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#Scientists described about 1.5mil #species on Earth 🌍 How many still remain undiscovered? 🧐 We may not get the chance to know 50 million species of #animals, #plants and #fungi! Take action #Boycottpalmoil #Boycott4Wildlife @palmoildetect

Inside the #Trump DOJ’s Investigation of #Fauci & Other Virus #Scientists As Dr. Anthony Fauci has faced public scrutiny from congressional #Republicans, the #DOJ has pursued a quieter & more expansive effort against a wider circle of researchers. #PublicHealth #Health #vaccines #science #medicine #ConspiracyTheories #disinformation #idiocracy #kakistocracy #USpol

@GeraldKutney@noc.social #Climate #deniers don't deal in #science & #truth, & have NEVER done so - the #attack now is quite explicitly against science & truth themselves. If #politics won't do the trick ("climate #scientists are all #communists"), they'll resort to #religion ("climate scientists are all atheists"), & if THAT won't do, they'll resort to #magic, & reject the entire #scientific #enterprise, as it has been constructed since the 17th Century.

10 #Reality-bending #Facts about the #Scientific #Multiverse : Medium #Coffee is under #Threat: how #Scientists are #Fighting to save it from #Extinction : Nature ‘#Mind-blowing’: #Iron-rich #Immune #Cells help homing #Pigeons #Navigate : Science Latest #KnowledgeLinks

New #Introduction ! We're a #free, #OpenSource tool for working with messy #data. Excel is fine, yeah, but we're 🐐 Convenient clicky-clicky? Yes Flexible coding? Also yes #Wikimedians love reconciling with #Wikidata. #Journalists love that it works locally, keeping their work safe and private. #Scientists love storing all the changes made to their #datasets in a json. Everyone loves being able to reuse, and share their data wrangling #workflows ! #DataAnalysis #DataScience #Libraries #Foss

#News: #Scientists are racing to find and measure the world’s biggest ancient trees like #Taiwan’s 84‑metre “Heaven” before #climatechange and #deforestation destroy them! 🌴☠️ Save forests! #Boycott4Wildlife @palmoildetectives@mastodonapp.uk

#Scientists Asked #AI to Impersonate 112 Public Figures. What Happened Next Is a ‘Dire’ Warning AI #chatbots that were prompted to #impersonate public figures produced responses that people perceived to be more authentic, coherent, and relevant than the real thing, a finding that underscores “a dire need to inform the general public of the potential harm this can have on society,” according to a study published on Wednesday in PLOS One. #security #plosone #artificialintelligence #deepfake

#Trump ousts National #Science Board members Members of the independent board that guides the National Science Foundation [#NSF] said they received a notice from the White House that their positions were being terminated. Multiple #scientists who serve on an independent board established to guide the nation’s nearly $9 billion basic science funding agency were terminated from their positions Friday by Trump.

Farmers, scientists aim to manage risks of nitrogen fertilizer Researchers at the University of Regina and the University of Saskatchewan tested the urea fertilizer, which helps feed two-thirds of the global population. After adding it to farm ponds, they found the product degraded water quality and is a widespread threat to freshwater sources.