Six people died from tampered Tylenol and the company pulled 30 million bottles off the market. ChatGPT is accused of urging seven people towards suicide, and OpenAI just assures us they’re still working out the kinks. Billions in investment, zero accountability.

Norges statsminister kommer. Finland skickar både statsministern och presidenten. Frankrikes Macron, Tysklands Merz och Storbritanniens Starmer är självklart där. Men Ulf Kristersson stannar hemma när världens ledare samlas för planetens framtid. Det är bedrövligt www.aftonbladet.se/ledare/a/QMp...

Interesting paper! When you ask people about the most important issue "facing the country," they often say immigration. But when you ask them about issues facing them personally, it doesn't crack the top 10. This indicates that voters are reacting to media narratives, not their own experience.

Fattigdom är den enda utsläppssänkande politik regeringen för. Jorunn Fagerström vill aldrig mer höra Tidö prata om ”vanligt folk”.

As negotiations re #deep-sea mining intensify, weak baseline data to assess the impact of mining is a major concern. Paiba-Garcia et al. studied data covering 149 years in the Norwegian Sea & conclude better data are needed @samwperrin.bsky.social‬ @torkildbakken.bsky.social‬ doi.org/10.1002/ece3...

Watch the birth of a tardigrade under a microscope: a rare glimpse of a water bear hatching boingboing.net/2025/10/23/w...

Klimataktivisten David hotas han med utvisning – efter märkligt agerande av myndigheterna. Advokaten menar att deras agerande är oproportionerligt, men polisen håller inte med. Läs (upplåst nu): www.etc.se/ledare/klima...

Last chance to submit an abstract for this years Young Systematists' Forum! Register to join us in November for what's always a great insight into the promising future of systematics and taxonomy systass.org/young-system...

Day three of the Deepwater Horizon work was a success. Unfortunately the red crabs still look like this…

Super pumped to be a guest speaker in the COBRA webinar series in two weeks’ time, along with Olivia Pereira from @mbarinews.bsky.social! We’ll be talking about our Science Communication strategies & experiences. Register for Zoom link here: cobra.bigelow.org/webinars/

🌊🔬 Grad Student Opportunity! I’m recruiting PhD students to explore marine biodiversity, body size, and bioenergetics with flexibility to design your own project! PDF of ad link below. #PhDPosition #MarineBiology #Macroecology #Biodiversity #GradSchool #Ecology #OceanScience tinyurl.com/5n9434wk

Iconic moment at the Downton Abbey premiere

woah this is genuinely, utterly WILD Ant queens of one species produce males of another species, so she can then mate with them and produce hybrid workers! This is so gloriously weird I can't quite compute it 🤯🧪🐜 www.nature.com/articles/d41...

New addition to the spectacular life cycle of Osedax worms: sex of O. japonicus is genetically (not environmentally) determined since larvae show both morphological and transcriptomic signatures of gender. Might help us explain male dwarfism rdcu.be/eCHBe @alicerouan.bsky.social @NorioMiyamoto

I'm sorry to be the bearer of bad news. "Sweden has vast 'old growth' forests – but they are being chopped down faster than the Amazon" theconversation.com/sweden-has-v...

the guaranteed provision of a home for everyone is the only solution to mass homelessness, and this is a basic requirement of a functional society

“Copenhagen reported that 62% of its residents are now commuting to work or school by bike — an increase from 52% in 2015 & 36% in 2012, when the City Council launched a 14-year-plan to improve the quality, safety & comfort of cycling.” #Copenhagen chose. They keep choosing even better every year.

One of the most common arguments you hear from fans of generative ‘AI’ is that it’s not plagiarizing people’s work, it’s just learning like a human learns. So I’m going to break down why that’s just not true, and why it can never be true, with the existing systems. 1/

“Air pollution fell substantially as Paris restricted car traffic and made way for parks, people-streets and bike-lanes.” Better for the climate, better for health, better for livability & quality of life. Common sense. Such a no-brainer, it’s remarkable that more cities HAVEN’T done the same.

There’s no evidence that offshore wind kills whales. But you know what does kill whales? Commercial fishing kills at least 300,000 whales and dolphins every year.

An aerial view of what the Gaza City area looked like this week. Taken from a Jordanian military aircraft, by our colleague Heidi Levine.

"i asked grok" "i asked chatgpt" yeah well i asked carl sagan and he said the greatest enemy of knowledge is not ignorance but the illusion of knowledge 🧪

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"The power of human beings to control and change the environment is growing as our technology grows. At present, we clearly have reached the stage where we are capable to make significant changes in the global climate." -Carl Sagan, 1985

My latest for The Guardian: A government that claims to take concerns over crime and national security seriously, while ignoring violent neo-nazi groups, will struggle with its credibility. Sweden has a long tradition of refusing to talk about racism. Racism could still decide the next election:

EU parlamentets siffror: "Every 1 euro invested into nature restoration adds €4 to €38 in benefits." Vad i den ekvationen är det den svenska regereingen inte förstår? environment.ec.europa.eu/topics/natur...

Increasing vegetation in urban areas by 30% would have prevented 1.16 million of those heat-related deaths from 2000 to 2019 Botanical gardens, wetlands, rain gardens, green walls, tree-lined streets cool city air by 4 to 5 degrees C. #heatwave leahy.substack.com/p/cooler-cit...

Fatta hur sjukt Sverige har blivit. Vi har alltså en socialdemokratisk partiledare som likt en papegoja upprepar Netanyahus och amerikansk tokhögers narrativ: "Iran kan inte tillåtas utveckla kärnvapen" och en gammal högerledare som talar klarspråk och fördömer USA:s bombningar.

Today, more starving Palestinians were lured into “aid distribution sites”. They went in hope that they might find a bag of flour. They were gunned down and murdered instead. What utter inhumanity. End all arms sales to Israel, now.

Nu säger Benjamin Dousa det själv - det uttryckta målet för hans (inte Sidachefens) beslut att stänga ner Palmecentrets civilsamhällesstöd är att knäcka oppositionen. Jag ser fram emot överklagandena, mediegranskningarna, KU-anmälningarna, protestlistorna - bring them on!

Israel hasn't stopped gunning down the Palestinians they're starving, as those Palestinians try to feed themselves There is nothing wrong with continuing to say it: these are war crimes, this is genocide, this is murder. It must be stopped, and those perpetrating the crimes must be held accountable

It’s such an obvious thing, that government after government after government in the US has failed to grasp

Sida-chefen stoppar Palmecentret Sidas generaldirektör har fattat ett beslut som innebär att @palmecenter.bsky.social inte längre kan få pengar från Sidas strategi för civilsamhället. Samtidigt har Sida-chefen ändrat regler som gör det lättare för SD att få pengar.

Enligt miljöministern upphörde bottentrålningen i Kosterhavets marina nationalpark den 1a juni 2025. Bottenfaunan (den som finns kvar efter lång tids bottentrålning i de mörkblå områdena i nationalparken) hade säkert höjt en glädjetentakel... om... det varit så att det var sant. Det är det inte.

The Swedish government wants expanded emergency powers: www.dn.se/sverige/rege... The timing could not be worse, what with Trump demonstrating how they can be abused on a daily basis 🤦‍♂️

Om ni inte var oroliga för demokratin tidigare är det nu dags att bli det: 🚨 Regeringen vill ändra grundlagen och föreslår att de - om ett dröjsmål skulle ”leda till avsevärt men” - får besluta i frågor normalt förbehållna riksdagen. Tänk er det verktyget i fel händer. www.dn.se/sverige/rege...

Absolutely required reading.

Important: if you think that governments should move faster on climate, enacting policies now for a cleaner, greener future, *** you are in the MAJORITY ***. A huge majority. HT to @tomheap.bsky.social for digging out this Nature paper on who actually wants what. www.nature.com/articles/s41...

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Sverige och USA är de enda länderna som håller inne stödet till Unrwa. "Det är ett felaktigt val, och priset som civilbefolkningen i Gaza betalar är väldigt högt", säger Ylva Jonsson Strömberg, generalsekreterare för Läkare utan gränser. Den svenska regeringen måste lyssna!

Ingen har någonsin donerat sin skog till kyrkan för att se ett kalhygge Ett agerande som skadar kyrkan - Läs viktiga rader av Peter Lindgren/Proselva www.kyrkanstidning.se/debatt/ett-s...

Academia in 2025: For weeks I’ve been working through botched copy-edits of my monograph, outsourced by the publisher to a company I’d never heard of, until it finally dawned on me the terrible job might be AI. A quick search confirmed the company recently launched new AI software, which now means..

Att hänvisa till internationella domstolar räcker inte enligt experter ”Som undertecknare av folkmordskonventionen så har man ett ansvar att agera för att förhindra att det sker. Det räcker inte att säga att det ska konstateras i efterhand.” www.dn.se/sverige/expe...

Alvinella pompejana, a animal called an extremophile by scientists. These are chemosynthetic & have zero issues w/ that boiling hot vent fluid. From @schmidtocean.bsky.social dive 602 part 2 #Mappinggalapagosvents #MarineLife (psst, they have a awesome 4k vid of this moment on their IG)

"Att skicka ut människor som riskerar att dödas är moraliskt förkastligt och ett brott mot folkrätten. Det är också ekonomiskt vansinne att utvisa människor som jobbar i Sverige." skriver Tony Johansson och @maxjerneck.bsky.social vid @katalys.bsky.social www.aftonbladet.se/debatt/a/QMb...

The problems in our society are not caused by migrants or refugees. They are caused by an economic system rigged in favour of corporations and billionaires. If the government wanted to improve people’s lives, it would tax the rich and build an economy that works for us all.

BREAKING: The EU's former top diplomat, Josep Borrell, has accused Israel of perpetrating genocide in Palestine, and “carrying out the largest ethnic-cleansing operation since the end of the second world war." www.theguardian.com/world/2025/m...

Min helgtext handlar om Gaza och kommer redan idag. "I Sverige säger regeringen fortfarande att det inte är deras sak att avgöra om det pågår krigsbrott i Gaza eller ej. Den hållningen är i dag skamlig, närmast pervers." www.aftonbladet.se/kultur/a/qPg...

Fast-forward 4 years and a ton of research later, and my initial estimate remains the same--we've seen ~0.001% of the deep seafloor, an area approx the same as the size of Rhode Island. @oceandiscleague.bsky.social published this work in @science.org Advances today: www.science.org/doi/10.1126/...