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  Avinash ಅವಿನಾಶ್ handle.invalid · 17h
  In Aug 2009, my first weekend after moving to Tennessee, I was shocked to see someone hold a "We don't want a Black President" sign at an anti-Obamacare protest. Today in Feb 2026, the president of the US posts an AI video of the Obamas as monkeys.
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  Avinash ಅವಿನಾಶ್ handle.invalid · Feb 5
  

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  Phronima is a shrimpy crustacean that hollows out an animal called a salp, leaving its jelly like body alive (just), and uses it for protection, for itself and its babies. Salp, surprisingly, are more closely related to you than to a shrimp or anything jellyish. [contains quote post or other embedded content]

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  Avinash ಅವಿನಾಶ್ handle.invalid · Feb 5
  100% agree with what the prof here says. The occasional succes like AlphaFold is just not worth all the damage that is being forced upon us. www.theguardian.com/global-devel...
  
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  Avinash ಅವಿನಾಶ್ handle.invalid · Feb 5
  "I am baffled by the embrace of AI erotic relationships, and wonder if porn paved the way by accustoming so many of us to watching images of bodies touching each other while our own bodies remain untouched, except by ourselves." www.theguardian.com/news/ng-inte...
  

  What technology takes from us – and how to take it back | AI (artificial intelligence) | The Guardian

  The long read: Decisions outsourced, chatbots for friends, the natural world an afterthought: Silicon Valley is giving us life void of connection. There is a way out – but it’s going to take collective effort

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  Avinash ಅವಿನಾಶ್ handle.invalid · Feb 3
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  Avinash ಅವಿನಾಶ್ handle.invalid · Feb 3
  This is a fantastic thread on famous biologists who were racist, classist and sexist. What is sad is that there still are plenty of such scientists.
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    Natalia Jagielska (娜塔莉) nataliajagielska.bsky.social · Feb 2
    Founders of modern paleontology, and their contributions to systemic racism, classism and sexism (🧵) Henry Osborn (1857–1935), responsible for naming of Tyrannosaurus & Velociraptor; president of ANHM. Co-founder of the American Eugenics Society. Contributing to books later praised by Hitler.
    
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  Avinash ಅವಿನಾಶ್ handle.invalid · Feb 2
  Read this last night. Lovely writing & world-building, at times resembling Ursula le Guin. Can't decide whether I love or hate the rug-pull trick that Eschbach does at the end. 🤷🏾‍♂️
  
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  Avinash ಅವಿನಾಶ್ handle.invalid · Feb 2
  What. The. Fuck?! 😱 bsky.app/profile/did:... Paper: www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...
  
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    Kevin J. Kircher kevinjkircher.com · Feb 1
    Methane pollution from US oil and gas infrastructure causes more climate change than the entire economies of all but seven nations on earth. (This is with methane's climate impacts conservatively evaluated over a 100-year time frame. Evaluated over shorter time frames, methane's impacts are worse.)
    

    Accounting for methane from natural gas infrastructure in United States greenhouse gas emission estimates

    The Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) estimates that United States net greenhouse gas emissions have declined over the last two decades and are no…

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  Avinash ಅವಿನಾಶ್ handle.invalid · Feb 1
  Nichola Benedetti & Brighde Chaimbeul play a traditional Scottish ditty. youtu.be/SyooKqA2Whc I've loved the song ever since I heard Kenneth McKellar sing it. youtu.be/PwVafoDSdx0
  

  Skye Boat Song (Arr. Chaimbeul & Campbell for Violin & Scottish Smallpipe) (Edit)

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  Avinash ಅವಿನಾಶ್ handle.invalid · Jan 29
  This is a lovely essay by @kyliu99.bsky.social - worth reading in its entirety. Highlighting one bit that I always tell my students. reactormag.com/why-science-...
  
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  Avinash ಅವಿನಾಶ್ handle.invalid · Jan 28
  Off to finish marking papers now; background music is the lovely Sol Gabetta playing Elgar youtu.be/HpKab6GRBIg
  

  Elgar Cello Concerto in E minor op.85

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  Avinash ಅವಿನಾಶ್ handle.invalid · Jan 28
  TIL there is a rodent called 'gundi' 😂 HT @kristalerista.bsky.social (gundi = rotund female in #Kannada ) bsky.app/profile/did:...
  
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  Avinash ಅವಿನಾಶ್ handle.invalid · Jan 28
  This is just outstanding! 🤯 bsky.app/profile/did:...
  

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  9️⃣ In the 1971 issue of The Journal of Organic Chemistry, a paper was written in iambic pentameter (ten syllables per line) - the poetic style often used by Shakespeare. https://pubs.acs.org/doi/10.1021/jo00800a036

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  Avinash ಅವಿನಾಶ್ handle.invalid · Jan 28
  Outstanding job USA 👏🏾
  
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  Avinash ಅವಿನಾಶ್ handle.invalid · Jan 28
  Any chance of something remotely like this in Indian cities? @rapiduplift.bsky.social www.theguardian.com/travel/2026/...
  

  Rock up to London: discovering stones and fossils from around the world on an urban geology tour | London holidays | The Guardian

  The city’s architecture travels through time and continents, incorporating everything from slabs of the Italian Alps to meteorites that hit southern Africa 2bn years ago

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  Avinash ಅವಿನಾಶ್ handle.invalid · Jan 28
  If you go by this review, money laundering seems to be primarily driven by high-denomination currency... www.theguardian.com/books/2026/j... ...but from this extract, the book seems to be more promising. www.theguardian.com/world/2026/j...
  

  Everybody Loves Our Dollars by Oliver Bullough review – a jaw-dropping exposé of money laundering | Economics | The Guardian

  From handbags to drug gangs to central banks – one of Britain’s finest investigative reporters reveals the surprising links in a global chain of crime

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  Avinash ಅವಿನಾಶ್ handle.invalid · Jan 28
  Link here www.hcn.org/issues/58-1/... @mizoraman@biodiversity.social @rapiduplift.bsky.social @maitrey.bsky.social @leafwarbler.bsky.social @mrajshekhar.bsky.social bsky.app/profile/did:...
  

  Three books explore deep time and help us look forward - High Country News

  Each of these books can, in its own way, teach readers how to think about Earth's history, and how to apply lessons from the past to our future.

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  Avinash ಅವಿನಾಶ್ handle.invalid · Jan 28
  Things kids (17-18 yrs old) at school didn't know: 1. What burning a disc was 2. That you could pirate music... 3. ...and that you could carry all your music on an external drive All this started with me telling them that they should listen to albums, and not songs on some spotify playlist. 🤷🏾‍♂️
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  Avinash ಅವಿನಾಶ್ handle.invalid · Jan 27
  A major problem getting off twitter and sticking to Mastodon 🐘 or Bsky 🦋 is the almost complete absense of voices from South Asia (and fhe global South). 😭 Please link to interesting accounts from said regions in replies to this tweet 🙏🏾
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  Avinash ಅವಿನಾಶ್ handle.invalid · Jan 17
  
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  Avinash ಅವಿನಾಶ್ handle.invalid · Jan 16
  Only @adamroberts.bsky.social would think of an Alistair Maclean - Tolkien mash-up. I would watch this for sure!
  
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  Avinash ಅವಿನಾಶ್ handle.invalid · Jan 15
  So one of the people I've relied on to make sense of the world is the son of John Tooze, whose textbook on protein structure I simply adored back in the day. And also that John Tooze had a well-deserved reputation for toxic masculinity. ☹️ www.theguardian.com/business/202...
  

  The crisis whisperer: how Adam Tooze makes sense of our bewildering age | Economics | The Guardian

  The long read: Whether it’s the financial crash, the climate emergency or the breakdown of the international order, historian Adam Tooze has become the go-to guide to the radical new world we’ve entered

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  Avinash ಅವಿನಾಶ್ handle.invalid · Jan 15
  

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  3/3 The key novelty is showing that genome instability is both relieved by sleep and sufficient to induce sleep in cnidarians, this implies that DNA damage was an ancestral driver of sleep evolution, long before brains or complex cognition existed.

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  Avinash ಅವಿನಾಶ್ handle.invalid · Jan 15
  

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  1/3 Jellyfish and anemones also sleep, despite not having a brain Not only do they sleep, but their behavior is affected if they lack sleep; they become clumsier and need to catch up on lost sleep. Interestingly, they sleep 8 hours a day, just like us. (paper) https://www.nature.com/articles/s41467-025-67400-5

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  Avinash ಅವಿನಾಶ್ handle.invalid · Jan 14
  Three geniuses at the height of their virtuosity. Enjoy! youtu.be/vfJDzHqjhGA
  

  L. Shankar ‎– Who's To Know - B side (Ananda Nadamadum Tillai Sankara: Ragam savithri)

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  Avinash ಅವಿನಾಶ್ handle.invalid · Jan 13
  Will I see this happen to the RSS in my lifetime? 😭
  
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  Avinash ಅವಿನಾಶ್ handle.invalid · Jan 13
  In the midst of daily doom & gloom, there are some good things happening. www.carbonbrief.org/analysis-coa...
  

  Analysis: Coal power drops in China and India for first time in 52 years after clean-energy records - Carbon Brief

  Coal power generation fell in both China and India in 2025, after each nation added record amounts of clean energy

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  Avinash ಅವಿನಾಶ್ handle.invalid · Jan 13
  My only gripe with Current Biology is that after being bought by Cell Press, they switched to the god-awful sans serif font & page layout style of the rest of the publications of that group.
  

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  Once again, @currentbiology.bsky.social shows that it is to journal covers what Ennio Morricone is to film scores

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  Avinash ಅವಿನಾಶ್ handle.invalid · Jan 11
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  Avinash ಅವಿನಾಶ್ handle.invalid · Jan 9
  Oooh, this is just lovely! youtube.com/watch?v=bddT...
  

  Cello & Oud | TAANI | تأني | Sufian Ararah & P.R.

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  Avinash ಅವಿನಾಶ್ handle.invalid · Jan 9
  Hadn't been on twitter the last 2 years, but finally deleting my account, with the help of @cyd@infosec.exchange 2008 - 2026 is a long enough run I suppose.
  
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  Avinash ಅವಿನಾಶ್ handle.invalid · Jan 9
  No end in sight! This 'dispute' seems to have been going on forever 😂 bsky.app/profile/did:...
  

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  Our eLetter https://github.com/caseywdunn/sk25 responding to a recent Science paper was just posted. The paper found more genes with consistent support for sponge-sister than ctenophore-sister. We found several technical issues that, when corrected, reverse the conclusions and recover ctenophore-sister.

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  Avinash ಅವಿನಾಶ್ handle.invalid · Jan 8
  There are some people who use their power for good in this world. bsky.app/profile/did:...
  

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  *LULA IS VETOING THE BILL TO REDUCE BOLSONARO'S TIME IN JAIL

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  Avinash ಅವಿನಾಶ್ handle.invalid · Jan 6
  Is it too early to say that India is committing suicide similar to the US i.e., protecting & advocating for their fossil fuel buddies over new, clean technologies?
  
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  Avinash ಅವಿನಾಶ್ handle.invalid · Jan 5
  For the last few years, I've been talking to my students about doing the right thing, equality, fairness, justice & all such stuff, while this kind of shit continues unabated in the country. 😡
  
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