Avinash ಅವಿನಾಶ್
@tnavinash.bsky.social
Biochemist turned high school science teacher.
In Aug 2009, my first weekend after moving to Tennessee, I was shocked to see someone hold a "We don't want a Black President" sign at an anti-Obamacare protest.
Today in Feb 2026, the president of the US posts an AI video of the Obamas as monkeys.
Today in Feb 2026, the president of the US posts an AI video of the Obamas as monkeys.
February 6, 2026 at 12:36 PM
In Aug 2009, my first weekend after moving to Tennessee, I was shocked to see someone hold a "We don't want a Black President" sign at an anti-Obamacare protest.
Today in Feb 2026, the president of the US posts an AI video of the Obamas as monkeys.
Today in Feb 2026, the president of the US posts an AI video of the Obamas as monkeys.
100% agree with what the prof here says. The occasional succes like AlphaFold is just not worth all the damage that is being forced upon us.
www.theguardian.com/global-devel...
www.theguardian.com/global-devel...
February 5, 2026 at 11:39 AM
100% agree with what the prof here says. The occasional succes like AlphaFold is just not worth all the damage that is being forced upon us.
www.theguardian.com/global-devel...
www.theguardian.com/global-devel...
"I am baffled by the embrace of AI erotic relationships, and wonder if porn paved the way by accustoming so many of us to watching images of bodies touching each other while our own bodies remain untouched, except by ourselves."
www.theguardian.com/news/ng-inte...
www.theguardian.com/news/ng-inte...
What technology takes from us – and how to take it back | AI (artificial intelligence) | The Guardian
The long read: Decisions outsourced, chatbots for friends, the natural world an afterthought: Silicon Valley is giving us life void of connection. There is a way out – but it’s going to take collective effort
www.theguardian.com
February 5, 2026 at 2:41 AM
"I am baffled by the embrace of AI erotic relationships, and wonder if porn paved the way by accustoming so many of us to watching images of bodies touching each other while our own bodies remain untouched, except by ourselves."
www.theguardian.com/news/ng-inte...
www.theguardian.com/news/ng-inte...
Original post: mastodon.scot/@kim_harding...
February 3, 2026 at 12:25 PM
Original post: mastodon.scot/@kim_harding...
This is a fantastic thread on famous biologists who were racist, classist and sexist.
What is sad is that there still are plenty of such scientists.
What is sad is that there still are plenty of such scientists.
Founders of modern paleontology, and their contributions to systemic racism, classism and sexism (🧵)
Henry Osborn (1857–1935), responsible for naming of Tyrannosaurus & Velociraptor; president of ANHM.
Co-founder of the American Eugenics Society. Contributing to books later praised by Hitler.
Henry Osborn (1857–1935), responsible for naming of Tyrannosaurus & Velociraptor; president of ANHM.
Co-founder of the American Eugenics Society. Contributing to books later praised by Hitler.
February 3, 2026 at 12:23 PM
This is a fantastic thread on famous biologists who were racist, classist and sexist.
What is sad is that there still are plenty of such scientists.
What is sad is that there still are plenty of such scientists.
Read this last night. Lovely writing & world-building, at times resembling Ursula le Guin.
Can't decide whether I love or hate the rug-pull trick that Eschbach does at the end. 🤷🏾♂️
Can't decide whether I love or hate the rug-pull trick that Eschbach does at the end. 🤷🏾♂️
February 2, 2026 at 1:08 PM
Read this last night. Lovely writing & world-building, at times resembling Ursula le Guin.
Can't decide whether I love or hate the rug-pull trick that Eschbach does at the end. 🤷🏾♂️
Can't decide whether I love or hate the rug-pull trick that Eschbach does at the end. 🤷🏾♂️
February 2, 2026 at 4:49 AM
Nichola Benedetti & Brighde Chaimbeul play a traditional Scottish ditty.
youtu.be/SyooKqA2Whc
I've loved the song ever since I heard Kenneth McKellar sing it.
youtu.be/PwVafoDSdx0
youtu.be/SyooKqA2Whc
I've loved the song ever since I heard Kenneth McKellar sing it.
youtu.be/PwVafoDSdx0
Skye Boat Song (Arr. Chaimbeul & Campbell for Violin & Scottish Smallpipe) (Edit)
youtu.be
February 1, 2026 at 4:38 PM
Nichola Benedetti & Brighde Chaimbeul play a traditional Scottish ditty.
youtu.be/SyooKqA2Whc
I've loved the song ever since I heard Kenneth McKellar sing it.
youtu.be/PwVafoDSdx0
youtu.be/SyooKqA2Whc
I've loved the song ever since I heard Kenneth McKellar sing it.
youtu.be/PwVafoDSdx0
This is a lovely essay by @kyliu99.bsky.social - worth reading in its entirety.
Highlighting one bit that I always tell my students.
reactormag.com/why-science-...
Highlighting one bit that I always tell my students.
reactormag.com/why-science-...
January 29, 2026 at 2:31 AM
This is a lovely essay by @kyliu99.bsky.social - worth reading in its entirety.
Highlighting one bit that I always tell my students.
reactormag.com/why-science-...
Highlighting one bit that I always tell my students.
reactormag.com/why-science-...
Off to finish marking papers now; background music is the lovely Sol Gabetta playing Elgar
youtu.be/HpKab6GRBIg
youtu.be/HpKab6GRBIg
Elgar Cello Concerto in E minor op.85
youtu.be
January 28, 2026 at 3:49 PM
Off to finish marking papers now; background music is the lovely Sol Gabetta playing Elgar
youtu.be/HpKab6GRBIg
youtu.be/HpKab6GRBIg
TIL there is a rodent called 'gundi' 😂 HT @kristalerista.bsky.social
(gundi = rotund female in #Kannada )
bsky.app/profile/did:...
(gundi = rotund female in #Kannada )
bsky.app/profile/did:...
January 28, 2026 at 3:45 PM
TIL there is a rodent called 'gundi' 😂 HT @kristalerista.bsky.social
(gundi = rotund female in #Kannada )
bsky.app/profile/did:...
(gundi = rotund female in #Kannada )
bsky.app/profile/did:...
Outstanding job USA 👏🏾
January 28, 2026 at 1:36 PM
Outstanding job USA 👏🏾
Any chance of something remotely like this in Indian cities? @rapiduplift.bsky.social
www.theguardian.com/travel/2026/...
www.theguardian.com/travel/2026/...
Rock up to London: discovering stones and fossils from around the world on an urban geology tour | London holidays | The Guardian
The city’s architecture travels through time and continents, incorporating everything from slabs of the Italian Alps to meteorites that hit southern Africa 2bn years ago
www.theguardian.com
January 28, 2026 at 1:32 PM
Any chance of something remotely like this in Indian cities? @rapiduplift.bsky.social
www.theguardian.com/travel/2026/...
www.theguardian.com/travel/2026/...
If you go by this review, money laundering seems to be primarily driven by high-denomination currency...
www.theguardian.com/books/2026/j...
...but from this extract, the book seems to be more promising.
www.theguardian.com/world/2026/j...
www.theguardian.com/books/2026/j...
...but from this extract, the book seems to be more promising.
www.theguardian.com/world/2026/j...
Everybody Loves Our Dollars by Oliver Bullough review – a jaw-dropping exposé of money laundering | Economics | The Guardian
From handbags to drug gangs to central banks – one of Britain’s finest investigative reporters reveals the surprising links in a global chain of crime
www.theguardian.com
January 28, 2026 at 1:29 PM
If you go by this review, money laundering seems to be primarily driven by high-denomination currency...
www.theguardian.com/books/2026/j...
...but from this extract, the book seems to be more promising.
www.theguardian.com/world/2026/j...
www.theguardian.com/books/2026/j...
...but from this extract, the book seems to be more promising.
www.theguardian.com/world/2026/j...
Link here www.hcn.org/issues/58-1/...
@[email protected] @rapiduplift.bsky.social @maitrey.bsky.social @leafwarbler.bsky.social @mrajshekhar.bsky.social
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@[email protected] @rapiduplift.bsky.social @maitrey.bsky.social @leafwarbler.bsky.social @mrajshekhar.bsky.social
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Three books explore deep time and help us look forward - High Country News
Each of these books can, in its own way, teach readers how to think about Earth's history, and how to apply lessons from the past to our future.
www.hcn.org
January 28, 2026 at 12:32 PM
Things kids (17-18 yrs old) at school didn't know:
1. What burning a disc was
2. That you could pirate music...
3. ...and that you could carry all your music on an external drive
All this started with me telling them that they should listen to albums, and not songs on some spotify playlist. 🤷🏾♂️
1. What burning a disc was
2. That you could pirate music...
3. ...and that you could carry all your music on an external drive
All this started with me telling them that they should listen to albums, and not songs on some spotify playlist. 🤷🏾♂️
January 28, 2026 at 12:22 PM
Things kids (17-18 yrs old) at school didn't know:
1. What burning a disc was
2. That you could pirate music...
3. ...and that you could carry all your music on an external drive
All this started with me telling them that they should listen to albums, and not songs on some spotify playlist. 🤷🏾♂️
1. What burning a disc was
2. That you could pirate music...
3. ...and that you could carry all your music on an external drive
All this started with me telling them that they should listen to albums, and not songs on some spotify playlist. 🤷🏾♂️
A major problem getting off twitter and sticking to Mastodon 🐘 or Bsky 🦋 is the almost complete absense of voices from South Asia (and fhe global South). 😭
Please link to interesting accounts from said regions in replies to this tweet 🙏🏾
Please link to interesting accounts from said regions in replies to this tweet 🙏🏾
January 27, 2026 at 3:03 PM
A major problem getting off twitter and sticking to Mastodon 🐘 or Bsky 🦋 is the almost complete absense of voices from South Asia (and fhe global South). 😭
Please link to interesting accounts from said regions in replies to this tweet 🙏🏾
Please link to interesting accounts from said regions in replies to this tweet 🙏🏾
Only @adamroberts.bsky.social would think of an Alistair Maclean - Tolkien mash-up.
I would watch this for sure!
I would watch this for sure!
January 16, 2026 at 2:14 AM
Only @adamroberts.bsky.social would think of an Alistair Maclean - Tolkien mash-up.
I would watch this for sure!
I would watch this for sure!
So one of the people I've relied on to make sense of the world is the son of John Tooze, whose textbook on protein structure I simply adored back in the day.
And also that John Tooze had a well-deserved reputation for toxic masculinity. ☹️
www.theguardian.com/business/202...
And also that John Tooze had a well-deserved reputation for toxic masculinity. ☹️
www.theguardian.com/business/202...
The crisis whisperer: how Adam Tooze makes sense of our bewildering age | Economics | The Guardian
The long read: Whether it’s the financial crash, the climate emergency or the breakdown of the international order, historian Adam Tooze has become the go-to guide to the radical new world we’ve entered
www.theguardian.com
January 15, 2026 at 3:15 PM
So one of the people I've relied on to make sense of the world is the son of John Tooze, whose textbook on protein structure I simply adored back in the day.
And also that John Tooze had a well-deserved reputation for toxic masculinity. ☹️
www.theguardian.com/business/202...
And also that John Tooze had a well-deserved reputation for toxic masculinity. ☹️
www.theguardian.com/business/202...
L. Shankar – Who's To Know - B side (Ananda Nadamadum Tillai Sankara: Ragam savithri)
youtu.be
January 14, 2026 at 12:47 AM