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In the battle between light and dark, the darkness is destined to triumph. Or so this narrative goes.
Reminder: dark energy is speculative physics - an hypothesis introduced to explain the accelerating expansion of the universe. It may be a fudge, and not actually exist.
#DarkEnergy #cosmology 🧪
Reconstructed solar polar fields from Kodaikanal and Rome/PSPT Ca II K observations compared to direct measurements by the Wilcox solar observatory (WSO) as well as with advective flux transport (AFT) simulations. This is figure 7 from the paper
New paper alert 🧪☀️🔭⚛️☄️
In this work, led by Dr. Dibya Kirti Mishra @dibya96.bsky.social, we used observations of the Sun in the Ca II K line from Kodaikanal in India and Rome in Italy to reconstruct solar polar magnetic fields back to 1904.
iopscience.iop.org/article/10.3...
Trump vents fury about his criminal cases in extraordinary speech at DoJ
15.03.2025 07:45 — 👍 192 🔁 49 💬 62 📌 15
We’re officially booing again, and it feels like a step in the right direction.
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The #influencer industry's market value is estimated at $23 billion in 2025, with projections reaching $71 billion by 2032, yet tax rules remain unclear for this growing sector. buff.ly/qwSDVBt
By Sarah Webber @universityofdayton.bsky.social; Kaitlin Newkirk @xavier.edu
Tiger Woods and Vanessa Trump are "taking it slow" when it comes to their burgeoning romance with the pair having embarked on a "secret relationship" in recent months.
15.03.2025 08:35 — 👍 3 🔁 2 💬 3 📌 0
Funding fights, memoirs by Boris Becker and Stallone, plus the queen of romantasy: this year’s London book fair
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🍌 Bananas & Climate Change 🌍
A new study finds that rising temperatures and socio-economic factors will shrink the area suitable for export banana production by 60%. 🌡️
🔗 www.nature.com/articles/s43...
#SciComm 🧪 #ClimateChange
A black and white photo showing a row of standing people behind a row of kneeling people in basketball clothes
“That summer, my mother said to me, ‘You’re going to a new school,’ and I asked, ‘Will my friends be there?’ She (told) me probably not but that I would make new friends,” Juanita Floyd said of B.F. Ford School closing as a result of integration.
buff.ly/4hYGWOu
A photo shows a man on one knee shouting during a basketball game. A quote from Doug Gottlieb: “I take the things I say to (the players) and I mean it: If this is my hardest day, I got a pretty good life, right?”
From @theathletic.bsky.social: Doug Gottlieb is doubling as a radio host and a men's college basketball coach. We went behind the scenes of the most unusual employment experiment in college hoops. nyti.ms/3EGGrKb
14.02.2025 14:24 — 👍 64 🔁 7 💬 18 📌 23
Check out this article from NorthJersey.com:
NJ Catholic diocese used secret court hearing to block investigation of clergy sex abuse
www.northjersey.com/story/news/w...
Been attending this since Feb. 2021 when there weren’t that many of us and we all wore masks
Exceptional event snd this year my wife had fun,
We have a winner of Pizza Bowl V, and they took home the crown for best meatballs, too
www.northjersey.com/story/entert...
With pizza making legend Al Santillo
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Snow in the desert? Nope! The salt-covered sandstone and clay landscape of Valle de la Luna in the Atacama Desert. 🧪 Tectonic forces and erosion sculpted this Moon-like terrain
27.01.2025 03:11 — 👍 108 🔁 11 💬 3 📌 0
The Oasis star was less than complimentary after Little Mix made pop history at the 2021 Brit Awards.
21.01.2025 16:15 — 👍 3 🔁 3 💬 1 📌 0
US Senator Marco Rubio from Florida became the first of President Donald Trump's cabinet nominees to be sworn into office, as secretary of state. Rubio emphasized that US foreign policy under Trump will put American needs first reut.rs/3E6YpoT
21.01.2025 16:18 — 👍 45 🔁 10 💬 34 📌 5
Lawyers for Civil Rights' lawsuit alleges that the order is unconstitutional based on the language of the 14th Amendment. The civil suit was filed on behalf of an expectant mother and immigration advocacy groups La Colaborativa and Brazilian Worker Center.
21.01.2025 16:19 — 👍 90 🔁 24 💬 4 📌 1
NEW: The family of Capitol Police Officer Brian Sicknick, who died after responding to the Jan. 6 attack, calls President Trump's pardons of those responsible for the attack an "undoing of justice."
21.01.2025 16:22 — 👍 467 🔁 94 💬 45 📌 8
Just hours into his second term, President Donald Trump signed some of his first executive orders as an arena crowd of thousands cheered a U.S. withdrawal from the Paris climate agreement and rolling back protections against LGBTQ+ discrimination
21.01.2025 16:30 — 👍 15 🔁 7 💬 3 📌 2
🔺 Trump executive orders live: president fires coastguard commandant
Admiral Linda Fagan, the first female leader of any branch of the US armed forces, was relieved of her duties by Benjamine Huffman, the acting secretary of homeland security, who did not provide a reason
An extinction event in plants in the aftermath of the Quaternary megafaunal extinction?
"Major potential plant extinction events were detected around 17,000 and 9000 years ago which lag maximum vegetation turnover."
www.nature.com/articles/s41...
🧪 #EvoBio #Paleobio #Macroecology #Extinction
Open access 🧪 paper accessed here:
Understanding the environmental and social risks from the international trade in ornamental plants
academic.oup.com/bioscience/a...
If NASA failed at this rate there would be protests to cut the budget.....
Failure in science and engineering is inevitable, but the private tech approach of "move fast and break things" (not to quote the berg) has very questionable ethics given the resources required for space faring.
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Frogs, lizards, snakes, spiders & other insect pests are being transported across the world on cut flowers and potted plants, with the potential to harm nature, according to scientists. 🧪🐸🦎🐍🕷️🦋
Link to original study posted below.
www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...
An image of a fossil arachnid shown in doral (left) and ventral (right) view. The photos are black and white and the animal itself looks a bit like a spider, although it isn't. It has a tear drop chaped body covered with dense spines, and an anterior point. It doesn't have the narrowing between the front and the back of the body that spiders do.
A CT scan of the fossil described from the photos - this has a white body and purple limbs, and is rendered on a black background.
A coloured reconstruction of this fossil, which is a dark red all over, with yellow spines.
Word up. It's #FossilFriday. This week, meet Eophrynus. This is a ~315 million year old member of the trigonotarbids - an extinct group, related to spiders, whip spiders, and whip scorpions. Check out the spines! I love this fossil.
⚒️🧪🦀🦑 #evosky
2024 was not only the hottest year on record, it also saw the fastest-ever rise in atmospheric CO2 levels…
La Niña, wildfires, deforestation, the continued burning of oil and gas, and ongoing wars in Ukraine and Gaza - all have played a part.
www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...
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Not good 🧪
17.01.2025 09:27 — 👍 127 🔁 61 💬 9 📌 5
Nepal has been celebrated globally for tripling its tiger population in a decade - but its Prime Minister thinks the country may have been too successful.
"In such a small country, we have >350 tigers… We can't have so many tigers and let them eat up humans." 🧪🐯
www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...