(With apologies to Randall Munroe)

Our study on the first rhodopsin channels known to respond to UV light is now published in PNAS! And they come from our favourite protists, apusomonads! #protistonsky https://www.pnas.org/doi/full/10.1073/pnas.2510619122 [contains quote post or other embedded content]

With glitzy campuses and an international curriculum, Harrow and Wellington are hustling for business in a market with a long tradition of boarding.

Clarkesworld Science Fiction and Fantasy Magazine and Podcast. This page: Understudies by Greg Egan

Newslaundry looks at the unrecognised parties with the highest donations to find EC’s transparency norms routinely flouted.

Á síðustu mánuðum hafa óútgefin handrit Þórdísar Helgadóttur og Nínu Ólafsdóttur lent í greipum bókaþjófs. Þetta er ekki í fyrsta skipti sem þjófurinn lætur til skarar skríða en ólíkt áður lætur hann ...

The long read: Once a stalwart of Hong Kong’s journalism scene, Wang Jian has found a new audience on YouTube, dissecting global politics and US-China relations since the pandemic. To his fans, he’s part professor, part friend

To be fair, we're at a generational low in faith, too. I think @astralcodexten.com.web.brid.gy did a good job tracing the rise and fall of new atheism: https://www.astralcodexten.com/p/the-rise-and-fall-of-online-culture (it wasn't that the Christian Right won, rather that people who were new atheists switched to other causes)

It strikes me as more than a little ironic that the new atheists spent years itching for a fight between science and folks like the Christian Right because they assumed science would win. Well, we're now having that fight and we're all talking about generational damage to science.

Government email addresses of 12 lakh employees, including PMO, migrated to Zoho suite for enhanced security and productivity.

Today is a great day to watch this beautiful PBS piece on the Taíno people https://youtu.be/kpX6dpC5MQg?si=MjsXF7xH0YYDXwCu

YouTube video by PBS