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A better informed take on the origins of Covid. TBH I’m not surprised - having seen a similar market a couple of years ago th chances of disease jumping species seemed high. www.nature.com/articles/d41...

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@mrjamesob.bsky.social apple.news/AN7R9H8r_QW-... The full transcript of Musk’s interview at CPAC. I imagined free speech might involve whole sentences or a coherent thought. But at least he was having fun.

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science.nasa.gov/missions/hub... I mean, wow. Imagine that as a backdrop for your space opera! 💙📚🪐 💙📚

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Yay, hard-copy arrived! If you think my desk is untidy you should see the rest of my office. Available on Kindle Direct, but if any mainstream science fiction publishers are interested please feel free to get in touch! 🤣🤣🤣 💙📚🪐 💙📚

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Another gem from Nature Briefing via Reuters. Add this to your Drake equation, SciFi fans. A new alternative to the 'Hard Steps' theory posits the emergence of life was always waaay more likely than previously thought. Klaatu barada nikto Earthlings. www.reuters.com/science/was-... 💙📚🪐 💙📚

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Some extraordinary images from Nature Briefing www.nature.com/immersive/d4...

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TBH Adobe After Effects get a wee bit addictive. 💙📚 #booksky

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#booksky 💙📚🪐

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Compare and contrast DeepSeek and ChatGPT with the following prompt: "write code in c++ to enable unreal engine 5.5 to import .ply files." To be clear, 'bout 18 months ago the very idea of this would have made me go - WTF??? But now I'm getting plausible answers. I <think> ChatGPT is better, but...

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Excellent article by Hannah Ritchie / Our World In Data on 'How much subsidies do fossil fuels receive?' Put that into renewables and your climate crisis might not go away, but it sure as hell would not be accelerating (oh yes it is). ourworldindata.org/how-much-sub...

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20 Favorite Science Fiction Novels No particular order 🧶 📚💙 📚🪐 #Booksky #bookchallenge #scifi #sciencefiction Day 2/20

submitted 26 days ago • 1 comment

A work in progress, but a collection of my solar system objects that I have so far captured from the backyard. 🔭 #astrophotography #planets #moon #solarsystem

submitted 27 days ago • 1 comment

Just Press Play includes a character named Marc-an octopus. Yep. You read that right. An enhanced cephalopod who is neural-linked to his sea-cop partner. 1/4 #scifibooks #scifi 💙🪐📚💙

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Parts of this universe have been stolen from Brian Greene, Michio Kaku, Max Tegmark, Carl Sagan, Gerard 't Hooft, Stephen Wolfram and Nikolai Kardashev. (And no, they can't have them back). Free today only on Kindle and KU. 💙📚🪐 #cosmology 🔭🧪 #writing

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Free on Kindle today, 26 Jan #Kindle #KindleUnlimited #book 💙🪐 💙📚 #read Hard SF. Diverse characters and Lorentzian Manifolds. String theory meets Romantasy.

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Free on Kindle for today. 💙📚

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Free on Kindle 26 Jan. #Kindle #KindleUnlimited #book 💙📚🪐 💙📚 #read Hard SF. Diverse characters and Lorentzian Manifolds. String theory meets Romantasy. BTW... Do authors find Kindle Unlimited works for them or is it Amazon hype? Just asking...

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Free on Kindle 26 Jan. #Kindle #KindleUnlimited #book 💙📚🪐 💙📚 #read Hard SF

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Free promotion coming up Sun Jan 26th, 24 hours only. A battle of diversity against conformity on a universal scale, and a human being who has to figure out an answer when she can barely understand the question. It is quite literally a matter of life or death. #booksky 💙📚 🪐 #booktok #books

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@floragraham.bsky.social “Bluesky is full of woke crazy people,” said another respondent. (Nature Briefing 24th January). Do they seriously not understand that is A Good Thing?!? 🤣

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