📌It's amazing how little attention is being paid to how expensive everything is right now. That's all we heard about from 2020-2024.

No science fiction could have prepared us for just how stupid the end of the world can be. "The environment was on the brink of collapse, and so, rather than deal with that, we burned what fuel we had left getting computers to scam each other for money."

BBC Evolution series should be compulsory viewing for everyone over the age of 5 Why new BBC series Evolution is a giant leap forward for science on TV🧪 www.ft.com/content/c6c0... Adam Rutherford salutes a show that finally links the spectacle of natural history with the science that explains it.

Fuck all of them and everyone who supports this.

Trump Dramatically Shrinks Bears Ears & Grand Staircase Monuments

Nearly 3 million acres gone in an afternoon. It's the largest rollback of protected land in American history. And the lawsuit it's designed to provoke is the entire point.

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You're going to get left behind if you don't use Al." Leave me then. Leave me with my critical thinking skills, my ability to read and write long- form, and books without needing Al summaries.

Trump administration opens endangered species’ habitats to development | Click on the image to read the full story

Trump administration opens endangered species’ habitats to development

The Trump administration reversed decades of longstanding environmental law protecting endangered species Friday, opening up sensitive habitats to development.

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"executives with no understanding of the industry" seems to be an endemic problem across industries: higher education, medicine, you name it, a bunch of suits with MBAs and unearned arrogance are destroying everything around us, and for some reason, we're supposed to accept that they know best

Greg Iwinski@garyjackson.bsky.social · 4w ago

TV writers were right in 2023 and are being proven more right every day — there was a stable television model that made everyone lots of money and put out good shows. Then execs with no understanding of the industry confused the production model and the distribution model, and they blew it all up.

In positive news, was just reading about an island in Chile that installed open water solar panels and a bunch of tuna and salmon moved in underneath them because the vibrations of diesel energy had ceased. :) The world could be so good if people were just smarter everywhere.

‘The current state of US science is not so encouraging, because of the cutting back on grants.’ 🧪

Nobel-winning chemist leaves US to direct AI materials lab in China

Omar Yaghi’s move comes amid cuts to US science and a campaign in China to recruit top international talent.

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Staying hydrated just so the data centres get less water.

Dems have to run on this hard. Do not let the RFK types try to spin what his own party just signed off on here. Actual Monsanto, the comic book villain of Adbusters days, was shielded from liability over poisoning Americans. I don't care if it's slopulism: this Supreme Court wants you dead.

Kyle Griffin@kylegriffin1.bsky.social · last mo.

Reuters: U.S. SUPREME COURT RULES IN FAVOR OF BAYER'S BID TO LIMIT LAWSUITS IN STATE COURT CLAIMING ITS ROUNDUP WEEDKILLER CAUSES CANCER

From what I've heard (from folks who know better about this, doing the work on sheep): you can use the presence of AMELY to confirm male, but lack of AMELY does not confirm female (because of preservation).

Am I being over-sensitive here or does the term “side effects” have an inherent negative connotation and therefore this headline is sci-comm malpractice? The “side effects” are reduced risk of serious cardiac complications and reduced risk of all-cause cardiac events. Benefits. That’s the word.

COVID Vaccine Linked to New Side Effect, Especially in Older Adults

The COVID vaccine was linked to a new side effect for older adults.

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Really missing the cooler Afromontane climate of Tanzania’s Usambara Mountains right now…

“Climate.us today launched the full version of its new independent, nonprofit climate information website, creating a public-backed home for trusted climate science at a time when access to federal climate resources has become increasingly vulnerable to disruption.”

Climate.us launches independent website for trusted climate information

Built by members of the team behind NOAA’s Climate.gov, the new nonprofit resource is supported in part by more than 2,500 small donations from people who want reliable climate science information to ...

climate.us

Coolest crosswalk symbol ever 🔬

Wrapping up our first #EcoRAFT field season and I couldn’t have asked for a better group of student researchers. They adapted to living and working in Tanzania so well, you’d think they had all been here many times before.

New PYS paper, available open access: journals.plos.org/plosone/arti...

Cave morphology and human-mediated sediment deposition: Late Pleistocene to Holocene evolution of the cave floor at Panga ya Saidi, coastal Kenya

Panga ya Saidi (PYS), a cave situated in a forested upland near the coast of Kenya, contains an archaeological record that spans at least 78,000 years and is crucial for understanding the evolution of...

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Some interesting wildlife stuff from Mkomazi National Park today, Tanzania

We’re looking to hire a new laboretorh manager at Bryant University (Smithfield, Rhode Island). The role requires lab safety and management, teaching lab classes, student mentorship, and helping coordinate departmental events.

✅ Swarmed by siafu (driver ants) ✅ Vehicles stuck in the mud multiple times ✅ Not your typical study abroad #fieldworkfriday 🌍🏺🧪

After a ~24-hour flight, the Bryant University EcoRAFT team made it to Dar es Salaam. Amazed at how excited the student researchers are about being in Tanzania for the first time and how eager they are to experience all that Tanzania has to offer. Soon, we’ll head to the Usambaras for fieldwork!

After a ~24-hour flight, the Bryant University EcoRAFT team made it to Dar es Salaam. Amazed at how excited the student researchers are about being in Tanzania for the first time and how eager they are to experience all that Tanzania has to offer. Soon, we’ll head to the Usambaras for fieldwork!

I know plenty of “academics” that have started using AI for a lot of tasks (some of them can’t even be bothered to write emails now), but this is next level 👇

Are academics using AI to write "peer review" reports? Yup, I just caught one.

Welcome to the newest level of AI-in-academic-publishing hellscape

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The count on you being exhausted by the firehose of corruption and bullshit. But THIS. THIS is grounds to march on DC and demand the END of this mafia administration. This is the biggest middle finger to America.

I am honored to have received this year’s Bryant University College of Health and Behavioral Sciences recognition for Research and Publication. This has been a challenging academic year for many reasons, so I am beyond excited to end the year with such an achievement! Full details in the Alt text.

A hominin presence here ~ 242 Kya Evolving entanglements with highland southern Africa: Site formation, initial chronology, and occupational pulsing during the Middle Pleistocene at Likonong Shelter, Lesotho🏺🧪 K. Pazan, @robertpatalano.bsky.social et al link.springer.com/article/10.1...

New publication in Archaeological and Anthropological Sciences! Led by Kyra Pazan, we introduce the Likonong Shelter in Lesotho, which dates to as early as ~ 242,000 years ago. Likonong is the earliest-known site in Lesotho demonstrating a human presence in the Maloti-Drakensberg Mountains. 🏺

Evolving entanglements with highland southern Africa: Site formation, initial chronology, and occupational pulsing during the Middle Pleistocene at Likonong Shelter, Lesotho - Archaeological and Anthr...

While premodern hominins utilized highland landscapes in East Africa as early as 2 million years ago, the processes by which hominins first utilized southern Africa’s highest mountains - the Maloti-Dr...

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🚨Archaeology students!🚨Applications for our two summer field schools close Tuesday, May 5. Both run June 22 - July 17 and provide hands-on experience. Learn more: tinyurl.com/y4sprwm5 🏺🧪🏛️

Watching David Attenborough get highly deserved praised for his century is reminding me: There is no crisis of masculinity, as such. We have plenty of positive male role models in our society. They just aren’t being pushed into young men’s feeds by nihilistic ad networks and social platforms.