Norwegian humor is on another level. Here's how the Norwegian Consumer Council explained @doctorow.pluralistic.net's concept of 'enshittification':

None of this year's science Nobel Prizes have gone to women. The number of these prizes to go to women remains at 27 out of more than 600. See how many you can name in our quiz: https://www.nature.com/immersive/d41586-026-03133-9/index.html

Three years of ecocide and targeted assassinations in Gaza by Israel [contains quote post or other embedded content]

Having fun with a batch of new scale drawings for the upcoming book about prehistoric birds. :)

"In 2004...Zhuo-Hua Pan achieved something remarkable: he made neurons react to light...a foundational step in creating optogenetics—that would go on to revolutionize neuroscience. ...you’ve likely never heard his name. Instead, the world knows Karl Deisseroth and Ed Boyden." lnkd.in/p/ggR8fvY7 https://lnkd.in/p/ggR8fvY7

Terry Tao @teorth.bsky.social: Indiscriminate brute-force application of AI to mathematics is depleting the field of good questions without renewing this resource or providing commensurate value. OpenAI: We hear you. Here's a .zip file with 377 hasty AI solutions to important open problems. https://www.nytimes.com/2026/10/06/science/openai-math-problems.html?unlocked_article_code=1.G1E.ToXx.SrRjbhiZHxbd&smid=url-share

Neutrino astrophysicist John Beacom has a lovely explainer of the Francis Halzen/IceCube Nobel Prize. https://medium.com/@beacom.7/how-neutrinos-which-barely-exist-just-ran-off-with-a-nobel-prize-again-1299374c0ed8

They hounded Aaron Swartz to death for downloading papers from jstor but society is now supposed to just accept mass theft because this thing can write that TPS report *for* you. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Aaron_Swartz [contains quote post or other embedded content]

Words cannot express my loathing of Vanity Fair right now. This man can’t see the future, or people. He can only see marks, and wow are you easy pickings [contains quote post or other embedded content]

"Before Stonehenge was raised, before Egypts first pyramid broke ground,before the Nazca people drew their famous lines across the Peruvian desert,someone in what is now southern Arizona shaped a 272-foot fish into the earth On April 23,2026,"a border-wall contractor drove heavy equipment across it" https://www.gadgetreview.com/trumps-border-wall-construction-destroys-6500-year-old-arizona-geoglyph-older-than-stonehenge

with google making third party app installations outside of the play store impossible and now them responding to the Indian governments demands to remove that secure messaging app that jack dorsey was involved with, it's now impossible for people at protests to communicate with each other

“'The microplastic footprint Helene left behind was pretty substantial,' said Austin Gray, a Virginia Tech biologist. 'Microplastics are depositing all over terrestrial and aquatic areas, especially after a storm event...'" https://news.vt.edu/content/news_vt_edu/en/articles/2026/09/science-helene-microplastics.html 🧪

"These early results in Brazil are astounding 🤯 The far-right is simply crushing in the Congress & Senate,displacing the traditional conservative sector with extremist Bolsonaristas–& all but crippling the prospects for legislative progress in the next coming years"-David Adler https://x.com/davidrkadler/status/2106858816864145695

it’s come to my attention that my tumblr post has been crossposted to bluesky, so I’m posting it on my account here #AntiAI #GenAI

It's me, the mythical STEM PhD who not only took history classes but got a whole history degree! Studying history is arguably one of the most important things STEM students can do. Science isn't done in a vacuum, and students should investigate the people, places, and events that shape it.

Google has started updating satellite images of Gaza. Holocaust. (📸 Barry Andrews MEP, European Parliament)

Doesn't surprise me that this is their (garbage) take But it does remind me that so many social movements (successful and failed alike) were driven by underemployed, overcredentialed, and aggrieved young people, even movements that primarily benefit other groups we're dangerous to the WSJ types [contains quote post or other embedded content]

The whole point of humans as a sociable, tribal species is we should eject people like this, so they starve in the wilderness alone. There are consequences to sociopathic behaviour. Somehow the abstract idea of money has short circuited our basic evolutionary safeguards. [contains quote post or other embedded content]

Here's a balanced account of where the microscopy community stands on AI use by this year's Small World in Motion winner. My main issue is that no one seems to have seen the original data despite requests (no mention of it being reviewed by the organizers) https://www.the-scientist.com/allegations-of-ai-use-in-nikon-competition-spark-controversy-75041

US has deported more than 25,000 people under secretive agreements with 35 countries to take migrants with no ties to those nations, according to an investigation published Monday u.afp.com/Sj9Z

The proper word for “asymmetric views of sovereignty” is… Imperialism [contains quote post or other embedded content]

This is the updated part. Looks like the movie is an AI-generated fluorescence image from a non-labeled acquisition technique. No indication that the Small World jury and organizers have requested and verified the raw data (as mentioned as a possibility in the competition rules) [contains quote post or other embedded content]

From the new info my bet is fluo labeling inference pushed to 11. Hallucinating nonsensical DAPI nuclei, mitochondria stain, membrane labeling from a kind of phase contrast image: wrong localization, wrong scale, wrong movement. Keeping this movie as SWiM winner is a disgrace to the competition [contains quote post or other embedded content]

Briefly popping my head back in to unveil the cover of my upcoming book, LIFE BEYOND MEASURE: Nature's Hidden Wonders at Every Scale. It’ll be out on April 6 in the U.S. and April 29 in the U.K. and you can pre-order it right now! https://www.penguinrandomhouse.com/books/757705/life-beyond-measure-by-ed-yong/ 1/

NEW – Analysis: Nepal’s $20m ‘loss-and-damage’ claim only covers 0.7% of flood costs | @arunacsekhar.bsky.social @joshgabbatiss.bsky.social w/ comment from @harjeet11.bsky.social Read here: https://www.carbonbrief.org/analysis-nepals-20m-loss-and-damage-claim-only-covers-0-7-of-flood-costs?_thumbnail_id=83100

Today is #HobbitDay because Bilbo and Frodo Baggins were both born on September 22nd. Normally we'd shire a hobbit pun or two but it might just feel like a tolkien gesture and we don't want to embarrass our elves. Anyway it's a good day to come and boromir #Tolkien books. 📚

An amoeba living in a Californian hot spring is thriving above 60°C, a threshold previously thought deadly to complex life https://www.newscientist.com/article/2590054-fire-amoeba-breaks-heat-tolerance-record-for-complex-life/?utm_term=Autofeed&utm_medium=SOC&utm_source=Bluesky#Echobox=1790089701

Ok, this "there are two separate brains" thing appears to be making the rounds, and I want to be absolutely clear: this is a press office overhyping some perfectly reasonable science that won't come as a surprise to most developmental biologists. [contains quote post or other embedded content]

I wonder who working on the field is surprised by this ‘finding’. Interesting refinement of what is already known, an elaboration but…..a surprise? [contains quote post or other embedded content]

Hallucinating AI robots wrote an article in one of the largest English papers in the world saying I quit writing to become a gardener. I did not! Instead, I wrote about them. Read on: https://sarahkendzior.substack.com/p/i-wandered-lonely-in-the-cloud

He’s been in a mutual petting society with noted race-science blog Quillette for a decade. His last book cited them as authorities on academia. The one before that made up a quotation in order to attack historians of science and talked about evopsych as an Enlightenment phenomenon. What are we doing [contains quote post or other embedded content]

Innocent civilians are being murdered with dirt-cheap and essentially impossible to ban tiny flying robots at shocking numbers globally (read our piece below). We have REAL, CURRENT cyberpunk horrors to deal with right now, and we don’t need to waste our time on hypothetical AI basilisks. [contains quote post or other embedded content]

'Pierre was one of the driving architects of modern molecular biology, whose scientific vision transformed the understanding of gene regulation in eukaryotic cells. His achievements were rewarded by most of the major scientific prizes (except the Swedish one)' https://www.nature.com/articles/s41588-026-02771-z?utm_medium=organic_social&utm_source=partner&utm_content=null&utm_term=null&utm_campaign=CONR_JRNLS_LYLT_GL_PJNL_06PJ3_ARTPROMTK