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The backstory: Ukrainian drones struck a Yandex supercomputer facility in Vladimir, taking it out. Suddenly, bot activity in US social media fell by 49%, confirming suspicions that this was the site of a massive Russian influence operation targeting US social media—mostly targeting MAGA.
![Modern scientific sources report that the alleged phenomenon is not real. In 1995, Douglas Melton, a biologist at Harvard University, said, "If you put a frog in boiling water, it won't jump out. It will die. If you put it in cold water, it will jump before it gets hot—they don't sit still for you." George R. Zug, curator of reptiles and amphibians at the National Museum of Natural History, also rejected the suggestion, saying that "If a frog had a means of getting out, it certainly would get out."[4] In 2002, Victor H. Hutchison, a retired zoologist at the University of Oklahoma with a research interest in thermal relations of amphibians, said that "The legend is entirely incorrect!" He described how a critical thermal maximum for many frog species has been determined by contemporary research experiments: as the water is heated by about 2 °F (about 1 °C), per minute, the frog becomes increasingly active as it tries to escape, and eventually jumps out if it can.[5]
In 2018, researchers Agustín Camacho, Caroline Molina and Fernando Ribeiro, from the Department of Physiology of São Paulo's Biosciences Institute, made a similar test using Bullfrogs (Rana catesbeiana) although not in water but in a dry container. They found that the 15 normally hydrated frogs all exited the container, at an average body temperature of 35.9 °C (called "voluntary thermal maximum") which did not depend on the heating rate (which ranged 0.17–0.87 °C/min i.e. 0.003-0.015 °C/s – so all of these heating rates were faster than Fratscher's 0.002 °C/s in 1875).[28] However 8 out of 15 severely dehydrated frogs did not exit and died. A previous study with different lizard species[29] showed that the effect of heating rate may be species specific, with active thermoregulator lizards being unaffected by it and thermoconformer lizards being affected. A later study on gardener ants showed slower heating rates made individuals exit the heating chambers at lower temperatures, as it did for the thermoco…](https://cdn.bsky.app/img/feed_thumbnail/plain/did:plc:66lbtw2porscqpmair6mir37/bafkreibnai2afvijnx75ildaefphxzzlxbp2tnul2ozozfmu7lsitkwphu)
