I like it. In each figure one of them points out.
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I like it. In each figure one of them points out.
A beautiful orange rock posy lichen (Rhizoplaca chrysoleuca), from my time in Yellowknife, NT, Canada. #lichen #fungifriends
In a new #ScienceReview, researchers discuss the latest understanding of secondary organic aerosol formation in urban China, providing a framework for identifying knowledge gaps and guiding future research into haze chemistry and pollution control strategies. https://scim.ag/3HCgNrX
Dit is extreem zorgwekkend. Palantir is een belangrijke bouwsteen van de wereldwijde antidemocratische beweging. En heeft dus toegang tot zo’n beetje al onze data.
And yes, William Broad/New York Times, it really IS appropriate to compare the current assault on science by the Trump administration and its enablers in congress to that by Stalin a century ago: bsky.app/profile/mich...
I hate and fear authoritarians just as much as you (I guess) but not sure all of them will make global warming so much worse, they clearly don't make it better, but that is not the same as making it (much) worse.China is autocratic and they are still on plan to be carbon neutral by 2060.
Yes it is getting worse, that is exactly what this graph is implying. Are you implying it is getting even worse than this graph is implying because of what Trump is doing? What he is doing is destroying the US, that will not make this much worse, that might even make this slightly better.
Threads is wel een goed film en ze gaan een remake maken heb ik gehoord....
Maybe something like at least four times a week one of the following: Brassicas (cabbage, broccoli, cauliflower etc), Pulses (peas, beans), leafy(Chard, Spinach). Btw potato is also good if you don't add sodium salt.
Don't get me wrong it is cool that vegetables rich diet induced higher potassium is associated with lower death. I am eating beets tonight but articles like this are the start of horrible food fads with negative health outcomes. The message should be: eat a diverse range of vegetables often.
Let's hope that doesn't lead to a hype of UHP "with extra potassium". I might be unnecessary sceptical but it seems to me that researchers "discovering" we should eat more vegetables isn't the breakthrough as it is presented here. www.theguardian.com/society/2025...
Yes Dublin agreement did not really work well for many reasons, it was problematic to the asylum seekers and a bit unfair to the border countries and countries dealing with surges. It was better than what we have now though.
terrific piece by @dziblatt.bsky.social in Foreign Affairs too few know the details of how German politicians & institutions went AWOL when it came to defending the core principles of civil society that cowardice remains our biggest vulnerability www.foreignaffairs.com/germany/hitl...
I vaguely remember tweeting something like the country that effectively captures this free energy source at scale will rule the 21st century. whelp.
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Ha, same!
I agree, and it is infuriating, but I think it really is a certain sincere conscious naive optimism that you can change the system for the better by being part of it and if the other make millions you can do to. And you know what, it is infuriating but it is not always bad, it actually works a bit.
Save your money. Studies show that tap water works just fine. www.nytimes.com/2025/07/21/w...
Mensen onderschatten doorgaans hoe kwetsbaar vrijheden zijn als je ze onvoldoende beschermt. In een paar jaar kun je ongekende schade aan een democratie aanrichten die maar moeilijk te herstellen is. En vaak is de grootste schade normalisering van antidemocratisch denken.
'Russische drones vliegen over Duitsland en bespioneren wapenroutes VS'
I prefer the real Budweiser (from České Budějovice, Czechia) over Sam Adams, and Sam Adams over the American Bud.
I genuinely think one thing that trips up folks on the left is that they can't imagine not sharing certain core values. Lemme explain. Here's an intuition pump: Say you're in negotiations with counterparty X. And there are two possible deals on the table ...
I was shocked when I first saw these results from standard climate models used in IPCC reports: for high emissions, the Atlantic overturning circulation #AMOC shuts down in all 9 models that ran past 2100, and is well on the way to shutdown by 2100. Our paper on that is out today.🧵
You can always put it on www.biorxiv.org & www.micropublication.org/https://www....
Voor de duidelijkheid, ik woon ook niet in NL en ik ben niet tegen de VS in het algemeen, ik kwam er graag en heb er diverse vrienden, maar momenteel is de situatie toch wel zorgelijk...
Yes of course, depends on the additional analysis and the results how interesting it is. If it is just a contaminant it is not that interesting(still worth publishing!) if you found an interesting reason (for instance metabolic codependency) that would be more interesting.
Naar de VS? Echt?
Chancellor Merz: This war must end.Like you,we want the issues in Ukraine to finally be put to rest,ideally today&immediately.But not at any price We don't want Ukraine to capitulate.Such a capitulation would only buy Russia time.Putin would use this time to prepare for the next war
Absoluut!
Tenzij de rest van het Midden Oosten ook mee doet, wel altijd wat vreemd dat Israël mee doet aan EK.
Erfbelasting kan zeer geleidelijk omhoog, eerst 10 jaar alles boven de miljoen extra belasten. Zelfde voor hypotheekrenteaftrek, eerst alleen afschaffen voor de portie van de hypotheek boven de miljoen. Zo pak je er geen gewone hard werkende mensen mee.
Belangrijk is om leugens te weerleggen, maar ze niet als relevant gespreksonderwerp op laten dringen en niet op zijn termen te bespreken. Minder "Jaaaa maaaar internationale verdragen" En meer "de langstzittende plucheplakker met zijn Btw-verhoging begint weer te brallen over vluchtelingen"
Two more famous people you can have interesting conversations about heat: Micheal Mann
Two other famous people you can have interesting but confusing conversations about: the award winning author(s) David Mitchell.
Two people you can have very confusing but interesting conversations about: Tom Holland.
You honestly learn so much by translierating the Latin and Greek. Phagocyte = a cell that eats Liposome = fatty blob Foramen magnum = massive hole Streptococcus = twisty berry
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Thanks for the clarification. I did see the graph, bot others might not, so important to point it out. My uneducated guess just was that those countries would be even less religious than the UK or the Netherlands, but in one reading of your data that is not the case.
Robot meets bollard. Nothing beats the #WorldBollardAssociation
Surprised that Scandinavia and the Baltics are still majority christian, I would have guessed they would be in the same boat as NL, UK and CZ, the rest more or less as expected.
Hoho vergeet het Klokhuis niet...
Oké, komt ie, een poging tot een heel lang draadje. Als het je geen ruk interesseert (even goede vrienden), zet ‘m op mute ajb: de world solar challenge!
This still hurts metalinjection.net/this-is-just...
Let-them-stick: Increasing biofilm formation by the acetogen Sporomusa ovata through adaptive laboratory evolution https://www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1101/2025.06.26.661873v1
Great short interview, hope everyone with a strong opinion on the Russian invasion of Ukraine will watch it. Wish it was longer and more in depth.
Philip Stephens: 'The British view of Northern Ireland is a bit like the attitude to the Falklands'
Let's be clear: all the AI in edtech stuff (Canvas, Blackboard, Grammarly, Duolingo, OpenAI, the rest) is all about the "lock-in" - locking in students as subscribers or institutions via long-term license agreements for value generation. Is there good pedagogic evidence for it? No.
This is true for many field often not considered creative (but are): science, engineering etc. Science is humans learning to understand nature, engineering is creating things (tools) that make human lives easier. That requires humans interacting in the creative proces. AI cannot replace that.
That would be very unlikely as most Turkish people were still living thousands of miles from modern day Turkey and it would be 700 years in the future before they arrived in Anatolia. But I get your point, and it is fair and funny...
Some recent discussions reminded me of this one from David Mitchell: "You need the unbending Churchills to save us from the mass-murdering Hitlers but, with no Hitlers around, the Churchills are annoying as hell."
"I've never seen so many people with these awful, contorted faces … They were shouting 'Refugees, go home!' and 'Get rid of them!' and 'Paedos!' We're all rather shaken because we're a small market town, and we just don't have aggro like that."
Leesvoer! En ik heb vanmorgen de aflevering van BOOS bekeken en deze is verplichte kijkkost, al werd ik er wel heel verdrietig van. m.youtube.com/watch?v=vRZs...
Je kan toch vinden dat we extreem hard ons best moeten doen om te zorgen dat niemand actieve kernwapens heeft, of andere extreme wapens, dat we alles op alles moeten zetten om oorlog te voorkomen, en denken dat momenteel het toch beter is om voor te bereiden voor een oorlog en flink te bewapenen?
Maar met die logica is elke opname zeldzaam, want elke opname kan maar een keer gebeuren...
This is camphor; a rigid and chiral ketone. It finds little use these days, but you may encounter it as a component of the taste of Rosemary.🧪#SciComm
As I’ve said from the beginning, none of our allies should share intelligence with America as long as Trump is in the White House and Tulsi Gabbard has any access to intelligence. Neither Trump nor Gabbard can be trusted with intelligence.
Hoe zijn die opnames zeldzaam als iedereen ze kan beluisteren? Zo een irritante en onnodige herdefiniëring van het woord zeldzaam is ook in het Engels gebruikelijk aan het worden voor het woord 'rare', waarom? Informatie die op een publieke server staat is niet meer zeldzaam.
Nicely jibes w a general principle I got frm @jedfuhrman.bsky.social: if you can measure it, nobody wants it. (Obviously an oversimplification, but point is to think about turnover rates vs. stocks) Microbes release lower-value metabolites at higher rates www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1... #jcampubs 🌊
It is even worse because with too little context the Fins were said to have collaborated with the Nazis in my Dutch history book. I don't think I heard about the winter war and the continuation war before I went to St Petersburg in 1997 and I read about the local history of Karelia.
Trust me, Finish history was maybe give sentences in my Dutch secondary education. And if I talk about it here in Scotland with non history buffs they also have no idea, I am sure this is even worse in England because at least here struggle for independence is seen as something positive.
Reminds me of: open.spotify.com/track/55g43E...
I am sorry, I wish this was true, but we have our own fascist populists here that are nearly as nasty
I think a lot of people in Europe also have no idea to be fair.
But thought it was worthwhile for four years. Many ideas were not ripe for their time, maybe this is something we should start again because this time could do with some structured discussions.
Wasn't in NATO before, but was in EU and had defense agreements with some EU countries. Just before full scale invasion of Ukraine started, there was a misinformation campaign from Russian troll farms aiming to make an enemy of Finland, it toned down when the initial three day blitz failed.
#Hein
Weird question...but if your first language is something other than english or french, can you send a voice memo of the way people who speak your language tend to pronounce croissant to hankandjohn@gmail.com?
In addition to the beautiful and scientifically significant Paleozoic fossils, Anticosti Island has spectacular views. The left is a photo of camp during sunset near the east end, on the right is a view of the sun rising from the north coast. Neither image used a filter or are altered in any way 🧪
Have you noticed that Trump has not issued a statement on the CDC shooting? Recall that the guy fired 500 gunshots at the staff. Instead, Trump is obsessed with wanting the Nobel Peace prize & called the PM of Norway about it. The priorities speaks volumes. 🧪 abcnews.go.com/amp/US/1-wee...
Every reputable expert I know considers mRNA vaccine technology to be one of the most revolutionary advances in medicine in our lifetimes. Its inventors won the Nobel Prize in 2023. Shutting it down now is pointless self-harm to humanity.
BREAKING: Protests in Anchorage, Alaska against the Trumputin regime and in support of Ukraine.
If those numbers are true it's a quarter of the population protesting. That makes it one the relatively largest protests ever. Still too few? Yes, as long the state is committing genocide any protest is too small, but the regime is not supported by the people and hopefully topples, soon.
A woman who was 20 weeks pregnant fed her toddler son raw milk. He contracted Campylobacter and then passed the infection to her; she progressed to sepsis, and had a miscarriage. She is suing the business that sells the raw milk, saying she didn’t know the risk. Don’t feed your kids raw milk.
Except what Putin is doing is not hard, it is something any decent politician could think up, but since they are decent they would not do. The man is a thug with nukes, not a master strategist.
“The current size of the map of Africa is wrong,” said Moky Makura, the executive director of Africa No Filter. “It’s the world’s longest misinformation and disinformation campaign, and it just simply has to stop.”
It is the same party...
"BBB, minder winkelen over de grens, meer grenscontroles". Hier word je toch gek van? We hebben een betere infrastructuur nodig, geen controles. Geen bus in de Niederrhein is succesvoller dan lijn 58, Emmerich-Nijmegen, 's-Heerenberg/Emmerich is 1 hup. Kleve en Nijmegen zijn communicerend vaten.
All bordering countries or Russia should do this, allas some of the border areas are currently littered with current and future sunflower fertilizers...
Revisiting NY Times opinion page from about a week BEFORE 2024 election. Not even a year in & trump has made progress on every single item here. There could not have been more explicit warnings, including Project 2025! Still angry at majority of white voters who chose this.
Day 261 of #GeorgiaProtests Today, protesters are having a Ukrainian march in support of Ukraine at the Alaska talks. Georgian, Ukrainian, and American flags are seen. "Victory to Ukraine! Victory to Georgia! Down with Russia's rotten Empire!"
Trump dag 208: Ondanks rode loper geen deal met Poetin, 20 agenten arresteren sandwich-man, tienduizenden Oekraïners in VS verliezen status, man dood na vluchten voor ICE, voorwaarde Hillary voor Nobelprijs Trump, geen tandenborstel voor migranten: reportersonline.nl/trump-dag-20...
I am not a big drinker so I can't help save the industry but I don't like that the New World hop flavour came to dominate the market. I love the British real cask ale, it is unique and just lovely and I want British hop varieties in my beer if I drink one, once a month.
Professorship in Microbial Genetics @ University of Göttingen. Don't miss this chance to become my colleague! uni-goettingen.de/en/699057.html #SubtiWiki
One of the many things the US could learn from looking abroad. Walking, cycling or public transport are the normal way to get to school in many countries, one just needs to set up the country so that this works.
Dit, en de rest van de prachtig geschreven en zwaar indrukwekkende column van Tommy Wieringa. Fascisme zegeviert en ik word er bang van. www.volkskrant.nl/columns-opin...
The team of Ph.D. level experts in ChatGPT apparently doesn't include any anatomists.
Don't get me wrong I am no expert either, just did a few night walks with a bat group in Nottingham and the North of the Netherlands a couple of years ago and remember some of their wisdom.
The species is Edinburgh are not super hard to to differentiate just on how they fly mostly. Bats in flight identification guide | Natural History Museum share.google/yavjeBTJScSd...
I don’t think education or politicians are ready for how today’s young people will react when they find out that phones and internet use were controlled to “protect them”, all while schools and edtech shared data that will harm them for life. I don’t think the adults are ready for that backlash
"Today Georgia, tomorrow Ukraine..." – 17 years ago, Polish President Lech Kaczyński warned the world from the podium at a rally in Tbilisi. His words sounded like a prophecy. 📹: Echo of the Caucasus
This from @tressiemcphd.bsky.social hit me over the head like a mallet of truth. This is the thing. This is what I’ve been trying to warn people about perfectly crystallized. www.nytimes.com/2025/08/12/o...
Yep. And that we have been so poorly educated that we choose the fictional versions not the real events that inspired them otherwise others won't recognise them as there is no shared reality. This is not a comment, I do the same and it makes sense, but it is somewhat sad...
Rupert Lowe: “Dinghies coming into Great Yarmouth RIGHT NOW.” Reality: Charity rowers on a fundraising challenge. Result: MND Association gets £1,000. Accidental activism & misinformation at its finest. Owen Sennitt reports
In all fairness that is partly what I like about it. News and interesting ideas from all over the world, not hindered by the need for big emotional debates to generate clicks...
Is choosing electroweak as a unified force cheating?
From a lecture I'm currently writing about the history of #Invertebrate taxonomy. Those myxozoans do be tricky 🧪
“Trump says” vs. actual data on crime dropping in DC is not “Trump says vs. the Mayor says.” It’s “Trump says” vs. fact. Trump’s “crime & squalor” excuse is pretext & his naming other cities all w/Black mayors as his next targets compels an honest confrontation w/Trump’s racism & authoritarianism.
Let's hope all European cities follow Helsinki and can become zero traffic death cities. www.forbes.com/sites/tanyam...