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Koen Hufkens, PhD @koen-hufkens.mastodon.social.ap.brid.gy · 17h

If as a scientist you are rooting for the technology of tomorrow you are holding up climate action today. Climate action is a matter of political choices, not current technological impossibilities […]

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ploum @ploum.mamot.fr.ap.brid.gy · 06/10/2026

A software always runs on a computer. A software always do what its creator wants it to do. If the software doesn’t do what its creator wanted, it is a mistake from the coder, a bug. If the software runs without the consent of the computer’s owner, it is a malware/virus. Stopping a software […]

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Alexis Simon @alxsim.ecoevo.social.ap.brid.gy · 06/10/2026

theconversation.com/dune-algue-au-c… "comment Chlamydomonas fait-elle pour nager vers la lumière ? Cette question n’avait aucune application pratique évidente. Elle ne comblait aucun besoin urgent en matière de santé humaine et […]

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Tom Gauld @tomgauld.bsky.social · 06/10/2026

My latest cartoon for @newscientist.com

As we join the great theoretical scientist, he is deep in thought. So still, quiet and focused that he might almost be asleep. But inside that brilliant mind, what new idea is forming? What certainty is being meticulously interrogated? What ingenious theory is ready to change our world forever? (the scientist snores lightly) Ah, it seems he actually is asleep. And that's fine. Science is hard and not every day can be a success. We will come back another time.

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George Monbiot @georgemonbiot.bsky.social · 06/10/2026

There aren't many days when you can kayak off Start Point, renowned for one of Britain's most dangerous tidal races. But yesterday the stars aligned, so I bunked off work. Delighted to see Rupert Kirkwood (the Lone Kayaker) out there. He took this picture of me +1. Before you ask: yes, it's real. 🧵

In my kayak, watching a bluefin tuna leaping beside me.

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George Monbiot @georgemonbiot.bsky.social · 06/10/2026

This is how we should see these magnificant animals, not hauled up on a boat or in fillets on a slab. We should no more catch or kill this rare and stunning megafauna than we should trap or kill tigers or whales. Here are some more of Rupert’s photos from yesterday, with his kind permission.

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Tim Carmody @tcarmody.bsky.social · 02/10/2026

This is the funniest thing I've seen today, possibly ever

A tweet by SarahStarberry that says "oh god read the vertical axis" on top of a chart measuring AI models' release dates and model numbers rather than any real capabilities

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Chuck Darwin @cdarwin.c.im.ap.brid.gy · 02/10/2026

A newly-discovered amoeba has set the record for the hottest temperature at which complex life can thrive. The amoeba, found in Lassen Volcanic National Park in California, grows and divides at temperatures up to 145 degrees Fahrenheit (63 degrees Celsius) and can survive brief stints in up to […]

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αxel simon :pride_heart: @axx.mstdn.fr.ap.brid.gy · 01/10/2026

"Could #AI be conscious?" asks the Guardian, continuing with "Experts believe it’s at least possible. We urgently need a plan to navigate the ethical implications." Really? I mean, we *know* many, many non-human animals are conscious and we collectively have no plan to navigate the ethical […]

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Konrad Hinsen @khinsen.scholar.social.ap.brid.gy · 01/10/2026

RE: mamot.fr/@ploum/117362346266469514 This post makes an important point that is often overlooked in AI policy debates: "If we think about it from a longer-term perspective, we can infer that the middle-ground position is unsustainable. LLM generated contributions will eventually slip […]

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rollingguyam @rollingguyam.mastodon.tetaneutral.net.ap.brid.gy · 30/09/2026

Eh dites, z'auriez des suggestions musicales ? Les très jeunes enfants ont une aptitude à "entendre" des choses* qui est perdue si pas sollicitée. Alors papa hipster se dit qu'il faudrait leur faire écouter des choses diversifiées quand il est temps (1 et 3 ans). Vous avez quoi comme […]

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Jörgi (chaos.social) @joergi.eu · 14/09/2026

For those of you who are looking for jobs: there was a talk about a businesspage like linkedin but in the Fediverse at the Berlin Fedi Day. it's called @vutuv ! vutuv.de The project is done by @wintermeyer so give it a try and spread the word if you like it #fedihire #fedihire_de […]

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don Elías (como los buses) 🥨 @donelias.mastodon.cr.ap.brid.gy · 28/09/2026

RE: sfba.social/@jeridansky/11734538858… There's not "AI anthropomorphism debate", there's anthropomorphism PROPAGANDA. Those LLM companies are lying to sell their products and services and selling by lying is stealing money from investors and customers. LLMs are not intelligent […]

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Alexis Simon @alxsim.ecoevo.social.ap.brid.gy · 21/09/2026

Conference ERA 2027 : Evolutionary Responses to Anthropogenic Drivers, Nantes (France), 20-21 April 2027 Next April we are organizing a conference on the impacts of human activities on evolution. This conference is centred on evolutionary biology, at the interface with genetics, ecology […]

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Luke Ontario @coolhand.bsky.social · 22/09/2026

Oh my God, I agree with WSJ opinion Oh my God, shoot me in the face

THE WALL STREET JOURNAL.
OPINION COMMENTARY (U.S.)
The Hidden Agenda Behind the Al Panic
A mathematical model doesn't rebel.
Anthropomorphizing it helps obscure human errors and accountability.
By Gabriele Mazzini
September 21, 2026, 5:43 pm EDT

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Konrad Hinsen @khinsen.scholar.social.ap.brid.gy · 10/09/2026

Want to learn good practices for reproducible research? There's a MOOC for that! First level, for anyone doing research using computers: www.fun-mooc.fr/en/courses/reproduc… Second level, for those who do computational research: […]

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Christophe Cassou @cassouman40.bsky.social · 08/09/2026

2026 n’arrive pas plus tôt qu’envisagé! L’analyse👇 à partir d'un grd ensemble de simulations montre qu’un été type 2026, certes extrême, est bien présent dans la gamme des étés possibles attendus pour cette décennie 2020-2029. L’impréparation est un choix politique, pas une défaillance scientifique.

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Adrianna Tan @skinnylatte.hachyderm.io.ap.brid.gy · 07/09/2026

live your life so you're not on this list 'weird little guys of FOSS' drewdevault.com/weird-guys

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ben @benjamineskola.hachyderm.io.ap.brid.gy · 29/08/2026

Disappointed that #Debian has chosen what seems like the worst possible option in its vote on LLMs. No acknowledgement of the harms involved in LLM usage; instead, a claim that they ‘substantially improve productivity’. (It claims not to be an endorsement but makes only pro-LLM statements.) […]

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Anne Fuller (Sʼaachtlʼéiḵ) @scoterd.alaskan.social.ap.brid.gy · 03/07/2026

Grateful for #TomGauld, an erudite cartoonist (and for the IRL scientist who share this with me) #NewScientist #Grammar #humor

by Tom Gauld for New Scientist this chart is called
SOME GRAMMATICAL VOICES FOR USE IN SCIENTIFIC WRITING
ACTIVE VOICE
Our team collected samples and then we tested them.
PASSIVE VOICE
Samples ere collected and tested.
PASSIVE-AGGRESSIVE VOICE
We did all the collecting and testing. No need to thank us. Just doing our job.
CLICKBAIT VOICE
We collected some samples...You won't believe what happened next!
HAIKU VOICE
Quiet science lab.
Workers arrive with samples.
The testing begins.
CONSPIRACY VOICE
Mysterious “samples” were harvested and covertly “tested” by
so-called scientists.

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rollingguyam @rollingguyam.mastodon.tetaneutral.net.ap.brid.gy · 27/08/2026

Are there some danish researchers around that would know if you can legally put a paywalled article you authored online without restricted access? In France we have a law that allows us to do this if it was funded by french or european money.

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rollingguyam @rollingguyam.mastodon.tetaneutral.net.ap.brid.gy · 27/08/2026

Petite question légale #Recherche/#ESR : un article que j'ai publié il y a 10 ans, en accès payant par l'éditeur (Wiley) qui possède donc le copyright, dans une équipe qui était au Danemark, je n'ai pas le droit de le rendre accessible à tous en ligne ? La loi de 2016 pour une "République […]

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Wilson Ornithological Society @wilsonornithsoc.bsky.social · 18/08/2026

Do you illustrate birds? We are seeking new artists to contribute frontispiece illustrations for The Wilson Journal of Ornithology, and would especially like to highlight artwork made by members of the WOS and our colleagues. Details here!

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Call for Bird Illustrators for The Wilson Journal of Ornithology!

Do you illustrate birds? We are looking for frontispiece illustrators for our journal!

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Mastodon @mastodon.mastodon.social.ap.brid.gy · 14/08/2026

Here is a #FeaturedServer for 🌎 Earth, 🦎 Earthlings, and their ⚖️ Advocates... earth.law/about Earth.Law is for: 📜 Environmental lawyers & policy-makers 🦋 Conservationists & ecologists 🔬 Scientists in related fields 📚 Educators and students of environmental studies 🎤 Activists & […]

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ploum @ploum.mamot.fr.ap.brid.gy · 13/08/2026

— Si seulement nous avions une alternative à Twitter ! — FEDIVERSE ! — Oh, regarde, le créateur de Twitter lance un #Bluesky décentralisé — Moins que le FEDIVERSE ! — Mais c’est américain, il nous faudrait un truc européen ! — Le FEDIVERSE est en grande partie européen — Voilà #wsocial ! Mais […]

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Dr. Serge Zaka @sergezaka.bsky.social · 06/08/2026

Ça y est ! La sécheresse de 2026 devient la plus intense jamais observée depuis le début des relevés météorologiques en France, dépassant désormais les épisodes historiques de 1976 et de 2022. 1/4

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arclight @arclight.oldbytes.space.ap.brid.gy · 07/08/2026

Every once in a while our IT department actually nails it: "It is important to remember: *No legitimate website should ever ask you to use keyboard shortcuts or paste anything into Run or Terminal*." Seriously. If your software installation process involves pasting `curl <whatever> | sudo -` […]

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≽(•⩊ •マ≼ @josh.masto.byrd.ws.ap.brid.gy · 02/08/2026

endless growth is the ideology of a cancer cell

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Richard de Waard @waardrichard.social.edu.nl.ap.brid.gy · 02/08/2026

“Vaporizing a car’s worth of aluminum, other metals, and chemicals in the upper atmosphere, every hour, indefinitely? Not good.” #spacedebris #space #sustainability #satellites #megaconstellation buttondown.com/creativegood/archive…

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rollingguyam @rollingguyam.mastodon.tetaneutral.net.ap.brid.gy · 02/08/2026

Donc #JeChercheUnJob sur #Toulouse et environs, je tente ici avant d'aller sur le site de réseautage m'as-tu-vu de Microslop. Je cherche dans la génomique, la phylogénie, la bioinformatique, l'analyse de données, un poste type ingénieur de recherche, éventuellement postdoc même si pas convaincu […]

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Marc Robinson-Rechavi @marcrr.ecoevo.social.ap.brid.gy · 30/07/2026

Open position of Associate Professor in Behavioral ecology and cultural evolution at the @dee_unil You can toggle the ad to English on top right: wwwfbm.unil.ch/releve/application/a…

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Dimitris Kontopoulos @dgkontopoulos.io · 27/07/2026

Good morning #ESA2026, delighted to be here! I have a talk on how temperature and relative humidity affect key physiological and behavioral traits of Argentine ants. Thursday 7/30, 8:15 am, room 255A. Also, happy to meet and chat about anything related to comparative ecophysiology & macroecology!

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2 Spoopy 4 You @jcrabapple.dmv.community.ap.brid.gy · 27/07/2026

🌊 In September 2023, seismometers around the world detected a mysterious signal repeating every 92 seconds for nine straight days. The source: a standing wave trapped inside a Greenland fjord. Here is what happened. A glacier in East Greenland had been thinning for years, no longer supporting […]

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Hubert Bécart @hubert-becart.piaille.fr.ap.brid.gy · 26/07/2026

"Il n'y a pas de conscience écologique qui se réveille au coeur des flammes. Très vite, l'évènement est relativisé, fragmenté : « s'il y avait eu moins de vent » ; « si les pompiers étaient arrivés plus tôt », etc. On parle de ce qui a mis le feu à la forêt plutôt que du réchauffement climatique […]

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Alexis Simon @alxsim.ecoevo.social.ap.brid.gy · 23/07/2026

RE: mastodon.social/@LesRepliques/11696… Et quelques temps après: "Ah oups les CNI de 30 millions d'utilisateurs ont fuité. Vous utilisateurs faites attention aux vols d'identité je dis ça je dis rien..."

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nichkaie 😜😹 @nichkaie.bsky.social · 21/07/2026

Malgré la Réautorisation dérogatoire de deux néonicotinoïdes,ajoutée par le Sénat, pas de rejet du texte😭😤🤬❗👎🙈 Le projet de loi a finalement été largement adopté par les députés dans la nuit de lundi à mardi par 296 voix pour, majoritairement issues de la droite et de l’extrême droite et 224 contre.

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Nicolas Fressengeas @fresseng.universites.social.ap.brid.gy · 16/07/2026

Où je découvre plmlatex.math.cnrs.fr, un service hébérgé au @cnrs , ouvert à tout l'ESR français, qui propose l'édition LaTeX collaborative souveraine à l'ESR, grâce au socle libre d'Overleaf. Bravo et merci ! 👏 #latex #overleaf

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2 Spoopy 4 You @jcrabapple.dmv.community.ap.brid.gy · 06/07/2026

🔒 A 19-year-old cybercriminal was caught despite using a VPN across multiple countries - because Windows has a tracking number built into every install that a VPN can't hide. Peter Stokes, arrested in Finland in April and extradited to the US last week, is tied to Scattered Spider, the hacking […]

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Dr. Dan Killam @dantheclamman.scicomm.xyz.ap.brid.gy · 06/07/2026

Bivalve hinges have to be very resilient, considering the animal's very existence depends on keeping the valves attached and articulated. One team of researchers mechanically opened and closed a freshwater mussel shell 1.5 million times, finding no signs of […] [Original post on scicomm.xyz]

A cross section of the hinge of a freshwater mussel from Asia, the cockscomb pearl mussel, showing the two valves as pale white aragonite. They are joined by a beefy semicircular bridge of ligament holding them together, and behind that, a long beaklike structure that helps to dissipate strain away from the attachment between the valves

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Dieter Lukas @dieterlukas.fediscience.org.ap.brid.gy · 06/07/2026

I compiled a list of 350 #funding opportunities for #postdoctoral research #fellowships: docs.google.com/spreadsheets/d/1J2M… I realized I should share this again after mentioning it to some folks at the #EFP2026

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Robin Forlonge Patterson @rfpatterson.mastodon.nz.ap.brid.gy · 03/07/2026

larssona.substack.com/p/snatching-v… (defeat) 'Going back to our roots 'I am very lucky to have played a small part in a successful people-powered resistance movement, and it has informed my thinking as a campaigner ever since. 'In #Aotearoa New Zealand, the […]

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Alexis Simon @alxsim.ecoevo.social.ap.brid.gy · 02/07/2026

RE: mastodon.world/@OpenSexism/11684807… LLM as a multiplicator of existing sexist biases, and I'd bet if you tested on other minorities you'd get the same result

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Ada Palmer @adapalmer.wandering.shop.ap.brid.gy · 01/07/2026

Scientists make the world’s most efficient solar panel. German researchers have built the most efficient solar panel ever, turning 34.4% of sunlight into electricity. That’s way higher than ordinary rooftop panels, which usually convert between 20-23%. This is a research breakthrough, not […]

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