Not true at all: numerous self-aware species comprehend aging, mortality, and mourn their deceased loved ones.

#fiction

Evidence Points to US Scattering Mines over Iranian Village - bellingcat US appears to have deployed the Gator Scatterable Mine system over Kafari, a village near Shiraz, Iran.

Evidence Points to US Scattering Mines over Iranian Village [via BellingCat] 🗽💣💥☠️

"The #US appears to have deployed the Gator Scatterable Mines over Kafari village in #Iran on March 25, 2026. Several people were killed according to Iranian media."

www.bellingcat.com/news/2026/03...

#epstein #war

Are we giving AI a pulse through language? - News Service

𝐓𝐡𝐢𝐧𝐤 𝐀𝐈 "𝐤𝐧𝐨𝐰𝐬" 𝐰𝐡𝐚𝐭 𝐢𝐭'𝐬 𝐝𝐨𝐢𝐧𝐠? 𝐓𝐡𝐢𝐧𝐤 𝐚𝐠𝐚𝐢𝐧 [via Iowa State] 🧪🥼🤖🧠⁉️

"The study’s findings [] underscore the importance of looking beyond surface-level verb counts and considering how meaning comes from context."

www.news.iastate.edu/news/are-we-...

#artificial #illusion #intelligence #AI

Watch: Runners v robots at China half marathon Robots competed in a half marathon race in Beijing on Sunday, with the winning machine leaving its human rivals for dust.

𝗔 𝗳𝗲𝘄 𝗺𝗶𝗻𝘂𝘁𝗲𝘀 𝗼𝗳 𝗲𝗻𝘁𝗲𝗿𝘁𝗮𝗶𝗻𝗺𝗲𝗻𝘁... 𝗿𝗼𝗯𝗼𝘁𝘀 𝗹𝗲𝗮𝘃𝗲 𝗵𝘂𝗺𝗮𝗻𝘀 𝗶𝗻 𝘁𝗵𝗲 𝗱𝘂𝘀𝘁 (𝗮𝗻𝗱 𝘀𝗼𝗺𝗲 𝗼𝗳 𝘁𝗵𝗲𝗶𝗿 𝗰𝗼𝗺𝗽𝗮𝗻𝗶𝗼𝗻𝘀 𝘁𝗼𝗼) 𝗶𝗻 𝗮 𝗵𝗮𝗹𝗳 𝗺𝗮𝗿𝗮𝘁𝗵𝗼𝗻 🧪🥼🤖🏃‍♀️🏃‍♂️

www.bbc.com/news/videos/...

#robots #marathon #competition #humans

Pictures of Melania with Epstein released by Emmanuel Macron of France in response to her claim that she did not know or socialize with the convicted child rapist and trafficker.

Pic: 1989 snap of tRump and other tRump casino executives headed out to testify in a case where he was a defendant. Text: "Wende Reid: I'm old enough to remember the 1989 helicopter crash with tRump's casino executives aboard headed out to testify in a case related to tRump. tRump backed out of the flight at the last minute stating that 'he was too busy' to leave at the time. Witnesses said 'tRump was lying, he was not busy.' The pilot, co-pilot, and 3 executives died that day."

He won't release the #Epstein #files but is threatening to release the #Vatican files to bring down the Papacy.

Isn't it HIGH TIME, Anonymous, Snowden, anyone?

DNA cracks nutmeg's hidden past, revealing a South Moluccas origin and a prehuman journey north A sprinkle of nutmeg powder on baked goodies or mashed potatoes can immediately lift the flavor with its warm and sweet aroma. Even though it is used globally, not much is known about the true origins...

DNA cracks nutmeg's hidden past, revealing a South Moluccas origin and a prehuman journey north 🧬🌳 phys.org/news/2026-04...

Songbirds reveal the dark side of making new brain cells as adults A new study in songbirds might help explain why humans don’t generate many new brain cells, called neurons, as adults

𝗠𝘂𝘁𝗲𝗱 𝗮𝗱𝘂𝗹𝘁 𝗻𝗲𝘂𝗿𝗼𝗴𝗲𝗻𝗲𝘀𝗶𝘀 𝗺𝗮𝘆 𝗵𝗮𝘃𝗲 𝗲𝘃𝗼𝗹𝘃𝗲𝗱 𝘁𝗼 𝗽𝗿𝗼𝘁𝗲𝗰𝘁 𝗹𝗼𝗻𝗴-𝘁𝗲𝗿𝗺 𝗺𝗲𝗺𝗼𝗿𝘆 𝗶𝗻 𝗺𝗮𝗺𝗺𝗮𝗹𝘀 [via @sciam.bsky.social] 🧪🥼🧓🧠✋

"a new study suggests neurogenesis may be more destructive than we thought"

www.scientificamerican.com/article/song...

#mammals #aging #adult #neurogenesis #impact

A current affair: how ocean currents are shifting with climate change They don’t call it the world ocean for nothing. It’s a massive, interconnected system with water moving in complicated patterns.Massive liquid conveyor belts shunt water from the Southern Ocean floor ...

How ocean currents are shifting with Climate Change [via U of NSW] 🧪🥼🌊↪️↩️

“The slowdown of the Antarctic Circumpolar Current is one snapshot of a larger story of potential ocean circulation slowdown.”

connectsci.au/news/news-pa...

#global #warming #slowing #shifting #ocean #currents

The call may not be, but the painting and its valuation surely are.

WOOOOOOBOYYYYY!

Senator Sheldon Whitehouse absolutely demolished Republican Ted Cruz, Donald Trump, and his administration in the Senate Judiciary Committee fraud hearing for Minnesota.

🧵

Student identifies new meat-eating dinosaur three times older than T. rex Senior Simba Srivastava spent two years unscrambling an ancient fossil. His findings, published in Papers in Palaeontology, shed light on how dinosaurs dominated the Jurassic period.

Student identifies new meat-eating Murder Muppet dinosaur 3 times older than the T-Rex [via Virginia Tech] 🧪🥼🧓🦖

"The skull shows that the species had massive cheekbones, a wide braincase, and probably a short, deep snout."

news.vt.edu/content/news...

#triassic #carnivore #dinosaur #discovery

Meiotic prophase I disruption as a strategy for nonhormonal male contraception using small-molecule inhibitor JQ1 | PNAS Developing safe, reversible, and nonhormonal male contraceptives has been hindered by the lack of defined biological windows that can be transientl...

Reversible male contraceptive that halts sperm production [via Cornell U] 🧪🥼🕺💃🚫🧒

"Unintended pregnancies account for nearly 44% of all pregnancies worldwide...a biologically defined and reversible control point within the spermatogenic program"

www.pnas.org/doi/10.1073/...

#male #contraceptive

Stronger bones and muscles in old age [via Leipzig U] 🧪🥼🧓🦴💪

"GPR133 is activated through the interaction of bone cells and mechanical strain, triggering a signal that stimulates bone-forming cells and inhibits bone-resorbing cells"

www.uni-leipzig.de/en/newsdetai...

#bone #muscle #strength #age

Targeting iron-associated protein Ftl1 in the brain of old mice improves age-related cognitive impairment - Nature Aging The authors identify ferritin light chain 1 (FTL1), an iron-associated protein, as a pro-aging neuronal factor that increases with age and promotes cognitive decline. Targeting FTL1 in the brain impro...

Increasing neuronal protein FTL1 in the young hippocampus promotes aging [via Nature] 🧪🥼🧓🐁🧠

"Age-related increased levels of neuronal FTL1 detected in the #hippocampus are likely reflective of changes in brain iron metabolism during aging."

www.nature.com/articles/s43...

#aging #ferritin

Did he convert to Islam, #republicans, #conservatives, #maga? Thoughts and prayers 💭🙏

Now release the UNREDACTED #epstein #files and prosecute the #pedophiles and their #protectors

He's in there 38,000 times and more.

Sein Frust bricht nun hervor, da FW Melanoma nicht einmal in seine Nähe kommt …

Pic: girl speaking across a confessional screen with a priest. Text: "So Christ's body is the bread?" "Yes" "And he rose from the grave?" "Yes..." "Because of the yeast?" "Please leave"

Pic: St. Schrödinger, the forgotten disciple, standing outside a bruial tomb with a round stone cover talking to two women of the middle east. Text: "...As long as the tomb is closed, Jesus is BOTH ALIVE AND DEAD!"

#easter #jokes #JokeSky 🧪🤡😆

Ageing stars may be destroying their closest planets Ageing stars may be destroying the giant planets orbiting closest to them, new research shows – offering a glimpse into the possible fate of the likes of Jupiter a...

Dying stars destroy their closest planets [via RAS] 🧪🥼🌞🔴

"Once stars like the Sun run out of hydrogen fuel, they cool down and expand to become red giants. In the Sun's case this will happen in about five billion years."

ras.ac.uk/news-and-pre...

#stars #red #giants #death #planets

Neuroendocrine circuit for sleep-dependent growth hormone release The increase in growth hormone release during sleep is driven by sleep-wake-dependent activity of stimulatory GHRH neurons and inhibitory SST neurons in the hypothalamus. The released growth hormone e...

A circuit mechanism underlying the bidirectional interaction between sleep and growth #hormone release [via Cell Press] 🧪🥼😴🏋️⚕️

"how sleep influences the activity of the GH-controlling #neuroendocrine circuit and how GH signaling, in turn, affects sleep"

www.cell.com/cell/fulltex...

#sleep #growth

Here you go again, #republicans, #conservatives, #maga... he can't be bothered to care about your daycare needs or your health: he's busy with fighting wars with your #tax #revenue.

No aid or care for you. He USED you to get out and stay out of jail.

#conman #grifter #warmonger #fraud

Pic: tRump wearing a crown in a fighter jet dumping excrement on protestors in streets Text: "If millions of people are protesting... and your first thought is to post an AI video of yourself wearing a crown and dumping sh!t from a jet on to said protestors... You are mentally ill."

#NoKings (or queens) here on @bsky.app - please

A new way to deliver faster, greener wireless connections indoors A chip‑scale laser array with integrated beam shaping enables ultrafast, energy‑efficient optical wireless links for indoor networks

𝐅𝐚𝐬𝐭𝐞𝐫 𝐨𝐩𝐭𝐢𝐜𝐚𝐥 𝐥𝐢𝐧𝐞-𝐨𝐟-𝐬𝐢𝐠𝐡𝐭 𝐰𝐢𝐫𝐞𝐥𝐞𝐬𝐬 𝐜𝐨𝐧𝐧𝐞𝐜𝐭𝐢𝐨𝐧𝐬 𝐢𝐧𝐝𝐨𝐨𝐫𝐬 - 𝐛𝐮𝐭 𝐝𝐨𝐧'𝐭 𝐠𝐢𝐯𝐞 𝐮𝐩 𝐨𝐧 𝐖𝐢𝐅𝐢 𝐲𝐞𝐭! [via SPIE] 🧪💿⚙️🔀

"researchers demonstrate a compact optical wireless transmitter that combines very high data rates with improved energy efficiency"

spie.org/news/a-new-w...

#optical #data #interconnect

Pam Bondi lasted 38 #Scaramucci 's and a #covfefe

Solving the mystery that could help fusion reactors survive decades of use PPPL-led simulations have identified why far more exhaust particles strike the inner divertor target than the outer one in tokamaks, a long-observed phenomenon that previous models couldn’t fully expl...

Advances in the fusion Tokamak machine [via Princeton U] 🧪🥼⚛️💥🔋

"finding suggests that accurately predicting exhaust behavior in future fusion systems will require [including] the rotating plasma core influences edge flows"

www.pppl.gov/news/2026/so...

#fusion #tokamak #simulations #experiments

reminds me of something 😉

The key is to try... and try again?

New theory reshapes quantum view of Big Bang | Waterloo News Waterloo scientists have developed a new way to understand how the universe began, and it could change what we know about the Big Bang and the earliest moments of cosmic history. Their work suggests t...

𝐀 𝐐𝐮𝐚𝐧𝐭𝐮𝐦 𝐆𝐫𝐚𝐯𝐢𝐭𝐲 𝐭𝐡𝐞𝐨𝐫𝐲 𝐨𝐟 𝐭𝐡𝐞 𝐁𝐢𝐠 𝐁𝐚𝐧𝐠
[via U of Waterloo] 🧪🥼⚛️🌌💥

"team found that the Big Bang’s rapid early expansion can emerge naturally from this simple, consistent theory of quantum gravity"

uwaterloo.ca/news/media/n...

#quadratic #quantum #gravity #BigBang #theory

One of the first people known to change their gender was an ancient Egyptian pharaoh NPR art director and illustrator Jackie Lay tells the story of Hatshepsut, who is widely regarded as one of the greatest pharaohs in Egypt's history — but whose legacy was erased for over 3,000 years.

𝗢𝗻𝗲 𝗼𝗳 𝘁𝗵𝗲 𝘃𝗲𝗿𝘆 𝗳𝗶𝗿𝘀𝘁 𝘁𝗼 𝗰𝗵𝗮𝗻𝗴𝗲 𝗴𝗲𝗻𝗱𝗲𝗿 𝘄𝗮𝘀 𝗮𝗻 𝗘𝗴𝘆𝗽𝘁𝗶𝗮𝗻 𝗣𝗵𝗮𝗿𝗮𝗼𝗵, 𝗛𝗮𝘁𝘀𝗵𝗲𝗽𝘀𝘂𝘁 [via @npr.org] 🧪👩‍🔬🌍👑🧞‍♀️🧞

"no female ruler of the ancient world was as adept and successful as #Hatshepsut, which may be ... why her legacy was erased for so long"

www.npr.org/sections/the...

#ancient #pharaoh #gender

Cartoon sketch of an illegible, scratchy signature with KKK, clown, king, and maga hats atop the taller letters - cartoon by Fahd Bahady

Soon to come on US currency notes 🗽💵🤡
(cartoon by Fahd Bahady)

#America #clown #circus

Nanoplastic concentrations across the North Atlantic - Nature Observations from 12 hydrocast stations along a transect crossing the North Atlantic from the subtropical gyre to the northern European shelf provide evidence of large amounts of nanoplastics througho...

𝐍𝐚𝐧𝐨𝐩𝐥𝐚𝐬𝐭𝐢𝐜 𝐜𝐨𝐧𝐜𝐞𝐧𝐭𝐫𝐚𝐭𝐢𝐨𝐧𝐬 𝐚𝐜𝐫𝐨𝐬𝐬 𝐭𝐡𝐞 𝐍𝐨𝐫𝐭𝐡 𝐀𝐭𝐥𝐚𝐧𝐭𝐢𝐜 [via Nature] 🧪⚗️🌊🏭🐋☠️

"[given] their ability to traverse biological barriers, translocate, bioaccumulate and interact chemically at rapid rates, they [are] the most problematic plastic size fraction for ocean life."

www.nature.com/articles/s41...