Flora Graham

Illustration of the Dutch Reach. You should reach across with your non-door-side hand to open a car door, because it forces you to look behind you.

Last night, I got properly "doored" for the first time. A car in the road to my right paused, and the rear left passenger threw open his door without looking, right into my path. I ended up on the floor, badly winded but ok.

If you don't know what the "Dutch reach" is, NOW is the time to learn.

The limestone object, about 21 centimetres wide and shown here with stone counters, caught archaeoludologist Walter Crist’s eye in the Het Romeins Museum in Heerlen. To crack its rules, Crist and his colleagues applied an AI-powered game system that contains the mechanics of thousands of games, past and present, from around the globe.

Forbidden chocolate chip cookie (Roman board game made out of a rock)

i made a version of wikipedia you can doomscroll
xikipedia.org

Shout out @noupside.bsky.social for her incredibly valuable book 'Invisible Rulers', which I quote above www.nature.com/articles/d41...

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Flora Graham, Senior Editor of the Nature Briefing, delves into the value of trust in science during an unprecedented era of misinformation.

This year the one word on my mind is ‘trust’. I’m seeing how hard-earned trust in accurate information is being eaten away by algorithms that incentivize getting a reaction over truth or the public interest. Misinformation researcher Renée DiResta calls this the “fantasy–industrial complex”, calling out to those who farm falsehoods for likes online. Their approach, as DiResta puts it, is “if you make it trend, you make it true”.1

Delighted to contribute to this year's look-ahead in the Oxford Medical School Gazette — a wonderful opportunity to crystallize some of my thoughts about trust, especially when it comes to the particular responsibilty of medics and journalists. oxfordmedicalschoolgazette.org/year-ahead/

😱 but isn’t the theme of the holiday ‘romance’? (I mean I totally understand how these things happen cause Easter is big and it’s not exactly all about bunnies and eggs 😆)

Quite liked this bit from Giovanni Malago’s Olympic opening speech: “Tradition is not the worship of ashes, but the preservation of fire”. Shout out Gustav Mahler 🔥

For Valentine’s Day!? Ah luckily we don’t have that tradition in the UK! That sounds … horrific TBH 🙈

Genuinely curious, as a parent myself: why is this advice for parents? Just cause we’re so busy and need love? 🥰

Is anyone ever really ‘ready’ for kids tho 😂

I'm so sorry to hear that! Well I hear and honour Gladys Mae West's name EVERY DAY at Nature headquarters because an important part of our building is named after her. And I don't know that jerk's name, and hopefully never will. Her legacy lives on strong ❤️

This is a cool idea but why is most of the north cut off? Seems a big flaw to me

Never felt more proud of being an Ecosia user 🥔🥔🥔 www.ft.com/content/1554...

Well done for the non-judgy tone of the article but. What the hell people. Do not drug your children nightly to make them sleep. This is nightmare shit

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Spotted in a very interesting history of @nature.com in Asimov Press 😏
www.asimov.press/p/nature

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IT’S HAPPENING

Poster for an online course on epidemiology for journalists

During the peak of the Covid-19 pandemic, I taught three, online courses for journalists on basics of epidemiology

Course recordings and slides are still available as a free resource on my teaching website

www.teachepi.org/courses/epid...

Still from 'How much exercise do you really need?' shows reporter Lizzy Gibney being helped out by SCIENCE

Do not miss this fab video from our team 😂
youtu.be/jskktKzWfys

Quote of the day “Wild nature is not a crop but a cathedral, and a single old-growth forest is a databank containing more info than any legions of supercomputers could hold.” Environmental author Rick Bass writes that mature forests of the United States, such as in his beloved corner of Montana, are essential carbon sinks — not “just crops of fibre that could be farmed like corn”. (High Country News | 8 min read)

love this one www.hcn.org/issues/57-9/...

Exchange for Change unveiled as new name of deposit return scheme Drinks bosses and retailers who are spearheading the scheme hope the new trading name will become synonymous with the scheme

I am unreasonably excited about this! 🍾 www.thegrocer.co.uk/news/exchang...

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Welcome to Sensemaking Distortion A blog about how our ability make sense of everything is profoundly distorted by digital and social media.

I've been doing a soft launch of my new Substack, Sensemaking Distortion, a blog about how our ability to make sense of the world around us is being profoundly distorted by digital and social media. I just published the Welcome post this morning. open.substack.com/pub/katestar...

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Hi Alec, thanks for the great story. Should this maybe be "one of the **most** important" (missing word)? CC @jjaron.bsky.social 🙇

You’re absolutely right but at the same time she just looks so powerful and amazing 🤩