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📷 Enter the Royal Society Publishing 2025 Photo Competition

This annual competition, which includes an #astronomy category, celebrates the role great images play in making science accessible to a wide audience. Deadline for entries: 15 August. aas.org/posts/news/2... 🔭

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June 23, 2025 at 1:56 PM
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The universe will still be there to marvel at, despite brutal cuts set to hit NASA and the National Science Foundation's budgets. But the damage to future research will be long-lasting, says Chanda Prescod-Weinstein
Trump's proposed science cuts will have huge consequences
The universe will still be there to marvel at, despite brutal cuts set to hit NASA and the National Science Foundation's budgets. But the damage to future research will be long-lasting, says Chanda Prescod-Weinstein
www.newscientist.com
June 23, 2025 at 1:57 PM
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Mexico tied Costa Rica 0-0 to win Group A of the CONCACAF Gold Cup and will play Saudi Arabia in the quarterfinals.
Mexico wins CONCACAF Gold Cup group after 0-0 draw against Costa Rica
Mexico tied Costa Rica 0-0 to win Group A of the CONCACAF Gold Cup and will play Saudi Arabia in the quarterfinals.
bit.ly
June 23, 2025 at 2:00 PM
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Protests were held around the world on Sunday against the Trump administration’s airstrikes on Iran. Demonstrators at several locations carried Iranian flags, and some held signs and placed banners across fences and buildings that read “No War in Iran!” nyti.ms/4lmyOc0
June 23, 2025 at 2:09 PM
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#ShowYourStripes Day!

SCAR INSTANT is attending the ATCM in Milan, italy 🇮🇹. Temperature in Milan have increased drastically over the past 10 years. as the first heat wave strikes, it reminds us that polar areas are vunerable but regulate the temperature of the planet.🌏

@scar-antarctic.bsky.social
June 21, 2025 at 8:48 PM
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The 27th Meeting of the Committee for Environmental Protection #CEP27 opened today in Milan 🇮🇹, with the participation of nearly 450 delegates.

SCAR is attending as an Observer, providing scientific advice.
The 47th Antarctic Treaty Consultative Meeting #ATCM47 begins tomorrow.
June 23, 2025 at 2:23 PM
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An exciting legal precedent was just set in BC 🎉

The BC Human Rights Tribunal decision found for the first time in Canada that the failure to allow for remote work for an immunocompromised employee was discrimination on the ground of disability

www.hcamag.com/ca/specializ...
Employer required to accommodate immunocompromised employees during communicable disease outbreaks
Measles outbreaks raise issue of accommodation similar to COVID-19
www.hcamag.com
June 23, 2025 at 1:27 PM
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🇮🇳 True size of India
June 23, 2025 at 2:48 PM
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Millions of stars and galaxies fill a dreamy cosmic landscape in the first-ever images released from a new astronomical observatory with the largest digital camera in the world.
First images from world's largest digital camera reveal galaxies and cosmic collisions
Astronomers have been eagerly anticipating the images from the Vera C. Rubin Observatory, with experts saying it could help solve some of the universe’s most enduring mysteries.
nbcnews.to
June 23, 2025 at 3:20 PM
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Harvard's AAA rating can withstand Trump threats for now, S&P Global says reut.rs/3I7Scea
Harvard's AAA rating can withstand Trump threats for now, S&P Global says
The triple A ratings of Harvard and other U.S. Ivy League colleges should be able to withstand all but the most extreme and coordinated tax and endowment fund threats posed by Donald Trump's U.S. administration, S&P Global has said.
reut.rs
June 23, 2025 at 3:45 PM
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From @theathleticfc.bsky.social: Players, fans and executives have been complaining about the heat at the Club World Cup — and it's about to get a lot hotter.

“It’s impossible, terribly hot. My toenails were hurting; I couldn’t slow down or speed up. It was unbelievable.”
Extreme heat at the Club World Cup: Players and fans voice concerns as temperatures soar
A heatwave will hit the U.S. this week where players and fans at the Club World Cup are already concerned about the dangerous weather
trib.al
June 23, 2025 at 3:50 PM
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The victim was not the subject of any warrant, but just a random grab based on racial profiling.

He was in the process of applying for citizenship. That means he had no criminal record as was here legally as a permanent resident.

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Landscaper violently detained by agents in Santa Ana has three Marine sons
A Tustin landscaper has been identified by his eldest Marine vet son after he was violently detained by immigration agents in Santa Ana.
santanero.org
June 23, 2025 at 12:06 AM
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Qatar has closed its airspace amid Iranian retaliation threats against the U.S.

Follow live updates.
Live updates: Alarm grows after the US inserts itself into Israel's war against Iran
The U.S. military’s strike on three sites in Iran raised urgent questions about what remains of Tehran’s nuclear program and how its weakened military might respond.
bit.ly
June 23, 2025 at 3:57 PM
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Powering quantum computers with quantum batteries would reduce the energy needed for cooling and enable machines to pack in more qubits
Quantum batteries could make quantum computers more efficient
www.newscientist.com
May 6, 2025 at 8:29 AM
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A 113-million-year-old hell ant from Brazil is the oldest ant fossil ever discovered – and it shows just how these insects spread across the world.
Oldest ant fossil ever found shows how ants took over the world
A fossilised 113-million-year-old hell ant from Brazil adds to the evidence that the first ants evolved in the southern hemisphere before moving north – and beyond
www.newscientist.com
May 6, 2025 at 8:56 AM
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Under the Trump administration, multiple US government agencies are using AI and other tools to broadly track the social media of tourists and immigrants – and potentially to watch US citizens as well
US government is using AI for unprecedented social media surveillance
Under the Trump administration, multiple US government agencies are using AI and other tools to broadly track the social media of tourists and immigrants – and potentially to watch US citizens as well
www.newscientist.com
May 6, 2025 at 9:50 AM
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When a dangerous landslide hits, rescuers scrambling to assist need to know exactly where to look - and now a new technique for analysing seismic data could help.
Landslide rescuers to get help from rapid analysis of seismic data
Being able to quickly pinpoint the location of events such as landslides and pyroclastic flows will help rescue efforts, say the team behind a new technique for doing so
www.newscientist.com
May 6, 2025 at 11:17 AM
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Don’t miss this timely webinar from @techfreedom.org and WLF!

On Thursday, May 8 at 2 PM ET, join Bilal Sayyed, Giovanna Massarotto, Derek W. Moore, and Koren Wong-Ervin as they unpack the ruling in the DOJ’s ad-tech antitrust case.

Register here: us06web.zoom.us/webinar/regi...
Welcome! You are invited to join a webinar: Ruling in the DOJ's Ad Tech Antitrust Case: Impact on Competition and Online Business. After registering, you will receive a confirmation email about joinin...
A district court has found that Google willfully engaged in a series of anticompetitive acts to acquire and maintain monopoly power in the publisher ad server and ad exchange markets for open-web disp...
us06web.zoom.us
May 2, 2025 at 2:18 PM
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An office manager at a VA center in Wyoming, where the veteran suicide rate is 50% higher than the national average, was fired last month despite a glowing job review.
She helped veterans in crisis. DOGE cuts eliminated her job.
An office manager at a VA center in Wyoming, where the veteran suicide rate is 50% higher than the national average, was fired last month despite a glowing job review.
nbcnews.to
March 26, 2025 at 1:45 AM
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Conan O’Brien was honored at the John F. Kennedy Center for the Performing Arts on Sunday. The lineup included big-name comedians who mostly roasted O’Brien — but President Trump and his recent takeover of the center quickly became the second-favorite target of the night.
Trump Jokes Fly at Kennedy Center Event Honoring Conan O’Brien
The star-studded Mark Twain Prize for American Humor ceremony was the most notable event at the Washington arts center since the president installed himself as its chairman.
www.nytimes.com
March 24, 2025 at 2:48 PM
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For too long, the Italian artist Isabella Ducrot looked to others to tell her who she was. “I think life, for women, begins at 60,” she said. “Because then we begin to be free.”
An Artist Flowering in Her Nineties
Isabella Ducrot, a painter in Rome, didn’t really pick up a brush until her fifties. Four decades later, galleries and museums throughout Europe are celebrating her work.
www.newyorker.com
March 24, 2025 at 3:05 PM