Recently I made a post about how I thought scientists were less vocal about our climate crisis; today I came across this and I don't blame them

"Elsewhere in their profession, some scientists are starting to look away. “We know quite a number of entomologists who have experience dating back to the 70s, 80s or 90s,” Hallwachs says. “One of our very good friends – he now does not have the emotional courage to hang up a sheet to collect moths at night. It is too devastating to see how few there are.”

#Climate #Science #Research
#Ecology
https://www.theguardian.com/environment/2025/jun/03/climate-species-collapse-ecology-insects-nature-reserves-aoe?CMP=share_btn_url

#Tsunamis #science #seiche #climatechange

For 9 days in 2023 scientists picked up a pulse every 90 seconds. This remained a mystery. It happened again just a month later. Using technology and satellites they were able to establish that the pulse came from massive waves created by landslides. The landslides created waves that bounced back and forth causing the pulse every 90 seconds. So they are seiche events rather than Tsunamis and are a result of climate change. https://www.discovermagazine.com/planet-earth/the-earth-mysteriously-pulsed-every-90-seconds-for-nine-days-in-2023-we-now

There were two approaches to dealing with the outbreak of measles that spread through the rural community of Gaines County, Texas earlier this year. Dr. Ben Edwards — himself sick with the virus — handed out cod liver oil and prescribed inhalers, neither of which can prevent or cure measles. Meanwhile the waiting room at the only hospital in Seminole, the county's largest town, was virtually empty. On one recent weekday, just four people had come by Gaines County's free vaccine clinic. NBC's Brandy Zadrozny reports on the spread of misinformation, a child's death that brought anti-vaccine activists to town, Robert F. Kennedy Jr.'s involvement, and the situation now that the outbreak has run its course.

https://flip.it/yJzQee

In a First, T cells are Found in the Healthy Human Brain

"We think of T cells as something that fights off infection & causes autoimmune disease, but the surprise of this study is that T cells have a different role in biology that we were unaware of," said David Hafler, MD.
"With this paper, we've definitively shown that their presence is not just disease-related but part of normal physiology, & that changes everything."

#immunology #research #science #brain #biology

https://www.labroots.com/trending/cell-and-molecular-biology/29127/first-cells-found-healthy-human-brain

Grok now getting into climate change denial

https://boingboing.net/2025/06/04/grok-now-getting-into-climate-change-denial.html

" 'We have a sudden explosion in publication rates [of papers] that are extremely formulaic that could easily have been generated by large language models,' says study co-author Matt Spick, a biomedical scientist at the University of Surrey in Guildford, UK."

https://www.nature.com/articles/d41586-025-01592-0?utm_source=Live+Audience&utm_campaign=e1c355dad8-nature-briefing-ai-robotics-20240603&utm_medium=email&utm_term=0_b27a691814-e1c355dad8-50153652&mc_cid=e1c355dad8&mc_eid=9e0e42f19c
#AI #Science #Research #LLM

„Ich will erforschen, warum etwas ist“ – Jessica Wittmann erzählt über ihre Promotion an der Hochschule Hof.

Würdet ihr euch selbst eine Promotion vorstellen können? Warum (nicht)?

"I want to explore why things are" – Jessica Wittmann shares insights into her PhD journey at Hof University.

Can you imagine pursuing a PhD yourself? Why or why not?

Mehr erfahren/Learn more: https://t1p.de/5jqvg

"By rejecting a candidate who most recently led one of the nation’s top research institutions, the board signaled that traditional scholars are no longer welcome as academic leaders in #Florida.
"Ono, a molecular immunologist who just finished a two-and-a-half year stint leading the University of Michigan, had been unanimously backed by the UF Board of Trustees last Tuesday."

Miami Herald https://www.yahoo.com/news/absolute-embarrassment-florida-gop-led-214130053.html
#Science #GOP

#PPOD: Two large, pale discs can be seen in today's PPOD: one of them in the Atacama Desert, the other orbiting the Earth 384,000 km away. The latter is our ever-present Moon, faintly hanging in the clear blue sky. Next to it is the real star of the image: one of the antennas of the Atacama Large Millimeter/submillimeter Array (ALMA). Credit: Y. Villalon/ESO

"...Hunters told stories of a shaggy rat as long as a house cat and as heavy as a newborn baby. Those tales floated through villages for decades, yet no scientist had ever confirmed that Mallomys istapantap was actually alive."
#nature #legend #myth #animals #discovery #weirdnews #odd #offbeat #science
https://www.earth.com/news/giant-woolly-rat-mallomys-istapantap-was-just-photographed-for-the-first-time-ever/

Star colors!

It's wonderful to learn about other amateur astronomers that are portraying star colors:
https://earthsky.org/earthsky-community-photos/entry/52730/
http://www.unsaltonelcielo.it/costellazioni-a-colori/

Attached image is a comparison of my hasty test last night to Paolo's far more detailed work. I note that my single short exposure with a small aperture does reasonably well for bright stars. At the faint end of my image the star colors are not represented well...I may not have subtracted the contribution of the moonlit sky properly, and my inexpensive lens suffers from chromatic aberration which also skews the results.

In southern New Mexico the skies are smoky from forest fires, and monsoon is coming...clear, transparent nights are rare in June. I will wait for monsoon's end in October before I take more star color images.

Scroll down halfway to see another star color portrayal:
https://theskylive.com/sky/stars/atlas-27-tauri-star

This is a follow up to:
https://universeodon.com/@KrajciTom/114623385266834001

https://www.nature.com/articles/s41586-025-08700-0

Immunotherapy trial helps cancer patients with tumours live 40% longer

https://www.theguardian.com/science/2025/may/31/immunotherapy-trial-helps-cancer-patients-with-tumours-live-40-longer

South Florida meteorologist John Morales told his viewers live on air that he can no longer accurately predict hurricane season, due to federal government cuts.

Is there a distinction between believing things for good reasons and believing them for bad ones? Do #science and #religion differ in the degree to which they observe this distinction? Put this way, the debate is over before it even begins.
—Sam Harris

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#atheism #faith #god

#UofG #Science Slam 2025

8 fantastic #PhD students will present their #research in unique and creative ways! This will be held at Cottiers, Glasgow on Thursday 3rd July from 19:00

https://events.bookitbee.com/college-of-science-and-engineering/science-slam-2025/

South Florida weatherman tells viewers he can't accurately predict hurricanes because of government cuts. h/t R Saddler @Politics_PR on Twitter.

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Reports on the homosexual behaviour of penguins in Antarctica were hidden for over 100 years

https://www.cbc.ca/documentaries/the-nature-of-things/reports-on-the-homosexual-behaviour-of-penguins-in-antarctica-were-hidden-for-over-100-years-1.7541056

> It’s just one example of how research on queer animal behaviour has been buried, ignored and dismissed