Potential for take-off in Archaeopteryx using a multiple leaping mechanism: www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti... 🪶🧪 (📷Meilak et al.)

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​

I have a feeling this is going to be exactly what I have been trying to tell you for five years: arxiv.org/pdf/2607.13560

And grant hit rates are quite low. Also, unless you have an equipment grant, the amount you can spend on equipment is quite limited.

Don't get me wrong... I'm grateful for any of the support we can get, but to have a funding org ask me to do a 5yr project in 2yrs on half the budget is kinda... damn. The only way for that to happen is the scope of what can be done gets dramatically cut.

And when I say "anyone", I'm talking about people not in science. All us science peeps know the pickle we are in.

There is not an industry on planet earth that could have gone >2 decades without a cost of living adjustment and be healthy. But that is what science is like now. I just got notice that some of our service costs are going up ~9%. Microscopes are up >300% in price over the last 2 decades. etc...

I don't think anyone has any idea of how thin the margins are in science. To have funding agencies or private foundations come back on a proposal and ask you to cut 10-20%, or more from a project simply means the work cannot be done. Modular grants have not been adjusted for inflation in >20yrs.

Palantir hoovering up European defence and NHS contracts whilst funnelling earnings back to the US to pay negligible corporate tax is a complete failure of digital sovereignty. European states must stop enriching tech firms that drain public coffers. Is it time to ban them? #FBPE

Palantir funnels earnings to US to avoid European taxes, report finds

A new study finds that Palantir, which boasts of high profit margins in the U.S., barely scrapes a margin in Europe, which helps slash its tax bill.

politico.eu

How much water do data centers really use, why do they use so much, and is it a problem? I talked to researchers and industry experts to understand the true water footprint of the AI boom: Gift link: www.bloomberg.com/news/article...

Why Do Data Centers Use So Much Fresh Water?

The artificial intelligence boom has inspired one of the largest infrastructure build-outs seen in decades: Tech firms are investing billions into constructing the data centers powering AI. This has m...

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Neoproterozoic ignimbrite on the coast of Nova Scotia at Louisbourg: ⚒️

#CallForPapers: Contribute to this Canadian Journal of Earth Sciences collection on preserving geologically significant sites. ▶️ https://ow.ly/w0F250ZjMxU #EarthScience

This is truly a reshuffle... They must hate lots of ideas they want to pursue outside the Deepmind remit

Here's another nose-stretcher from the Canadian Press. Some dude claims Canada is as anti-semitic as Nazi Germany and national media give him an unquestioned platform. Isn't there someone in an editorial newsroom somewhere who asks the obvious question "Why would we repost such bullshit?"

@lapin2.bsky.social · 5h ago

It gets worse. This so called US rabbi, representing the facist racist US & Isreal, and who recently met with Canadian officials is calling Canada Nazi Germany. www.ctvnews.ca/politics/art...

Throwing around language around "guardrails" derails opposition to AI surveillance, AI dehumanization, AI deskilling and job killing, and AI propaganda.

With AI, Americans Aren't Being Asked To Trust but To Believe

Come worship at the altar of technology

nobody-wants-this.ghost.io

evacide@evacide.bsky.social · 2h ago

You cannot make mass surveillance "safe" or "good" by adding more guardrails. The only way to make Flock safe is to get rid of Flock. www.gpb.org/news/2026/08...

Time to bring back this meme I made a while back. If being against generative AI in the arts is gatekeeping, then I guess I’m a proud gatekeeper.

A co-author of mine just admitted using AI in a manuscript we're working on, and when I pressed as to why, he said he loved the back-and-forth "conversation." When I pushed further, it came out that he's really lonely. I'm more and more convinced that AI use is a symptom of deeper conditions.

Pleased to share our latest special issue: Feeding biomechanics in vertebrates & beyond! The issue brings together studies spanning insects, fishes & mammals to explore feeding biomechanics anatomypubs.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/toc/19328494... Guest Editors: Böhmer & Winkler

"Upon rewatching the...pilot..., I struggled to imagine how Helena could...become someone with whom...[they]...would...collaborate, which...applies to organizing...as Chapter 9 of...Let This Radicalize You: Organizing & the Revolution of Reciprocal Care is...titled, "Organizing Isn't Matchmaking"!"🫂

What a Disability Justice Practitioner Learned about Organizing from an Orphan Black Rewatch

This is the author's reflections on what she learned about the necessity of organizing as a Disability Justice practitioner from an Orphan Black rewatch, despite the elephant in the room that is Cosim...

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We really, really need to practice saying “this isn’t true, possible, etc” when ppl say shit like this

Ben Collins@bencollins.bsky.social · 29m ago

no they don't

not a moment too soon, here's the paper by citron et al. 🦤 academic.oup.com/zoolinnean/a...

The sensory world of the Dodo and Solitaire revealed by endocast and skull anatomy

Abstract. The Dodo (Raphus cucullatus) and its close relative, the Rodriguez Solitaire (Pezophaps solitaria), are two of the most recognized symbols of hum

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Marcos K. Pinheiro / "Marcos Wyvern" (Marcosaurus)@mmarcosaurus.bsky.social · 3h ago

www.youtube.com/watch?v=zE8w...

The irony of an immigrant saying immigrants no longer have the right to come here is astounding. There isn’t a single positive trait I can point to that he has. Why doesn’t *he* remigrate, since he’s against immigrants so fucking much?

“Racism and capitalism are impossible to separate from each other in the American story. And Musk is a modern variant of that.” The latest from our colleagues at @revealnews.org:

How Elon Musk is re-engineering the world

Author Quinn Slobodian talks about how Musk’s futuristic worldview is transforming capitalism, government, and how we live our lives.

motherjones.com

"For every AI ethicist or prompt engineer role created in San Francisco, dozens of livelihoods vanish in Manila, Johannesburg or Mumbai." Read an excerpt from “The New Divide: Power, Control & the Cost of AI" by Jibu Elias: https://restofworld.org/2026/ai-jobs-economy-impact/

Growth without work: The human cost of the AI revolution

In an excerpt from his book “The New Divide: Power, Control & the Cost of AI,” writer Jibu Elias examines the technology’s impact on jobs.

restofworld.org

I got a lot of dirty looks for laughing hysterically through Dante's Peak in the theater, way back when. I am no longer allowed to watch geologic disaster movies in the cinema.

Shiv Ramdas Mens Rice Activist@nameshiv.bsky.social · 4mo ago

if you ever want to see something really really funny, watch any hacking scene in a Hollywood movie while sitting next to an IT security person

E.A. Meilak, N.J. Gostling, C. Palmer, P. Provini & M.O. Heller (2026) Hop, hop and away: On the take-off of Archaeopteryx using a multiple leaping mechanism Developmental Biology (advance online publication) doi: doi.org/10.1016/j.yd... www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...

explanatory power of energetic fitness models across living amniotes and extinct non-avian dinosaurs academic.oup.com/evolut/artic...

The explanatory power of energetic fitness models across living amniotes and extinct non-avian dinosaurs

Abstract. Vertebrates have varied body size distributions. Among these, non-avian dinosaurs have uniquely large minimum and maximum sizes, but the reasons

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Functional morphology of the foot musculature in the red-and-green macaw: onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1002/... 🪶🧪 (📷Posso et al.)

Jeff Dean is the guy who made a bunch of women's lives hell when they were working at Google

Dare Obasanjo@carnage4life.bsky.social · 28m ago

Google is losing two of its biggest AI researchers from day to day operations. 27-year Google veteran and Google Brain cofounder, Jeff Dean, is leaving Google with 3 others to focus on AI accelerating scientific research. Demis Hassabis is no longer CEO of DeepMind and is now their chief scientist

"He steals from the rich to give to the poor, which sounds generous until you learn what he steals. The people of Sherwood do not need six unmatched salt shakers, twenty-three hotel towels, or a bag of decorative seashells." buff.ly/VA5DpmF

Robin Hood, Prince of Compulsive and Pointless Theft

“He steals from the rich to give to the poor, which sounds generous until you learn what he steals. The people of Sherwood do not need six unmatched salt sha...

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