Can current space law handle the new space age? www.space.com/space-explor...

Are you the fish? Think carefully before you dive into this experiment. www.nature.com/articles/d41...

Verbena hastata, our Blue Vervain, blooming in a wet Boulder meadow #nativeplants #FallBackFlowers #FallBack to August 8 🌿

Beautiful planetary glass orbs [📹 justglassit]

Just dropped. www.nature.com/articles/d41...

Sometimes it can be hard to distinguish chatbot love digital derivatives from the real thing. Embrace AI. And use pseudonyms. @jeremyvaeni.bsky.social

Work smarter, not harder

Little clarity on the strange and complicated tales of bio-lab houses. Guessing the rent for the 3 tenants in the Las Vegas house was reasonable. I will never complain about my HOA again. @jackbrewer.bsky.social www.nytimes.com/2026/02/06/u...

Barreleye fish.

Fare well, Mechanical Turk. Welcome to meatspace. @jeremyvaeni.bsky.social gizmodo.com/rent-a-human...

Still no www.fox13news.com/news/real-li...

Repost by @Rainmaker1973 from @Rainmaker1973: RT by @Rainmaker1973: A mind-bending geometric trick

A Frankenstein merger for the space age - orbital data centers in low Earth orbit. www.universetoday.com/articles/elo...

Will active space weather keep the lunar mission crew in the shelter? @vincentledvina.bsky.social www.science.org/content/arti...

“In its discussions with government officials, Anthropic representatives raised concerns that its tools could be used to spy on Americans or assist weapons targeting without sufficient human oversight, some of the sources told Reuters.”

I agree with Doug on the regulatory window for Starlink being open. Both the FCC and NTIA are very pro-satellite right now. potsandpansbyccg.com/2026/02/02/s...

Will chatbots talk themselves out of a job? syntheticgeneticshakespeares.wordpress.com/2026/02/01/h...

If the concern is AI bots scraping the wayback machine’s archive, just ban those bots!

Co-founder of Colossal Biosciences Ben Lamm has a history of hyping up “world-changing” ventures that ultimately lead nowhere. Cheerleading false techno-fixes like de-extinction in the media distracts from real attempts to address biodiversity loss and climate change.

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If you want to sell me on the "cold-adapted" and "able to thrive in the arctic" claims it would have been better to have cropped the heat lamp out of the image. www.technology.org/2026/01/30/c...

There's a bookshop in Scotland you can actually live in, and run it yourself for a week. It's located in Wigtown. (Credits to @chrispaullawlor) #travels #bookshop #uniquestay #Scotland

It never fails to surprise me how many scientists seem to believe actually reading to "find relevant research," and writing, are not thinking, are not essential to the grandiose goals they have of "doing science." arstechnica.com/ai/2026/01/n...

Near-Earth space is filling up with satellites. How long will nations ignore the potential risks of low Earth orbit over-population? #LEO syntheticgeneticshakespeares.wordpress.com/2026/01/27/f...

Revising a long-standing hypothesis to take account of new findings. @jackbrewer.bsky.social

Wikipedia is an antidote to an increasingly poisoned information ecosystem go.nature.com/4pXIv2d

Controversial Chilean energy project scrapped, relieving astronomers | Science | AAAS www.science.org/content/arti...

Joshua trees just after sunset. Joshua Tree National Park, California, 22 Dec 2012. #NationalParks

How did your chatbot come up with THAT? Information source adulteration. @jackbrewer.bsky.social www.washingtonpost.com/technology/2...

It appears the best chatbots also use Grok - how to automate the process of circular logic implementation. www.militarytimes.com/news/pentago...

Latest ChatGPT model uses Elon Musk’s Grokipedia as source, tests reveal

Amazon's internet-beaming satellites are bright enough to disrupt astronomical research, study finds www.space.com/space-explor...

Coverage from The Salt Lake Tribune on Utah politician's latest attack on Grand Staircase-Escalante: www.sltrib.com/news/environ...

Safeguarding genetic data - the extreme threat of sneaky access. www.nytimes.com/2026/01/24/u...

“Personal Intelligence feels like Google has been quietly taking notes on my entire life and finally decided to hand me the notebook.”

Brutal.

Guinea-Bissau suspends a US-funded vaccine trial as African scientists question its motives www.nature.com/articles/d41...

The moment many have been waiting for has arrived as the fantastic documentary 'Saucers, Spooks, and Kooks,' based on Adam Gorightly's excellent book of the same name, is now available to rent or buy. Check it out! saucersspooksandkooks.vhx.tv

Hunt's bumble bees (Hymenoptera: Apidae: Bombus huntii) live in scrublands and prairies in western North America. They take pollen and nectar from a variety of plants, including Rocky Mountain beeplant (Cleomaceae: Cleomella serrulata). Agate Fossil Beds National Monument, Nebraska, 29 Jul 2025.

Abandoned barbed-wire fences from former ranches disrupt wildlife migration across the Sonoran desert. The Tucson-based group Desert Fence Busters have made it their mission to remove these fences. www.kjzz.org/fronteras-de...

The tragedy of the commons updated for the new space age? dailygalaxy.com/2026/01/4000...

What Isaac Roberts Saw Without a Space Telescope

How extremophile molds are destroying museum artifacts www.scientificamerican.com/article/how-...

Tech bros are doing their best to convince everyone they should have a best friend that sells their intimate details to the government and tells them to kill themselves.

Where the house never loses. www.nytimes.com/2026/01/19/t... @jackbrewer.bsky.social