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Portuguese editorial cartoonist Zez Vaz reaches back to Tiananmen Square to call on American defiance.

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History buffs will know that every authoritarian leader eventually converges on some version of: "I am the state. I can not break the law, I am the law, the law is instantiated in me." Our march to authoritarianism so far has been excruciatingly by-the-book. Hitting every beat. No surprises.

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‘You Can’t Let This Happen,’ Says Fundraising Email From Sitting U.S. Congressperson

submitted 10 days ago • 309 comments

FML. NOAA is searching for terms like "climate," "methane," "nitrous oxide," "greenhouse gas," "climate science," "carbon," the "Paris Agreement." That's what my NOAA grants are focused on.

submitted 11 days ago • 16 comments

"In this analysis of 73 private equity–acquired hospitals and 293 matched control hospitals, global measures of patient care experience worsened after private equity acquisition... The difference...increased with each subsequent year after acquisition." 🧪 jamanetwork.com/journals/jam...

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Our Ocean Alkalinity Enhancement field study in Tasmania is completed, 77 days after deploying small amounts of olivine and agricultural lime on the seafloor. 🌊 Read about the study, including the last day's post by @mpelletier.bsky.social, here 👇 appliedbgc.imas.utas.edu.au/oae-field-st...

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With Autocracy Surging, It's Worth Exploring a Paper Charting "U-Turn" Reversals to Democratization open.substack.com/pub/revkin/p... Monday at 8:30 am US Eastern time LIVE.

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Watch the waves from yesterday’s M7.6 earthquake in the Caribbean Sea roll across seismic stations in North America.

submitted 14 days ago • 18 comments

⚡️ The historic moment of Estonia leaving the Russian-fed power grid. On February 8, Lithuania, Latvia and Estonia left Russia and Belarus energy system. By the end of the day today, they will have joined the European grid.

submitted 14 days ago • 463 comments

Food cooked at high temperature browns and tastes delicious due to a reaction between sugars and amino acids, the Maillard reaction. TIL: Sunless tanning lotions contain dihydroxyacetone which Maillard-reacts with amino acids, browning the skin O_o en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sunless...

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Das Bild aus dem Archiv zeigt Saturn - über mehrere Jahre vom Hubble-Teleskop aufgenommen. Gut zu erkennen, wie sich dabei der Blickwinkel auf die Ringe ändert. Demnächst gilt das Motto "Sie sehen, dass Sie nichts sehen." Denn dann schauen wir genau auf ihre Kante, sodass sie ganz verschwinden.

submitted 16 days ago • 8 comments

I love that these complete morons assumed we were sending palettes of cash to countries and not sending things like rice and wheat while paying American farmers for those goods

submitted 17 days ago • 112 comments

TIL: There exist bacteria that live off nothing but air. Specifically, the trace CO, CH4 and H2 in air provide the energy/carbon source! www.nature.com/articles/s41...

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Worried about losing access to US federal data that may go off-line, or already is? You’re not alone—but duplication isn’t the answer. Many ongoing efforts have already archived key datasets and many more are ongoing. Check out these existing resources and, if you can, support their work. 🧵

submitted 16 days ago • 65 comments

Some science today: I had an opportunity to evaluate OpenAI's "Deep Research" software, so I asked it to summarize the toxicity of thalidomide, with respect to species differences and compound isomers. The results were superficially impressive, but concealed deeper problems:

submitted 16 days ago • 3 comments

🌊 As chemical oceanographers, we wander through the plant measuring inputs, outputs, and internal compositions - trying to reconstruct the missing design. - Broecker and Peng (1982), Tracers in the Sea

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When the tide goes out, you see who's naked www.theguardian.com/environment/...

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FBI Uncovers Al-Qaeda Plot To Just Sit Back And Enjoy Collapse Of United States

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In irony too funny for words, Anthropic asks that you please don’t use AI in your job application. No, really! open.substack.com/pub/garymarc...

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From the people who brought us monetized extremism on YouTube, and vision AI that produced racist results... www.cnbc.com/2025/02/05/g...

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This is a better summary than anything I've seen in mainstream or alternative media. Essential reading.

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Incredible image of a protostar disk from JWST iopscience.iop.org/article/10.3... esawebb.org/images/potm2...

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they are mostly targeting black employees so this is quite literally just a repeat of woodrow wilson’s segregationist purge of the federal government

submitted 18 days ago • 1280 comments

I often think about the fact that in the early 20th century a lot of science, esp top #chemistry and #physics was published in German. Then they started two idiotic, disastrous wars and lost it all. What I'm trying to say is... it might be time to start learning Mandarin ...

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Just received this email (received 3:25 pm ET), from the NSF director, informing that DOJ has interpreted the temporary restraining order on the funding freeze as applying to “all NSF award recipients.” Again, I’ll shout it from the rooftops: lawsuits matter!!!!

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It’s pretty funny that Google today basically went into their company policy and clicked something that changed Building murderous hell robots 🚫 to Building murderous hell robots ✅

submitted 18 days ago • 30 comments

We’re at the stage of empire collapse when our mainstream media calls ethnic cleansing “audacious”

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Hope y'all enjoy seeing the PRC absolutely dominating scientific innovation for the next century. Whatever the goal, that's the outcome.

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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 18 days ago • 39 comments

Things are falling apart fast ...

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Had a great interview with @slate.bsky.social's @alexkirshner.com about the horrid state of the tech industry, how the tech media can step up, the AI bubble, and the cognitive dissonance of Silicon Valley slate.com/technology/2...

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This is insane. If your demographic table mentions "gender" instead of "sex", you have to retract the paper (even if already accepted but not yet posted), revise it, & wait for some political appointee to approve it. If your paper is about mpox, and you mention gay men, I guess it won't be approved.

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Yes. Not a dunk. QT for visibility. "several reliable, well-informed sources confirmed the idea that Hitler’s anti-Semitism was not so genuine or violent as it sounded, and that he was merely using anti-Semitic propaganda as a bait to catch masses of followers"

submitted 21 days ago • 16 comments

Because of my expertise, I've mostly posted about the ways in which this administration is attacking the US science and technology ecosystem. We can't all focus on everything all the time—that's part of their plan—but be certain: I am sickened by this utter abuse of human rights and dignity.

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Seeing lots anti-EV folks come out to decry EV efficiency reductions in cold temperatures… Fun facts: Internal combustion engines too suffer efficiency loss in cold temps. Gas mileage is ~15% lower at 20°F than it would be at 77°F. It can drop as much as 24% for short (3-4 mile) trips. #EVsky #EV

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Asteroid Bennu contains "amino acids (inc. 14 of the 20 used in terrestrial biology), amines, formaldehyde, carboxylic acids, polycyclic aromatic hydrocarbons and N-heterocycles (inc.all five bases found in DNA and RNA), along with ~10k N-bearing chemical species." www.nature.com/articles/s41...

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The first big publications from the OSIRIS-REx sample-return mission report the building blocks of life (lots of them!) in the asteroid Bennu. Words by me:

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OpenAI is furious that DeepSeek might have stolen all of the data OpenAI stole from all of us www.404media.co/openai-furio...

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💴 The world’s top financial stability watchdog warns that mounting incidents of climate disasters could spark panic in financial markets, with pullbacks in lending and dampened investor confidence. By Martin Arnold and @leeharris.bsky.social for financialtimes.com

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#MARS EXPRESS TARGET NAME: #PHOBOS (#POTATO 1) HIGH RESOLUTION STEREO CAMERA #HRSC ESA/j. Roger

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Not only that, but much of the science community here is already stronger and larger than it was on X. On Twitter, my feed of scientists who study climate-related topics topped out at 3300. Here, we’re at 4500 already and it’s still growing. Pin here: bsky.app/profile/did:...

submitted 29 days ago • 26 comments

Tesla Gigafactory, Berlin - right now! In cooperation with @ledbydonkeys.org

submitted 31 days ago • 239 comments

Our new paper is out: We're exploring the intersection of electrochemical OAE and concrete waste recycling - turns out they're a match made in heaven. One produces weak waste acid and the other requires weak acid to valorize demolition waste! pubs.acs.org/doi/10.1021/...

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Owners’ box

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