“In Finland, the number of homeless people has fallen sharply. Those affected receive a small apartment & counselling with no preconditions. 4 out of 5 people affected make their way back to a stable life. And all this is CHEAPER than accepting homelessness.”
IT SAVES PUBLIC MONEY to house people.
I'm not joking when I say mRNA technology is more important than "AI" and it's a tragedy we're throwing billions into one while our government is aggressively defunding the other.
Screenshot of Science commentary articleL Scientists stunned by ‘fundamentally new way’ life produces DNA. Newly discovered bacterial defense system challenges genetic code’s central dogma. Image: In a newly discovered bacterial defense system, paired strands of DNA (orange and cyan) are synthesized by two enzymes: One (yellow) uses an RNA template (beige) to guide the assembly of the nucleotide bases that make up DNA, while a second, highly unusual enzyme (light blue) uses its own amino acids as a template."
As a scientist, I am here to report that this headline is indeed accurate as I am in fact STUNNED!!
Wow. This is incredible. 🧪
"Newly discovered bacterial defense system challenges genetic code’s central dogma.":
www.science.org/content/arti...
Will do!
Hi! I'd be interested! Can people outside of Europe apply?
Wouldn't it be cool to invest trillions of dollars into a technology that would actually make society better?
Maybe we can call it “HI” — Human Intelligence.
Instead of “data centers”, we could fund “schools”.
Instead of *stealing* art, literature, and science, we help people *create* it.
Crazy!
Just a reminder that we can fund science, and save the earth, and feed everyone, and have health care and housing too.
All those things are within our reach, together.
Tens of thousands of publications from 2025 might include invalid references generated by AI, a Nature analysis suggests. #ResearchPublishing #Academicsky 🧪
youtu.be/B0wHgSyplKY?...
green worm with overlapping scales
Leipidonotus squamatus- stunning scaleworm shot by Alexander Semenov! #worldpolychaeteday!
2022 Tweet from Caroline Keroack: "I have a whole PhD I whisper to myself, as I write C1V1 = C2V2 on a paper towel for the 8000th time."
This tweet is all of us.
Our home planet, the only place in the galaxy that doesn’t suck
The last time human eyes were far enough from Earth to see the whole globe was December 1972.
www.nasa.gov/image-detail...
Trump doesn’t need Congress to approve funding for his priorities.
He has escaped the bounds of the Constitution; Congress is irrelevant. He can bully third parties into paying for things he wants using executive power alone.
Presto. Dictatorship.
A spiral bound field guide with a photo of sea star and a sea urchin, written and illustrated by Madelynn DeBest.
An illustrated schematic of the zones of the rocky intertidal and which species live at what depths.
An example page from a spiral bound field guide, open to the entry for bladderwarck, a light green seaweed with little air bladders to help it float.
A field guide entry for an invasive blue crab, showing it to be 9” across.
One of my former students took her final project for my field natural history class and turned it into her Honors thesis: a 100% original, hand-drawn field guide to the rocky intertidal! And she got copies printed for her defense!
"Eye symptoms may signal higher-severity long COVID"
Yale researchers found 57% of people with long COVID reported new eye issues—like blurred vision, dry eyes, floaters or flashes—after their initial infection.
The United States is WORSE OFF now:
The Strait of Hormuz was OPEN before Trump’s war.
Iran allowed ships to pass through the Strait before the war for FREE.
After Trump’s war Iran is CHARGING ships to pass through the Strait. Oil costs MORE.
What was Trump’s purpose for the war?
You have more in common with the people of Iran than you do with anyone in this administration, any member of the technocracy, anyone who is profiting from this war, or any billionaire. When you see Iranians forming human chains outside key infrastructure sites, you should feel a sense of kinship.
The variety of German bees before the Industrial Revolution (187, top) vs after the introduction of pesticides (43, bottom), DHM
The. Rise. Of. Cognitive. Surrender.
Study finds that people who use GenAI chatbots rely on them 80% of the time, and develop almost no capacity to recognize when a chatbot is feeding them faulty information.
papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers....
I hope everyone’s learned their lesson about “let’s run our government like a business” bullshit
Businesses can be run into the ground
Not really supposed to do that with governments
People hate flies, but don't realize getting rid of flies would get rid of
- chocolate (pollinator is a fly) and other plants
- poop and decaying corpses everywhere (bacterial decomposition slower/smelly)
- deweeders and pest parasitoids
Screenshot of the title page of an article in Ecology Letters TITLE: There is No Consensus on Biological Sex Madeline G. Eppley. A, Andy Lee Robert Dellinger, Ally Swank First published: 05 March 2026 | https://doi.org/10.1111/ele.70350 Editor: Greg F. Grether Madeline Eppley and Andy Lee contributed equally and are co-first authors. ABSTRACT There is ongoing scientific and societal discourse on the definition of biological sex. At this critical moment when misinformation about sex is being applied to policy globally, scientific clarification is valuable. Here, we evaluate the primary approaches to defining sex and synthesise the active discourse to conclude that there is no current consensus on a definition of sex that is free of assumptions and limitations. While there is no current consensus, we do not advocate for a single definition and contend that a lack of unanimity is not inherently problematic. No matter what definitional choices are used, we provide actionable recommendations to improve accuracy when describing sex. Most importantly, regardless of scientific debates, no biological definition of sex should be used to dictate human rights.
On this Trans Day of Visibility, please enjoy & learn something from this fascinating & clarifying read from @madeline-eppley.bsky.social, @andylee.bsky.social, Robert Dellinger & @allydefduf.bsky.social
Read👉 onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/full/10....
(🙏 for this excellent work & actionable recs!)
Inside the trees are souls I think Souls that grow and change Inside each leaf, so quiet A memory of moments no one else has seen But no man ever listens Takes the time to think That trees might see what happens That in the way they rustle Is a hint they wish to speak.
Jennifer Lynch, from The Secret Diary of Laura Palmer
It doesn't seem that long ago that you were often discouraged from using Wiki as a "real source" for facts, and now it's basically the last bastion of human knowledge
Oooh gracias
Tetragonisca fiebrigi
(Buenos Aires 🇦🇷)
#bees #native #pollination #argentina
😩
Gracia!!!!
This is Hazel. She did some minor redecorating while you were out. Hopes you like it. 12/10 (TT: kelly_smith02_)
A lot of the discussion around the eviction crisis in Minnesota is focused on lost wages from families needing to shelter in place.
But another huge part of the problem is that ICE detention is expensive. ICE illegally abducts and detains people and makes them pay their way out.
