Tootfinder

Even #Nature now uses #AI to generate content: Sensory substitution devices and perception https://www.

Social-media influencers and anti-ageing entrepreneurs
mingled with top US government officials,
including the head of the US National Institutes of Health (NIH), at an exclusive event steps from the White House last week.
The meeting’s purpose was to discuss the future of health in the United States.
Organizers called it the MAHA Summit,
referring to US health secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr’s signature ‘Make America Healthy Again’ movement.
Attendees inclu…

Psychedelics and immortality: Nature went to a health summit starring RFK and JD Vance
The Make America Healthy Again summit, attended by health secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr and vice-president JD Vance, gave a sense of what’s driving US health policy.

For a moment I was afraid I'd missed the Nordic Adventure Film Festival - but it's on next week.
This new film by Yann Bertrand looks exceptional #NAFF25
https://adventurefilmfest.dk/portfolio/nature-the-call-for-reconciliation/

🇺🇦 #NowPlaying on KEXP's #VarietyMix
Sudan Archives:
🎵 THE NATURE OF POWER
#SudanArchives
https://sudanarchives.bandcamp.com/track/the-nature-of-power
https://open.spotify.com/track/1zYkhzGEC4hlpV3sK19Dpy

For every dollar we spend protecting nature, we spend $30 destroying it: Report
https://phys.org/news/2026-01-dollar-nature-destroying.html

RE: #PlanetForming disk: https://www.nature.com/articles/s41586-025-09939-3.epdf?sharing_token=P58g4NqC9qaLvEBsuH4KetRgN0jAjWel9jnR3ZoTv0MYZdrCaKok5Y0PdtT8ktDCgnU-F4RtynU4IJFex5w48P9qDSOQ7uO_brP91R_9nxwjQ79afxwYMCIUqjb2PB9i762vxqcuUCgDqgmE9Oyu0fXR4S7O7ExDBu_B3-ZurJA= -> NASA Webb Finds Young Sun-Like Star Forging, Spewing Common Crystals:

#TuneTuesday #VerdantVoices
(songs with a connection to green and/or nature)
Second Nature / Rush
https://www.youtube…

Die weltweite #Entwaldung ist rückläufig: Zwischen 2015 und 2025 lag die Rate laut UN-Bericht 38 Prozent unter dem Niveau von 1990 bis 2000.
In #Brasilien sank die #Abholzung im

Seven quiet wins for climate and nature in 2025
Here are the year's breakthroughs for the climate and nature you might have missed.

US science after a year of Trump (Nature)
https://www.nature.com/immersive/d41586-026-00088-9/index.html?error=cookies_not_supported&code=0a1a0e1c-84de-4948-b140-67f73298a661
http://www.memeorandum.com/260120/p120#a260120p120

"Even in 'modern' contexts, people do find in nature and in natural processes, quite routinely, an eternal (and often cyclical) story of hope. There is a kind of redemption in seeing heaven in a wildflower."
—Lav Kanoi ’24 Ph.D. writing in the new issue of Reflections, in his piece titled "A Climate of Hope Where Religion, Ecology, and the Arts Meet"

This is the first song that popped into my head for this week's #TuneTuesday theme: #VerdantVoices, songs tied to green or nature.
Another rose wilts in East Harlem
And uptown downtown
A thousand miles between us
...
Sound is the color I know,
Sound is what keeps me before…

"Involuntary parks: Human conflict is creating unintended refuges for wildlife"
#Wildlife #Animals #Nature

Involuntary parks: Human conflict is creating unintended refuges for wildlife
Few locations on Earth are as haunting or deeply ironic as so-called involuntary parks — places too toxic, dangerous, or otherwise made off-limits for human habitation, but which have paradoxically and unintentionally become sanctuaries for wildlife in our absence. As the name coined by science fiction author Bruce Sterling suggests, involuntary parks weren’t established for […]

Greening school playgrounds can improve quality of life in cities and help deal with climate change https://phys.org/news/2026-01-greening-school-playgrounds-quality-life.html

Greening school playgrounds can improve quality of life in cities and help deal with climate change
Adapting urban spaces to tackle climate change through nature-based solutions, especially in school playgrounds and environments, benefits both children and society as a whole. This is one of the main findings of a three-year study conducted by a group of experts at European universities and research centers under the leadership of a team of researchers at the Universitat Oberta de Catalunya (UOC) and Universitat Politècnica de Catalunya—BarcelonaTech (UPC). The study is an interdisciplinary…

🦾 Artificial tendons give muscle-powered robots a boost
#robotics

Artificial tendons give muscle-powered robots a boost
Our muscles are nature's actuators. The sinewy tissue is what generates the forces that make our bodies move. In recent years, engineers have used real muscle tissue to actuate "biohybrid robots" made from both living tissue and synthetic parts. By pairing lab-grown muscles with synthetic skeletons, researchers are engineering a menagerie of muscle-powered crawlers, walkers, swimmers, and grippers.

So ... which simulation of the large scale structure of the #Universe is this?
(Haven't found a way to hide the solution but not the image, to make it a quiz.)
This is from the press release "Observing synapses in action" - https://www.charite.de/en/service/press_reports/artikel/detail/observing_synapses_in_action - about the paper "Dynamic nanoscale architecture of synaptic vesicle fusion in mouse hippocampal neurons", https://www.nature.com/articles/s41467-025-67291-6 ;-)

Some City Some Nature 🏙️🪾
一些城一些自然 🏙️🪾
📷 Nikon F4E
🎞️ ERA 100, expired 1993
#filmphotography #Photography #blackandwhite

Sonnet 020 - XX
A woman's face with nature's own hand painted,
Hast thou, the master mistress of my passion;
A woman's gentle heart, but not acquainted
With shifting change, as is false women's fashion:
An eye more bright than theirs, less false in rolling,
Gilding the object whereupon it gazeth;
A man in hue all hues in his controlling,
Which steals men's eyes and women's souls amazeth.
And for a woman wert thou f…

Went to hear Elephant Sessions at the Usher Hall #Edinburgh, somewhat randomly, and came away looking up
➡️ www.belugalagoon.com
Solo band, great following who knew the words, and danced. Andrew O'Donnell, owned the space.
And nature documentary series on the BBC, it seems.
#Polymath #Creative

Great call to action by Dariusz Jemielniak in Nature: academics should contribute to Wikipedia, and such work should be recognized.
https://www.nature.com/articles/d41586-026-00075-0

The academic community failed Wikipedia for 25 years — now it might fail us | Nature
Artificial-intelligence systems are feeding on Wikipedia without giving back, and academic indifference is threatening the survival of what is arguably the most widely used reference work on the planet. Artificial-intelligence systems are feeding on Wikipedia without giving back, and academic indifference is threatening the survival of what is arguably the most widely used reference work on the planet.

A low-latency neural inference framework for real-time handwriting recognition from #EEG signals on an edge device https://www.nature.com/articles/s41598-025-24972-y

A low-latency neural inference framework for real-time handwriting recognition from EEG signals on an edge device - Scientific Reports
Brain–computer interfaces (BCIs) hold significant promise for restoring communication in individuals with severe motor or speech impairments. Imagined handwriting, as a form of motor imagery, offers an intuitive paradigm for character-level neural decoding. While invasive techniques such as electrocorticography (ECoG) offer high decoding accuracy, their surgical requirements pose clinical risks and hinder scalability. Non-invasive alternatives like electroencephalography (EEG) are safer and m…

ONLINE SEMINAR: Nature and Boundaries: Water, Space, and the Sensory Experience of the Rus'-Steppe Frontier (1050s–1100s) https://networks.h-net.org/group/announcements/20135270/online-seminar-nature-and-boundaries-water-spac…

spanish_highschools: Spanish high schools (2023)
Directed networks of friendships obtained through a social survey of spanish high school students.
This network has 195 nodes and 4176 edges.
Tags: Social, Offline, Weighted, Metadata
https://networks.skewed.de/net/spanish

Laws typically are not retroactive in nature, so good luck with that, boys...
Two Oklahoma Cops Who Shot Unarmed Black Man Holding a Hat ‘In Cold Blood’ Try to Appeal Based on New ‘Justifiable Homicide’ Law for Police
https://atlantablackstar.com/2025/12/23/two-oklahoma-cops-who-shot-unarmed-black-man-try-to-appeal-based-on-new-law-for-police/

The COVID-19 mRNA-based vaccines that saved 2.5 million lives globally during the pandemic
could help spark the immune system to fight cancer.
This is the surprising takeaway of a new study published in the journal Nature.
While developing mRNA vaccines for patients with brain tumors in 2016, our team, led by pediatric oncologist Elias Sayour, discovered that mRNA can train immune systems to kill tumors – even if the mRNA is not related to cancer.
Based on this finding…

COVID-19 mRNA vaccines could unlock the next revolution in cancer treatment – new research
The researchers found that mRNA-based COVID-19 vaccines could potentially help patients whose tumors don’t respond well to traditional immunotherapy.

One of my colleagues has some beautiful pictures from the snow days in northern Germany on her blog: https://stories-of-nature.de/blog/wintermagie/
Attached two examples from the post to get your interest, but definitely check out the full set 😍

every day is #RedSquirrelAppreciationDay, aber heute ganz besonders. :)
https://calendaroftheday.com/1463-squirrel-appreciation-day.html

🇺🇦 #NowPlaying on #BBC6Music's #6Musics90sForever
Naughty by Nature:
🎵 Everything's Gonna Be Alright
#NaughtybyNature
https://frostie.bandcamp.com/track/frostie-vs-naughty-by-nature-everythings-gonna-be-alright
https://open.spotify.com/track/16yaPSIIWqCIYpFRcZHaE7
Please 🔁 BOOST to share what you like
- your followers don't see if you ⭐ favourite a post

Sea level rise and flooding of hazardous sites in marginalized communities across the United States (Nature)
https://www.nature.com/articles/s41467-025-65168-2
http://www.memeorandum.com/251120/p76#a251120p76

Almost exactly 2 years ago when it was below -16°C.
This was a real cool experience - literally.
But I'm just so glad that I went there. I think, this waterfall isn't frozen like that so often. So I was just really lucky to be at the right time at the right spot.
And now - enjoy your weekend 😉
#nature

Experts urge canceling fossil fuel contracts to meet Paris climate goals #climate

Experts urge canceling fossil fuel contracts to meet Paris climate goals
The countries participating in the UN Climate Change Conference (COP30), currently taking place in Brazil, must cancel fossil fuel concessions in order to keep the Paris Agreement alive. This is the main message of a paper published in the journal Nature and signed by experts Martí Orta, Gorka Muñoa and Marcel Llavero, from the Faculty of Biology and the Biodiversity Research Institute (IRBio) of the University of Barcelona, and Guillem Rius, from the Barcelona Institute for Global Health (IS…

Damn. Realizing I can never really enjoy cool nature photography online ever again. Half of it is just going to be AI nonsense. That's a real bummer.

Mit dem Inkrafttreten des #HighSeasTreaty im September 2025 sollen künftig 30 Prozent der #Hochsee als #Meeresschutzgebiete ausgewiesen werden.
Bislang war nur 1 Prozent dieser …

Seven quiet wins for climate and nature in 2025
Here are the year's breakthroughs for the climate and nature you might have missed.

01 Ascender
02 Trophallaxis Dance
03 Insect Brothers
04 Selfless Mind
05 Geometry of Birds
06 Only Embrace
07 Timekeepers
08 Sentience in Swarm
09 Rockborne
10 Metal Nests
11 Microconscious Collisions
12 Homing Signal
13 Will to Life
14 Nature Reverses

RE: #circadian component to daily growth rhythms in giant clam shells. Neat study!
I love seeing the biological clock (perhaps) recorded in a such a durable way in nature.

"Governments must prioritize nature protection, former US senator Russ Feingold says"
#Nature #Environment

Governments must prioritize nature protection, former US senator Russ Feingold says
Bill Gates recently claimed that protecting nature or improving human health is an either-or choice, but former national leaders like Russ Feingold, a retired U.S. senator, and Mary Robinson, former Irish president, disagree. As chair of the Global Steering Committee of the Campaign for Nature, a nonprofit organization uniting prominent politicians in support of nature […]

A century of glaciers melting, condensed into a few seconds. Impressive video: https://www.instagram.com/reel/DQWfDRejcPw/?igsh=Zm51d2Qzb2xtNHM4

Michel Galati on Instagram: "A century of change condensed into a few seconds. In collaboration with @glacionaut I transformed historical and contemporary photographs of Swiss and Austrian glaciers into short AI-animated sequences (Dream Machine by @lumalabsai ). Each clip shows the passage from past to present. The climate has always changed, true, but never this fast. In the past two years alone, Swiss glaciers have lost more than 10% of their total volume (source: Swiss Academy of Sciences). What once took centuries now happens in decades. And yes, the music is The Four Seasons by Vivaldi. An homage to nature, and perhaps a reminder of what we stand to lose. 📍 Photos: @glacionaut 🎥 AI Animation: @flashologo 🗓️ Period: ca. 1875–2024 • 🇮🇹 Un secolo di cambiamento racchiuso in pochi secondi. In collaborazione con @glacionaut, ho trasformato fotografie storiche e contemporanee di alcuni ghiacciai svizzeri e austriaci in brevi sequenze animate con l’intelligenza artificiale (Dream Machine di @lumalabsai). Ogni clip mostra il passaggio dal passato al presente. Il clima è sempre cambiato, è vero, ma mai così rapidamente. Negli ultimi due anni i ghiacciai svizzeri hanno perso oltre il 10% del loro volume (fonte: Swiss Academy of Sciences). Ciò che un tempo accadeva in secoli, oggi avviene in decenni. E sì, la musica è Le Quattro Stagioni di Vivaldi. Un omaggio alla natura e, forse, un promemoria di ciò che rischiamo di perdere. 📍 Foto: @glacionaut 🎥 Animazioni AI: @flashologo 🗓️ Periodo: ca. 1875–2024 • • #ai #dreammachine #ray3 #imagetovideo #glaciers #switzerland #austria #climatchange #history"
44K likes, 814 comments - flashologo on October 28, 2025: "A century of change condensed into a few seconds. In collaboration with @glacionaut I transformed historical and contemporary photographs of Swiss and Austrian glaciers into short AI-animated sequences (Dream Machine by @lumalabsai ). Each clip shows the passage from past to present. The climate has always changed, true, but never this fast. In the past two years alone, Swiss glaciers have lost more than 10% of their total volume (sou…

Video-call glitches trigger uncanniness and harm consequential life outcomes
Nature (2025)
#teamresopal

Video-call glitches trigger uncanniness and harm consequential life outcomes - Nature
Glitches in video calls can have a negative effect on the judgement of the people involved and correspond to worse outcomes in major areas of life such as job interviews and parole hearings.

Des scientifiques ont identifié du ribose (utilisé dans l’ARN) et du glucose Š la surface d’une comète !
https://www.nature.com/articles/s41561-025-01838-6

Impact of a transient neonatal visual deprivation on the development of the ventral occipito-temporal cortex in humans https://www.nature.com/articles/s41467-025-65468-7 "while EVC is permanently affected by early deprivation, categorical coding in VOTC shows resilience"; <…

Impact of a transient neonatal visual deprivation on the development of the ventral occipito-temporal cortex in humans - Nature Communications
This study shows that transient blindness at birth leaves lasting effects on early visual functions, while higher visual regions encoding categories remain unaffected, revealing different sensitive periods for different functions in vision.

Ja, nein, aber: Die Reduktion der Kosten für die Vergabe von Forschungsmitteln ist halt auch nur ein Ziel, das gegen andere abzuwägen wäre (z.B. im Fall der Vergabe durch Lotterie, durch den Wert der Fairness und den evtl. demotivierenden Effekt).
https://www.nature.com/articles/d41586-025

Point of no returns: researchers are crossing a threshold in the fight for funding
With so little money to go round, the costs of competing for grants can exceed what the grants are worth. When that happens, nobody wins.

spanish_highschools: Spanish high schools (2023)
Directed networks of friendships obtained through a social survey of spanish high school students.
This network has 195 nodes and 4176 edges.
Tags: Social, Offline, Weighted, Metadata
https://networks.skewed.de/net/spanish

Double Double 🛗
成双 🛗
📷 Nikon F4E
🎞️ Ilford HP5 Plus 400, expired 1993
#filmphotography #Photography #blackandwhite

#silentsunday #nature #tennessee

As we embrace the Winter Solstice, the year's shortest day, let's reflect on nature's genius and ancient history. 🌌 Stonehenge, aligning perfectly with this celestial event, stands as a testament to human ingenuity. Its timeless mystery and the cosmic forces continue to ignite our curiosity and remind us of our place in the universe's awe-inspiring SPECTACLE.

"It is 'remarkable' to see that China is so dominant and advanced in so many fields compared with the United States."
https://www.nature.com/articles/d41586-025-04048-7

China leads research in 90% of crucial technologies — a dramatic shift this century
The United States tops the remaining areas in an assessment of 74 technologies.

The Sky: A Film Lesson in “Nature Study” (1928) — The Public Domain Review
https://publicdomainreview.org/collection/the-sky-a-film-lesson-in-nature-study-1928/

At the HHS announcement yesterday announcing proposed rules to ban Gender Affirming Care,
they said trans people are
"at the root of the evils we face"
and are
"a hatred for nature as God designed it and for life as it was meant to be lived.”
Just in case you thought it was about concerns for proper healthcare.
-- Alejendro Caraballo

Alejandra Caraballo (@esqueer.net)
At the HHS announcement yesterday announcing proposed rules to ban GAC, they said trans people are "at the root of the evils we face" and are "a hatred for nature as God designed it and for life as it was meant to be lived.” Just in case you thought it was about concerns for proper healthcare.

Food for thought:
“Why ‘open’ AI systems are actually closed—and why it matters.”
https://www.nature.com/articles/s41586-024-08141-1
This compelling perspective shows how openness alone fails to challenge AI’s power concentration.
As r…

This piece could just as easily have been written about atmospheric scientists and climate modellers.
We all need to get out of the computers and into the real world more often
https://www.nature.com/articles/d41586-025-04150-w

"AI for Nature Restoration Tools: How Companies are Transforming Ecosystem Recovery Projects"
#AI #ArtificialIntelligence #Nature

AI for Nature Restoration Tools: How Companies are Transforming Ecosystem Recovery Projects | Happy Eco News
AI for nature restoration tools are transforming environmental protection as companies deploy sensors, predictive models, and machine learning systems. Nearly 350 cities use AI to map tree coverage and combat heat, while organizations monitor wildlife and detect wildfires.

🇺🇦 #NowPlaying on #BBC6Music
The Arcane Hope:
🎵 Nature Prayer / Lunaria Annua
#TheArcaneHope

Pangram Labs: ~21% of the 75,800 peer reviews submitted for ICLR 2026, a major ML conference, were fully AI-generated, and 50% contained signs of AI use (Miryam Naddaf/Nature)
https://www.nature.com/articles/d41586-025-03506-6

Major AI conference flooded with peer reviews written fully by AI
Controversy has erupted after 21% of manuscript reviews for an international AI conference were found to be generated by artificial intelligence.

"Le coût du dispositif est minime : 42 euros par classe pour l’année, soit 1,4 euro par élève dans une classe de 30, pour quatre envois postaux d’activités et de graines." 🫜🏡
Les potagers scolaires transforment la relation des enfants au vivant, montre une étude
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Les potagers scolaires transforment la relation des enfants au vivant, montre une étude
L'intégration d'un potager dans le quotidien scolaire des écoliers renforce leur connexion à la nature et leur sensibilité écologique, montre une étude. Et ce pour un coût très modique.

Extreme properties of a compact and massive accreting black hole host in the first 500 Myr: #BlackHole in the early Universe: https://esawebb.org/news/weic2522/

(PDF) Neural mechanisms underlying intracortical microstimulation for sensory restoration https://www.nature.com/articles/s41551-025…

🇺🇦 #NowPlaying on KEXP's #EasternEchoes
Elephant Stone:
🎵 Child of Nature (Om Namah Shivaya)
#ElephantStone
https://goingsteadymusic.bandcamp.com/track/elephant-stone-child-of-nature-om-namah-shivaya
https://open.spotify.com/track/4uV35LuBDKgGXAgKjpkR48

"Nature recovery plan in England hit by clause allowing contracts to end with a year’s notice"
#UK #UnitedKingdom #Nature

#neu & #OpenAccess:
"Material Cultures of Archiving: An Introduction to a Global and Historical Practice"
https://doi.org…

ONLINE SEMINAR: Nature and Boundaries: Water, Space, and the Sensory Experience of the Rus'-Steppe Frontier (1050s–1100s)
https://ift.tt/ZehX9pP
Mining the Logs: Sources on Blue Humor URL …
via Input 4 RELCFP <…

Sonnet 127 - CXXVII
In the old age black was not counted fair,
Or if it were, it bore not beauty's name;
But now is black beauty's successive heir,
And beauty slandered with a bastard shame:
For since each hand hath put on Nature's power,
Fairing the foul with Art's false borrowed face,
Sweet beauty hath no name, no holy bower,
But is profaned, if not lives in disgrace.
Therefore my mistress' eyes are raven black,

#LittleRedDots as young supermassive black holes in dense ionized cocoons: https://www.nature.com/articles/s41586-025-09900-4 -> Solving the mystery of the universe's ‘little red dots’: https://news.ku.dk/all_news/2026/01/copenhagen-researchers-make-the-front-page-of-nature-solving-the-mystery-of-the-universes-little-red-dots/

101 Dalmatians: a multimodal naturalistic fMRI dataset in typical development and congenital sensory loss #neuroscience

101 Dalmatians: a multimodal naturalistic fMRI dataset in typical development and congenital sensory loss - Scientific Data
In recent years, neuroscience has increasingly leveraged naturalistic stimuli, like movies and narratives, to investigate cognitive processes underlying real-world human behavior. Here, we present a functional Magnetic Resonance Imaging (fMRI) dataset featuring 50 participants, with and without congenital sensory loss (typical development, congenitally blind and deaf individuals), who were exposed to audiovisual, auditory, or visual versions of the live-action movie 101 Dalmatians. The dataset …

"Report: Sixfold increase in global nature finance needed to meet 2030 goal"
#Nature #Environment

Unequal access to nature: Few outdoor spaces in Europe and the U.S. accommodate sensory, mental disabilities https://news.mongabay.com/2025/12/unequal-access-to-nature-few-outdoor-spaces-in-europe-and-the-…

Unequal access to nature: Few outdoor spaces in Europe and the U.S. accommodate sensory, mental disabilities
Sprawled along the Pacific coastline near San Francisco, Golden Gate National Recreation Area is full of wildflowers, beaches, and old-growth coastal redwoods, shrouded with a thin layer of marine fog that dissipates in sunlight. Visitors fish, hike, camp, and surf, the temperate climate and ocean views providing a boost to their mental and physical health. […]

"The fragility of Africa’s coasts is further exacerbated by the deteriorating condition of its marine ecosystems... under mounting pressure from both climate anthropogenic stressors, including unregulated development, dam-induced sediment trap habitat degradation"
https://www.nature.com/articles/s43247-025-02965-z

“God gave us this incredible gift of an intellect and curiosity and an opportunity to explore how nature works,”
Dr Francis Collins, former director of National Institutes of Health said.
“And God gave us nature as well
and we get the chance through science to do that.
I think of science as glimpsing God’s mind.
Science is almost a form of worship because what you’re trying to do there is to be completely caught up in the awe of what we’ve been given in natu…

Francis Collins and Marc Siegel say medicine is a gift from God
“To have Christians be the group that was most resistant” to the Covid vaccine “really seems wrong here,” said former NIH Director Francis Collins.

A cosmic-ray loaded nascent outflow driven by a massive #StarCluster: https://www.nature.com/articles/s41467-025-65592-4 -> NASA’s Fermi Spots Young Star Cluster Blowing Gamma-Ray Bubbles: https://science.nasa.gov/missions/fermi/nasas-fermi-spots-young-star-cluster-blowing-gamma-ray-bubbles/

Study of a wideband high data rate implantable antenna for cortical visual prosthesis #BCI

Ein klimaneutraler Pfad könnte den #Fossilenergiebedarf in der EU bis 2050 um 90 Prozent senken.
Laut einer neuen Studie des #PIK ist dieser Rückgang durch den raschen Ausbau erneuerbarer #Energien

From net-zero to zero-fossil in transforming the EU energy system - Nature Communications
This scenario study investigates how the EU net-zero target can be reached with varying levels of residual fossil fuels. Reducing fossils by only 90% relies on substantial carbon storage, while a full fossil phase-out requires a rapid scale-up of expensive carbon-neutral e-fuels.

🇺🇦 #NowPlaying on KEXP's #VarietyMix
Sudan Archives:
🎵 THE NATURE OF POWER
#SudanArchives
https://sudanarchives.bandcamp.com/track/the-nature-of-power
https://open.spotify.com/track/1zYkhzGEC4hlpV3sK19Dpy

spanish_highschools: Spanish high schools (2023)
Directed networks of friendships obtained through a social survey of spanish high school students.
This network has 145 nodes and 2403 edges.
Tags: Social, Offline, Weighted, Metadata
https://networks.skewed.de/net/spanish

Titan’s strong tidal dissipation precludes a subsurface ocean: #Titan May Not Have Global Ocean: https://www.nasa.gov/solar-system/planets/saturn/saturn-moons/titan/nasa-study-suggests-saturns-moon-titan-may-not-have-global-ocean/

The nature extinction crisis is mirrored by one in our own bodies. Both have huge implications for health https://www.theguardian.com/environment/2025/oct/31/nature-extinction-crisis-mirrored-in-our-bodies-huge-health…

💥2000 meters to Andriivka
The closer you get to combat, the more jarring it becomes.
Death comes randomly.
The noise is terrifying;
the fear is stifling.
And most people can’t bear to see what war actually does to the human body
—how a brief instant can transform a living, breathing person
into ugly scraps of flesh.
The fighting in Ukraine has, in many ways,
transformed the nature of warfare.
As many as 80 percent of battle casu…

A War Film to Change All War Films
An Oscar-shortlisted documentary shows battle in startling clarity.

Widespread influence of artificial light at night on ecosystem metabolism: #LightPollution

"EU seeks to exploit nature-based products for competitiveness push, green groups say"
#EU #EuropeanUnion #Nature

EU bets on nature-based products to increase domestic competitiveness
Nature-based products such as biofuels and bioplastics will be looked to as drivers of green growth under a recently announced bioeconomy strategy, but critics are wary of overexploitation.

Gaze patterns during visual mental imagery reflect part-based generation https://www.nature.com/articles/s41598-026-35447-z "eye movements during mental imagery reflect a part-by-part generation process of the imagined content, independent of prior perceptual encoding"

This is supercool: a new #FloraDanica or in this case #MicroFloricaDanica
https://www.nature.com/articles/d41586-025-03819-6

Cities missing out on nature-based solutions that could boost climate resilience, experts warn #nature

Cities missing out on nature-based solutions that could boost climate resilience, experts warn
With climate change expected to intensify heat waves, flooding and air pollution in cities worldwide, why are we not tapping into the full potential of nature-based solutions?

Two-dimensional semiconductor-based active array for high-fidelity spatiotemporal monitoring of neural activities (in mice) #BCI

Two-dimensional semiconductor-based active array for high-fidelity spatiotemporal monitoring of neural activities - Nature Materials
Two-dimensional molybdenum disulfide (MoS2)-based active arrays made by growing wafer-scale trilayer MoS2 directly on a polyimidine substrate achieve high-fidelity spatiotemporal neuronal monitoring in vitro and in living mice.

"Study warns of major funding gap for 30×30 biodiversity goal"
#Environment #Nature #Biodiversity

Study warns of major funding gap for 30x30 biodiversity goal
A new report warns that international funding for the global 30x30 biodiversity goal is rising but still billions short. Despite a 150% increase since 2014, support for protected areas in developing nations remains far below the $6B annually needed by 2030, leaving major regional gaps and heavy reliance on a few donors.

Long-term unsupervised recalibration of cursor-based intracortical brain–computer interfaces using a hidden Markov model #BCI

Long-term unsupervised recalibration of cursor-based intracortical brain–computer interfaces using a hidden Markov model - Nature Biomedical Engineering
A hidden Markov model that uses probabilistic retrospective inference allows for up to one month of unsupervised recalibration in an online cursor-based intracortical brain–machine interface.

"Governments commit to recognizing 160 million hectares of Indigenous land"
#Environment #Nature

Governments commit to recognizing 160 million hectares of Indigenous land
The governments of nine tropical countries recently made a joint pledge to recognize 160 million hectares, or 395 million acres, of Indigenous and other traditional lands by 2030, according to a Nov. 7 announcement at the World Leaders Summit, an event hosted ahead of the U.N. Climate Change Conference in Belém, Brazil. The Intergovernmental Land Tenure […]

Seeing Life at the Quantum Limit
Congratulations to
Dr Nicolas Mauranyapin,
winner of QUBIC’s inaugural Scientific Achievement Award - Cell Theme!
Nico has built a quantum-limited microscope, so sensitive it operates at the quantum shot noise limit,
the same benchmark used in gravitational wave detection.
This means it can capture the faintest signals nature allows.
This breakthrough enables real-time observation of living cells without damage,

How falcon thieves are targeting the UK’s protected birds https://www.theguardian.com/environment/2026/jan/08/wildlife-matters-and-it-may-be-causing-untold-harm-upon-nature-in-the-uk

Role of thalamus in human conscious perception revealed by low-intensity focused ultrasound neuromodulation https://www.nature.com/articles/s41467-025-66832-3 these findings "underscore the modulatory potential of thalamocortical networks in shaping visual experience";

"‘Cities need nature to be happy’: David Attenborough seeks out London’s hidden wildlife"
#UK #UnitedKingdom #Nature

Having just watched #Jaws for the first time in ages, I was stunned by the famous opening sequence ... but not by its cinematography or acting or editing - but by the never-ending chain of in-your-face #continuity errors in lighting once the girl enters the water: one moment we have a low Sun and a red sky, then we have the Sun near the zenith (with a day for night effect) then low again and so on, for several cycles.
Now #Spielberg, is there supposed to be some hidden message here? Well, there isn't.
(Once it's day, fortunately, this problem is gone, and a great movie unfolds, still fresh after 50 years. And I know, you shouldn't mess with a masterpiece, but Lucas added characters to Star Wars IV, and Cameron corrected a wrong star pattern in Titanic, so may be Spielberg could just, for an anniversary special edition ... o.k., I shut up. ;-)

Trump’s threat to impose fresh tariffs on eight European countries
– UK, Norway and six EU member states
– is a wrecking ball to the carefully stitched deals he concluded with those countries last summer.
The two biggest voting blocs in the European parliament,
🔸the European People’s Party (EPP) and
🔸the Socialists & Democrats (S&Ds),
said on Saturday night the deal with the EU cannot be approved in the present circumstances.
Trump’s threat a…

JWST interferometric imaging reveals the dusty torus obscuring the supermassive black hole of Circinus galaxy: #CircinusGalaxy: https://science.nasa.gov/missions/webb/nasas-webb-delivers-unprecedented-look-into-heart-of-circinus-galaxy/

"Analysis: Just 28% of countries have released nature pledges a year after UN deadline"
#UN #UnitedNations #Nature

Analysis: Just 28% of countries have released nature pledges a year after UN deadline - Carbon Brief
Just 28% of countries have met a UN call to submit new plans on addressing nature loss – a year after the original deadline

Terrestrial atmospheric ion implantation occurred in the nearside lunar regolith during the history of Earth’s dynamo: #moon is eating up molecules from Earth’s atmosphere: https://edition.cnn.com/2026/01/13/science/moon-stealing-earth-atmosphere-magnetic-field

"Germany’s dying forests are losing their ability to absorb CO2. Can a new way of planting save them?"
#Germany #Forests #Nature

The development of spatial perception with and without visual experience #blindness

The development of spatial perception with and without visual experience - Nature Reviews Psychology
In sighted adults, spatial perception relies on information integrated across sensory modalities. In this Review, Gori and colleagues consider spatial perception in visually impaired infants, children and adults to clarify how it develops and the role of sensory information in the process.

Scarp-fronted deposits record the highest water level in Mars’ Valles Marineris: #Mars was half covered by an ocean: https://mediarelations.unibe.ch/media_releases/2026/media_releases_2026/mars_was_half_covered_by_an_ocean/index_eng.html

"Northumberland nature recovery project takes shape with biggest land sale in 30 years"
#UK #UnitedKingdom #Northumberland

Radio burst from a stellar coronal mass ejection: #CoronalMassEjection (CME) seen on our Sun, and implies a devasting impact for any planet unlucky enough to orbit the star.

Quantification of the radiative forcing of #contrails embedded in cirrus clouds: https://www.nature.com/articles/s41467-025-66231-8 -> “Hidden” contrails in cirrus clouds contribute to climate warming: https://www.uni-leipzig.de/en/newsdetail/artikel/study-hidden-contrails-in-cirrus-clouds-contribute-to-climate-warming-2025-12-12 - research team combines aircraft data with satellite observations and computer models.

"COP30: Key outcomes for food, forests, land and nature at the UN climate talks in Belém"
#UN #UnitedNations #Climate

COP30: Key outcomes for food, forests, land and nature at the UN climate talks in Belém - Carbon Brief
Carbon Brief breaks down the main COP30 outcomes on food, forests, land and nature.