How long until Americans start to promote analphabetism and forbid teaching kids to read and write?

"The North Atlantic and the Mediterranean Sea are also getting warmer, as well as saltier, more acidic and less oxygenated owing to the climate crisis." ‘Profound impacts’: record ocean heat is intensifying climate disasters, data shows | Oceans | The Guardian share.google/4y24FxuPuQTP...

The best time to get off X was when Musk took over twitter. The second best time is now. Get off X

"If we wait to let the atmosphere “perform the CO2 experiment,” we will finally learn how well our models have served in making these predictions of #climate change. But then it will be too late to do much..., if the warmer Earth should prove to be a sadder Earth"- W. Kellogg, 1978 @thebulletin.org

Trump describes that he is psychologically needy if not ill, and NYT says that's proof he sees his role as protector of "the West," even though taking Greenland would destroy it. 4 bylines, including David Sanger, wrote this. www.nytimes.com/2026/01/08/u...

New paper and a deep-sea surprise: methane seepage on the Molloy Ridge is forming gas hydrate mounds 3,640 m down—way deeper than most known hydrate seeps! These mounds host thriving chemosynthetic communities (tubeworms, snails, amphipods). www.nature.com/articles/s41...

"A death squad is an armed group whose primary activity is carrying out extrajudicial killings, massacres, or enforced disappearances as part of political repression, genocide, ethnic cleansing, or revolutionary terror." Hmm.

I think this is an incredibly important point this doesn't mean that you have to keep doing the exact kind of work you did as a student/postdoc for the rest of your career but it does mean you have to keep learning, pushing through the discomfort of not being good at something right away

Sea cucumbers are everywhere in the deep sea and swimming off the seafloor may be the norm, not the exception. New ROV footage shows them actively swimming: webbed podia fanning in sync, bodies flexing, and that sail-like “tail” helping them drift along near-bottom currents.

Your great-great-grandparents commuted about an hour a day. So did Roman merchants. So do you. No matter how fast we make transportation, people just live farther from work regardless of income. It's called Marchetti's constant, basically Jevons paradox for your morning commute.

Really important read for people working with long-read MAGs. www.nature.com/articles/s41...

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18 months ago I was photographing birds in a US national park when someone jumped out of a car in front of a dozen witnesses, put a Glock to my forehead, and demanded my camera. This shot is from my first time out birding after that. Living like this is a deliberate choice.

🎉 New year, NEW PREPRINT! Bacteria exhibit astonishing genetic diversity, but where do new genes come from? My best friend Arya Kaul (/labmate in the @baym lab) investigates how advantageous deletions can spawn new genes - "deletion-born fusions." 🧵:

Brewer’s spent yeast can be repurposed to produce bacterial cellulose scaffolds for cultivated meat, offering a sustainable and cost-effective alternative to current production methods.

This literally could be a Goebbels speech.

Can't let up—press politicians and officials every day on why they're maintaining active paid accounts on the nazi pedobot platform, and how they intend to deal with the risk of accidentally downloading grossly illegal content onto their own devices

CPB-funded programs like Sesame Street taught children to read, to learn empathy for people different from themselves, and to see integrated neighborhoods as normal. It also funded journalism in rural & poor places—the oldest PBS network is in Alabama! No wonder the administration eliminated it.

“I can’t begin to tell you how insane this is,” said one critic. “He did not inform Congress but he’s saying he informed the oil companies.”

Nice that some humans that still dare to state the obvious in the face of global fascism still remain. None of them seem to represent EU democracies, though.

Julia Hartley-Brewer: Why is colonialism bad? Me: “When Britain arrived in 1700s, India had 27% of global GDP. After 200 years of theft and millions starved to death, by 1947 India had 3% of global GDP, 90% living below the poverty line, a literacy rate of 17% and life expectancy of 27”

Reporter: - Ja, Donald Trump sier altså nå at han vil bombe oss og ta alle pengene våre. Vi har med oss deg, USA-ekspert Tjølle Knortevold.... hva mener Trump med dette? Tjølle: - Det er vanskelig å si

Returning to the office in Europe in 2026 means wondering whether our former biggest ally will annex part of an EU/NATO country next, and what the Europeans can (and have the will) to do about it.

Mycket träffande text. Hemsk att läsa, trots att den inte ens nämner den hatiska retoriken som lagts till den S redan rasistiska och iskalla anti-humanism gömd bakom regelverk för att slippa ansvar. Skäms över Sverige gör jag också. Rejält. Det här jag gjort i över 20 år.

Ok. So. They anonymised the sheep.

Our high representative for foreign affairs clearly needs help communicating. 1) Shame illegal abduction 2) Shame illegal bombings 3) Shame breach of national sovereignty/international law ... 42) It is okay to point out Maduros lack of legitimacy, but only after and in full context to the above.

Europeans should ask themselves if they still want American troops on their soil since it is now very clear that POTUS is deranged & evil & a possible danger to us…

När en stormakt ensidigt använder militära hot eller våld mot ett annat land bryts FN-stadgan och folkrätten försvagas. Om våldsförbudet blir valfritt undergrävs den regelbaserade världsordning som ska skydda även små och utsatta länder. #venezuela #USA🧵⤵️

If the Republican Party was an institution suited to hold power in a religiously and culturally pluralistic democracy, it would not allow (let alone encourage) its rising youth to gleefully Hitler post. FWIW, they have now deleted that post with no apology or explanation.

This is a good piece summing up why Venezuela's oil is at least a partial real factor in what happened over the past few days, beyond just 'big reserves'. Some big US oil majors aren't exactly thrilled but the industry itself never found a dirty, inefficient project it couldn't get subsidised....

Efterlysta krigsförbrytare får gå fria och andra blir "gripna", utomrättsliga massavrättningar är "attacker mot knarkbåtar", nazistiska terrorgrupper är "dåligt umgänge" och klimataktivister är "terrorister". Är det ens möjligt att delta det offentliga samtalet längre under dessa premisser?

A defining moment for Europe. If it endorses/fails to condemn this flagrant breach of international law, it will have surrendered its core justification for opposing Russia’s invasion of Ukraine

Russia: it's OK to seize regions of Ukraine China: it's OK to seize Taiwan (for starters) North Korea: it's OK to seize South Korea Greenland: a future cakewalk for US special forces Saudi Arabia: Yemen, just take it. Israel: it's OK to seize the West Bank and Lebanon That's the Venezuela message

Israel har dödat minst 100 000 palestinier i Gaza på två år, varav 80% civila. Flera hundra har dödats även under ”vapenvilan”. Nu kämpar hundratusentals för överlevnad i provisoriska tältläger. Då förbjuder Israel 37 hjälporganisationer, däribland Läkare utan gränser 💔 www.dw.com/en/israel-mo...

This goes without saying, but the U.S. setting the precedent that bombing a major population center in a foreign country so you can arrest their President for drug crimes is probably not great.

I can't believe they're going to roll out 2026 to Production late at night, right before a public holiday, without testing it in Staging, and without fixing all the bugs in 2025.

Timezones are so weird. Australia is in 2026, Canada is in 2025, and the United States is in 1939.

Urte berri on!!

A recent experiment confirms the quantum principle of complementarity, supporting Bohr’s view that certain particle properties cannot be measured simultaneously, as predicted by quantum mechanics. doi.org/qhc9

Gingerbread 2025 Dumpster 🔥

"The changing roles of Escherichia coli" -- a short essay by yours truly. rdcu.be/eVtXT

Om jag ska försöka beskriva konungariket Sverige 2025 med en mening på årets sista dag: Landet med rekordmånga miljardärer samtidigt som barn stjäl mat för att äta sig mätta.

Why we have to take ‘toxic masculinity’ literally Some men may downplay climate change risks to avoid appearing feminine www.psypost.org/some-men-may... 🧪

Observations on Trump on Russia-Ukraine: 1. Trump must be seen as an ally of Russia & not of Ukraine, which should be stated in all comments. Why? 2. Trump asked both Russia & Ukraine to opt for ceasefire. Ukraine complies, Russia did not. Trump scolded UKraine. /1

Since added flame retardants, e.g., in insulation materials, can account for more than 10% of CO2 equivalents, it is worth considering ways to avoid or replace them in construction. The current practice of using as many plastics as possible, both in homes and as homes, cannot be sustainable 1/3

"Many of our... leaders are scientifically illiterate... Problems arise when they choose not to seek the counsel of those who understand the science... And some seek to rubbish the science... Making policy based on prejudice rather than facts does every one of us a disservice..".

You know what's good? Books.

'Sweden has declared Snowy Owl nationally extinct, marking the first official loss of a bird species in the country for two decades...' signalling 'a significant shift at the southern edge of its range.' Such sad news. #birds www.birdguides.com/news/snowy-o...

‘Study after study shows that students want to develop these critical thinking skills, are not lazy, and large numbers of them would be in favor of banning ChatGPT and similar tools in universities’, says @olivia.science