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Scientists have reconstructed the insane weather of Tylos, a world so hot, and so close to its sun that the clouds are made of vaporised metal, and where it rains liquid sapphires and rubies. https://buff.ly/41a3GnB #ShareGoodNewsToo

submitted 7 hours ago • 12 comments

Three months ago I asked you all for suggestions about a web platform for scrollytelling, and received a host of very good suggestions. We ended up going with Shorthand.com, which we found the fastest and easiest for non-designers to use. I've posted this before, but here's the website we built.

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Yes! You had me at weak ties.

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It matters that scientists speak out against what is being done to US science. Staying silent is neither "objective" nor "staying out of politics". Silence now is political - it supports the status quo, says "nothing to worry about". We need to sound the alarm. www.nature.com/articles/d41...

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There’s a lesson in this for the current Creative Australia Venice Biennale Artist & Curator scandal (we want you no we don’t). Unfortunately.

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Young men would be better off seeing their interconnectedness amongst humanity than a competitive lovejob alternative to the far right who’ve won them over with ‘you deserve adoration and respect for being a dickhead I mean real man’. But the whole essay slaps, as the young people say.

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An astute piece of journalism on pernicious, divisive goading.

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Thank you Project Gutenberg! This quote has been banging around in my head for years, unqualified!

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@thesiswhisperer.bsky.social Thought you might appreciate this short paper: Mills, Anna and Angell, Nate, Are We Tripping? The Mirage of AI Hallucinations (February 06, 2025). Available at SSRN: ssrn.com/abstract=512... or dx.doi.org/10.2139/ssrn... ps I'm enjoying OnTheReg!

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It makes me SO happy that Microsoft are 100% sticking with the "we were going for a moonshot but then the moon moved further away" metaphor for blowing wildly past their climate targets thanks to excessive ata centre expansionism blogs.microsoft.com/on-the-issue...

submitted 9 days ago • 8 comments

A really splendid review. @greyeviltwin.bsky.social

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Upgrading my visceral metaphors for impact metrics. #research

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American science and medicine has been thrown into chaos and uncertainty over the past week. Here are some stories to get up to speed. 1/12

submitted 25 days ago • 64 comments

As someone who has reported on AI for 7 years and covered China tech as well, I think the biggest lesson to be drawn from DeepSeek is the huge cracks it illustrates with the current dominant paradigm of AI development. A long thread. 1/

submitted 26 days ago • 231 comments

So after a nasty case of sunburn and sea lice, my skin relived the trauma of contact dermatitis a month ago. What consumes me is why every salve, ointment and cream for inconsolably itchy skin is so messy! Calamine! Animine! Aluminium sulfate! Novasone! At least when aloe vera dries it’s like clag.

submitted 26 days ago • 1 comment

Oh, that other world in which i was an artist bookbinder.

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“You have to act as if it were possible to radically transform the world. And you have to do it all the time.” -Angela Davis Happy 81st birthday, Angela Davis. "If you live long enough a defeat will turn into a victory." --Angela Davis

submitted 27 days ago • 84 comments

Was trying to remember why I had mentally bookmarked him and it was because last summer Colombian tabloids spread a rumor he was having an affair with Linda Yepes, a transgender newscaster. Not only did he refuse to deny it but decried transphobia as akin to Nazism

submitted 26 days ago • 82 comments

Does the culture you grow up in shape the way you see the world? In a new Psych Review paper, @chazfirestone.bsky.social & I tackle this centuries-old question using the Müller-Lyer illusion as a case study. Come think through one of history's mysteries with us🧵(1/13):

submitted 28 days ago • 31 comments

Winner sign from the Australia/invasion/survival day protests, parodying the naff anti-video piracy campaign of the 90s.

submitted 27 days ago • 0 comments

I got Portalmania, Debbie Urbanski. I think the quiz nailed it.

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submitted 28 days ago • 170 comments

Reading Muriel Rukeyser (from her 1968 collection). Almost 60 years ago, could have been written this morning.

submitted 27 days ago • 1 comment

Reminiscent of Facing the Music, the doco of the radicalisation of the music dept head, which gets more tragic with every rewatch.

submitted 27 days ago • 0 comments

A Polite Penguin Patiently Waits for Humans to Move Out of the Way 🐧

submitted 28 days ago • 475 comments

Shakes fist at culottes and every wide legged trouser leg I have tripped on.

submitted 27 days ago • 0 comments

Still feeling the surge and suck of the tide on the #greatbarrierreef. A juvenile red-tailed tropic bird under octopus bushes.

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This was projected by Mary Lou Pavlovic on Sunday in Canberra across what is known as the “Big Bunny” - a US built column in the middle of Australia’s Defence precinct looking straight at Parliament and topped by a US eagle - just in case we forget who is really in charge.

submitted 32 days ago • 11 comments

Here is my question to you about being metal. What is the most METAL thing you ever did that did not involve you playing an instrument?

submitted 35 days ago • 595 comments

Oh come ON now. This new JWST image is just ASTOUNDING. I feel like I’m falling looking into it, and that I would fall forever, and that I would enjoy it. NASA, ESA, CSA, K. McQuinn (STScI), J. DePasquale (STScI)

submitted 36 days ago • 65 comments

“Those whose warrants have not been renewed included Professor Linda Tuhiwai Smith, Professor Tom Roa and Professor Rawinia Higgins” It’s not a surprise that this government does not respect academic expertise but this is institutionalising that intent. Quite astonishing.

submitted 36 days ago • 3 comments

A very delightful and heartily recommended thread!

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Day 2 sharing teaser #HistoryPix for "Inventing the Renaissance" (out in one month!). Often in Florence one sees buildings like this, where one section is rough stone standing out amid stucco neighbors. It's actually a remnant of the old Guelph-Ghibelline feuds that so long rocked Medieval Italy 1/?

submitted 39 days ago • 6 comments