Both Australia's public service and Australian businesses need to step up commitments to science, both are at around half the investment of the OECD average.

www.science.org.au/supporting-s...

That's more than 1,100 jobs lost at the CSIRO over the last two years.

"Combined, the staff association estimates that equates to cutting the agency’s size by a third."

This is more cuts to the CSIRO than was attempted by the Abbott government.

www.smh.com.au/national/csi...

Huh, I guess NIN's Year Zero was pretty accurate after all, only off by a few years

Hearing that they are investigating the source of the blood from Melbourne Cup winner "Half Yours". Could be EIPH which could lead to a ban

Ha, I broke google ai's formatting

One of the crazier scientific papers I've read was one maybe 15 years ago which proposed giving people modified HIV to fight Leukemia

Definitely one for @killthecomputer.com

From the replies (bsky.app/profile/dasb...) here's Sam Altman doing what the quoted post described. He seems serious about it.

Been listening to the Oreshika OST on repeat the past few days. It's by Konosuke Kihara who also did the Linda Cube soundtrack.

I love this track at the end that weaves all the musical themes together into a Japanese dance track to fight demons to.
youtu.be/XQaNLCZcqII?...

Engel's debut album, Absolute Design, still goes hard. Magnus Klavborn really makes the album pop