🚨 Are young women becoming more left-wing & young men more right-wing?
We analyzed 32 European countries (1990–2023).
📊 Some show growing gaps—others don’t.
📊 Gaps tend to be bigger where gender equality is higher.
w/ @hudde.bsky.social
👉 doi.org/10.1093/esr/...
"In a major reversal, almost all the 381 books that the U.S. Naval Academy removed from the school's libraries have been returned to the bookshelves after a new review...according to a defense official."
abcnews.go.com/Politics/nav...
A new study details the evolutionary change of Anna's Hummingbirds, finding their beaks have grown longer and more tapered to get the most from common feeders.
📢 New paper alert! 🐋❄️ How do different-sized #cetaceans stay warm in cold waters? Our latest study in @jexpbiol.bsky.social revealed that smaller species rely on thicker blubber, while larger ones offset heat loss simply by being big. Read more: doi.org/10.1242/jeb.... #UAVs
NSG13 participants. © ASCOBANS Secretariat. (10+ participants are missing from the group photo, which was taken at the end of the meeting.)
The 13th Meeting of the ASCOBANS North Sea Group (NSG) concluded today🐬
🎤 The NSG discussed #harbourporpoise conservation activities in the #NorthSea, bycatch, health, strandings +much more...
📑Recommendations & meeting report will be available in due course ➡️ www.ascobans.org/en/meeting/n...
Ok. This is interesting
Screen shot of the NOAA External Affairs website. It says: Thank you for visiting NOAA External Affairs. Due to the recent layoffs at NOAA, all members of the External Affairs team were relieved of their duties. If you need further assistance, please visit NOAA Communications.
NOAA's External Affairs office is currently completely unstaffed because of the mass layoffs.
www.noaa.gov/external-aff...
Google facilitated Russia and China’s censorship requests
An investigation has exposed the tech firm’s cooperation with autocratic regimes to remove unfavourable content
www.theguardian.com/world/2025/f...
Disappearing landscapes: The Arctic at +2.7°C global warming | Science www.science.org/doi/10.1126/...
Gen Z has all the feelings
Si vous êtes francophone (ou pas!), découvrez la musique de Jourdan Thibodeaux qui nous vient tout droit du Bayou:
deezer.page.link/kX2FJNqHqnAD...
Our global study on the state of trust in scientists is now out in Nature Human Behaviour! 🥳
With a team of 241 researchers, we surveyed 71,922 people in 68 countries, providing the largest dataset on trust in scientists post-pandemic 👇🧵https://www.nature.com/articles/s41562-024-02090-5
NEW: Tomorrow the tech gods will ascend to the presidential dais. The image of the bros + Trump is going to be seared into our brains. It's up to us now. My eve-of-inauguration post
open.substack.com/pub/broligar...
The Baldwin-Buckley debate is 60 years old in one month.
#CivilRights
youtu.be/5Tek9h3a5wQ?...
Daniel Pauly, Rainer Froese and Nicolas Bailly celebrate the legacy of W.N. Eschmeyer (1939–2024), creator of the renowned Eschmeyer’s Catalog of Fishes. A true pioneer in ichthyology. 🐟 bit.ly/blog199sau
What is the relationship between party politics and the spread of #Misinformation? Analysing a dataset of 32M tweets from parliamentarians in 26 countries, this study finds radical-right populism is the strongest determinant for the propensity to spread misinformation.
Industrial Revolution Provides Millions Of Out-Of-Work Children With Jobs
Industrial Revolution Provides Millions Of Out-Of-Work Children With Jobs
theonion.com/industr...
CORDER LIST: 604 U.S.) FRIDAY, JANUARY 10, 2025 CERTIORARI GRANTED 24-316 BECERRA, SEC. OF H&HS, ET AL. V. BRAIDWOOD MGMT., INC., ET AL. 24-413 The petition for a writ of certiorari is granted. DEPT. OF ED., ET AL. V. CAREER COLLEGES AND SCH. OF TX The petition for a writ of certiorari is granted limited to Question 1 presented by the petition. 24-416 CIR V. ZUCH, JENNIFER The petition for a writ of certiorari is granted.
BREAKING: SCOTUS takes up 3 new cases, including a challenge to PrEP and contraception coverage that led to an order from Judge Reed O’Connor, affirmed by the 5th Circuit, that would end a wide variety of preventative care coverage under the ACA.
Background: www.lawdork.com/p/biden-admi...
hivemind: I am trying to find a reference collating/synthesising all of the failures of 'social engineering' attempts (the "big mistakes" of course, but also the more "subtle" ones in urban planning and education policies for example). any reference? #socialengineering
An incredible opportunity for the right person:
The Santa Fe Institute is seeking applications for full-time resident faculty positions at all academic levels
For me, this has been the best possible job ever.
More info here: santafe.edu/about/jobs/r...
AOC is the best
With Trump’s military threats against European territory and NATO allies, Europe needs to come together more than ever.
Iceland, Greenland, Norway and UK should be joining the EU - and we need to bolster defence against Putin.
If you’re a Brit, join European Movement. 👇
Exciting (and nerve-wracking!) to be included in @newstatesman.com ‘25 books to read in 2025’ @panmacmillan.bsky.social
Happy Sunday!
It's one of those wintery Sundays made for listening to the #VinylCafe
The Greatest Hockey Game Ever Played by Stuart McLean
Listen now on #Deezer
deezer.page.link/GUp9aLvwbzZB...
"A study of federally funded research projects in the United States estimated that principal investigators spend on average about 45% of their time on administrative activities related to applying for and managing projects rather than conducting active research"
www.pnas.org/doi/10.1073/...
A really useful post on scalability of policies. Relevant for our work with @markfabian.bsky.social and @dianecoyle1859.bsky.social on how far wellbeing public policy can be participatory as we argue it should be here www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10.... 1/2
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