Google Earth Pro will be no longer avaliable for download from June 2027 onwards. It's one of the tools that made my early work possible, so it's really sad to see it go. support.google.com/earth/thread...

"Day 127, orbit 1968 — That aurora was absolutely spectacular… shimmering and dancing beneath us, stretching as far as the eye could see, and so intense it lit up the Station in shades of green 💚", says @esa.int astronaut Sophie Adenot.   📸 ESA/NASA – S. Adenot #εpsilon

Did you know you can search for R packages by what they do, as opposed to just their names? Look! 👉🏼 rwarehouse.netlify.app @kylieainslie.bsky.social made The Warehouse for just this purpose. Send it to a new R programmer today ❤️ because it's the resource we all wish we'd had at some point #rstats

This is a great study and (one of?) the first of its kind! A note of caution from a human contributor though: given the slow academic publishing process, the findings should primarily be interpreted as a snapshot of AI capabilities (and the capabilities of researchers using AI) in 2024. (1/4)

Institute for Replication@i4replication.bsky.social · 2mo ago

1/ Can AI help researchers check whether published social science results actually reproduce? In our new PNAS paper, we tested this directly in the AI Replication Games: 288 researchers, 103 teams, and real replication packages from quantitative social science.

Thought provoking science commentary: "AI models assume that relationships remain stable over time, that training data are representative of future conditions, and that observations are independent. These assumptions are routinely violated in ecological systems." www.pnas.org/doi/10.1073/...

It's becoming increasingly clear to me that Reflect Orbital's fucking stupid giant mirror satellite, with absolutely NOTHING useful to offer, which will cause countless safety issues, ecological disasters, and destroy the night sky, is going to launch. A bunch of astronomers and I have sent out […]

Thought provoking read about how climate impacts running and how running impacts climate change. “Runfluencer culture and over-consumption in running fashion are dramatically increasing the environmental cost of what should be a low-impact activity. #HowWeKitUp theconversation.com/hurdles-to-a...

Hurdles to a hobby: How climate change and ‘runfluencer’ culture impact our daily jog

Climate change is already re-shaping how people engage in sport. Due to warming temperatures, running may become less accessible and safe for many of us.

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⏳ Just 7 days to apply for the Flyway Monitoring Traineeship Spend a month at Batumi Raptor Count, learning hands-on migration monitoring in one of the world’s largest raptor flyways. Fully funded travel + acco. Open to conservationists in OSME region. www.batumiraptorcount.org/flyway-monit... 🪶🦅

BRC Flyway Monitoring Traineeship — Batumi Raptor Count

We are raising \u20AC30,000 to continue our monitoring, conservation and education work in 2026.

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The new Master's programme in Ecological Forecasting at UBT and JMU Würzburg is looking to employ six lecturers and a program coordinator! For more information, please contact Prof. Steven Higgins (www.pfloek.uni-bayreuth.de/en/team/higg...).

The Atlantic’s “conveyor belt” is slowing. New observations from 16.5°–42.5°N show a two-decade, basin-wide decline in deep western overturning, the first robust observational evidence that the AMOC is weakening, confirming long-standing model predictions. www.science.org/doi/10.1126/...

Meridionally consistent decline in the observed western boundary contribution to the Atlantic Meridional Overturning Circulation

Western boundary observations in the Atlantic suggest a meridionally consistent decline in the ocean overturning circulation.

science.org

Putting aside Sam Altman just continuing to emit huge lies constantly, this is an amazing example of what I mean when I talk about how GenAI is replacing *extremely low energy* digital tasks with *WAY WAY HIGHER ENERGY* replacements that *do not even work* Why TF is anyone using ChatGPT as a timer!

Sam Altman Says It'll Take Another Year Before ChatGPT Can Start a Timer

An $852 billion company, ladies and gentlemen.

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I don't remember seeing an image of Earth before that captures the (thin, fragile, tiny layer of) atmosphere so clearly. I mean, look at that.

David Ho@davidho.bsky.social · 4mo ago

The last time human eyes were far enough from Earth to see the whole globe was December 1972. www.nasa.gov/image-detail...

posting this 'ol thing again for no reason

🚨 Hiring a postdoc (2 years)! We’re looking for someone with skills in data science, remote sensing, or computer science: 🛰️ Build next-gen nighttime light products 🦅 Link light spectra to migration & collision risk Apply or reach out! aeroecolab.com/opportunities

Purdue AeroEco Lab Opportunities

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Our 2026 Flyway Monitoring Traineeship is open for applications from raptor enthusiasts living in the OSME region. Learn all about raptor migration, identification and what it takes to run a count like the BRC, and receive up to €1300 to cover costs. www.batumiraptorcount.org/flyway-monit... 🪶

Call for Counters! Join BRC in Autumn 2026 to witness the magnificent migration of >1 million raptors, improve your ID skills, and contribute to population monitoring! Fees: €10-24/day with discounts available! Read more & apply here: www.batumiraptorcount.org/volunteer-as-raptor-migration-counter

1/ Forget tales of escapees from the film set of The African Queen. Ignore rumours of Jimi Hendrix’s supposed liberation of a pair on Carnaby Street. Newly declassified documents from the Ministry Of Defence reveal how Ring-necked Parakeets colonised the UK through Operation Norwegian Blue! 😮 🪶

An absolutely stunning view of a large haboob sweeping across Texas.

Coding After Coders: The End of Computer Programming as We Know It www.nytimes.com/2026/03/12/m...

Coding After Coders: The End of Computer Programming as We Know It

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#rstats Here's a useful guide to creating publication-ready #ggplot figures to journal specifications, which is often quite fiddly. jaquent.github.io/2026/02/crea...

I just did the dumbest thing of my entire career to prove a much more serious point. I tricked ChatGPT and Google, and made them tell other users I’m a competitive hot-dog-eating world champion People are using this trick on a massive scale to make AI tell you lies. I’ll explain how I did it

Have you ever wondered what you would find if you could keep your eyes on a bee for more than a few meters? Us, too! preprint (with videos!) + thread 🧵 Precise, individualized foraging flights in honey #bees 🐝 revealed by multicopter drone-based tracking www.biorxiv.org/content/10.6... 1/9

The pace at which US wealth concentration is rising is simply staggering The concentration of AI wealth into the hands of a few tech barons + plutocratic capture ==> unchartered territory

Bluesky is the new science Twitter, new study by @whysharksmatter.bsky.social and Julia Wester concludes! "Results show that for every reported professional benefit that scientists once gained from Twitter, scientists can now gain that benefit more effectively on Bluesky than on Twitter."

Scientists no Longer Find Twitter Professionally Useful, and have Switched to Bluesky

Synopsis. Social media has become widely used by the scientific community for a variety of professional uses, including networking and public outreach. For

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Aurora Borealis, from the middle of Amsterdam. Visible with the naked eye. Truly exceptional from this light polluted part of the Netherlands. Go outside if you can! #auroraborealis #noorderlicht

I research dictatorships for a living and have spend a non-negligible amount of time reading the words of madmen like Gaddafi, Hitler, and the Kims of North Korea. Even to me this is fucking bunkers.

Sharon 🪳🌹@sharonk.bsky.social · 7mo ago

mad king moment from the PBS Newshour correspondent

The ICC is under U.S. siege, the majority of Dutch journalists don’t seem te care. The new MAGA world order is here.

Max Boot@maxboot.bsky.social · 7mo ago

The penalties effectively cut the judges off from all American funds, goods and credit cards, and prohibit individuals and business in the U.S. from working with them. “We’re treated like pariahs, we are on a list with terrorists and drug dealers,” Ms. Ibáñez said. www.nytimes.com/2026/01/10/w...

Happy New Year! 🎆 As expected, sadly, the radars once again lit up with MILLIONS of birds fleeing from #fireworks. GIF of the @knmi.nl Herwijnen radar See other years: horizon.science.uva.nl/fireworks/ Thread and more science below 🧪🪶

Bart Hoekstra@barthoekstra.bsky.social · 2y ago

Another NYE, another night of terror for millions of birds across the Netherlands (and around the world). Last year we published in @ecologicalsociety.bsky.social Frontiers 🧪 about the massive impact of fireworks on birds 🦅. Paper: doi.org/10.1002/fee.... Thread below 🧵👇