Turning biodiversity upside down: Conservation maps miss fungal hotspots by focusing on plants
https://phys.org/news/2025-07-biodiversity-upside-fungal-hotspots-focusing.html
And that fear doesn’t stop attacks. It stops communication. Shame-based cultures don’t create safer systems. They create quiet ones — and in cybersecurity, silence is dangerous. Shame-based environments trigger: When the emotional cost of speaking up is higher than staying quiet, people...
And that fear doesn’t stop attacks. It stops communication. Shame-based cultures don’t create safer systems. They create quiet ones — and in cybersecurity, silence is dangerous. Shame-based environments trigger: When the emotional cost of speaking up is higher than staying quiet, people...
Temperature Controlled Chamber for Precision Imaging
Achieve superior accuracy with Molecular Imaging’s #Temperature Controlled #Chamber, #designed to maintain stable thermal #environments during sensitive imaging experiments. Ideal for advanced #microscopy and nanotech applications, this chamber minimizes thermal drift and ensures data reliability.
Buy Now: https://miafm.com/temperature-controller/
Am-I-vibing, detect agentic coding environments
https://github.com/ascorbic/am-i-vibing
#HackerNews #Am-I-vibing #agentic #coding #environments #GitHub #tech #trends #programming
*NEW RELEASE*
Fletina - Environments & Mechanisms
Hey everyone. I have a new album out today on the Bulgarian label Mahorka called 'Environments & Mechanisms. It's available to buy digitally (name your own price) and on limited edition cassette tape.
Stream/Buy/Download :
https://mahorka.bandcamp.com/album/environments-mechanisms
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#fletina #environments #mechanisms #mahorka #soundart #fieldrecordings
#musiqueconcrete #abstractart #abstractmusic #dronemusic #drone #experimentalmusic
Reading up on the functionality of the xsettings daemon xsettingsd
#Xorg #GTK #KDE #Gnome #DM #WM #Desktop #Environments #fonts
https://codeberg.org/derat/xsettingsd/src/branch/main/README.md
Xfce is a suggestion.
This desktop manager is for me a nice balance between full keyboard control and great digitizer control. In my test KDE environment I have pulled in a number of critical Xfce components.
I will need to learn the new way in which KDE does these things so I can bring them back to my Xfce fvwm workflow
KDE gives me the possibility because I could do that decades to go
Sweating to shivering: Study finds rapid swings in temperature have increased
Flips between warm temperatures to cold and vice versa have become quicker, more frequent and more intense in recent decades, a new study shows.
By Christina Kelso | The New York Times
| April 26, 2025, 8:00 a.m.
"A September heat wave switching into a snowstorm over one day in the Rocky Mountains. Winter snowfall suddenly melting and saturating fields of dormant crops, before refreezing and encasing them in damaging ice. Early spring warmth prompting plants to blossom followed by a cold snap that freezes and drops their petals.
"Rapid temperature change events like these have increased in frequency and intensity over recent decades, a new study found.
"The transition periods for these abrupt temperature shifts have also shortened, according to the study, published Tuesday in the journal Nature Communications.
"Because the quick changes in temperature give communities and ecosystems little chance to respond, they may pose greater challenges than heat waves or cold snaps alone, said #WeiZhang, an assistant professor of climate science at Utah State University and one of the lead authors of the study.
" 'The impact could really be cascading on a different level,' he said.
"The researchers warned these temperature flips could have damaging effects on people and natural #environments, including destruction of #crops, harm to #ecosystems and strains on #PowerInfrastructure. And #LowIncomeCountries, where there is less access to weather forecasting and infrastructure is less resilient, are more vulnerable.
"The researchers examined temperature data from 1961 to 2023 to identify global patterns in sudden weather shifts, where temperatures in an area either jumped from cold temperatures to warm or plunged from warm to cold within five days. They found that instances of these flips increased in more than 60% of regions they surveyed.
"The largest increases in frequency were observed in South America, West Europe, Africa, and South and Southeast Asia. Some areas, including the polar regions, showed different behavior and experienced fewer events.
"While the climate mechanisms driving changes to these temperature-flip events are not yet fully understood, Zhang said, there is a significant trend showing that these events are becoming more frequent, stronger and quicker in many areas of the globe."
Read more:
https://www.sltrib.com/news/nation-world/2025/04/26/utah-state-university-study-finds/
#Taxcheat #island of #UK also #cheat #environments (of course) https://phys.org/news/2025-04-toxic-chemical-pollution-isle-defends.html
They have enough #money from cheating on #tax but they only pretend to #care about #planet like "real" #criminals
despite its pledges of being a destination with a "fantastic seascape…and coastline", contaminated leachate from decommissioned landfill continues to drain into the marine environment. #wtf #seriously ???? #wtf #pcb #waste #ocean zero #recycling ????
@Dragofix #Taxcheat #island of #UK also #cheat #environments (of course) https://phys.org/news/2025-04-toxic-chemical-pollution-isle-defends.html
despite its pledges of being a destination with a "fantastic seascape…and coastline", contaminated leachate from decommissioned landfill continues to drain into the marine environment.
Critical Minerals In Ores (CMiO) Database
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https://lnkd.in/gynRjUfn <-- shared USGS publication
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https://lnkd.in/gETca3DQ <-- shared link to open data database, web map services, etc
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https://portal.ga.gov.au/persona/cmmi <-- shared web map
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https://lnkd.in/gdmMp2zg <-- shared editorial piece on critical minerals and geopolitics
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#geology #fedscience #opendata #CMMI #CMiO #criticalminerals #minerals #ores #database #opendata #GIS #spatial #mapping #spatialanalysis #commodities #technology #components #geochemistry #deposits #mining #extraction #classifaction #nomenclature #environments #structuralgeology #exploration
@USGS | @GeoscienceAustralia | @GeologicalSurveyOfCanada
Particularly in the great outdoors, #Naturism becomes even more beneficial. Research consistently demonstrates that exposure to green spaces significantly reduces depression & stress. Activities like #NakedHiking, or simply being #Naked in #Nature amplify the positive effects of #natural #environments. (3/6)
In #naturist #environments, the absence of clothing means that #bodies are seen as a whole rather than segmented into “attractive” or “unattractive” parts. This holistic view encourages individuals to #appreciate their #body as an integrated entity rather than obsessing over individual traits. (28/37)
Start by embracing #Nakedness in private spaces. Spend time without clothes, becoming familiar with your #body as it is, without judgment or comparison. Practice #BodyPositivity by recognising that beauty is not determined by societal standards but by self-acceptance. Surround yourself with communities that support #Naturist living. These #environments foster a sense of #freedom & #belonging, helping to dissolve the fear that has been instilled over generations. (14/18)
“Before we can build something new, we have to understand what we’re working with. Our adopted #beliefs don’t come out of nowhere—they are shaped by the #environments we grow up in, the #narratives we are taught, and the forces that shape our understanding of the world.”
https://fosterthinking.substack.com/p/how-to-build-a-belief-system?r=5bjv&utm_campaign=post&utm_medium=web&triedRedirect=true
Damaging or destroying #ecosystems and natural #environments is NOT part of, and is directly antithetical to, a solid Everything, Everywhere, All at Once #ClimateChange mitigation strategy.
We must make all things better, not sacrifice one part to benefit another as that merely keeps us treading water.
#Government has a role to play in incentivizing better use of existing #infrastructure towards improving our #climate, like #ParkingLot and other #urban #SolarPower.
An #introduction...
My background is in #Mesozoic #paleobotany #palaeobotany, and I specialise in #scicomm about the amazing things that the #plant #fossil record can tell us about #evolution and #environments through #DeepTime.
I teach about plants (#PlantScience and/or #Botany!), rocks and science communication at the University of Nottingham. My other interests usually involve the word speculative, and are mostly harmless.
Greg Cocks 
