People who felt more connected to nature also reported higher well-being.
Researchers who study people’s relationship with the natural world often use the term
“nature connectedness.”
This phrase doesn’t simply mean going hiking or visiting a park.
Nature connectedness refers to the extent to which people see nature as part of who they are
– whether they feel an emotional bond with the natural world and experience a sense of oneness with it.
Someone who has…
"Is academic research becoming too competitive?
Nature examines the data Applications for European research grants increased in 2025. Scientists say they’re feeling the competition."
Sobering numbers from funding institutions in Nature
https://www.nature.com/articles/d41586-025
Europa’s ice thickness and subsurface structure characterized by the Juno microwave radiometer: #Europa
'Hohe Berge' #FotoVorschlag 'High Mountains'
High #Mountains - okay - I had to smile this morning because I thought "yeah, I have something for this topic!"
This is one of my very loved photos. It took me a bit until I was able to take right this photo b…
spotted these today too. i think this is a silk web of the Ermine moth caterpillars.
this is on black thorn. they must be very young at the moment.
#caterpillars #moth #nature
An Open Access article in Nature details how data can now be written in borosilicate glass hard drives so it can last 10,000 years.
https://www.nature.com/articles/s41586-025-10042-w
Now, scientists are figuring out which memes and cat pictures to keep that long.
Rare white whale sighting tops 2026 World Nature Photography Awards winners #photography
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It's like how information wants to be free, or cop cars and Waymos want to be on fire. Nature is an ineffable symphony, whose music we can never fully comprehend.
For #footpathfriday I'm sharing this one again. It's really one of our most liked trails.
Even though it doesn't gain a lot of elevation, the path along the shore of the lake is all I like:
narrow, pretty nature like, absolutely great views, bends along the shores so that you don't see too far, and mountains all around ... what else would you need 🙂
#archive and #library folks - has anyone heard about laser-etched borosilicate glass as a high-density digital storage medium? They are claiming a data density of "4.8 TB in a 120 mm square, 2 mm thick piece of glass" and longevity in the thousands of years.
I am completely fascinated by this small two-minute animation by eco feminist and punk rock musician(!) Catherine Weir.
It inhabits the same space as the work of Olga Tokarczuk. The sound is uplifting!
All my life I've felt that surrealism is one of the few art forms that can reveal the hidden relationships between nature and humanity.
Caroline Lucas here is saying what's missing from most current Green Party messaging.
Leaders must be honest about the likelihood of collapse.
For Keir Starmer to talk of national resilience and ignore nature is absurd | Climate crisis | The Guardian
Interesting piece on the fragmenting of digital identities in the sciences. I'm sure mine is scattered all over the place.
The key seems to be to keep your ORCID up to date. - and as a model, there are many similarities between ORCID and the fediverse,
"keep your ORCID profile up to date... it is controlled by the researcher, portable across institutions and designed to connect to publishers, funders and organizational systems... makes your ORCID page a stable reference point.."
#AcademicChatter
https://www.nature.com/articles/d41586-025-04132-y?WT.ec_id=NATURE-202604
The Territory Nature Podcast
All things nature in Australia's Northern Territory. Produced by volunteers with the TNP Landcare Group, supported by Landcare NT...
Great Australian Pods Podcast Directory: https://www.greataustralianpods.com/the-territory-nature/…
Enabling ab initio geometry optimization of strongly correlated systems with transferable deep quantum Monte Carlo
P. Bern\'at Szab\'o, Zeno Sch\"atzle, Frank No\'e
https://arxiv.org/abs/2603.25381 https://arxiv.org/pdf/2603.25381 https://arxiv.org/html/2603.25381
arXiv:2603.25381v1 Announce Type: new
Abstract: A faithful description of chemical processes requires exploring extended regions of the molecular potential energy surface (PES), which remains challenging for strongly correlated systems. Transferable deep-learning variational Monte Carlo (VMC) offers a promising route by efficiently solving the electronic Schr\"odinger equation jointly across molecular geometries at consistently high accuracy, yet its stochastic nature renders direct exploration of molecular configuration space nontrivial. Here, we present a framework for highly accurate ab initio exploration of PESs that combines transferable deep-learning VMC with a cost-effective estimation of energies, forces, and Hessians. By continuously sampling nuclear configurations during VMC optimization of electronic wave functions, we obtain transferable descriptions that achieve zero-shot chemical accuracy within chemically relevant distributions of molecular geometries. Throughout the subsequent characterization of molecular configuration space, the PES is evaluated only sparsely, with local approximations constructed by estimating VMC energies and forces at sampled geometries and aggregating the resulting noisy data using Gaussian process regression. Our method enables accurate and efficient exploration of complex PES landscapes, including structure relaxation, transition-state searches, and minimum-energy pathways, for both ground and excited states. This opens the door to studying bond breaking, formation, and large structural rearrangements in systems with pronounced multi-reference character.
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@… nature is healing (me)
Astrocytes connect specific brain regions through plastic networks (in mice) https://www.nature.com/articles/s41586-026-10426-6 "communication between distant brain regions that is mediated by plastic networks of gap junction-coupled astrocytes";
earlier we sat back in the sun
#nature #grass
Whenever I see someone write a mean-minded thing to a stranger, I ask myself a simple question.
Does the writer want to make the stranger's day better, or worse?
@… that's human nature, not particularly strange.
Sitting in meetings led by upper admin - a dead-zone of anything but HR or crassly materialist thought and a wasteland of soul-crushing management speak - is a useful reminder of the university's true nature.
I can't believe it's almost been a year since the Open Science Retreat in Switzerland #OSR25CH! Now I am already getting ready to go to the next two.
Two?! Yes.
I will head off to the Netherlands for a Dutch-centered retreat in the dunes and right after I'll continue on to Wales for the Open Science Retreat Global in the wonderful green nature of Wales
The fragmentation properties of massive star-forming regions in 30Dor-10 at 2000 au resolution: #ALMA WITNESSES STAR BIRTH BEYOND THE EDGES OF THE MILKY WAY: http://www.inaf.it/en/inaf-news/alma-witnesses-star-birth-beyond-milky-way
RE: https://social.seattle.wa.us/@divestspd/116461439232950975
People don't understand that police stations are actually a rock's natural habitat. Despite the windows they put up, rocks, bricks, and other such objects are naturally attracted to the interior of such places. It's folly to resist this, nature will always find a way.
The fact that these words make a coherent sentence describing a real world event gives me pause about the fragile nature of the human psyche.
The fact that I understand the reference gives me pause about the fragile nature of my own goddamn psyche.
#ShamelesslyStolenFromSomewhereElseOnTheInternetHonestlyICantKeepTrackOfThisStuffAnymore
#3GuteDingeDesTages
🙂 Apéro mit Studienfreunden
🙂 mal viel vom Bollhagen-Geschirr benutzt
🙂 ich kann tatsächlich ab jetzt Springer Nature boykottieren, der dort arbeitende Freund ist pensioniert 💪
Thousands of early-career NIH researchers forming union for first time
The push for better pay and benefits among US scientists arrives at world’s largest biomedical funder.
-- Nature [paywall]
-- But 'crickets' in the mainstream media
@…
Single-molecule #peptide #sequencing through reverse translation of peptides into DNA
https://www.nature.com/articles/s41587…
🚨 new study alert🚨
Antarctica, after net losing ice through the noughts and teens started to level off and gain ice the last 5 years.
We show that westerly winds and atmospheric rivers as well as sea ice loss helps to explain the pattern.
The brilliant @… led a fine paper with colleagues at DMI, KNMI and in New Zealand.
I will post a pop sci blog on it later, but read the whole thing here:
https://www.nature.com/articles/s43247-026-03242-3
A study finds LLMs from Anthropic, Google, OpenAI, and xAI can help with academic fraud, specifically helping non-researchers submit fabricated papers to arXiv (Elizabeth Gibney/Nature)
https://www.nature.com/articles/d41586-026-00595-9
Q&A with Jensen Huang on Nvidia's CUDA core, reasoning and coding, CPUs' role in accelerated computing, Groq, China and the doomers, Nvidia's nature, and more (Ben Thompson/Stratechery)
https://stratechery.com/2026/an-interv…
Atmospheric rivers and winter sea ice drive recent reversal in Antarctic ice mass loss: #Antarctica
If you are remotely interested in #Antarctica , #ClimateChange and #SeaLevelRise, check out the latest brilliant @… contribution on how the risk of crossing a tipping point varies per basin
https://www.nature.com/articles/s41558-025-02554-0
"H&M sets science-based nature targets to address supply chain impact"
#Fashion #Textiles
https://ww…
Alex Vindman is not a man to hold a grudge.
Ask him about the bullying, intimidation and retribution meted out by Donald Trump and Maga acolytes following his appearance as a key witness in the first of the president’s two first-term impeachments, and he almost shrugs it off.
“I’m an optimist by nature. I’m more focused on the future than the past, and this idea of vindictiveness or grievance is completely opposite of my personality.
-- Now, accountability is essential …”
"Denmark secures €1bn to subsidise farmers for nature restoration"
#Denmark #Nature #Environment
In his first term, Trump appointed a record-setting 54 federal appellate judges.
Circuit judges are nominated by presidents and, if confirmed by the Senate, serve lifetime appointments.
This analysis provides an early look at how those appointments will likely reverberate nationwide in terms of dismantling or failing to uphold environmental laws and policy, legal scholars said.
“Long term, it’s going to set a lot of precedent that pushes the law away from environmental pr…
Self-consistent numerical simulations for the formation and dynamics of solar prominences: #SolarProminence Supply Mechanisms in the Sun’s Corona: https://www.mps.mpg.de/solar-prominences-supply-mechanisms-in-the-sun-s-corona - large amounts of matter need to be lifted into the solar atmosphere to create and sustain the massive plasma structures; new calculations reveal how this is possible.
Mental imagery modulates bistable perception in a modality-specific manner https://www.nature.com/articles/s41598-026-44578-2
"Peatland restoration stops wildfire from destroying Highfield Moss nature reserve near Wigan"
#UK #UnitedKingdom #Wigan
"IPBES report: Only 1% of companies reporting their nature impacts"
#Nature #Business #Environment
Measurement of a lithium plume from the uncontrolled #reentry of a Falcon 9: https://www.nature.com/articles/s43247-025-03154-8 -> SpaceX rocket fireball linked to plume of polluting lithium: https://www.bbc.com/news/articles/cpd8z4eqlxno
Cenozoic evolution of earth’s strongest geoid low illuminates mantle dynamics beneath #Antarctica: https://www.nature.com/articles/s41598-025-28606-1 -> Beneath Antarctica - the deep-time story behind Earth’s largest “gravity low”: https://www.ipgp.fr/en/news-and-agenda/news/beneath-antarctica-the-deep-time-story-behind-earths-largest-gravity-low/ -> Antarctica’s ‘Gravity Hole’ Has Been Quietly Growing Stronger: https://gizmodo.com/antarcticas-gravity-hole-has-been-quietly-growing-stronger-2000722955 - scientists aren't fully sure what this means for Antarctica's future, however.
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