Eva Amsen

Scientist learns he has won Nobel prize while on digital detox in US mountains Fred Ramsdell’s wife switched on her phone and screamed – it was full of messages congratulating her husband

He found out eventually when his wife (also hiking with him) turned her phone back on! www.theguardian.com/science/2025...

K-Pop Demon Hunters is legitimately the global cultural phenomenon of 2025 and honestly there are far worse things to be a cultural touchstone this year than a trio of young women fighting literal soul-sucking hegemony through the power of their art

Jane Goodall’s final, urgent, message "Intelligent creatures don’t destroy their only home.”

In one of her final interviews before she died, Jane Goodall emphasized that we know what’s killing the planet: industrial agriculture, including livestock, and burning fossil fuels.

She also reminded us that we don't have much time to save our planet.

I taught the cat to high-five by rewarding him with food, but now he keeps initiating high-fives every time he wants to eat.

Photo of two cardboard bookmarks, one covered in Valentine’s Day candies and the other says “warm up with a good book!” above a red cup of cocoa. The Valentine’s one on the right smells like candies and the one on the right smells like cocoa.

I don’t know how anyone can be anti-science in a world in which we have science to thank for scratch and sniff technology.

This is why we fund scientists to study things like oyster slobber even if you don’t think it sounds important

Post a fictional comedian who definitely would accept an invitation to the Riyadh Comedy Festival.

They’re the same age but women usually live longer, so the odds are good I think! (Plus, Dolly actually listens to medical experts…)

Back from holiday and having a catch-up day today before I go back to work. So far I’m caught up on groceries and the Riyadh Comedy Festival drama but not on sleep or clean clothes yet.

So weird!

Is it maybe people who haven’t opened your recent newsletters and didn’t realise you switched, then got spooked (no pun intended) by an unknown transaction and disputed it?

Tropical plants and a lamp post

Rooster in the rain

Building surrounded by greenery

Eva standing in front of green plants

Still on holiday, but here are some photos. Not shown: how hot and muggy it is.

Like when they mention how funny they find it that Canadian money uses different colours for each bill (like maybe every other country in the world does)

The guy we bought our house from mentioned that it was about time for the annual boiler check and hooked us up with his gas guy, so we kind of fell into a pattern of annual checks that way. Otherwise I don’t think we would have known!

Logically I think it should be “”, but style guides always disagree.

I eventually fell back asleep and slept through the whole morning and part of the afternoon but the typhoon is on its way out now

Cathay Pacific aircraft evacuating their Hong Kong base earlier today ahead of the arrival of Super Typhoon #Ragasa.

Screenshot of a Google map tracking Typhoon Ragasa. It overlaps with my location on the map.

Screenshot of the Hong Kong Observatory website showing typhoon level 10 and amber rain warning. (The highest typhoon warning and third highest rain warning)

It’s 3AM and I woke up from the rain on the window, so level 10 sounds about right.

Typhoon update: the rain has now started but there are still cars driving by and it’s not abnormally windy just yet. I’m already bored of being inside.

We have to cancel a planned day trip to Shenzhen but hopefully can still catch up on our other plans once the typhoon leaves!

From a chemical point of view acetaminophen makes more sense (it tells me what the molecule looks like)

Super Typhoon Ragasa: Hong Kong braces for impact after storm displaces thousands in Philippines Hong Kong airport grounds most flights and shuts schools and businesses as it braces for Super Typhoon Ragasa.

So this wasn’t the best week to visit Hong Kong… We managed to walk around a bit when we arrived last night and this morning, but now we’re stuck in the hotel for the next day and a half. We’re only here for 5 days! www.bbc.com/news/live/c0...

Made it to Hong Kong and arrived to a typhoon warning. An immediate crash course in understanding the Hong Kong typhoon warning levels and what will close when over the next few days…

Very sharp parody of future Disney movies you never knew existed! 😁

Wie zegt het nou af? Hij of de lokaties? Er staat tegenovergestelde info in de headline en de tekst

Scientific productivity gap based on English-language peer-reviewed papers. Shown are the maximum % differences in the number of peer-reviewed papers published by female native English speakers from a high-income country (-45%), female non-native English speakers from a high-income country (-60%), and female non-native English speakers from a lower-middle income country (-70%), compared to male native English speakers from a high-income country (red flag).

Women, non-native English speakers & those form low-income countries are disadvantaged in science but by how much? We found that women with non-English first languages from low-income countries publish up to 70% fewer in English than their counterparts. 1/5
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#languagebarriers

I *want* to see Spinal Tap II, but the theatres nearest to me are only showing it at 9AM on a Saturday or on Monday afternoon. These are not times I want to go up to eleven.

This is exactly what we were just discussing at home. Cancelling Disney+ seems like it would just punish the creators of shows who rely on streaming numbers over there.

But can you rewind it with a pencil?