@occasionally-lies.bsky.social
"Yellow-legged hornets (Vespa velutina) are an invasive species in Europe, Japan, and South America and have been discovered recently in the southeastern U.S."
A clever beekeeper develops a trap that might soon become very useful ...
entomologytoday.org/2026/08/20/k...
A clever beekeeper develops a trap that might soon become very useful ...
entomologytoday.org/2026/08/20/k...
Tubular Trap Effective in Protecting Honey Bee Hives From Yellow-Legged Hornets
A simple tubular trap placed in front of honey bee hives cut yellow-legged hornet attacks by about fivefold in Spanish field tests, helping bees forage normally while capturing the invasive predator a...
entomologytoday.org
August 20, 2026 at 6:40 PM
"Yellow-legged hornets (Vespa velutina) are an invasive species in Europe, Japan, and South America and have been discovered recently in the southeastern U.S."
A clever beekeeper develops a trap that might soon become very useful ...
entomologytoday.org/2026/08/20/k...
A clever beekeeper develops a trap that might soon become very useful ...
entomologytoday.org/2026/08/20/k...
“The First Amendment allows you to say what you want to say, it does not allow you to put your words into my mouth. And that’s literally what this technology allows is for somebody else to create ...”
www.mercurynews.com/2026/08/14/a...
www.mercurynews.com/2026/08/14/a...
AI-generated content is flooding political campaigns. California lawmakers are trying to regulate it
Several laws have attempted to rein in AI-generated political ads, but the courts have struck some down.
www.mercurynews.com
August 14, 2026 at 7:36 PM
“The First Amendment allows you to say what you want to say, it does not allow you to put your words into my mouth. And that’s literally what this technology allows is for somebody else to create ...”
www.mercurynews.com/2026/08/14/a...
www.mercurynews.com/2026/08/14/a...
I'm simultaneously inspired that there are people fighting the good fight and demoralized that there *so many* willing to cripple their souls for a fast buck.
reeserichardson.blog/2025/08/04/a...
reeserichardson.blog/2025/08/04/a...
A do-or-die moment for the scientific enterprise
Reflecting on our paper “The entities enabling scientific fraud at scale are large, resilient, and growing rapidly”
reeserichardson.blog
August 12, 2026 at 6:36 PM
I'm simultaneously inspired that there are people fighting the good fight and demoralized that there *so many* willing to cripple their souls for a fast buck.
reeserichardson.blog/2025/08/04/a...
reeserichardson.blog/2025/08/04/a...
Reposted
"Since written language only emerged about 5,000 years ago, our brains haven’t had time to evolve dedicated reading circuits. Instead, we’ve repurposed the neural networks that once kept our ancestors alive in the wild. Neuroscientist Stanislas Dehaene calls this the neuronal recycling hypothesis."
How reading books regulates your nervous system
Books don’t just stimulate the mind — they trigger physiological changes throughout the body.
bigthink.com
March 27, 2026 at 6:16 PM
"Since written language only emerged about 5,000 years ago, our brains haven’t had time to evolve dedicated reading circuits. Instead, we’ve repurposed the neural networks that once kept our ancestors alive in the wild. Neuroscientist Stanislas Dehaene calls this the neuronal recycling hypothesis."
Reposted
This stemmed from my original story for @sciencenews.bsky.social
www.sciencenews.org/article/vacc...
www.sciencenews.org/article/vacc...
He made beer that’s also a vaccine. Now controversy is brewing
An NIH scientist’s maverick approach reveals legal, ethical, moral, scientific and social challenges to developing potentially life-saving vaccines.
www.sciencenews.org
December 23, 2025 at 8:13 PM
This stemmed from my original story for @sciencenews.bsky.social
www.sciencenews.org/article/vacc...
www.sciencenews.org/article/vacc...
I have an old "CentOS Linux release 7.9.2009 (Core)" running on one of my machines.
uptime "18:56:20 up 1200 days, 1:47, 1 user, load average: 0.00, 0.00, 0.00"
Does what I need it to do. I'm thinking about updating it in the next few years.
uptime "18:56:20 up 1200 days, 1:47, 1 user, load average: 0.00, 0.00, 0.00"
Does what I need it to do. I'm thinking about updating it in the next few years.
February 24, 2026 at 7:18 PM
I have an old "CentOS Linux release 7.9.2009 (Core)" running on one of my machines.
uptime "18:56:20 up 1200 days, 1:47, 1 user, load average: 0.00, 0.00, 0.00"
Does what I need it to do. I'm thinking about updating it in the next few years.
uptime "18:56:20 up 1200 days, 1:47, 1 user, load average: 0.00, 0.00, 0.00"
Does what I need it to do. I'm thinking about updating it in the next few years.
"1 billion biochemical reactions that occur every second in every cell of our bodies"
www.quantamagazine.org/the-biophysi...
I love what the Simons Foundation has done with quantamagazine.
www.quantamagazine.org/the-biophysi...
I love what the Simons Foundation has done with quantamagazine.
The Biophysical World Inside a Jam-Packed Cell | Quanta Magazine
Innovations in imaging and genetic engineering are coming together to probe the biophysics of cytoplasm inside living animals.
www.quantamagazine.org
February 20, 2026 at 8:03 PM
"1 billion biochemical reactions that occur every second in every cell of our bodies"
www.quantamagazine.org/the-biophysi...
I love what the Simons Foundation has done with quantamagazine.
www.quantamagazine.org/the-biophysi...
I love what the Simons Foundation has done with quantamagazine.
Reposted
After 50 years in science, former #HHMIInvestigator David Clapham’s advice is simple: “You have to see problem-solving as fun.” From training with Nobel laureates to deepening our understanding of ion channels & leading at HHMI, he retires with a lasting legacy: hhmi.news/3O3kYji.
February 10, 2026 at 5:59 PM
After 50 years in science, former #HHMIInvestigator David Clapham’s advice is simple: “You have to see problem-solving as fun.” From training with Nobel laureates to deepening our understanding of ion channels & leading at HHMI, he retires with a lasting legacy: hhmi.news/3O3kYji.
Ron Charles was recently laid off from the Washington Post. Here he talks about how bookstores can help local writers connect.
Now replace "writers" with "researchers" [for whatever] using this venue to connect with the local community.
AI ain't replacing face time.
substack.com/home/post/p-...
Now replace "writers" with "researchers" [for whatever] using this venue to connect with the local community.
AI ain't replacing face time.
substack.com/home/post/p-...
Another Novelist Is Opening a Bookstore
That's good news for everybody.
substack.com
February 8, 2026 at 3:23 PM
Ron Charles was recently laid off from the Washington Post. Here he talks about how bookstores can help local writers connect.
Now replace "writers" with "researchers" [for whatever] using this venue to connect with the local community.
AI ain't replacing face time.
substack.com/home/post/p-...
Now replace "writers" with "researchers" [for whatever] using this venue to connect with the local community.
AI ain't replacing face time.
substack.com/home/post/p-...
I'd like to have at least a few around to remind me where I left things when I can't find them.
www.bbc.co.uk/future/artic...
www.bbc.co.uk/future/artic...
'They saw them on their dishes when eating': The mushroom making people hallucinate dozens of tiny humans
Only recently described by science, the mysterious mushrooms are found in different parts of the world, but they give people the same exact visions.
www.bbc.co.uk
February 3, 2026 at 4:56 PM
I'd like to have at least a few around to remind me where I left things when I can't find them.
www.bbc.co.uk/future/artic...
www.bbc.co.uk/future/artic...
www.quantamagazine.org/cells-across...
My first post.
A shout out to the tree of bluesky about a fabulous story by Annie Melchor.
My first post.
A shout out to the tree of bluesky about a fabulous story by Annie Melchor.
Cells Across the Tree of Life Exchange ‘Text Messages’ Using RNA | Quanta Magazine
Long known as a messenger within cells, RNA is increasingly seen as life’s molecular communication system — even between organisms widely separated by evolution.
www.quantamagazine.org
January 10, 2026 at 8:21 PM
www.quantamagazine.org/cells-across...
My first post.
A shout out to the tree of bluesky about a fabulous story by Annie Melchor.
My first post.
A shout out to the tree of bluesky about a fabulous story by Annie Melchor.