Barry Goldman

Some spiders THINK hard, and sleep hard! youtu.be/mA-LSpC4d_g?...

Been so for a long time. ONE LOGIN TO RULE THEM ALL

AHEM, take 2: Addison has been the ONLY death row inmate here for DECADES a Black man who shot a cop in 2006, was sentenced to death we abolished the death penalty in 2019, Addison alive in prison but the order was written to allow him, the sole exception, to still be eligible for a state murder

Want to help our neighbors grow native plants in Philadelphia? Help us pack up native plant seed packets that we'll distribute for free across the city! All you need to bring is you 😎 These events are a lovely place to meet new people while helping our world <3 RSVP here: lu.ma/dgs

On Tues Oct 27th, Philly will have gone a full month without access to the Academy of Natural Sciences. Join us at academy at 6pm for a candlelight vigil. We’re keeping the light of hope alive. Wear black if you have it. We’re the dark times, but this fight isn’t over.

Bruce Pennington’s cover art for “The Science Fiction Hall of Fame, Volume Two,” 1973.

There is blatant voter suppression happening right now in Brazil: flights cancelled and buses suspended to Northeastern capitals where Lula holds the majority, polling stations changed to thousands of kms away last-minute, voters in London told they need to go to Edinburgh… This is criminal.

THIS is y musk built rockets. Not to get to mars!

Brazil will get more attention either way it goes, but this is truly an incredible victory for the student protesters. We ran this in March 2025, which explained the movement's strengths but seemed overly optimist in the months that followed. 18 months later, they succeeded. Gen Z strikes again.

The long-serving strongman leader of Serbia, Aleksandar Vucic, has conceded defeat in an election that pitted him and his right-wing party against a diverse student-led opposition movement that spent two years protesting his government.

It's corporations AGAINST govments and eventually.. only corporations. New worldwide pattern. None r democratic until a new round of revolutions

Skeksis from th dark crystal palace?

Alas, alas, ther ys no easilye obtained cure for the dull ache of lonelinesse.

I'm shipping out Freaky Fish totes starting tomorrow! Get yours today so you get them in the first migration outta here Get one at SquidFacts.net

Just saw Wildwood. One of the most heartbreakingly beautiful movies I’ve seen in years. The story would shine on its own, but in combination with the breathtaking hand animation it is truly a masterpiece.

One of the very first video games, and certainly the first (but not last!) example of a video game designed by a physicist! 🧪 ⚛️ 👾

A more than 40% risk reduction “would send many researchers over the Moon”. This personalised mRNA vaccine reduced the risk of skin cancer returning or the recipient dying by 42% go.nature.com/4ik3TNr

🧪⚒️ An important discussion. Tests of significance involve subjective choices about the thresholds above which you should start to pay attention - and what are appropriate (stringent) choices in the context of pure scientific discovery may leave us underprepared for emerging, high-impact risks.

Here is a non-organic very-AI explainer to my wife's question of "what happens after Halloween?"

Daisy Gilardini captured this footage for NatGeo of a Weddell seal (Leptonychotes weddellii) napping & demonstrating the impressive range of vocalizations. But I want to talk about the sounds you CAN'T hear these enormous sea-puppies make! (📷: Daisy Gilardini for Nat Geo)

Reminds me of when I helped in 6th grade social studies here in u.s. and in th south America segment, all mention of th 100s of native languages was as if they were ONLY ancient history. I stopped teacher and said look it up: all those cultures r still alive!

86 scientists are featured in GCSE exam specifications for science. But only one is a woman. Researchers from @cambridgephysics.bsky.social @cambridgeastro.bsky.social @kicc-cambridge.bsky.social say this could be contributing to girls dropping STEM subjects at 16 👇 https://bit.ly/4yYfaKi

Snippets of good news: J pod has a new baby boy! J65 is just a few days old, and his mum is J35 Tahlequah. You know Tahlequah. Her grief made global headlines after losing each of her daughters (Tali in 2018, J61 in 2025). She has two other sons, J47 Notch born in 2010 and J57 Phoenix born in 2020

Anthropologists have often assumed hunting was a male activity for hominin relatives. New research adds strong statistical support to the data for female hunting dominance in bonobos. Is this a better model than the male-dominated chimpanzees for ancient hominins? www.johnhawks.net/p/woman-the-...

Mars is the second most inhabited planet in the solar system. Inhabited by robots...

all my houseplants w lots of oxalate are just trying to stop cats from eating them by being extra painful and leave a texture on your teeth—O hi, spinach

Call me naive but I didn't see the de-extinction scam to evil war animal scam transition coming.

Prints available in my shop of this one from last year. The perfect Christmas gift for the philosophically-inclined office wall . Limited edition, numbered and signed giclee art print - link to shop in bio. #philosophy

𝗖𝘆𝗮𝗻𝗼𝘀 𝗶𝗻 𝘁𝗵𝗲 𝗙𝗮𝗿-𝗥𝗲𝗱 𝗟𝗶𝗴𝗵𝘁 𝗗𝗶𝘀𝘁𝗿𝗶𝗰𝘁 please read Sofie van Dorst's 10-part 🧵here on bluesky – or on Nov 02 in our blog: smallthingsconsidered.blog #MicroSky #ProtistsOnSky #teamtomo #CryoEM #CryoET

This used to be an exhibit at the American museum of natural history that I grew up with in th 60s 79s 80s.. alas it has suffered enshittification. I can't find any old images

Every cactus, but most aren't so massive as a saguaro. Another anti-animal/insect trick in case the spines aren't enough of a deterrent.

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Cactuses make a surprisingly large amount of carbonate when they die. Makes the desert strangely coral reef like.

There was a fucking hole in our planet’s *atmosphere* Like a legit, no joke, “this will unravel our entire ecosystem” hole in the world, and then we fixed it by working together across national and political lines As a species we decided, “we will survive” Let’s do that some more

Wher ys the horse and the rydere? Wher ys the horne that was blowinge? Wher ys the brighte cuppe, the friendes gift? Wher yn the worlde ys Carmen Sandiego?

Incredibly excited about our latest work on R-bodies, 5+ years in the making! These coiled protein ribbons extend into ~10 µm needles in a pH-dependent manner & we caught them springing open inside amoebae after P. aeruginosa gets eaten. (animation: Jegg Yoon)🧵1/2 www.biorxiv.org/content/10.6...

"Lyme Disease and Other Tick-Borne Infections" a useful review link.springer.com/article/10.1... #MicroSky

It sounds like hyperbole to suggest the current administration WANTS measles to become common again but I can’t think of much they’d be doing differently if they didn’t want that. (I think some of them really are eugenicists who legit prefer disease spread to prevention; others just don’t care)

Very cool but y stop here? Can we build a platform that supports working replicas of Wikipedia that th people of each citi can use to build its own unique wiki for each city? Plus they r indexed both functionally and alphabetically like old yellow pages phone books?

fun stuff. what kind of evidences are the different data points from and ... what is the explanation of the resonance-stabilized period?

holy shit! is popular mechanics next? to be fair... i stopped reading sci amer back in early college (early 80s) cuz i thot it was too wishy washy, the articles didn't have enough beef.

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CERN Researchers Apologize For Destruction Of 5 Parallel Universes In Recent Experiment https://theonion.com/cern-researchers-apologize-for-destruction-of-5-paralle-1819579830/

Look... I admit that I may be a bit biased over this astrophotographer's output - but @deep-twilight.bsky.social is really on a purple-patch of creativity right now.