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AI-Generated Animals Are Distancing Us From Nature | Atmos Cuddly polar bears and hyperrealistic chimeras may seem harmless on social media, but experts worry AI animal content can be harmful.

An AI-generated video showing a capybara, a South American rodent, in a bathtub, "could boost people’s interest in keeping such animals as pets and fuel the illegal trade of such species." Fab piece by Katarina Zimmer on the perils of AI-generated animals:

atmos.earth/science-and-...

Is Nanotyrannus a baby T. rex, or is it its own species? @shamini.bsky.social has been finding out!

Landmark report confirms that the UK's Cost of Living Crisis is being aggravated by climate change. — Scientists Warning Europe - Inspiring science-based climate action A landmark economic report published by the climate science charity Scientists Warning Europe confirms that the UK's Cost of Living Crisis is being aggravated by climate change.

In 2021, the chance of 40C heat in the UK by 2040 was estimated at 0.02%

In 2022, multiple regions hit 40C

This is one example of a systematic underestimation of climate risks in UK and internationally

Important new report @paulbehrens.bsky.social
www.scientistswarningeurope.org.uk/cost-of-living

a man in a room with the word hackerman on the screen ALT: a man in a room with the word hackerman on the screen

When you change the console colours on the programming software you use

Super late but had such a blast returning to @linneansociety.bsky.social to deliver an evening event on Queer Ecology featuring trailblazing scientists from the past, animals outside our human binaries, and the challenges facing us today. Thank you! 🏳️‍⚧️🏳️‍🌈

Petition: Do not introduce Digital ID cards We demand that the UK Government immediately commits to not introducing a digital ID cards. There are reports that this is being looked at.

The Starmer government is REALLY running scared of this petition, now at 2.75 million, to the extent that it has responded 3 months early, in a transparent attempt to spike it.

So please, under no circumstances should you sign it and share it widely. Starmer & his boss McSweeney would not like it.

Aww thank you, so glad you enjoyed it!

A presentation slide on light blue background. Along the left are 8 different Pride Flags, with each stripe containing an animal or plant. The text on the right side of the slide reads: Welcome to The Linnean Society Queer Ecology Evening.

Had a lovely evening at @linneansociety.bsky.social, listening to @aquadan1.bsky.social and generally being nerdy about #QueerNature, queer people in the sciences and why it's important to talk about both. Always great to hear different perspectives, Thank you! 🏳️‍🌈🏳️‍⚧️

Tonight! 😍🏳️‍🌈🏳️‍⚧️

Sign the Petition Make access to nature a statutory right for every school child

Petition from @zslofficial.bsky.social about making sure every child has access to nature!

BREAKING 🚨: We've just dropped a massive banner off Westminster Bridge to demand the UK Government #StopRosebank

It's time for Keir Starmer make the right choice 👀

Pelagic fauna

Happy Shark Awareness Day 🦈

Glowing in the dark, jumping high in the air or touching gently fins ...
They are such fascinating, crucial, and beautiful animals.

Lab drowning in paperwork? Hire an in-house writer Hiring a postdoc to take over writing tasks makes good sense, argues Béla Z. Schmidt.

Stop using AI and pay people to write!!

I've wanted to write this article for years. About my and other's struggles to even survive sometime in #academia. Thank you to the amazing editors at @plosbiology.org that gave me the forum to write this piece. #science

Rewatching Mrs. America and would recommend it to everyone, especially younger millennials and gen z cause literally all the bullshit we deal with now is the same shit we've always been dealing with

ZSL #047 Shark Tales of North Wales ZSL Wild Science Podcast · Episode

New podcast from @zslofficial.bsky.social about the work we're doing on sharks in North Wales!

Banner made from pride flags that have different animals and species on them

Accidentally printed badge templates too big last year working at the @linneansociety.bsky.social but now I get sweet nature #Pride decor!

The sun bleaching out a stain on one of my first Pride tshirts.... ally 🥹

DuckDuckGo search for "coffee plant care" that brings up the AI summmary

The same DuckDuckGo search but amended to "coffee plant care fuck" which has removed the AI summary

Using swears to get rid of the AI summaries is so fun, thanks @georgiacowie.bsky.social !

‘One of the true final frontiers’ — Sally Ride biopic highlights the struggle of gay astronauts The first US woman to fly in space said little about her personal life in public. A candid film discloses the pressures she endured.

The first US woman to fly in space said little about her personal life in public. A candid film discloses the pressures she endured

https://go.nature.com/43LB8TP

Watched this, absolutely loved it, go do the same!

TIL: When the Original Star Wars Trilogy finally aired on Chilean TV in 2003, the network spliced custom beer commercials into the films themselves to avoid cutting to commercial breaks.

these additional scenes turn Obi-Wan & Luke into raging space alcoholics who are constantly shotgunning booze.

Activate climate’s ‘silent majority’ to supercharge action, experts say Making concerned people aware their views are far from alone could unlock the change so urgently needed

89% of the world’s people want stronger action to fight the climate crisis but feel they are trapped in a self-fulfilling “spiral of silence” because they mistakenly believe they are in a minority, research suggests
Thanks @bes-cascade.bsky.social for sharing this link, love some afternoon optimism!

4 12x18 inch posters on a brick and concrete wall. The top left is pink and says funding science saves lives, written in microbes, next to a microscope. The one on the right says Biology is bigger than binaries, with a fish, a lily, and a bee. The bottom left says Protecting wildlife starts wtih you, with a bunch of adiorable woodland creatues in yellow, white and black, including an owl, fungi, a... um. weasel? salamanders, butterflies, slugs, and a rotting log. The bottom right says Will our oceans thrive or nosedive the choice is yours, with the ocean represented in a circle, half of which is dead and half of which is alive, including kelp and a mackerel

🚨 Cool new project alert 🚨

WE- you, me, everyone- need to work together to get important science messages out to people.

4 artists & 3 scientists collab'd on these posters. We hope YOU will put them out in your community. Each poster comes w/info about each topic.

Get 'em Squidfacts.bigcartel.com

‘No one knew what to do’: power cuts bring chaos, connection and revaluation of digital dependency People share their experiences of Monday’s massive power outage across Spain, Portugal and parts of France that upended modern life

Blackouts occurred regularly in my childhood. They were annoying but not life-threatening. Yes, we knew how to deal with them, but more importantly, we had a more resilient infrastructure that has now vanished, eg, phone landlines, appliances, ways of storing food that didn't need electricity, etc.

Panel 1: character crying at a desk Text: this IS hard Panel 2: character is now drawing determinedly Text: but I can do it

Little gentle reminder to all the human creatives out there 💪

Kurt Vonnegut tells his wife he's going out to buy an envelope: "Oh, she says, well, you're not a poor man. You know, why don't you go online and buy a hundred envelopes and put them in the closet? And so I pretend not to hear her. And go out to get an envelope because I'm going to have a hell of a good time in the process of buying one envelope. I meet a lot of people. And see some great looking babies. And a fire engine goes by. And I give them the thumbs up. And I'll ask a woman what kind of dog that is. And, and I don't know. The moral of the story is — we're here on Earth to fart around And, of course, the computers will do us out of that. And what the computer people don't realize, or they don't care, is we're dancing animals. You know, we love to move around. And it's like we're not supposed to dance at all anymore."

Kurt Vonnegut man

The thing re: de-extinction I worry about most is undermining the public’s sense extinctions are serious, terrible, and to be avoided (“why save it now when we can de-extinct it later if we want?”) while in fact ALSO not meaningfully bringing extinct species back (it’s not really a dire wolf).