Joachim Frank

@joachim123.bsky.social

Scientist, 2017 Chemistry Nobel Prize (math and computational methods underlying cryo-EM of biological molecules), fiction writer, photographer, gardener. Climate change, science education, fight of fascism franxfiction.com and joachimfranklab.org

Trump sued the reporters for billions and spent months calling the story fake news, yet stands there smirking and throwing his hands up while they accept an award for uncovering his Epstein ties. The shameless narcissism and complete lack of remorse is absolutely staggering.

A couple times when I worked at the Strand I had to fulfill rich peoples' interior decorator requests, which would be like, "12 feet of old hardcover books with gray binding," and I was so disgusted that these mfers were never even gonna open them, but holy cow this is way worse

Emanuel Maiberg@emanuelmaiberg.bsky.social · 2w ago

companies are sourcing millions of printed books for AI labs that scan them for training data, then destroy them. printed books are more valuable because they're free of AI slop, and AI labs know destroying them is an "optics problem." www.404media.co/ai-companies...

Photographer Martin Le-May was walking through a London park with his wife, hoping to show her a green woodpecker for the first time, when he snapped this incredible photo: a weasel riding a flying woodpecker.

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The proposed OMB rule is for the "regulation of federal financial assistance" and covers more than 40 agencies, all the ones that give federal grants. So yes, that's NIH, NSF. NASA. It's also Veterans' Affairs! Education! Housing and Urban Development! Transportation! All of these under threat.