What he told me made my blood run cold - Michael Sheen investigates Wales' toxic legacy
https://www.bbc.com/news/articles/czekx5g39elo?at_medium=RSS&at_campaign=rss
I saw this elsewhere and thought I’d repost here. One lab’s policy on AI use in academic writing.
“The only reason you’ll ever need to not write with AI”
https://www.carlsonlab.bio/thoughts/the-only-reason-youll-ever-need-not-to-write-with-ai
Please be sure not to accidentally commit genocide when using an AI to disguise your plagiarism by replacing words with synonyms.
(presumably it was originally "1 mL of the final solution")
via r/chemistry: https://www.reddit.com/r/chemistry/comments/1vimpfx/a_tool_used_to_rephrase_plagiarised_text_changed/
We have very unfortunate news to share today... 😢
I've been an author for this annual report since 2020, and we just celebrated our 20th anniversary edition last year. https://subscriber.politicopro.com/article/2026/08/noaa-to-end-support-for-arctic-report-card-01031276
I miss the world where any of the five company-ending mistakes Meta has made recently would have actually ended the company.
They get free electricity to run AC and charge EVs. Why is Canada missing out?
https://www.thestar.com/news/canada/they-get-free-power-to-run-air-conditioning-and-charge-evs-heres-what-canada-can-learn-from-the-global-push-for-free-electricity/article_4e66e327-f397-48ae-8b65-d55558b9d8f3.html
Recreational off-road vehicles banned in Kamloops and Cariboo fire centres https://cfjctoday.com/2026/08/10/recreational-off-road-vehicles-banned-in-kamloops-and-cariboo-fire-centres/?utm_source=dlvr.it&utm_medium=mastodon #Kamloops
if your monday is mondaying, please feel free to stop here under the trees for a little while.
Don’t use washing machines or dishwashers during solar eclipse, urges Octopus Energy
https://www.independent.co.uk/news/business/solar-eclipse-electricity-octopus-energy-b3030376.html
Well this is unexpected but a fascinating demonstration of how much of the UK electricity supply is now solar
First garden tomatoes of the season!
Guess I didn't need to buy that big one at the store last week, which I still haven't started on. (I had a tomato & cucumber salad in the fridge to finish up first.) Time to get back in the habit of eating tomatoes in something everyday, now until November.
Part article, part interactive photos. Beautifully designed and presented.
Turning the tide: Restoring Mozambican mangroves — in photos | Nature (2026 Aug 10)
"Boggy mangrove swamps might get less attention than do colourful coral reefs, but they provide food, homes and nurseries for many animals. Their knotted root systems also act as a buffer that dissipates wave energy and protects the shoreline from storms and cyclones, which are likely to intensify with climate change."
https://www.nature.com/immersive/d41586-026-02199-9/index.html
Turning the tide
https://www.nature.com/immersive/d41586-026-02199-9/index.html
Restoring Mozambican mangroves — in photos
Wildfire concerns prompt province to rescind water restrictions along Salmon River
Farmers in the Salmon River valley will be able to irrigate their fields again in recognition of the dangers posed by wildfire risks in the area.
The most amazing thing I saw this past week: Extreme-resolution images that show the surface of the Sun more clearly than ever before. For the first time, they reveal rippling "shear" waves where zones of solar plasma blow past each other at different velocities.
https://nso.edu/press-release/nsf-inouye-solar-telescope-enables-major-discovery-of-a-hidden-solar-process/ #nature #astronomy #space #science
On Earth, we can see shear waves created by "Kelvin-Helmholtz instability," which can happen when two distinct layers of air blow past each other.
The same thing happens on the Sun, apparently, but with layers of plasma at 6000 degrees C.
https://www.washingtonpost.com/weather/2022/12/08/kelvin-helmholtz-wave-clouds-wyoming/ #science #nature #weather
💁🏻♀️ TIL: 📸🐸 Joel Sartore has photographed more than 18,000 animal species for #NationalGeographic’s #Photo Ark, each posed against plain black to be seen face to face.
The #images span creatures large and small, many #endangered or thought #extinct. Sartore’s goal is documenting all roughly 25,000 species in human care before it’s too late.
#photography #conservation #biodiversity #andre #sartore #photoark #endangeredspecies #wildlife #amphibians #nationalgeographic #animals #nature #zoos #science #education
Seeing more and more papers and videos proclaiming no use of AI, in some cases presenting what amounts to a detailed explanation as to why. Excellent.
RE: https://mastodon.social/@nixCraft/117072225790175311
"The IT industry is pretty much on the verge of collapse now and it has been hijacked by people who think they can prompt their way out of it."
Mother concerned about lack of signage at summer schools
A Nanaimo mother wants the city to review its signage polices for summer and year-round schools. Speaking to council at a meeting on July 27, Andréa Coutu, who had earned […]
https://pqbnews.com/2026/08/10/mother-concerned-about-lack-of-signage-at-summer-schools/