From the shiba community on Reddit: Fashion in full force at the SF Cherry Blossom Festival 2026 Explore this post and more from the shiba community

there were so many Shibas there

Look past the cute rats, and you see the bigger picture: clearing land so communities can live safely after conflict, and fighting TB so more people can be cured. There’s still a long way to go — but there is #hope, and we’re grateful to have you with us.

#APOPO #SavingLives

We are family
I got all my sisters with me
We are family
Get up, everybody, and sing

What a beautiful survivor!

Veruca Salt - Volcano Girls YouTube video by VerucaSaltVEVO

Musical inspiration for PBI code optimizing

All About Eve, but it’s a writer and an LLM trained on the writer’s work.

JD Vance to Receive First Annual FIFA Catholicism Prize

They've essentially deputized a cat.

The myth of STEM only growth holds back the UK - LSE Impact The view that STEM subjects on their own drive growth is misguided and presents a lopsided view of the value of the social sciences and humanities.

'To believe that only STEM drives progress and economic growth reflects something wrong in education and our public culture, a remarkable degree of ignorance about how the world really works.' 🧪📖🎓

Mouse neurobehaviorist by day; research integrity watchdog by night Mu Yang talks about her plunge into chemistry research integrity sleuthing and her unexpected empathy for academic fraudsters

Mu Yang is happy with her gig at Columbia University, where by day she studies mouse neurobehavior. But by night, she turns into a research integrity sleuth, focusing on something entirely unrelated to her discipline: problems with images in chemistry papers.

#chemsky 🧪

The story of our age is billionaire narcissist men who are widely known to be frauds or creeps within their industries but are allowed to destroy the world in plain sight because American media & business view rich confidently-speaking white men through an infinitely-forgiving lens of merit.

Man Creates Tiny Submarine for His Parakeet to Experience Life Underwater A viral video shows a parakeet trapped inside a DIY submarine made of a 3,000 PSI paintball air cylinder, oxygen, meter, and lead weights.

Oh cool, now we're giving other species our greatest gift: cosmic horror

U.S. federal support for human origins research may be over The field is generating more new discoveries than ever, but significant setbacks for students and many researchers.

The National Science Foundation has proposed eliminating the directorate that includes most of the federal funding for fieldwork and research in human origins. It's a sudden acceleration of a decades-long trend. I comment on what this means.

www.johnhawks.net/p/us-federal...

I am not one of those who believes that history repeats, but consider the following from Herodotus: the Oracle at Delphi told the fabulously wealthy King Croesus that if he invaded Persia he would "destroy a great empire." Croesus invaded and lost--the empire he destroyed was his own.

Iron Age textiles from Hallstatt salt mine (©NHM Vienna).
Look, colour!
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Trump Officials Celebrated With Cake After Slashing Aid. Then People Died of Cholera. Behind closed doors in Washington, top advisers made a series of decisions that had devastating repercussions for the poorest country on earth. We went to South Sudan and found people who died as a re...

Here are the stories of some of the human beings who died horrific deaths from preventable disease because Trump and Musk and their flunkies decided to murder them by gleefully destroying USAID and the entire global aid system:

Intriguing to see the returnn of the acceptability of the embargo period.

Eye drops made from pig semen deliver cancer treatment to mice Minuscule particles with the ability to cross hard-to-penetrate barriers can be loaded with drug treatments to target intractable diseases.

It's Monday and my brain really cannot process this headline. 🧪

Might be the greatest opening paragraph of anything ever.

A medieval painting showing grey cat with a sad human face.

Another painting showing small lion that is staring into your soul.

A third medieval painting with another lion about the size of a dog, this time jumping up at a concerned human.

cats in medieval paintings at the National Museum in Warsaw

The indirect — and sometimes surprising — benefits of vaccines Many vaccines confer surprising knock-on, or indirect, health benefits when they have been put into widespread use.

'Lost in the focus on “me” rather than “we” has been discussion of vaccines’ wider benefits.' 🧪💉

Show someone who absolutely rocks a hat (that isn't Indiana Jones).

ScienceAdviser: COVID-19 origin clues buried in ludicrous lobster theory Today in Science and science: Tiny but mighty magnets, ravens don’t follow wolves, and more

'Odin sent 2 ravens named Huginn & Muninn (Thought & Memory) across the world each morning to gather intelligence accompanied by his wolves...there may be some truth to this tale... Ravens rely on spatial memory to navigate toward landscapes where wolves are most likely to hunt.' 🧪🐺🐦‍⬛

'Mister Rogers' Neighborhood' Getting YouTube Channel For First Time Fred Rogers Productions and Little Dot Studios have teamed to bring Mister Rogers' Neighborhood to a dedicated YouTube channel

Important news

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Jindo

eBay ad featuring a brown tabby cat standing on a beige sofa. The cat is staring directly at the camera and wearing a grey helmet in the style of a Roman centurion.

Define "need".

Probably should be sleeping, but...

Ides of March coming up, how are we all celebrating?

the whole purpose of the post-menopausal woman is to prevent the rise of generative AI