Unprecedented drying of 43% of small French streams, as reported by the French Biodiversity Agency (OFB), indicates a critical ecological tipping point following the 2022 drought. Increased climate-driven drought frequency is causing permanent biodiversity loss and ecosystem collapse in waterways.

Dr. Serge Zaka@sergezaka.bsky.social · 9h ago

Cette carte est gravissime. Mais elle n'a pas fait la une de l'actualité. Pour moi, l'été 2026 marque un tournant. Après celui de 2022, il devient difficile de ne plus parler de "rupture écologique" ou de "point de non retour" pour une partie des milieux aquatiques français. 1/18

I was a little surprised by how much this bothered me, tbh. Not because I thought it was intentional or even human carelessness- it's a reminder that these algorithms work against difference, they work against outliers, they work against marginalia (literal & figurative). And that's what I write for

Doctora Malka Older@older.bsky.social · 4h ago

my pinned tweet for years was "I write for the people whose names get underlined in red by microsoft word" and...this is why. (no shade to the lovely people at the MIT Press reader, who changed it immediately as soon as I pointed it out)

i know votes are still being counted but the more i look at this michigan senate map the more it becomes clear that it kind of looks like a mitten

When I submitted my own AGU abstract lo these many years ago as a callow 20-smthg, I had it in well before the deadline despite it being approved by my committee. My boss is submitting to an invited session this year…

anthropology is just this one extremely weird niche offshoot from ichthyology

A significant number of buildings appear to have been lost to a wildfire near Clinton, B.C.

Extent of loss due to Big Bar fires becoming clearer - Langley Advance Times

At least 120 properties have suffered structure loss, with more assessments to be done

langleyadvancetimes.com

Still can’t read it, but from a couple of other posts I can see that the Trump Admin basically said they we will build the Ambler Road for them to build this mine and get it done quickly if you give us equity in you company.

Elizabeth V@geolizzy.bsky.social · yesterday

Saw this on LinkedIn but can’t read it. I did see the comments people made about it though 😬 www.bloomberg.com/news/feature...

the MAHA movement likes to blame illness and disability on stuff like "eating processed foods" and then, conveniently, when you die of eating the literal shit salad they failed to regulate it's your own fault for having an underlying health condition

The New York Times@nytimes.com · 2d ago

Breaking News: Two deaths in Michigan have been linked to cyclospora. Both people who had the parasite also had underlying health issues.

another big difference: by law, university presidents in FR must be members of the university's faculty, & are elected by the "conseil d'administration" (which translates as "board" I suppose), which is in turn a representative body whose members are elected to represent faculty, students, & staff)

I HAVE BEEN SUBSIDIZING WALMART AND AMAZON STARVING THEIR EMPLOYEES FOR MY ENTIRE LIFE.

USA TODAY Opinion@usatodayopinion.usatoday.com · 2d ago

Opinion: Mamdani's idea may sound appealing, but it's NYC taxpayers who will take the hit, subsidizing discounts they may never even use.

Like, there'd be a story about a Hmong immigrant kid who was real good at football and a big part of his high school team's successful season, and there'd be at least one comment saying that kid and his family should be expelled from the country.

Did you know that not giving an onion-filled meal to pitbulls named Meatball is an act of cruelty to dogs?

here

This is one my frustrations as an adult – when I was in my 30s I realized I hate shopping and I hate items that fall apart. I was trying to switch to paying more for higher quality, and then shop less, send less to the landfill… and then the age of Temu happened.

Max Dubler 🏳️‍🌈@maxdubler.com · 3d ago

Online shopping eliminated these gatekeepers and disintermediated the market, allowing consumers to express their desires more directly. And it turns out that what people really want is cheap disposable goods, not more expensive but higher quality stuff that lasts a long time.

We need to return to traditional masculinity, to the time when real men took their kitties for walkies so they could smell smells.

We all know that one old lad in the pub, with a full belly of pints in him…. 🤣🤣🤣 #cats

And Jen has 45 minutes left to raise $600 so that she can get home from Denver tomorrow. Otherwise, I'm not sure how she gets back here, or when.

WingsNDNSilver@wingsndnsilver.bsky.social · 2d ago

But to rent a vehicle to get home tomorrow, she needs another roughly $600 [$581 and change]. 10 people, $60 each, in the next 2.5 hours, and she's good: PayPal jen@thereallifedog.com or @ jenandwhippets Venmo JenAndWhippets last four of her number 7978 CashApp $vinneythewhippet

Given the fact that an abstract is already a carefully crafted summary of the article written by the author the offers by AI to summarise them even further really irritate me and will lead to (even more) incorrect citations.

Victorian antiquarians- and these, Stukeley absolutely without a doubt WAS the academic father of- were basically the GenAI of their time. Occasionally came out with some decent points by accident but you can’t trust any output because half of it is hallucinated. And i do mean hallucinated

This guy is so cool… shoulder fur pattern, excellent foreground and background, ponderous expression looking to the side… bros on a quest

Monday? Shan't. Won't. Can't make me. #MondayMotivation 📷️ Paul Browning

Exclusive: court records reviewed by the Guardian show that procedures included force-feeding, intravenous forced hydration and involuntary blood draws

‘Stark example of brutality’: Trump’s ICE used court orders in plan to force-feed at least 10 hunger strikers in detention

theguardian.com

One day, one day, they will achieve the university administrator dream of having a degree vending machine in front of what used to be the campus bookstore where 18-year-olds can transfer ~$200k in loans to the administrators' pockets and have a degree pop out.

$2.99 Silver Birch, Blood Moon by Nancy Kress | Open Road Media openroadmedia.com/ebook/silver...

Silver Birch, Blood Moon

<b>Winner of the World Fantasy Award: New twists on classic fairy tales from Neil Gaiman, Patricia Briggs, Robin McKinley, Caitlín R. Kiernan, and more.</b><br /><br /> Long ago, when we were children

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never thought short form video would be able to capture a type of humor i can only describe as “the far side-esque” but this comes close.

Haitian TPS holders walk out with a fitted ankle monitors after mandatory ICE office check in at Blue Ash Ohio facility. After Supreme Court decision to terminal Temporary Protective Status, many Haitian community members received notices to appear at the location.

The "debate bros" will call this the "genetic fallacy" & insist an argument needs to "stand on its own merits." The problem is that debate bros generally know jack shit about how to *evaluate* those merits, so they're taken in by slick talkers who flatter their biases.

the Mountain Goats@themountaingoats.bsky.social · 5d ago

can we sometimes be asking "what qualifies this guy to speak on this subject?" or has that ship sailed

We want the actual heirlooms! We just don't think the plastic ears from their trip to Florida in 1987 *are* heirlooms!

Skyla Dawn Cameron@skyladawn.ca · 6d ago

This was also how I ended up with this a few months ago. The News: Millennials don't want their Boomer relatives' heirlooms and stuff! Me: GIVE ME ALL THE THINGS.

It just never ends. Trump wants CHILDREN to represent themselves in immigration court www.npr.org/2026/08/01/n...

More than 25,000 children lose previous legal protections, as federal contract ends

Thousands of unaccompanied immigrant children are set to lose legal representation. The federal contract that pays for legal access expired Friday.

npr.org

I say this all the time, but one of my clearest takeaways from reading a different ICE murder victim’s story every day of Lent is that every single employee of Geo Group belongs in The Hague

DrH@drhaup.bsky.social · 5d ago

Adams County, CO health officials are investigating active cases of tuberculosis at the Aurora detention center but GEO facility hasn’t complied with a public health order requiring access. It is illegal under CO law to “willfully violate” a public health order. www.denverpost.com/2026/07/31/t...