Mensch auf #Fahrrad ist mit Abstand die effektivste Transportart im gesamten Tier- und Insektenreich sowie allen technischen Individualtransportarten. Dies sollte im Rahmen von #Klimaschutz und Verkehrswende gebührend berücksichtigt werden, @bmv-bund.bsky.social. @ingwarpero.bsky.social

I’ve officially resigned as Associate Editor for Frontiers in Systems Neuroscience. It used to be a reputable journal, but became a case study in how forced automation destroys academic integrity. 👇

OK so is it safe to say that "something is happening" ?!

1. How common is LLM use in scientific publishing, and how does it vary across field, publisher, journal prestige, author demographics etc.? @kylesiler.bsky.social has new paper in PNAS that addresses this question on a massive scale: 7.3 million papers from Elsevier, PLOS, MDPI, and Frontiers.

You used to be able to google the time of the sunset, and Google would give you the exact time right on top every single time. Thankfully, with artificial intelligence, you can now ask Google what time the sun will set and it will conveniently tell you "I don't know."

I’m a big fan of this visual aid

Oxford, the longest running continuous weather station in UK history, with temperature observations stretching back to 1815, has preliminarily broken its maximum temperature record for May yesterday by OVER 3ºC with a temperature of 33.7ºC. Unprecedented in its 211-year history.

In light of the ongoing situation with Ebola in the DRC, I'm sorry to have to remind you that evolutionary biology makes it abundantly clear that ignoring a catastrophic disease outbreak because it's there, not here, is a terrible, terrible idea.

Europa bricht alle Hitzerekorde für Mai - und die Regierung Merz handelt 💪 - Fliegen wird billiger - Benzin & Diesel werden subventioniert - Deutschlandticket wird teurer - Das Verbrenner-Aus soll gekippt werden - Das "Heizungsgesetz" wird abgeschwächt

How many technologies are stuck in a local optima? Big loudspeakers basically peaked in the 1970s.  Obviously we’ve gotten somewhat better, but it’s a lot closer to: “a couple % more accurate” than “the average person immediately notices the +50-year technological progress”

Germany: More flying, less trains and bus travel.

A NEW TWIST in Africa's soaring solar story: It's now manufacturing its own panels. The factories use imported Chinese cells, which are 40% of the value of panels, keeping much of the value domestically. 9 GW of cells+wafers in Mar/Apr alone🧵

🇺🇾 Uruguay - April 26 - BEV Trajectory 44.3% BEV 4.5% PHEV 51.2% ICE (of which 5.8%p were HEV) Trailing 12 months are: 34.4% BEV 2.6% PHEV 63.0% ICE (of which 9.1%p were HEV) Graphs are available in the Gallery: leraffl.github.io/LeRaffl-Gall...

ProPublica used leaked tax returns to calculate that through complex tax avoidance schemes, Jeff Bezos pays a tax rate of 0.98% www.propublica.org/article/the-... So if we doubled the taxes he pays, that would mean he'd still be paying less than 2%.

I'm happy to share this new paper led by Morena Hanbury Lemos, which explores the drain of resources from Latin America through ecologically unequal exchange. Available open access in Ecological Economics: sciencedirect.com/science/arti...

About that New York Times op-ed: www.pnas.org/doi/10.1073/...

For folks who say that recent patterns of warming “prove” the climate models are broken, and other forces are “accelerating” the warming. Nope. Warming is as expected and within the range of estimates. Thanks to @michaelemann.bsky.social and team for this. www.pnas.org/doi/10.1073/...

🧪 FIRST STUDY to compare direct air capture of CO2 vs renewables: “An amount of money spent deploying wind or solar delivers more combined climate and public health benefit than if it is spent on DAC.” Releasing CO2 into air and then trying to suck it up is dumb. techxplore.com/news/2026-05...

Budgetsanierung ohne Klimapolitik verschiebt Kosten nicht nur in die Zukunft, sondern erhöht sie erheblich: Eine unmittelbare Ausgabenkürzung übersetzt sich dann in öffentliche Mehrausgaben & wirtschaftliche Nachteile, und der WAIT-Effekt belastet die öffentlichen Budgets vierfach. Mehr hier 👇

"There are 780 gigawatts of announced data center projects in the U.S., which is more than the country’s current total peak load of 759 GW." Oh. www.latitudemedia.com/news/how-muc...

he makes some good points

Pollution levels in Paris after 10 years of advancing sustainable transport.

Very interesting new study finding that *even in large European cities*, in most places it is easier to access opportunities by car than by public transport arxiv.org/pdf/2604.01019 The exceptions are Paris, Zurich and the innermost parts of Milan and Barcelona

Women I spoke to recently doing innovative theoretical work have been discouraged by colleagues with power to apply for grants and ERC just announced recently they won't be allowing junior people the same chances as before. Killing academia through their own decisions. erc.europa.eu/news-events/...

New @lancetcountdown.bsky.social Europe Report shows climate heat-related deaths are rising in nearly every region. Meanwhile fossil fuel subsidies reached €444bill in 2023, 3.3x higher than in 2016, as energy prices soared following Russia’s invasion of Ukraine. www.pik-potsdam.de/en/news/late...

Yes, Swiss scientist Fritz Zwicky coined the term “dark matter” which is impressive, but he also coined the term “spherical bastard” to describe people who are bastards no matter which way you look at them, and I think that should be celebrated more.

"What Europe needs is not yet another scramble for new sources of fossil fuel imports, but a fundamental shift away from the demand that makes these shocks so damaging in the first place."

In addition, there are now several studies showing that you also have to interrupt driving, and make it less easy. Because with the best will in the world, why would somebody who habitually gets in their car for every trip even notice a free bus, let alone make the effort to learn to use it?

Hier, liebe Männer, ein Beispiel für jemanden, der nicht in das ,but not all men‘-Gejammer einsteigt und dem trotzdem nicht der Penis abfällt: Dirk Peglow (Vorsitzender Bund Deutscher Kriminalbeamter) empfiehlt Frauen, besser keine Beziehung mit einem Mann einzugehen, um sich vor Gewalt zu schützen.

Many govts hope capturing carbon from power plants burning wood will cause "negative emissions." New Nature Sust. paper today finds this likely increases emissions for decades, generates no negative emissions within 150 years, and increase electricity costs ~3.5-fold. www.nature.com/articles/s41...

A theoretical result showing that subliminal learning arises in neural networks under broad conditions. As artificial intelligence systems are increasingly trained on the outputs of one another, they may inherit properties not visible in the data www.nature.com/articles/s41...

“And while I absolutely do not want to go back to that old hardware, I do wish we had carried more of [...] the instinct to batch work, to cache the right things, [...] to be suspicious of convenience when convenience sends a bill to the user.” www.tomshardware.com/software/win...

"The data shows that men care less about climate change than women… ‘Petro-masculinity' refers to how fossil-fuel consumption is wrapped up in being manly, and similarly, how you gotta eat meat to be a man... We need to articulate what a nontoxic, earth-loving, care-giving masculinity looks like."

NEW: A major supplier of ‘green’ airline fuel to the UK has sourced beef fat linked to illegal Amazon deforestation Our new investigation 🐄 🌳 ✈️: unearthed.greenpeace.org/2026/04/10/u...

Much as I love my employer, a flagship state institution and one of the best universities in the world, they lack the lean nimbleness to implement programs like this.

This is one of the most fascinating and under-appreciated figures of the recent IPCC AR6 report (Figure 6.16). It shows the effects of a single year of emissions after 10 and 100 years, and really illustrates the difference between stock and flow pollutants: www.ipcc.ch/report/a...

Schaut so aus als wär die Antwort ja.

Interpretable Early Warnings using Machine Learning in an Online Game-experiment arxiv.org/abs/2502.09880

Network of the day: Japanese educational poster about the different materials and resources produced by / deriving from the forest industry.

Europe’s holiday wish? More speed, more options, more time for YOU. While many are winding down, Europe is gearing up: a major high-speed rail plan is set to transform travel by 2040. Here’s what’s coming ↓

Some good points in this article on how inefficient and environmentally harmful it is to produce food from livestock, and on the potential of new tech like precision fermentation. But for me too much emphasis on the need for protein (we're overconsuming) and on expensive/risky nuclear power.

Graduating high school before ChatGPT is like having a brain made of recovered steel from warships old enough to not have been weakened by atomic bomb isotopes.

Dry soils lose more carbon when warm Warmer temperatures + drier soils = more carbon released from the ground. Soils contain more carbon than the atmosphere and plants combined, but drought can boost microbes that decompose it, releasing CO2 (less carbon stored). www.nature.com/articles/s41...

It's always something like this and never something like 'use AI to check whether a manager is sexually harassing a subordinate'. (Which, to be clear, is not a great idea either; my point is these tools are mainly seen by management as a way to exert tighter control over labor.)

Three peanuts kind of morning I see. 🪶

"Women adopt AI at rates 25% lower than men. This isn’t a guess. It’s the finding of a Harvard Business School meta-analysis examining eighteen studies, over 140,000 participants, across multiple countries." "Every AI Company Is Building a Different Wife" abiawomosu.substack.com/p/they-built...

80% of agricultural land is used for livestock (and textiles), yet this huge land use provides only 17% of our calories and 38% of our protein. 16% of the land used for crops provides 83% of our calories and 62% of our protein. It's past time we rethink what we eat.

More reports of Gmail turning over email content to ICE are coming out now. techcrunch.com/2026/02/10/g...

Do humans need meat for good health? Tldr: no! "Replacing animal protein with plant protein can significantly improve personal and planetary health and is of course kinder to the non-human animals with which we share this earth..."