Reconstruction of Jiangchuan biota (~554-539 million years ago). Credit: Xiaodong Wang.

The explosion of forms of morphologies at the beginning of the Phanerozoic is usually listed as having a start date around 535 million years ago. But a new disposit not only pulls that 4 million years further back, it also links it to the Ediacaran fauna. 🧪⚒️

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Cerco il blu, desidero il blu.
Ma mi descrive più la penombra.
Il chiaroscuro.
Il tempo dall'inquietudine.

Macron addressing Trump: "We [France] do prefer science to politicism"
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Marsala, Sicily

Segesta

Hagia Sophia

Istanbul

Philae temple

Nubian village near Aswan

Abu Simbel

Giza

Cairo

Map of Stand Up for Science events, with official SUFS events in Red and solidarity events in Blue

WHERE WILL YOU BE ON MARCH 7TH!?

Head to www.standupforscience2025.org/local-event-information/ or the link in our bio to find your closest event—or add one if you're hosting one!

#standupforscience2025

poster for Stand Up For Science rally in DC (March 7 2025)

I'll be there. Details to come...

Milan

Lennox's new extreme cold heat pump operates at as low as -20F Lennox Residential HVAC has launched an extreme cold climate heat pump that warms with low GWP refrigerant in temperatures as low as -20F.

A new extreme cold heat pump operates at as low as -20F
#climatechange
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An upside-down American flag hangs from El Capitan near Yosemite National Park’s Horsetail Fall on Saturday to protest the thousands of federal job cuts made by President Donald Trump’s administration. Tracy Barbutes/Special to the Chronicle

Brilliant protest. Yosemite National Park workers hung an upside-down American flag — traditionally a symbol of distress or a national threat — thousands of feet off the ground on the side of El Capitan.

Swan near Lake Garda

Making some shish kebabs. Sona, near Verona, Italy

Lake Garda

Coffee pods are a giant waste and pollution. They are never getting recycled. #coffee #pollution #recycling

A Venn diagram showing the intersections of dogs, pirates and archaeologists. Dogs and pirates bury things for later, dogs and archaeologists get excited by bones, and archaeologists and pirates are good with maps. They all love digging things up.

A little #FridayFun - we love this recent cartoon by @tomgauld.bsky.social!
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Assisi

Sirmione

Assisi

A steam locomotive from 1915 on the Catania platform, featuring a water pipe from the age of steam, with the Ionian Sea in the background.

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The dangerous illusion of AI consciousness | Shannon Vallor AI expert and DeepMind contributor Shannon Vallor explores OpenAI's latest GPT-4o model, based on the ideas of her new book, ‘The AI Mirror’. Despite modest intellectual improvements, AGI's…

“We are arguably no nearer to engineering artificial consciousness than we were a decade ago. Instead we have engineered artificial language mirrors... and for the purposes of producing the grand illusion of consciousness,” argues @shannonvallor.bsky.social | https://buff.ly/3yxzgRp

#philsci ⚛️🧪