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Hope for Killarney National Park - though it’s bound to look worse before it gets better Decades-long battle to clear rhododendron in Killarney www.rte.ie/news/munster...

submitted 11 days ago • 0 comments

The system of cataloging software vulnerabilities used worldwide, by basically every security professional, is just going away huh?? Gonna be honest, seems bad

submitted 14 days ago • 8 comments

More in No, Other People: New poll: “America would be better off if more people worked in manufacturing.” • 80% of Americans agree • 20% disagree “I would be better off if I worked in a factory.” • 25% of Americans agree • 73% disagree • 2% currently work in a factory

submitted 16 days ago • 1176 comments

Remember this? The military gets it. Shame on Donald Trump and JD Vance for continuing to disparage our men and women in uniform.

submitted 18 days ago • 5 comments

Out of these, which would you choose first to destroy and re-wild? 1️⃣ 1 acre solar/wind farm 2️⃣ 1 acre cow farm (for milking or meat) 3️⃣ 1 acre of ubran sprawl (parking, roads, shops) 4️⃣ 1 acre of oil wells / coal / natural gas 📊 Show results

submitted 18 days ago • 19 comments

BREAKING: New Nasal Spray Bird Flu Vaccine Could Help Protect Us In A Future Pandemic Researchers have created an H5N1 avian influenza, or bird flu, vaccine that can be administered as a nasal spray.

submitted 19 days ago • 47 comments

I kind of want to go

submitted 25 days ago • 1894 comments

👀 A fascinating insight to how changes in #Antarctic sea ice have effects elsewhere in the world: 🕳️ Lack of usual sea ice in Ross Sea ➕ 🌪️ hurricane-strength winds 🟰 🌊 strong, long-period swell on the southern NSW coast more than 4000km away! ▶️ www.swellnet.com/news/swellne...

submitted 29 days ago • 4 comments

as a journalist whose real passion is the history of science and technology, who has written hundreds of thousands of words on the subject: this, absolutely this

submitted 30 days ago • 18 comments

The things we find. #beachcombing

submitted 35 days ago • 16 comments

Red Squirrel having a bit of a scratch captured by Michael Allen. #photooftheday #wildlife #nature

submitted 36 days ago • 1 comment

Scientific consensus: "artificial intelligence (AI) can exacerbate bias and discrimination in society... governments need to enact appropriate guardrails and governance in order to identify and mitigate these harms." Today I joined 100 other scientific researchers in reinforcing this basic fact.

submitted 39 days ago • 3 comments

BREAKING: Experts Warn Public to Prepare for Potential Bird Flu Pandemic "The H5N1 virus has crossed species barriers, adapting to mammalian hosts, including dairy cattle, leading to widespread exposure and sporadic human infections."

submitted 46 days ago • 13 comments

Ezra Klein is wrong about AGI: garymarcus.substack.com/p/ezra-klein...

submitted 47 days ago • 7 comments

Trivia question -- what's mostly yellow with a large stripe of red across it? Don't tell me. Don't tell me. ...

submitted 47 days ago • 12 comments

Our new @adriftlab.bsky.social paper is out, lead by @alixdejersey.bsky.social showing the insidious impacts of plastics on seemingly health birds (1/5) www.science.org/doi/10.1126/...

submitted 47 days ago • 9 comments

Analysis estimates that 4% - 14% of the world’s staple crops of wheat, rice & maize is being lost due to impact of microplastics Crop losses could be of a similar scale to those caused by the climate crisis in recent decades www.theguardian.com/environment/...

submitted 50 days ago • 6 comments

Towns in Indonesia are buried in millions of pounds of single-use plastics; communities across India and Bangladesh are populated by armies of migrant laborers tasked with dismantling cruise liners and oil tankers by hand.

submitted 50 days ago • 3 comments

Marco Rubio: one-time Russia hawk makes stunning U-turn under Trump

submitted 52 days ago • 88 comments

At @standupforscience.bsky.social and the signs are statistically significantly excellent

submitted 53 days ago • 270 comments

Today is #InternationalWomensDay Progress on #GenderEquality in health care is too slow. Women have distinct & changing health needs at different stages of their lives. Health care should be easy to access, fair & tailored to meet each woman’s unique needs & circumstances. 🔗 bit.ly/3DmZQ2o

submitted 52 days ago • 7 comments

In the new study, published Monday in the journal Nature Sustainability, the team found that polymers can not only break down in the environment but also become “substantially more toxic” when they do.

submitted 54 days ago • 1 comment

Listen to the wonderful sounds from the South Pond on #WorldWildlifeDay2025 #nature #frogs #biodiversity #weather

submitted 57 days ago • 1 comment

In my opinion, AMOC collapse has always been a red herring, like sea level rise before it. There are other far more immediate and existential consequences of climate change. Among them are heatwaves, fires, floods, storms, droughts, disease, ecosystem collapse and fascism. phys.org/news/2025-02...

submitted 61 days ago • 31 comments

#Emails2DOGE cc: [email protected] 1. Mocked Trump & his boss Elon on TV and online 2. Got my kid’s Corgi fixed so she won’t have babies (Elon you should get fixed 2) 3. Looked up why ketamine abusers need 😎 indoors 4. Read court decisions saying Trump & his boss Elon violated laws 5. Made this list

submitted 66 days ago • 318 comments

Weekend visitors - Please remember to take home your rubbish and leave NO trace! #litter #Shame #monday

submitted 71 days ago • 0 comments

Positively Orwellian.

submitted 71 days ago • 2 comments

RFK Jr: “Gardasil is probably the single worst, mass vaccine that we've ever seen.” @drneilstone.bsky.social: “The HPV vaccine (Gardasil) is safe, effective, and on the way to ELIMINATING cervical cancer! RFK Jr is an anti-vaccine fanatic who would rather your daughter got cancer than a vaccine.”

submitted 72 days ago • 671 comments

IMPORTANT REMINDER: All six of Robert F. Kennedy Jr.’s children have been vaccinated. Not only is RFK Jr. a longtime anti-vaxxer, he has made a highly profitable career of endangering the lives of millions in his dangerous crusade against vaccinations. The ascendancy of this lying profiteer…

submitted 74 days ago • 392 comments

Rep Earl Carter (R-GA) introduces legislation “authorizing President Trump to acquire Greenland and renaming it Red, White, and Blueland”

submitted 77 days ago • 293 comments

This is pretty funny, if not a little tragic. DOGE got added to www.usdebtclock.org, and just like that, all credibility went out the window.

submitted 77 days ago • 1 comment

I wrote this about Elon Musk more than two years ago and it holds up very well today. He is, in many ways, a fool masquerading as some fantastical myth of a “secret genius.” www.forkingpaths.co/p/the-myth-o...

submitted 113 days ago • 17 comments

Red = lowest ecological integrity. Ireland has the great honour of being probably the most ecologically trashed nation in all Europe. 🏆 🏆 🏆

submitted 86 days ago • 68 comments

Climate change is not like other problems, and that is part of the problem. What it lacks in vividness and immediacy it makes up for in reach. Once the world’s remaining mountain glaciers disappear, they won’t be coming back. And yet the world as we know it will be gone @elizkolbert.bsky.social

submitted 86 days ago • 1 comment

Trump admin issues memos to make climate change disappear at DOT. Next up, memos to eliminate gravity and rewrite Second Law of Thermodynamics to favor MAGA supporters. The one hope may be their stupidity: “From a basic grammatical perspective, [the memos] don’t make sense.”

submitted 87 days ago • 0 comments

The jet stream that helped dump a foot of snow on the Gulf Coast is now accelerating over the Atlantic, helping fuel the strongest storm on record over Ireland with 100 mph gusts and 50 ft waves! It is so strong NOAA sent a hurricane hunter to Ireland to collect data! #Eowyn

submitted 96 days ago • 22 comments

Solar power generated 11% of Europe’s electricity in 2024, surpassing coal at 10% “Coal is the oldest way of producing electricity, but also the dirtiest. Solar is the rising star” says report author www.theguardian.com/world/2025/j...

submitted 96 days ago • 5 comments

We built this country for physical conditions that no longer exist.... A big chunk of America is way riskier than we thought it was and overvalued @alexsteffen.bsky.social

submitted 100 days ago • 0 comments

Good analysis of why fact checking on social media matters in a world where false claims are sticky + go viral so fast. But no mention of how X + Meta have altered their algorithms to suppress expert accounts & factual info. Fact checking on those platforms isn’t a level field. It’s a steep cliff.

submitted 101 days ago • 36 comments

A little list ...

submitted 105 days ago • 21 comments

Pro-tip: If you're concerned that your work is too popular and getting too much attention, you can always pivot to writing about reinsurance and CAT bonds to drive readers away. www.thebulwark.com/p/the-insura...

submitted 109 days ago • 38 comments

HMPV: China's New Virus Outbreak Explained News reports and social media posts are warning of a new outbreak of a little-known virus called human metapneumovirus (HMPV) in China, but officials are yet to confirm this. www.newsweek.com/human-metapn...

submitted 116 days ago • 6 comments

This is the veteran Rowan tree that gives its name to our Coill na Luise reserve in the Wicklow mountains. Not rooted in soil, but growing on top of a dry stone wall at over 1,000 feet above sea level, it must have taken centuries to reach this size, in those growing conditions.

submitted 121 days ago • 1 comment

Here’s a quick comparison of current activity on the “scientists who do climate” feed on Bluesky vs. X. In one hour: X: 14 active members, 3 original posts/comments, 2747 total members (rest were RTs without comments). Bluesky: 64 active members, 105+ original posts/comments, 4380 total members.

submitted 127 days ago • 8 comments

The Red Squirrel in action on the Hellfire trial unaware of South Dublin County Council and Coillte plan to destroy its dreys to make way for a €35M coffee shop and 330 car spaces! #WildlifeWednesday #nature

submitted 132 days ago • 1 comment