And so, as if your heart and soul isn't crushed enough by witnessing the accelerating idiocy of modern industrial civilization, record global sea surface temperatures continue on, with yesterday's record of 20.97°C at 4.56σ above the 1982-2011 mean.

The alarming decline in dissolved oxygen in our ocean is impacting the broader stability of Earth’s systems, according to a new study by a team including Scripps scientist Lisa Ann Levin and alum Erica M. Ferrer. Read the study published in NatureEcoEvo: go.nature.com/4bLWu42

Been speaking to international journalists today on the horror unfolding in Turkey. The Government will pay a heavy price for playing politics with the lives of hundreds of thousands of street dogs #Turkey

Antarctic sea-ice extent is currently at 5.52 standard deviations below the 1991-2020 daily mean. Or, more simply, there is about 2,030,000 km² less sea-ice than usual for this time of year.

My mum joins protest in Piccadilly Circus today, against Turkish Government plans to carry out mass slaughter of stray dogs & cats #Turkey

One last job. #YusufDikec

A new type of microbe discovered in the human gut! Called obelisks, they can create their own proteins that are entirely new to science. The team named their proteins “oblins.” Scientists scratching their heads about it biorxiv.org/content/10.110…

The wording’s a bit hard to follow, but basically: In a high emissions scenario, 70% of the world’s population will face “unprecedented” joint temperature and precipitation extremes (over 2 standard deviations from pre-Industrial) *within the next 20 years*. #GoodLuckOutThere

Stem cells reverse woman’s diabetes — a world first go.nature.com/3N2FOf2

World-first therapy using donor cells sends autoimmune diseases into remission go.nature.com/3XTDXOC

Free scientific illustrations for biologists! 😍 NIH has released a library of 500+ free scientific illustrations to create figures, presentations, and illustrations! all freely available in the public domain. Retweet and spread the message! bioart.niaid.nih.gov

We think that all memory is stored in the brain. But our study published today in Nature Communications shows that all cells—even kidney cells—can count, detect patterns, store memories, and do so similarly to brain cells. My first (co)corresponding author paper!🧵nature.com/articles/s4146…

Teachers. If you need a Christmas resource for a lesson over the coming weeks, these may be handy. Lots of festive puzzles and some quizzes too. None are mine but gathered over the years. Hope you find them useful 🎅🎄drive.google.com/drive/folders/…

In 2023, we brought a sample of an asteroid called Bennu to Earth, part of a plan to study remnants of our early solar system. These grains of rock have shown that the building blocks of life and the conditions for making them existed on Bennu's parent body 4.5 billion years ago.

Any of these look familiar? We make science accessible to all, for free. Unfortunately, some of our federal grants have been terminated. We’re in the same boat with many others whose work has been halted. We need your help!

It took about 800hours to build this, please use 1 sec of your time to like and repost. thank you.

I don't think many of my followers are seeing my posts anymore. 😔 The algorithm doesn't seem to promote photographers like it used to a few years ago.. If you see this tweet, of a Robin dropping from a berry laden branch, please can you let me know in the comments. 🙏🐦♥️

Ordu’da çöplükten kuş cennetine dönüşen alanı korumak ve sesimizi duyurmak için desteklerinizi bekliyoruz. Daha çok insana ulaşmak ve kamuoyu oluşturmak gerçekten çok mühim.

My little book on Schrödinger's famous classic 'What Is Life?' is out today! It offers the most comprehensive analysis ever undertaken of the book's origins, reception, impact, and legacy. Please share; it is free to download for the next 2 weeks! cambridge.org/core/elements/…

THY İstanbul-Shanghai uçuşunda satın aldığımız koltukların ikisinin de ön cepleri hasarlı ve kullanılamaz halde. 11 saatlik uçuş. Üstelik hasarlı olduğu biliniyormuş fakat bir türlü onarılmıyormuş. Satın aldığımız hizmetin karşılığı bu mu? TK HelpDesk Türk Hava Yolları