TIL: males have 25% more neurons in the visual cortex than... #science #sexes #hormones
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#Science video accounts to follow:
(If an account looks blank, read this: https://fedi.tips/why-does-someones-account-page-look-completely-blank-is-it-really-blank/)
➡️ @ruth_mottram - Climate scientist, glaciers, ice sheets, polar climate
➡️ @adam_steer - Former polar researcher, polar exploration
➡️ @makingwaves - Marine ecologist, life in the sea
➡️ @nicemicro - Scientist on chemistry, FOSS, tech
➡️ @kirk - Scientist, engineer, open hardware for energy conversion & storage
➡️ @europlanet_media - European org for planetary scientists
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Give #Musk the heave-ho: "It has been more than 150 years since a fellow has been expelled from the society, according to the spokesperson." He's earned it.
Trump’s NIH And NSF Cuts Estimated To Cost The U.S. Economy $10 Billion Annually
Economic analysis suggests that the rate of return of public investment, to the US economy, is 140%-210%.
#Science is one of the few "good deals" with long-term prospects (measured on scales from years, even to decades, to centuries) for human beings.
But that is not why I do science. I do science because I am curious. I am grateful this is a net positive for society.
🦝 Raccoons Are Showing Early Signs of Domestication
City-dwelling raccoons seem to be evolving a shorter snout—a telltale feature of our pets and other domesticated animals
#Science #Research #Wildlife
#Nature
https://www.scientificamerican.com/article/raccoons-are-showing-early-signs-of-domestication/
Martian Memories
Special-Effects Spirit Silhouetted on "Jibsheet"
Created using a photorealistic model of the rover and a false-color mosaic captured at sunset by its panoramic camera on May 19, 2005 (Sol 489). Credit: NASA/JPL-Solar System Visualization Team
📷 https://www.jpl.nasa.gov/images/pia03232-special-effects-spirit-silhouetted-on-jibsheet/
#Mars #Spirit #Sol489 #Jibsheet #sunset #GusevCrater #Gusev #crater #rover #SpiritRover #Martian #solarsystem #memories #space #science #history #STEM #astrodon #geology #SpecialFX #FX #visualization #NASA #JPL
I'm back online, and the very first thing I did was upload what I was working on, y'all the coloring book/web zine about carnivorous plants is now LIVE. Please read about my passion and why I'm bursting with joy.
https://tippitiwichet.wordpress.com/bog-monsters-how-carnivorous-plants-do-the-things-they-do/
#gardening #humanMadeArt #coloring #carnivorousPlants #VenusFlytrap #wetlands #science #botany #ecology #zine
Eastern Canadians are asking: What's with this crappy weather?
For days it's been rainy and cool across much of southern Ontario stretching into the Maritimes, which leaves some wondering when they'll see any spring-like weather.
#weather #Ontario #Maritimes #News #Science
https://www.cbc.ca/news/science/eastern-canada-spring-1.7542332?cmp=rss
Shaken #Baby Syndrome Has Found New Life in Courts as Abusive Head Trauma. One Family Is Fighting Their Son’s Diagnosis.
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Exonerations and new #science continue to raise questions about shaken baby syndrome, a diagnosis that lives on under a different name: “abusive head trauma.” Critics say the name deflects scrutiny while leaving #parents vulnerable to criminal charges.
#News #Parenting #Children #Family #Hospital #SocialWork #Police #Crime
#HappyNewYear 🎉 Boost your #NewYear resolution with adaptive optics. By deforming a thin flexible mirror a thousand times per second you can correct atmospheric turbulence and get sharp astronomical images!
➡️ https://www.eso.org/public/teles-instr/technology/adaptive_optics/
📷 ESO/P. Weilbacher (AIP)
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Sabertooth Cats
#science #biology #evolution #cats #CatsOfMastodon
Thank you #NSF National Science Foundation for 75 years. 250 staffers were able to gather for a NON-OFFICIAL commemoration photo out to the west side of the building, May 20, 2025. Quite an effort by people who still do their best in the US at the federal level. Quite a story here, too.
https://www.science.org/content/article/photo-subversive-nsf-staff-overcome-obstacles-75th-anniversary-portrait
#Science
The amount of bad news that I could be sharing with you, if I chose to, is much greater than what you actually see here on my page. Every day I have to filter through all the items I find, looking for those that seem to me the most relevant and most important for readers to know, not simply those that are the most alarming or most sensationalist.
I’m not trying to scare people — well, maybe I am trying to scare people — but the point is not simply for you to be frightened, but to take action in the face of a looming disaster.
#Science #Environment #Climate #ClimateChange #ClimateCrisis #ClimateAction #ClimateJustice
FACT : 100 years ago a Tennessee grand jury indicted science teacher John Scopes for violating the state’s law making it a crime “to teach any theory that denies the story of the Divine Creation of man as taught in the Bible, and to teach instead that man has descended from a lower order of animals."
History repeats itself.
Giant Megalodon's Prey Finally Revealed, And It's Not What We Thought https://www.sciencealert.com/giant-megalodons-prey-finally-revealed-and-its-not-what-we-thought #science
🦝🧠 Researchers have found that #raccoons pack a primate-like number of neurons into their small brains, including specialized cells once thought to be exclusive to #humans and great #apes.
This "neural density" helps explain their ability to solve complex puzzles and remember solutions for years, often outperforming #dogs and #cats.
👉 https://www.good.is/raccoon-science
#biology #wildlife #neuroscience #nature #evolution #science #behavior #stem
Coastal Alaska wolves exposed to high mercury concentrations from eating sea otters https://phys.org/news/2025-05-coastal-alaska-wolves-exposed-high.html #science
Colorado wolves extend territory toward state's southern border https://phys.org/news/2025-05-colorado-wolves-territory-state-southern.html #science
📣 It's been a while since we've federated a batch of publishers — so to make up for it, here are 250, and they're big ones.
Today, we're bringing names like @abc, @RollingStone, @forbes, @BleacherReport, @NationalGeographic and @newyorktimes to the fediverse. They join the 174 profiles we've already federated, which include everyone from @19thnews to @Vox
Here's a blogpost with more details on this latest batch of publications that cover news, business, cooking, home design, politics, sports, science and more. Follow their Magazine feeds if you're only interested in one topic, or their whole profiles if you want the lot. The spreadsheet below lists out all federated accounts.
https://about.flipboard.com/fediverse/flipboard-federates-250-publishers/
https://docs.google.com/spreadsheets/d/1iUFTo6rPvhqzCReLaM1c6-xUKRuBVqlZVStZl9Al-EU
#Flipboard #Federation #SpreadMastodon #ActivityPub #Media #Publishers #Journalism #News #Politics #Sports #Entertainment #Food #Lifestyle #Science
Astronomers have long thought that the upper clouds of Jupiter, which create the planet’s iconic pale brown belts, are made of frozen ammonia.
But the joint efforts between an amateur astronomer with his backyard telescope 🔭 and professional scientists with ESO's Very Large Telescope (VLT), have now shown that they're actually made of something completely different 😲
Most likely, they are made of ammonium hydrosulphide mixed with smog, although vertical convection can sometimes bring ammonia ice clouds to the top.
Read more: https://www.eso.org/public/videos/potw2502a/?lang
Enough with the sexy Asian lady robots! In my latest column for New Scientist, I talk about techno-Orientalism, and why it has inspired so much bad thinking about the future -- in fiction and public policy. #scifi #futurism #technology #science
https://www.newscientist.com/article/mg26435110-100-why-we-need-to-fight-back-against-sexy-asian-lady-robots/
These are the proposed budget cuts for each #Science agency.
Subí a PeerTube mi clase de técnicas instrumentales, telescopios y astrofotografía que di para el curso de Educación Permanente en CURE Rocha - UdelaR. Los curso de educación permanente son no especializados y son aptos para todo público por lo que son de carácter general e introductorios y su finalidad es transmitir conocimiento a la comunidad, generar lazos sociedad civil y crear lazos interdisciplinarios con otros actores, en este caso, con gente vinculada al turismo astronómico, conservación de ecosistemas y gestión ambiental. Disponible en https://tube.undernet.uy/w/hCkVJFKzXScddm3LJByDbU #astronomía #astrofotografía #fotografía #telescopios #educaciónpermanente #udelar #astronomy #ciencia #science #astrophotography #photography #telescopes
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