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submitted 30 days ago • 0 comments

OK, this is wild. In September 2023, geophysicists across the world started monitoring a very odd signal coming from the ground under them. It was picked up in the Arctic. And Antarctica. It was detected everywhere, every 90 seconds, as regular as a metronome, for *nine days*. What the HELL? 1/

submitted 35 days ago • 763 comments

If the infra (power grids) aren’t there yet - use what you have. Can’t help but think of this old quote. en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Andrew_...

submitted 50 days ago • 4 comments

icymi; paper has now been viewed over 3 K times. 😀 Ten simple rules for fostering creativity in research labs journals.plos.org/ploscompbiol...

submitted 74 days ago • 0 comments

A thread of interdimensional portals I've found on walks in the British countryside.

submitted 81 days ago • 121 comments

Southern Britain will soon have the climate of southern Europe, but the plants and other species that make up our forests aren’t adapted to those conditions So if we want forests in Britain in future, what are we going to do? The answer requires upending decades of conservation convention 1/

submitted 81 days ago • 13 comments

When I tell people that London's climate will be like that of Barcelona, 25 years from now, people look at me like I'm mad. But it's going to happen! & it'll be that much hotter in London, imagine what it'll be like in Spain! 🥵🔥 We're nowhere near prepared for what's coming.

submitted 81 days ago • 17 comments

Dryness = 1 is the "King" to determine if ecosystem respiration is sensitive or insensitive to temperature,

submitted 105 days ago • 1 comment

Tropical Cyclone Alfred will pass over this tongue of warm water in the East Australian Current (EAC) as it approaches QLD's southeast coast. This may help it gain strength prior to landfall, with current forecasts suggesting landfall as a high-end cat 2 system. 📷: IMOS

submitted 104 days ago • 0 comments

"Almost forty per cent of federal government agencies duty-bound to produce an AI transparency statement have missed the February filing deadline, in a blow to Canberra’s efforts to build public trust in its use of the technology." www.innovationaus.com/dozens-of-ag...

submitted 105 days ago • 0 comments

"In other words, for every dollar lost in slightly increased travel times, the report estimates New Zealand gains between NZ$2 and $10 in reduced crash costs" Lol great article on the complete lack of any benefit (and therefore sense) to raising speeds. theconversation.com/false-econom...

submitted 106 days ago • 5 comments

Ok, quick thread on why DeepSeek is blowing up assumptions about LLMs and maybe the whole (U.S.) AI industry. DeepSeek is an AI lab funded by a Chinese hedge fund, their AI code is open source, meaning freely available to use, which most big U.S. models (aside from Meta’s) are not. That’s the start…

submitted 140 days ago • 123 comments

*I blame the Middle Ages in science fiction “Globalized culture,” Roy expounds, “is by definition a kitsch culture”:...the Middle Ages in science fiction, and on scraps of places, period and historical figures that are all … unmoored" www.tabletmag.com/sections/art...

submitted 168 days ago • 0 comments

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submitted 179 days ago • 63 comments

"People seem to be grappling with a more fundamental question: Does posting add more to my life than it extracts? In this iteration of the internet, in this ideological climate, with these platform-specific incentives — is social media 'worth' it?" annehelen.substack.com/p/posting-less

submitted 183 days ago • 3 comments

Buried paleosols hold a LOT of #Carbon. What happens when they are exposed? McMurtry et al. show “paleosols defy expectations of C content and reactivity” Getting to the root of the problem: Soil carbon and microbial response... www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...

submitted 205 days ago • 2 comments

I can’t stop thinking of commonalities between Trumpian politics and The Artifical Kid by @bruces.bsky.social en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Art...

submitted 209 days ago • 0 comments

Good news for once! We’ve found a 300-year-old coral that’s so big it’s visible from space. It’s now considered the world’s largest. Best of all: it’s not yet harmed by climate change & global warming. It’s being called a beacon of hope. Let it also be a call to action! #DoSomething 🧵

submitted 213 days ago • 64 comments

Ascii flame #digitalart #indiedev #retro

submitted 234 days ago • 35 comments

"The quick brown fox jumped over the lazy dog." - Glamorizes hustle culture - Speciest - Was taught to you in elementary school "Sphinx of black quartz, judge my vow." - Metal as fuck - Implies that you are a wizard - No one will know you are testing out a font

submitted 244 days ago • 156 comments