"Dude"

The Earthset abides. I don't know about you, but I take comfort in that.

Incredible discovery. At the Corktown Place shop inside McNamara terminal at DTW it is possible to buy an edible sandwich, drink, and a bag of chips for 8.95. what is this 1995 time warp

Deep-sea wildernesses are more important than the promise of seafloor mining (analysis) When I set sail on the MV NorSky in the summer of 2008 to probe the depths of Manus Basin off the coast of Papua New Guinea, I believed in the promise of deep-sea mining. As an early-career deep-sea e...

The only thing inevitable in the deep sea is discovery.

Deep-sea wildernesses are more important than the promise of seafloor mining.

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Said it before: we need to make that Cambridge computer scientist the prime minister

a silhouette of a robot standing on top of a hill with its arms outstretched . ALT: a silhouette of a robot standing on top of a hill with its arms outstretched .

its just a matter of time before someone puts an LLM into a johnny 5 and tells it that it IS johnny 5.

chew on that.

SAPE 2026 SAPE 2026 Conference

Society for Avian Paleontology and Evolution will be in Christchurch NZ 19-23 Oct 2026

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This is Brandy. She practices self-care by dissociating in the bathtub. 13/10 honestly no notes (TT: monkeyshinekennel)

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genzplyr is the way

A skinny big-eyed brown lanternfish. Image by Emma Kissling from wikimedia https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lanternfish

Please remember when you swim in the ocean:

200 meters below you, there is a layer of fish that stretches all around the world. It is so dense, that when it was discovered during WWII it scared the navy so bad they bombed it.

This is the ocean's thin inner shell of fish [🧵]

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yeah i dont think anything you've said is incompatible with what i said, in any way.

Cleaned up Reid Wiseman's earth-eclipse circulating around (just some denoise and sharpening). DM if you want the file.

this paper on manakins plumage maturation is now typeset so i am going to drink beer and explain what the heck is going on here, because I think manakins and molt are amazing and I fear a lot of the evolutionary wonder runs the risk of getting lost, so to speak, in the sauce

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Big news, gulls eating bugs today

Structure and sequence evolution in the pennycress (Thlaspi arvense) pangenome Eukaryotic genomes harbor many forms of variation, including nucleotide diversity and structural polymorphisms, which experience natural selection and contribute to genome evolution and biodiversity...

Out now in @newphyt.bsky.social with @joannarifkin.bsky.social, @jotlovell.bsky.social, @spicybotrytis.bsky.social & more! Our high-quality pennycress pangenome is a striking example of genome architecture shaping different kinds of genomic variation, including some surprising centromeric movement

NASA astronaut and Artemis II Commander Reid Wiseman took this picture of Earth from the Orion spacecraft's window on April 2, 2026, after completing the translunar injection burn.

Lot of recalled products down there.

Pretty much every aspect is now touched by AI. It's enabled me to do significantly higher quality work than I could before. I don't think the point about intuition is wrong. I just don't think it's a simple question or answer.

You can ask me that.

Not convinced really.

Car manufacturers who sell vehicles in the U.S. have once again, missed the train. The trend for huge gas guzzling vehicles has once again met high fuel prices and the only manufacturers who will be able to sell anything will be Asian as they still offer viable and reliable frugal choices.

Maybe. Nobody actually knows what the impact will be. The hypothesis about building intuition is a fair one, but who can say that the bandwidth opened up by not doing the grunt work makes space for other kinds of important intuition?

We’ve been talking in our lab meetings about sexual conflict and sexual dimorphism, and have some thoughts. What if animal genomes are far more sex-specific and less cosntrained than we assume? @linley-sherin.bsky.social pulled it all together here www.zoology.ubc.ca/mank-lab/pdf... 1/n

Fun.

Tommy Lee Jones in a sheriff's uniform, holding a newspaper and looking overtop a pair of glasses with exasperation.

If you score 99/100 on an exam, and you come to office hours to discuss "what you missed", you are getting this look.

New market for chicken leather get in while you can

This is intense.

New report from us: Can you prompt inject your way to an “A”?

As LLMs increasingly are used as judges, people are inserting AI prompts into letters, CVs & papers. We tested whether it works. It does on older & smaller models, but not on most new frontier AI: gail.wharton.upenn.edu/research-and...

Michael Collins, the chap who took this photograph, remains the only person on earth to have taken a photo that had everyone in shot aside himself.

If Artemis is going up then it gives me an excuse to once again post this photo, the only one to contain every human being in the universe but one.

The Purple Frog is my Favorite Frog Shining a light on the dark parts of the tree of life

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