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Author & Senior Editor at Nature. DISCLAIMER: This is a personal account. Reposts aren’t Endorsements. Views needn't reflect the official view of Springer Nature. Personal website https://henrygeewriter.blogspot.com
For many, it’s a simple task. Kettle, pot, cup: a set of steps to give a vaguely drinkable liquid that lubricates social interaction and cognitive regeneration. But surely it’s possible to take such refreshment to a whole new level? #scifi by @gemmakchurch.bsky.social www.nature.com/articles/d41...
Students who open a personal social media account earlier in adolescence appear to perform worse in later standardised tests, says Nature Human Behaviour study. These differences may be attributable to excessive social media engagement and disruptions to attention: spklr.io/63325Euloc 🧪
Longitudinal effect of early social media use on standardized learning outcomes during school career - Nature Human Behaviour
Analysing data from 5,227 students from northern Italy, this article finds causal evidence that early engagement with social media adversely affects learning outcomes.
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My book 'The Decline and Fall of the Human Empire' came out last year: it's depressing to see that the records for heat I noted in that book, which were good for 2024, have already tumbled. How. sap. will go extinct even sooner than I suggested. www.panmacmillan.com/authors/henr...
The Decline and Fall of the Human Empire by Henry Gee
‘Brilliant’ – The Times‘Hugely informative and entertaining’ – New Scientist‘Put this at the head of your reading lists immediately’ – Eric IdleFrom Royal Socie
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Assistant Professor - Plant Health & Microbe Interactions - Amherst, Massachusetts, United States
Title: Assistant Professor - Plant Health & Microbe Interactions Executive Area: Academic Affairs College/School/MBU: College of Natural Sciences Department: Stockbridge Sch of Agriculture Work Lo...
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Which plants and animals are able to rewire their seed-dispersal interactions under changing conditions?🐦🌱 We don't know yet but you can help to find out! Please apply to the open #PhD position in the ANEW project led by @emmamarjakangas.bsky.social at the University of Helsinki and @sgn.one 🌎🌐
Emma-Liina Marjakangas@emmamarjakangas.bsky.social · last wk.📢 PhD opportunity at the University of Helsinki! Join the ANEW project to study ecological networks, seed dispersal and biodiversity conservation under global change. Apply by 31 Aug 2026. 🔗 jobs.helsinki.fi/job/31_8_202... #PhD #Ecology #Conservation #AcademicJobs
Oooh. The @litreview.bsky.social is the only magazine to which I have a personal subscription.
Matthew Cobb@matthewcobb.bsky.social · 2d agoGoing to see the Odyssey later this week (Imax 70 booked up completely- if I enjoy the squished version, will go again when the exc has died down). This from classicist @daisydunn.bsky.social in the Literary Review is a well-informed, thoughtful review, far from the various polemics.
Exceptional brain and ecological diversity in the earliest snakes🧪 www.nature.com/articles/s41... Cretaceous fossil snake, Tametara mirim gen. et sp. nov. Major ecological transitions occurred early in snake evolution, and known stem species do not represent the ancestral condition of crown snakes
Climate change sceptics have lost the plot as Europe burns - Reading the Telegraph, it’s hard to work out whether their climate columns are a work of satire, writes @arusbridger.bsky.social #climatecrisis www.prospectmagazine.co.uk/world/enviro...
Climate change sceptics have lost the plot as Europe burns
Reading the Telegraph, it’s hard to work out whether their climate columns are a work of satire
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Call me a cynic, but Trump's hot-and-cold switcheroo about a deal with Iran is a blatant attempt to manipulate the price of oil. Someone, somewhere, is making a fortune from this. I wonder who? Hmmm...
#OldTrailsFire in Spokane now appears to be most destructive wildfire in WA State history by wide margin (650+ structures lost), w/additional TBD losses nearby. Other PacNW fires actively burning, though less destructive, are far larger & could burn for weeks amid severe drought.
Early in the pandemic I used to go to the grocery store at 7 am on Tuesday every other week wearing an N95, gloves, and a hat with face shield. I looked insane. Years later I still mask on public transit and flights. All I have to show for it is I never caught covid.
This persecution of Fauci is unacceptable. 7.1 million people died of Covid-19 since it jumped to humans. Dozens of viruses out there also have potential to jump anytime and cause similar deaths. Nobody will be willing or able to fight them. Thanks Rand Paul and RFK jr. wapo.st/3TAPlAj
The intense pressure facing Fauci, as GOP lawmakers push for his jailing
The 85-year-old doctor, once the head of the government’s covid response, now faces mounting congressional threats and legal risks.
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Thanks to 400 year-old Chilean mummies, we know how smallpox reached the Americas go.nature.com/4bHfYdh
How smallpox reached the Americas: first genomic evidence points to Europeans
Viral sequences from Chilean mummies confirm the disease was introduced from Europe.
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The powerful fires scorching France and Spain are breaking records - and there are still months to go in the fire season go.nature.com/4xaW2Yn
Fires in Europe are breaking records: here’s what the future holds
Nature - Countries such as Spain and France can expect fire regimes more like those of California as climate change favours hot, dry conditions, scientists suggest.
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“We can almost look through the eyes of [Europe's earliest Homo sapiens] and see how they viewed the environment around them” go.nature.com/4xdqTmX
40,000-year-old bird carvings provide clues to how ice age humans flourished
Nature - Newly discovered figurines point to skills that might have helped shape early humans’ expansion across Europe.
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There are more fires in France than in the ‘Burbs of Bordeaux. A friend in Provence sent me this snap from his home.
An Italian, a Czech and a Japanese translation of ‘The Decline & Fall of the Human Empire’ arrive together at a house (mine). There may be a joke in there somewhere. @picadorbooks.bsky.social @panmacmillan.bsky.social
The summer holidays are here. Keep kids of very all ages entertained for five minutes with ‘The Wonder of Life on Earth’ by me and Raxenne Maniquiz. www.panmacmillan.com/authors/henr... @twohootsbooks.bsky.social
The Wonder of Life on Earth by Henry Gee
Discover the story of life on our planet as you have never seen it before! The perfect gift for the curious of any age.From the first tiny bubbles of life in th
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Summer is here: time for to get stuck into a good book. If you can’t find a good book, try one of mine. www.panmacmillan.com/authors/henr...
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Books in brief 📚 The power of ignorance and peering into the Milky Way go.nature.com/4g8kcMr
The power of ignorance and peering into the Milky Way: Books in brief
Andrew Robinson reviews five of the best science picks.
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2-years Postdoc in Aquatic Ecosystem Resilience and Climate Adaptation at #SLUAqua with @orjost.bsky.social and in collaboration with NRM Stockholm. #ecoevo #EvolBiol Using systematic reviews, meta-analyses & other synthesis methods to address the following questions 🧵 www.slu.se/en/about-slu...
Postdoctoral position in Aquatic Ecosystem Resilience and Climate Adaptation | slu.se
SLU - Science and Education for Sustainable Life
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Sense about Science@senseaboutsci.bsky.social · last wk.🚨 Only 1 week to go! 🚨 Make sure to submit your nominations soon for the 2026 John Maddox Prize, as the entry portal closes at midnight on Sunday 2 August. The 2026 John Maddox Prize is supported by the @royalsociety.org Finalise your entry now! 👇️ johnmaddoxprize.awardstage.com
Microsoft wants to build three massive AI data centres in Leeds. It’ll drain thousands of litres of water from the River Aire and become the city's biggest carbon emitter. We can still stop the council's final sign-off, but we need more voices. Add your name: you.38degrees.org.uk/petitions/pr...
Stop the Microsoft AI megasite in Leeds!
Microsoft want to build three huge AI data centres at Skelton Grange. It would drain the River Aire and become the city's biggest carbon emitter. We can still stop it - add your name to the petition.
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RECRUITING 3 Senior Research Associates to develop responsible AI-enabled approaches to unlock animal behaviour for conservation. Roles include: 🧠 AI/Computer Vision 🐠 Behavioural Ecology 🌊 Marine Field Ecology Join @lec-reefs.bsky.social & @dsailu.bsky.social, Lancaster Uni, UK. Ads coming soon!
the ideal academic life is being an eccentric Victorian lord. Invent a stamp licking machine at 22. Get elected to the Royal Academy for counting the beetles on your estate. Die in an arsenic explosion. The perfect life.
In the European Middle Ages, moneyed people would grind up pearls --precious pearls, beautiful lustrous pearls, slowly formed by creatures from distress and effort-- stir them into wine, drink it and use it as a laxative. I can think of no better metaphor for LLM 'AI'.
📢 PhD opportunity at the University of Helsinki! Join the ANEW project to study ecological networks, seed dispersal and biodiversity conservation under global change. Apply by 31 Aug 2026. 🔗 jobs.helsinki.fi/job/31_8_202... #PhD #Ecology #Conservation #AcademicJobs
Doctoral Researcher (PhD student) in Ecological Networks and Biodiversity Conservation
Doctoral Researcher (PhD student) in Ecological Networks and Biodiversity Conservation
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