Dani Sedbrook

Also, you know, the fossil fuel industry is the third highest contributor to CO2 emissions…16%. Not the using, just the getting (extracting refining, what have you). It’s more than all of transportation combined. Mineral extraction? 0.4%, 40x less

Source: @climatetrace.org
climatetrace.org/sectors

I AM GOING TO SCREAM

This is why journalism is dying.

Cause it’s impossible to be a reporter in this business while simultaneously paying for food.

Science journos 🧪:

Earth dot com asked me about writing for them. They offer $50-60 PER STORY. And expect 15 to 25 stories EACH MONTH.

For reference, that rate is worse than what I got for a blogging role in 2012.

Steer clear af.

Like others have said, for me it was have kids, but in terms of practical advice, what works for me for jet lag might help: adjust your eating schedule and then sleep follows. So when you first start getting up early, eat breakfast immediately, and try to have your last meal earlier in the day.

Yay! Anything for the children.

I’m sorry/you’re welcome?

…elephant ears for wings?

A dumbo bee.

…a bee who dresses provocatively?

A bimbo bee.

…a bee who is a man who gets around?

A himbo bee.

…a bee who is also a drag queen clown?

A jimbo bee.

Oooo, I don’t know you but I wanna play!

What do you call a bee who’s always falling down?

A tumble bee.

…a bee who doesn’t brag?

A humble bee.

…a bee whose buzzing sounds like thunder?

A rumble bee.

…a bee that makes a mean stew?

A gumbo bee.

…a big bee?

A jumbo bee.

…a bee with …

Assuming you are somewhere in the south? Go to literally any bakery and order a butter pretzel.

Good croissants in Germany? Nope, refuse to believe. Clearly a French conspiracy. As for the pretzel, now you just have to find one where they inject the butter directly into the pretzel.

I am in no way part of the great German soft pretzel conspiracy. What conspiracy? None here. We love tourists. We love pretzels.

Order one with butter.

Nope not fucking with you. It’s actually a thing.

AI is now capable of designing a record-breaking deep sea submersible on its own. This marks a new age of exploration and I encourage all my fellow AI champions to build one and get in it so they can celebrate this achievement from the bottom of the sea.

Johns Hopkins Press will license its books to train AI models Authors at the Johns Hopkins University Press will be able to opt out of the AI licensing agreement until the end of August; if they do not, their work will be used to train AI models.

“Authors have until the end of August to opt out of the licensing agreement. If they do not, their work will be used to help train AI models.”

Re-upping this for #scicomm folks. Has anyone else seen AI use clauses? Is this the new normal?

I hate it.
#sciencejournalism @sciencewriters.org @theopennotebook.bsky.social

Re-upping this for #scicomm folks. Has anyone else seen AI use clauses? Is this the new normal?

I hate it.
#sciencejournalism @sciencewriters.org @theopennotebook.bsky.social

Them. Basically they can do whatever they want…

Question for other #scicomm folks. After a long wait, I got a contract for a new magazine client…and it includes a provision that they can use my stuff for AI training and other AI uses. I haven’t seen this before, and it’s not something I would agree to sign. Is this just the brave new world? Wtf

Swift*

Chesapeake Requiem by Earl smith—about Tangier island’s disappearance into Chesapeake bay. Interesting profile also of climate change denial among people impacted by climate catastrophe.

Faulheit? Würden wir nicht den Bürger*innen, sondern eher einer Regierung vorwerfen, die auf populistische Phrasen anstatt echter Lösungen setzt. Ob Lohnarbeit, Carearbeit oder Ehrenamt – die Deutschen leisten viel. Sie brauchen eine Politik, die sie unterstützt.
@ricardalang.bsky.social 📢

She is 5.

B says she has super powers. So, I ask her what kind, and she says all the super powers. I say,

“Do you have super strength?”

“Yeah.”

“Can you see through walls.”

“Yeah. And know what, I can see in the future.”

“Oh really? What’s going to happen in the future?”

“You’re going to die.”

Nice thread if you want a reality check.

US Jews:

This is what I am talking about! You do not have to cover things if you can’t confirm the science!

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Our job as science journalists is to decide which findings/research/stories are important to report. It’s 100% the hardest part of the job. We don’t actually have to write about every press release that comes our way. It’s ok to let other publications scoop you on bullshit.

It’s naive to think that most people would read past the headline. I can easily understand how someone who sees that people are using crispr to create…whatever this thing is…might then think science is a waste of resources and cuts to research funding are justified.

I get that editors have to serve their audiences, and that this “research” is reader-bait, but we are in a time when the value of science is up for debate. These kinds of stories serve the narrative that research is a self-interested exercise for naval-gazing academics and not a public service.

And yet most major science publications/major publication science sections covered it…. Even those covering it to comment on the fact that it’s bs to call this thing a dire wolf, end up spreading its reach. It’s an editorial choice to respond to this kind of marketing with news coverage.