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Yes, today IS the day to talk about #climate change and it's growing impacts. And tomorrow is the day to talk about #climatechange, as is the day after and every day after that. Silence is a disservice to humanity.

When reality surpasses fiction! Top: fictional forecast for August 2050, broadcast by French TV in 2014 to warn about the consequences of global warming. Bottom: Real French forecast for yesterday, June 22, 2026.

Climate.us is live. Built by members of the team behind Climate.gov, this new independent nonprofit website keeps trusted climate information easy to find, easy to use, and harder to erase. #ClimateForUs #ClimateUS

More evidence, from a large-scale study in China, that using AI hurts learning if it undermines mental effort. When homework time drops due to AI use, so do test scores. Across studies, there is a clear theme: AI tutoring in support of classes is good, using AI to "help" with homework is bad.

As we approach 10 years since the EU referendum, a new YouGov study finds most Britons would support a closer relationship with the EU, including rejoining Closer relationship outside EU: 59% support Rejoin EU: 55% Current relationship: 29% Looser relationship: 21% yougov.com/en-gb/articl...

Spontaneous problem-solving in bumble bees. Amazing work by the bees who were put in these puzzling situations by @akshayebhambore.bsky.social in the lab of @olliloukola.bsky.social www.science.org/doi/10.1126/...

Majority of Latvian political parties leaning towards being conservative in their mindset (as preserving status-quo). However, Latvians in general prefer "order" and even those supporting change want that change is conducted in orderly fashion.

Tomēr ir katastrofāli, ka LZP piedāvā balstīties datos, kurus paši atzīst par neuzticamiem un kurus neņemtu pretī nevienā publikācijā. Esmu pieredzējis, ka arī LV universitātēs sociālās zinātnes tiek uzskatītas par pilnībā atrautām no dzīves un lēmumu pieņemšanā tiek izmantota pseidometodes

“A potentially important finding in my full deck, and one I think is genuinely new, is that a message explicitly connecting climate impacts with the rising cost of living moves climate salience up pretty markedly”

An important breakdown of the foundations, motivations, and strategies of the anti-science movement...

New episode of ePODstemology! Prof Paul Behrens from Oxford is on to discuss the role of demand management in mitigating climate change with a special focus on food systems. If UK residents only ate meat twice a week, we could recover land equal to Scotland! www.buzzsprout.com/1763534/epis...

Dienā, kad valstī stipri mainās zinātnes politiskā vadība, šķiet vērts piefiksēt, ka Latvijā šobrīd ir viens no augstākajiem akadēmiskās brīvības indeksiem Eiropā un pasaulē. academic-freedom-index.net

"Science is not simply a sequence of tasks that can be optimized....The scientific system thrives on inefficiency: redundant efforts, failed attempts, and divergent paths. These are not costs to be eliminated but sources of discovery." Excellent essay! ⬇️ www.science.org/doi/10.1126/...

“Helsinki hasn’t registered a single traffic-related fatality in the past year…Citing data that shows the risk of pedestrian fatality is cut in half by reducing a car’s speed from 40 to 30km/hr, city officials imposed the lower limit in most of Helsinki’s residential areas and city center in 2021.”

I‘m looking for postdoc candidates in computer vision and control theory (2 positions). Get in touch if you’re interested.

A new preprint from Yu Lin Tan et. al. shows how the timing of inputs to the brain's escape centre determines their influence. Blog 🔽 www.sainsburywellcome.org/blog/its-not... Preprint 🔽

👛 Šogad partijām sadalīs 5,9 miljonus eiro valsts naudas. Izrādās, ka liela daļa no tās aiziet nevis kvalitatīvai politikai, bet reklāmām un uzkodām kafijas pauzēs. Analizējam, cik lietderīgi politiskie spēki tērē nodokļu maksātāju naudu. Lasi vairāk: rebaltica.lv/2026/05/vals... #rebaltica15

Nepatīk šī vizuālā valoda. Tumši uzvalki, vienādas kaklasaites...Hierarhiska varas sajūta... Tāda vecās politikas estētika. Gribas plašāku enerģiju, ne tikai šādus à la “stingros tēvus”, bet arī sievietes, dažādus temperamentus. Sajūta, ka atkal politika tāda kā slēgta kungu sanāksme no 2005.g.

The key public health question is not whether Andes virus is as transmissible as measles or SARS-CoV-2. It is whether a pathogen with documented human transmission and a case fatality rate (by WHO's own estimate) of ~38% warrants stronger airborne precautions. We argue yes. 5/

Beautiful piece by Awais. Money quote below. My one concern is that many psychiatrists do not in fact mean what Awais means when they say "you have ADHD". They mean it in exactly the same way one says "you have liver cancer". And it's very harmful for mental health science and practice.

“Even if you stopped climate change today, New Orleans’s days are still numbered,” he added. “It will be surrounded by open water, and you can’t keep an island situated below sea level afloat. There’s no amount of money that can do that.” www.theguardian.com/us-news/2026...

It's good to see Science publishing this Open Letter to Jay Bhattacharya, by @dereklowe.bsky.social Derek did not come to play 👏

Understanding the Genetics of Autism www.brainfacts.org/diseases-and... - a primer I wrote for @brainfacts.org to try and counter the pseudoscience around autism by explaining what we actually know about the (complex) genetics of the condition

This is truly mind-blowing: Norway has gone from near-zero sales of non‑emitting battery electric vehicles to now close to 100% of all new passenger car sales - achieved in about 13 years. More in my next substack newsletter. Sign up here: substack.com/@janrosenow

Yes!!!! Beautiful essay, @tonyzador.bsky.social.

Comprehensive piece that'll get you up to speed on this very important system that has been in the news lately

I always assumed that brain function had to line up with cytoarchitectonics. It turns out I was wrong. Human cortex, especially PFC, is tiled by chains of functional patches that subdivide and interlink architectonic areas into parallel processing streams. www.biorxiv.org/content/10.6...

📢 We've reached *3000* documented authoritarian-like actions of Trump's second term since Jan 2025... the two most recent are classic suppression of the press & using the justice system to attack political enemies www.trumpactiontracker.info

Becoming a parent is much more detrimental to women’s academic careers than it is to men’s Read the full story: go.nature.com/4v4rxmQ

Open-mindedness was the strongest predictor of *rejecting* conspiracy theories in a sample of 46,745 participants in 68 nations In particular, participants who were threatened by people who disagree with them were the most likely to believe conspiracy theories. www.cambridge.org/core/journal...

Scott Bessent said 2 days ago there would be no more extensions. Now Donald Trump extends sanctions relief on Russia for another month, also recently lifting sanctions on Belarus, which also eased pressure on Moscow.

"alienated voters are more willing to choose a candidate if the typical decision frame is inverted from selecting the better candidate to rejecting the lesser" tinyurl.com/4wxhshfy Dzirdot, cik ātri 15.04. Krustpunktā eksperti noraidīja "pret" balsīs balstītu vēlēšanu ideju, domāju par šo pētījumu.

Guess who's winning the war? "The world’s top 100 oil and gas companies banked more than $30m every hour in unearned profit in the first month of the US-Israeli war in Iran..."

🛡️Pēc Ukrainas dronu nokrišanas Baltijas valstīs Krievija sāka dezinformācijas kampaņu, ka baltieši oficiāli atļāvuši to lidojumus un tā iesaistījušies karā. Restaurējam, kā kampaņa sākās - un kas liecina, ka tā ir organizēta. Lasi un padod tālāk! 🙌 rebaltica.lv/2026/04/ka-k...

This is an actual post. This is not funny. This is beyond desperate. This is a deeply unwell man who doesn’t belong anywhere near the levers of power. Every member of his cabinet and Congress is complicit in not demanding his removal now.

war_iran_final-blow_v1.pdf war_iran_final-final-blow-v2.pdf war_iran_final-blow-no edits.pdf war_iran_final-blow-no edits (1).pdf war_iran_final-blow-no edits (1) APPROVED.pdf IRANWARPLANSFINALFINALFINAL.pdf IRANWARPLANSFINALFINALFINAL (1).pdf

Divas nedēļas militārās agresijas Irānā klimata budžetam pievienojušas Islandes patēriņa gadu - 5 megatonnas CO2. Aprēķini neietver vēl gaidāmo militarizāciju un fosilo kurināmo meklējumus un infrastruktūras atjaunošanu. Karš ir klimata kaps. climatecommunityinstitute.substack.com/p/iran-war-p...

The deadline for all these positions is now April 12th. Please do not be put off by the "Senior" in the job title. We have hired people at different career stages into roles at this grade, what matters is whether you can do the job!

Even if the destruction somehow stopped today, it will take years to rebuild.

This is a fucking travesty. “In just three days of fighting in the Middle East, more than 800 Patriot missiles were used — more than Ukraine has received throughout the entire Russian full-scale invasion.” (A year’s worth of production or more, btw) kyivindependent.com/over-800-pat...

Latvijas Tēatra darbinieku savienība skaidro, ka "demokrātiskā valstī nav pieļaujams izdarīt spiedienu uz māksliniekiem, lai tie noklusētu kādam politiķim netīkamus vēsturiskus notikumus".

Another Special Military Operation is upon us.

Delighted to share that part of my PhD work is now published in @cp-iscience.bsky.social: www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti... TL;DR Forelimb-hindlimb coordination is up to a quarter-phase more synced when hindlimbs are relatively more loaded, regardless of speed & phases of other limbs. 🧵1/11

💯Izrāde kā piedzīvojums uz citas planētas, turklāt psiholoģisks bezsvara stāvoklis saglabājās vēl ilgi pēc pēdējās nots. Hands down, jaudīgākā šosezon redzētā izrāde, un neiztrūkst arī Liepājas teātrim tik raksturīgais sirsnīgums.

🇱🇻 Rihards Lozbers is just so unique. He’s just 16 years old, so not even the top of the Youth age category. He just finished 32 in the Sprint at the Olympic Games. Youth Worlds just isn’t a challenge for him and that’s not an insult to the other young men. He’s so good 📸 Deubert/IBU #biathlon

"Estonia, Latvia and Poland will also stay away from the ceremony." www.helsinkitimes.fi/themes/theme...

SWC is the best place to do neuroscience in the world

Five years after the rollout of Covid-19 vaccines started, it seems the mystery of why the Astra-Zeneca and J&J vaccines led to a rare but deadly side effect of unusual blood clots and bleeding has finally been solved. 
 It's a fascinating case of molecular mimicry that may help make vaccine safer.🧪

This is a criminal attempt at destruction and silencing of knowledge. And it’s very intentional, in light of the leading role Georgian academics and students have played in protests against authoritarian rule