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Dr Sjúrður Hammer @sjurdur.bsky.social · 30/09/2026

Oppositely, I agree with the philosopher Holmes Rolston who said something to the effect: that one cannot both be an environmentalist and an animal rightist. And Kunming-Montreal largely agrees with this stance

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Apoorva Mandavilli @apoorvanyt.bsky.social · 26/09/2026

I’ve been reporting on the CDC for years, and have written about many of its troubles over the past year. I was still shocked by the extent of the staff losses and political interference I found when reporting this one. www.nytimes.com/2026/09/26/h...

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‘Zombified’ C.D.C., Hobbled by Cuts, Struggles to Fulfill Scientific Mission (Gift Article)

The agency has lost its independence and nearly a third of its staff, as Health Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr. and associates have tightened control.

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Dr Sjúrður Hammer @sjurdur.bsky.social · 26/09/2026

The best thing about studying great skua diet is that you end up studying other seabirds too. It suits my undiagnosed magpiebrain very well! #seabirds 🧪🌍

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Andrew Couts @couts.bsky.social · 18/09/2026

Absolutely horrific: Thanks to a false intelligence "generated with the help of artificial intelligence," the US military nearly carried out an operation aboard a Chinese ship because the incorrect intelligence said it was carrying nukes, according to @cnn.com. edition.cnn.com/2026/09/18/p...

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Exclusive: US military had close call after using AI for false intelligence report, sources say | CNN Politics

The episode shows the risks of using this new, relatively poorly understood technology in the middle of the Iran war

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thatgirlinsb @34thparallel.bsky.social · 13/09/2026

Protesters at the Irish Open. shitler’s international golf links and hotel Doonbeg, Ireland. Thank you, Doonbeg!

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Malena-PRO-CHOICE 🌊 🟦🟧Fighting Tyranny! @malena.bsky.social · 11/09/2026

𝐓𝐡𝐢𝐬 𝐒𝐞𝐩𝐭𝐞𝐦𝐛𝐞𝐫 𝟏𝟏𝐭𝐡, 𝐭𝐚𝐤𝐞 𝐚 𝐦𝐨𝐦𝐞𝐧𝐭 𝐭𝐨 𝐡𝐨𝐧𝐨𝐫 𝐭𝐡𝐞 𝟐𝐧𝐝 𝐫𝐞𝐬𝐩𝐨𝐧𝐝𝐞𝐫𝐬. UNDOCUMENTED IMMIGRANTS 🦋 Approximately 6,000 undocumented immigrants were taken to ground zero to clean up the rubble. Many are suffering from cancer/other health issues because of the work they did & are now being targeted by #ICE.

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Frank Amari @frankamari.bsky.social · 01/08/2026

Today's cartoon by Dennis Goris:

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Dr Sjúrður Hammer @sjurdur.bsky.social · 10/09/2026

@iwriteok.bsky.social hey, listened to BTB for ages, and this is my first chance to correct you on something - Erasmus Darwin was not Charles' father but grandfather

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Sitting on a corn flake @grrlscientist.bsky.social · 07/09/2026

love birds (and insects)? then TURN OUT YOUR LIGHTS

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Miranda Yaver @mirandayaver.bsky.social · 05/09/2026

Prioritizing erectile dysfunction research over addressing infant mortality, cancer screenings, and suicide prevention tells you basically everything you need to know about this administration's health priorities.

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Gillian @ferbiemum25.bsky.social · 21/09/2025

#menieres disease

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Olúfẹ́mi O. Táíwò @olufemiotaiwo.bsky.social · 03/09/2026

""What did he study? “Philosophy and theology. A teacher in high school said, there’s no money in that, and I said: ‘Sir, that’s disrespectful. That’s insulting, because not everybody’s about money.’" he's one of us!

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‘I don’t chase the dollar. I never did’: the astonishing hidden life of Mr T

He grew up in the ghetto, became a global superstar – then gave it all up. Why did he step away from the spotlight?

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David Shiffman, Ph.D. 🦈 @whysharksmatter.bsky.social · 03/09/2026

I’ve been thinking a lot about the sunk cost fallacy lately. Science friends, how do you decide when a research project or paper that you’ve been working on for a while and have invested a lot of time in just isn’t worth it and should be abandoned? 🧪

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Ed Zitron @edzitron.com · 01/09/2026

Free newsletter: We have entered an era of technological hypernormalization, where the tech industry does everything it can to twist our sense of reality to make us ignore the very simple economic problems they're unable to solve. www.wheresyoured.at/hyperscale-n...

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Jay Kuo @nycjayjay.bsky.social · 01/09/2026

Don’t cry for Thiel, Argentina. Video: bsky.app/profile/noth...

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David Shiffman, Ph.D. 🦈 @whysharksmatter.bsky.social · 01/09/2026

| Research which lawmakers have been consistent ocean and climate champions and which candidates plausibly promise better policies for our public seas. | (These days, you can safely say “vote for Democrats and not Republicans.” That didn’t used to be true.)

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Contributor: To stop Trump's pillaging, 'vote the ocean' this fall

Research which lawmakers have been consistent ocean and climate champions and which candidates plausibly promise better policies for our public seas.

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Anders Puck Nielsen @anderspucknielsen.dk · 31/08/2026

I'm not sure it's helpful for Ukraine if Fedorov goes around conducting his own foreign policy on behalf of the country.

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Raider @iwillnotbesilenced.bsky.social · 26/08/2026

Jack White paid tribute to Dolly Parton at his Hammersmith show in London, performing a cover of 'Jolene' just hours after news broke of the country icon's death.

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Philip Amies @philipamies.eurosky.social · 25/08/2026

My own thinking which inevitably due to education is biological has with age given greater importance to culture, humans are animals with a difference. I do think some people deny biology too much as regards humans, but others take a simplistic (biased) stance which is often bad biology.

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Philip Amies @philipamies.eurosky.social · 25/08/2026

E. O. Wilson, a timeline for those without a biology education. 1967, co-author Robert MacArthur, The Theory of Island Biogeography r/K Selection Theory, Species-Area Relationship, these were fundamental elements in my biology education.

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Johan Lind @johanlind.bsky.social · 25/08/2026

I get tired on animal cognition, poor methodology, theory assuming conclusions, statistical “evidence” that [insert fave animal] has a surprising capacity. We examined the Science paper claiming human-like #grammar in #bonobos (or "extensive compositionality in bonobo vocalizations"). 🧵 1/n

Screenshot of our paper: Structure without semantics

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Alom Shaha @alomshaha.bsky.social · 23/08/2026

Really hope my fellow “Humanists” think carefully about who their heroes are and who they invite to their conferences etc. Pinker etc. showing us who they are and it’s some way from my understanding of Humanism.

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Benjamin Riley @benjaminjriley.bsky.social · 20/08/2026

So we know AI helped a negligible number of students. But how many did it harm? I've crunched the raw data provided by the lead researcher, and what I've found is that ~9,500 students using AI studied less than even the *least* studious, non-AI using student. This should shock the conscience.

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Sarah Manvel @cairdiul.bsky.social · 18/08/2026

God bless the silly season for alerting us all to this man's important work, and the fact there's a lid for every pot www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...

bbc.co.uk

Man who rates benches on Instagram gives first ever 10/10 score

Rate This Bench founder Sam Wilmot says his favourite bench is in a South Gloucestershire churchyard.

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Dr Sjúrður Hammer @sjurdur.bsky.social · 18/08/2026

My first letter to the editor of Guardian

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Nikolaj Bichel @nikolaj-bi.bsky.social · 10/01/2024

Paperback version of our book 'Trophy Hunting' has been made available for €38: link.springer.com/book/10.1007...

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Dr Sjúrður Hammer @sjurdur.bsky.social · 16/08/2026

"Arday was fetishized in his ascendancy by white liberals, for whom he served as a mirror in which they could see their own goodness. And he was fetishized... www.theatlantic.com/culture/2026...

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The Truths That Failed Jason Arday

Systemic, ritualized dishonesty undid the Cambridge professor.

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Natalia (娜塔莉) @wrycritic.bsky.social · 02/02/2026

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.

The first attempt to reconstruct Tyrannosaurus rex, in the 1905 paper in which Osborn named it and a panel mount of the skeleton (middle), from the 1916 paper in which Osborn described and named it.

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Ana Marie Cox @anamariecox.com · 15/08/2026

TW: Suicide If you tell people you have SI, many are likely to suggest you call 988 or text the suicide lifeline. These are good resources *if you need to be kept physically safe;* they are not as helpful if your ideations are passive. Allow me to share some things that have helped me. /1

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T. Ryan Gregory 🇨🇦 @tryangregory.bsky.social · 15/08/2026

If you're a biologist, especially one in a field that has a history of eugenics and racism (which absolutely includes my own field of evolutionary biology) and you choose to remain "neutral" as race science once again crawls out from under its rock, you are not in fact neutral.

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Tom Roberts @tpgroberts.bsky.social · 15/08/2026

Look, put simply, people should not be comfortable saying that in public and the way to fix society runs directly through making them afraid to say it again.

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Merriam-Webster @merriam-webster.com · 05/08/2026

Jane Austen used 'however' at the beginning of a sentence, and so can you.

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Erlend Friestad @erlendfri.bsky.social · 05/08/2026

“Hvor langt kan den høyreradikale aktivisten gå uten at det får konsekvenser for forretningsmannen?” Spør TRI Klart det bør få konsekvensar, for Musk brukar jo nettopp forretningsmannen sine midlar og tyngde til å fremje ekstremismen sin. Handlar du med/av Musk, bidrar du til ekstremismen.

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Richard Viker @rviker.bsky.social · 14/08/2026

"Too often, people in our part of the world assume that “indigenous and local communities” refers only to distant, exotic cultures or to the shameful legacies of colonialism." #NewAni #NordicAnimism #animism

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Dr Sjúrður Hammer @sjurdur.bsky.social · 14/08/2026

Introduce yourself as what almost killed you. Hi, I’m the North Atlantic ocean with a gentle breeze confronting your hubristic and ill-prepared cave kayaking excuse of an expedition

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852dude @852dude.bsky.social · 13/08/2026

Bro. People are cool as fuck.

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Eoghan Daltun 🌍 @irishrainforest.bsky.social · 13/08/2026

Dubliners love the Phoenix Park's 500-strong herd of fallow deer, but they're an alien invasive species and heavily impact nature, grazing out tree seedlings and other flora, thus eliminating habitat. Their replacement with just a few native Killarney red deer could keep people AND nature happy.

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Dr Sjúrður Hammer @sjurdur.bsky.social · 12/08/2026

TARGET 9 CBD - Manage Wild Species Sustainably To Benefit People www.cbd.int/gbf/targets/...

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Target 9

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Ben Wood @cosmichope.bsky.social · 02/06/2026

'Once the basic needs of food and shelter are met, man’s greatest satisfactions are to be found in love, trust and friendship, in beauty, art and music and in learning, none of which are served by the mythology of growth for its own sake' ("The Environment: A Liberal Party Report", 1972) 🔶️

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Alastair McIntosh @alastairmci.bsky.social · 31/07/2026

Animal rights activists are trying to force @NatureScot.bsky.social to ban the hunting of “guga” (gannets) for food (not sport) in my home Isle of Lewis. Here I am quoted on why the tradition is culturally important to indigenous families, binding folk to cycles of their natural environment.

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