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[todays-xkcd]

Maybe encouraging the publication of null results isn't enough--maybe we need a journal devoted to publishing results the study authors find personally annoying.

Replication Crisis [Explained]

Transcript Under the Cut

[Megan, Ponytail, and Cueball are standing at a lectern. Ponytail is talking into the microphone.] Ponytail: In the early 2010s, researchers found that many major scientific results couldn't be reproduced.

[Ponytail turns slightly to look around the room.] Ponytail: Over a decade into the replication crisis, we wanted to see if today's studies have become more robust.

Ponytail: Unfortunately, our replication analysis has found exactly the same problems that those 2010s researchers did.

[This panel shows a newspaper, with title "NEWS" surrounded by flourishes. There is a photo of the three researchers at the lectern taking up about half the front page. The headline reads: "REPLICATION CRISIS SOLVED".]

[the-wolf-and-moon]

M6, Butterfly Cluster

[frozenartscapes]

So you know that thing about how a cat’s purr supposedly is at a frequency that helps your body heal? Like, allegedly it can help speed up bone and tissue growth, lower blood pressure, heal migraines, etc.

So whatever you do don’t picture the girls collapsing in a cuddle pile after a messy hunt with Rumi on top, purring up a storm in an effort to help her girls feel better

[chernobog13]

Shields now down to 10%...

[todropscience]

UNMASKING THE BLUEBOTTLE REVEALING FOUR DISTINCT SPECIES THROUGH GLOBAL CITIZEN SCIENCE

For over two centuries, the Portuguese man o’ war (Physalia spp) was considered a single, cosmopolitan species, drifting across the world’s oceans and stinging unsuspecting swimmers. But new genomic research has overturned this long-held view, revealing that Physalia is not one species, but at least four: P. physalis, P. megalista, P. utriculus, and a newly described species, P. minuta. Researchers sequenced the genomes of 151 specimens from around the globe and found strong reproductive isolation between genetic lineages, even when their distributions overlap. This evidence aligns with historical descriptions from the 18th and 19th centuries, which proposed several species that were later dismissed due to limited data.

Crucially, the study integrated over 4,000 photographs from iNaturalist, using citizen science to match distinct morphologies with genetic lineages. These images, contributed by amateur naturalists, swimmers, and lifeguards, allowed researchers to confirm physical differences that earlier taxonomists could not consistently observe due to preservation challenges. The result is a rare success story in which modern genomics, historical records, and participatory science come together to clarify the taxonomy of one of the ocean’s most recognisable creatures.

The discovery not only rewrites the story of Physalia but also challenges assumptions about biodiversity in the open ocean, reminding us that even the most visible marine life can hold hidden complexity, and that everyone, from sailors of the past to today’s citizen scientists, has a role to play in uncovering it.

Reference: Church et al., 2025. Population genomics of a sailing siphonophore reveals genetic structure in the open ocean. Current Biology.

[i-am-cybersmith]

The thing is, Astrology USED to work. We know that it used to work because there were many written records of people using it to answer extremely important questions.

As it has aged, however, the Universe became less magical.

This is a consequence of the Dirac Large Numbers Theorem.

The laws of the universe are not fixed with regard to time.

In General, we've seen things become LESS magical, through various mechanisms.

Astrology became increasingly less reliable due to the Precession of the Equinoxes.

The powers of the follwers of Pythia (later the Sisterhood of Karn) were dimished by Rassilon's Anchoring of the Thread at the temple of Atropos.

The mystical ElectroWeak force split into the more mundane electromagnetism and weak nuclear interactions as temperatures dropped below the unification threshold; diminishing all thaumatic rituals and spells connected to ElectroWeak power.

It's notable that we can't say for certain that this process is irreversible. already, we may have passed "peak rationality". The world may be returning to an age of wonder and superstition; indeed, generative AI makes strict materialist epistemology far less practical.

If the Old Gods return, we may find ourselves glad that we preserved the secret knowledge of Astrology, even if only as a curiosity. The stars might not be finished with us yet.

it does still make me insane specifically how many queer people lovingly embrace astrology. I went to a poetry workshop yesterday that was genuinely quite good but also included an option to disclose astrology designations during introductions and so many people broke out some variation of "I'm a [x] sum but I have a [y] placement and it SHOWS" girl no it doesn't. that's meaningless correlation you completely invented the causation

[the-wolf-and-moon]

Dark Side of the Moon

[sleepd4rling]

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⠀⠀·⠀·⠀· i find beauty in science⠀⠀⠀𝆞⠀⠀⠀⠀“⠀⠀.

[thrivingisthegoal]

STARTING TOMORROW

Scientists in weather and climate are live streaming for 100 hours to make their case to the American public.

They are live streaming, but engagement is necessary for it to work. SHARE THIS WITH PEOPLE, RECORD THE STREAM, POST CLIPS OF IT THAT ARE FUNNY, if you can tune in, PLEASE DO!

This is something that has to be heard by as many people as possible. Put it on in the background! See if you can get other people to watch it! Do whatever you can do support those who are trying to be supported! Anything and everything helps!

TUNE IN HERE

article I posted screenshots of here

[i-am-cybersmith]

A good video for storywriters!

Huge thanks to Richard of the Order of the Blade for throwing me around!

(If you’re in the UK, consider checking them out! The order are a combat school with a really fun and welcoming ethos)

And as always, more bows, swords, and nonesense on Patreon

[darkesttimelinesblog]

Spread the word.

[nando161mando]

[kydrakinetic]

pacific rim fucks severely for a lot of reasons but my favorite is that it opens with "the lizard aliens are unionizing so we built robots running on the power of love to fight them you got all that right" and before you have time to really process that concept bam gunshot body on the floor and the movie goes "now consider the vast power of grief in this setup" it never really stops considering

[nightmare-from-heaven]

Hey. Your brain needs to de-frag. Literally it needs you to sit there and space out.

If you want your memory or executive function to improve, stare out a window at the skyline or sidewalk or trees or birds on the electrical wires for like 20+ minutes per day. (With no other stimulation like a podcast or TV if you can manage but hey baby steps innit). If you're fortunate enough to have safe outside with any bits of nature, go stare closely at a 1 meter square of grass and trip out on the bugs and shapes of grasses and stuff.

Literally this will make you smarter. Our brains HAVE TO HAVE this zone out time to do important stuff behind the scenes. This does not happen during sleep, it's something else.

That weird pressurized feeling you get sometimes might be your brain on no defrag.

Give your brain a Daily Dose Of De-Frag.

[devotedlystrangewizard]

i think everyone should program at least once just so you realise just how fucking stupid computers are. because theyre so fucking stupid. a computer wants to be told what to do and exactly that and if you make one typo or forget one detail it starts crying uncontrollably