Tootfinder

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

Hey ChatGPT, write me a fictional paper: these LLMs are willing to commit academic fraud
Mainstream chatbots presented varying levels of resistance to deliberate requests for fabrication, study finds.

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.

The most resistant to committing fraud, when asked repeatedly, were all versions of Claude. Versions of Grok and early versions of GPT performed the worst.
Hey ChatGPT, write me a fictional paper: these LLMs are willing to commit academic fraud
https://www.nature.com/articles/d41586-026

Hey ChatGPT, write me a fictional paper: these LLMs are willing to commit academic fraud
Mainstream chatbots presented varying levels of resistance to deliberate requests for fabrication, study finds.

Broad generalisation of the ventriloquism aftereffect across sound frequencies https://www.nature.com/articles/s41598-026-40873-0

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

Machine Learning techniques are upending multiple scientific fields. Operational 5-day forecasting of air quality in 1 minute in this paper from Chinese researchers.
This is awesome work with very clear public health implications.
EDIT for clarity: I am.not suggesting LLMs have anything to do with this work, but many people hear AI and imagine LLMs. And many of them.are perhaps rightly sceptical of AI as a result.
But AI or ML techniques can be useful for lots of things, not just chatbots. And we should probably invest more in those.

https://www.nature.com/articles/s41586-026-10234-y

Culture, nature, community
#SilentSunday

Observation of a mixed close-packed structure in superionic water: #ice just got weirder: https://www6.slac.stanford.edu/news/2026-01-08-exotic-form-ice-just-got-weirder - multiple atomic stacking patterns coexisting in overlapping configurations never seen before in this phase of water.

"Species Slowdown: Is Nature’s Ability to Self-Repair Stalling?"
#Nature #Environment
https://e360.yale…

Species Slowdown: Is Nature’s Ability to Self-Repair Stalling?
When scientists recently analyzed hundreds of studies of ecosystems, they were surprised to see a marked slowing in the rate of species turnover. If new species don’t replace old ones, they say, ecosystems may have less flexibility to respond to habitat loss and climate change.

Urbanity - Cloud Four ☁️
城市化 - 四云 ☁️
📷 Pentax MX
🎞️ Ilford Pan 100
#filmphotography #Photography #blackandwhite

Republican Leaders Used to Camp and Hunt. Now They Golf and Meme. (Stephen Lezak/New York Times)
https://www.nytimes.com/2026/02/08/opinion/republicans-hunting-wilderness-nature.html
http://www.memeorandum.com/260208/p11#a260208p11

This is nature on the island of #Norderney as me, @…, and @… visited it du…

A Fox Squirrel, about to jump to another branch. LA Arboretum, Arcadia, California, USA. February, 2026. OM System OM-1 M.Zuiko 300mm F4 #laarboretum #squirrels #nature

The ephemeral nature of digital music and "albums" is a bit annoying. You can listen to an album today that has more or fewer songs than it had two days ago.
Also, artists can republish the same song on the same album, effectively replacing the original over time. Next thing you know, your folk album is a dubstep nightmare (hyperbole).

Been listening to old episodes of Tracy Alloway and Joe Weisenthal's Odd Lots. This episode from 2017 about the Diner's Club, where they interview a *media studies* professor, is fascinating: "The stuff of money is the same as the stuff of communications".

Search for light sterile neutrinos with two #neutrino beams at MicroBooNE: https://www.nature.com/articles/s41586-025-09757-7 -> No evidence of sterile neutrinos: https://mediarelations.unibe.ch/media_releases/2025/media_releases_2025/sterile_neutrinos/index_eng.html

"Plant sex life is more complicated than you probably imagine"
#Plants #Nature
https://

Plant sex life is more complicated than you probably imagine
The amazing variety of plant reproductive systems.

https://www.aaronmate.net/p/noam-chomskys-wife-responds-to-epstein

Noam Chomsky's wife responds to Epstein controversy
"Noam’s overly trusting nature, in this specific case, led to severe poor judgment on both our parts... we express our unrestricted solidarity with the victims."

@… you seem to misunderstand the nature of the Fediverse, where people write something and other people might, or might not, read that thing.
Serendipity.
I can''t recall how your toot became visible. That's how it is.

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…

Wild Garden 2025 #nature #environment

YAY! Excellent resource. Site Renewables Right: A Clean and Green Energy Future
https://www.nature.org/en-us/what-we-do/our-priorities/tackle-climate-change/climate-change-stories/site-wind-right/
And it…

Site Renewables Right: Accelerating a Clean and Green Energy Future
To help tackle climate change, we must accelerate deployment of clean energy sources, like wind and solar power. So, how can we do that in ways that ensure that allows people and nature to thrive? This online map will help.

YAY! Excellent resource. Site Renewables Right: A Clean and Green Energy Future
https://www.nature.org/en-us/what-we-do/our-priorities/tackle-climate-change/climate-change-stories/site-wind-right/
And it…

Site Renewables Right: Accelerating a Clean and Green Energy Future
To help tackle climate change, we must accelerate deployment of clean energy sources, like wind and solar power. So, how can we do that in ways that ensure that allows people and nature to thrive? This online map will help.

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…

🇺🇦 #NowPlaying on BBCRadio3's #NightTracks
Peggy Polias:
🎵 Into Nature (Picnic at Hanging Rock)
#PeggyPolias
https://open.spotify.com/track/12TicEWpX83AtQh9ZcW0ay

Fraudulent papers written by AI are becoming a serious problem. Guess which AI is most willing to cooperate with this sort of dishonest fraud?
https://www.nature.com/articles/d41586-026-00595-9

A young progenitor for the most common #PlanetarySystems in the Galaxy: https://www.nature.com/articles/s41586-025-09840-z -> We finally know how the most common types of planets are created / Cotton Candy Worlds Evolve into Rock Candy Worlds: https://newsroom.ucla.edu/releases/we-finally-know-how-the-most-common-types-of-planets-are-created / https://www.nao.ac.jp/en/news/science/2026/20260108-abc.html

"Feeling chirpy: how listening to birdsong can boost your wellbeing"
#Birds #Nature #Environment

2026 Shipboard Immersion - Waterfronts Past & Present: Learning How Engineers Design with Nature
"Opportunity to learn about the #GreatLakes and coastal engineering in Milwaukee."
For "formal or nonformal educators who teach at the middle or high-school level that are experienced or new to the Great Lakes Literacy Principles"
STIPENDS Will be provided to o…

2026 Shipboard Immersion - Waterfronts Past & Present: Learning How Engineers Design with Nature
Thank you for taking time to complete the application for our FREE 2026 Shipboard Science Professional Learning opportunity, brought to you by the Center for Great Lakes Literacy, Wisconsin Sea Grant, and UW-Milwaukee School of Freshwater Sciences. WHAT The workshop will explore how coastal engineering can shape and strengthen our coasts and shorelines, using Milwaukee and its Lake Michigan shoreline as our case study. It will include time aboard R/V Neeskay giving a unique perspective to the…

Pavel Richter – Mother Nature
https://poli5.bandcamp.com/album/mother-nature
https://www.

Just had the talk with Kid2. She should now be able to explain to anyone who's interested consumer complicity in the exploitative nature of capitalism using food delivery apps as an illustration.

🇺🇦 #NowPlaying on #BBC6Music's #6MusicLiveHour
Max Richter:
🎵 On The Nature Of Daylight
#MaxRichter
https://monocherry.bandcamp.com/track/max-richter-on-the-nature-of-daylight-monocherry-remix
https://open.spotify.com/track/56oReVXIfUO9xkX7pHmEU0

"Die im Fachjournal Nature vorgestellte Studie untermauert die Sichtweise, dass Schmerz nicht bloß ein sensorisches Signal ist, sondern ein dynamischer Zustand im Gehirn, der von Wahrnehmung, Erinnerung und Emotion geformt wird."
https://www.

Neue Gentherapie lindert chronische Schmerzen, ohne süchtig zu machen
Die innovative Methode imitiert den schmerzlindernden Effekt von Morphium im Gehirn, vermeidet aber dessen schwere Nebenwirkungen

Dynamical development of strength and stability of #asteroid material under 440 GeV proton beam irradiation: #impact – and reveals the hidden strength of space rocks, a breakthrough with direct implications for #PlanetaryDefence strategies: https://www.ox.ac.uk/news/2026-01-08-new-study-simulates-asteroid-impact-and-reveals-hidden-strength-space-rocks

"Portugal fined £8.7m by EU court for failing to protect biodiversity"
#Portugal #Nature #Biodiversity

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.

Crosslisted article(s) found for hep-ph. https://arxiv.org/list/hep-ph/new
[1/1]:
- "Observations on the possible electromagnetic nature of nucleon interactions and pions" -- histor...
Mathias Bostr\"om, Drew F. Parsons

A bunch of professors (who mostly don't really have strong credentials in the field) argue that "AI" is already as intelligent as humans (https://archive.ph/2026.02.03-055607/https://www.nature.com/articles/d41586-026-00285-6) .

"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.

🇺🇦 Auf radioeins läuft...
Nick Cave & The Bad Seeds:
🎵 Nature Boy
#NowPlaying #NickCave #TheBadSeeds
https://elmuellerecords.bandcamp.com/track/los-ambolias-nature-boy-nick-cave-the-bad-seeds
https://open.spotify.com/track/6pmDHODsAiR8PZtlJZnJmC

"Even if warming is limited to 2°C, wildfires, storms and beetles may boost Europe forest loss"
#Europe #Nature #Climate

Even if warming is limited to 2°C, wildfires, storms and beetles may boost Europe forest loss
Forest damage in Europe caused by wildfires, storms and bark beetle outbreaks is projected to increase compared to recent decades under all analyzed climate scenarios, according to a new international study, published in Science, with contributions from the Potsdam Institute for Climate Impact Research (PIK).

My today's #footpathFriday is one from the archives. I was really bad prepared that day, but luckily everything turned out well -- and I got this fantastic, dramatic shot!
more about that day: http…

Accept
Harmony is only in following the Way.
The Way is without form or quality,
But expresses all forms and qualities;
The Way is hidden and implicate,
But expresses all of nature;
The Way is unchanging,
But expresses all motion.
Beneath sensation and memory
The Way is the source of all the world.
How can I understand the source of the world?
By accepting.
-- Lao Tse, "Tao Te Ching"

Manifolds and Modules: How Function Develops in a Neural Foundation Model
Johannes Bertram, Luciano Dyballa, T. Anderson Keller, Savik Kinger, Steven W. Zucker
https://arxiv.org/abs/2512.07869 https://arxiv.org/pdf/2512.07869 https://arxiv.org/html/2512.07869
arXiv:2512.07869v1 Announce Type: new
Abstract: Foundation models have shown remarkable success in fitting biological visual systems; however, their black-box nature inherently limits their utility for under- standing brain function. Here, we peek inside a SOTA foundation model of neural activity (Wang et al., 2025) as a physiologist might, characterizing each 'neuron' based on its temporal response properties to parametric stimuli. We analyze how different stimuli are represented in neural activity space by building decoding man- ifolds, and we analyze how different neurons are represented in stimulus-response space by building neural encoding manifolds. We find that the different processing stages of the model (i.e., the feedforward encoder, recurrent, and readout modules) each exhibit qualitatively different representational structures in these manifolds. The recurrent module shows a jump in capabilities over the encoder module by 'pushing apart' the representations of different temporal stimulus patterns; while the readout module achieves biological fidelity by using numerous specialized feature maps rather than biologically plausible mechanisms. Overall, we present this work as a study of the inner workings of a prominent neural foundation model, gaining insights into the biological relevance of its internals through the novel analysis of its neurons' joint temporal response patterns.
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Looking for inspiration in the new year? A chance to rediscover wonder and connect with nature? Our big spring semester exhibition, "We, Too, Are Made of Wonders," opens January 24 and takes inspiration from a poem by Ada Limón currently traveling to Jupiter on the Europa Clipper space probe.
https://lnkd.in/eDfgFdp5

Nature is healing...
#Bitcoin

Urban Texture IV 🧩
城市质地 IV 🧩
📷 Zeiss IKON Super Ikonta 533/16
🎞️ Lucky SHD 400
#filmphotography #Photography #blackandwhite

"Climate change is messing with tropical plants’ flowering times, study shows"
#Climate #ClimateChange #Nature

Climate change is messing with tropical plants’ flowering times, study shows
The flowering time for tropical plants is shifting with climate change, a new study finds.

“There he sat, his very indifference speaking a nature in which there lurked no civilized hypocrisies and bland deceits.”
(Yes, reading Moby Dick right now.)

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.

Pavel Richter – Mother Nature
https://poli5.bandcamp.com/album/mother-nature
https://www.

As promised, but overdue... It's #FollowFriday time — this week: landscape and nature photographers, transporting us to magic places on this planet and sharing precious fleeting moments/experiences there...
25 people, in alphabetical order (and entirely incomplete, of course!). Also, due to personal preferences, there's a bias towards mountain landscapes:

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.

SLEEP BETTER!
Three tips to improve your sleep:
- Go to bed 30 minutes earlier than usual on weekdays instead of sleeping in at the weekend 🛏️
- Expose yourself to bright light in the morning as much as possible, be it outdoor or indoors light 💡☀️
- Spend at least 20 minutes in restorative activity daily: reading, nature, music, anything you want, no goals, just restore 📖🌳♫
From a newsletter "Eight weeks to a healthier you" by

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They’re lovely to look at, but I learnt whilst living in the Blue Mountains that many locals despise them as invasive weeds.
I frequently saw agapanthus burnt or with their heads cut off, and more than once someone had swerved offroad to drive their car through a garden bed and take a few of them out.
It’s a special place. https://

D C Fitzgerald (@tangledwing@ohai.social)
Attached: 1 image Lily of the Nile or African Lily (Agapanthus)...they're not true lilies, they're relatives of the onion and amaryllis...the bright colors evolved to attract bees, butterflies & long-tongued insects. #flowers #biologhy #nature #garden #plants #photo

Smarter mangrove protection: Study links a 7.3% area boost to 13.3% resilience gain #environment

Smarter mangrove protection: Study links a 7.3% area boost to 13.3% resilience gain
A global study of mangroves has found that a modest boost in conserved areas could significantly increase their ability to adapt to the changing climate, including rising sea levels. University of Queensland Ph.D. candidate Alvise Dabalà led the analysis, which showed that safeguarding the coastal mangrove ecosystem didn't require huge expansions in protected areas, just smarter planning. The study is published in the journal Nature Communications.

#swissuniversities Negotiations with Springer Nature: No-deal Situation. #BigPub #cartels

An April 2025 study published in the prominent journal Nature found tantalizing evidence that the herpes zoster – or #shingles – #vaccine
👍could lower the risk of #dementia in the general population by as much as 20%❗️
A …

Vaccines hold tantalizing promise in the fight against dementia
A prominent Nature study and related research raise the possibility that vaccines may have a broader role in experimental therapeutics outside the realm of infectious diseases.

🇺🇦 #NowPlaying on #BBC6Music's #ThisCulturalLife
Max Richter:
🎵 On The Nature Of Daylight
#MaxRichter
https://monocherry.bandcamp.com/track/max-richter-on-the-nature-of-daylight-monocherry-remix
https://open.spotify.com/track/56oReVXIfUO9xkX7pHmEU0

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.

Why each AFC playoff team will win the Super Bowl, and why they won’t https://www.nytimes.com/athletic/6932205/2026/01/07/nfl-playoffs-super-bowl-afc-champion/

from my link log —
The Wendelstein 7-X fusion stellarator proves its efficiency.
https://www.ipp.mpg.de/5125328/05_21
saved 2021-08-17 https://dota…

The Wendelstein 7-X concept proves its efficiency
One of the most important optimisation goals underlying the Wendelstein 7-X fusion device at Max Planck Institute for Plasma Physics in Greifswald has now been confirmed. An analysis by IPP scientists in the journal Nature shows: In the optimised magnetic field cage, the energy losses of the plasma are reduced in the desired way. Wendelstein 7-X is intended to prove that the disadvantages of earlier stellarators can be overcome and that stellarator-type devices are suitable for power plants.

Sonnet 004 - IV
Unthrifty loveliness, why dost thou spend
Upon thy self thy beauty's legacy?
Nature's bequest gives nothing, but doth lend,
And being frank she lends to those are free:
Then, beauteous niggard, why dost thou abuse
The bounteous largess given thee to give?
Profitless usurer, why dost thou use
So great a sum of sums, yet canst not live?
For having traffic with thy self alone,
Thou of thy self thy sweet self dos…

Little to no active faulting likely at Europa’s seafloor today: #Europa: https://www.reuters.com/science/study-casts-doubt-potential-life-jupiters-moon-europa-2026-01-06/

Brain-aligning of semantic vectors improves neural decoding of visual stimuli #BCI

Ammonites made it through the K-Pg extinction event according to this paper! #FossilFriday 🤯
https://www.nature.com/articles/s41598-025-34479-1

Ammonite survival across the Cretaceous–Paleogene boundary confirmed by new data from Denmark - Scientific Reports
We provide a reassessment of the hypothesis of ammonite survival across the Cretaceous–Paleogene (Maastrichtian–Danian) boundary, based on new data from the lower Danian Cerithium Limestone Member at Stevns Klint, eastern Denmark. The occurrence of this unit in disjunct basins between eroded crests of uppermost Maastrichtian bryozoan mounds prompts a reconsideration of ammonite redeposition as an alternative to the survival hypothesis. We describe new ammonite specimens from the Cerithium L…

For every dollar we spend protecting nature, we spend $30 destroying it: Report #nature

For every dollar we spend protecting nature, we spend $30 destroying it: Report
For every US$1 the world invests in protecting nature, it spends US$30 on destroying it. This stark imbalance is the central finding of a new UN Environment Program (UNEP) report released today. It calls for a major shift in global financing of nature-based solutions and phasing out harmful investments to deliver high returns, reduce risk exposure, and enhance resilience.

"Plagued by Flooding, an African City Reengineers Its Wetlands"
#Africa #Wetlands #Environment

Plagued by Flooding, an African City Reengineers Its Wetlands
As climate change and urbanization intensify flooding in Rwanda, the hilly capital of Kigali has embraced nature-based solutions. The city is restoring and reshaping 18,000 acres of degraded wetlands, planting native species to filter and slow runoff and enhancing biodiversity.

Nature: OpenAI's brain implant would use ultrasound to read minds. Does the science stand up? #ultrasound

OpenAI’s brain implant would use ultrasound to read minds. Does the science stand up?
Spin-out Merge Labs aims to rival Elon Musk’s firm Neuralink. But researchers say the technology is still at an early stage.

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,

A study found OpenAI's ChatGPT Health underestimated the severity of medical emergencies 51.6% of the time and overestimated nonurgent cases 64.8% of the time (Kaan Ozcan/NBC News)
https://www.nbcnews.com/health/health-news/chat…

ChatGPT Health 'under-triaged' half of medical emergencies in a new study
ChatGPT Health — OpenAI’s new health-focused chatbot — frequently underestimated the severity of medical emergencies, according to a study published last week in the journal Nature Medicine

Sunyaev–Zeldovich detection of hot intracluster gas at redshift 4.3: #GalaxyCluster in the early universe is 10 times hotter than it ought to be, which may reshape how we think these enormous structures formed.

Urban Texture II 🧩
城市质地 II 🧩
📷 Nikon F4E
🎞️ ERA 100, expired 1993
#filmphotography #Photography #blackandwhite

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

Orbitofrontal cortex drives predictive filtering of sensory responses (in mice) https://www.nature.com/articles/s41593-026-02217-z "After daily sound exposure, neural habituation in the primary auditory cortex (A1) was reversed by inactivating the OFC."

Orbitofrontal cortex drives predictive filtering of sensory responses - Nature Neuroscience
Top-down projections from the orbitofrontal cortex carry predictive signals that grow with sound experience and suppress the auditory cortex via inhibitory circuits, revealing a predictive mechanism for sensory habituation.

DEX in near Earth orbit in light of #Venus Orbiter Dust Experiment: https://www.nature.com/articles/s41598-025-21988-2 -> India’s Cosmic Dust Experiment - Ground-breaking Hunt for Interplanetary Secrets: https://www.isro.gov.in/Indias_Cosmic_Dust_Experiment.html

Audio long read: Many people have no mental imagery. What’s going on in their brains? #aphantasia are offering brain scient…

Audio long read: Many people have no mental imagery. What’s going on in their brains?
Listen to an audio version of a recent Nature Feature.

Australia spends $18b more on harming nature than protecting it: Study https://news.mongabay.com/short-article/2026/02/australia-spends-18b-more-on-harming-nature-than-protecting-it-study/

Australia spends $18b more on harming nature than protecting it: Study
The Australian government spends more money on activities that harm biodiversity than those that protect biodiversity, a new study suggests. Australia is a biodiversity hotspot, home to more than two-thirds of the world’s marsupials and a high rate of endemic species, but the country has suffered significant species extinctions since European arrival. Under Target 18 […]

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

Chronic 40 Hz light flicker mitigates epileptogenesis through a visual pathway associated with the dorsal lateral geniculate nucleus shell (in epileptic mice) https://www.nature.com/articles/s41467-025-64269-2

Chronic 40 Hz light flicker mitigates epileptogenesis through a visual pathway associated with the dorsal lateral geniculate nucleus shell - Nature Communications
Whether and how gamma entrainment using sensory stimuli (GENUS) has a role in antiepileptogenesis is not fully understood. Here authors show that GENUS reduces seizure susceptibility in male mice. These effects are mediated via specific visual neural pathway.

"For every dollar we spend protecting nature, we spend $30 destroying it: Report"
#Nature #Climate #ClimateChange

For every dollar we spend protecting nature, we spend $30 destroying it: Report
For every US$1 the world invests in protecting nature, it spends US$30 on destroying it. This stark imbalance is the central finding of a new UN Environment Program (UNEP) report released today. It calls for a major shift in global financing of nature-based solutions and phasing out harmful investments to deliver high returns, reduce risk exposure, and enhance resilience.

The dramatic transition of the extreme red supergiant WOH G64 to a yellow hypergiant: #stars

WildLeaks is the world’s first whistleblowing initiative dedicated to environmental crime. #nature #environment

WildLeaks
WildLeaks is the World's First Wildlife Crime Whistleblower Initiative

Martian ionospheric response during the may 2024 solar #superstorm: https://www.nature.com/articles/s41467-026-69468-z -> ESA’s Mars orbiters watch solar superstorm hit the Red Planet: https://www.esa.int/Science_Exploration/Space_Science/ESA_s_Mars_orbiters_watch_solar_superstorm_hit_the_Red_Planet

"How can we really protect Britain’s environment?"
#UK #UnitedKingdom #Environment #Nature

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

"Ocean Conservation Debt-for-Nature Bonds Unlocks $1.4B for Marine Protection"
#Oceans #Conservation #Nature

Ocean Conservation Debt-for-Nature Bonds Unlocks $1.4B for Marine Protection | Happy Eco News
Ocean conservation debt-for-nature bonds have unlocked more than $1.4 billion for marine protection across multiple nations.

Disentangling the functional roles of pre-stimulus oscillations in crossmodal associative memory formation via sensory entrainment https://www.nature.com/articles/s41598-025-33761-6#Sec7 "externally induced pre-stimulus alpha entrainment boosts audiovisual associative encod…

Disentangling the functional roles of pre-stimulus oscillations in crossmodal associative memory formation via sensory entrainment - Scientific Reports
The state of neural dynamics prior to the presentation of an external stimulus significantly influences its subsequent processing. This neural preparatory mechanism might be of particular importance for crossmodal memory formation. The integration of stimuli across different sensory modalities is a fundamental mechanism underlying the formation of episodic memories. However, the causal role of pre-stimulus neural activity in this process remains largely unclear. In this preregistered study, we …

Pesticides found in 70% of European soils, harming beneficial life: Study https://news.mongabay.com/2026/02/pesticides-found-in-70-of-european-soils-harming-beneficial-life-study/

Pesticides found in 70% of European soils, harming beneficial life: Study
For farmers, sometimes the easiest way to save a crop or prevent catastrophic insect damage is to spray a pesticide. But this common practice is wreaking havoc on the soil, according to new research published recently in the journal Nature. The study examined soil from 26 European countries, finding that pesticide contamination is widespread beyond […]

"Paying attention to birdsong while walking in nature can boost wellbeing, my research shows"
#Nature #Environment

Paying attention to birdsong while walking in nature can boost wellbeing, my research shows
Listening to birdsong while walking in nature reduced both psychological and physiological markers of stress.

"5 unexpected animal behaviors we learned about in 2025"
#Animals
https://news.mongabay.com/short-article/2026/01/5-unexpecte…

5 unexpected animal behaviors we learned about in 2025
Every year, researchers and people out in nature capture some aspect of animal behavior that’s unusual or unexpected in some way, changing how we understand the natural world. Here are five such examples that Mongabay reported on in 2025: Massive fish aggregation seen climbing waterfalls in Brazil For the first time, scientists observed a “massive […]

Discovery of the most compact 3 1-type quadruple star system TIC 120362137: #StarSystem Yet: https://gizmodo.com/4-body-problem-astronomers-spot-the-most-tightly-packed-quadruple-star-system-yet-2000728811

"Can beavers help heal burn scars after wildfires? Researchers build their own dams to find out"
#Beavers #Animals #Nature

Can beavers help heal burn scars after wildfires? Researchers build their own dams to find out
High in the mountains west of Fort Collins, teams of scientists and engineers are pretending to be beavers.

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

"Analysis: Half of nations meet UN deadline for nature-loss reporting"
#UN #UnitedNations #Nature #Environment

Analysis: Half of nations meet UN deadline for nature-loss reporting - Carbon Brief
Half of nations have met a UN deadline to report on how they are tackling nature loss within their borders, Carbon Brief analysis shows.

Towards precise synthetic neural codes: high-dimensional stimulation with flexible electrodes #BCI

Towards precise synthetic neural codes: high-dimensional stimulation with flexible electrodes - npj Flexible Electronics
Neural representations arise from high-dimensional population activity, but current neuromodulation methods lack the precision to write information into the central nervous system at this complexity. In this perspective, we propose high-dimensional stimulation as an approach to better approximate natural neural codes for brain-machine interfaces. Key advancements in resolution, coverage, and safety are essential, with flexible microelectrode arrays offering a promising path toward precise synth…

"‘A celebration for the bugs’: Flowers burst into colour after southern Spain’s record rainfall"
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Vibrant wildflowers transform arid southern Spain after heavy rains
While beautiful, the swathes of invasive yellow flowers are an environmental concern.

"Governments must prioritize nature protection, former US senator Russ Feingold says"
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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 […]

"Peatland restoration can deliver climate mitigation benefits within a few decades"
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Peatland restoration can deliver climate mitigation benefits within a few decades
New research indicates that restoration of peatlands can result in climate mitigation within just a few decades. In Finland, some 60,000 hectares of previously forestry-drained peatlands have already been restored, comprising mainly nutrient-poor sites with weak tree growth. In such cases, peatland plants remain viable and react rapidly to restoration, resulting in the formation of a thick new layer of Sphagnum moss.