In case you missed it, here's Count Binface's appearance on the BBC this morning.

On my way, Clacton.

I am just so, so tired of this. We all are. www.wgaeast.org/wgae-scienti...

WGAE-Scientific American Union Statement on Springer Nature’s Sale and Layoffs | Press Room

The following is a statement from Writers Guild of America East members at Scientific American on today’s decision to sell Springer Nature and lay off staff: “Earlier today in an all-staff meeting we ...

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Our paper on poroelastic effects in espresso brewing is out now in Physics of Fluids. ☕ Inside: computer tomography, hydrodynamics and elasticity modelling, and lots of measurements! doi.org/10.1063/5.03...

Wonderfully interdisciplinary crowd at the "Urban elites, rural margins? Comparative perspectives on urban-rural divisions from post-socialist Europe and Latin America" conference at @uclssees.bsky.social Thanks so much to @pbukowski.bsky.social and Jessie Barton Hronešová for organising!

Now out in CEEJ: with @honoratabogusz.bsky.social we show that hourly wage is an inadequate measure for assessing gender equality in Poland. To understand gender in Eastern Europe you have to step out of the workplace and look at patterns of employment and hours worked. doi.org/10.2478/ceej...

Yesterday's protest of science and higher education community was an unprecedented show of unity: we've seen professors, labour unions, administrative staff and students together in front of the Parliament for the first time since 1990. Political apathy is over, I hope.

Had a fantastic time in Rudawy mountains with the Warsaw University Soft Matter group (et al) introducing new people to climbing in my favourite region in Poland. 🧗 (with @honoratabogusz.bsky.social)

Compare just how AI-pilled your academic community is (based on the data from Nautre survey N=5229). Seeing physicists in third place, not far from computer science, is not a surprise, but it still makes me sad.

Iris van Rooij 💭@irisvanrooij.bsky.social · 3mo ago

Meet the academics refusing to use generative AI Researchers say they have their reasons for avoiding AI tools — and they’re sick of arguing about it. www.nature.com/articles/d41... h/t @maartenp.bsky.social

In Poland, whether you are secularised or not determines your voting choices (income much less so). This is either obvious (if you don't remember Poland 25 years ago) or not at all (if you remember JP2-Solidarity synergy). My research based on 25 years of regional data now on socarxiv: osf.io/wud4h

Can YOU transform the global food system by 2050? 🍽️ Step into the shoes of a global food policy coordinator and navigate the complex web of food, climate, and politics. Every decision comes with trade-offs and your popularity determines how far you get. Play now: bodirsky.github.io/FoodSystemTr...

Huge result here - the idea that social platforms can be defective products that cause harm is going to send shockwaves through an industry that has claimed essentially blanket protection from liability by saying everything is speech

Lauren Feiner@laurenfeiner.bsky.social · 4mo ago

Wow - huge win across the board for plaintiff Kaley G.M. in the landmark social media addiction case against Meta and YouTube. On the heels of Meta's loss in New Mexico just the day before. www.theverge.com/policy/90065...

If #Tetris & Guitar Hero made a baby while on an @aba.org birding trip in Costa Rica, ChipNotes! might be what hatches out of the egg. Spectrograms flutter down, birds call in your left or right ear, you tap the match b4 time runs out. Free/open source! chipnotes.app #birding #birdingbyear

When the remnants of the oceanic plankton fall to the ocean floor, they collide oftener than previously thought. In our new article we offer a unifying perspective on processes that span 10 orders of magnitude. Now in J Fluid Mechanics doi.org/10.1017/jfm....

Bridging advection and diffusion in the encounter dynamics of sedimenting marine snow | Journal of Fluid Mechanics | Cambridge Core

Bridging advection and diffusion in the encounter dynamics of sedimenting marine snow - Volume 1031

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out now in Science: @loganjames.bsky.social collected pairs of sounds in 16 species where we *know* which sound is more attractive (to that species) he played them to ppl on themusiclab.org, asking, in each pair, which was nicer. humans agreed w other animals doi.org/10.1126/science.aea1202

The prizes that really deserve watching are coming to Europe 🎉 Unlike the boring Nobels - gravestones cementing mainstream status - the Ig Nobels are a celebration of creativity and whimsy, a barometer of true academic freedom.

Chemistry World@chemistryworld.com · 5mo ago

The organiser of the Ig Nobels awards is taking the prize-giving ceremony to Europe as he says that the US is ‘unsafe for our guests to visit’.

4 years of bravery. 4 years of sacrifice. 4 years of unbreakable spirit. 4 years of defending freedom. For us. For you. For #Ukraine. For Europe. We 🇩🇪🇫🇷🇵🇱 stand behind you 🇺🇦 - as long as it takes.

Very exciting finding on the history of "hardware" we humans use to process language! This time involving 🐤 and clever experimental design. www.science.org/doi/10.1126/...

Matching sounds to shapes: Evidence of the bouba-kiki effect in naïve baby chicks

Humans across multiple languages spontaneously associate the nonwords “kiki” and “bouba” with spiky and round shapes, respectively, a phenomenon named the bouba-kiki effect. To explore the origin of t...

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Thank you matplotlib maintainers for this delight. github.com/matplotlib/m...

[PERF] Replace np.column_stack with np.vstack().T by crabby-rathbun · Pull Request #31132 · matplotlib/matplotlib

This PR addresses issue #31130 by replacing specific safe occurrences of np.column_stack with np.vstack().T for better performance. IMPORTANT: This is a more targeted fix than originally proposed. ...

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✨☕️✨ Espresso fresh from our Warsaw lab. As you brew, the coffee puck bends, swells, and dissolves, quietly shaping pressure, flow, and what ends up in your cup. Preprint on arXiv: arxiv.org/abs/2512.21528

Is this a program targeted at the people who can afford 9k/year fees but not the 38k/year fees? Without student loans it changes very little for EU citizens and quite a lot for UK citizens. What a lopsided deal :( www.theguardian.com/world/2025/d...

UK to rejoin EU’s Erasmus student exchange programme

Exclusive: British students will be able to participate in EU-wide scheme from January 2027, sources say

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In the December issue of the popular science magazine Delta you can read our article about water pressure inside trees, and why it's related to a XVII cent. debate about quicksilver. (published in Polish, machine translation works ok) deltami.edu.pl/2025/12/drze...

Progressive coalition partner (Lewica) was trying to get ahead of the ruling with legal adjustments (civil partnership), but was shut down by the conservative-agrarian coalition partner (PSL). Now Poland is made to look foolish by the EU - either we legislate under duress or we ignore the ruling.

Notes from Poland @notesfrompoland.bsky.social · 8mo ago

The EU court has ruled that Poland must recognise the marriage of a Polish same-sex couple who married in Germany, even though Polish law does not allow such marriages. The ruling requires Poland to change its system for recognising such marriages so as not to discriminate against same-sex couples.

Tomorrow at 10:15 Colloquium on Complex and Biological Systems in Potsdam, Jan Turczynowicz will present our latest research on marine snow. If you're interested in biophysics, marine systems, or fluid mechanics feel free to join 😊 www.uni-potsdam.de/en/biophysik... @complexityup.bsky.social

Today we celebrate the birthday of not one, but two amazing women in science! 🤗🎉Marie Skłodowska-Curie (1867), who discovered #radium & #polonium & pioneered #radioactivity, & Lise Meitner (1878), whose brilliance uncovered the physics behind #nuclearfission. Happy birthday, trailblazers! ✨

Elon is fundamentally misunderstanding Wikipedia. It's not a dataset, it's a village. Its rules and inhabitants change and this is what makes it resilient. If you'd like a longform version of this argument, start with this article 👉 doi.org/10.1017/S000...

Senator Scott Wiener@scottwiener.bsky.social · 9mo ago

What could possibly go wrong?

Happy to present our work on motherhood penalties at the Humboldt Award Winners' forum in Bonn :) preprint: doi.org/10.48550/arX... @humboldt-foundation.de @honoratabogusz.bsky.social

Our work is now published (open access) in the Journal of Physical Chemistry Letters 🥳 Read more for applications of polymeric models in the field of disordered proteins. doi.org/10.1021/acs....

Electrostatic Collapse of Intrinsically Disordered Acid-Rich Protein Is Sensitive to Counterion Valency

Intrinsically disordered proteins (IDPs) respond sensitively to their ionic environment, yet the mechanisms driving ion-induced conformational changes remain incompletely understood. Here, we investig...

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New article out in @sociusjournal.bsky.social. It shows how closely linked motherhood penalties 🤰📉 and gender inequalities 👨‍💼💰👩‍💼 are by studying many local labour markets. Thread 👇 journals.sagepub.com/doi/10.1177/...