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Adam Kumiszcza @skeptic.bsky.social · 08/11/2025

Wilk szary i kruk, Polska 2025 Grey wolf and raven, Poland 2025 #wolf #wilk #wildlife #greywolf #graywolf #wilkszary #raven #kruk

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Adam Kumiszcza @skeptic.bsky.social · 20/10/2025

Brown bear and raven, Finland 2025 Niedźwiedź brunatny i kruk, Finlandia 2025 #bear #niedźwiedź #brownbear #niedźwiedźbrunatny #wildlife #Finlandia #Finland

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Adam Kumiszcza @skeptic.bsky.social · 29/03/2025

Partial solar eclipse, Poland, today Częściowe zaćmienie Słońca, Polska, dzisiaj #solareclipse #eclipse #zaćmienie #zaćmieniesłońca #słońce #sun

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Adam Kumiszcza @skeptic.bsky.social · 19/01/2025

Rachel Carson’s *Silent Spring* spurred vital environmental reforms but also sparked chemophobia—fear of synthetic chemicals as inherently harmful. This myth endures, fueling misinformation, “natural” product hype, and mistrust of science. Remember: The dose makes the poison.

slate.com

This Book Helped Save the Planet—but Created a Very Harmful Myth

It radically shifted the way the world looked at the environment, but created a wave of misinformation we’re still dealing with today.

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Wonder of Science @wonderofscience.bsky.social · 28/11/2024

Time-lapse of the Sun circling the horizon at the South Pole during early March. Video credit: Robert Schwarz Source: vimeo.com/208466944

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William J. Brady @williambrady.bsky.social · 28/11/2024

New paper out in @ScienceMagazine! In 8 studies (multiple platforms, methods, time periods) we find: misinformation evokes more outrage than trustworthy news, when it does it's shared more + ppl are less likely to read before sharing. w/ @killianmcl1 @Klonick @mollycrockett 🧵👇

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Adam Kumiszcza @skeptic.bsky.social · 03/12/2024

So nowadays even Springer translates mathematics textbooks by AI and admits it. "This book was first published in German. The translation was done with the help of artificial intelligence. A subsequent human revision was done primarily in terms of content."

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Adam Kumiszcza @skeptic.bsky.social · 28/11/2024

Scientists discovered amber in Antarctica for the first time, dating to 83–92 million years ago. This reveals a mid-Cretaceous, conifer-dominated rainforest near the South Pole, showing Antarctica was once warm and wet and hosted resin-producing trees, offering new insights into ancient ecosystems.

sciencealert.com

First-Ever Amber Discovered in Antarctica Shows Rainforest Existed Near South Pole

Imagine a time machine that could whisk you back to the age of the dinosaurs.

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Adam Kumiszcza @skeptic.bsky.social · 28/11/2024

Carl Sagan in The Demon-Haunted World: Science as a Candle in the Dark

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Adam Kumiszcza @skeptic.bsky.social · 24/11/2024

Ivory gull. Second observation in Poland. Taken today. Mewa modrodzioba. Druga obserwacja dla Polski. Zdjęcie dzisiejsze #ivorygull #gull #mewamodrodzioba #mewa #ptaki #birds

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Adam Kumiszcza @skeptic.bsky.social · 17/11/2024

I've just noticed you can geoencode your Lightroom photos with furlong/fortnight speeds! Very useful! ;)

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Adam Kumiszcza @skeptic.bsky.social · 12/12/2023

Eurasian goshawk, Poland 2023 Jastrząb, Polska 2023

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Adam Kumiszcza @skeptic.bsky.social · 10/07/2023

Humpback whales in the snow, the Antarctic 2019 Humbaki i padający śnieg, Antarktyka 2019

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Adam Kumiszcza @skeptic.bsky.social · 09/06/2023

Mauritian flying fox. Endemic fruit bat. Mauritius 2022

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Adam Kumiszcza @skeptic.bsky.social · 01/06/2023

A paper in Scientific Data presents GeoMAP, the first detailed geological map dataset covering all of Antarctica. It depicts ‘known geology’ of rock exposures and is suitable for continent-wide perspectives and cross-discipline interrogation.

go.nature.com

A continent-wide detailed geological map dataset of Antarctica - Scientific Data

Scientific Data - A continent-wide detailed geological map dataset of Antarctica

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Adam Kumiszcza @skeptic.bsky.social · 27/05/2023

Physicists have measured the difference in the flow of time to the millimeter, between the top and bottom of a cloud of 100,000 strontium atoms. This allowed the researchers to discern a difference in time experienced by atoms at the top of the cloud and at the bottom due to the effect of gravity.

quantamagazine.org

An Ultra-Precise Clock Shows How to Link the Quantum World With Gravity | Quanta Magazine

Time was found to flow differently between the top and bottom of a single cloud of atoms. Physicists hope that such a system will one day help them combine quantum mechanics and Einstein’s theory of…

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Adam Kumiszcza @skeptic.bsky.social · 27/05/2023

Red-whiskered bulbul. Mauritius 2022

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Adam Kumiszcza @skeptic.bsky.social · 23/05/2023

Green heron. Dominican Republic 2020

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Adam Kumiszcza @skeptic.bsky.social · 20/05/2023

Gentoo penguin. The Antarctic 2019

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Adam Kumiszcza @skeptic.bsky.social · 18/05/2023

I have several invite codes to give. I would like to give them to some scientists or science communicators. Or wildlife photographers. I'd like to see more of them on Bluesky :) If you know of somebody fitting this description and can pass my invitation to him/her, please let me know.

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Adam Kumiszcza @skeptic.bsky.social · 18/05/2023

Sabine's gull, a rarity in Poland. Gdańsk, Poland.

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Adam Kumiszcza @skeptic.bsky.social · 17/05/2023

European herring gulls. Cornwall, England 2007

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Adam Kumiszcza @skeptic.bsky.social · 15/05/2023

I instructed, or actually asked ("I, For One, Welcome Our New AI Overlords") GPT-4 to do a summary of the long transcript of Sean Carroll's podcast. I first asked for a summary of fragments. At one point AI, instead of doing a summary, started playing with the continuation of the conversation.