Dr Michelle Cain

This surprisingly relaxing footage is from SIX MILES under the ocean – and it’s the deepest ecosystem yet discovered

Claim: "Water vapor is a greenhouse gas!"
Reality: Yes, and there's more of it in a warmer atmosphere

-"CO2 is plant food!"
-pretty hard to eat when you're on fire

-"Climate has changed before!"
-We know, we told you that

-"Scientists don't know everything!"
- doesn't mean we know *nothing*

Warming stripes for Japan

Warming stripes for Australia

Warming stripes for New Zealand

Warming stripes for Papua New Guinea

It's already #ShowYourStripes day in many places like New Zealand, Australia, Japan and Papua New Guinea.

All these countries are warming rapidly. Visit www.ShowYourStripes.info to find your warming stripes with 4 different designs.

Start a climate conversation online or with friends and family?

Diabolus Ex Machina This Is Not An Essay

Possibly the best thing I've read about ChatGPT yet.

h/t @melaniemitchell.bsky.social

amandaguinzburg.substack.com/p/diabolus-e...

This past semester was the most stressful of my academic career. I had 180 students and about half cheated at some point in the semester

They submit weekly reflections where the questions are opinion-based, graded only on effort, don't care about grammar

SO MANY students submitted ChatGPT essays

Cc @timeshighered.bsky.social

Are private colleges dragging down the reputation of UK HE? The OfS’ recent imposition of its first fines over franchised provision highlighted what some regard as the dark underbelly of UK higher education. But is there really a significant problem in the for...

I'm sorry, but WHAT are the photos illustrating this article supposed to illustrate? They are completely unhinged. Send help.
www.timeshighereducation.com/depth/are-pr...

A set of eight rectangular cookies arranged on a square white plate against a dark wooden background. Each cookie is inspired by a wallpaper design by Morris & Co. The patterns represented feature different floral and leaf shapes in shades of baby blue, soft pink, leafy green, mustard yellow, cream, and dark grey.

Today is National Biscuit Day, and it’s about time that I populated this account with biscuit (cookie) sets from the past few years. Here are some of my favourites. 🧵

First up, a set inspired by the delicious designs of William Morris and John Henry Dearle.

That. Is. Crazy. 😵

🧵DISMANTLING DEMOCRACY

I've been keeping track of Trump actions - now up to 192. Here, I dig into 69 actions specifically targeted at undermining democracy, rule of law & suppressing dissent.

It's been 12 weeks of assaults on democracy.

based on
christinapagel.substack.com/p/a-republic...
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Trump seeks to end climate research at premier U.S. climate agency White House aims to end NOAA’s research office; NASA also targeted

BREAKING from @science.org: The Trump admin is seeking to kill nearly all climate research at NOAA, its climate science agency.

Its near-final budget proposal would end all NOAA research labs, academic institutes, and regional climate centers. And it wants to fully end the NOAA Research division.

Geologists, what are your top tips for visiting Skye? For people who like looking at rocks and fossils?

Households Below Average Income: an analysis of the UK income distribution: FYE 1995 to FYE 2024

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The new official poverty stats came out at 930

Astonishingly bad numbers confirm the UK is in the grip of a building crisis of penury

www.gov.uk/government/s...

Donald Trump’s ‘war on woke’ is fast becoming a war on science. That’s incredibly dangerous | Christina Pagel Contrary to claims by the US president, we have found that diversity initiatives result in better scientists and greater progress, says Christina Pagel, a member of Independent Sage

Glad that the Guardian picked up our report on diversity in science for a shorter oped :)

www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...

Retrospective study of COVID-19 experiences in elite multinational aquatic athletes - Scientific Reports Scientific Reports - Retrospective study of COVID-19 experiences in elite multinational aquatic athletes

Fitness doesn’t prevent Long COVID: 10% Long COVID rate in elite aquatic athletes: Juhász et al, "Retrospective study of COVID-19 experiences in elite multinational aquatic athletes", Scientific Reports (2023), www.nature.com/articles/s41... 22/33

Important data when people trot out the line that young people were not at risk from Covid infection.

Especially in that 1st year, when everyone was meeting the virus for the first time without vax, Long Covid rates were very high.

Imperial REACT study estimated 23% of all infections in 2020.

The proposals will decimate the lives of people who are unable to work EVER because of illness/ disability.

I am medically retired and on PIP Enhanced Both.
My pensions are sht because I was young when I became disabled. They are ‘topped up’ with benefits.

I could lose 10K a year.

Factcheck: Kemi Badenoch’s claim that net zero is ‘impossible’ by 2050 Tory leader provides no evidence to support position that flies in face of expert reports and her own words

Hi @kemibadenochmp.bsky.social not sure if you saw this article, but it might help you up-skill regarding net zero.
www.theguardian.com/politics/202...

French scientist denied US entry after phone messages critical of Trump found France’s research minister said the scientist was traveling to Houston for a conference when his phone was searched

Anyone met a scientist who isn’t critical of the huge cuts to US science?

“French scientist was denied entry to the US this month after immigration officers… searched his phone and found messages in which he had expressed criticism of the Trump administration.”

www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025...

The 10 largest contributors to historical CO2 emissions*

*fossil emissions only, not including land use.

From one of our data insights this week: ourworldindata.org/data-insight...

Quotes from Albert Einstein, Hannah Arendt, Gustave Gilbert, and Elon Musk, next to drawings of each in pencil style by Patt Bagely. In sequence: "empathy is patiently and sincerely seeing the world through the other person's eyes." - Einstein. "The death of human empathy is one of the early and most telling signs that a culture is about to fall into barbarism." - Arendt. "It is one of characteristic that connects all the defendants -- a genuine incapacity to feel with their fellow men. Evil, I think, is the lack of empathy." - Gilbert. "The fundamental weakness of western civilization is empathy." - Musk

“There is this terrible misconception that disabled people just take, but actually by taking from us, you prevent us from being able to give – we want to be able to participate in life equally the same as anyone else, and that includes going to work.” Disability campaigner Tanni Gray-Thompson

The thing about scientific research is that it’s one of the few national investments that’s a clear public good even if you entirely discount the actual ostensible point of it.

NIH to terminate or limit grants related to vaccine hesitancy and uptake The order covers more than 40 awards to researchers around the country seeking to understand why vaccine acceptance has declined.

The USA are going backwards on academic freedom, vaccine policy and reopening needless research that has been done before on vaccines and autism - supporting vaccine uptake now is clearly not something they will enable www.washingtonpost.com/health/2025/...

Meanwhile, in the land of the free...

Why increasing rates of tuberculosis in the UK and US should concern everyone England is at risk of losing its ‘low TB incidence’ status.

“With one of the largest tuberculosis (TB) outbreaks in US history, Kansas has more to worry about than its Super Bowl defeat.”

Sit up and take note. TB kills more people globally than any other infectious disease - the world’s longest enduring pandemic.

theconversation.com/...

CDC to study potential links between vaccines and autism despite research showing no connection It’s unknown whether Robert F Kennedy Jr, who has promoted anti-vaccine views, is involved in study

When people say science isn’t political, point them to this story.

A clear example of political interference - directing money towards a study to which we already know the answer.

There is no link.
www.theguardian.com/...

Not only that, this article says colleagues are "at risk" of losing jobs... NOAA HAS LITERALLY BEEN DECIMATED IN THE LAST WEEK!!! WTAF do they mean "at risk"?

Elon Musk survives as fellow of Royal Society despite anger among scientists Questions remain over whether further action will be taken after resignations and calls for the Tesla CEO to be expelled

Hugely unimpressed with the Royal Society.
Sadly this decision massively undermines it's integrity if it can't even enforce it's own rules.
More later.
www.theguardian.com/...