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  Calling these incidents “rogue AI” lends them a “sci-fi veneer,” Hamiel says. It suggests the bots themselves are to blame, or that they have become too smart to control. The more immediate problem, he says, is that people are giving AI agents too much reach with too little oversight. https://www.sciencenews.org/article/rogue-ai-agents-human-blame-safety

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  In desperation, scientists turn to OnlyFans for funding. But it's not Hot Scientist Feet. No. It's HOT MARMOT SUMMER. OnlyMarms. It makes me both sad for the state of funding, and also...I mean good on ya, that is creative thinking! https://www.sfgate.com/national-parks/article/marmot-researchers-make-onlyfans-22357723.php

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  Oh me. Oh my. Do we want the arts to die? https://youtu.be/dVVLPF_-Ckk?si=2jB-V3P3WgK2QCYK

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  We often talk about gambling in terms of disease and addiction, and it can be an addiction. But this? This? I think I feel pretty ok calling this kind of betting straight up evil. https://www.hcn.org/articles/people-are-betting-on-wildfires-should-they/

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  This news breaks my heart. SciAm being sold and a PILE of great editors getting fired. The Sciam editorial team is one of the best I've had the pleasure to work with. Smart, incisive, they make every piece better and I'm so proud to have worked with them. https://group.springernature.com/gp/group/media/press-releases/divestment-consumer-media/52799204

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  I've a whale of a tale to tell you lads. A whale of a tale or two. About the bowhead whales that moved behind thick areas of sea ice whaling vessels couldn't penetrate and which scientists learned about by studying logbooks from 700 whaling voyages. https://www.nationalgeographic.com/animals/article/bowhead-whale-migration-arctic-sea-ice

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  “That sweater is not just blue, it's not turquoise, it's not lapis, it's actually cerulean.” Thank you @wwrfd.bsky.social for letting me nerd out on the best movie monologue ever. https://www.nationalgeographic.com/science/article/cerulean-blue-color-history-chemistry

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  Did you know that bowhead whales are as long as a 4.5 story building is tall. And also they are 1/3 mouth (we really don't talk about that enough) and ALSO that some populations recovered form whaling because the HID behind sea ice! https://www.nationalgeographic.com/animals/article/bowhead-whale-migration-arctic-sea-ice

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  This made me realize that strangler fig trees are the like, truck stops of the forest. They've got holes for cheap 'lil hotels, food, and TOILETS https://www.sciencenews.org/article/cloud-forest-mammals-poop-tree-hub

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  You're heard of toiletries yes. But have you heard of toilet-trees? https://www.sciencenews.org/article/cloud-forest-mammals-poop-tree-hub

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  The way the reporting for this piece has ruined my algorithms I can't even tell you. My feeds are now all bald dudes in backwards baseball caps in front of large mics, hyping their "living like elite athletes" when they don't believe in leg day. https://www.scientificamerican.com/article/the-science-behind-the-peptide-craze/

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  Measles is NOT "just like chickenpox". It can kill years later. This woman was so brave for coming forward with her story. https://www.nytimes.com/2026/04/21/opinion/measles-child-britain-vaccination.html

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  Y'all I'm IN THIS STUDY!!! Really I'm in it! I haven't been unblinded and I still don't know what I got but there's ME! Just a tiny little data point. https://www.sciencenews.org/article/lyme-disease-vaccine-ticks-infection

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  "The District of Columbia currently has the highest unemployment rate in the nation, at 6.7 percent, in large part because of major reductions in the federal work force, including U.S.A.I.D., and cuts to government grants and contracts." https://www.nytimes.com/2026/04/21/us/politics/usaid-former-employees.html

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  In which @roxannekhamsi.bsky.social gives me a new way to think about mutations. Not as something as something positive or negative, as some sort of curse. They simply ARE. https://www.sciencenews.org/article/beyond-inheritance-book-khamsi-mutation

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  When you eat a plant, have you ever thought how much TIME you're eating? How much time a carrot took to grow, and you just munch it down in 30 minutes? It's wild, how fast we eat time. https://brookshire-team-trash.beehiiv.com/p/on-eating-time

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  Growing a garden makes you realize when you eat a vegetable, you're eating TIME. You're eating 80 days in the sun, 80 days of water and soil and growth. And you just wolfed that down as a salad in 30 min. https://brookshire-team-trash.beehiiv.com/p/on-eating-time?utm_source=brookshire-team-trash.beehiiv.com&utm_medium=newsletter&utm_campaign=on-eating-time&_bhlid=bd56cac7f40f8d960e424867bfbff77cfb3b1b18

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  Where does a tree-dwelling mammal take a poo? A la-treen. I'll be here all week. https://www.sciencenews.org/article/cloud-forest-mammals-poop-tree-hub

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  Tree-dwelling mammals in Costa Rica head to a strangler fig when they need to take a dump. The entire time reporting this piece I wondered if it was because you know, figs have fiber and maybe there's just a VERY constipated sloth... https://www.sciencenews.org/article/cloud-forest-mammals-poop-tree-hub

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  Hi please make this your weekend read because I ruined every single one of my social media algorithms to do this reporting. I'm now suffering through constant side by side images of "reta face" https://www.scientificamerican.com/article/the-science-behind-the-peptide-craze/

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  Thank you @bittelmethis.bsky.social for calling me up to talk about what we can ALL learn from rats. “One of the things I’ve learned from rats is to thrive where you are and not where you wish you were,” says Brookshire. https://bigthink.com/science-tech/how-rats-conquered-earth/

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  Via @science.org's newsletter, can you imagine being the tree that all the mammals species around poo on? Anyway it's the strangler fig. https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1002/ece3.72964?et_cid=5920044&et_rid=51388002

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  "The second dark truth is how easy it is to simply go along. Most Berliners — and even Buruma's own father — did their jobs, took their pleasures and preferred not to think about the evils under their noses." https://www.npr.org/2026/04/02/nx-s1-5763755/stay-alive-berlin-ian-buruma-review

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  Listen I need to talk to you all about DC putting the rats on birth control. Because their plan might work. But the birth control will NOT be why. https://brookshire-team-trash.beehiiv.com/p/on-giving-birth-control-to-rats?utm_source=brookshire-team-trash.beehiiv.com&utm_medium=newsletter&utm_campaign=on-giving-birth-control-to-rats&_bhlid=4324dd38f6b850e96418700975d11e474c6ec115

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  When I picture "rat birth control" I cannot help but imagine a bunch of rats carefully learning to put tiny condoms on tiny bananas. https://brookshire-team-trash.beehiiv.com/p/on-giving-birth-control-to-rats?utm_source=brookshire-team-trash.beehiiv.com&utm_medium=newsletter&utm_campaign=on-giving-birth-control-to-rats&_bhlid=4324dd38f6b850e96418700975d11e474c6ec115

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  "If you are a professional writer, I want you to use AI. Because this industry is competitive. I’ll take any advantage I can get. And if you want to make your writing suck, that’s all the better for me. One less person outshining me." https://defector.com/go-ahead-and-use-ai-it-will-only-help-me-dominate-you

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  Adults are super worried about kids these days turning to chatGPT to do their homework, for dating advice... ...what about NUTRITION. It's not good! https://www.sciencenews.org/article/ai-teen-nutrition-advice-chatbot-diet-food OTOH I'm also remembering when I was a teen and the mags I turned to for nutrition advice....

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  "....the possum first arrived in the US disguised as a children's toy and purchased duty-free. As it happened, that possum was expecting, and now possum eradication efforts in the lower 48 cost upwards of $218 million per year" - us in 30 years, probably. https://www.theguardian.com/australia-news/2026/mar/19/possum-hobart-airport-gift-shop-soft-toys

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  Ooo this looks truly fascinating https://www.nature.com/articles/d41586-026-00881-6?utm_source=bluesky&utm_medium=social&utm_campaign=nature&linkId=61022133

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  Red-breasted nuthatches coat the edges of their nests in sap, keeping out pesky squirrels or other birds! By @rheisman.bsky.social But wow can you imagine getting all this resin and spreading it and then trying to get it off your BILL with no HANDS. URGH. https://www.allaboutbirds.org/news/why-nuthatches-coat-nest-entrances-sap/