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Hernán Aguirre @ahernan.bsky.social · May 4

Certainly the USA investment in science is significant. However, it seems there is something wrong with the chart. Germany and France spendings are far greater than the chart shows.

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Hernán Aguirre @ahernan.bsky.social · Apr 26

Nothing to worry about. Spock would agree with “data”, in singular. 🤓

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MU-Peter Shimon 🀄️ @mu-peter.bsky.social · Apr 25

Stay or go?

A Safe Place for Science 🧪

Aix-Marseille University offers a program for scientists "threatened in their research" in America.

An opportunity to attract talent as Trump cuts funding.

French program for US scientists draws flood of applicants
amp.dw.com/en/french-pr...

A French university program has seen a surge in applications from scientists studying in the US

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Greg Priest @gregpriest.bsky.social · Apr 25

OTD in 1953, J Watson and F Crick published a paper describing the double helical structure of DNA in the journal Nature.

M Wilkins and co-authors, and R Franklin and R Gosling, published separate papers in the same issue with X-ray crystallography analysis.

🧪🌱🐋 #HistSTM #EvoBi

The dna double helix diagram from the original Nature paper.

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Hernán Aguirre @ahernan.bsky.social · Apr 24

Ale, allí eligieron, literalmente, a Adolfo. 😜

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Katie Mack @astrokatie.com · Apr 3

Enough internet. Time to cheer myself up by writing about how dark energy will eventually destroy the universe.

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melaniej49.bsky.social @melaniej49.bsky.social · Apr 4

Especially because the USA is not safe for foreigners, they could end up in El Salvador.

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Hernán Aguirre @ahernan.bsky.social · Mar 31

Give him hell 😜

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Matt Novak @paleofuture.bsky.social · Mar 26

Video of the international student at Tufts being arrested by "federal authorities" in Massachusetts has been released and it's terrifying.

They're not even uniformed officers. Just secret police thugs in hoodies and masks.

From WCVB: youtu.be/PuFIs7OkzYY

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Chris Hayes @chrislhayes.bsky.social · Mar 26

Unidentified men grabbing someone off the street and putting her in a car because she wrote an op-Ed. This as flatly authoritarian as anything we’ve seen in this country in a very long time.

Matt Novak @paleofuture.bsky.social · Mar 26

Video of the international student at Tufts being arrested by "federal authorities" in Massachusetts has been released and it's terrifying.

They're not even uniformed officers. Just secret police thugs in hoodies and masks.

From WCVB: youtu.be/PuFIs7OkzYY

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Michael E. Mann @michaelemann.bsky.social · Mar 26

Join me for a Skeptical Inquirer Presents live stream event on Thursday, April 3 at 7:00pm (EST) for a discussion on “Science Under Siege”:

skepticalinquirer.org/video/scienc...

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Zeke Hausfather @hausfath.bsky.social · Mar 24

Whenever I post about climate, skeptical folks inevitable respond with this graph. So I decided to do something radical: actually read the underling scientific paper and ask the authors.

As it turns out, it actually says the opposite of what skeptics claim: www.theclimatebrink....

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Chris Stringer @chrisbstringer.bsky.social · Mar 25

The Tentacled Microbes That Might Have Sparked Complex Life scitechdaily.com/the-tentacle...

The Tentacled Microbes That Might Have Sparked Complex Life

New research sheds light on one of the biggest questions in biology: where did complex life come from? The answer may lie with Asgard archaea, a group of ancient single-celled microbes that share surp...

scitechdaily.com

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Zack Labe @zacklabe.com · Mar 20

Another global sea level update with satellite altimetry data now processed by CNES/AVISO through late January 2025. It's accelerating. 🌊

+ Note that this graph was produced by www.aviso.altimetry.fr/en/data/prod...

Line graph time series showing the latest mean sea level as of 27 January 2025 using data from 1993. There is a long-term increasing trend and a quadratic fit line is shown on the graph with an acceleration of 0.11 mm/yr^2. The current rate of increase is +4.1 mm/yr in the 2013-2024 period.

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Chris Stringer @chrisbstringer.bsky.social · Mar 19

In fact it’s from: Aspects of human physical and behavioural evolution during the last 1 million years
Galway-Witham, Cole & Stringer 2019
doi.org/10.1002/jqs....

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Chris Stringer @chrisbstringer.bsky.social · Mar 18

Scientists Just Found the Secret Difference Between Human and Primate Brains scitechdaily.com/scientists-j...

Scientists Just Found the Secret Difference Between Human and Primate Brains

Researchers discovered uniquely human neuroanatomical features in a study comparing human brains to macaque and chimpanzee brains. A groundbreaking study reveals that what makes humans unique isn’t ju...

scitechdaily.com

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Chris Stringer @chrisbstringer.bsky.social · Mar 17

15 Years Later, the National Museum of Natural History Is Still Asking What It Means to Be Human www.smithsonianmag.com/blogs/nation...

15 Years Later, the National Museum of Natural History Is Still Asking What It Means to Be Human

The museum’s groundbreaking Hall of Human Origins centers around the adaptations that set early humans apart

www.smithsonianmag.com

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Hernán Aguirre @ahernan.bsky.social · Mar 14

Thanks!

Trying to get the paper.

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Stanford Woods Institute for the Environment @woods.stanford.edu · Mar 14

#ClimateChange is melting Antarctica, but at what rate? Stanford scholars used #AI and machine learning to reveal that current models predicting the ice sheet's shrinkage and movement are missing key data.
Find out what's needed @stanforddoerr.bsky.social: stanford.io/4bD2NJ2

AI reveals new insights into the flow of Antarctic ice

Stanford researchers have combined machine learning with high-resolution satellite and airplane observations to understand the physics behind large-scale ice movements in Antarctica. The results show ...

stanford.io

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Hope Jahren @realhopejahren.bsky.social · Mar 14

I humbly offer for your consideration the foundational, and therefore most important, paper in the history of my scientific field. I specifically wish to draw your attention to the fact that

it is FOUR PARAGRAPHS long

FOUR as in 4

🧵 #ScienceSky 1/n