@dpmanchee.bsky.social I know a fantastic story about the original blue marble photographs and how they came about, if you know anyone writing about that... It's a true Houston inside tale.

Lunar Flyby - NASA

Oh this is great: there’s now an #Artemis II Lunar Flyby Gallery on the NASA images site: www.nasa.gov/gallery/luna... (thx @dpmanchee.bsky.social for pointing it out)

Red Panda's back! Happy tradition for the NCAA National Championship, borrowed from the WNBA.

This club is playing at other venues, like Mile High, while its own stadium is built. This is also a record crowd for any U.S. women’s professional sports league event:

The Deep Sea Scroll down the deep sea in this interactive page.

maybe my favorite thing on the internet:

neal.fun/deep-sea/

The NC-MD game just before it has been so good. The whole women's tournament has had such an exciting start!

Women and girls bearing brunt of water shortages globally, UN warns Unesco calls for action as lack of access and sanitation hits health, education and food security of women

Women and girls bear the brunt of our failure to provide universal access to safe #water and sanitation.
And #climatechanges is making it worse.

www.theguardian.com/society/2026...

There's a great book that begins with exactly that premise, called Building State Capability bsc.hks.harvard.edu/publications...

‘They called me a water terrorist’: exiled Iranian scientist wins global prize ‘They called me a water terrorist’: exiled Iranian scientist wins global prize: Prof Kaveh Madani, winner of the Stockholm water prize, was accused of sabotage with his environmental work Eight years before he got the call telling him he had won the Stockholm water prize, Prof Kaveh Mada...

‘They called me a water terrorist’: exiled Iranian scientist wins global prize: Prof Kaveh Madani, winner of the Stockholm water prize, was accused of sabotage with his environmental work Eight years before he got the call telling him he had won the Stockholm water prize, Prof Kaveh Mada...

This is a fantastic book. I tell everyone I work with to read it.

Joint call: An ambitious Digital Fairness Act to better protect people online - EuroHealthNet EuroHealthNet joined over 200 organisations and academics are calling on the European Commission for a strong Digital Fairness Act that delivers meaningful protection online for all, including vulnera...

📲 EuroHealthNet joined over 200 organisations and academics calling for a strong Digital Fairness Act to ensure that digital markets respect people’s rights while supporting more sustainable economic models.

Read more: eurohealthnet.eu/publication/...

#DigitalFairnessAct

Misty Copeland comes out of retirement to put Timothée Chalamet in his place during a live ‘Sinners’ performance at the #Oscars.

on the reg. Like, once a month or more.

Battery life is obviously a big area that is and needs more improving. Our first road trip was in a winter storm and it was a shock to have ~30% less battery life than would have been normal. And I'm always eager to have cutting edge safety features. Especially for my driving adult children.

Charging speed is one area that is improving. That was huge for when we lived in LA and there were always lines at charging stations. Back on the east coast, with a lower car density, the lines are rare. But rude men unplugging my daughter's car was a real crisis in CA.

Conceptually, moving to EVs changed our idea of ownership. I doubt we'll ever own a car again. Leasing and swapping out every three years feels like the right pace to keep up with tech advances. It's more like my iPhone in that way.

Can AI solve a math problem that no one has a solution to yet?

Computer Scientist Andrew Blumberg & a team of mathematicians put leading AI models to the test — with findings that challenge some of the biggest assumptions about what these tools can actually do.

Read more: https://bit.ly/4ukRpdz

In my head, this goes on the shelf next to @nikkipaynebooks.bsky.social's amazing books :)

awesome title.

This thread rules

I'm so sorry.

How does treatment induced antibiotic resistance happen in real-world infections? We analysed 25k Pseudomonas isolates from 180 patients in a clinical trial to find out! TLDR: The ecological and evolutionary paths are surprisingly diverse & complex even in patients receiving identical treatment…

Found an additional graphic that gets even more of these quotes together.

I've kept "I hate myself, I hate clover, and I hate bees" pinned above my desk since I first started studying evolutionary biology as an undergraduate. So relatable to get extremely frustrated with your study system.

Project Drawdown launches Climate Science Serving America Fellowship to support scientists working in the public good Fellowship seeks early- to mid-career researchers based in America who are committed to science and public expertise

While others are stepping back on climate, Project Drawdown is stepping up!

We’re proud to announce the Climate Science Serving America Fellowship to support U.S.-based Ph.D.-level scientists & engineers focused on climate solutions for the public good.

drawdown.org/news/project...

Principal Research Scientist Remote

Cool/important job alert:

Principal Research Scientist at the Wikimedia Foundation's
Research team for the area of knowledge integrity

Job posting: job-boards.greenhouse.io/wikimedia/jo...

This is incredibly cool — A source familiar with Bad Bunny’s performance tonight tells me that the couple in the halftime show got married for real. They invited Bad Bunny to their wedding and in turn he invited them to get married during his performance.

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This is figure 1, which gives an overview of OpenScholar, ScholarQABench and evaluation results.

A paper in Nature presents OpenScholar, an open-source language model that can outperform commercial large language models in performing accurate literature reviews. go.nature.com/3MozzFq #Academicsky 🧪

Whose ethics govern global health research? Ethical research must not exploit scarcity as an experimental variable.

"Ethical research requires that participant safety remains central, not subordinate to hypothesis testing....Vulnerability should never be seen as an opportunity to advance research at the expense of those it claims to serve." @natureportfolio.nature.com
www.nature.com/articles/d41...

Africa’s health security is global security Africa’s health security is global security

Opinion: Africa’s health security is global security. As aid contracts and risks grow, Africa is building sovereign, continent-led systems — proving that resilience, not dependence, is the strategy for a safer world.

Correcting temporal bias in mobility data using time-use surveys GPS mobility data is a valuable source of behavioral measurement which is subject to systematic biases including the over- or under-representation of demographic groups, and variations in the quality ...

Correcting temporal bias in mobility data using time-use surveys arxiv.org/abs/2601.22330