If you’re in STEM and you’re eligible to vote in the midterms…YOU BETTER BE VOTING. I want “I VOTED” sticker selfies in the comments. This is an unconstitutional robbery of our scientific ecosystem cen.acs.org/policy/resea...

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1/ Two really fun reviews just landed back to back in Current Biology, both on a question I never get tired of: why did animals take over when they did? One argues animals engineered their own world. The other argues oxygen and temperature had to line up first.

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OpenAI continues to enshittify ChatGPT: OpenAI allows advertisers — or really anyone, I tested myself in 5 minutes — upload raw phone numbers or email addresses to OpenAI to then target those specific people and inject specific ads into their ChatGPT session www.404media.co/how-chatgpt-...

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Terrific piece on Long Covid. Thanks to Physics Girl for sharing what she’s been through—it does a great job illustrating what millions are up against. Check it out—understanding how LC unfolds is crucial to understanding why we need to advocate for both better mitigations and better treatments.

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The fact that our latest and most ambitious Unbaffled video yet, on quantum chromodynamics and discovery of quarks and gluons, has had 0.5M views in its first 4 days confirms what I’ve always suspected: there’s a real appetite for this stuff: youtu.be/fRa8gDCBTLE Thanks for so many +ve comments too.

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