First cases of highly pathogenic avian influenza in northern elephant seals confirmed in California https://phys.org/news/2026-02-cases-highly-pathogenic-avian-influenza.html 🦭 #Pinnipeds #MarineMammals #MarineLife #MarineBiology #Seals #Science #H5N1 #BirdFlu
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What I’ve been reading (and watching) this week ending 22 February 2026 https://jchyip.medium.com/what-ive-been-reading-and-watching-this-week-ending-22-february-2026-b7d5e04e95c9 #housing #science #economics #product #ai #politics #lean #management #tech
Human brain cells on a chip learned to play Doom in a week
Starter packs for geosciences, astronomy and physics (partly Germany-centric):
Earth and Geoscience: https://fedidevs.com/s/OTk1/ by @pikarl
Astronomy and Space: https://fedidevs.com/s/NjA2/
Physics: https://fedidevs.com/s/ODg2/
As I find I am running into limits with pinned posts, I've decided to consolidate three starter packs I like to recommend into this one single post. Enjoy!
#FollowFriday #StarterPacks #Science #Physics #Astrodon #Astronomy #Astrophysics #Geosciences #Geology #EarthSciences #PlanetaryScience
Happy Sunday, y'all.
My new YT video is up! This week's topic is ads in space, which is wild, but is becoming a possibility and may one day be a thing. Luckily for us, there's some resistance.
If you enjoy the video, let me know what you think and please take a second to hit the like button. Thank you.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fz9NSNL2NG4
#Space #Ads #Capitalism #Astronomy #Science #YouTube #Video #SocialMedia
🏆 The European Physical Society and Gruppo Acinque are happy to announce the second edition of the Alessandro Volta Prize.
The award, intended to promote excellence in research, will be given in recognition of outstanding research and achievements in physics.
👉 The call for nominations is now open: https://eps.org/alessandro-volta-prize-2026-call-for-nominations/
Deadline 30th October 2026.
#physics #physik #physique #awards #europe #research #science
Study identifies the values most strongly associated with rejecting antidemocratic politicians, offering new insight into why some voters resist leaders who challenge democratic norms. https://www.byteseu.com/2403659/ #Science
Long but very informative if you like Startalk
Violation of the Third Law of Black Hole Mechanics in Vacuum Gravity
🙌 The new logo of Molecular Biology and Evolution is now live!
This new look will carry us forward while maintaining the same rigor and commitment to the molecular evolutionist community as an SMBE journal.
Visit our website to learn why publishing with MBE, as a society-owned journal, helps to support evolutionary science:
🔗 academic.oup.com/mbe/pages/why-publish
A lab mate shared this write up of Don Knuth using LLMs to solve a math problem: https://www-cs-faculty.stanford.edu/~knuth/papers/claude-cycles.pdf
It's clear that using Claude did help them arrive at some new understanding here, which is wonderful. I'm happy for them.
However, I'm upset by how much they personify Claude and attribute the solution to "him."
From this narrative, it's clear that the humans were very actively involved from beginning to end. Claude was a helpful tool, but it did not solve this problem on its own. What role did it actually play? How was it like or unlike a human collaborator on this problem?
It did generate a crucial insight, but where did that come from? Was it plagiarized from some unknown source? Did it "just emerge" from text completion and interpolation in latent space? Do we need some other explanation for Claude's apparent creativity?
These folks don't care. They just wanted a solution, which they attribute to Claude, and leave it at that. I think that's a serious problem.
Meet ‘platypus man’ Harry Burrell. He transformed Australian science – and put on quite a show https://www.byteseu.com/2404509/ #Science
Earlier today, the discarded upper stage of a Falcon 9 rocket impacted on the Moon. As part of a coordinated observing campaign, our Very Large Telescope detected spectral lines of sodium and lithium gas in the impact plume lasting for 5-10 minutes after impact.
📷 ESO/C. Schmidt et al.
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13,000-year-old butchered bones of long-tusked beast found in Chile give more evidence of early first Americans https://www.byteseu.com/2405121/ #Science
House Science Committee members Zoe Lofgren and Whitesides write to White House OSTP director Michael Kratsios on the black hole of where NSF money is going: "We have no reason to be surprised that you chose to continue this pattern of obfuscation and disrespect of the Committee’s oversight..."
What I’ve been reading (and watching) week ending 2 August https://medium.com/@jchyip/what-ive-been-reading-and-watching-week-ending-2-august-3a0ef3159f0b #AI #science #engineering #government #economics
The Ovary Is Surprisingly Active After Menopause. Scientists Are Trying to Figure Out Why https://www.byteseu.com/2394529/ #EverythingScience #Science
RFK Jr. is spreading doubts about vaccine safety and considering changes that could prompt manufacturers to flee the U.S. market.
History has shown how plagues from the past can roar back when trust in shots — or access to them — falters.
https://www.propublica.org/article/rfk-jr-vaccine-agenda-childhood-plagues?utm_source=mastodon&utm_medium=social&utm_campaign=mastodon-post
#News #Health #PublicHealth #Vaccines #Children #History #Science #RFKJr
Science Research Program Gets a U. Miami Boost https://www.byteseu.com/2394787/ #Science
Blood test for multiple cancers clears crucial hurdle on track to FDA approval https://www.byteseu.com/2395190/ #EverythingScience #Science
As Florida considers dropping its measles, mumps and rubella (MMR) vaccine mandate for school attendance, a new study predicts that such a policy change could spark the largest measles epidemic in the United States in nearly 500 years, with striking 650% increase in cases just between 2024 and 2025. https://www.byteseu.com/2406811/ #Science
Scientists Found Two Bizarre New Sea Spiders. One Has Three Lips and Red Eyes https://www.byteseu.com/2406106/ #evolution #Science #SeaSpider
OOooh! Today's #SolarEclipse coincides with the #Perseid meteor shower! https://www.timeanddate.com/news/astronomy/perseid-meteor-shower-2026
#science #astronomy #Perseids #Perseids2026
Authors can identify influential AI research by ranking their own work, Wharton study finds https://www.byteseu.com/2384379/ #Science
People with a severe mental illness, such as depressive, neurotic, and stress disorders, alcohol and drug use, and schizophrenia, die more than 10 years earlier than the general population, finds mortality data from 255,000 patients. https://www.byteseu.com/2384158/ #Science
