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🚨BIG SCIENCE NEWS 🚨

And our results (along with our international colleagues) have dropped!

Our team (and others) have started to see the strongest evidence as yet of the stochastic gravitational wave background - ripples in space-time cause by ALL the supermassive black holes in the history of the Universe colliding!

We use pulsars to study these riplles and we needed almost 20 years of data to even get the first hints! It's the long game!

I'm a co-author on the Aussie papers (as part of my work) but I also wrote about it here in my latest feature article on #SpaceAustralia

This is why I have been going on about pulsars for a few weeks now - this was coming!

Check it out here: https://www.spaceaustralia.com/feature/australian-scientists-help-uncover-cosmic-gravitational-rumblings

📸 Shanika Galaudage

#Astrodon #Astrophysics #RadioAstronomy #GravitationalWaves #Science #Pulsars

Projections indicate Swiss approve climate bill as Alpine nation's glaciers succumb to warming https://apnews.com/article/switzerland-climate-referendum-glaciers-e56bc08b1de2f9e3f050847bb96ccf44 #Climateandenvironment #Switzerland #GeneralNews #APTopNews #WorldNews #Science #Europe

Happy #Pride, everyone! Want some Pride merch from someone who WON'T move it to the back of the store when fascists whine about seeing it?

I'm an Ace, gay artist with a series of cute, punny illustrations based upon scientifically accurate, amazing facts about how queer the animal kingdom is.

The "Queer Zoology Series" is available in my shop as prints, and for a limited time, as T-shirts. NOTE: t-shirt and print shops are two separate links.

👕 https://art-by-emily-k.creator-spring.com/
🎨 https://emilyk.art/product-category/prints/queer-zoology-series/

@Curator #MastoArt #Queer #Animals #Science

Hi, any books recommendations about #paleobotany?
#paleontology #botany #books #book #biology #science #paleobiology

@lain

I’ve heard people make that framing over the years, and I really don’t know where they come up with it.

The value of the scientific method is exactly that theories are maybe, leading to testing via hypothesis.

When I hear people saying theory is certain, they really get the whole point of #science backwards. If the theory was certain there would be nothing worth testing.

Just for completeness, the way I’d frame science is:
A model describes what you see
A theory guesses at how the model works
An experiment stresses the theory, trying to break it
A hypothesis is the stress point where the theory may break

Znacie badania, które mówią o szkodliwości deratyzacji? Np. dla innych gatunków? Przydadzą się. Zarząd Zieleni Miejskie we Wrocławiu uparcie wykłada trutki nad stawem, w którym żyją kaczowniki (pod częściową ochroną). Dla spanikowanych ludzi to po prostu zwykłe szczury, które wychodzą z kibla i pożerają dzieciątka. #wroclaw #science #panic

It is a #memoir that has more to do with the intersection of #science and #faith than it does anything else. It explains the experiences of those on the schizophrenic spectrum according to Jungian theory. It also tells of how I ended up homeless because the daughter of an FBI informant slandered me.

She always said her mom was FBI; I never believed her. I learned the hard way by ratting on a hitman friend of hers.

I'm waiting for that matter to resolve somehow.

https://jamilagebara.wixsite.com/jamgebaraisthedevil/about-5-1

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#NewSpecies
New false click beetle from Dominican amber just surfaced on #FossilFriday:

Nematodes thoracicus

Treatment: http://treatment.plazi.org/id/267087B0-FFA6-FF9B-6AA5-FBC9FE30CC76
Publication: http://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.7887658
#InsectaMundi

#FAIRdata
#science #taxonomy #ecology #biodiversity #nature #wildlife #conservation #animals #invertebrates #entomology #insects #coleoptera #beetles #bugs #paleo #paleontology #fossil

Hi! I need recommendations for chemistry book. For someone that does not really know much, only basic stuff from organic chemistry. It could even be big, equivalently for Campbell Biology, but in chemistry, I wouldn't mind.

#chemistry #science #education #book #recommendation

After witnessing a white doctor refuse to treat a sick, elderly Native American woman who later died, Susan La Flesche Picotte decided to become a physician to help her people. Born in 1865, she grew up on Nebraska’s Omaha reservation.

In 1889, Picotte became the first female Native American to earn a medical degree in the U.S. She raised funding & opened Wathill Hospital in 1913 - the first private hospital on a reservation. https://drsusancenter.org/dr-susan #HistoryRemix #history #science

#NewSpecies
New alpheid shrimp from Japan just floated in:

Metabetaeus lapillicola
Holotype: @chiba_chuohaku

Treatment: http://treatment.plazi.org/id/03DA2753-1A6D-FFCE-FF5E-FD21FD71F80D
Publication: http://doi.org/10.11646/zootaxa.5258.3.5
#Zootaxa

#FAIRdata
#science #taxonomy #ecology #biodiversity #nature #wildlife #conservation #animals #decapoda #crustaceae #shrimps #japan

The history of Earth as the length of a human’s outstretched arm - representing 4.5 billion years of time.

At this scale, humans emerged so recently that we could be filed off from a microscopic slice at the very tip of a fingernail.

Infographic by Katie Scott from original article in Nautilus. Details at https://ncse.ngo/deep-time-really-really-deep-man #space #time #science

Meat industry blocked the IPCC’s attempt to recommend a plant-based diet

“A leak of a draft of the Intergovernmental Panel on #ClimateChange (#IPCC) report..has been particularly enlightening when it comes to just how much how delegations negotiate, watered down & delete scientists’ findings.”

https://qz.com/ipcc-report-on-climate-change-meat-industry-1850261179 #science #food

I am not a tech person. I had absolutely *no idea* about effect of #Twitter using algorithms on my feed. I figured it just sent me things based on my overall interests, learning from my follows, RTs, etc.

And...maybe that was true? I don't know. But now, 2.5 months into using #Mastodon, my feed here is enriching.

I truly underestimated what it means to self-curate. #Art, #Knitting, #Books, #Science, #Politics, #News...it's a dinner party in an art gallery in a bookstore.

One of my favorite animals is the very rare blanket octopus. Few people have seen them firsthand. https://youtu.be/QJcXMPJ9XN8

The female has a spectacular ‘cape’ enclosing her tentacles, which makes her look larger to predators. She can grow >6.5ft or 2m!

Meanwhile, the male is smaller than a walnut. He weighs 40,000x less than the female, measuring just 2.4cm.

Blanket octopus are the most extreme example of gender size discrepancy across the (non-mircoscopic) animal kingdom. #nature #science

“Scientists have created baby mice from two males for the first time, raising the possibility of using the same technique for people.”

https://www.inkl.com/a/qVwpMBIMLpM

In a stunning blow to bigots everywhere, it turns out god’s fine with Adam and Steve.

#stemCells #science #lgbtq

Properly jaw-dropping moment this evening: an e-mail from my US publisher saying that "since it's a science book", they'll publish Blue Machine WITH METRIC UNITS. So I don't have to convert everything to foot pounds per square elephant. In YEARS of writing for the US, this is the first time I have ever had a hint that there is a world outside feet and inches. Progress! #Books #Metric #Science