Interesting new publication on the genomes of living apes, suggesting the split between humans and chimps is more recent than previously thought.

“Our analyses dated the human–chimpanzee split between 5.5 and 6.3 million years ago (Ma; minimum to maximum estimate of divergence)”
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The irony of it all is that they still get free health care

Love that chapter in Demon Haunted World where Carl Sagan writes about using the scientific method to make the proof to confirm hypotheses…

Today my @nytimes.com colleagues and I are launching a new series called Lost Science. We interview US scientists who can no longer discover something new about our world, thanks to this year‘s cuts. Here is my first interview with a scientist who studied bees and fires. Gift link: nyti.ms/3IWXbiE

Horrific reporting from the AP on the Myanmar families watching their kids starve to death from Trump and Musk’s aid cuts apnews.com/article/myan...

I wouldn’t mind giving up my phone and not having to be connected all the time

We need a large and loud response from the scientific community, or publishing at Wiley journals is going to come to a complete standstill. And since Wiley is the main alternative to Elsevier, there really aren't many options. Yet another industry has leaned into AI only to be utterly enshittified.

Wiley had over $1.8 billion in revenue last year, but their new CEO decided to replace editorial assistants with AI. Our editor and reviewer profiles didn't even get transferred over from the old system; we've been assigned AI-generated keywords that editors need to "fix" to "improve" the algorithm.

If zip-tied toddlers isn't their line in the sand then they'll never have one.
Go back to hell, Orange Caligula. Take your sadistic nest of vipers with you.

I know it’s pretty naive or ignorant of me, but in the last year or so, it’s been so shocking seeing how many men just hate women and women identified people.

She really does upset the smallest of small men who have no achievements of their own.

Give her the Nobel Peace Prize (and watch how many people it angers)

Absolutely heinous.

ICE reportedly opened fire on rapid responders on the southwest side this afternoon.

There are *very few* details on this available at this time. Treat all rumors with caution until verified.

This Sun-Times article cites a DHS statement that should be treated, as always, with extreme skepticism:

🇨🇳 VIDEO: Hope and hardship along China's 'Great Green Wall'

Across the deserts of Inner Mongolia, China has been carrying out a colossal greening project for decades. Over 90 million hectares of the desert have been transformed into forest so far.

You have to admit it’s hilarious that literally 6mos ago Argentina was the country MAGA was saying was gonna dunk on all the neolibs and show them how to run a proper economy and now they’re literally begging for (and getting!) a handout from American taxpayers.

Clown ideology. 🤡

Meanwhile, Sean ‘Diddy’ Combs only got 4 years.

Renewed Archaeological Research in Singida Region, Central Tanzania 🏺🧪
Makarius Itambu, Robert Patalano @robertpatalano.bsky.social et al
link.springer.com/article/10.1...

Preliminary results from renewed research expeditions conducted in the Singida Region.

Press release for our recent article on the Big Questions in palaeontology (and link to the original study published in #Paleobiology)

For more on this site and others in central Tanzania, check out our recent paper in African Archaeological Review 🏺

Fouilles archéologiques à l'abri sous roche d'Itramuka, mission de terrain 2025 à Singida
-Archaeological excavations at the Itramuka rock shelter, Singida field mission 2025

From the archive. An evolutionary anthropologist argues that Paleolithic diets were much more varied than people think based on his research with the Hadza community, contemporary hunter-gatherers in Tanzania. Read more: www.sapiens.org/biology/pale...

Updating slides for today’s class and NASA is no longer updating their Vital Signs/Climate Change website. Last CO2 measurement is from June and it shows 230 ppm!

Keeling Curve has the latest reading at 424 ppm.