A sentence I would rather never hear, yet here we are: "Global Warming Has Accelerated Significantly". #ClimateChange 🧪 Link: https://agupubs.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1029/2025GL118804​

Someone at work asked me today if I'm a witch. I gave the only reasonable answer to that sort of question. "Yes." #FreakingTheMundanes

לנהל דיון על המשמעות של עובדות ומה הן כנראה אומרות ומקור א' מול מקור ב' זה טוב ויפה, אבל הדיון מגיע לחריקת בלמים ונגמר ברגע שאחד הצדדים עובר ל-"אני מאמין ש..." ומה שלא נוח/מתאים/וכו' לא יכול להיות חלק מהשיחה.

"The problem with trying to be historically accurate, is that history doesn't care." Some good points from @blumineck.bsky.social about the difference between the perception of history and people just being people. www.youtube.com/shorts/QAXZJ...

The problem with 'Historical Accuracy'

YouTube video by blumineck

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Ha... "sexual cognitions involving submission (both positive and negative) have a greater association with sexual arousal in men than in women, whereas positive sexual cognitions of dominance showed the inverse pattern." 🧪 Link: https://journals.sagepub.com/doi/10.1177/00332941261430290​

At this point, I was involved, directly or indirectly, in the mentorship of students and postdocs from 12 countries (🇳🇱🇮🇹🇩🇪🇬🇷🇮🇱🇮🇷🇷🇺🇨🇳🇮🇳🇰🇪🇳🇬🇺🇸). Each of them was their own person, but there were some common communication issues, some of which cultural. They are what this thread is about. #AcademicSky | 1/11 🧵

Princess Bride: I do mot think it means what you think it means

Alt: Princess Bride: I do mot think it means what you think it means

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As the days towards October are coming close, I'll probably find myself here and there breaking my rule about not talking about politics here, or at least I'll allude to some politics. May also compare some things to selecting a faction in WH40K.

Me: We just found out that your journal's APC won't be covered by our existing agreements. Can we at least get a discount (as your APCs are really unreasonable)? Journal representative: I'll ask. Meanwhile, can you sign the copyright form? Me: No! At this price, we would rather retract. #AcademicSky

אני ממש אוהב את המטרונית, נוח לעלות ולרדת, הפרדת תנועה מבטיחה שהיא תגיע מהר והתדירות, ברוב השעות, לא משאירה אותך להתייבש בתחנה יותר מכמה דקות, לא משנה מתי הגעת. ממערכות התחב"ץ המוצלחות. חבל רק שהרשת לא משרתת את הרכס. #חיפה

8.5% of light speed. That is how fast S301 (which is slightly bigger than Sol) orbits the massive black hole Sgr A*. I can put this on the #worldbuilding label, but I'm mostly just amazed there is an object that big moving that fast. 🧪 Link: https://arxiv.org/abs/2607.12664​

I wanted to make something for dinner, and I had a certain sauce for it in mind. I just couldn't remember what it was called. I asked a friend, and they told me it "a brown sauce"... which turned out to be less than useless since there are at least three classes of things called Brown Sauce.

Our feature artist/reference today is this FRANKLY BRILLIANT IDEA for helping you understand HANDS by the talented @m_yoshimune! This simple reference tool will help your brain SEE the FORM, and UNDERSTAND IT BETTER! #spiderman #bnd #spidermanbrandnewday #brandnewday #spidey

Boink! Many more uncontrolled objects re-enter Earth's atmosphere compared to a decade ago. Source: www.reddit.com/r/dataisbeau...

Seriously, why does a site I visited once, months ago, need to store a 50 MB+ cookie on my local machine? (I know the answers; they aren't great) People, remember to check your cookies from time to time.

Communication limitations make underwater where we'll see the first real autonomous warfare. People are already thinking about this; see, for example, this study on saturation attacks with unmanned underwater vehicles (and UUVs on UUVs warfare). 🧪 Link: https://www.mdpi.com/2504-446X/9/2/115​

Something I didn't know until recently about mitochondria is that different cells have different types of them, and there are multiple types of them. That makes me think of cellular evolution a bit differently. 🧪 Link: https://pmc.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/articles/PMC10427836/pdf/nihms-1921885.pdf​

I have no idea if I should hail to boo this title, so I'll just make sure the world knows it exists and let everyone else make their comments on it. (also, comet sample return is generally interesting) 🧪 Link: https://doi.org/10.2138/gselements.21.5.352​

People sometimes respond to smut in a way that defies their beliefs and self-image. What follows might be shame, a need for confession, reconsideration or defiance, depending on where people are in processing those feelings. 🧪 Link: https://www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10.1080/23268743.2026.2634656​

If I'm understanding this correctly, and it sounds a bit crazy, black holes, or at least their accretion disc, have a cyclic behavior of absorbing material and emitting radiation (and material). Not easy to wrap my mind around. 🧪 Link: https://academic.oup.com/mnras/article/550/4/stag1175/8743827​

You know... sometimes I would sort of like it to be like that.

Sarah Andersen@sarahseeandersen.bsky.social · 12mo ago

In an off-comment, this @planetarysociety.bsky.social article presents a wonderful #worldbuilding concept to play with just one line: "[On Titan]... it could even be possible for a human to strap wings onto their spacesuit, flap those wings, get a running start, and take off."

What would it be like to stand on the surface of Titan?

If you could visit Titan, you'd be in for a very alien experience.

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It's always a bit of an annoying tease when people show cool 3D models that you can't get anywhere. Case in point, this awesome Folgrima model @womandriven.bsky.social is showcasing in this short (Which is rather fitting for the character). I sort of want one! #Slanaash #EmperorsChildren

Fully Armored Lady Fulgrima.. #warhammer40k #3dprinting

YouTube video by The Imperial Saint

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The brain uses a lot of energy. But it's not using that energy all the time and at the same intensity. It's not just more neuronal activity = more energy. There is also a lot of background process demending energy. 🧪 Link: https://www.nature.com/articles/s42003-026-10646-6​

It's really hard for me to put my finger on why I didn't like Masters of the Universe. The mixed messaging, ambivalance towards the source material, general cringiness, hints of toxic masculinity, inconsistent tone... there are options. Few decent action scenes though.

So after taking the Smashwords Summer Sale as an excuse to actually do some promotions, I finished the month selling there {drum rolls}... 0 copies. Need to rethink how I go about this. #WritingCommunity #SelfPublishing

"Climatic conditions that caused the Great Drought and Global Famine arose from natural variability, and their recurrence, with hydrological impacts intensified by global warming, could again potentially undermine global food security." 🧪🌊 Link: https://doi.org/10.1175/JCLI-D-18-0159.1​

It's been a long time since I ran into it, so I agreed to sit and watch the Dragonlance animated movie... It didn't even have the decency to be bad enough to be entertaining. Just low quality and painful to sit through. We didn't even get to them leaving Solace before calling it quits.

Burnout is far from being one thing, and there is no cure-all for it. It's something we really need to talk more about; normalize as an issue people could be dealing with, and that modern work environment (notably for research and creative work) might be inducing.

Interesting work out of @organiccarbon.bsky.social's lab, showing plankton being the primary producers of organic matter in the marine realm throughout the Phanerozoic. 🧪🌊⚒️ Link: www.researchsquare.com/article/rs-9...

אנשים, אם אתם נותנים למישהו כרטיס שובר למסעדות, והם גרים, נגיד, בחיפה... אולי תנסו שהכרטיס יכובד על ידי יותר ממקום אחד (שלא פתוח בשבת) מחוץ לתל-אביב.