What is the future of intelligence? The answer could lie in the story of its evolution The advent of artificial intelligence might be just the latest stage in a guiding biological process that has produced ever more complex, mutually dependent organisms over the history of life.

@philipcball.bsky.social Have you seen this? www.nature.com/articles/d41...

“If scaling up computation yields AI, could the kind of intelligence shown by living organisms, humans included, also be the result of computational scaling?”

I think you should reply!

Bellingcat’s contact email has always been a magnet for people with fairly unusual views; paranoid delusions, sprawling conspiracies, the works. But recently, the pattern has shifted, we’re seeing more and more emails clearly written with ChatGPT.

COMMENTARY: The Danes are right, if the US president presses ahead in Greenland, other territories can and will follow elsewhere.

🔗 www.politico.eu/article/gree...

More streaming video is bad If you’re streaming video, you’re not doing homework, reading, socializing, or sleeping.

Evidence keeps piling up that the incredible progress in the field of ubiquitous hyper-compelling short-form video delivery has been bad for society and deleterious to most people’s interests.

www.slowboring.com/p/more-strea...

How Did Hands Evolve? The Answer Is Behind You.

@philipcball.bsky.social saw this in the @nytimes.com today: “hands and feet were not the products of new genes doing new things. Rather, through natural selection, pieces of old genetic recipes for ancient body parts were cobbled together into new combinations.”

www.nytimes.com/2025/09/17/s...

The August issue is now fully online, with a beautiful cover that might be a nostalgia trigger for some of us (young people can find an explanation in the Editorial):

www.nature.com/nplants/volu...

You gotta show us the photo, then!

Most likely a double exposure. Maybe the camera hadn’t been used in a long time andthe roll wasn’t wound forward. She’d appear in the middle because that’s where you’d frame a person. And it was so long ago he hadn’t remembered he’d taken this photo in the first place.

Delighted to attend Genomic Mechanisms of Disease conference! The 31st Science Cluster conference, "Genomic Mechanisms of Disease" brings together experts to discuss research on the genomic influences underlying various diseases. Thx to novonordiskfonden.dk/en/projects/...
@novo-nordisk.bsky.social

Scientist banned from entering US over opinions about Trump—Minister Border agents reportedly found comments criticizing Trump on the researcher's phone.

“Officers found messages criticizing Trump's policies on his phone and computer following sweeping cuts to scientific research. […] the researcher was sent back to France.”

And not long ago Republicans were very upset about cancel culture threatening free speech 🤔

www.newsweek.com/french-scien...