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A language processing time window of around three seconds https://www.nature.com/articles/s44159-026-…

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…

A connection to nature fuels well-being worldwide, according to a study of 38,000 people
Feeling part of something larger than yourself may make it easier to cope with stress and uncertainty.

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There's laws, there's permits, and there's Amsterdam Schiphol Airport. Outgoing double-failed Dutch government ignores judge, gives Schiphol another two years to operate without nature permit, and allows it even higher nitrogen emissions.
Conveniently arranged before the new coalition starts. In @… today.

My #silentsunday photo is from last week, where it was about 15°C warmer.
Anyways - to me, a silent sunday means to relax, no rush, seeing the little flowers near the trail. Taking the time to knee down and take a photo - just for the sake of capturing a silent moment.
Enjoying a tiny flower while other pass by and maybe not even recognize a little colorful island.

"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

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.

You don't hate cars enough. I thought I knew everything there was to know about hating cars, and this book is showing me: not quite. Much of the nature chapter is new to me. @…
https://www.lif…

Life After Cars

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This is a thoughtful and thought-provoking piece. Will we chose the ease of compliance or the friction of engagement as AI becomes increasingly prevalent also in our democratic institutions?
For me, I chose friction, as compliance has never been my nature. But my fear is I am in a minority, and the majority is quite happy to outsource decisions and cognitive work to AI.
How To Save Democracy From AI

The mass distribution in and around the Local Group: #MilkyWay is embedded in a ‘large-scale sheet’ and this explains the motions of nearby galaxies: https://www.astronomie.nl/nieuws/en/a-flat-surrounding-of-the-milky-way-explains-the-motion-of-nearby-galaxies-4796

🇺🇦 #NowPlaying on #BBC6Music's #CraigCharles
Naughty by Nature:
🎵 Hip Hop Hooray
#NaughtybyNature
https://djnos.bandcamp.com/track/naughty-by-nature-hip-hop-hooray
https://open.spotify.com/track/1SyQ6t9RdRBK0QUCS6a797

Rare white whale sighting tops 2026 World Nature Photography Awards winners #photography

New Study: Evidence shows how X’s algorithmic feed is radicalizing its users toward the Right. https://www.nature.com/articles/s41586-026-10098-2

The political effects of X’s feed algorithm - Nature
Among users initially on a chronological feed, 7 weeks of exposure to X’s algorithmic feed in 2023 shifted political attitudes and account-following behaviour in a more conservative direction compared with those remaining on a chronological feed, whereas switching the feed setting in the opposite direction, from algorithmic to chronological, had no effect.

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.

Laser writing in glass for dense, fast and efficient archival data storage - Nature
An optical archival storage technology based on femtosecond laser direct writing in glass addresses the practical demands of archival storage.

thawing out at a packed union pool for modern nature's cracking tour closer, moonlit UK motorik & calm-on-the-outside unison vocals, all doing double duty backing brigid dawson as the mothers network. #nyc #brooklyn

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#filmphotography #Photography #blackandwhite

🤯 Specific brain signals rapidly eliminate body fat in mice
#fat

Specific brain signals rapidly eliminate body fat in mice
Researchers at WashU Medicine have identified a potent pathway that begins in the brain and leads to loss of all body fat without reducing food intake. The study is reported in Nature Metabolism.

Exploring the association between mental imagery, sensory sensitivity, and autistic traits in autistic and non-autistic adults https://www.nature.com/articles/s41598-026-38574-9

The political effects of X’s feed algorithm
https://www.nature.com/articles/s41586-026-10098-2

The political effects of X’s feed algorithm - Nature
Among users initially on a chronological feed, 7 weeks of exposure to X’s algorithmic feed in 2023 shifted political attitudes and account-following behaviour in a more conservative direction compared with those remaining on a chronological feed, whereas switching the feed setting in the opposite direction, from algorithmic to chronological, had no effect.

This article https://doi.org/10.1038/d41586-025-04064-7 is bad enough on its own, but you really have to consider it in the context of the Nature “Career” column

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.

The more I use FreeCAD, the more I understand the nature of the specific and profound brain damage required to use it effectively, but I'm still getting lost. Stuff I would have had done in 20 minutes in Inventor has taken me all evening!

Slope lineae as potential indicators of recent volatile loss on Mercury: #Mercury show: that Mercury is not a "dead planet": https://mediarelations.unibe.ch/media_releases/2026/media_releases_2026/streaks_mercury/index_eng.html

#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.

A chair is not a chair. A house is not a home.
#photography #nature #photo #forest

Social media algorithms prioritize right-wing content and influence the political views and behavior of real users. This is the finding of the recent study “The political effects of X’s feed algorithm”: https://www.nature.com/articles/s41586-026-10098-2

The political effects of X’s feed algorithm - Nature
Among users initially on a chronological feed, 7 weeks of exposure to X’s algorithmic feed in 2023 shifted political attitudes and account-following behaviour in a more conservative direction compared with those remaining on a chronological feed, whereas switching the feed setting in the opposite direction, from algorithmic to chronological, had no effect.

Tens of thousands of people have gathered in London to march against the far right in the biggest multicultural demonstration in UK history.
Organisers claimed half a million people had travelled to the capital for the Together Alliance march.
Police estimated the turnout was closer to 50,000, although they admitted it was difficult to judge the number due to the widespread nature of the crowd.
Beginning in Park Lane, more than 100 charities, campaign groups and trade union…

Sonnet 111 - CXI
O! for my sake do you with Fortune chide,
The guilty goddess of my harmful deeds,
That did not better for my life provide
Than public means which public manners breeds.
Thence comes it that my name receives a brand,
And almost thence my nature is subdued
To what it works in, like the dyer's hand:
Pity me, then, and wish I were renewed;
Whilst, like a willing patient, I will drink
Potions of eisell 'gainst my…

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Europa’s ice thickness and subsurface structure characterized by the Juno microwave radiometer: #Europa

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.

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🚨 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

Some #nature content to keep you all sane https://youtube.com/shorts/OrmNUEEIS7o

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纪念 III 🪦
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#filmphotography #Photography #blackandwhite

LED lighting (350-650nm) undermines human visual performance unless supplemented by wider spectra (400-1500nm ) like daylight https://www.nature.com/articles/s41598-026-35389-6

LED lighting (350-650nm) undermines human visual performance unless supplemented by wider spectra (400-1500nm+) like daylight - Scientific Reports
Life evolved under broad spectrum sunlight, from ultraviolet to infrared (300–2500 nm). This spectrally balanced light sculpted life’s physiology and metabolism. But modern lighting has recently become dominated by restricted spectrum light emitting diodes (350–650 nm LEDs). Absence of longer wavelengths in LEDs and their short wavelength dominance impacts physiology, undermining normal mitochondrial respiration that regulates metabolism, disease and ageing. Mitochondria are light sensi…

'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…

🐮 Feral horses and cattle create more resilient nature, rewilding study reveals
#conservation

Feral horses and cattle create more resilient nature, rewilding study reveals
Protected natural areas across Europe are changing. Climate change, with rising temperatures and heavy rainfall, is turbocharging the growth of shrubs and trees, choking the flowers and insects that need the light and heat of open spaces. Traditionally, this scenario prompts nature managers to reach for chainsaws and brush cutters to keep the landscape open. But researchers at Aarhus University and the Natural History Museum, Aarhus, Denmark, can now show that horses and cattle represent a more…

Accretion bursts crystallize silicates in a #planet-forming 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: https://science.nasa.gov/missions/webb/nasa-webb-finds-young-sun-like-star-forging-spewing-common-crystals/

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Nature: China approves brain chip to treat paralysis — a world first #Neuracle

China approves brain chip to treat paralysis — a world first
Chip allows people with paralysis to control a soft robotic hand.

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 🙂

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
@…

Thousands of early-career NIH researchers forming union for first time
Push for better pay and benefits among US scientists arrives at world’s largest biomedical funder.

An ultra-high-resolution map of (dark) matter: #DarkMatter on Universe: https://www.jpl.nasa.gov/news/nasa-reveals-new-details-about-dark-matters-influence-on-universe/

Feb 5 - Kurtis Schaeffer on How to Live in Hard Times: Examples from Buddhist Lives
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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

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A binary-related origin mediated by environmental conditions for #BlueStraggler stars: https://www.nature.com/articles/s41467-025-68159-5 -> Hubble uncovers the secret of stars that defy ageing: https://www.esa.int/Science_Exploration/Space_Science/Hubble_uncovers_the_secret_of_stars_that_defy_ageing

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Causal inference shapes crossmodal postdiction in multisensory integration https://www.nature.com/articles/s41598-026-36884-6 on how we integrate multisensory information backward in time.

Causal inference shapes crossmodal postdiction in multisensory integration - Scientific Reports
In our environment, stimuli from different sensory modalities are initially processed within a temporal window of multisensory integration spanning several hundred milliseconds. During this window, stimulus processing is influenced not only by preceding and current information, but also by input that follows the stimulus. The computational mechanisms underlying crossmodal backward processing, which we refer to as crossmodal postdiction, are not well understood. We examined crossmodal postdictio…

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RE: #OpenAccessNow

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

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

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A detection of sulfur-bearing cyclic hydrocarbons in space: #Space.

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#LaVCa: LLM-assisted visual cortex captioning https://arxiv.org/abs/2502.13606 using "large language models (LLMs) to generate natural-language captions for images to which voxels are selective"; to be presented a…

LaVCa: LLM-assisted Visual Cortex Captioning
Understanding the property of neural populations (or voxels) in the human brain can advance our comprehension of human perceptual and cognitive processing capabilities and contribute to developing brain-inspired computer models. Recent encoding models using deep neural networks (DNNs) have successfully predicted voxel-wise activity. However, interpreting the properties that explain voxel responses remains challenging because of the black-box nature of DNNs. As a solution, we propose LLM-assiste…

Measurement of a lithium plume from the uncontrolled re-entry of a #Falcon9 rocket: #reentry pollutes the #UpperAtmosphere: https://physicsworld.com/a/rocket-re-entry-pollutes-the-upper-atmosphere/

Time course of visual plasticity following adult-onset #deafness (in cats) https://www.nature.com/articles/s41598-026-39490-8

S06E03: How Rethinking God, Gender, And Nature Can Heal A Burning World | Mapping the Doctrine of Discovery Podcast https://podcast.doctrineofdiscovery.org/season6/episode-03/

S06E03: How Rethinking God, Gender, And Nature Can Heal A Burning World
Kim Carfore links ecofeminism, Haudenosaunee fire stewardship, and rekindling relationships that replace dominion with mutual care.

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

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:

#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/

Experimental evidence for granular shear-flow instability in the Epstein regime: #planets - a turbulent story: https://mediarelations.unibe.ch/media_releases/2026/media_releases_2026/evolution_of_planets/index_eng.html