In 2023, a @ProjectCETI team studying sperm whale communication stumbled upon an extraordinary sight off Dominica's coast—a whale in labor supported by her family. It's the first quantifiable evidence of a species other than primates engaging in assisted birth. 🔗

In July 2023, researchers on a whale watching expedition in the Caribbean Sea encountered an unusual scene: 11 sperm whales clustered tightly at the water’s surface. The animals began to inch closer and closer together in the waters off the island of Dominica, with their attention turned to one individual, until a burst of blood tinted the water. At first, the scientists—part of @ProjectCETI, a nonprofit that studies how sperm whales interact—thought the animal had been attacked. But then they saw a tiny tail pop out of the water. The researchers quickly realized they had in fact observed a group of whales helping a calf take its first breath. Even more fortuitous, they had captured it on video from a drone. Read more: @NewsfromScience

Projections for America’s next census, in 2030, currently favour areas that today vote Republican. But our analysis suggests that the demographic outlook for red states is weaker than commonly assumed

Projected top 10 on this week’s Billboard Hot 100 if airplay was excluded: #1#. Choosin’ Texas #2#. BbY WOW #3#. Boston #4#. Been By Now #5#. Be Her #6#. Stupid Song #7#. Nicole Kidman #8#. I Can’t Love You Anymore #9#. Earrings #10#. Janice STFU

project hail mary: science, fuck yeah! everything always works out hpmor: human nature is full of biases like motivated reasoning and tribalism, but we can overcome that and achieve greatness three body problem: you really thought we could have good things? lol. lmao even.

Project of the Week: @LaunchOnSF StonkFun, a Solana launchpad where users can create and trade tokens paired with almost anything, including tokenized stocks, RWAs, commodities, currencies, collectibles, and other crypto assets. This week: ■ $55M+ in rewards distributed to StonkFun ecosystem holders. ■ Crossed $2.6 billion in total trading volume, generated more than $1.5M in single day protocol revenue, briefly surpassing Pumpfun and Hyperliquid. ■ 1.5M combined holders across StonkFun reward coins. ■ Raydium integration: StonkFun expanded its LaunchLab integration, enabling custom quote assets and improving token deployment and liquidity infrastructure. ■ Backpack RWAs: The platform recently added 49 Backpack tokenized assets, expanding the range of RWAs that can be used as quote assets.

Projected top 10 on this week’s Billboard Hot 100 if airplay was excluded: #1#. Choosin’ Texas #2#. Boston #3#. BbY WOW #4#. Been By Now #5#. Be Her #6#. Stupid Song #7#. I Can’t Love You Anymore #8#. Janice STFU #9#. Man I Need #10#. Earrings

"projects totalling an estimated ~$156 billion were cancelled or delayed in 2025, with another ~$130 billion affected in 1Q26. While not our base case, the risk that political opposition slows the AI infrastructure buildout is no longer negligible." - Morgan Stanley