The oldest known image of Keith Richards, published around 1140 AD ...

Holy. Shit. This is Reid Wiseman's video he took with his iPhone while at the moon 🌙

More than half of UK voters support rejoining the EU, study finds Majority of voters back the government’s current push to ‘reset’ relations with the EU, experts find

Support for rejoining the EU according to party affiliation...

🔴 Labour: 83%
🟡 LibDems: 84%
🟢 Greens: 82%
🔵 Tories:39%
🟣 Reform: 18%

#RejoinEU 🇬🇧🇪🇺

This wonderful horse who nobody wanted is beloved by the barnyard cats, especially Snoopy. Sig is surrounded by his mini cat herd and his lonely days are over.🩷
#Caturday 🐾

Morning all.

Photographer Tony Ray-Jones.
Weymouth 1968.

We’re one step closer to understanding the sperm whale ‘alphabet’ Scientists are learning that sperm whales communicate in ways that may mirror human language.

We have no business sharing the world with whales. My second favourite creatures after equines 🐋

2,599 applicants offered NSF GRFP awards! Congrats to all the NSF GRFP award winners and recipients of honorable mention. https://www.research.gov/grfp/AwardeeList.do?method=loadAwardeeList

Massive and important positive news...

#NSF #GRFP awards are out.

2,599 awards!
+
1,440 Honorable Mentions.

A significant boost from last year.

Congratulations to the winners (and HM-s)!

& many thanks to the reviewers & program officers who made this possible.

www.research.gov/grfp/Awardee...

'Wild Through Time': Montana State scientist helps bring Yellowstone National Park to screen on Earth Day “Yellowstone Wild Through Time” received several awards of merit from the Cannes Film Festival in the Best Nature/Wildlife Film category.

Come to the movie premiere at 2pm Wednesday next week. Please RSVP. Link to that and the trailer in article www.bozemandailychronicle.com/news/wild-th...

Red hair gene favoured by natural selection over last 10,000 years, study finds Scientists suggest red hair and fair skin were favoured for vitamin D efficiency in study focused on whether human evolution plateaued after advent of agriculture

People with red hair may be pleased to learn that they appear to be winners from an evolutionary perspective.

A large genetics study has revealed that, in Europe, the gene for red hair has been actively selected for more than 10,000 years.

🧪🧬👩‍🦰🏆
www.theguardian.com/science/2026...

Wow. The surface of the moon… with the moon in the background. Space is a crazy place.

It’s that wonderful time of year again. A new GTDB release is out :)

Please stop with the AI BS! 👿

IMO the two biggest dangers of AI are that it affirms everything you think and that it destroys your critical thinking.

And each reinforces the other. The more you lean on it for your thinking, the more it reinforces it. And the more it reinforces it, the more you rely on it.

Very bad.

For 56 of the 94 fungal species assessed in this study, there's still insufficient data to reliably evaluate extinction risk.

A reminder of how much fungal diversity remains understudied, and how urgently better knowledge is needed for conservation.

🔗 conbio.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/abs/10.1...

Don’t Perish! A Step-by-Step Guide to Writing a Scientific Paper (2026 edition) Great science deserves to be read — not buried under unclear writing. This is the updated 2026 edition of your favorite guide to writing…

I just published Don’t Perish! A Step-by-Step Guide to Writing a Scientific Paper (2026 edition)

Great science deserves to be read—not buried under unclear writing. This is the updated 2026 edition of your favorite guide to writing scientific papers.

medium.com/p/dont-peris...

Spork_the_dork's comment on "Atmospheric re-entry of NASA’s Orion (Artemis 1) looks insane at 20x speed. Here is the entire 25-minute descent in just 1 minute 15 seconds. Credit: NASA" Explore this conversation and more from the Damnthatsinteresting community

www.reddit.com/r/Damnthatsi...

HUNGARY---Victor Orban concedes to this man, Peter Magyar, a cat guy! Bravo to the Hungarians for standing up against dictatorship.

I came upon this 2024 open-access book by the estimable W Ford Doolittle --
Darwinizing Gaia: Natural Selection and Multispecies Community Evolution
direct.mit.edu/books/oa-mon...

Looks fascinating: an esteemed molecular biologist who has invested time in understanding philosophy
🧪🧫 #philsci

Péter Magyar victory speech:

"Hungary wants to be a European country again. We want to return to Europe."

The crowd immediately chants "Russians, go home" in response.

Ruskin Spear (British, 1911-1990). Cat in a cardboard box (oil on board).

The shared excitement over NASA’s recent mission compared to the general indifference to SpaceX missions speaks to the power of something seen as the product of communal human effort rather than just the ego and avarice of one obnoxious dork.

A photography of a velvet worm crawling on a moss-covered trunk. The animal is worm-like, with many soft pairs of legs and a pair of long, segmented antennae. All over the animal's body, there are hundreds of multi-coloured lumps, which resemble dress sequins.

I recently discovered this incredible creature while on a night walk in the NZ bush. Known as a 'Velvet Worms', this adorable predator immobilises prey with organic glue fired from turrets on its head!

Oh... and they are basically unchanged in about 400 million years!

#TheWorldBeneathOurFeet 🧪

It is always a delight talking with @gbaucom.bsky.social! This time about what I learned while writing an editorial in @evolletters.bsky.social about how to maintain integrity as AI changes how we write. Conversation@ www.evolutionsociety.org/the-evolutio... Editorial@ doi.org/10.1093/evle...

An entire store run by AI. It picked the location, decided what to sell, hired the employees, and even hired the artist that painted the store's mural.

Some things are working well, but some are not. It has lied, lied about lying, and hired someone in Afghanistan.

www.nbcnews.com/tech/innovat...

Episode 44 of Kilauea’s ongoing eruption has begun 😀

Who is the cutest Kitten of them all?! 💗

Bloody hell. Researchers invented a disease, published two fake papers to see if LLM’s would ingest them and kick them up as fact — and then it broke containment and all the major AI’s bought in. Information pollution.

www.nature.com/articles/d41...

CDC delays publishing report showing covid vaccine benefits The acting CDC director cited concerns with the methodology, but the design has long been used to test vaccine effectiveness.

Temporary CDC “Director” Jay Bhattacharya is a non-practicing MD, economist, and whiny little shitbird with a persecution complex.

He has ZERO education, training or experience in epidemiological study design and has no business at deciding what methodology should be used to evaluate vaccines.

Nobody assumes the CEO of Toyota must be some sort of brilliant engineer, but we have for some reason developed this collective notion that being a successful tech CEO must make you a tech genius.

The cartoon of the guy saying “say I am alive” to a computer” and the computer says “I am alive” and the guy replies “Oh my god”

Every credulous buffoon in Tech Journalism: