There Will Come Soft Rains, Ray Bradbury. Written 1975, set 4 August 2026. www.btboces.org/Downloads/7_...

Rowling is evil and consuming anything Harry Potter gives her more wealth and power

Sophie Labelle @assignedmale.bsky.social · 5d ago

A dark day for human rights.

So, ok, a thing about telling yr audience "i use AI for my info gathering/research but then I look over it and fix any errors" is that you unfortunately told me youve outsourced your knowledge base on this subject to the machine, and therefore I have no reason to believe you CAN catch those errors

If kids can be held criminally responsible, they should also get to vote

ABC News Australia@news.abc.net.au · 6d ago

Victoria's opposition pledges to expand Adult Crime, Adult Time laws if elected

I'm not qualified to judge whether such people are psychopaths. All I can say is that they behave as if they are. From today's Telegraph.

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Jeff Groh@jeffgroh.bsky.social · last wk.

Avocados come in 2 varieties - A-types start each day female and switch to male midday. B-types do the reverse. In work just published from the last chapter of my PhD, we show this system evolved 40+million yrs ago and is regulated by alleles of 1 transcription factor www.pnas.org/doi/10.1073/...

Avocados come in 2 varieties - A-types start each day female and switch to male midday. B-types do the reverse. In work just published from the last chapter of my PhD, we show this system evolved 40+million yrs ago and is regulated by alleles of 1 transcription factor www.pnas.org/doi/10.1073/...

Balanced polymorphism in a floral transcription factor underlies the ancient rhythm of daily sex alternation in avocado | PNAS

In avocado and certain wild relatives in Lauraceae, a highly synchronized daily rhythm of floral sex timing promotes cross-pollination between two ...

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Israel is giving Trump's former campaign manager millions of dollars to fill the internet with pro-Israel articles written by AI, not so that anyone will actually read them, but so that *LLMs will train on them* & regurgitate their perspective. This is the future of the information environment.

Israel Is Paying Millions to Train AI Chatbots How to Talk About Gaza. It's Working.

Former Trump campaign manager Brad Parscale is overseeing an operation posting hundreds of blog posts on behalf of Israel, with the goal of infiltrating artificial intelligence.

dropsitenews.com

Good winter's morning #UQ #Brisbane

Lemme tell you about the angel of history being blown backwards into the future: The shackles these people have been put in are Hiatt brand, same company founded in 1780 to mass produce shackles for slaver ships.

Joel S.@joelhs.bsky.social · 2w ago

The use of extremely online memetic aesthetics to support far-right political goals is like something out of Walter Benjamin’s nightmares.

Admirable clarity @science.org

David Roberts@volts.wtf · 2w ago

Whew, the editors of @science.org are getting real.

Here's my story from Pine Gap. "The fight to end the US military occupation of Australia (and the entire world)" It's a photo-essay this time because I took a tonne of pics, the country being this stunning, to help convey the Arrernte's struggle.

The fight to end the US military occupation of Australia (and the entire world) - The Shot

For 64 years – an insignificant speck of time under a sky this large – from a stolen, sacred site...

theshot.net.au

This is why the rich get richer

Kathryn Tewson@kathryntewson.bsky.social · 2w ago

Fun thought experiment! Let's say you are given a choice between the following two options: 1. You receive $50,000 right now, cash on the barrelhead. 2. I flip a coin. If it's heads, you get $2,000,000. If it's tails, you give me $1,000,000. Which choice do you take? Which choice is rational?

Who's driving One Nation's rise? Gen X, uneducated, in outer suburban and rural areas, and economically stranded. But... there is no mention of Gina Rinehart. She has bought One Nation and funded their publicity, and her wealth comes from the economic stagnation driving One Nation's support.

Pearls and Irritations@johnmenadue.com · 2w ago

A generation that was politically boring has become the trigger for the most significant realignment since the Second World War. The question is why. And the answer is not ideology. It is biography, Kos Samaras writes. #GenX #OneNation #auspol

New work led by @stevenjrobbins.bsky.social @markoterzin.bsky.social finally published - we now have a reference of microbial genomic resources from the Great Barrier Reef. The paper came out just hours after the work presented by Marko at #ICRS2026 @icrs.bsky.social See thread here for more detail

Steven Robbins@stevenjrobbins.bsky.social · 2w ago

It's out! Excited to present the Great Barrier Reef Microbial Genomes Database (GBR-MGD), a comprehensive DB of 1000s of high-quality prokaryote, virus, plasmid, and chromosome-level eukaryote MAGs using Nanopore long reads. Subthreads incoming. Please share widely. 🙂 www.nature.com/articles/s41...

1. The new Trump / Kratsios plan for US science appears explicitly designed to destroy US universities. Diverting money to tech donors is probably just a bonus. Gift link.

Trump’s Plan for Science: More Money for A.I., Less for Universities (Gift Article)

Michael Kratsios, President Trump’s science adviser, proposed overhauling how the government funds research. Democrats said Mr. Trump’s actions had weakened science.

nytimes.com

How odd: the federal opposition, QLD gov't, the data centre lobby and a random corporate lobbyist all saying data centres shouldn't be subject to climate regulations, all within days. Must just be a coincidence :)

China showing how clear vision and long term investment by government can make amazing things reality. Their complete dominance in EV technology and infrastructure is not an accident.

Spain’s players refused to celebrate with Trump after the U.S. president attempted to insert himself into the middle of their victory photo. He was politely pushed aside.

Viva España

This would be a deeply irresponsible and destructive act at any time. To do it whilst we're having a third heatwave of the year and thousands of people have just died from extreme temperatures - makes it also politically incoherent. We urgently need to replace Labour.

Mark Chadbourn@chadbourn.bsky.social · 3w ago

Drill, baby, drill.

I have signed this, and if you're a voter in Queensland I urge you to consider it too. Health care for Trans children is a health care issue, and never a political issue. www.parliament.qld.gov.au/Work-of-the-...

700g sports drink powder, 500g sugar for gels, honey and Vegemite sandwiches, plus bananas and crisps at aid stations. Hopefully enough fuel to get me through tomorrow's Guzzler 105 km ultra trail!

Neu5Gc is reported at trace levels in human samples, but whether it is detected depends heavily on the assay. We built a multi-site benchmark to define where Neu5Gc-bearing N-glycans can be identified and quantified reliably. #glycotime We describe this in our new preprint: doi.org/10.64898/202...

Development of a Matrix-Matched Calibration Curve for Multi-Site Quantification of Neu5Gc-Bearing N-Glycans

N-glycolylneuraminic acid (Neu5Gc) has been repeatedly associated with human cancer, but reliable detection has remained elusive, generating controversy regarding its presence in human samples. To add...

doi.org

This is a welcome good piece speaking to people who have actually engaged with the evidence and who push back against Haidt. Well worth a read.

The Guardian@theguardian.com · 3w ago

‘Social media bans are likely to make things worse’: psychologist Candice Odgers on kids, tech and mental health

Reposting in light of Albanese's announcement. Even the fact that, in a moment of general crisis, it gets an announcement is telling. This is money speaking through our representatives like the devil at an exorcism.

Elias Greig@eliasgreig.bsky.social · 4mo ago

The AI rollout is an incredible test case for the power of capital to overrule everything in its way. An overwhelmingly stupid, obscenely polluting, and wildly dangerous set of technologies are being brute-forced into every part of our lives because money says so.

This is the first sugar molecule spotted in interstellar space go.nature.com/3TgNPmG

First ‘true sugar’ molecule found in space — offering hints to life’s origins

Erythrulose, which has four carbon atoms, is the most complex sugar spotted beyond our Solar System.

go.nature.com

Disappointed it's not galactose #glycotime

The Associated Press@apnews.com · 3w ago

Astronomers have detected a type of sugar in space that’s also found in raspberries and self-tanners. Scientists are itching to know how sugars form because they’re a key ingredient for life as we know it.

Don’t live your life so that when you die people say “oh I was hoping it’d be the other guy, but I’ll take it”

MS only measures m/z, but what if we could tell it what molecules those m/z values are during the run? Our preprint introduces GlycoRTMS: real-time, glycan-aware acquisition that annotates precursors with glycans and uses that context to steer fragmentation #glycotime www.biorxiv.org/content/10.6...

Contextualised real-time mass spectrometry improves glycosylation detection and characterisation

Glycosylation is a structurally diverse, non-template-driven modification whose analysis by liquid chromatography-mass spectrometry is constrained by discovery-mode acquisition rules developed for pro...

biorxiv.org