Britain's oldest tree says fuck you to JK Rowling and, after being a male for thousands of years, began producing female fruit.
#science #sex #jkrowling #terfs #sexisnonbinary #TransRightsAreHumanRights
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#Introduction Hi #fediverse ! We’re the European Southern Observatory, and we design, build and operate ground-based telescopes.
One of them is our Extremely Large Telescope, currently under construction in #Chile. It will have a 39 m mirror, and its rotating enclosure will weigh 6100 tonnes, or about 700 mastodons!
We’re looking forward to chatting with all of you about #astronomy
📷 ESO/G. Vecchia
Trump’s NIH Axed Research Grants Even After a Judge Blocked the Cuts, Internal Records Show
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A lawsuit led by the Washington state attorney general offers an unprecedented view of the termination of more than 600 NIH grants, including transgender research grants threatened by Trump’s executive orders.
https://www.propublica.org/article/trump-nih-cuts-transgender-research-grants?utm_source=mastodon&utm_medium=social&utm_campaign=mastodon-post
#News #NIH #Science #Research #Funding #Trump #Law #Transgender
TIL: males have 25% more neurons in the visual cortex than... #science #sexes #hormones
Give #Musk the heave-ho: "It has been more than 150 years since a fellow has been expelled from the society, according to the spokesperson." He's earned it.
Trump’s NIH And NSF Cuts Estimated To Cost The U.S. Economy $10 Billion Annually
Economic analysis suggests that the rate of return of public investment, to the US economy, is 140%-210%.
#Science is one of the few "good deals" with long-term prospects (measured on scales from years, even to decades, to centuries) for human beings.
But that is not why I do science. I do science because I am curious. I am grateful this is a net positive for society.
Martian Memories
Special-Effects Spirit Silhouetted on "Jibsheet"
Created using a photorealistic model of the rover and a false-color mosaic captured at sunset by its panoramic camera on May 19, 2005 (Sol 489). Credit: NASA/JPL-Solar System Visualization Team
📷 https://www.jpl.nasa.gov/images/pia03232-special-effects-spirit-silhouetted-on-jibsheet/
#Mars #Spirit #Sol489 #Jibsheet #sunset #GusevCrater #Gusev #crater #rover #SpiritRover #Martian #solarsystem #memories #space #science #history #STEM #astrodon #geology #SpecialFX #FX #visualization #NASA #JPL
Eastern Canadians are asking: What's with this crappy weather?
For days it's been rainy and cool across much of southern Ontario stretching into the Maritimes, which leaves some wondering when they'll see any spring-like weather.
#weather #Ontario #Maritimes #News #Science
https://www.cbc.ca/news/science/eastern-canada-spring-1.7542332?cmp=rss
Shaken #Baby Syndrome Has Found New Life in Courts as Abusive Head Trauma. One Family Is Fighting Their Son’s Diagnosis.
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Exonerations and new #science continue to raise questions about shaken baby syndrome, a diagnosis that lives on under a different name: “abusive head trauma.” Critics say the name deflects scrutiny while leaving #parents vulnerable to criminal charges.
#News #Parenting #Children #Family #Hospital #SocialWork #Police #Crime
#HappyNewYear 🎉 Boost your #NewYear resolution with adaptive optics. By deforming a thin flexible mirror a thousand times per second you can correct atmospheric turbulence and get sharp astronomical images!
➡️ https://www.eso.org/public/teles-instr/technology/adaptive_optics/
📷 ESO/P. Weilbacher (AIP)
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Sabertooth Cats
#science #biology #evolution #cats #CatsOfMastodon
Thank you #NSF National Science Foundation for 75 years. 250 staffers were able to gather for a NON-OFFICIAL commemoration photo out to the west side of the building, May 20, 2025. Quite an effort by people who still do their best in the US at the federal level. Quite a story here, too.
https://www.science.org/content/article/photo-subversive-nsf-staff-overcome-obstacles-75th-anniversary-portrait
#Science
The amount of bad news that I could be sharing with you, if I chose to, is much greater than what you actually see here on my page. Every day I have to filter through all the items I find, looking for those that seem to me the most relevant and most important for readers to know, not simply those that are the most alarming or most sensationalist.
I’m not trying to scare people — well, maybe I am trying to scare people — but the point is not simply for you to be frightened, but to take action in the face of a looming disaster.
#Science #Environment #Climate #ClimateChange #ClimateCrisis #ClimateAction #ClimateJustice
FACT : 100 years ago a Tennessee grand jury indicted science teacher John Scopes for violating the state’s law making it a crime “to teach any theory that denies the story of the Divine Creation of man as taught in the Bible, and to teach instead that man has descended from a lower order of animals."
History repeats itself.
Giant Megalodon's Prey Finally Revealed, And It's Not What We Thought https://www.sciencealert.com/giant-megalodons-prey-finally-revealed-and-its-not-what-we-thought #science
Coastal Alaska wolves exposed to high mercury concentrations from eating sea otters https://phys.org/news/2025-05-coastal-alaska-wolves-exposed-high.html #science
Colorado wolves extend territory toward state's southern border https://phys.org/news/2025-05-colorado-wolves-territory-state-southern.html #science
📣 It's been a while since we've federated a batch of publishers — so to make up for it, here are 250, and they're big ones.
Today, we're bringing names like @abc, @RollingStone, @forbes, @BleacherReport, @NationalGeographic and @newyorktimes to the fediverse. They join the 174 profiles we've already federated, which include everyone from @19thnews to @Vox
Here's a blogpost with more details on this latest batch of publications that cover news, business, cooking, home design, politics, sports, science and more. Follow their Magazine feeds if you're only interested in one topic, or their whole profiles if you want the lot. The spreadsheet below lists out all federated accounts.
https://about.flipboard.com/fediverse/flipboard-federates-250-publishers/
https://docs.google.com/spreadsheets/d/1iUFTo6rPvhqzCReLaM1c6-xUKRuBVqlZVStZl9Al-EU
#Flipboard #Federation #SpreadMastodon #ActivityPub #Media #Publishers #Journalism #News #Politics #Sports #Entertainment #Food #Lifestyle #Science
Astronomers have long thought that the upper clouds of Jupiter, which create the planet’s iconic pale brown belts, are made of frozen ammonia.
But the joint efforts between an amateur astronomer with his backyard telescope 🔭 and professional scientists with ESO's Very Large Telescope (VLT), have now shown that they're actually made of something completely different 😲
Most likely, they are made of ammonium hydrosulphide mixed with smog, although vertical convection can sometimes bring ammonia ice clouds to the top.
Read more: https://www.eso.org/public/videos/potw2502a/?lang
Enough with the sexy Asian lady robots! In my latest column for New Scientist, I talk about techno-Orientalism, and why it has inspired so much bad thinking about the future -- in fiction and public policy. #scifi #futurism #technology #science
https://www.newscientist.com/article/mg26435110-100-why-we-need-to-fight-back-against-sexy-asian-lady-robots/
These are the proposed budget cuts for each #Science agency.
Do you excel in statistics and love cats? Want to help us with a research study? Please contact Sebastiaan (bol@cowboycatranch.org). If you can help, authorship is guaranteed.
The Drying Planet
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A new study finds that freshwater resources are rapidly disappearing, creating arid “mega” regions and causing sea levels to rise.
https://www.propublica.org/article/water-aquifers-groundwater-rising-ocean-levels?utm_source=mastodon&utm_medium=social&utm_campaign=mastodon-post
#News #Science #Climate #Environment #ClimateChange #Water #Earth
Lots of news just came out about strange, rhythmic goings-on in the outer regions of our solar system.
1: An object called 2020 VN40 moves in sync with Neptune (1 orbit for every 10 of Neptune), suggesting a large population of bodies in similar resonances.
https://www.cfa.harvard.edu/news/astronomers-discover-rare-distant-object-sync-neptune #space #science #astronomy
