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)
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
Datasci.social is a Mastodon server for nice and diverse people who are researching human-centric data science and adjacent topics such as human-centric network science, social data science, urban/geospatial data science, computational social science.
You can find out more at https://datasci.social/about or contact the admin @mszll
#FeaturedServer #DataScience #NetworkScience #Geospatial #SocialScience #Science #Mastodon #Fediverse #FreeFediverse
South Florida meteorologist John Morales told his viewers live on air that he can no longer accurately predict hurricane season, due to federal government cuts.
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A Path North
* Image Credit & Copyright: Mario Konang
Explanation:
What happens if you keep going north? The direction north on the Earth, the place on your horizon below the northern spin pole of the Earth -- around which other stars appear to slowly swirl, will remain the same. This spin-pole-of-the-north will never move from its fixed location on the sky -- night or day -- and its height will always match your latitude. The further north you go, the higher the north spin pole will appear. Eventually, if you can reach the Earth's North Pole, the stars will circle a point directly over your head. Pictured, a four-hour long stack of images shows stars trailing in circles around this north celestial pole. The bright star near the north celestial pole is Polaris, known as the North Star. The bright path was created by the astrophotographer's headlamp as he zigzagged up a hill just over a week ago in Lower Saxony, Germany. The astrophotographer can be seen, at times, in shadow. Actually, the Earth has two spin poles -- and much the same would happen if you started below the Earth's equator and went south.
https://apod.nasa.gov/apod/ap200407.html
#space #earth #astrophotography #photography #astroart #art #science #nature #education
Hello people of mastodon! I’m here, I’m queer 🌈🦄 But I do prefer wine over beer! How about you? I don’t even know what this place is or does so I’m just screaming out into the aether! …or, well… the aether was debunked by scientists in like.. the 1920’s…but isn’t it kind of an expression people use? Or is that another aether? (I could be translating weird from Swedish too) I’ll have to research this now 😄
#aether #science #new #introduction
The Less People Know About AI, the More They Like It https://www.wired.com/story/the-less-people-know-about-ai-the-more-they-like-it/ #science
Helloooo! Let's try this #introduction #mastodon.. #newhere
I'm Caroline from The Netherlands, have been eyeing all the beautiful #photography accounts (amongst others)
Hope to connect on this platform!
Other interests: #sleeptoken #coffee #sarcasm #mentalhealth #psychology #science #sciencefunfacts #metalmusic #blues #soul #love #kindness #helpingothers and so on
I'm not, in any way, shape or form a photographer but here are some shots 😆
