@davidallengreen The lesson I take is that if you try to use irony to make a clever point, some people will always misunderstand and think you’re being serious and you’ll still be trying to explain it 1000 years later.

RT @eLife
We’re facing a biospheric emergency with catastrophic consequences for humans and ecosystems. But what can scientists do to help?

Members of the movement Scientist Rebellion (@ScientistRebel1 @FerRacimo) call for life scientists to re-embrace activism.
elifesciences.org/articles/832

"Though many scientists say it’s inevitable that the world will overshoot 1.5 degrees Celsius of warming, the global climate talks unfolding in Egypt are bound to the target" scientificamerican.com/article #moa

This week, the world’s human #population is expected to reach 8B. About 109B people have lived and died. Each grain of sand represents 10M.

Spectacular #data visualization of human life on Earth by Max Roser #science

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