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Welcome to the Horrorcene
A new phase of Human Political Economic Social differentiation
A concatenation of catastrophic Crisis's
Starvation Resource Wars
Fortress Europe & USA Refugee Concentration Camps
Deforestation Desertification Extinctions
Loss
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China now dominates global production of renewable energy technologies.

It makes 80% of the world’s solar cells, 70% of its wind turbines, and 70% of its lithium batteries, at prices no competitor can match.

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www.science.org/content/arti...
Science’s 2025 Breakthrough of the Year: The unstoppable rise of renewable energy
Clean energy infrastructure is being deployed with unmatched scale and speed—and China is leading the way
www.science.org
December 25, 2025 at 10:03 AM
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Researchers who are using generative AI to write scientific papers are publishing a significantly higher number of studies, a new analysis finds. cen.acs.org/policy/publi... #chemsky 🧪
Researchers who use generative AI to write papers are publishing more
Large language models produce papers that use more-complex language and cite a wider range of sources
cen.acs.org
December 25, 2025 at 12:28 PM
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Editorial: Let sleeping Arctic refuges lie—US industry has enough oil cen.acs.org/energy/fossi... #chemsky 🧪
Editorial: Let sleeping Arctic refuges lie—US industry has enough oil
Chemical & Engineering News (C&EN): Keeping you up to date with the chemistry news that matters most. Published by the American Chemical Society.
cen.acs.org
December 25, 2025 at 12:31 PM
Merry Christmas
Art by EX Maher
Socialist Irish Chromodynamic Artist 2021
December 25, 2025 at 4:44 PM
Campbell’s promises its soups are not made with 3D printed meat www.theverge.com/news/829516/...
Campbell’s promises its soups are not made with 3D printed meat
Welcome to 2025.
www.theverge.com
November 26, 2025 at 5:08 PM
RAM prices are so out of control that stores are selling it like lobster www.theverge.com/news/828337/...
RAM prices are so out of control that stores are selling it like lobster
Catch of the day.
www.theverge.com
November 26, 2025 at 3:30 PM
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Darwin’s publisher, John Murray, was usually quite generous about paying for maps, plates, and in-text images for D’s books, and D attended closely to his illustrations, so it’s surprising that the Origin featured only 1, a diagrammatic model of change through time.

🌱🐋🧪 #histSTM #evobio 🐡
November 24, 2025 at 4:53 PM
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Imagine digging into rock that should be almost lifeless…
and uncovering an entire ocean community instead.

That’s what a new discovery in the Arctic just revealed
and it’s rewriting how we think life recovers after mass extinctions.
🧪 #SciComm
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Scientists Found Something Shocking in the Arctic!
A new fossil discovery in the Arctic just blew paleontologists' minds. Imagine you are a scientist and someone tells you they found a fossil on a remote island in Norway. This arctic discovery…
youtube.com
November 24, 2025 at 5:06 PM
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Testing 191 proposed linguistic universals with methods that account for genealogical descent & geographical proximity: “despite vast design space of possible grammars, languages don't evolve entirely at random. Shared cognitive/communicative pressures repeatedly push towards similar solutions.“👇🧪
Enduring constraints on grammar revealed by Bayesian spatiophylogenetic analyses - Nature Human Behaviour
Despite their great diversity, human languages are shaped by recurring grammatical universals. Verkerk et al. show that about one-third of the proposed universals hold cross-linguistically through ana...
www.nature.com
November 24, 2025 at 5:40 PM
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I just made this video for my astro-for-non-physicist course on the solar system, to illustrate celestial motion. The separate clips are all winners/honorable mentions of the @astro4edu.bsky.social astrophoto contest 2022. So nice to have this material! 🧪🔭🎢
October 26, 2025 at 9:45 PM
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October 26, 2025 sun 🧪
October 26, 2025 at 10:28 PM
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“When just a few events could virtually eliminate a supposedly strong statistical finding, readers should be skeptical of any predictive claims made from the data” 🧪🛟
October 21, 2025 at 6:47 PM
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Let's talk eels & colonization!

In the early 17th C. London was growing fast and needed more eels.The surrounding countryside couldn't provide enough.

The Dutch importers could...but the English were nervous of the strong Dutch monopoly.

So where did they look? Ireland. 1/5
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October 6, 2025 at 3:54 PM
How an insect might change how surgeons operate on the human body

The sawfly’s egg-laying organ, the ovipositor, could help modern surgical techniques
Neil Pooran
Monday 06 October 2025 00:03 BS
www.independent.co.uk/news/health/...
How an insect might change how surgeons operate on the human body
The sawfly’s egg-laying organ, the ovipositor, could help modern surgical techniques
www.independent.co.uk
October 6, 2025 at 2:07 AM
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January 25, 2025 at 2:30 AM
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December 11, 2024 at 5:27 PM
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#Art
Tá an Ghrian ag damhsa
The Sun is dancing
Artist EXP Maher 2022 Private Collection
December 14, 2024 at 12:17 AM
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Born Before 1996? According to Scientists, Leaded Gas May Have Permanently Altered Your Personality scitechdaily.com/born-before-...
Born Before 1996? According to Scientists, Leaded Gas May Have Permanently Altered Your Personality
Harmful lead exposure from air, water, and soil impacts the well-being of 151 million Americans. In 1923, lead was introduced into gasoline to improve car engine performance. However, this boost to au...
scitechdaily.com
December 14, 2024 at 3:08 AM
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Artist EXP Maher 2022 Private Collection

Aigne i lár
Mind in the middle
December 15, 2024 at 5:36 PM
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Artist EXP Maher 2023 Private Collection
sníomh
spinning
December 18, 2024 at 12:04 AM
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December 18, 2024 at 1:27 AM
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Hospital privatisation is linked with worse quality care for patients – new research
theconversation.com/hospital-pri...
Hospital privatisation is linked with worse quality care for patients – new research
Our review shows that evidence to support further privatisation of healthcare services is weak.
theconversation.com
January 9, 2025 at 4:34 AM
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September 1, 2025 at 7:16 PM
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Every space mission carries the potential to transform our understanding of life in the cosmos—yet 41 are at risk of cancellation.

The Nancy Grace Roman Space Telescope could be silenced before it reveals distant exoplanets. DAVINCI could lose its chance to probe Venus’s unique atmosphere. 🧪 🔭
September 1, 2025 at 11:01 PM