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California's most economically and culturally important species among those most vulnerable to projected climate change, per Climate Vulnerability Assessment of 34 marine species. 

A new analysis suggests that the rate of hate speech on X was about 50 percent higher for several months after Elon Musk purchased the social media platform than in prior months, and the amount of bot and bot-like accounts did not decline. Daniel Hickey of the University of California, Berkeley, U.S., and colleagues present these findings in the open-access journal PLOS One on February 12, 2025.

Dog owners who purchased a puppy because of the 2020 phase of the COVID-19 pandemic, or whose dogs have problem behaviors, experienced a greater burden of dog ownership, but most chose to keep their puppy, Bree Merritt at The Royal Veterinary College, U.K., and colleagues report on February 12, 2025, in the open-access journal PLOS One.

Music advertised to support "work flow" does seem to boost speed of cognitive processing in lab cognition test, likely working by boosting mood

Women are around 40% more generous than men in "Dictator Game" lab experiments measuring generosity, with personality traits and emotions affecting donation decisions