PNW freelance sci journo, PhD nanosci and materials engineering. World traveler, field reporter. Newly focused on probing solutions to our biggest problems, but still interested in whale anuses and poo. I love the weird things. she/her
🧪🧬👩🔬 Please read the article. We have more work to do as scientists and as members of a democratic society.
Sam WangTo stop the Project 2025 takeover of science, public comments are half a plan. But they won't get us all the way there. Here's the second half of the plan - and what you can do: samwang.substack.com/p/building-h...
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Instagram users: Here’s how to stop Meta’s AI from using your photos | TechCrunchMuse Image allows users to generate AI images using photos from public Instagram accounts. As long as a person's profile is public, another user can tag that account and use their images as part of an...techcrunch.com
America’s farmers and cattle ranchers are warning that data centers are gobbling up farmland acreage, electricity and water needed to raise livestock and grow crops. “It’s almost like the wild west to see who gets there first.” on.wsj.com/4ph1S7P
A New Foe Has Emerged for Data Centers: FarmersGrowers, ranchers and companies warn of too much farmland being used for AI data centers, siphoning water.on.wsj.com
One of the things @modacitylife.com talks about in this pod is the benefits *for children* of being able to build a spatial map in their heads by moving through space on a bike, rather than than just: get in a car, see a blur in the windshield, get out in different place.
The many social and psychological benefits of low-car citiesA few years ago, Melissa and Chris Bruntlett and their two children moved from Vancouver, Canada, to Delft, a small city in the Netherlands where 80% of journeys are taken by foot, bicycle, or public ...www.volts.wtfWilliam B. FuckleyI am running (or walking/cycling tbf) chauvinist for this reason: i will in some sense know your neighborhood better than you with a year of doing this than you will after a decade of going everywhere by car.
I'm not sure most people understand that the proposed OMB rule is not just about NIH. In addition to scientific research, it would cover federal grants that also fund healthcare, public health, education, housing, clean water, transportation, and job training. Total $1.1 trillion.
“No serious epidemiologist would reason in this way, @candiceodgers.bsky.social said. Both Gray & Haidt tended to downplay other obvious factors, such as the severe adult-MH crisis that unfolded during the same years.‘Caregiver mental health is by far the strongest predictor of childhood MH’.”🧪🛟
Social Media Lab"What if It’s Not the Phones? An evolutionary psychologist is challenging the popular understanding of kids and technology." www.theatlantic.com/technology/2...
Nuanced reporting and analysis of several dementia studies in this Nature article. An excellent example of the importance of science writing, by @helenpearson.bsky.social
Nature PortfolioA feature in Nature reports on the data around lowering the risk of dementia, including lifestyle changes and how helpful they can be. #alzsky #medsky 🧪
“In Finland, the number of homeless people has fallen sharply. Those affected receive a small apartment & counselling with no preconditions. 4 out of 5 people affected make their way back to a stable life. And all this is CHEAPER than accepting homelessness.” IT SAVES PUBLIC MONEY to house people.
Finland ends homelessness and provides shelter for all in need - scoop.meIn Finland, the number of homeless people has fallen sharply. Why? The country applies the "Housing First" concept agains homelessness.thebetter.news
Lindsey Graham was one of the main subjects of a @theatlantic.com cover story I wrote in 2020, on why people collaborate with regimes they know are immoral. Here's a gift link: www.theatlantic.com/magazine/arc...
History Will Judge the ComplicitWhy have Republican leaders abandoned their principles in support of an immoral and dangerous president?www.theatlantic.com
👇🎯💯 Again, as I have been yelling at the clouds for years, there are <only two solutions> here, & no one wants to talk about either one. Which is why I, & perhaps you also, remain so deeply concerned about the tenuous future of 🇺🇸 democracy.
Kevin ElliottI know we're all understandably focused on getting from now to inauguration day without a successful Trump coup, but it's actually also really important to think about what we're gonna do about having a two party system where is one is anti-democracy. We either go multiparty (my pref) or fix the GOP
you don’t have to say nice things about lindsey graham we are past that cultural moment, largely thanks to the man he knew was one of the worst people alive and deliberately enabled at every turn he was a bad person and did awful things and you can just be honest about it
The falling away of the feigning of decency is one of the most dramatic changes in American elite culture in the last decade. It's ubiquitous, and explains so much of our collapse, but happily it's not universal.
Gwen Snyder is uncivilI don't think these times have been a solvent for decency at all. This has been a precipitation process. It has made decent people coalesce & show themselves. We're also seeing how many people had just been superficially feigning decency, because that used to be a social/professional expectation.
So military troops under the direct control of Trump and Hegseth will be on the streets of our nation’s capital for the rest of Trump’s term. The rationale—they’re here to help with a crime emergency—is laughable. But of course the real reason is ominous. cbs4local.com/news/nation-...
Pentagon to keep National Guard in D.C. until Inauguration Day 2029The Pentagon says the National Guard will remain deployed in Washington, D.C. through Jan. 20, 2029, unless President Trump ends the mission earlier.cbs4local.com