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Weed gummies

There are about 1 billion dogs on the planet - but most of them (80%!) are not pets. What can their success teach us about how animals adapt to human landscapes, and how to make our environments more welcoming to them. My story for @biographic.bsky.social 🧪 www.biographic.com/canis-famili...

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The Royal Society has met to discuss Elon Musk – and they’re NOT removing his fellowship. They are criticising him publicly, but stopping short of actual removal. This feels like the kind of compromise that will please *absolutely nobody*.

Predicting the future impact of scientific research is a tricky business, but a new software tool aims to figure out which studies will provide the most societal benefit. My story for @nature.com 🧪 www.nature.com/articles/d41...

There are about 1 billion dogs on the planet - but most of them (80%!) are not pets. What can their success teach us about how animals adapt to human landscapes, and how to make our environments more welcoming to them. My story for @biographic.bsky.social 🧪 www.biographic.com/canis-famili...

Predicting the future impact of scientific research is a tricky business, but a new software tool aims to figure out which studies will provide the most societal benefit. My story for @nature.com 🧪 www.nature.com/articles/d41...

A 72-year-old woman who lives next to that ostrich farm where a group of convoy people are camping out was doused in gasoline and physically assaulted by a man in a balaclava who may have been trying to light her in fire She says she survived the attack by kicking the man in the nuts and biting him

Canis familiaris? Maybe Less Than You Think We think of them as pets, but the vast majority of the world’s dogs--80%--live free-range in the environment. Understanding them could be key to helping urban wildlife thrive. by @scibri.com www.biographic.com/canis-famili...

Mark Carney's 'Tragedy of the Horizons' speech was a landmark moment for the financial sector to recognize climate change was a severe threat, but a decade later he's flouting his own prophetic warning as climate breakdown rapidly approaches.

"But you can't make people listen. They have to come round in their own time, wondering what happened and why the world blew up under them." Ray Bradbury, Fahrenheit 451

Blue Jays won their first AL East title in 10 years hell yeah.

#BlueJays AL East champs

O CAPTAIN MY CAPTAIN

Sportsnet: look at this amazing pickoff in the Yankees game Also Sportsnet: blocks the entire thing with a fucking betting ad along the bottom of the screen.

Alejandro Kirk Mike Nguyen 2022

Fuck yeah Kirk #BlueJays

This looks awesome...but how long has that shrimp ring been sitting in the sun?

Well don't I feel stupid

‘Never come to the U.S. again’: U.S. border officials launch review after video appears to show officer yelling at Ontario driver

So there is actually, quite literally no level of fame that you can achieve without some nowhere talentless asshole insisting you work for free in exchange for “exposure.” Good to fucking know!!!

I'll be running a session at the World Conference of Science Journalists in Pretoria in December. Who will I see there? @wcsj2025.bsky.social #WCSJ2025

Way to go #BlueJays. The Red Sox can go have their clinch party somewhere else.

I know I’ve been posting a lot about this, but it’s telling of how this government looks at society that at the very moment Mark Carney can’t stop talking about nation-building projects, he’s throwing the biggest nationwide service-delivery network on the scrap heap because it doesn’t make money.

I told him to do that! #BlueJays

Trying this again

zero baserunners allowed by Blue Jays through six innings (also zero runs scored by their lineup)

The government is reducing service standards and Canada Post’s biggest advantage: its nationwide network. This plan is about cutting back the postal service instead of investing to give it new revenue tools through things like postal banking. It’s shameful.

Ok, maybe the umps aren't against us #BlueJays

Science journos 🧪: Earth dot com asked me about writing for them. They offer $50-60 PER STORY. And expect 15 to 25 stories EACH MONTH. For reference, that rate is worse than what I got for a blogging role in 2012. Steer clear af.

I'm not generally conspiratorial about sports officiating (except in basketball), but...

Do you work in conservation science, particularly outside the U.S.? Did you lose your job or funding for your job because of cuts to U.S. federal agencies? Do you want to talk about it? DM me please. (This is for a @biographic.bsky.social story) [Iceland photo for attention only]

The richest man on earth owns X. The second richest man on earth is about to be a major owner of TikTok. The third richest man owns Facebook, Instagram, and WhatsApp. The fourth richest man owns The Washington Post. See the problem here?

Will there be a single skeptic on this thing, or is it gonna be a bunch of Tech blowhards and AI fantasists?

"fearing or regulating it, or opposing technological progress, would hasten the coming of the Antichrist, Thiel said" what the fuck

Pretty sure I was more coherent during my sneaky photo op at the UN a couple years ago than Trump was in his actual speech today.

The Guardian U.S. is hiring a Washington, DC-based Senior Science Investigative Reporter: workforus.theguardian.com/jobs/795/

Here's some much needed good news! @nature.org will be acquiring four dams on the Kennebec to facilitate their removal and reconnection of the river system for salmon #goodnews themainemonitor.org/dams-sale-sa...

Well, it is the first day of Autumn. 😂

Champagne celebration No. 1 for the 2025 #BlueJays:

It's interesting that anyone would be surprised by this. They are large language models, not large fact models. They are very good at language; it's unsurprising that they aren't terribly good at facts.

People getting the internet at home meant young men no longer got a basic grounding in arthouse cinema while looking for nudity on TV.

The Apple TV guys keep calling Pete Walker "Paul". It's infuriating #BlueJays

A birthday bomb for Springer! #BlueJays

New: The official update from MLB today shows that the #BlueJays can, in fact, clinch tonight if these things happen:

Drug-coated stents and balloons failed to improve outcomes compared with regular devices for patients with peripheral artery disease into two big Swedish studies. My story for @medscape.com #medsky #cardiosky #ESC2025 www.medscape.com/viewarticle/...

Breaking story by me: The Royal Society’s governing council will debate Elon Musk’s fellowship on 1 October Is Musk’s violent speech at an anti-immigration rally in London a step too far for the UK’s science academy?