Happy weekend!
Ancient clay pots with octopus decoration from Bronze Age Crete some 3,500 years ago! 🐙❤️
Heraklion Archaeological Museum 📷 by me
#Archaeology
Alison Fisk
Should we be celebrating people who volunteer to be in studies? We discuss being a heathy human subject for science (and a podcast) in this BTS convo on the @science.org podcast. If you haven't heard The Normals series, check it out here: science.org/normals
Show: www.science.org/content/podc...
Happy ’Old Croone Day’ - scientists celebrate 4 June 1662 when Dr William Croone presented the Royal Society (London) with “…two embryos of puppy-dogs, which … were put in spirit in a glass-vial sealed hermetically...” marking the beginning of fluid preservation of animals still in museums today
museums send us your jugs
Sar Crespi
This week on the @science.org podcast, Joshua Sokol talks about the intense discussion happening in the astrophysics community as AI and ML become increasingly powerful
www.science.org/content/podc...
Teasing apart the effects of ultraprocessed foods on heath -- this week on the @science.org podcast w/ Faidon Magkos
Listen here: www.science.org/content/podc...
Yes to all of this
...Marcia McNutt largely ignored the elephant in the room—namely, whether President Donald Trump’s policies are destroying the U.S. research enterprise. But in a panel discussion following her remarks, some of the participants made gentle forays into that territory...
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Nigel Monaghan
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The Monday feeling represented in jug form
(Ceramic jug by Wallace Martin for Martin Brothers)
"Hundreds of scientists who study cancer and aging have made an easily avoidable but significant mistake, deploying the wrong antibody to test for a key protein..." By Mitch Leslie @science.org; originally reported by Sholto David
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Left-pawed dogs take fewer risks. Right-pawed dogs can be more aggressive. And ambilateral dogs appear to be more fearful of thunderstorms. Fun story by @phiejacobs.bsky.social for @science.org
Science chats with researchers about a new method of assessing canine “handedness” and what it reveals about your pup’s health and personality
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Barnsley Museums
Sar Crespi
And we are live!
Massive thanks to everyone who contributed to this. Reading your posts made me so much madder than I ever knew was possible
David Grimm
What Marcia McNutt didn't say in her State of Science farewell address this week at the National Academy of Sciences Sciencehttps://www.science.org/content/article/scienceadviser-octopus-mirror#scienceprudence
The bugs, broken apps, and nightmare customer-service bots we can't escape, presented as a blessed and sacred addendum to Pope Leo XIV’s new encyclical on AI
Today in Science and science: Back to basics for string theory, Marcia McNutt says farewell, and more
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Jeffrey Mervis
I'm working on a column about the tech annoyances that drive us crazy, and I want it to be as universal as possible, so tell me yours!
E.g. scanning a QR code to read a menu, never receiving the one-time passcode they supposedly texted you, "verify you're human" by IDing tiny motorcycles, etc.
