Kristine Lowe

British primatologist Jane Goodall visits a chimp rescue center on June 9, 2018, in Entebbe, Uganda.

3 Ways Jane Goodall Challenged What It Means to Be a Scientist 🏺🧪👩‍🔬
www.scientificamerican.com/article/jane...
Here are three big ways that Jane Goodall transformed science

Linn Rammer Inn rammeverksted i ski innramming etter mål rammemaker i ski

Hmm... jeg synes jo Linn har gode priser & er superflink, dog i Ski: linnrammerinn.no

The Ground Has Shifted Europe chose regulation. China chose manufacturing. America chose extraction. What should you choose now?

The Ground Has Shifted: Europe chose regulation. China chose manufacturing. America chose extraction. What should you choose now? 7thin.gs/p/sustainabi...

Spot the North-American anomaly: only region where social media use is still growing.
Great work by the FT’s @jburnmurdoch.ft.com
www.ft.com/content/a072... “Have we passed peak social media?”

What Made Blogging Different? Whether I like it or not, the first line of my obituary...

Talking Points Memo is turning 25 and I wrote a little encomium to early blogging, which I sometimes miss: talkingpointsmemo.com/tpm-25/what-...

I love how Sam Altman is all "Oh, some silly start-ups might be over-valued, but not us, guv. Oh no, we're all value, we are."

Why I gave the world wide web away for free My vision was based on sharing, not exploitation – and here’s why it’s still worth fighting for

Why I gave the world wide web away for free | Tim Berners-Lee

From Denmark to Finland to Norway, Zetland bets its model can travel well (and Germany’s up next) “It is possible to build excitement around journalism if you reach out and invite engaged citizens to help and guide you."

“Norwegian journalism is famously vibrant and there is the highest willingness to pay in the world. At the same time, news in Norway tends to be very traditional ... Young men especially are gravitating away from traditional outlets.” www.niemanlab.org/2025/09/from...

One of my favorite neuroscience lessons:

When you start something new, it feels like a struggle and requires your entire focus. But it gets easier and you need far less brain power. Things become automatic.

The brain becomes more efficient in a single hour: mrbartonmaths.com/resourcesnew...

How a journalist turned PTSD into an industry-wide mental health movement After witnessing the murder of her colleague and finding no help, Leona O'Neill is challenging the 'toxic mindset' that treats journalists like robots

How a journalist turned PTSD into an industry-wide mental health movement: After witnessing the murder of her colleague and finding no help, Leona O'Neill is challenging the 'toxic mindset' that treats journalists like robots

Charlie Kirk’s Legacy Deserves No Mourning The white Christian nationalist provocateur wasn't a promoter of civil discourse. He preached hate, bigotry, and division

I wrote my own Charlie Kirk obituary, and about valuing truth over manners: www.thenation.com/article/poli...

Bluesky now platform of choice for science community It’s not just you. Survey says: “Twitter sucks now and all the cool kids are moving to Bluesky”…

“Scientists Are Flocking to Bluesky. Academics once loved Twitter—but in the age of X they’ve abandoned it in droves.” Via @wired.com

Urbanists too.

Check out #UrbanistShoutOut.

Do they even have a support team these days? They had an excellent one back in the day, but the platform has been almost dead for a long time. I've been on it for 20yrs come September, but think it's been obvious that it would come to this for a while

The UK's Online Safety Act is a licence for censorship – and the rest of the world is following suit | Taylor Lorenz From the US and Australia to France and Italy, those seeking to obliterate privacy and restrict content are on the move, says technology journalist Taylor Lorenz

Age verification and these “child safety” laws are a massive gift to big tech. Persona, the leading third-party age and identity verification platform, recently announced a $2bn valuation after its latest funding round co-led by Peter Thiel.

Stark and damning data about how much the AI companies scrape relative to the amount of traffic that they drive to the sites they scrape --- and how much worse it's getting. www.techpolicy.press/cloudflare-w...

An AI-enabled world isn’t inevitable How much change are we willing to accept in return for an AI future?

This month's column in Prospect: What costs are we willing to pay - environmentally, socially, economically - for an AI future, even a really good one? 

www.prospectmagazine.co.uk/ideas/techno...

WeTransfer now uses whatever you upload to train genAI.

It was bought by scumbags Bending Spoons who laid off 75% of its workforce, as they usually do. Enshittification always follows a BS acquisition.

Are a few people ruining the internet for the rest of us? Why does the online world seem so toxic compared with normal life? Our research shows that a small number of divisive accounts could be responsible – and offers a way out

Only a small % of people engage in toxic activity online, but they’re responsible for a disproportionate share of hostile or misleading content on nearly every platform

Because super-users are so active, they dominate our collective impression of the internet www.theguardian.com/books/2025/j...

How journalism is finally confronting its mental health crisis A photographer's month in a Lebanese jail, a veteran reporter's refusal to cover a child killing, and CNN's chief correspondent's plea for honesty - the media industry is addressing the psychological toll of storytelling

How journalism is finally confronting its mental health crisis: A photographer's month in a Lebanese jail, a veteran reporter's refusal to cover a child killing, and CNN's chief correspondent's plea for honesty - the media industry is addressing the psychological toll of storytelling

Enig. Meta også? LinkedIn krever i en del tilfeller at du sender bilde av passet ditt via tredjepartsløsningen Persona for å verifisere deg selv 🫤 Ikke opplevd selv, men vært skrevet mye om det

Cloudflare: AI Poses 'Existential Threat' as Publisher Traffic Collapses - WinBuzzer Cloudflare's CEO has revealed startling data showing AI search is causing a catastrophic collapse in publisher traffic, threatening the web's ad-supported business model.

Just how badly are AI-powered overviews on web searches, esp Google, hurting website publishers? Very, very badly indeed. Traffic has collapsed 50% and online ad revenue could be down by $2bn per year.

winbuzzer.com/2025/06/20/c...

Meredith has always been a G, but it's still exceptionally weird and very refreshing hearing from a tech exec who can see through all of this AI bullshit for what it is at its foundation: a backdoor surveillance tool.

Digital News Report 2025: exponential media change is here The era of incremental media change is over, and the emerging media tsunami is upon us. It's exponential all the way from here on out.

"News media has now entered exponential change...If we don't get this right, we cease being the mainstream media": @adders.blog on @reutersinstitute.bsky.social's #DigitalNewsReport onemanandhisblog.com/2025/06/digi... "News ...is a service performed for the benefit of a population"

Yes, lots of good quotes in there. Crazy, sad & worrying it's come to this, but glad to read her crystal clear analysis.

Why a professor of fascism left the US: ‘The lesson of 1933 is – you get out’ Marci Shore made news around the world when her family moved to Canada. She discusses Trump, teaching history and how terror atomises society

Excellent and troubling interview with @marcishore.bsky.social

Well put. I find I tend to listen more than I speak on social media these days, not made easy by the TikTokification of platforms. But have always preferred thinking blogs / sharing ideas, dialogue. Not all dark tho. See both some media good on convo + good social media convo moving into RL formats

I ran an experiment, simultaneously posting articles on Bluesky and X, and then testing to see how many people actually clicked and read them. The numbers on Bluesky are higher, both because the X algorithm downranks journalism, and because Bluesky attracts readers, not just shitposters.

Complexity is the enemy of Populism

Complexity is the enemy of Populism: https://www.coffeeandcomplexity.com/complexity-is-the-enemy-of-populism/

Newsrooms called to up their commitment on mental wellbeing Journalist and lecturer Leona O'Neill launches a new charter to compel newsrooms to introduce practical support for journalists, rather than just provide lip service

Newsrooms called to up their commitment on mental wellbeing: Journalist and lecturer Leona O'Neill launches a new charter to compel newsrooms to introduce practical support for journalists, rather than just provide lip service

Trump’s Biggest “Fuck You” Yet to Higher Education and the Rest of the World He and his regime are mounting an assault on the American mind. Why? Because ignorance is the handmaiden of tyranny.

Trump is escalating his war against American higher education and against the rest of the world. We will be the worse for this.

Why? Because ignorance is the handmaiden of tyranny. https://robertreich.substack.com/p/what-i-told-the-ed-school-graduates