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Insight into One of Life’s Earliest Ancestors Revealed in New Study (www.bristol.ac.uk)

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An international team of researchers led by the University of Bristol has shed light on Earth’s earliest ecosystem, showing that within a few hundred million years of planetary formation, life on Earth was already flourishing.

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'The last 12 months have broken records like never before': Earth exceeds 1.5 C warming every month for entire year (www.space.com)

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cross-posted from: https://lemmygrad.ml/post/5089915

Jesus, the comments here are abysmal from what I can tell.

I'm no doomer, but we need to do something about this, even on the grassroots level.

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Volunteer computing project SiDock starts work on Ebola drugs (www.sidock.si)

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SiDock is a volunteer computing project on the [email protected] platform which uses the computing power of computers of volunteers to do open source drug discovery.

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What we learned about social transformations to sustainability from a decade of transdisciplinary research (poliversity.it)

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What we learned about social transformations to sustainability from a decade of transdisciplinary research

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https://council.science/blog/what-we-learned-about-social-transformations-to-sustainability-transdisciplinary-research/?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=what-we-learned-about-social-transformations-to-sustainability-transdisciplinary-research

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ISC renews position on academic boycotts and the role of universities in enabling responsible discussion and upholding rational debate (poliversity.it)

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ISC renews position on academic boycotts and the role of universities in enabling responsible discussion and upholding rational debate

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https://council.science/statements/isc-renews-position-academic-boycotts-role-of-universities/?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=isc-renews-position-academic-boycotts-role-of-universities

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World Population Day: Sustainable population growth for a sustainable future requires understanding, comprehensive planning and collaboration (poliversity.it)

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World Population Day: Sustainable population growth for a sustainable future requires understanding, comprehensive planning and collaboration

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https://council.science/blog/world-population-day-sustainable-population-growth-for-a-sustainable-future/?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=world-population-day-sustainable-population-growth-for-a-sustainable-future

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Found with Webb: a Potentially Habitable World (nouvelles.umontreal.ca)

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ISC’s 2023 Annual Report: A Year of Transformation and Global Impact (poliversity.it)

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ISC’s 2023 Annual Report: A Year of Transformation and Global Impact

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https://council.science/news/iscs-2023-annual-report-a-year-of-transformation-and-global-impact/?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=iscs-2023-annual-report-a-year-of-transformation-and-global-impact

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Scientists develop futuristic material to help us beat the heat: 'A viable candidate for radiative cooling' (www.thecooldown.com)

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Psychological truths like Skinner vs Pavlov Conditioning (slrpnk.net)

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Something I find fascinating is that being consistent (and trustworthy) is less effective than being 80/20% consistent (classical vs operant conditioning) at training dogs where there are contextual/environmental cues at play. It's personally counter-intuitive, but I've seen it work and am convinced (I attribute it to evolutionary mechanisms, my goto in biology).

I'm wondering what other psychology as a science results have solid statistics behind them that I'm unaware of (I'm compsci with a physics/maths background, so it's probably most), and are interesting...

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Giant phallus-shaped iceberg floating in Conception Bay surprises residents of Dildo, Canada (www.livescience.com)

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It's a bit old but the shape and the city name were so funny that I couldn't not post it XD

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Science, technology and innovation: Triggering transformation and sustaining science-driven solutions (poliversity.it)

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Science, technology and innovation: Triggering transformation and sustaining science-driven solutions