A new UK government report warns that global #biodiversity loss threatens food security, economic stability, and geopolitical order. In my latest blog post I ask whether pollination should now be considered a #nationalsecurity issue:
jeffollerton.co.uk/2026/01/26/p...
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dunphy: "we have a tradition of beautiful PDFs" where we ask community members for advice, compile it into a document, and never look at it again
I am interested in working with an artist on a graphic novel on soil and/ or global environmental change. The lab would have money to fund this.
Do you know of any graphic artists that would be interested?
I'm always struck by how much KMHD means to its listeners, not just in Portland but across the Northwest.
The people you hear on the radio run nearly every aspect of the organization. They punch above their weight, but they shouldn't have to.
Amazon is helping fund a $300 million build of a ballroom for the White House.
Independent bookstores are donating to food banks and organizations that help with food insecurity.
They are not the same.
New Tonewood Project post. Published w/ @leaflet.pub: tonewood.leaflet.pub/3lwwhopsvp22e Subscribe to keep up with the stories!
Updated this list with a few more participants in our @leaflet.pub summer blog club! I'm overdue for a new post in my own blog(s) but lots of fun so far, cool to see ppl publishing!
If I'm missing anyone who'd like to be included please lmk :)
summer-of-pub.leaflet.pub/3luns266ud22b
Want to join *Summer of Pub* (our lil Leaflet blog club) and commit to publishing more regularly, but could use some ideas to kickstart your creative energy?
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We made a collection of fun blogging prompts!
Finally getting something off the ground I've been working on for a little while...
What’s a technology that you think is overhyped? I’m going to give a sideways answer to this, which is that the venture capital business model needs to be understood as requiring hype. You can go back to the Netscape IPO, and that was the proof point that made venture capital the financial lifeblood of the tech industry. Venture capital looks at valuations and growth, not necessarily at profit or revenue. So you don’t actually have to invest in technology that works, or that even makes a profit, you simply have to have a narrative that is compelling enough to float those valuations. So you see this repetitive and exhausting hype cycle as a feature in this industry. A couple of years ago, you would have been asking me about the metaverse, then last year, you would have asked me about Web3 and crypto, and for each of these inflection points there’s an Andreessen Horowitz manifesto. It’s not simply that one piece of technology is overhyped, it’s that hype is a necessary ingredient of the current business ecosystem of the tech industry. We should examine how often the financial incentive for hype is rewarded without any real social returns, without any meaningful progress in technology, without these tools and services and worlds ever actually manifesting. That’s key to understanding the growing chasm between the narrative of techno-optimists and the reality of our tech-encumbered world.
Stand by this: www.politico.com/newsletters/...
What’s the return on government support for R&D?
To try to get a credible answer, Open Philanthropy and the Sloan Foundation are committing up to $1 million to trying something new: we call it a Pop-Up Journal.
I've started a website with simple graphs tracking how the US economy is doing in terms of unemployment, economic sentiment, and inflation. It will be updated monthly as new data come in. Feedback is welcome! #EconSky
usbarometer.com
I got hit by some rather sudden and extreme financial hardship so if anyone is in need of remote wetlab contract research, strictly BSL1, do let me know. Currently scrambling for gigs.
Plant, Bacterial, Archaeal Non-model Bioeng
Custom Lab Hardware
Turn Key Genetic Design
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Power, Obligation and the Universities talkingpointsmemo.com/edblog/power...
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