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I wish there was a daily news source that gave science news (upcoming papers, cool findings, new species, engineering achievements, etc) equal billing with political news.
this is what is missing from the news imo:
(https://www.tumblr.com/freythegay/726741706536534016?source=share)
@futurebird
Sounds like a dream.
In my dream it'd cover politics with 95% budgets and bills, 5% "inside baseball" cover of politics.
@futurebird I know what you mean, but ... in practice that would devolve into a mess of clickbait. Science moves slow, it's not suited for a daily news cycle.
@zenkat @futurebird not if it was curated well; moving slow should mean a topic doesn’t get repeated often, but there’s more than enough science happening to have a brief daily story with repeats only every few years.
I’d also like to see more coverage of how science shows up in industry and policy (or how it doesn’t)
@futurebird afaik the original idea of web 2.0 was curating your own news.
And you can indeed use an RSS reader to subscribe to both a newspaper and a science magazine.
I think in practice even most people who use RSS keep science and politics/propaganda in different folders though. I know I do.
A few people have given similar suggestions, but it's not getting at what I had in mind-- this is more about what kind of paper would bill content in this way.
Imagine a newspaper, which as an organization has editors who value science news and political news equally and who have a balanced understanding of both which would inform the articles on both.
It would definitely be better if journalists understood more science and the media was full of wisdom instead of manipulation.
Probably can't do that with RSS. 
@futurebird @pre yes, I don't think self curated or crowd sources (vote-up/down) doesn't work that well for news.
@futurebird ars Technica has a science page which has some interesting articles.
https://arstechnica.com/science/
@Mamalafafala @futurebird Ars Technica is what came to my mind too. Nature has a daily email newsletter: https://www.nature.com/briefing/signup/ and although some articles may be paywalled for you it's still useful. Their main site also has an RSS feed.
@futurebird that was my twitter feed till it broke
@futurebird The medium is really enhancing the message here
@futurebird Yay Bat news!
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The little happy face on the bat! :D
@futurebird We have a house two-three blocks away with a bat house/nesting area in their yard (Milwaukee, WI)... I think they only have brown bats that nest there, but that's so cool!!!
@futurebird I didn't know bats migrate!
@futurebird closest I know is Scishow