Leaders at @ukri.org should be seriously looking at the lottery first idea. 68% lower economic costs, increase in diversity of award holders and well received. www.nature.com/articles/s41...

But it's kind of a useful data point to track the rate at which insiders are listing their shares and at what price. I have notifications set up for this one AI company where all the shareholders are basically falling over eachother to try and offload their shares, which nobody is buying.

BRILLIANT Well done Iceland!!! www.rte.ie/entertainmen...

Stress and the world have been getting to me lately, and I can see it in my weight. Have gone from 79 kg this summer to nearly 84 today. This needs to change, and it starts with improving my work/life balance, physical, and mental health. Time to prioritize myself. #science #academia

Mural in Hanover, Germany promoting an anti-police demonstration this Saturday 13/12 at 17:00

Secrets and dreams are revealed in the senses-shattering Dark Science #177- The Beast of Naglfar! dresdencodak.com/2025/12/08/d...

Hugely encouraging news from Brazil today. President Lula has instructed four ministries to draw up a roadmap for a just transition away from fossil fuels, and asked his government to formulate an energy transition fund using income from petroleum revenues. www.linkedin.com/posts/ana-to...

old soviet joke about the difference between an optimist and a pessimist a pessimist complains surely things can’t possibly get worse while the optimist knows things can always get worse

😯

"...shows that such mining has less of a negative impact than expected. However, species diversity declined by a third in the tracks of the mining machine." 🤔😒 I'm not even sure the author knows they're experiencing cognitive dissonance.

Following Eurovision’s decision to allow Israel’s participation, Spanish public broadcaster RTVE has withdrawn from the contest. The announcement split the screen between Israel’s performance and scenes of bombardment and starving children in Gaza. #Spain #eurovision #genocide

Israel is not allowing antibiotics, IV solutions or surgical material to enter besieged Gaza despite 2-month ceasefire.

Need some cash?

I can't unsee it.

If Russia is banned because it contradicted Eurovision’s mission of peace and cultural unity… Then why isn’t Israel?

That said I swear at some point I'll design a Dark Science board game that's just a clumsily reskinned HeroQuest

All the new otter comics all together. I wanted to give you all a huge THANK YOU—through your engagement and print sales we raised 10k for The Marine Mammal Center. 💙🌊

A book from the 19th century that depicts the Rhine Valley by creating an impression of three-dimensionality and spatial distance. @MasayukiTsuda2 #globalmuseum #books #travel #19thcentury

The entire purpose of the AI bubble is to cut labour costs, to downsize companies and to strangle the buying power of the public. It is the starvation of the economy. Yet the money goes round, round, lots of it, faster and faster, between companies who just send it back. Superficially the same.

I fear that I understand a large part of the AI bubble; why the companies invest money in companies that just send the money back. It is, of course, illogical & unsustainable. There are reasons for it, related to the nature of the stock market.

Snapshot from two years ago. Still like the colors.

One step in the right direction from @cnrs.fr . Here’s hoping others will follow and we can get some more space for actual science. 🧪 www.cnrs.fr/en/update/cn...

Next step in the genocidal land-grab appears to be to let the inhabitants leave but not return. Apropos, interesting title change by @apnews.com (compare to screenshot). apnews.com/article/isra...

This is.. a lot. But very powerful images from @apnews.com apnews.com/article/asso...

Genuinely hilarious. Please send it to China.

If you’ve been following me, you know I receive a large amount of insults in many forms. The Qur’an offers beautiful and clear guidance, that I often turn to, on how to respond. Read more islamtoday.substack.com/p/the-islami...

Still among my favorite science memes lol

All Protocol Observed Welcome to Issue 222 of The Continent Lesotho’s arrest of a former South African navy officer has reignited a long-simmering border dispute, as the Basotho Covenant Movement pushes historic territorial claims — echoing similar struggles across Africa. bit.ly/222_TC

Dear beginner X-ray Scatterers: there’s no shame in getting help before you do this: 🧪⚛️

Great initiative!

Is 100000 dead people and 500 ceasefire violations enough? www.middleeasteye.net/news/more-10...

Additionally, OpenAI argues its not liable because Raine, by using ChatGPT for self-harm, broke its terms of service

It's-a me!

Duke Street, Halifax, 1980 This was my first time shooting harsh backlight on pavement. It has been my favourite light ever since, perfectly suited to monochrome. #filmphotography #believeinfilm

The future is full of promise... (sarcasm): "Countries meeting in Brazil for two weeks could manage only a voluntary agreement to begin discussions on a roadmap to an eventual phase out of fossil fuels". www.theguardian.com/environment/...

In case you aren't already aware of one of the nerdiest, nich-est online games: TeXnique, where the goal is to type LaTeX formulae as quickly as possible. texnique.xyz It is "fun."

Enjoyed a great jazz concert in our local Berlin jazz club ZigZag. And at the end we found out that the tenor sax player is the director of Jazz studies at Yale. I guess this counts as a research trip then? 😅

The Cop30 pavilion burning down is a little bit on the nose isn't it?

Here, have the teeniest preview of the Dark Science Companion. It's going to have a *ton* of stuff, but a few pages will also have author (that's me!) commentary on silly little details.

If you see this, post your getaway vehicle. However the $880k pricetag is a bit outside my current vehicle budget.... youtu.be/gGPCOVcaCoQ?...

If you see this, post your getaway vehicle.

In an ironic and possibly predictable turn of events, the conference has received “an unusually large proportion” of off-topic abstracts that show signs of being written by generative AI.

Keith Boykin solves the Trump Problem in under 2 minutes.

On brand, as found on Mastodon…

In other news: “Shovel digs hole” and “Typewriter wins the Booker Prize”

The situation in Palestine is still an ongoing genocide. The situation in Sudan is still an ongoing genocide.

"Postdoc in the job market"

Nestlé worried AI will destroy world’s water supply before they do