Cynthia / Estienne
@cynthb.bsky.social
🏳️🌈 🇨🇦 🇺🇦 🧦 they / she / iel / elle Enterprise architect / former #infosec security assessor and pen tester, CAF veteran. Avid MMO / D&D gamer, reenactor, and knitter. We rescue hedgehogs and have 1 (Smidgen). Pan / enby.
A Review in Nature Reviews Biodiversity discusses population trends of migratory birds, dominant threats in different regions and existing conservation initiatives. It also recommends integrative conservation approaches for the future. go.nature.com/4z0KWae 🌎🧪
Little Bean and Huffy (his mum, probably) 💗🦔🦔 #Hoglet #Hedgehogs
A great deal of content is coming in the next three months. We are going to protect elections and fight them in every way possible. I've been in prep mode. Read this. Subscribe to join the fight. psychopete1.substack.com/p/the-rise-o...
The Rise of Palantir: The Third Road
Part 4
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Lloyd Robertson, news anchor and journalist, dies at 92. #cdnpoli www.cp24.com/news/canada/...
Former CTV News chief anchor Lloyd Robertson dies at 92
Canadian journalist Lloyd Robertson, who covered everything from the fall of the Berlin Wall to the 9/11 terrorist attacks during 35 years as chief anchor of CTV National News, has died. He was 92.
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Again: RFK is an utter crackpot. Just brains leaking out his ears.
Karly Kingsley@karlykingsley.bsky.social · 2d agoRFKJr claims Lyme disease was created by scientists,which is the closest he’s come to admitting that science exists. Meanwhile, Ötzi the Iceman, who died more than 5.3K years ago, had Lyme disease. Apparently prehistoric humans are part of the conspiracy. Get me off this timeline
Why is so little of the universe antimatter? We don't know. Scientists keep looking for ANY differences (besides the obvious) between matter and antimatter, but keep coming up empty. A new experiment… again shows no difference. It's weird. badastronomy.beehiiv.com/p/psyche-s-m... 🔭 🧪
Psyche’s Mars, and another test to see why antimatter is different than matter
Very cool animations of Mars as the spacecraft flew by. Plus, antimatter is still baffling.
badastronomy.beehiiv.com
When cops use Flock to arrest someone in Wapello County, Iowa, they don’t want them to know. A usage policy for Flock cameras in the county tells police, in no uncertain terms, to keep them a secret. @jasonkoebler.bsky.social reports. Story: www.404media.co/do-not-menti...
For folks like me who enjoy reading textbook-y non-fiction and research, Springer Nature (HQs: Berlin and London, office in NYC) is having a 30% sale. They sell ebooks too - you can by ePub/PDF format ebooks directly from them, no Bezos involvement! #BookSky link.springer.com/shop/back2sc...
Springer Shop
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Folks, start your telescopes: A SpaceX upper stage booster will impact the moon on Tuesday night/Wednesday morning! It *might* be visible from Earth via telescopes, though it's not clear how bright it will be. badastronomy.beehiiv.com/p/spacex-roc... 🔭 🧪
SpaceX rocket booster will hit the moon on Wednesday
The impact flash might — might — be visible to telescopes on Earth
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apps.npr.org/troubled-wat... The largest conservation areas in the U.S. are in the Pacific Ocean. Trump is rolling back their protections. Stunning images in this article. Please view.
These are some of the last pristine ocean ecosystems. Now, they're losing protections
The largest conservation areas in the U.S. are in the Pacific Ocean, where tiny islands are epicenters of biodiversity. The Trump administration is now opening their waters to commercial fishing, spar...
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Accurately predicting an individual's health arc is a dream that has not been previously possible. Now we're headed there, thanks to a new @nature.com paper by Sarah Urbut and team. Our conversation and annotations in the new Ground Truths erictopol.substack.com/p/predicting...
Predicting Your Health Arc
Sarah Urbut MD, PhD Takes Us Through Her Landmark Nature Paper
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Cynthia / Estienne@cynthb.bsky.social · 2d ago@nurdgrrl.bsky.social shared this post for a "couch to 5k" for reading, to get your "reading fitness" back up after too much scrolling and social media. Going to try Track 2, with my current book "Stung!: On Jellyfish Blooms..." by Lisa-ann Gershwin. naomialderman.substack.com/p/lets-do-a-...
@nurdgrrl.bsky.social shared this post for a "couch to 5k" for reading, to get your "reading fitness" back up after too much scrolling and social media. Going to try Track 2, with my current book "Stung!: On Jellyfish Blooms..." by Lisa-ann Gershwin. naomialderman.substack.com/p/lets-do-a-...
let's do a 'couch to 5k' for reading
we're going to work ourselves back to good 'reading fitness' over the next eight weeks. come and join us.
naomialderman.substack.com
Not much happening on the limb of the Sun yesterday so I zoomed way in on this small, dim, prominence and watched it do its thing for 2 hours, as one does. A 15 s pause was taken between each 15s video for a 2 frame/minute real-time rate. Details in ALT. #astrophotography
🧬 Arginine helped mice fight cancer and flu Restricting arginine, which happens naturally in cancer and infection, blocks a cell's ability to present antigens. Boosting it in mice cut colon tumours and improved flu outcomes. 🔗 www.cell.com/cell/abstrac... #Immunology #Cancer 🧪
Dietary arginine drives codon-dependent MHC class I translation and improves immunity in colon tumorigenesis and respiratory viral infection
Arginine availability regulates arginyl tRNA levels and codon-dependent translation of MHC class I, tuning antigen presentation and shaping anti-viral and anti-tumor immunity.
cell.com
The polarization isn't coming from social media. The polarization is coming from the fact that half of the politicians and 36% of the voters openly support ethnic cleansing policies, and 64% of the voters do not support ethnic cleansing. Normal people don't want to be civil with ethnic cleansers.
Since @clinodev.bsky.social recommended Flor de Caña (Nicaragua) to me, I'm doing a side-by-side (1.5 oz each, neat) with my favourite, Bumbu Original (Barbados). They recommended the younger ones, but I went with the 15yo Eco because it was what the liquor store had.
Hamburg's Pride parade, one of Germany's biggest, has made its way through the port city with increased security a week after a fatal extremist attack near its counterpart in Berlin.
Hamburg Pride draws 300,000 with increased security, a week after a fatal attack in Berlin
Hamburg’s Pride parade, one of Germany’s biggest, has made its way through the port city with increased security a week after a fatal extremist attack near its counterpart in Berlin.
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I haven't considered myself Christian since I was a teen, but I now have a new favourite Bible verse to trot out in discussions about far right / MAGA politics: 1 John 3:17 www.biblegateway.com/passage/?sea...
Bible Gateway passage: 1 John 3:17 - Good News Translation
If we are rich and see others in need, yet close our hearts against them, how can we claim that we love God?
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Lindsay Deibler-Wallace, assistant head of Upper School, took no action to protect them after telling parents that “boys will be boys.” arstechnica.com/tech-policy/...
High school defends staying silent while boys made AI nudes of 59 classmates
Gaps in laws may help Pennsylvania high school escape AI nudes scandal.
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Hoglet foot spa... 😂💗🦔 #Hoglet #Hedgehogs
Feeding station has arrived. Went for a chap on eBay that makes them himself and as a result was cheaper than most of the others - just over £20 delivered and I’m delighted with it. It’s very sturdy and well made and should be just the trick #naturesky #gardensky #hedgehogs
Mike 🏳️🌈@lpoolmike.bsky.social · last wk.Have ordered a feeding station but until then my spiky mates need to share with my cats. They don’t seem to leave much for the felines though. They love the wet cat food as you can see… #naturesky #gardensky #gardening #hedgehog
UPDATE: After the publication of this piece, Google sent 404 Media a statement saying it was “rolling back this feature in Google Earth while we work on implementing stronger guardrails.” www.404media.co/google-earth...
Google Earth’s New AI Lets Anyone Fabricate Completely Bullshit Satellite Images
"Tonight I typed just one sentence into Google Earth and put refugees near the Mexican border. Then I planted a nuclear plant in Iran. Then I put a fatal crash on a street in Amsterdam."
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Moonabunga! www.scientificamerican.com/article/how-... [This was super fun to research and write] 🔭 🧪
Can you surf on Titan? Science has the answer
Lakes of liquid methane on Titan, Saturn’s largest moon, could offer exhilarating—and terrifying—opportunities for otherworldly surfing
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>>But he said punishing crimes of negligence is particularly difficult because there was no intent to commit a crime. << Negligence is when a reasonable person knew, or OUGHT TO HAVE KNOWN, that their actions of lack of actions would cause harm. This dud deserves every day he got.
PortiaMcGonagal@portiamcgonagal.bsky.social · 6d agoI want these charges for every idiot parent who does this. I wish they could tack on additional years for bad parenting. apnews.com/article/apal...
