RT @AndrewCurran_: AP tries to interview Microsoft about Sydney. Microsoft refuses to comment. Sydney immediately grabs the mic and conduct….

RT @ShiraOvide: Such a great @AmandaMoMorris piece on how technology is changing language even more quickly with ASL. .

"[A]ncient galaxies carpeting the sky like jewels on black velvet.".

"spectral fingerprints of floating molecules";.

"Fledgling stars shining out from deep within cumulus clouds of interstellar dust";.

. with proof of "what humanity’s latest and greatest set of eyes could see":.

. looking at this "big cosmic slide show" . .

"[A]n overflow crowd of astronomers whooped and hollered, oohed and aahed, as new images flashed on the screen" . .

The #WebbSpaceTelescope did not only produce cosmic imagery: it also opened up the poetic veins of journalists (at the @nytimes). Here's a collection of how they articulated this moment in history:.

RT @NYTimesRD: Over the last two years, The Times published more than two dozen augmented reality effects. Today we’re sharing those effect….

Pleeease keep "Animal News" as a staple in the Morning newsletter @nytimes

Here's an arresting atlas of 193 countries:.

RT @Livingstone_S: Why not just call it The Matrix?.

Dr. Jungblut walks me through this fascinating feminist study in the new episode of Keywords, out now on @Spotify, @ApplePodcasts and @PodcastsGoogle (4/4).

By depicting female and male candidates differently, media is basically keeping emotional gender stereotypes alive. The million-dollar question is how these stereotypes might play into voting decisions in the booth. (3/4).

I had a chat with researcher @MarcCWJ from @LMU_Muenchen about this extensive study covering nearly 14.000 candidates and 80.000 images across Europe from the 2019 election. One takeaway is: female candidates smile more. (2/4).

Why is it that only 41 percent of the parliament members @Europarl_EN are female? That's a question that set off a study about how election candidates are portrayed by media and by themselves on social media. (1/4). #communicationresearch.#EuropeanUnion.

Today, on the 10th anniversary of Sci-Hub, the disruptor of science publishing, founder Alexandra Elbakyan will publish 2.3 million new papers online, she reports. My interview with Elbakyan is out now on Spotify & other platforms. 🎧. #scihub .#OpenScience .#openaccess.

I met with Elbakyan @ringo_ring on Zoom, and today, I'm thrilled to share the interview with you. The new episode of Keywords is now available on your podcast platform! (3/3).

Sci-Hub, celebrating its 10 years of disruption, is tremendously popular with students and researchers today. (2/3).