Traders placed over $1bn in perfectly timed bets on the Iran war. What is going on? Suspicious wagers on the US-Israel war in Iran are creating huge windfalls and raising concerns among lawmakers

The people behind this all need to go to jail for a long time www.theguardian.com/world/2026/a...

Pancreatic cancer mRNA vaccine shows lasting results in an early trial Scientists caution that more research is needed, but nearly all of the patients who responded to the personalized vaccine are still alive six years later.

My father survived a year with pancreatic cancer but it was a year of terrible suffering. This is very encouraging news.

www.nbcnews.com/health/cance...

Climate Risk Modeling Lead, Senior Vice President (Hybrid) | Citi Careers Learn more about applying for Climate Risk Modeling Lead, Senior Vice President (Hybrid) at Citi. Learn more about potential responsibilities, qualifications and career paths.

it's happening

"PhD degree in Climatology or Atmospheric Sciences"
"Deep knowledge of the mortgage business"

Ah, thank you. Will check.

Having an email address out in the wild is a liability now!

I've tried a couple of tricks which were doing the rounds here a while ago and found them to be an unreliable workaround. New ones promising? In any case, Google will probably try to make it difficult to get accurate search results, so it is a sinking ship, regardless, I suppose.

I have guarded my primary email rather closely for years now, but some publications, including Nature, include email, and now my spam inbox is filling up fast with these scammy emails. I hope I do not have to nuke it and start a new one for professional correspondence.

oh! I thought most knew that this is a scam? My emails go straight to the spam inbox, I just check occasionally to chuckle at the invitations to Helsinki and elsewhere to speak about my "excellent research"

absolutely! And worse, there is no replacement yet, so no more quick searches unless I have an expert on standby, which is obviously not the case most of the time during pre-reporting.

AI summaries for Google search are particularly insidious because pre-AI snippets came with the website details, and I could do a quick scan to find the most trustworthy website to pick an answer from. Now not only are the search results tanked, but also impossible to reliably do a "quick" search.

Analysis Finds That Google's AI Overviews Are Providing Misinformation at a Scale Possibly Unprecedented in the History of Human Civilization A new analysis commissioned by The New York Times suggests that Google's AI Overviews are wrong an astonishing percentage of the time.

This is catastrophic.

Gilead refuses to sell groundbreaking HIV prevention drug to MSF Blocking humanitarian organizations from accessing a medical breakthrough puts vulnerable people across the world in danger.

Today, MSF is going public with something we've been fighting behind closed doors for months: Gilead will not sell us their new HIV drug, lenacapavir.

The sticking point isn't even price, they just refuse to sell.

Open letter linked + explainer 🧵1/

www.doctorswithoutborders.org/latest/gilea...

I'm not an academic researcher, so I had no clue this happened, but it is so funny to me that since I published an article(journalistic) in Nature, I've been receiving nonstop emails from all sorts of predatory journals inviting me to publish "my excellent research" with them.

US has caused $10tn worth of climate damage since 1990, research finds US, top carbon emitter in history, has ‘a lot of responsibility’ for causing ‘substantial’ harm globally, scientist says

US has caused $10tn worth of climate damage since 1990, research finds

the hardest part about separating the art from the artist is how i seem to have glued myself to this macaroni picture

Kémy Adé was shocked by the immigration refusal letter she received. In rejecting her permanent residence application, the Immigration Department cited her current job duties, which included wiring and assembling control circuits, building control and robot panels, programming and troubleshooting. The department said these duties didn’t match the Canadian work experience she claimed. Well, no, they didn’t. Adé is a post-doctoral research fellow and guest teacher at McMaster University — and those skills are not part of her repertoire. Nor are they what she submitted in her immigration application a year ago. “I saw this language about this job description that has nothing to do with me,” said the health scientist from France, who has a PhD from Sorbonne University in the immunology of aging. “I was disoriented how this could happen.” But a disclaimer at the bottom of the refusal letter might provide a hint. It’s believed to be the first time that the department explicitly referred to the use of generative AI to support application processing in immigration refusals. The disclaimer also noted that all generated content was verified by an officer and that generative AI was not used to make or recommend a decision.

Today in AI:

Canada rejected the PR application of a McMaster postdoc from the Sorbonne who works in the immunology of aging because the generative AI being used to process applications (😱) entirely hallucinated her credentials.

Everyone involved should be fired.

archive.is/ELrCI#select...

Alexander Guerrero on Lottocracy Democracy isn't working so well, so why not use a lottery system to choose representatives instead? Alexander Guerrero discusses his version of this old idea in this episode of the Philosophy Bites…

Democracy is worst form of government except for all others that have been tried, right? Well, let's try lottocracy.

Alexander Guerrero of Rutgers argues for electing people at random, paying them well for at least a three-year term. Sounds wild, but it isn't. Take a listen: pca.st/episode/b428...

@geodesicvoyager.bsky.social Got it, thank you so much! deleting the post.

I discovered something that just nauseated me to my core today - Polymarket has a huge number of bets running on climate impacts and disasters

An entirely new flavour of disaster capitalism

Trump helps MAGA influencers flee Middle East war zone on private jet Trump adviser Alex Bruesewitz, dogwalker Sarah Daither, former lobbyist Jay Footlik, and others managed to escape on a private plane thanks to the White House.

The White House has helped MAGA influencers escape the Middle East on a private jet while more than a million ordinary Americans are still trapped with no way out.

Vehicle fuel economy and vehicle miles traveled: An empirical investigation of Jevon’s Paradox There has been, in recent decades, a concerted effort to promote energy efficiency as a means to reduce energy consumption. The general thesis is that…

STUDY: Despite conventional wisdom that increases in vehicle fuel efficiency results in decreased gasoline consumption, Jevons’ Paradox holds. For every 1 mile per gallon of increased fuel efficiency there’s an associated 1.2 mile increase in vehicle miles travelled.

Better cars = higher emissions.

Grey cat sitting on a table, gazing pensively onto the middle distance. He has amber eyes and pronounced cheeks. A luxuriant mane, and a walrus moustache.

Nobly gracing the table

The long 2010s are finally over

Can you please share the PDF via DM or the Read-Only Sharing link to the paper? Thank you.

Summit Positions Jason König and Jonathan Westaway interview Peter Hansen about his research on the Alps and Himalayas.

New podcast! Talking with @peterhhansen.bsky.social sky.social about how #mountaineering & #modernity emerged together & how the idea of the 'summit position' came to encompass concepts of sovereignty and empire from the #Alps to #Everest shorturl.at/oI5fh #EnvHist #EnvHums
@nichecanada.bsky.social

Dear Auntie
You will be surprised to hear that I am going to prison tomorrow.

Thinking your own breathtaking misanthropy is what will win over hearts and minds.

Austrian Man Found Guilty in Girlfriend’s Death on Mountain Hike

Oh my god, the guy who left his girlfriend on a mountain to die had done the same thing to a different girlfriend on THE SAME MOUNTAIN.

Inside the incredible, infuriating quest to explain consciousness Will brain science deliver answers about consciousness or hit another wall?

My Roman Empire!

Never not thinking about this, excellent feature summarising where we stand currently with this fascinating mystery.

www.scientificamerican.com/article/what...

China's Xinhua news agency has just published this editorial cartoon in response to Trump's rejection of climate policies.

It is pretty clear that China views this as a HUGE geopolitical fumble by the US leaving the field clear for China's to win the global race to clean-tech hegemony