The most terrifying enshittification I've discovered has been learning that Microsoft Word documents no longer auto-save if you are not saving them to one of their own proprietary cloud services. I'm slapping control-S like it's 1999.
Christelle Sabatier
@chsaba.bsky.social
Educator, biologist, neuroscientist, mom. Always learning!
MIT Professor Susumu Tonegawa, renowned molecular biologist and Nobel laureate, dies at 86 news.mit.edu/2026/mit-pro... #neuroscience
MIT Professor Susumu Tonegawa, renowned molecular biologist and Nobel laureate, dies at 86
Susumu Tonegawa, a renowned MIT professor of biology and neuroscience and a Nobel laureate, has died at the age of 86. His discovery of how the immune system generates many different antibodies earned...
news.mit.edu
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The Best Science Stories and How They Work: A Collection with Commentary - The Open Notebook
An invitation to engage with some of today’s most respected science journalists as they take readers beneath the surface to tell the stories behind eleven of the best science stories.
theopennotebook.com
I'm been wondering if it would come to this and apparently it has. huge move from cloudflare, which hosts a fifth of all websites on earth.
Publishers Are Preparing to Opt Out of Google Search
The nuclear option is gaining traction as web traffic collapses and Google refuses to negotiate with content creators
adweek.com
We just sued the Trump administration seeking records on a decision that would revoke vessel speed restrictions on the Atlantic coast that protect whales, including critically #endangered North Atlantic right #whales, from deadly ship strikes. Only around 380 right whales remain.
The Merlin Bird ID app will soon allow users to contribute data to monitor bird populations and aid conservation efforts. The project at Cornell University that produced the Merlin Bird ID app was funded by NSF’s Directorate for STEM Education (EDU), which was gutted by the Trump regime. 🪶
Birdsong data from Merlin ID app to help global biodiversity project
Cornell Lab for Ornithology plans data linkup between app and population monitoring on eBird platform
theguardian.com
Research Technician in C. elegans Molecular Biology and Genetics @Reinke_Science University of Toronto See the full job description on jobRxiv: https://jobrxiv.org/job/university-of-toronto-27778-research-technician-in-c-elegans-molecular-biology-and-genetics/ #ScienceJobs
jobrxiv.org
I barely survived that game 🥵. Allez les bleus!! Grateful everyone is still in one piece.
Mary-Dell Chilton, NC biochemist who revolutionized agriculture, dies at 87 www.newsobserver.com/news/local/a... #PlantScience #PlantBiotech 🧪
Mary-Dell Chilton, NC biochemist who revolutionized agriculture, dies at 87
The late biochemist from Southern Pines transformed agriculture by creating the first genetically modified plants.
newsobserver.com
Here’s Why Weather Forecasts Have Seemed So Inaccurate Lately. Meteorologists simply aren't able to gather as much data as they used to, and you're suffering for it. gizmodo.com/heres-why-we...
Here's Why Weather Forecasts Have Seemed So Inaccurate Lately
Meteorologists simply aren't able to gather as much data as they used to, and you're suffering for it.
gizmodo.com
There's a record-breaking, dangerous heat wave hitting Europe. Lots of news outlets are covering it. But alongside reporting about heat records, warnings, and even deaths, there are, sometimes, photos of crowded beaches or people lounging in parks www.fastcompany.com/91563140/sto...
There's a deadly heat wave in Europe: Experts are begging media outlets to stop making it look fun
Images of crowded beaches or people swimming in pools are known to make extreme weather seem less dangerous.
fastcompany.com
“Right now, in some underfunded lab, a scientist is chasing a question that sounds pointless…No one can say if they will succeed. But a century of experience says that funding people to do this work is a good bet. If we stop making that bet, we will pay for it in cures no one will know to miss.”
Victor Ambros@vambros.bsky.social · 2mo agoA column by Jeff Coller: “The Science That Turned Lizard Venom Into GLP-1s Is Under Attack” www.nytimes.com/2026/06/20/o...
Cervical cancer deaths fall to zero in young women given vaccine. 🧪 www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...
Cervical cancer deaths fall to zero in young women given vaccine
A new study finds that hundreds of lives have been saved since school-age girls were offered the HPV jab in 2008.
bbc.co.uk
A 20 year study on 2 NIH diversity programs in Science Advances shows they doubled undergrads' odds of getting a Ph.D. That is, before the funding for those programs and for the study itself was terminated last year: www.statnews.com/2026/06/17/n...
NIH diversity programs doubled undergraduates’ odds of getting a Ph.D., 20-year study finds
A new study found that two diversity-oriented programs supported by the NIH doubled the odds that an undergraduate would earn a Ph.D.
statnews.com
With all due respect to my Spanish ancestors, go Cabo Verde!
The warm weather in Northern California is speeding up these monarch caterpillars’ growth. Here’s hoping this small milkweed plant is sufficient to satisfy their appetites.
New newsletter, where as best I can I try to tell you why I think science teaching is important and why I wish our world could love science teachers as much as it loves them in movies www.fightforthehuman.com/on-science-t...
On science teaching and science teachers
I expected to love Project Hail Mary (this was an easy prediction. Things I like: space movies, puppets, problem-solving, emotional soundtracks, plots that revolve around solving problems, people who ...
fightforthehuman.com
Apropos of nothing, if you think grades should reflect actual student learning rather than arbitrary institutional policies, I'd like to invite you to join us at the Grading Conference June 16--18
centerforgradingreform.org
It was such an honor to be interviewed by Sasha Lilley for the legendary show on KPFA Radio in the Bay Area, @radioagainst.bsky.social ! I used to listen to this station and show when I lived in Berkeley! Now I'm the one on the show—so cool when that happens. kpfa.org/episode/agai...
Sex and Strength | KPFA
Are women as strong as men? According to science writer Starre Vartan, in some cases, they are stronger. She argues that scientific research over the last several decades shows that culture shapes str...
kpfa.org
President of San Jose State "refers to herself as the “C.E.O.”... and compares herself to tech leaders in Silicon Valley: “We’re all trying to do the same thing, which is to mobilize our entire work force in this rapidly changing environment to adapt, create, innovate and be more productive.”
What It’s Like to Be a Student at the First A.I.-Powered University
nytimes.com
What a great article!
Thiago Carvalho@cyrilpedia.bsky.social · 2mo ago'If a control experiment fails, does that mean that the entire experiment is poorly designed and you must restart from scratch? Often, yes— but not always. I present five examples where failed control experiments triggered entirely new fields of research.' link.springer.com/article/10.1...
Best shot ever of mobila rays? INSANE FOOTAGE (Aidan Bedford) Annual migration in the sea of Cortez WOW Why do we destroy our oceans and nature everywhere? #WarOnNature #Metacrisis
Human embryo editing against disease is unsafe and unproven — despite rosy predictions www.nature.com/articles/d41...
Human embryo editing against disease is unsafe and unproven — despite rosy predictions
Pitfalls of heritable genome editing undermine theoretical benefits.
nature.com
This viral video clip captured by Dean Boshoff of a desert rain frog (Breviceps macrops) highlights one aspect of their behavior: Their terrifying WAR CRY or alarm cry. (sound on) Let's learn a bit more about this African frog that lives along the sandy desert coast along Namibia & South Africa.
I’ll be at the Museum of the African Diaspora in San Francisco this weekend! See some of you there, maybe! www.moadsf.org/engage-art-b...
