“In London cyclists now outnumber cars in the City by 2 to 1. Paris, where they now outnumber motorists across the whole city, is catching up with Europe’s traditional bike capitals, Amsterdam & Copenhagen…In Copenhagen, bikes account for almost half of commuter trips to work/school.” @economist.com

Marcos first first-author paper is online, congrats! Technetium paper #9 since we started Tc chemistry in 2019. @unicologne.bsky.social @chemunicologne.bsky.social 🧪 link.springer.com/article/10.1...

liebe autos passt auf euch auf da draußen es sind kinder unterwegs

Dieser lesenswerte Vorschlag, Exzellenz zu ersetzen, umfasst 1 „nationales ‚Programm Dauerstellen & Karrieren’, das klare Zielquoten für Dauerstellen im Postdoc-Bereich setzt, inklusive der Einführung verbindlicher Karrierepfade nach dem Modell des @wissenschaftsrat.de“ 👏 #IchBinHanna #ExitExzellenz

An adult driver angry at a child they hit with their car. Our car culture summed up in one video.

The New York Times posted an obituary for Darleane. www.nytimes.com/2025/10/05/s...

In non-LLM AI news, Waymo has quietly been involved in two fatal car crashes in 2025. Phil Koopman details that this fatality rate is now comparable to humans. People: 7/billion miles in all conditions Waymo: 5/billion miles in geofenced conditions

Dr. Jane Goodall filmed an interview with Netflix in March 2025 that she understood would only be released after her death.

ICE just blatantly violated the law and arrested sitting Chicago Alderperson Jessie Fuentes while seeking to illegally arrest a patient in a hospital. Fuck these fascists.

We are alarmed by reports that Germany is on the verge of a catastrophic about-face, reversing its longstanding and principled opposition to the EU’s Chat Control proposal which, if passed, could spell the end of the right to privacy in Europe. signal.org/blog/pdfs/ge...

Portland enacts emergency powers of nudity to check federal overreach.

We have a #MinCup25 champion!! Congratulations, #Kyanite! www.mineralcup.org/2025 After eight years of competing, another few hours to verify votes was nothing, right? Amazing first run, #Tugtupite, and better luck next year.

E-bikes are the real urban mobility revolution. Cities need to take them seriously

Farage, Trump, Musk: your boy Javier Milei just took one hell of a beating. Why so quiet? | Aditya Chakrabortty www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...

#Dioptase is an amazing colour-changing pleochroic goddess of a queen that looks as stunning as #Tugtupite -if not more. She well deserves a crown in #MinCup25! An international 'crystal water' stone of mystery, it also went by the names of #achrite, #emeraudine, copper emerald or #kirghisite 🥷👑

I work with Veterans. If I told them that they "killed people and broke things for a living" they would (rightfully) tell me to go to hell. Those that have had to kill someone in the line of duty most often view it with sadness, regret, and one of the worst experiences of their lives.

Wow. #MinCup25 rookie #Tugtupite has so many emotional advantages over hardened (not Mohs-wise) veteran desert queen #Dioptase. It’s like it got designed when an elementary school class got asked “What do you want in a mineral?” Pink! Changes color! Glows! Electric powers! Mythical reindeer blood!

Vote #Tugtupite with its remarcable Optics! Changes color: photocrome! Flourescent! Phosphorescent! Piezoelectric! Perovskite is just a Geek Mineral!

Vote for Blood Rock Finals 🥳 #MinCup25

Der Bericht über die irre Trump-Rede vor der UNO zeigt, wie Nachrichten-Journalismus an seine Grenze stößt: Eine sachliche Zusammenfassung dieses egomanischen Schwachsinns ist völlig sinnlos, aber weil das Format Tagesschau das verlangt, klingt es so, als habe Trump etwas von Substanz gesagt

Der @buermeyer.de von @lagedernation.org und @freiheitsrechte.org hatte da mal für ein anderes Konzept plädiert, nämlich (Schnell)Verfahren direkt gegen Accounts zu führen. Strafbare Inhalte? Gericht zwingt Anbieter zur sofortigen Löschung. Accountinhaber kann sich ja melden und dagegen klagen.

More than 1800 detainees are missing after the closure of Alligator Alcatraz. Their families and lawyers can’t find them and they’ve vanished from the ICE database. Feels like this should be a much bigger story www.miamiherald.com/news/local/i...

okay AI controversy aside, just talking as a nerd for a second: this is such a cool paper

Premium Newsletter: There is no real market for renting out AI GPUs, and the majority of revenue comes from two companies - Microsoft and NVIDIA - the latter of which rents its own GPUs back from Neoclouds like CoreWeave so they can raise debt...to buy more GPUs. www.wheresyoured.at/is-there-any...

Ich würde mich sehr freuen, meinen Song löschen zu können, weil er nicht mehr zutrifft. Stattdessen wird er täglich aktueller. youtu.be/8kjytZqmPWQ?...

Vielleicht ist der Ausgangspunkt allen Übels auch, dass wir auf Ausweisfotos nicht mehr lächeln dürfen.

„Tempo 30 muss zur Regel in Berlin werden – womit der Senat herumspielt, ist für Eltern bitterer Alltag. Je weniger Autoraserei, desto sicherer sind die Straßen für Kinder“, sagt @claudiathi.bsky.social, ADFC Berlin Vorstand. #Weltkindertag #KidicalMass #SepTempo30 berlin.adfc.de/pressemittei...

Nicht verpassen: Die Dankesrede von @herrscherfer.bsky.social für die Auszeichnung von Phoenix beim Deutschen #Fernsehpreis:

This is great

This is NOT A DRILL! It’s time to vote for THE BEST MINERAL… CALCITE!!! Thanks to its birefringence, under the name Icelandic spar, it made a critical contribution to our understanding of the wave nature of light! It even appears in the title of Christiaan Huygens ‘Treatise on Light’. ⚛️ #MinCup25

The thing about living in a human society is you either decide that everyone (except those for whom it would be medically dangerous) has to take VACCINES into their bodies or everyone (with no exceptions at all) has to take VIRULENT PATHOGENS in from those around them and, look, the first is better.

First "first author"-paper of Clarence is online, congrats! doi.org/10.1002/zaac... @chemunicologne.bsky.social @unicologne.bsky.social 🧪

Ich bin evtl ein bisschen late to the party. Aber wollte es doch hier mal posten, falls jemand das noch nicht kannte. Ich finds aufschlussreich. #arm #reich www.givingwhatwecan.org/how-rich-am-i

Ich hab auf Jens Jessens These in der ZEIT geantwortet, die Linken seien Schuld am Aufstieg der Rechten. (Geschenklink) www.zeit.de/politik/deut...

Realsatire: 3 Tage nach Eröffnung der A100 wurde der 1. Stau & Tunnelsperrung vermeldet. Induzierter Verkehr heißt das Phänomen oder anders: „Wer Straßen baut wird Verkehr ernten“. Die Idee, mit mehr Straßen Staus zu bekämpfen ist völlig absurd. Wann kommt die Erkenntnis endlich in der 🇩🇪 Politik an?

We Have AI Now www.youtube.com/shorts/8-lgJ...

And on the subject of #realartatters: AI poisoning tool NIGHTSHADE is now free for artists to use: venturebeat.com/ai/nightshad...

It's important to note that machine learning has been around for decades and is very useful for many tasks. Conflating Generative AI with those only proves that GenAI companies are realizing that their creation doesn't have enough to offer on its own.

this iconic advertising copywriter named Kathy Hepinstall Parks died over the weekend and I wanted to share something from her website I thought Bluesky would like

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Eine Wut-Rede von Prof. Andreas Wirsching im aktuellen Heft von Forschung & Lehre - sehr lesenswert (aber auch zum verzweifeln) „Die „Befreiung" von universitären Verpflichtungen in Lehre und Verwaltung dient dem Einkauf von Zeit für die „eigentliche" Arbeit der Professorinnen und Professoren“ 1/2

Never a bad day to repost this

@adfc.koeln @adfc.de Gibt es hier eventuell schon geplante Aktionen des ADFC? bsky.app/profile/dave...

As part of VDL's trade war surrender to Trump, the EU has promised to lower its vehicle safety & pollution standards. NGO @transenv.bsky.social calls it a "betrayal of all EU citizens" forcing "monster 🇺🇸pick-up trucks" into Europe that will increase pedestrian deaths.

There is of course another solution to the ‘asylum seeker problem’. Start thinking of them as human. When you do that, the ‘problem’ kind of melts away.

Finally after months of trying. I was able recreate the experiment of Marie Curie that lead to the discovery of Polonium on a 10^-6 scale. Only in german for now. Until I translated it in a couple of weeks. youtu.be/ClUnkq_gBL4?...

As a random historical footnote, the Chinese authorities brought in troops from around the country for the Tienanmen Square massacre, many of them recruits from rural areas. They told them that the capital was under siege by anti-government radicals. Just a thought.

2/2. Everyone using the phrase "land swap" should please specify which Russian territory Ukraine would be getting. So far it’s a euphemism for forcing Ukraine to give things up to Russia.

We need to be able to say what protests are for. Serbs are protesting for the rule of law and have been doing so in large numbers for a long time. www.theguardian.com/world/2025/a...