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Colin Schultz
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By teasing DNA from ancient ground squirrel poop, scientists have reconstructed the mammoth-steppe ecosystem of hundreds of thousands of years ago—a window with lessons for our current period of environmental turmoil. My story for @biographic.bsky.social with edits from @colinschultz.bsky.social
"In 2017, Canadian researchers raised alarm when they used $100,000 worth of mail-order DNA to reconstitute the extinct horsepox virus. Critics said the same methodology could be used to construct smallpox, a closely related and deadly virus. Gene synthesis has only gotten cheaper since then."
""These career experts shouldn’t have to go to work each day fearful that they could be fired simply for sharing scientific truths and evidence with their bosses and the public," said Kristie Ellickson, a senior scientist with the Center for Science and Democracy at UCS."
North Atlantic right whales "are one of a dozen species of migrating whales that hang around the region from late spring to fall, making them yet another group caught in the crossfire as President Trump makes his geopolitical about-faces."
White House reclassifies federal epidemiologists and other scientists from civil servants to ‘at-will’ hires, which "strips these federal workers of protections meant to prevent political interference."
www.scientificamerican.com/article/whit...
"Cultural shortcuts meant that unlike other mammal lineages, we didn’t have to wait an entire generation to adapt via natural selection. “We can just skip that,” Perreault says. A continuous stream of better tools, smarter ideas and more effective practices “really accelerates the pace of evolution”
Oh good they signed a letter 🙃
www.wired.com/story/openai...
Exclusive: AI has killed humans.
For years we've had rumours, unconfirmed reports, suggestions... Now we know that AI-controlled drones with no human oversight have killed humans on the battlefield.
This is a watershed moment in warfare.
www.newscientist.com/article/2529...
"“We just launch it and we know everything will be dead – everything that will be found there in this particular area will be dead,” says Kokhanovskyy. “There is no connection to the drone at all, you cannot see the video, nothing… Everything it sees will be killed.”"
A senior figure in the Ukrainian defence industry told New Scientist that a test took place two years ago involving fully autonomous drones set to destroy anything in a given area, with confirmed casu...
Leading AI labs, executives, and scientists are sending a letter to lawmakers urging them to improve tracking of synthetic DNA sequences that could be used for bioweapons.
Life in the Last Ice Age, as Told by Squirrel Scat
Ancient DNA, preserved for 700,000 years in ground squirrel poop, offers a new view of Pleistocene ecology
by @moiradonovan.bsky.social
www.biographic.com/life-in-the-...
Matthew Sparkes
Oh good they signed a letter 🙃
www.wired.com/story/openai...
Tariffs are Spurring Shipping Noise in the St. Lawrence Seaway
Geopolitical tensions have Canada looking for new trade partners—with potentially unfortunate side effects for marine life.
by Caitlin Stall-Paquet
www.biographic.com/tariffs-are-...
Colin Schultz
White House reclassifies federal epidemiologists and other scientists from civil servants to ‘at-will’ hires, which "strips these federal workers of protections meant to prevent political interference."
www.scientificamerican.com/article/whit...
Ancient DNA, preserved for 700,000 years in ground squirrel poop, offers a new view of Pleistocene ecology.
Leading AI labs, executives, and scientists are sending a letter to lawmakers urging them to improve tracking of synthetic DNA sequences that could be used for bioweapons.
Exclusive: AI has killed humans.
For years we've had rumours, unconfirmed reports, suggestions... Now we know that AI-controlled drones with no human oversight have killed humans on the battlefield.
This is a watershed moment in warfare.
www.newscientist.com/article/2529...
bioGraphic
Geopolitical tensions have Canada looking for new trade partners—with potentially unfortunate side effects for marine life.
A senior figure in the Ukrainian defence industry told New Scientist that a test took place two years ago involving fully autonomous drones set to destroy anything in a given area, with confirmed casu...
