Bellingcat’s contact email has always been a magnet for people with fairly unusual views; paranoid delusions, sprawling conspiracies, the works. But recently, the pattern has shifted, we’re seeing more and more emails clearly written with ChatGPT.

COMMENTARY: The Danes are right, if the US president presses ahead in Greenland, other territories can and will follow elsewhere.

🔗 www.politico.eu/article/gree...

Evidence keeps piling up that the incredible progress in the field of ubiquitous hyper-compelling short-form video delivery has been bad for society and deleterious to most people’s interests.

www.slowboring.com/p/more-strea...

@philipcball.bsky.social saw this in the @nytimes.com today: “hands and feet were not the products of new genes doing new things. Rather, through natural selection, pieces of old genetic recipes for ancient body parts were cobbled together into new combinations.”

www.nytimes.com/2025/09/17/s...

The August issue is now fully online, with a beautiful cover that might be a nostalgia trigger for some of us (young people can find an explanation in the Editorial):

www.nature.com/nplants/volu...

Delighted to attend Genomic Mechanisms of Disease conference! The 31st Science Cluster conference, "Genomic Mechanisms of Disease" brings together experts to discuss research on the genomic influences underlying various diseases. Thx to novonordiskfonden.dk/en/projects/...
@novo-nordisk.bsky.social

“Officers found messages criticizing Trump's policies on his phone and computer following sweeping cuts to scientific research. […] the researcher was sent back to France.”

And not long ago Republicans were very upset about cancel culture threatening free speech 🤔

www.newsweek.com/french-scien...