Loved researching this for @nature.com. A mist of DNA engulfs us & ecologists are figuring out how to grab it to measure biodiversity. @jlittlefair.bsky.social @richardmleggett.bsky.social @profbatgirl.bsky.social @erinhahn.bsky.social @drbarnes.org www.nature.com/articles/d41...
Also, this is maddening.
The authors could have *asked* why even zero-profit-margin journals is the AAS Journals cost so much to produce. No need to imagine! There's a lot more to producing a real, archived, edited, typeset, scientific article with data than peer reviewer labor.
The ecologists who study nature without going outside bit.ly/3YtoSnu @tadeorp.bsky.social @sarabssethi.bsky.social @tokehoye.bsky.social @billsutherland.bsky.social @bessonmarc.bsky.social @laura-pollock.bsky.social @kevinjgaston.bsky.social
Energy transitions can happen faster than we think:
In 2000 almost 90% of Denmark's electricity was from fossil fuels.
In 2024 less than 10% of Danish electricity was from fossil fuels.
after the 10th radioactive shrimp recall in 7 weeks, i decided to do some digging
little did i know it would lead me to an underreported industrial accident that may have released an airborne plume of radioactive debris over swaths of indonesia
www.consumerreports.org/health/food-...
Pleased to say that @slate.com has published an excerpt of BEYOND BELIEF.
This part of the book looks at how critical decisions on how to save species are often made with little regard for evidence of whether they work.
Includes two of my fave stories: bats + caribou.
slate.com/technology/2...
www.thisiscolossal.com/2020/01/stri...
Airborne genetic material can be used to paint a picture of ecosystem health, watch for invasive species and even identify humans.
Attacks on healthcare facilities in #Gaza across 2024 (play gif).
“I’ve not seen anything like it... In my work on human rights and healthcare attacks over decades, I have not seen anything like the almost daily attacks on hospitals.”
More: buff.ly/u02hKUp (free to access)
Do we really want 250,000 mirrored satellites in Low Earth Orbit? Hasn't the Starlink megaconstellation already done enough damage?
🧪 @mjibrown.bsky.social
In conservation, it can be difficult to simply consult the evidence.
For young striped eel catfish, there really is safety in numbers. A recent Instagram post shares a video by Marie-Laure Vergne of about one hundred juvenile fish moving across the bottom of the ocean....
NVIDIA and Starcloud have just taken a big step toward moving power-hungry, polluting data centers from Earth to space. Starcloud think they can have a commercial scale data center in orbit in the early 2030s. It does seem to make sense. What do you think? spectrum.ieee.org/nvidia-h100-...
Helen Pearson
Satellites beaming sunlight down to Earth sound like science fiction – and they have astronomers very worried.
