Lonnie Bunch, the first Black leader of the Smithsonian,
takes the widely held position that slavery was, in fact, “bad.”
Bunch is the founding director of the Smithsonian’s National Museum of African American History and Culture
and, as such, is one of the country’s leading and most visible advocates for the commemoration and celebration of Black history.
From the start of the second Trump administration,
the entire Smithsonian had been a target of those on t…
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Why do we need services like the Museum Data Service?
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Applications for the Secure Program Synthesis Fellowship by Apart Research are now open; you have 10 days to apply. I've listed two of my projects here; one more is heavily based on my work; and the rest are all fun too! Please feel free to share.
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Polars is a lightning fast DataFrame library/in-memory query engine with parallel execution and cache efficiency. And now you can use is with the tidyverse syntax: #rstats
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Scientists forecast wildfire risk for species survival under climate change
https://news.mongabay.com/short-article/2026/04/scientists-forecast-wildfire-risk-for-species-survival-under-climate-change/
Varroa:
Scientists Stunned by Hybrid California Bees That Beat Deadly Mites
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Scientists Create “Neurobots” – Living Machines With Their Own Nervous Systems
https://scitechdaily.com/scientists-create-neurobots-living-machines-with-their-own-nervous-systems/