Roberto Rizzo

DHS is using Google and Adobe AI to make videos Immigration agencies have been flooding social media with bizarre, seemingly AI-generated content. We now know more about what might be making it.

Immigration agencies have been flooding social media with bizarre, seemingly AI-generated content. We now know more about what might be making it.

Survey reveals collapse in funding for paths and outdoor access Scotland’s world-class outdoor access rights are being pushed to breaking point due to a collapse in investment in staff and paths, a new report has revealed today.   Since 2003, people in Scotland...

Scotland’s world-class outdoor access rights are being pushed to breaking point due to a collapse in investment in staff and paths - report from @ramblersscotland.bsky.social

Opinion | When Conservative Politics Hit Cash-Starved Universities If college education is merely a transaction, educators — and facts — are vulnerable.

In @nytopinion.nytimes.com

“Professors are fighting an asymmetric battle against the tide of anti-intellectualism, illiberalism and bad-faith complaints, and will be for the foreseeable future,” Jessica Grose writes.

A benchmark of expert-level academic questions to assess AI capabilities - Nature Humanity’s Last Exam, a multi-modal benchmark at the frontier of human knowledge, is designed to be an expert-level closed-ended academic benchmark with broad subject coverage.

Nature research paper: A benchmark of expert-level academic questions to assess AI capabilities

go.nature.com/45zkozH

Here, at last, was a case where Trump’s lies found few buyers. Pretti’s death, which anyone could see from multiple angles on social platforms, shocked the conscience of Democrats and Republicans alike. Even in a world where video can be fabricated, Pretti’s death had enough witnesses and enough documentary evidence that few were willing to disbelieve their eyes. The question now is how long that state of affairs will hold. We only know what happened in the Good and Pretti cases because they happened in the open, in the full view of other protesters and journalists who were filming. In future cases the evidence may be more limited, or ambiguous. And among the many grim lessons of the past few weeks it is that the worse it looks for Trump, the more likely it is that we will be lied to.

Wrote about this grim moment when the White House sees the deaths of innocent Americans as meme fodder and the faint silver lining that their lies aren't working this time www.platformer.news/minneapolis-...

Cartoon by Adam Zyglis

Cover of the volume 3 issue 2. The illustration shows a robotic hand holding an idea of ​​planet Earth.

🆕 💡 Tektonika vol 3 issue 2 is now online !!!

It includes 7 research articles + an editorial about the use of #AI in academic research and publishing. ⚒️

tektonika.online/index.php/ho...

The 16th Euroconference on Rock Physics and Rock Mechanics is now over! What a week! Great science, great people, great location! Best conference ever? 😆

crenulation cleavage

Squeezed rock!

#geology #crenulationcleavage ⚒️

May I suggest Novecento by Bernando Bertolucci?

Come parte del comitato Voto dove Vivo anche noi di Possibile ci uniamo all'appello perché venga approvata immediatamente la proposta di legge per il voto fuori sede, bloccata da 30 mesi in Senato.

Instantaneous time mirrors (ITMs), creating a "time interface" by abruptly changing material properties, have fascinated physicists for decades. Experiments demonstrating time mirrors for optical and electromagnetic waves exist. But can we also “reflect” a 3D seismic wavefield in time?

Segui il questionario degli Sdraiati!

Ti aspettiamo su possibile.com/tessera :)

garnet grains

garnet grains

garnet grains

Was garnet stretched and teared apart? Or did it grow this way?

The State of the Science 1 Year On: Climate Change and Energy - Eos Trump’s first year in office has reversed many climate policy decisions and aggressively advanced fossil fuel interests.

President Trump's second exit from the Paris Agreement is projected to set global emissions progress back 0.1°C (0.18°F) by 2100, according to a @un.org report.

eos.org/report/the-s...

microphoto of a rock

microphoto of a rock

A network of carbonates inside deformed quartz

🔥Save the date for the next EGU TS TectoTalks session!!🔥⛏️🗻

This second session will focus on fault growth and evolution and their influence on fluid flow and seismicity

📅 18 February 2026 at 10:00 CET
🔗 Registration: msteams.link

US science after a year of Trump: what has been lost and what remains A series of graphics reveals how the Trump administration has sought historic cuts to science and the research workforce.

Trump has been in office for one year. We at @nature.com did a deep dive looking at the administration's disruption of science in numbers.

Take a look—the numbers are staggering. By me, @dangaristo.bsky.social, Jeff Tollefson, @kimay.bsky.social, & help from @noamross.net @scott-delaney.bsky.social

The Ladybug Clock puzzle

USA e Repubblica di Weimar

Nei giorni scorsi ho proposto un’analisi piuttosto razionale sugli scenari che ci possiamo aspettare per gli USA.
Credo che sia importante approfondire queste prospettive e fare chiarezza su alcune ipotesi storico filosofiche che stiamo ascoltando.

@giuliofirenze.bsky.social

In 2025, the annual average sea surface temperature (SST) outside of the polar regions ranked 3rd‑warmest on record. Monthly extra‑polar SST stayed among the top four throughout 2025, despite the absence of an El Niño event.
Details in #GCH2025 ➡️ climate.copernicus.eu/global-clima...

@ecmwf.int

Evento sismico, ML 4.0, in provincia di Messina del 18 gennaio 2026

Tempesta.

Confermata la fase di forte maltempo sulle due isole maggiori e sulla Calabria.

Si tratterà, senza giri di parole o iperboli, di una vera e propria tempesta che raggiungerà il propizio apice tra domani (lunedì) e martedì.

Prestare la massima attenzione…1/6

A rock under the petrographic microscope

A thinnie I made for fun. Yes, I now have this expensive bad habit.

#peridotite xenoliths in ocean island basalt #OIB from Canary Islands, Spain

#geology ⚒️

"...Presenteremo una mozione perché questa cosa non avvenga più, visto che non è la prima volta, stanziando le risorse a disposizione per politiche realmente efficaci per tutelare l'ambiente".

www.comune.firenze.it/istruzione/n...

#SPC_Firenze

@possibileit.bsky.social
Da ascoltare fino alla fine.

#Politica #Migrazioni #Accoglienza #Sinistra

Rock in thin section

Rock in thin section

Inter-grown spinel, olivine, and orthopyroxene in harzburgite

Build a searchable database of your own work. I’ve always wanted a database of my writing that I could run semantic queries on. Stuff like: “When was the last time I wrote a column about Grok?” Or, “what criticisms have people made of the Meta Oversight Board?” It is possible to get answers to these questions via Google. But I’ve always wanted answers grounded in my own work, with quick links to the relevant materials. After describing this idea to Claude, it went to work. It exported 818 editions of Platformer into a folder of text files organized by date, and then connected it to Claude. Now when I ask Claude questions about my archive, it reads through relevant posts and gives me an answer. I have wanted something like this for nearly half a decade now, and Claude built it in less than half an hour.

ChatGPT woke us up to the possibilities that that come from generating text. Claude Code is now doing the same thing for tools. I wrote about five things I built with it to help me as a writer www.platformer.news/claude-code-...

Our paper about phreatic explosions at Whakaari is the featured paper on the Communications Earth & Environment homepage! 🌋
Check out our open-access paper here 👇
www.nature.com/articles/s43...