Review: The Infinity Machine: Sebastian Mallaby **** - The most fascinating part of this exploration of Deep Mind is not AlphaGo or AlphaFold, but when the company found itself on the back foot over large language models. Interesting read. popsciencebooks.blogspot.com/2026/04/the-... #bookreview #AI

I love this - the computer is Australian! #Straya

Ah - the chocolate to give Trump. He likes smashing things...

Amazing. hmmm... I wonder which country made this?

War has a direct human cost, but what is not always mentioned is the indirect cost via the environment, for all life. "The environmental cost of the Iran war in the gulf" www.omanobserver.om/article/1185...

"One small wee for a man .... one giant slash for mankind"

Is it a snake or a moth? 🐍🦋 In the dense jungles of the Americas, this caterpillar has a wild defence strategy. It's the Hemeroplanes triptolemus moth. When threatened, it expands its body to mimic a snake’s head with fake “eyes”. No, it's not an April Fool's joke; nature’s tricks are impressive.

Artemis II mission is about to fly humans to the Moon for the first time in more than 50 years — here’s the science they’ll do Read our great intro and explainer by @alexwitze.bsky.social 🧪 www.nature.com/articles/d41...

He's not wrong, but there are plenty of fantasists out there, with a shed-load of money for rockets, who are!

@weinersmith.bsky.social another!

what does disqualify work from being Human Made is if you use it for *text generation*, ie you're cutting-and-pasting words into a document from the LLM and publishing them under your name. it's such a good distinction.

regarding AI use by writers, I think the Human Authored scheme by the Society of Authors strikes exactly the right balance. it says using AI for: "spell check & grammar, researching, brainstorming, outlining" does not disqualify work from being Human Made. humanauthored.co.uk/faqs/

Kim Stanley Robinson opens his classic science fiction novel Red Mars in 2026. As the New Scientist Book Club embarks on reading it in April, he looks back on its origins – and how the idea of moving to Mars holds up today

extraordinary FT scoop via @lucyfisher.ft.com captain of a UK nuclear-armed submarine has stepped back from his role this week after being investigated over his relationship with Joani Reid, the Labour MP whose husband has been arrested on suspicion of spying for China www.ft.com/content/93be...

I say - if old Charles does not want to visit That Man, all he has to say is there isn't the jet fuel to fly there!

en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Eradica... Wonder if this squeezes in as #lablit @jennyrohn.bsky.social @hstiles1.bsky.social

And since it’s Bach’s birthday, here’s the cantata I think of when I’m considering how musical art can capture urgency, anxiety and psychological panic. Oh to be able to match his dynamism and drive. Titan. #BACH

I am sure there are people out there busy writing books on how That Man grated America! 😑

The science suggests that olive oil can help us fight cognitive decline and even Alzheimer’s. Columnist Helen Thomson finds that only works if we choose the right kind

Great looking new paper in @jappliedecology.bsky.social by Sofia Miguel et al, who recently visited my group at BC3, uses a Landsat-derived data to characterise forest disturbance regimes based on size, severity, and frequency with high variability. shorturl.at/B1mg1

One of the reasons palm oil is so widely used is its versatility. 👀 As Alice explains, there are different ways to check if the palm oil in a product is sustainable. 3/3

In the latest Counting the Earth we discuss how the industry can be more sustainable and the science we're carrying out with partners to improve soil quality & reduce greenhouse gas emissions. Thanks to our podcast guests from Wild Asia & @rbgkew.bsky.social! audioboom.com/posts/888058... 2/

Palm oil remains controversial due to high greenhouse gas emissions, extensive deforestation carried out in Southeast Asia for oil palm plantations, and habitat loss for a range of endangered species. Yet it's the most widely used vegetable oil globally for many reasons. 🧪 1/

This is a fucking great book. Signed copies available from @vvwelby.bsky.social website if you're quick, it's out of print now but a brilliant read if you fancy Keshed in Soho shooting up Greek classics while the Furies (and crystal meth) drive you insane 😎

I just wish these crises were leading us to more sustainable changes. (I personally will have a real problem if I need to get to Australia to see my very elderly mother who's about to undergo high-risk surgery. When the world shuts down, I get cut off from all my family in Ireland, Spain and Aus.)

OK, there's only one thing for it. Papers are all loaded on to my iPad, so I'm gonna go sit on the sofa and read there. Just can't do it on my computer.

Qilimanjaro is selling a relatively cheap kit with everything you need for a quantum computer – you just need to be able to put it together

Your daily dose of #CO2 part 1 28.03.2026 431.95. 🆙5.05 or 1.18 %. (Highest in 10 years) 28.03.2025 426.90 🆙1.74 or 0.41 % 28.03.2024 425.16 🆙3.76 or 0.89 % 28.03.2023 421.40 🆙1.51 or .36 % 28.03.2022 419.89 #ClimateCrisis

The image shows daily average CO₂ concentration at Mauna Loa, Hawaii since 2020. The highest daily average CO₂ concentration on record, 431.95 ppm, was recorded at Mauna Loa, Hawaii, on March 28, 2026. arctic-news.blogspot.com/2026/03/sign...

‘Seen in part, feared in full’: conditional visibility enhances eyespot defences without experience-dependent decay royalsocietypublishing.org/rspb/article... | #ProcB #Behaviour #Ecology

In today's #CAPYBARA ON THE RUN IN HAMPSHIRE news (I think Day 14), #Samba remains free despite "extensive searches" involving teams of dogs, thermal drones and camera-traps. 'Credible' eyewitness reports have come in from parts of the Itchen River. Two photos have been taken of her in the wild.

This looks unconscionable and needs to be more widely discussed.

An accounting of all the water that should have been and gone on Mars’s surface has come up with a discrepancy that shows just how little we understand the Red Planet’s hydrological history

The Hitchhiker’s Guide to the Swampland Published Regular readers of this blog might remember that last year I did a post about a very comprehensive review article which had appeared on arXiv with the title Hitchhiker’s Guide to the Swampland: The Cosmologist’s Handbook to the string-theoretical…

www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/m... The Radio Universe - Emma Chapman

Hybrid Evolutionary biologist, comedian, and aspiring Dr Frankenstein Simon Watt is on a quest to improve the human body, with a little help from our animal cousins. www.bbc.co.uk/sounds/serie...

This is what we mean when we say the system is patriarchal. They are using AI recognition as a check method in order to give food to the most vulnerable without ever considering what happens to pregnant women's bodies or children.

Please stay for the whole video 🥹 Clemmie wants to show you her favourite places on her play gym. Plus there's the cutest intermission 🥰 #jumpingspider #cute

Boston/Cambridge MA-area folks, please come out for our (@peterhotezmdphd.bsky.social & my) #ScienceUnderSiege conversation with @bostonglobe.com science writer @akuchment.bsky.social, THIS THURSDAY (4/2/26) at the @mit.edu Museum! You can register here: mitpressbookstore.mit.edu/event/2026-0...

Jaysus Effin' Christ. I hope this leads to a better policy of scrutiny. www.nytimes.com/2026/01/06/b...

The book-healer deserves our respect 🙌

Twas a busy day of book repair and bandaging!📚🩹

Resistance & reprisal: The Third of May, 1808. Painted in 1814 by Francisco de Goya, when resistance had ultimately succeeded.

Explore • Engage • Empower These three words capture what Junior Einsteins Science Club® is all about. From our Science Camps and Birthday Parties to After-School Clubs, Science Shows, and School Workshops, everything we do is designed to spark curiosity #junioreinsteins #STEMeducation