This is fascinating! A team of scientists traced the genetic history of 214 diseases across Europe and Asia over the last 37,000 years. Suggesting that animal to human diseases started when nomads began travelling faster & further. nature.com/articles/s4158…

Det här är en otroligt inskränkande och godtycklig lagstiftning. Tyvärr är det bara en tidsfråga innan liknande kommer att föreslås i Sverige.

Welcome to… …DinoCon!

Hark! Is that a mineral list I spy? mineralcup.org/2025/minerals-… Lots of new contenders this year as we increase to 75% turnover for #MinCup25.

Come on now! #Chrysotile shouldn't go this bad just because it tries to kill you! That such a humanocentric position! #MinCup25 mineralcup.org/2025/results/r…

Listen up! #perovskite needs your support! Go stan for the quirky calciun titanate mineral!

Vote blood rock! #MinCup25

I am opposed to AI products and services because of the extra power they require... IN A CLIMATE CRISIS. I am opposed to AI results - texts and illustrations - because they've been created unethically, via theft and non-consensual use of the work of others. Share if you agree.

Watched "the Orphan" (Walking with Dinosaurs) yesterday on Swedish television, with my 80 y old mom and was asked to relate to Jay that it was "very sweet, if a little sad at the end". She liked that it didn't focus on "the biggest beast".

All right people. It is either boring blue copper OR the space stone that hasn't been exhaustively proved not to be alien poop. You know what to do, go vote!

Trammell Tillman has won Best Supporting Actor in a Drama Series for his role in Severance. He is the first Black actor to win in the history of the Emmys

Cool space rock or ubiquitous green go? Well, my vote goes out into the cold, dark reaches of space today, as should yours! Plus, sample pictured is from Sweden Go vote in #MinCup25

We can't have it like this. Perovskite is good and all, but it is no #tugtupite! 53 votes? We can still save this! Go vote for the wonderful 'reindeer blood'-mineral: mineralcup.org/2025/vote/r3m02

No no no... Right now #Tugtupite is _down_ by eight votes. Eight votes. If this is how it ends and you did not vote for the reindeer-blod mineral, can you look on yourself in the reflective surface of your choice tomorrow?

Outtröttlig var ordet!

Yeah, so it is ”the wreck of Edmund Fitzgerald” that adds a couple of years, that is all…

You heard of elf on a shelf, now get ready for

A mnemonic device for remembering the Great Lakes