Elizabeth Jacobs, PhD

elizabethjacobs.bsky.social

21 October 2026 12:59

Holy cow. The Guinea-Bissau offices of the two Danish researchers who were funded by RFK Jr. to conduct an unethical experiment with the HepB vaccine just had their offices raided and vaccines seized by the police. Great work on reporting this story once again by @melodyschreiber.com.

MBARI

mbarinews.bsky.social

21 October 2026 12:57

Deep-sea mom things ☺️⁠ ⁠ This dedicated decapod mama, Neolithodes sp., is also known as a king crab. King crabs crawl across the seafloor in search of their next meal, which could be other crabs, sea stars, dead animals, or organic material that sinks from the surface waters above.⁠

SMBE IDEA taskforce

smbe-idea.bsky.social

21 October 2026 12:57

✨ 𝗠𝗲𝗲𝘁 𝘁𝗵𝗲 𝗦𝗠𝗕𝗘 𝗜𝗗𝗘𝗔 𝗧𝗮𝘀𝗸 𝗙𝗼𝗿𝗰𝗲 ✨ 👤 Name: Maria Joana Ferreira da Silva 📩 Contact: @mariju80.bsky.social 🌎 From: Porto, Portugal 🇵🇹 🏛️ Institution: Cardiff University, UK 🇬🇧 and Minho University, Portugal 🇵🇹 🔬 Research: Primate Conservation Genetics/Genomics @official-smbe.bsky.social

Laurence D

laurencediver.net

21 October 2026 12:56

The original sin is believing that extrapolating (severely limited representations of) the past in order to shape the future is an effective way to do anything www.theguardian.com/technology/2...

Iris van Rooij 💭

irisvanrooij.bsky.social

21 October 2026 12:55

In contrast to #AIhype we find a more sensible perspective further back in history. >100 years before cogsci was formed as an interdiscipline, Ada Lovelace warned against "the possibility of exaggerated ideas ... as to the powers of the Analytical Engine ["AI"]" (cf. ACT 1) 19/n