FOLKS!!!!
@naomialderman.bsky.social has bought Zombies, Run!
Yes, the old app a bunch of us used to all exercise together to and do our mini events is back in her hands!
Small thing, though. The banks apparently were empty 👀
So there's a couple of things to do to help out (mini thread)
This looks unconscionable and needs to be more widely discussed.
I spent a couple of weeks back in Ghana to make a few science docs for BBC World Service's CrowdScience 🇬🇭
The first of these starts in Kakum National Park, searching for stars under the rainforest canopy. It may be the nicest sounding stuff I've had my voice on
www.bbc.co.uk/sounds/play/...
Someone hearing "Jekyll Jekyll Jekyll Hyde" on a mental loop, directly after doing a fat line of coke sounds hilariously terrifying.
There's a baseline anti-medicine culture that pervades this world. It's the default attitude that needing medication *in general* is a moral weakness.
However, meds like cialis, metformin, and others are exempt in the growing overlap between bio-hackers, billionaire optimizers, and wellness gurus.
New film up youtu.be/vwL1zUD1gyY Why do shoes squeak on basketball courts? Earthquakes and lightning!
time.” Anyway, Eric isn’t involved with the underwriting firm or the venture-capital fund anymore. His new company is called Sperm Racing. Last April, Eric held a live sperm-racing event in Los Angeles. Hundreds of frat boys came out to watch a head-to-head match between the effluvia of USC’s and UCLA’s most virile students, moving through a plastic maze. (There was some controversy over the footage: Eric had replaced the actual sperm with more purposeful CGI wrigglers. “If you look at sperm, it’s not entertaining under a microscope. What we do is we track the coordinates, so it is a sperm race—it’s just up-skinned.”) He’s planning on rolling the races out nationwide. Eric delivered a decent spiel about sperm motility as a proxy for health and how sperm racing drew attention to important issues. His venture seemed to be of a piece with a general trend toward obsessive masculine self-optimization à la RFK Jr. and Andrew Huberman. Still, to me it seemed obvious that Eric was doing it simply because he was amazed that he could. “I could build enterprise software or whatever,” he told me, “but what’s the craziest thing I could do? I would rather have an interesting life than a couple hundred million dollars in my bank account. Racing cum is definitely interesting.” I found Eric very hard not to like.
this is just a thinly veiled kink surely
"You can rewrite DNA on the fly, and you're using it to race sperm? But with tech like that, you could cure cancer!" "But I don't want to cure cancer! I want to hold sperm races!"
the solution to the Monty Hall problem is simply to offer the host a handjob and then the rest works itself out
DOCTOR: I told him he needed to get out to a show, that was how he would cure his depression.
CHOTINER: So you learned this technique in school?
DR: No, not— listen it was good advice. Pagliacci was in town.
C: Right. Is it standard to give advice before learning a patient’s name?
DR: Now look
Beautiful new film for @nature.com from @emzywb.bsky.social youtu.be/8atR9SGoVLA I was really excited when Emily agreed to make an ADHD doc including some part of her own diagnosis in the story, and she absolutely knocked it out of the park.
I hope someone draws this wonderful story about Tom Stoppard's Arcadia and the power of the arts to help us see things differently, to the attention of our Education Secretary. Do read it, it will lift your spirits.
The conversation around prostate cancer screening going on right now is the same. Scientists trying to explain the shortcomings of PSAs and the complex science of screening but celebrities assuring people screening will save millions of lives and people simply KNOW deep in their soul screening works
Good news for fitness and running nerds. Zombies, Run! has been bought back by co-creator and author @naomialderman.bsky.social.
"Zombies, Run! has been a community effort since the first Kickstarter, and we’ll keep it shambling on together," she tells The Verge.
www.theverge.com/gadgets/8275...
delighted to let you know that when you buy a company:
1) you literally just click a button on your banking app, there are no quills/parchment etc
2) but the bank manager does literally come to your house, and it is much better to be clearly *living modestly*
Thank you for allowing me to spend hours needlessly terrifying myself on night runs 😂
For 61 years the #BBCWorldService has been broadcasting the latest in science via its weekly Science in Action programme. That dies in the next half hour, with this final edition, reflecting on the fall in trust in expertise driven by malign interests over recent years.
Last minute revision for the recording shortly of the final edition of BBC Science in Action - @naomioreskes.bsky.social's why trust science?
Nature is hiring a new Multimedia Editor, so if you want to work with me then this is a great opportunity. Who could say no to that?
It's for verticals, so if you know your Toks from your Tiks, your ring lights from your Reels, and your shoots from your Shorts, then this might be the job for you!
Penultimate edition of Science in Action airing now.
I think this might be the roughest month I've ever had as a climate communicator.
Well, scratch that. Someone who cares about the future of life on this planet.
This is just the shit cherry on top of a shit cake with shit frosting.
And it's only the 17th.
www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...
I think it's because (1) it's something we can't physically see, so you can't truly assess whether or not that supplement you've been sold is impacting your microbiome and (2) it's something that we've been told we can actively control in an "easy" way (so if you're ill, it's your own fault)
This year we've been really swinging for the fences.
Our latest video is our biggest one yet, nearly an hour long and involving half a dozen experts.
Asking "Should lying about climate change be illegal?" and, if so, how do we make it so?
youtu.be/FKtCuwfUCJg
absolute melt
Happy Star Wars Day to all who celebrate.
Europe’s choice is clear.
To put science at the heart of its economy.
To become the home of scientific freedom and collaboration.
And to welcome talent from all over the world.
I’m glad to present the first elements of our Choose Europe Initiative.
→ europa.eu/!TTbWbJ
www.nature.com/articles/d41...
So let me get this straight
1. Academics spend decades building the PDB openly
2. A company trains AlphaFold on it, releases limited code under pressure
3. Academics work hard to create fully open versions
4. Companies then use the open models to build closed products
It’s not scitwitter without wormgate
