Reminder to folk in Iceland and Western Europe. I've created a live earth viewer that will let you dry run next weeks eclipse. Click the Eclipse option, drop a pin at your location and then see a timeline of how much the sun is occluded. 🔭🌞🌑🧪 earth-clock.onemonkey.org

#bugsky #invertesky You can get your insect/bug/invertebrate question answered directly on The Guardian. Only the next few hours! They usually don't have science-themed Q&As so let's show them that this is what the people want :) #scicomm

Eva Amsen@evaamsen.com · 12h ago

If you have any questions about invertebrates, you can ask them directly to Guardian writer Patrick Barkham -- only today! #scicomm www.theguardian.com/community/li...

If you have any questions about invertebrates, you can ask them directly to Guardian writer Patrick Barkham -- only today! #scicomm www.theguardian.com/community/li...

Reader Q&A: what have you always wanted to know about insects? Grill Patrick Barkham on the natural world

This week, we launched our third annual vote to honour nature’s unsung heroes. The Guardian’s natural history writer – and woodlouse fanboy – Patrick Barkham will be here from 4pm BST (11am EDT) to di...

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I work at a public library. People who want to use AI seem to have no trouble doing so. People who don't want to use AI have a harder time. I crowdsourced and then finalized this document "How to disable or avoid intrusive AI" and then gave it a short URL: notoai.org Please pass along if it's useful

A little behind the scenes of a new(ish) article. open.substack.com/pub/mixture/...

Behind the scenes of a science story

I started to work on this article a year ago

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It took a few months, but my feature about data sharing in pharma to improve AI tools is now in C&EN!

C&EN (Chemical & Engineering News)@cenmag.bsky.social · 2w ago

Motivated by a joint goal to make machine learning work for drug development, pharmaceutical companies are collaborating with one another and with public consortia to close the data gap. cen.acs.org/pharmaceutic... #chemsky 🧪

If you’re a science communicator and you use AI, read this. This is about what’s happening to Hank Green.

Starting in five minutes! Call details are in the link. Free to attend and aimed at science journalists in European countries (other countries welcome!)

Eva Amsen@evaamsen.com · 6d ago

Tune in just over an hour from now to hear more about the Young Science Writer Award and how other countries can set up similar competitions to connect science journalists with schools. #scicomm efsj.eu/2026/07/09/e...

Tune in just over an hour from now to hear more about the Young Science Writer Award and how other countries can set up similar competitions to connect science journalists with schools. #scicomm efsj.eu/2026/07/09/e...

EFSJ online webinar July 31st – Connecting young people with science journalism: lessons from the UK’s Young Science Writer Award

Join EFSJ members for this free webinar on July 31st to learn from Maisie Keogh what a science writing competition for school students can teach journalists about the next generation of science writer...

efsj.eu

oh my god!!!! there's an actual answer!!!! Google Maps does hide Brighton!!!!!!! bsky.app/profile/robi...

Robin Wilde@robinwilde.me · 7d ago

I actually know the answer to this and it's slightly insane. Google pulls from Wikipedia to determine if a place is a city, town, neighbourhood, whatever. Brighton's first line describes it as a "seaside resort" so Google Maps thinks it's a neighbourhood and doesn't display it in the "city" font.

Geoguessr completely threw me today. (Well, not completely. I had two good rounds and a perfect round, but then it did sneaky misleading things that make me click the wrong country twice in a row.)

This is on Friday: free webinar about getting high school students into science journalism (via the Young Science Writer Awards) efsj.eu/2026/07/09/e...

EFSJ online webinar July 31st – Connecting young people with science journalism: lessons from the UK’s Young Science Writer Award

Join EFSJ members for this free webinar on July 31st to learn from Maisie Keogh what a science writing competition for school students can teach journalists about the next generation of science writer...

efsj.eu

In this interview, @siricarpenter.bsky.social talks about early-career advice, constructive criticism, and the makings of our new book, The Best Science Stories and How They Work. Thanks @munkeatlooi.bsky.social and @absw.bsky.social for the conversation!

‘Craft still matters’: Siri Carpenter on learning from the best science stories

Mun Keat Looi, ABSW member, interviews Siri Carpenter, co-founder of The Open Notebook, about the "Storygrams" format and the future of journalism.

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It took a few months, but my feature about data sharing in pharma to improve AI tools is now in C&EN!

C&EN (Chemical & Engineering News)@cenmag.bsky.social · 2w ago

Motivated by a joint goal to make machine learning work for drug development, pharmaceutical companies are collaborating with one another and with public consortia to close the data gap. cen.acs.org/pharmaceutic... #chemsky 🧪

Does anyone know about Mac reindexing? I'm unable to search files in folders all of a sudden, and I'm using these instructions to fix. It says that reindexing can take a long time, but it *immediately* showed me the usual command line again in the terminal. www.macobserver.com/tips/how-to/...

Finder Search Not Working on Mac? Here Are the Fixes

If you encounter issues with Finder Search not working on Mac, follow these troubleshooting steps to solve the problem.

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My cat's classification of animals he's seen Cat = cat Fox = big cat Squirrel = small cat Hedgehog = very weird small cat Human = not cat but sometimes friend Dog = absolutely not! Insect or spider = toy/snack Small bird/mouse = forbidden toy/snack Pigeon = ek ek ek ek Magpie = scary ek ek

I'm still thinking about this video I watched over breakfast. It introduced me to the idea of the "permanent underclass" and the people who fear it, so I've been going down a Google rabbit hole about it over lunch. It made me realise even more how pervasive AI is to how people think about everything

Eva Amsen@evaamsen.com · 2w ago

This is months old but I only just came across it. It's about the shift from quirky open office tech to grind hard proteinmaxxing tech. I'm putting the time stamp right at the summary, but watch the whole thing if you want to see how journalism meanwhile seems ever quirkier. youtu.be/0tLEszJs7hc?...

Are you a science, environment, or education journalist? Do you want to join me and my students for a day of shark research in Florida this fall? I have spots for a few journalists to join a shark research expedition!

Randomly* remembering how I knew someone who went travelling for a few weeks and in that period we changed prime minister twice and the queen died. *not random: obviously primed (ha) by this week's new PM

How am I the ninth person into the coworking space but the first one to open the windows? We're all just sitting here in the damp of yesterday's lingering heat when it's nice and breezy outside?

This is months old but I only just came across it. It's about the shift from quirky open office tech to grind hard proteinmaxxing tech. I'm putting the time stamp right at the summary, but watch the whole thing if you want to see how journalism meanwhile seems ever quirkier. youtu.be/0tLEszJs7hc?...

Why fun tech jobs went extinct

YouTube video by Good Work

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So apparently Uber reinvented the bus. Except it's 10x as hard to ride as a regular bus. youtu.be/VBYp5QxnO4I

Uber Reinvented the Bus, I Guess

Uber Shuttle: a bus, but 10x harder to ride than a bus! Patreon: https://www.patreon.com/milesintransit Twitter: https://twitter.com/milesintransit1 Bluesky:…

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"these high profile scientists are not like rock stars, but more like orchestra conductors or concert soloists." open.substack.com/pub/mixture/...

Science as a symphony orchestra

Scientists are more like orchestra conductors than like rockstars

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If you’re a #journalist looking to expand your network or find quality-curated resources, then create your profile on the European Competence Centre for Science Communication, powered by COALESCE platform: scicommcentre.eu

The Doctor Who Fan Orchestra (as seen on the BBC) was doing virtual orchestras since long before Covid. We actually DIDN'T do it during those times, when everyone else was, but we're BACK now and I'm in the video a lot! (Including in the thumbnail) www.youtube.com/watch?v=njwB...

DWFO: Fifteen (Suite)

YouTube video by Stephen Alexander Willis

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This reminded me of Gilmore Girls, when Rory had to write an article about people waiting in line. www.yahoo.com/lifestyle/ar...

The Latest Gig Economy Hustle? Restaurant Line-Sitting.

From coast to coast, folks are getting paid to wait in line for hours on end to secure dot cakes or Lucali pizza

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On July 31st I'll be introducing Maisie Keogh in the next EFSJ webinar. She will share what the Young Science Writer Awards have taught us about how young people interact with science journalism. #scicomm efsj.eu/2026/07/09/e...

EFSJ online webinar July 31st – Connecting young people with science journalism: lessons from the UK’s Young Science Writer Award

Join EFSJ members for this free webinar on July 31st to learn from Maisie Keogh what a science writing competition for school students can teach journalists about the next generation of science writer...

efsj.eu

Probably one of my best Timeguessr rounds! (You have to guess where and when a photo was taken.) TimeGuessr #1138 — 47,118/50,000 1️⃣ 🏆9,949 · 📅 1y · 🌍 66m 2️⃣ 🏆9,961 · 📅 0y · 🌍 1.2km 3️⃣ 🏆7,496 · 📅 8y · 🌍 205m 4️⃣ 🏆9,800 · 📅 2y · 🌍 6m 5️⃣ 🏆9,912 · 📅 1y · 🌍 1.1km timeguessr.com

I'm reading a paper with a lot of grammatical errors, which is surprisingly refreshing. It's definitely written by humans!