"Spring arrives, and with it, the magnolias. Their pink and white blooms unfurl in many parts of the world, but if you look closely, you might see a beetle land on the flowers — not a bee." 🌱🪷🪲 #Magnolias #Beetles #Pollination #Biology #Nature #Science #IsItSpringYet By @mareacaspica.bsky.social 👏🏼

Magnolias are so ancient they're pollinated by beetles — because bees didn't exist yet

Before bees, there were beetles

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"The caffeine is the active molecule doing the magic. They found that the optimal dose for tea was roughly 1 to 2 cups daily to see the most significant associations with cognitive health, and for coffee, 2 to 3 cups daily." ☕🍵🩺 #Coffee #Tea #Caffeine #Health #Science By @mareacaspica.bsky.social 👏🏼

Large Harvard Study Finds Coffee and Tea Significantly Lower Dementia Risk

Caffeine may be the secret weapon in our battle against dementia.

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This is fine and all but are they also coming to Eurovision ?!?!

View from Europe: The Increasingly Convincing Case for Canada Joining the EU - Policy Magazine

Among the possibilities is the expansion of the European Union as a liberal counterweight to autocratic hegemony, most interestingly to include what Prime

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Bats have insane immune system. Any virus able to survive in their system can become a threat.

Betty C. Jung@bettycjung.bsky.social · 9mo ago

Vampire bats may have contracted H5N1 bird flu in Peru, raising worries about further spread | Science | AAAS www.science.org/content/arti...

I'm purposely trying to focus on positive things on social media and avoid posting depressing things. Apparently that translates to just posting less.

Everyone driving in the city be like

We often think of our genes as the script of our fate. But genes are not the whole story. www.quantamagazine.org/how-metaboli...

Can't help but wonder what a bow and arrow hunt would have looked like in the day.

MU-Peter Shimon 🀄@mu-peter.bsky.social · 10mo ago

Arrow heads at Obi-Rakhmat (Uzbekistan) 80 ka ago? 🏺🧪 journals.plos.org/plosone/arti... Initial findings of a traceological search for weapon heads in the oldest layers of the Obi-Rakhmat rock shelter in Uzbekistan, dating back around 80 ka.

Finally, an AI that can play my games while I work.

Eurogamer@eurogamer.bsky.social · 10mo ago

Sony has patented an AI gaming ghost that will play PlayStation games for you when you get stuck www.eurogamer.net/sony-has-pat...

Brutal. You're so successful the entire product type is named after you and then swoosh

hardmaru@hardmaru.bsky.social · 10mo ago

“iRobot Corp., the company that revolutionized robot vacuum cleaners in the early 2000s with its Roomba model, filed for bankruptcy and proposed handing over control to its main Chinese supplier.” 😥 www.bloomberg.com/news/article...

For months, we've worked on an app to monitor fishing in UK's Marine Protected Areas (MPAs). The UK claims to be a leader in marine conservation, yet plenty of "protected areas" remain open to destructive fishing. With a grant from the @earthjournalism.bsky.social, we finally did it. 🧵👇

The UK says its sea are protected. We Built an App to Track Fishing in 'Protected' Seas

Our new data-driven investigation reveals how “protected” UK waters are still being heavily trawled—and invites anyone to explore the evidence for themselves.

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THe power of the press in the UK. Ignoring "all the Green crap" as David Cameron did, costs farmers £800m in one year. But a slight and easily avoidable increase in Inheritance Tax by Labour is an excuse for a farmers' revolt? www.theguardian.com/environment/...

UK farmers lose £800m after heat and drought cause one of worst harvests on record

Many now concerned about ability to make living in fast-changing climate after one of worst grain harvests recorded

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News media has to do better with headlines that present false and unverified public health claims.

“Mr. Trump, I’m from Donbas — why should I give my home and my region to Russia? Donbas is Ukraine.” A Ukrainian soldier from Donetsk wrote this on a ruined wall. This isn’t politics; it’s a life tied to a street, a graveyard, a school.👇

Twitter pays people based on engagement (views, retweets, comments, etc). It appears that many MAGA accounts are based abroad and they use AI technology to generate low-effort rage bait. My guess is that this will get worse as AI tech improves. For instance, fake videos of minorities doing crime.

Every single company, government or individual celebrating the IEA's new fossil-explosion scenario is also celebrating the heating of earth by three bloody degrees:

#Science #Entomology #Arachnids #Spiders Scientists Found a Half-Male, Half-Female Spider in Thailand and It’s Fascinating www.zmescience.com/science/news...

Scientists Found a Half-Male, Half-Female Spider in Thailand and It’s Fascinating

Scientists named the half-male, half-female spider after an One Piece anime character who can change sex at will.

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Sure feels like a "let them eat cake" moment. This also misses the entire point. Few people are concerned about losing their jobs; most people are concerned about losing their livelihoods. After all, output and productivity have decoupled from worker pay since the 1970s.

Sam Altman Says If Jobs Gets Wiped Out, Maybe They Weren’t Even “Real Work” to Start With

So that's where we're at.

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Surprised Pikachu face

Oil firm TotalEnergies made misleading green statements, court rules

French multinational is ordered to remove its website messages about aiming for carbon neutrality

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He had been brutally (and baselessly) accused by former world champion Vladimir Kramnik. Even now, Kramnik continues with vile posts. As a (very) amateur chess player who regularly watched chess streams, Danya Naroditsky was one of the most insightful and fun to watch streamers. As an interviewer..

The Guardian@theguardian.com · last yr.

American chess grandmaster Daniel Naroditsky dies at age 29

If someone said, 'we built a model, running on a cluster of re-used PC servers, with tagged for proper attribution docs as a source, to test how these methods work' I might be tolerant. But 'we used Claude' means this: www.technologyreview.com/2025/05/20/1...

We did the math on AI’s energy footprint. Here’s the story you haven’t heard.

The emissions from individual AI text, image, and video queries seem small—until you add up what the industry isn’t tracking and consider where it’s heading next.

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I am sorry to announce that staying physically active and spending less time on social media really helps you feel better. Wish I had better news.

Get your submissions in! ZME Science is looking for pitches. We're specifically looking for underreported science stories with a "wow" factor, whether they're about forgotten discoveries, bizarre natural phenomena, or the strange, unexpected applications of new technology.

When a story is left vague, I like to look online for discussions and see what others understood from it. It works well for movies and series, but for novels, there usually isn't much. I'm not sure if book readers don't like to share their opinions as much or there's just not that many of them.

"We're doing the studies to make the proof." This is not how Gold Standard Science works. Or any science. You do the study to TEST THE HYPOTHESIS, not to prove yourself right.

Aaron Rupar@atrupar.com · last yr.

RFK Jr on Tylenol and autism: "It is not proof. We're doing the studies to make the proof."

Important point that's often overlooked. Lots of excellent science gets published in smaller journals (and questionable science sometimes ends up in big journals too).

When Prestige Trumps Quality in Science Reporting

<i>Technology Networks</i> spoke with Dr. Alice Fleerackers about how reputation-driven shortcuts in science journalism shape public trust, sideline diverse voices and why fostering critical research ...

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