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#anthropocene

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Petra van Cronenburg

Perhaps you know about the art collaboration between Herbert Duprat and #caddisflies producing precious #casings?
Inspired by this work, biologist Auke-Florian Hiemstra et al. worked about the cases for detecting #plasticWaste before the term #microplastics existed.

A fascinating thread about the scientists' detective work bsky.app/profile/aukeflorian.n and the study: sciencedirect.com/science/arti
#Trichoptera tell about 50 years of #plastics history.

Bluesky Social · Auke-Florian 🪹 (@aukeflorian.nl)NEW PAPER, JUST OUT! 👀 Insects from the '70s and '80s were already collecting microplastic, decades before the term microplastic even existed. 🤯 A thread on the surprising history of this pollutant and the incredible insect larvae that helped us uncover it. 🐛 Let's dive in! 🧵👇 1/x
#naturalMuseum#anthropocene
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Petra van Cronenburg

Humans constantly change and even destroy #ecosystems - what happens then? It's called 'novel ecosystems'. "They now exist as self-sustaining systems. These are wild but changed ecosystems. They have passed some critical threshold which means they are unlikely to ever go back to how they were before." #Hawaii has become a laboratory for #ecologists to study such "freakosystems": bbc.com/future/article/2025040

A landscape of green showing large pink multi-branched plants in the foreground, a spiky small hill covered in trees in the mid-ground and a mountainous ridge in the background (Credit: Sean MacDonald)
BBC · This Hawaiian island's 'freakosystems' are a warning from the futureBy Matthew Ponsford
#ecology#biodiversity#anthropocene
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Petra van Cronenburg

"Baker noted that "there's long been this very human-centric idea of intelligence that only humans are intelligent." That's fallen away within the scientific community as we've studied more about animal behavior. But there's still a bias to privilege human-like behaviors."
arstechnica.com/science/2025/0

A #longread by @arstechnica about the #anthropocentric #bias of #AGI and #AI companies - money versus nature.

Ars Technica · AI versus the brain and the race for general intelligenceBy John Timmer
#brain#science#moreThanHuman
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Petra van Cronenburg

A new book for friends of #archeology and #deepHistory: Discarded. Imagine a future when Earth creatures could find the #technofossils of our time. What will they find? What remains the most of our "civilisation"? An exciting change of perspective on our more long-lasting ‘achievements’. theguardian.com/science/2025/f

The Guardian · ‘Technofossils’: how humanity’s eternal testament will be plastic bags, cheap clothes and chicken bonesBy Damian Carrington
#waste#pollution#plasticWaste
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Joseph Meyer

Low Expectations

Today, I saw a toot wishing followers to have something go “better than expected” for them. Maybe better than expected is the best we can hope for these days in the USA:

A shopper offers nothing to the homeless person sleeping on the ground, but returns their shopping cart to the proper place.

The driver behind me shakes his fist, but doesn’t honk or pull a gun when he’s in a hurry and I did not run the red light.

A police officer treats a suspect with dignity and respect.

The president sometimes does not lie to me.

I offer you my thoughts and prayers.

#Kindness #LowExpectations #Life
#Humanity #Ethics #ThoughtsAndPrayers #USA #Texas #Anthropocene

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