Some people think this is an acceptable figure.

💯 agree

Anyone attending the Near Surface Geophysics EAGE conference?

Think where the US was 6 months ago and how far it's spiraled since. Now project that 6 months into the future. Then 12, then 24.

Math is the new woke.

Deserves an olympic medal for mental gymnastics

OK this is even better.

I've got some good news.

The US is now bullying countries into accelerating global warming.

oh gee haha who did that

"We're more far right than you, no we're more far right than you, no we." This always ends well.

Glad to have been able to take part in this important effort, and to work with colleagues to provide a response to the DOE Climate Working Group report's sea level and tropical cyclone sections, in particular. Many thanks to @andrewdessler.com and @bobkopp.net for helping to organize this effort!

when you think about, it's actually kind of impressive to make a computer innumerate. like that's its one job. it's in the name.

Why do we keep having these journalistic events in places without freedom of speech and freedom of press? The motto starts with "Rethinking Trust" and we go to places where criticizing govt can get you in prison? @scidevnet.bsky.social

Yet another instance where the EU is just limp.

The entire US is burning with Epstein fever, and yet the @nytimes.com and @washingtonpost.com are only publishing lukewarm analyses and haven't really broken anything on the matter. Then we wonder why legacy media is in for a reckoning.

Wait, are figs actually vegan? www.fs.usda.gov/wildflowers/...

I've observed the same thing in my network.

Good insights from the sustainability panel at #LINO25. However, I wish the conversation would shift from pressuring consumers to act, towards holding companies and governments accountable for implementing the large-scale solutions we desperately need (and already have the technology to implement).

Hearing that even an AI Nobel Laureate (John Jumper) also does vibecoding sometimes makes me feel so much better. #LINO25

Excellent lectures at #Lino25 so far. Nobel David MacMillan, for instance, mentioned how catalysis can help us make better cancer-fighting drugs, using a field of chemistry that esentially didn't even exist a few years ago.

Manufacturing really was coming back under Biden. And now:

Turns out Dua Lipa is a really, really good literary interviewer. Sure, she probably gets help. But watch her vids. I'm stunned by how good they are.

So who's stock market is it?

This was a curious case when it feels like the researchers themselves overhyped it and journalists followed. But it's exactly the case where journalists should provide context and boundaries for the story.