Owners of Viking ship used to film The Odyssey say studio has not paid bill for damage

Owners of Viking ship used to film The Odyssey say studio has not paid bill for damage

Swedish nonprofit alleges cost to repair replica was £4,500 but Universal – which made £196m on film’s opening weekend – has not stumped up The Swedish owners of a Viking longship replica that features in Hollywood blockbuster The Odyssey say they feel “forgotten” after film-makers allegedly returned the vessel damaged and failed to foot the bill for repairs. In nearly three decades at sea, the warship Glad av Gillberga – which is based on a wreck from around 1040 found in Denmark’s Roskilde fjord – has successfully sailed the North Sea, the Baltic and even voyaged to Canada. Continue reading...

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Happy 100th Birthday, Mel Brooks.

A tool for mapping your #opensource ecosystem and its saboteurs: The Ecosystem and Stakeholder Map. blog.stdlib.io/mapping-your...

Mapping Your Ecosystem (and Its Saboteurs)

Naming everyone in your open-source ecosystem—both competitors and colleagues—and following where value flows.

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Google translate still struggles with colours.

Europe's worst heatwave so far, in terms of heat stress measures and temperatures - brought to you by fossil fuels. New @wwattribution.bsky.social study showing how such deadly heat became possible in only a few decades. www.worldweatherattribution.org/fossil-fuel-...

Chemical manufacturers replaced banned PFAS with new chemical formulations. These newer PFAS seem to be traveling and accumulating differently than their older counterparts. eos.org/features/che... Read more in our May issue: eos.org/themes/seeki...

Chemical Companies Are Churning Out New PFAS. Where in the World Are They Ending Up? - Eos

Bans on older versions of “forever chemicals” seem to be working. But emerging variants behave in ways that scientists are only beginning to pin down.

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Come and do a PhD with me! Understanding the Risk of Damaging and Disruptive U.S. Winter Weather in a Changing Climate Drop me an email if you're interested and find out more here: www.findaphd.com/phds/project... Academic friends please share!!

Sir David Attenborough 'overwhelmed' by 100th birthday greetings – audio

Sir David Attenborough 'overwhelmed' by 100th birthday greetings – audio

Sir David Attenborough has released an audio message thanking the public for the flood of goodwill messages sent in the run-up to his 100th birthday. The veteran broadcaster said he had expected to celebrate quietly, but expressed gratitude for the well-wishes he had received. Attenborough, who was born on 8 May 1926, joined the BBC in 1952 and went on to become one of the world's most respected and influential wildlife presenters * Tiny parasitic wasp named after David Attenborough for his 100th birthday Continue reading...

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Why did no one tell me math can be fun #gamedev #indiedev #godot

Astro-imagers and processors! The #ArtemisII images (the ones the astronauts took with the onboard cameras) are available to download and process. There's 12,000 images! Go nuts and share your processed data with us all! eol.jsc.nasa.gov/SearchPhotos...

To access the data of the 2.8km IFS simulations from anywhere, please have a look here: digital-earths-global-hackathon.github.io/catalog/ Thanks to @maengenheyster.bsky.social, we have great visual showcases of what you can expect from our simulations: youtube.com/playlist?lis... @ecmwf.int #EGU26

Highlights from a global 2.8 km coupled IFS-FESOM simulation - YouTube

The simulation couples ECMWF's Integrated Forecasting System (IFS) at tco3999 resolution (~2.8 km) to the FESOM ocean model (developed by the Alfred Wegener ...

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Thomas Rackow 🧊@trackow.bsky.social · 3mo ago

First day at #EGU26! We are starting with our poster session! Fraser and I will be in X5, 10:45-12:30, to present our work! Come to X5.184 and X5.189 to have a chat :) Oral presentations on the latest km-scale developments will be in the afternoon today, 16:15–18:00 in 🟨 0.31/32 @ecmwf.int

How infuriating to hear the chairman(?) of Asda on the Today programme implying that land use for solar farms might significantly hurt UK food production. It's nonsense. Golf courses use more than solar ever will & beef/lamb production is huge yet provides a tiny fraction of our protein & calories.

Nice reminder that because a study is published in a journal does not mean it’s a good study or that its stated conclusions are reasonable! When people say they are “doing their own research,” even if reading primary literature, missing the context & subtleties can lead to wildly wrong conclusions.

Michael Hobbes@michaelhobbes.bsky.social · 4mo ago

The shit you can get away with in nutrition research is egregious. Even 24 hour food recall diaries are notoriously unreliable, but asking people what they ate in *the past year* is a joke. You can't track a 10% drop in UPF consumption if your input data is off by 80%!

Hackathon preceding the legendary Machine Learning for Earth System Modelling #MLESM workshop — on-site only, taking place 19–21 August 2026. | #CESOC #hackathon web: lnkd.in/dGJ5w7dX LinkedIn: www.linkedin.com/posts/center...

#mlesm | CESOC - Center for Earth System Observation and Computational Analysis

We know what you will have done this week: you applied… …to the Hackathon preceding the legendary Machine Learning for Earth System Modelling #MLESM workshop — on-site only. Ahead of the workshop, w...

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The genome of the hepatitis D virus, with just 1700 bases of RNA, was squeezed onto a quantum computer. Learn more: https://scim.ag/4mCifuv

The only comparison is the car, where cities had to destroy their public transit systems so that automakers could market it

I don't recall any previous transformative technologies that had to be sold to the public so hard. No one in 1999 was going, "Guys. Cell phone? It's coming, whether we like it or not. I think it's important, FOR WOMEN ESPECIALLY, to learn about cell phone. So that we're not left behind!!"

Antarctica’s sea ice is entering a new low‑ice era — and satellites show the ecosystem shifting: as krill lose habitat, salps move in. But salps are low‑energy and less effective in the carbon cycle which means that a salp‑dominated ocean would reshape life and climate: www.esa.int/Applications...

Detecting ships that try to stay hidden🚢 Read the story about how SkySat imagery supported an AI model to detect suspicious maritime vessels, even from off-nadir views — opening up more flexible maritime surveillance. earth.esa.int/eogateway/su...

Looks like an aurora but it’s not: it’s STEVE! Sometimes STEVE appears with green streaks called Picket Fence. That’s what happened in May 2018, and @esa.int’s SWARM was above, measuring plasma density, electron temperature, ion flow speed & field‑aligned currents: earth.esa.int/eogateway/su...

after much deliberation and giving AI the benefit of the doubt, Wikipedia editors have had enough of AI slop. New policy bans LLM generated content, periodt www.404media.co/wikipedia-ba...

Wikipedia Bans AI-Generated Content

“In recent months, more and more administrative reports centered on LLM-related issues, and editors were being overwhelmed.”

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It's another day for #EarthCARE during #COMPEX. RF08 will bring us on #Polar5 to the South-West of #Svalbard where we try to collocate with #EarthCARE again.. 🧪 #remotesensing #AC3 #Svalbard @unicologne.bsky.social @unileipzig.bsky.social @awi.de @esa.int

New target launch date for Isar Aerospace's Spectrum from Andøya Spaceport in Norway: no earlier than 25 March. 🚀 🇳🇴 @transport.esa.int

Spectrum’s qualifying second launch

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ever just find a dumb joke you made years ago because you found it hilarious only to see it again and still find it absolutely hilarious?

In my #SciComm training, I tell folks "if you're funny, be funny in your outreach. If you're not, don't try." Then someone always asks "what if I don't know if I'm funny?" And I reply "if you're 30 years old and no one has ever told you you're funny, you're probably not funny." 🧪

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A chemist, physicist, and biologist walk into a bar go.nature.com/3PfmrDS

🛫 Research flights in the Arctic As part of the international COMPEX research campaign, scientists from #UniCologne, #UniLeipzig, and @awi.de are investigating how clouds and sea ice interact—and what role these interactions play in the rapid warming of the Arctic. ▶️ uni.koeln/QM7Q8

astronomy is so funny because it's this fairly niche interest for a small community of nerds and also it's 99.9999% of everything that exists

Certainly not the most important issue with the current situation in the Middle East, but there is a new Iran shaped hole in our surface weather observation network. In this example, measurements of surface pressure fed into operational weather forecasts: 9th Feb (left) and 9th Mar (right)

Stacked and Stars Removed (except for the ones closest to M82 because StarX kept removing the starburst regions). Otherwise unprocessed image. Taken with the Askar 120APO (review coming soon). #astronomy #astrophotography #telescope #Nebula