@hermvm.bsky.social
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Deep sea mining is very bad for deep sea ecosystems.
What Scientists Found When a Deep Sea Mining Company Invited Them In
www.nytimes.com
December 6, 2025 at 6:26 PM
Deep sea mining is very bad for deep sea ecosystems.
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Grim. Scientifically illiterate, and the techniques they are selling will be largely ineffective anyway.
See my book, Control: the Dark History and Troubling Present of Eugenics.
See my book, Control: the Dark History and Troubling Present of Eugenics.
I saw this ad on the train and I’m curious how yall feel about it… I’m very much in the center, but slightly more towards than against…
December 4, 2025 at 5:48 PM
Grim. Scientifically illiterate, and the techniques they are selling will be largely ineffective anyway.
See my book, Control: the Dark History and Troubling Present of Eugenics.
See my book, Control: the Dark History and Troubling Present of Eugenics.
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Everyone feel safer now?
June 14, 2025 at 9:14 AM
Everyone feel safer now?
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Decided there's not enough lizards in the #ColorsOfSkullAnatomy collection 🦎 So, new to the gang: Phyllurus platurus (southern leaf tail gecko). An Aussie lizard of course, and one of the 1st specimens I scanned at Florida Museum in 2021
www.graysvertebrateanatomy.com/leaftail-gecko-skull-anatomy/
www.graysvertebrateanatomy.com/leaftail-gecko-skull-anatomy/
June 10, 2025 at 6:16 PM
Decided there's not enough lizards in the #ColorsOfSkullAnatomy collection 🦎 So, new to the gang: Phyllurus platurus (southern leaf tail gecko). An Aussie lizard of course, and one of the 1st specimens I scanned at Florida Museum in 2021
www.graysvertebrateanatomy.com/leaftail-gecko-skull-anatomy/
www.graysvertebrateanatomy.com/leaftail-gecko-skull-anatomy/
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Exciting to get to see embryos of new species in the lab! Here's an embryo of an Italian wall lizard (Podarcis siculus) from an introduced population here in NJ.
May 20, 2025 at 9:11 PM
Exciting to get to see embryos of new species in the lab! Here's an embryo of an Italian wall lizard (Podarcis siculus) from an introduced population here in NJ.
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I just discovered 'The Warming Papers' and don't know why I hadn't found them until now - free PDF in the link
content.e-bookshelf.de/media/readin...
content.e-bookshelf.de/media/readin...
May 19, 2025 at 9:20 AM
I just discovered 'The Warming Papers' and don't know why I hadn't found them until now - free PDF in the link
content.e-bookshelf.de/media/readin...
content.e-bookshelf.de/media/readin...
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Social acceptance of technology, whether it be for health, climate, or something else, is often overlooked but super important for implementation and effectiveness.
An important reminder that measles vaccines save millions of lives every year across the world.
The measles vaccine is arguably the most life-saving vaccine in use.
Our latest article from @scientificdiscovery.dev and @spoonerf.bsky.social: ourworldindata.org/measles-vacc...
The measles vaccine is arguably the most life-saving vaccine in use.
Our latest article from @scientificdiscovery.dev and @spoonerf.bsky.social: ourworldindata.org/measles-vacc...
May 19, 2025 at 10:36 AM
Social acceptance of technology, whether it be for health, climate, or something else, is often overlooked but super important for implementation and effectiveness.
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That’s a weird way to say “Because she’s a Black woman.”
Reporter: The president fired the Librarian of Congress. Why?
Leavitt: There were quite concerning things she had done at the Library of Congress in the pursuit of DEI and putting inappropriate books in the library for children.
Leavitt: There were quite concerning things she had done at the Library of Congress in the pursuit of DEI and putting inappropriate books in the library for children.
May 10, 2025 at 8:04 AM
That’s a weird way to say “Because she’s a Black woman.”
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Please don't use generative AI.
Even if it makes your life marginally easier, it does mediocre work, is built on the stolen labor of other people, and has an absurdly high environmental cost.
If you don't absolutely have to use it, please avoid it.
Even if it makes your life marginally easier, it does mediocre work, is built on the stolen labor of other people, and has an absurdly high environmental cost.
If you don't absolutely have to use it, please avoid it.
April 29, 2025 at 7:03 PM
Please don't use generative AI.
Even if it makes your life marginally easier, it does mediocre work, is built on the stolen labor of other people, and has an absurdly high environmental cost.
If you don't absolutely have to use it, please avoid it.
Even if it makes your life marginally easier, it does mediocre work, is built on the stolen labor of other people, and has an absurdly high environmental cost.
If you don't absolutely have to use it, please avoid it.
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Publishing the (nonsense) tariff formula unfortunately seems like quite a shrewd move, because it has got lots of people arguing over a devastating, poverty-inflicting policy in the most boring, unengaging way possible…
April 5, 2025 at 7:32 AM
Publishing the (nonsense) tariff formula unfortunately seems like quite a shrewd move, because it has got lots of people arguing over a devastating, poverty-inflicting policy in the most boring, unengaging way possible…
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Something lovely for the weekend!
About 40,000 years ago, during the #IceAge, this small figurine of a ‘big cat’ was sculpted from mammoth ivory. Thought to be a cave lion, it is one of the world’s oldest known works of figurative art.
📷 me
#Caturday
#Archaeology
About 40,000 years ago, during the #IceAge, this small figurine of a ‘big cat’ was sculpted from mammoth ivory. Thought to be a cave lion, it is one of the world’s oldest known works of figurative art.
📷 me
#Caturday
#Archaeology
April 5, 2025 at 9:30 AM
Something lovely for the weekend!
About 40,000 years ago, during the #IceAge, this small figurine of a ‘big cat’ was sculpted from mammoth ivory. Thought to be a cave lion, it is one of the world’s oldest known works of figurative art.
📷 me
#Caturday
#Archaeology
About 40,000 years ago, during the #IceAge, this small figurine of a ‘big cat’ was sculpted from mammoth ivory. Thought to be a cave lion, it is one of the world’s oldest known works of figurative art.
📷 me
#Caturday
#Archaeology
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The world is becoming more dangerous every day.
RFK Jr. forces out Peter Marks, FDA’s top vaccine scientist
In his resignation letter, Marks rebuked Kennedy for seeking “subservient confirmation of his misinformation and lies” about vaccines.
wapo.st
March 29, 2025 at 2:47 AM
The world is becoming more dangerous every day.
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"Measles is arguably the most contagious infectious disease that scientists know about…Researchers have estimated that you want to see vaccination rates in the 95 percent range to protect a community."
Why This Measles Outbreak Is Different
America’s regression could change the experience of childhood.
www.theatlantic.com
March 20, 2025 at 4:58 PM
"Measles is arguably the most contagious infectious disease that scientists know about…Researchers have estimated that you want to see vaccination rates in the 95 percent range to protect a community."
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New substack, on @trevorcousins.bsky.social and @aylwyn-scally.bsky.social's brilliant new paper on the origin of Homo sapiens.
arutherford.substack.com/p/human-evol...
arutherford.substack.com/p/human-evol...
Human evolution: a one-million-year clusterf**k
A new incredibly subtle and elegant analysis of our living genomes reveals yet another major piece in the jigsaw of human evolution, completely hidden until now.
arutherford.substack.com
March 19, 2025 at 12:10 PM
New substack, on @trevorcousins.bsky.social and @aylwyn-scally.bsky.social's brilliant new paper on the origin of Homo sapiens.
arutherford.substack.com/p/human-evol...
arutherford.substack.com/p/human-evol...
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La paléoprotéomique permet aujourd’hui de séquencer des protéines vieilles de 2 Ma et d’en savoir plus sur la #phylogénie humaine ! @planetvie.bsky.social
planet-vie.ens.fr/thematiques/...
#évolution #paléoanthropologie #séquençage
planet-vie.ens.fr/thematiques/...
#évolution #paléoanthropologie #séquençage
Les apports récents de la paléoprotéomique à la paléoanthropologie : le cas des paranthropes
La paléoprotéomique, une discipline émergente qui analyse les protéines anciennes, offre de nouvelles perspectives fascinantes en paléoanthropologie, l’étude des hominidés éteints. En 2023, une équipe...
planet-vie.ens.fr
March 19, 2025 at 8:13 AM
La paléoprotéomique permet aujourd’hui de séquencer des protéines vieilles de 2 Ma et d’en savoir plus sur la #phylogénie humaine ! @planetvie.bsky.social
planet-vie.ens.fr/thematiques/...
#évolution #paléoanthropologie #séquençage
planet-vie.ens.fr/thematiques/...
#évolution #paléoanthropologie #séquençage
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We will never colonize Mars. Never.
March 18, 2025 at 5:05 PM
We will never colonize Mars. Never.
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I'm a sucker for any story that involves birds and Charles Darwin. news.mongabay.com/short-articl...
A bird last seen by Darwin 190 years ago reappears on a Galápagos island
The Galápagos rail, a small, black, ground bird, hadn’t been seen on Floreana Island in the Galápagos since 1835, when Charles Darwin first described it. That changed recently when researchers monitor...
news.mongabay.com
March 17, 2025 at 4:09 PM
I'm a sucker for any story that involves birds and Charles Darwin. news.mongabay.com/short-articl...
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By gutting environmental regulations, they’re going to bring back cholera next.
A Measles Resurgence? (Gift Article)
Our colleague traveled to the center of a Texas measles outbreak.
www.nytimes.com
March 17, 2025 at 8:43 PM
By gutting environmental regulations, they’re going to bring back cholera next.
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