An image of Calvin and Hobbes reading comics in their living room.
The immense popularity of “Calvin and Hobbes,” often called “the last great newspaper comic,” can risk obscuring its many inspirations & antecedents. In both style & content, the strip is very well-versed in the rich history of comics and often pays tribute to its influences. 1/12 #CalvinAndHobbes
Two PhD opportunities at the Australian National University and the University of Technology Sydney, working on thermal responses and thermal acclimation of C4 photosynthesis. www.findaphd.com/phds/project...
Come join us! #UKESM has a great team of (geographically-distributed) experts across all areas of the #EarthSystem, 🌍🌊🌳🏔️⛅. The role will involve examining #TippingPoints as part of the #ARIA project, #PROMOTE.
I would say this findings shows women are more AI literate than men, because the majority of non-magical beings have no innate ability to "judge truthfulness"
I'm just a science reporter begging scientists and space agencies to stop capitalizing random letters in the middle of words and calling it an acronym. This heartfelt plea brought to you by the European Space maTerIal deMisability dATabasE and the letters O, H, N, and O.
Global change research in the observational era
Leuzinger and Medlyn
nph.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/...
If you use GMail, AI (Gemini) was turned on yesterday by default and now scans all of your content for machine learning. To turn off, go to Settings>General and scroll down. Uncheck the box for "Smart features."
There's other "Smart" add-ons as well, but that's the one that reads your content.
Right... there must be *someone* out there who actually had their birthday read out by the hopping puppet menace on Gus Honeybun's Magic Birthdays. If you did, then let's hear all about it and exactly how much of a short-term local celebrity it made you...
timworthington.org/2024/05/28/l...
Published today in Earth System Science Data: The Global Carbon Budget 2025
essd.copernicus.org/preprints/es...
The Womble and The Clanger in the style of The Omen and The Exorcist
🧵I've posted them before, but here's my thread of horror/kids' TV double-bill cinema posters. Happy Halloween...
#halloween #cinema #graphicdesign #poster
TLDR; The PSF has made the decision to put our community and our shared diversity, equity, and inclusion values ahead of seeking $1.5M in new revenue. Please read and share. pyfound.blogspot.com/2025/10/NSF-...
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Cover of The State of Wildfires 2024-2025 report
Infographic with ten points titled Unpacking the wildfire season
Flames continuing to burn in charred remains of buildings
🔥 Human-driven global warming made recent wildfires in South America & Southern California much larger & more destructive, the latest State of Wildfires report reveals.
🔸 LA wildfires 25× larger, 2× as likely
🔸 Pantanal–Chiquitano fires 35× larger
🔸 Global CO₂ from fires >8 bn tonnes
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I hate it when people compare the amount of heat the ocean has absorbed to the power of atomic bombs dropped on Japan. It’s gruesome and not relatable. As my Japanese PhD student said when he heard the comparison, “It’s not a good memory for us.”
Right now, this is an extreme minority magnified by a social media that sends extremes viral. If nobody has the courage to say that’s what it is - & that normal people, even if worried about immigration, spend their Saturdays in Tesco or taking the kids to football - it won’t stay extreme for long.
Astonishing human emotions from Tim Cook.
There were no education events at Reform conference. Their only policies appear to be giving private schools their tax breaks back and changing the history curriculum to trumpet the benefits of empire.
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Can't unsee Jon Pertwee for that one
“Tinderbox Britain” is such an artificial idea. Immigration is only of real salience to Reform and (to a lesser extent) Tory supporters. Panic over migrant hotels is a small subset of an existing subset, largely radicalised by Twitter/Telegraph. Alarm over Gaza is a *much* more mainstream view.
Can someone smarter than the New York Times explain to me what exactly the $200M fine that Columbia is paying is *for*?
Because in my naiveté and with $400M in grant funding canceled, this is indistinguishable from a protection racket.
www.nytimes.com/2025/07/23/n...
Come on Laura - stop letting Farage get away with grotesque lies on #climate - the green economy is growing 3 times faster than rest of the economy. The green transition is in our *economic interests* & it’s Farage who’ll de-industrialise the UK, not green policy #bbclaurak
Still trying with GPTo3. I asked it to help me confirm and find a half-remembered anecdote from philosopher Jonathan Glover probably his brilliant book "Humanity".
GPT found it, gave me page refs in 2 editions, and listed other sources. Impressive! Only problem: the story is not in the book.
Just to accurately lay out the course of events, people were yelling at him because his auto-responding robot that was trained on Twitter’s userbase still displayed — against all odds — a modicum of empathy. He then made the robot speak like him and within hours it was calling itself Mechahitler.
I would go so far as to say they are the greatest book covers of all time & its unlikely they'll ever be surpassed. The magic of seeing them appear in the bookshop back in the day is indescribable
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Four years ago this week, Hobbes suddenly appeared in "Bloom County" and if that wasn't Watterson drawing his moments, I don't know what to think. I just remember this catching me in the bits of me that get *really* sentimental and emotional.
British multiculturalism - day to day, on the ground - is a successful experiment. The UK enjoys a shared set of political facts, as represented by the non-tribal backlash over Partygate/Truss. The British obsession with irony & suspicion of sincerity provides some protection against demagoguery.
Mainly several Corn chamomile (Anthemis arvensis) and a single poppy
🌼🐝 Which plants are best to sow in gardens and parks to support pollinators like bees and hoverflies?
A new study offers evidence-based guidance on which annual seed mixes work best in horticultural plots — for both wildlife and people.
🔗 www.ceh.ac.uk/news-and-med... 🧪
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Traditional breadmaking in Uzbekistan
