Robust projections of risks to the Amazon rainforest Amazonian deforestation is altering atmospheric moisture transport; as a result, even low levels of global warming could trigger dieback of most of the remaining forest. 🌐🧪https://www.nature.com/articles/d41586-026-01158-8 🌐🧪

"American law enforcement is warning about anti-tech extremism centered around the data center resistance movement. A Congressional intelligence agency is tracking “recent threats and attacks likely linked to grievances concerning data centers” " #AI #DataCentres #PowerCO2Water

IMO, this is the epitome of political duplicity This is bad for Starmer, terrible for Mandelson #HideousBehaviour #TakeTheTitleBack www.bbc.co.uk/news/live/cy...

"Disadvantaged populations will need to be educated; they need to have access to those resources the most" IMO, they must be enabled, helped to get the services they need #AI is not THE answer, it is AN answer to service & information access www.digitalhealth.net/2026/05/penn...

"Co-Scientist includes agents that survey the scientific literature, generate testable hypotheses, review and rank them against one another in a simulated debate, and further refine them with reference to the literature" But at what cost...

@adewebb.bsky.social Narrative, aesthetic scaffolding, historiography, explanation...perhaps all are fictional in their construct & communication #CriticalThinking youtu.be/YGA80cTPaF8?...

One sentence, just one, and my mind is racing! "...a distinctive role for the observer - not as a conscious mind, but as the locus of experimental selection. The experimental arrangement does not merely reveal which value an observable already possessed...

"Some of these bases still preserved the feet of the votive statues they had supported. Alongside the limestone feet, terracotta feet also appeared. This finding provides the first documented evidence... share.google/paltm2rMtilm...

I generally pitch my quantitative methods class as a way to practice thinking like a social scientist and gain data literacy. This may be part of the reason my reviews are usually pretty positive. Despite often feeling intimidated, people want these skills.

@rjlhardwick.bsky.social @neilchadborn.bsky.social @drjohowe01.bsky.social @crnetwork.bsky.social @realistresnevalgp.bsky.social @ukevaluation.bsky.social @3ieimpact.org #SocialImpactTheory #RealistEvaluation

"our study highlights how adopting a critical realist approach enabled us to promote interdisciplinarity by incorporating both quantitative & qualitative methods (methodological plurality) in the co-production process" A great read, Kev. Tomorrow, the video #MixedMethods #DeeperInsight See you soon

Olives...

Friday Night Funk: A Step Ahead - The 9th Creation (An album that stayed dormant for 39 years, finally released in 2019) America Eats Its Young - Funkadelic (With tracks titled "If You Don't The Effects, Don't Produce The Cause" & "Loose Booty" why wouldn't I play this loud?) #Funk #Music

Get the funk... www.youtube.com/watch

Look, a draft dodger-free zone: "...several European diplomats said they did not plan to leave the Ukrainian capital. French Foreign Ministry spokesperson Pascal Confavreux specifically said that “evacuation is out of the question”

#Trumponomics #ProfKelleyWasRight

A source at an Atlanta Midtown hotel tells 11Alive News that they projected $600,000 in #WorldCup revenue for June. As of May 27, the employee tells Chase that they only have $13,000 in reservations for that month. #FIFA #TrumpEconomy

Democracy takes time and effort; that's what I'm reading here (and what I hear when listening to Marc Elias speak) #StandUpForDemocracyDocket www.democracydocket.com

A study in contrasts.

The Hill gets stark... "The judicial and legislative branches of government have capitulated to a president with an insatiable appetite for power and wealth — a man who spends the nation’s wealth... thehill.com/opinion/camp...

Addressing Member States during the 79th World Health Assembly, the World Medical Association reaffirmed that antimicrobial resistance (AMR) remains one of the most critical threats to global health and universal health coverage. www.wma.net/wp-content/u... #WHA79 #AMR #UHC

Big tech co’s are racing to win the AI race. They aim to win at ANY COST. They don’t care that their data centers take our water and increase our utility costs. They don’t care about the environmental impacts. If they win that is all that matters. It’s immoral and harmful. We must fight back.

I absolutely love the scientist that created this reply!! I wish I knew who it was!

"The biggest catch with paying for results is that the results may be worse, or better, because of forces beyond the consultant’s control. Wars, tariffs and stubborn line managers at their client firms can all kibosh the best-laid plans..." #HumanFactors #PayForPrompt? Nah...

This is why Trump felt compelled to play golf this weekend.....and squeeze in a few dozen lies per day? Yup, very busy doing shit.

No truer words were ever spoken...

Interested in demography? You might like our new tool on @ourworldindata.org which lets you see how changes in fertility rates, life expectancy, and migration rates will change future populations. Have a play! You can even do it continent wide. ourworldindata.org/population-s...

Looking forward to presenting “Causation and Explanation in Chemistry” with Lauren Wigod (UC Irvine LPS) at the Society for the Metaphysics of Science this week in Toronto! 🧪⚗️ #philsci #philsky #hps socmetsci.org/2026

The NIH is demanding that it's grantees cease collaborations with foreign scientists. Wait until NIH director Jay Bhattacharya hears about this! His stated top priority in the director role is to prevent government interference with or censorship of scientific researchers.

Tory legacy. England hospital waiting list at March 2026: 7.11m cases, 6.02m patients. July 2024: 7.62m cases, 6.38m patients. 300,000 people a year die prematurely whilst waiting for treatment. Austerity, fiscal rules kill and disable people. NHS waiting list increased under every Tory govt.

Trump nearly surrendered to Iran as he claimed to reach a new "deal," got pushback from Netanyahu and his own party, then pretended he was never in a rush. Iran's state media is publicly contradicting him. And that's just the start. Midday updates:

Drugs vs the clock & measuring stick Trained athletes & drug-takers Is the motto also "Faster, Higher, Stronger" with, perhaps, an emphasis on 'Higher'? #JustAsking #Judgemental www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...

A nurse was sentenced to probation for negligent homicide. She lost her nursing license and assumed she’d become a full-time farmer. But the healthcare industry wanted to hear from her.

A decadent afternoon; lunch and bubbles by the river, hosted by friend, storyteller, & bon viveur, Robert Dunn Cheers Bob!

The garden is a blaze

"Seventy percent of Americans disapprove of his handling of inflation!" 'It's the economy, stupid', James Carville, 1992 (true then, true today, and true the world-over) #Economics #TrumpsWar thehill.com/homenews/adm...

"Levine urged reform for the pension system and safeguarding public infrastructure against “AI-powered threats" thehill.com/policy/techn... #AI

The Doctors Association UK continues to raise its concerns over plans for a new single patient record Alarm among doctors & health experts about the proposals to hand the health secretary sweeping new powers to control patients’ data The plans are in the Health Bill dauk.org/dauk-continu...

Cartoon by @davewhamond.bsky.social

"the activation of nociceptive fibers at the site of ischemia promotes the release of neurotransmitters, which in turn activates efferent autonomic pathways enhancing protective effects in target organs" #Medsky #Science #Physiology

The return of Coffee Corner Encouraged by connections from the 'other medium' who have asked me about it 08:24 The thermometer reads 24c

Does Mamdani Have Any Brothers or Sisters Interested In Moving To The USA ! Asking For 49 States......

#WHA79 WMA delivered a statement highlighting growing concerns over misinformation, declining public trust and non-evidence-based changes to national immunisation schedules that risk reversing decades of progress in global public health. www.wma.net/wp-content/u... #Vaccination

💥 79,000💥 now! Well that IS fast progress. Let’s get it to 80,000 tonight people. Sign and share - you know the drill.

I shall be inviting your most talented Fox family members in order