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If you say so

submitted 22 hours ago • 54 comments

four nations so far

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lol

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Sabotage. Criminal sabotage. "[The NSF] is planning to lay off between a quarter and a half of its staff in the next two months, a top National Science Foundation official said Tuesday." www.eenews.net/articles/sci...

submitted 21 days ago • 39 comments

It’s time for Canada to import Japanese zoning, Korean and Spanish transit construction practices, Dutch road design, and Swiss building codes.

submitted 23 days ago • 14 comments

this hurts worse than the tariffs 😭

submitted 24 days ago • 295 comments

at a talk on geospatial analysis and the speaker mentioned a CDC resource on vulnerability to disasters, which has just been purged www.atsdr.cdc.gov/placeandheal...

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going to try building my own speed camera based off of this project www.hackster.io/hodgestk/tra... 1/n step 1: get a raspberry pi working

submitted 26 days ago • 1 comment

A great article from @amymaxmen.bsky.social on the implications of the freeze on comms from CDC - we’re now flying blind in so many aspects of public health, which is dangerous on a good day. But during an H5N1 outbreak? Disastrous.

submitted 26 days ago • 1 comment

Filamentous phages (viruses) spontaneously align into liquid crystals that protect the bacteria within from antibiotics, desiccation, and the immune system 🦠🧫🧪🧬 www.cell.com/cell-host-mi...

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We CT scanned thousands of vertebrates from US natural history collections and made them freely available. Countless people have used the data for research (>200 pubs) and to learn anatomy/morphology. www.morphosource.org/projects/000...

submitted 28 days ago • 35 comments

Awful. One of the PhD students I work with is a PREP graduate and gave them great opportunities. A wonderful resource under attack.

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I’m an NSF panel reviewer that was scheduled to meet today. Just got notice that all NSF panels were canceled today. I reviewed some innovative proposals in support of students. Devastating if these scholars don’t get to do this work. For the love of science & students I hope this is just a delay.💔

submitted 29 days ago • 69 comments

Communications shutdown. Travel ban. Canceled study sections. Now a hiring freeze? Shutting down the NIH indefinitely without stated cause is literally an act of sabotage. Left: yesterday. Right: today.

submitted 34 days ago • 59 comments

All NIH study sections canceled indefinitely. This will halt science and devastate research budgets in universities.

submitted 34 days ago • 610 comments

We took 100+ hours of footage of Lexington Ave in Manhattan, capturing some 75,000 vehicles before and after congestion pricing started, and found the drop in vehicles appears to be coming entirely from fewer personal cars. Also no change in avg car value. Congestion pricing is working (for now).

submitted 39 days ago • 53 comments

“My house is one of many that burned down. This event, for me, has destroyed any boundary between my work as a climate scientist and the rest of my life.” Read more from NASA JPL scientist Ben Hamlington:

submitted 42 days ago • 37 comments

now that overleaf has integrated AI I have a virtual dumbass suggesting things like "try the word 'embossed' instead of 'embedding'" 🥴

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Our paper on "Hydroclimate volatility on a Warming Earth" is out in Nature Reviews Earth & Environment. We assess existing scientific literature & conduct new analysis--concluding that "#HydroclimateWhiplash" is increasing due to #ClimateChange. [Thread] www.nature.com/artic...

submitted 46 days ago • 6 comments

Scoop: I obtained a confidential presentation outlining how a major conservative think tanks plans to go after volunteer editors on Wikipedia who it says are "abusing their position" and promoting antisemitism forward.com/news/686797/...

submitted 49 days ago • 169 comments

The world's richest man has joined a growing chorus of right-wing voices attacking Wikipedia as part of an intensifying campaign against free and open access information. Why do they hate it so much?

submitted 54 days ago • 328 comments

For Maths fans, 2025 is a square. 45² = 45 x 45 = 2025 Also, 9² x 5² = 2025 40² + 20² + 5² = 2025 My favourite? 1³+2³+3³+4³+5³+6³+7³+8³+9³ = 2025 #Mathematics #teaching #education

submitted 55 days ago • 955 comments

The bit about "male flight" (where women entering a field devalues it) reminded me of a study from 2009 showing wages declined within an industry as women entered it.

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R.I.P. 2024 (2024 - 2024)

submitted 56 days ago • 64 comments

roy pulling the goalie in a d-zone faceoff while on the pk??

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This year, we worked swiftly to save legacy media sites Vice.com and MTVNews before decades worth of valuable journalism could be erased. These sites are now searchable on the Wayback Machine! Help us in saving these resources:: https://archive.org/donate/?origin=blsky-eoy2024

submitted 59 days ago • 56 comments

The 2024 Headline of the Year Nominees 🧵

submitted 65 days ago • 45 comments

@jamieloftus.bsky.social's sixteenth minute has won my coveted "most frequent yet appropriate use of airhorn in a podcast" award it's very good and you should listen to it www.iheart.com/podcast/1119...

submitted 67 days ago • 6 comments

no words for this www.cbc.ca/news/canada/...

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Welp, the news is out. It's a gutting day for us at STAT with layoffs of 11 treasured, hardworking colleagues. I can't say this loud enough: Please subscribe/support the journalism you trust. Science writing jobs are going extinct at a time when we're needed most. www.bostonglobe.com/2024/12/09/b...

submitted 78 days ago • 26 comments

“Five Cars in the Bike Lane” (After Dark version) 📸 @hypatian.org

submitted 80 days ago • 3 comments

the combined spending of all five canadian federal parties in our 2022 election was $83 million, or approximately one-third of this single billionaire's donation

submitted 81 days ago • 1 comment

In one of the strangest chapters of my life, I spent several months in the trenches of Big Headlight, looking to understand just how and why headlights became brighter than the sun. Answers, graphs, penis sketches—it's all here, on the brand new Ringer site: www.theringer.com/2024/12/03/t...

submitted 84 days ago • 113 comments

if you follow sarah jeong for her tech+copyright work eventually you also get firsthand coverage of an attempted coup in south korea

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Scientists, academics, researchers: We’re excited to share that @altmetric.com is now tracking mentions of your research on Bluesky! 🧪

submitted 84 days ago • 479 comments

Very excited (and a bit nervous) to announce that I will be hiring two Postdocs for my new group(!) in Copenhagen to study the Neanderthal and Denisovan DNA which survives in present-day humans. Retweet will be much appreciated :) Link for application: candidate.hr-manager.net/ApplicationI...

submitted 85 days ago • 10 comments

Measles vaccines have saved around 94 million lives in the last 50 years. Of those, 92 million were children. Measles vaccines rank highest in total lives saved by different childhood vaccines.

submitted 85 days ago • 4 comments

oh my god

submitted 90 days ago • 44 comments