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#AsgardArchaea team,
led by @archaeal.bsky.social from @texasscience.bsky.social
— sequencing the DNA collected from the mouth of Rio de la Plata to the continental shelf of Uruguay
to detect #Asgards,
a group of single-celled organisms
-- and our closest microbial relatives on the t…

Schmidt Ocean Institute (@schmidtocean.bsky.social)
#AsgardArchaea team, led by @archaeal.bsky.social fr @texasscience.bsky.social — sequencing the DNA collected fr mouth of Rio de la Plata to the continental shelf of Uruguay to detect Asgards, a group of single-celled organisms & our closest microbial relatives on the tree of life. bit.ly/3MdniTH

Packers to hire Cam Achord as their special teams coordinator https://www.nfl.com/news/packers-hire-cam-achord-as-their-special-teams-coordinator

RE: https://assortedflotsam.com/@NewsBot/115973346227505562
You know that feeling when you’re at the very top of the biggest drop on a roller coaster…
Hold onto your hats, folks, it’s going to be fun (not fun).

USA Today Co., which owns the Detroit Free Press, plans to acquire The Detroit News from MediaNews Group and continue to publish it separately (The Detroit News)
https://www.detroitnews.com/story/business

The Detroit News to be acquired by USA TODAY Co., owner of Detroit Free Press
USA TODAY Co., owner of the Detroit Free Press, will acquire The Detroit News and continue to publish it separately, it announced Monday.

Enjoying the footnote speculation that LLMs recognise Neal Stephenson novels based on random paragraphs appended to spam to fool content classifiers.
https://nealstephenson.substack.com/p/a-remarkable-assertion-from-a16z

A Remarkable Assertion from A16Z
A friend made me aware of a reading list from A16Z containg recommendations for books, weighted towards science fiction since that’s mostly what people there read.

Packers hire Achord as special teams coordinator https://www.espn.com/nfl/story/_/id/48056518/cam-achord-lead-packers-special-teams-unit

ROV pilots filmed this smooth swimming #salp at 324m
during #AsgardArchaea expedition off the coast of Uruguay.
Credit: ROV SuBastian / Schmidt Ocean Institute

Schmidt Ocean Institute (@schmidtocean.bsky.social)
ROV pilots filmed this smooth swimming salp at 324m during #AsgardArchaea expedition off the coast of Uruguay. Credit: ROV SuBastian / Schmidt Ocean Institute

Packers hiring Cam Achord as new special teams coordinator https://www.nytimes.com/athletic/7076344/2026/02/27/packers-hiring-cam-achord-as-new-special-teams-coordinator/

White House officials sought to rapidly distance Donald Trump and top officials from their initial portrayals of the man fatally shot by federal officials in Minnesota as a gunman,
as they faced a deepening backlash after video footage was widely seen to undercut their assertions.
The move came as Trump advisers appeared to realize that the caustic portrayals of the man, Alex Pretti,
who was reportedly licensed to carry a gun,
had turned the killing into an even large…

From emancipation to women’s suffrage, civil rights and BLM, mass movement has shaped the arc of US history
How effective is protesting❓
According to historians and political scientists: ⭐️VERY ⭐️
https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025/d