We cannot allow all these data centers running on oil and natural gas to be built, y’all. We simply cannot. The Earth is too precious. To accelerate CO2 production for a technology this stupid is so profoundly reckless

It’s really just that simple… Would also strive for fish to thrive

The problem is not simply that technology is changing fast, but that a species shaped by slow biological evolution now lives inside a system whose rate of change is increasingly generated from within. New #ComplexityThoughts 🧪🧬🤖🌍 is out: manlius.substack.com/p/engineered...

Midwater worms >> terrestrial worms. 😍 #tomopteris 🦑🧪🌊 #DesigningtheFuture3 @mbarinews.bsky.social @schmidtocean.bsky.social

Since the war on Iran began on Feb 28, Israel has launched near-daily attacks on Lebanon, Gaza, and the occupied West Bank. In that time, Israel killed at least 107 people, permitted only 8% of medical evacuations, and admitted just 20% of aid trucks into Gaza. 🔗: aje.news/u0qdtx | #Infograph

A defining aspect of the chaos we see today is that Israel is a rogue state, enabled by an imperialist state that is governed by a rogue president and his capitalist allies. As much as other states still appeal to deals and treaties, rogue states are not subject to them. The last 24h are proof. 🧵

Quando as pessoas vão entender q ser acadêmique/pesquisadorie é um TRABALHO e q dar cursos/palestras etc. precisa de DINHEIRO pq nosso conhecimento n foi construído lendo chat GPT? Cansaço...

Here are the stories of some of the human beings who died horrific deaths from preventable disease because Trump and Musk and their flunkies decided to murder them by gleefully destroying USAID and the entire global aid system:

Não dá para ser feliz vivendo no caos climático

I'm hiring! I have 2 open positions: 🔬 Postdoc 🧪 Research associate We study how animal multicellularity evolved by exploring the molecular logic of cell adhesion using cell biology, 'omics, and tool-building in non-model organisms. Come join us! Details and application links 👇 Please repost

Hi all. I am very excited that after 6 years I finally got my phylogenetic comparative methods book and online exercises online. Feel free to use and share. The book is here: nhcooper123.github.io/pcm-primer/. Note that it is not finished, we had to abandon it before the sunk costs fallacy broke us

Some climate change facts: 2015–2025 = hottest decade observed 🌊 ~90% of excess heat stored in the oceans Heat gain ≈ 18× global energy use Rate is accelerating, not stabilizing This isn’t just warming; it’s a system moving further out of equilibrium www.theguardian.com/environment/...

lots of jarring statistics and heartbreaking stories I could share from this story, but this particular anecdote made me tear up when @jonathanwosen.bsky.social first shared this story with me For more details from our survey of ~1000 nih-funded researchers, read the report below

If we made the green energy transition this war would be unthinkable and these authoritarians wouldn’t be in power — not in the US, not in Iran, not in Saudi Arabia, not in Russia. Hydrocarbons are killing our freedom and just plain killing us.

I’m looking for a post doc (up to five years) interested in phylogenetics and earth systems - please spread the word!

"Tanto o oceano quanto as mulheres carregam uma expectativa silenciosa de que vão aguentar mais um pouco. Mais uma demanda. Mais uma responsabilidade. Mais um impacto. Mas nenhum sistema consegue ser resiliente para sempre". oeco.org.br/colunas/mulh...

birds killed by wind turbines: under a million birds killed by fossil fuel infrastructure: 20x per GWh birds killed by windows: half a billion birds killed by cats: over a billion climate.mit.edu/ask-mit/do-w...

Looks like a fundamental study and approach ... Limited thermal tolerance in tropical insects and its genomic signature. Insects at high elevations utilize plasticity to cope with rising temperatures, whereas lowland species have limited plastic abilities. www.nature.com/articles/s41... 🧪🌐

Insects living in the lowland tropics have evolved to deal with brutal heat. But many of them are close to their limit, according to a massive study that assessed the heat tolerance of hundreds of species. https://scim.ag/406Y5yh

Fechado em setembro de 2024, um parque temático canadense cogita matar trinta belugas se não conseguir ajuda para transferi-las de suas piscinas desativadas a outro lugar. Por Mônica Manir Leia: piaui.co/4baagz9

It doesn’t matter whether the rate of global warming is increasing. It’ll never cease to amaze me that people don’t care that it’s happening at all. It should be the most alarming thing ever.

A cada like eu darei uma resposta simples do pq essa pergunta é simplesmente imbecil.

Health, education, housing, homelessness, addictions, culture, etc… all of those need more budget… but this is where the world decides to spend 🥺 aje.news/0ez0ui

Four NOAA #fisheries #stockassessment jobs opened today www.fisheries.noaa.gov/careers-more...

In the Bay of Bengal, Durjoy Raha Antu and team are studying the breeding cycles of endangered sharpnose guitarfish to inform protections. But change also depends on coastal communities, whose knowledge and livelihoods are central to lasting protection. saveourseas.com/update/why-r...

New tech really just seems to be coming up with new ways of getting more and more of our own data without our consent…..

✊🏾🚺 PACTO NACIONAL CONTRA O FEMINICÍDIO 🏛 O presidente Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva lança nesta quarta-feira (4), no Palácio do Planalto, o Pacto Nacional Brasil de Enfrentamento ao Feminicídio. A solenidade reúne Alcolumbre, Motta, Fachin e Lula, os presidentes dos Três Poderes.

Are female economists treated differently than males in academic seminars? These authors wanted to know whether gender shapes how scholars are treated when presenting research. So they built a massive dataset of 2,000+ economics seminars, job talks, and conference presentations from 2019–2023...

Last call! Our next Important Shark and Ray Areas workshop will focus on the North American and Caribbean Atlantic and North American Pacific. Preliminary areas of interest must be submitted to [email protected] by February 6th. Spread the word to interested colleagues!

Submitted the last chapter of my PhD dissertation today 🎉🎉🎉 Four years in the making, fingers crossed for a positive outcome 🤞🏼

New paper out today! "Fossil otolith assemblages reveal millennial-scale changes in reef fish biomass and trophic structure across the Isthmus of Panama" 🔓https://doi.org/10.1098/rstb.2024.0419 We used fossil fish otoliths to reconstruct community structure and energetics over millennia.

Last term I tried an experiment: I walked into my Tech and Design Ethics class, admitted that I had *no idea* what to do about ChatGPT - so I would let them figure it out. As in: their first project was to decide and write the ChatGPT policy for the class. Here's what happened:

Our new paper is online! We found that 1) today's shark & ray diversity was already reached ~100Ma; 2) that the K/Pg extinction was not catastrophic; 3) that the max diversity was reached ~50Ma; and 4) that today's diversity is depleted compared to the past. www.cell.com/current-biol...

Americans need to come to grips with the reality that the world doesn't see Trump as the threat but America itself.

É inacreditável. Esse valor MENSAL é de 3 a 4,5 vezes o orçamento total anual (esse pífio) das Universidades Federais

Let that sink in! Instead the world’s leaders are fighting for soon to be dead product because they like how it was when they were young 🫠

We will either end fossil fuel dependency and the predatory extractivist basis of global production, or they will end us through wars and ecological collapse - all at the same time.

They’ll keep saying this over and over until the bubble bursts and then it’ll be chaos… a completely manufactured (and avoidable) crisis 🙄

Chia-Hsuan Hsu waited 18 months before chasing an editor for a decision on a paper go.nature.com/4j47KhM

Closing out my year with a journal editor shocker 🧵 Checking new manuscripts today I reviewed a paper attributing 2 papers to me I did not write. A daft thing for an author to do of course. But intrigued I web searched up one of the titles and that's when it got real weird...

Truly awesome science right here! 👇🏼

We're hiring! Seasonal Research Assistant and Senior Research Assistant positions for 2026 🪶 Deadline: 11th Jan 26 Apply here: app.vacancy-filler.co.uk/salescrm/Car...

My alma mater, Leicester University, is dissolving its Geology Department leading to the loss of 14 staff. Palaeo is being completely axed, despite Leicester's long and storied history in this area (and its current strengths). Please sign this petition!!: www.change.org/p/save-geolo...

The fisheries minister from Brazil has a point but needs to work harder to enact fisheries management and end open access fisheries in the country. Otherwise we’ll just end up with even more overexploited and collapsed fisheries, harming people, species, and the climate 👎🏼

With current pledges, the world's on track for 2.6°C of warming in 2100 compared to preindustrial levels. 10 years ago, before the Paris agreement, it was 3.6°C 20+ years ago, we thought it would be 4-5°C So 2.6°C is better, but the problem is that climate impacts are way worse than we predicted.

Lucro da Vale é mais de 330 vezes maior do que investimentos da mineradora na área socioambiental na Amazônia, via @obsmineracao.bsky.social observatoriodamineracao.com.br/lucro-da-val...

Successfully defended my PhD dissertation yesterday! Such a crazy feeling once you realize you’ve accomplished your dream from 10 years ago in one of the best research institutions in the world and being advised by such amazing scientists!

Lower-middle-income countries disproportionately face the burden of the Open Access publication model https://www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1101/2025.10.23.684097v1