Dr. Paul Ehrlich, founder of the field of population biology, Stanford professor, prolific author of books on butterflies, birds, & human ecology, world-class environmentalist, outspoken scientist, and a personal friend, has passed away. A giant in the field of ecology. youtu.be/vW1z4n4Dusk?...

Carrying on a theme of materiality, our next article is an in-depth exploration of what it means to unlock knowledge. Multispectral imaging techniques allowed previously unread text from a medieval palimpsest to be read: ucldigitalpress.co.uk/BOOC/Article...

Is this the solution?

Is anyone considering Brian Sweeney Fitzgerald's idea as a possible solution to the #StraitOfHormuz problem? #Fitzcarraldo collider.com/werner-herzo...

PENTAGON SENDS MARINE EXPEDITIONARY UNIT TO MIDDLE EAST - WSJ

Big DRP shout-out to one of our volunteers who worked on this project to make the data files in AtlasPlus more accessible! #DataRescue #HealthData #PublicDataisaPublicGood @altcdc.altgov.info www.datarescueproject.org/atlasplus-da...

Interesting conversation today at coffee break, between 18th century people, where we all agreed that AI so far looks much like Vaucanson's digesting duck.

Researchers are sounding the alarm over the national data sets that track crucial aspects of life go.nature.com/40rZ8cc

Can this be a solution?

Harvard Library Tests #AI Tools to Help Researchers Navigate Collections (via @theharvardcrimson.bsky.social) www.thecrimson.com/article/2026... #libraries #MCP @harvardlibrary.bsky.social

I mean really?

gambling monk, germany, 15th century

Here in a nutshell is all the failures of the "serious" media (here The Economist) regarding Trump. They have commissioned a serious grown-up commentator to write this. And look at the result. Look in particular at that "strangely lacking interest"... /1

Jello Biafra is hospitalized after a hemorrhagic stroke on Saturday. He's stable. True to form, he joked "I've fallen and I can't get up" mid-stroke. https://boingboing.net/2026/03/09/dead-kennedys-jello-biafra-hospitalized-after-hemorrhagic-stroke.html

Holy shit. Crude oil futures going nuts tonight.

Time jump!

Condoleezza Rice was just seen walking into the White House, according to reporters on X

SHOULD THE U.S BLOT OUT THE SUN AND USHER IN AN AGE OF ETERNAL DARKNESS? - Gallup 2/20/26-3/5/26 NO - 41% YES - 38% UNSURE - 21%

A lot of good points here, I think we need to see how this translates to the various audiences for public data. apdu.org/apdu-guiding...

[Exit Murderer.]

Recent research in @psjeditor.bsky.social by Qian Zhang, @cmwitko.bsky.social, and Verasight’s chief data scientist @peterenns.bsky.social analyzed the content of more than 600,000 survey questions fielded from 1980 to 2015 archived at the @ropercenter.bsky.social. doi.org/10.1111/psj....

There it is: Noem out, Mullin in

New post: Can AI Replace Social Science Researchers? (No. No it can't. Come on, now.) davekarpf.beehiiv.com/p/can-ai-rep...

Next time someone asks you to sum up MAGA in 30 seconds or less, show them this clip of Andrew Tate explaining why he doesn't read books.

I was forced to watch TV news when I had breakfast in a diner recently and I strongly resonated with the sentiment that being an intelligent person in America today is like being awake during a surgery.

Oh no grandma run

Reading a paper on #DataSharing and the motivation behind it. One major factor, which has been confirmed time and again, is the proper recognition of data sharing or better the lack thereof. And the authors do not credit the reused original data! 😭 #CiteYourData!

Bank manager and newspaper distributor.

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Having spent many an hour in line waiting to make the turn onto this "road," I promise you this is a disaster.

Oh this is reeeeeeal good

whoa -- this is new. Trump has a significant rash-like injury on his neck today in addition to his disfigured hand (Saul Loeb/Getty)

Whoopsie

Six suspected insiders made $1.2M betting on a US strike on Iran these wallets • were funded in the last 24h • specifically bet for February 28 • bought "yes" hours before the strikes

Nauseating

Claims of 40 dead after an Israeli airstrike on a elementary girl’s school in Iran www.aljazeera.com/news/liveblo...

Stunning, sensual illustrations for a 1913 edition of Whitman's "Leaves of Grass" by the forgotten English artist Margaret C. Cook www.themarginalian.org/2018/04/11/l...

art of the deal, baby

Pakistan warplanes bomb Kabul; Islamabad declares ‘open war’ on Afghanistan https://aje.news/aozifo

The second you leave this country for even a few days, you realize the place you call home is decaying at an almost exponential pace. The realization that you don't have to live like this is stark, and that nobody in power is taking tangible actions to fix it in your lifetime is even starker.

[guy who sang baby beluga] the festering belly is splitting, each half digested soul fumbling for a knife

A+ State of the Union counterprogramming by TCM.

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Experts at the Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution (WHOI) have rediscovered a recording and determined it’s probably the oldest whale recording still in existence. The likely vocalist? A humpback whale. 🐋 spklr.io/6007Dxy1Z 📷: BlackBox 🎙️: Luis Lamar, Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution