Not for long, if it keeps on like this:
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Academic at Uni Bristol ๐ด๓ ง๓ ข๓ ฅ๓ ฎ๓ ง๓ ฟ FRAeS ERC work on #metamaterials and #biobased #materials. Love for history, geopolitics and climate. Banner shows a 2D metamaterial. Links: ibit.ly/b_Dsn and ibit.ly/MuO03 Personal opinions, etc ... ๐งชโ๏ธ๐ค๐พโป๏ธ๐คโ๏ธ๐๏ธโโ๏ธ๐๐
Not for long, if it keeps on like this:
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It starts with a twist. One arm pretzels in on itself. Then another... and another...
Before long, the arms detach and crawl away zombielike
By the end, the starfish is nothing more than a puddle of goo (1/3)
From the Pedant Corner: "civetta" is Italian female for owl, and you are quite correct about the verb "civettare". The male counterpart "owl" generates the verb "gufare", which means simply spreading bad luck around.
04.08.2025 17:05 โ ๐ 2 ๐ 0 ๐ฌ 1 ๐ 0Weaker laws on chemical safety, anyone? No? Can't tempt you?
The government's fetish for slashing red tape continues.
On today's menu:
1. More biocides in rivers
2. More secrecy around decision making
Off the menu:
adopting the EU's new ban on hormone disrupting chemicals in children's toys
"It's all mine KAREN!" ๐ ๐คฃ #cat #catday #bluesky
04.08.2025 11:25 โ ๐ 4568 ๐ 515 ๐ฌ 139 ๐ 5411,000 ppl watching Argentine scientists explore the Atlantic 3,700 meters down. If you join them you'll annoy Javier Miliei so get on it...
04.08.2025 12:38 โ ๐ 7 ๐ 4 ๐ฌ 1 ๐ 4Immigrants are leaving the US workforce in very large numbers.
Remittance payments USโMX plummeting, down 2+ million from a year ago.
Biggest decline in >30 years - a period that includes a homebuilding depression and a 100-year financial crisis.
A campaign years in the making is now just 10% off reaching its target - but will the RNLI welcome 'The Flying Farage' to its fleet?
04.08.2025 09:47 โ ๐ 41 ๐ 14 ๐ฌ 18 ๐ 1A truly disastrous performance, for performance is what it is.
The recitation of stock โlines to takeโ, the acceptance of racist mobs as being the โauthentic voice of the peopleโ, the inability to engage with the presenterโs challenge save through rote repetition.
This is very dangerous indeed
The Times has now become the S*^% for people in suits
04.08.2025 09:44 โ ๐ 4 ๐ 0 ๐ฌ 0 ๐ 0Stocks of DeepMind Platform Co, Ltd have recently taken a big hit after sudden climb.
CEO of company with stocks in deep dive talking big about his business shocker
04.08.2025 06:42 โ ๐ 5 ๐ 1 ๐ฌ 0 ๐ 0Earlier this year, a 17-year-old high school student named Hannah Cairo solved a 40-year-old mystery about how waves behave, surprising and exciting mathematicians. @kevinhartnett.bsky.social reports: www.quantamagazine.org/at-17-hannah...
01.08.2025 14:14 โ ๐ 272 ๐ 105 ๐ฌ 4 ๐ 22I just went to see 2000 metres to Andriivka ๐บ๐ฆA masterpiece. Eerie. Nightmarish. Soul-searching. Must be watched.
03.08.2025 14:00 โ ๐ 1 ๐ 0 ๐ฌ 0 ๐ 0Fig. 6. Net-available annual biomass for the different types of bio-based materials, calculated as mean value for the period 2020-2050. Top left: straw, top right: round wood, bottom left: cork, bottom right: hemp.
...While timber and straw can be considered abundant for necessary EU renovations and buildings, cork and hemp will be playing a role but the supply is a bottle neck.
www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...
Cork is a miracle material. I can understand to an extent why rich and famous people don't live in luxurious straw, wood, mud houses, even though it's stupid not to do so when you have the opportunity (health, environmental benefits). But why don't they use something as noble and durable as cork?
03.08.2025 06:52 โ ๐ 32 ๐ 6 ๐ฌ 3 ๐ 1Awdah Hathaleen, a well-known Palestinian activist whose work was featured in the Oscar-winning documentary โNo Other Land,โ was shot and killed by an Israeli settler in the West Bank, according to witnesses.
29.07.2025 16:55 โ ๐ 140 ๐ 94 ๐ฌ 20 ๐ 10Shutting down PBS and building Versailles
01.08.2025 17:38 โ ๐ 653 ๐ 176 ๐ฌ 3 ๐ 10Very significant report.
And the Labour politicians and the BBC are failing us.
www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2025...
Crime and the perception of crime: @jburnmurdoch.ft.com via @stephenkb.bsky.social www.ft.com/content/9623...
01.08.2025 19:10 โ ๐ 369 ๐ 165 ๐ฌ 25 ๐ 36The Corporation for Public Broadcasting, which has distributed federal funds to both PBS and NPR for decades, announced Friday that it's shutting down.
The news comes after President Donald Trump recently clawed back more than a billion dollars of funding for public broadcasting.
Sorry, I hate it with my guts. We may agree to disagree on this ...
02.08.2025 14:52 โ ๐ 1 ๐ 0 ๐ฌ 0 ๐ 0โBut even if you donโt have hope, it doesnโt really matter. This is about defiance. Itโs about doing the right thing, fighting for democracy and for people to not be exploited.โ Luke Kemp, on his new book Goliathโs Curse.
www.theguardian.com/environment/...
If you want a weird but true fact to talk about:
Dexter Holland, lead singer of The Offspring, was instrumental in this. His doctorial thesis in molecular biology was sequencing mRNA in HIV. The paper was also heavily cited in creating the COVID-19 vaccine.
The other day, I visited an exhibition that left me speechless.
It shows women who lost their sons and husbands in the war.
Iโm sharing part of it with a poem that played during the video.
I added English subtitles. For you.
Please watch. And share. So others can see too.
NEW: I wrote about engineered wood! Including a new, ultra strong version.
Using more timber in construction - rather than concrete and steel - could help reduce the carbon footprint on buildings.
(Am happy that my editor used my headline, at the top of the article!)
www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...
I was just informed that our Countryโs โJobs Numbersโ are being produced by a Biden Appointee, Dr. Erika McEntarfer, the Commissioner of Labor Statistics, who faked the Jobs Numbers before the Election to try and boost Kamalaโs chances of Victory. This is the same Bureau of Labor Statistics that overstated the Jobs Growth in March 2024 by approximately 818,000 and, then again, right before the 2024 Presidential Election, in August and September, by 112,000. These were Records โ No one can be that wrong? We need accurate Jobs Numbers. I have directed my Team to fire this Biden Political Appointee, IMMEDIATELY. She will be replaced with someone much more competent and qualified. Important numbers like this must be fair and accurate, they canโt be manipulated for political purposes. McEntarfer said there were only 73,000 Jobs added (a shock!) but, more importantly, that a major mistake was made by them, 258,000 Jobs downward, in the prior two months. Similar things happened in the first part of the year, always to the negative. The Economy is BOOMING under โTRUMPโ despite a Fed that also plays games, this time with Interest Rates, where they lowered them twice, and substantially, just before the Presidential Election, I assume in the hopes of getting โKamalaโ elected โ How did that work out? Jerome โToo Lateโ Powell should also be put โout to pasture.โ Thank you for your attention to this matter!
Unquestionably the most dangerous and corrupt attack on the independence of US economic data in American history. Trump is firing the head of the BLS, a longtime civil servant confirmed 86-8 by the Senate, simply because the job numbers came in below his expectations today
01.08.2025 18:25 โ ๐ 5160 ๐ 1739 ๐ฌ 274 ๐ 247A culture war distraction while the sector burns. Shoestring statism, combined with Blue Labour's aversion to higher education for the masses, is a deadly combination.
01.08.2025 17:09 โ ๐ 0 ๐ 0 ๐ฌ 0 ๐ 0Fun facts: the Pizza theorem ๐ states that if Alice and Bob cut a pizza in 4k slices (for kโฅ2) and take alternating slices, they'll get the same amount even if the cutting wasn't centered.
It was proven by Upton in 1968.
Before that, nobody knew how to cut pizza.
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A slow-burning environmental disaster: โAs prey became scarce, blue whale vocalisations dropped by nearly 40% alongside a collapse in krill and anchovy populations.
โItโs like trying to sing while you're starving,โ Ryan adds. โThey were spending all their time just trying to find food.โโ