It is hardly the point but a) trans people existed in Medieval Europe, b) lots of currencies were used in Medieval Europe, not just gold, which was in fact uncommon, c) alchemy was a lot more common in early modern Europe, d) women are not a commodity you absolute weapons????

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Point of view: It’s March 2, 1930, and you are a fairly liberal German. That being the case, you buy your go-to Sunday paper, „Vossische Zeitung“. On page 5, you find a note on the funeral of the young Nazi Horst Wessel, who had died a few weeks after being shot. [A #Vossische1933f prequel.] 1/

Ministro dos Negócios Estrangeiros anunciou passo histórico e argumentou com as garantias da Autoridade Palestiniana e o apoio de outros Estados.

I have always asked people, including students, to call me Jason instead of Dr. Moore. I treat everyone as an equal. Afterall, isn't science about communication & collaboration? www.statnews.com/2025/09/19/d... #science #research #medicine

Oh ffs. No, I do not want to "Chat with the PDF" of this interesting looking academic journal article I just came across. I would like to read it. With my own eyeballs. And think about it. You know, with that grey matter sitting between my ears. Just make it stop. #AcademicChatter

First they came for the Immigrants. And I wrote a memo. Then they came for trans people. And I wrote a memo. Then they came for the comedians. And I wrote a memo. Then they came for me. And there was no one to write a memo for me.

Thrilled to share that our Group Leader Prof. Azim Surani, together with Prof. Davor Solter, has been awarded the 2026 Paul Ehrlich & Ludwig Darmstaedter Prize 🎉 for discovering genomic imprinting—a breakthrough that reshaped genetics and launched modern epigenetics.

Trans rights are, in fact, human rights. Pass it on. 🏳️‍⚧️🫂

Nothing. I use it for nothing at all because AI is good at zero of the tasks I do regularly Honestly I don't even know what its web address is, is it like a 2000s style ChatGPT.com or something funkier like chat.g.pt

Very sad for Robert Redford’s family and friends, but scrolling through all the posts with old photos of one of the hottest men to ever grace the screen is a real consolation for the rest of us.

Robert Redford, Screen Idol Turned Director and Activist, Dies at 89 www.nytimes.com/2025/09/16/m...

Excited to welcome Renata Prunskaite-Hyyryläinen tomorrow in our #ReproductionMS seminar. Details below ⬇️

Eurovision has always been and always will be political.

❤️ Beautiful Münster ❤️ Foto: Uni MS - Johannes Wulf

Larry Tesler, inventor of the cut, copy, and paste commands, dies at 74

THIS - on preprinting. As I said from the outset, "Altruism is even better if there is something in it for you". Preprints have huge advantages for authors AND readers.

um partido ilegal, anti-democrático, povoado por criminosos, liderado por mentiroso inconsequente, é número 1 nas intenções de voto. parabéns, comunicação social. parabéns direita pt. valeu a pena serem devorados só para “own the libs”.

ggplot2 is my most used R package and by itself a reason why everyone in science should learn to use R. It turned 18 and got a major update, which changes the way some things are achieved and also adds some new options!

I am beyond excited to announce that ggplot2 4.0.0 has just landed on CRAN. It's not every day we have a new major #ggplot2 release but it is a fitting 18 year birthday present for the package. Get an overview of the release in this blog post and be on the lookout for more in-depth posts #rstats

minimap2.com is potentially a phishing site. Please don't use anything from that website. github.com/lh3/minimap2...

Radiohead lied to us. Computer not OK. Computer not OK at all.

Ahhhh, aquela promessa de campanha que era para reter jovens qualificados em PT...envelheceu bem, n foi? via expresso

The “problem” with vaccines? They so effective at preventing deaths that they create generations of people that question whether disease was a problem in the first place because they have never experienced the horrors of a world without vaccines.

Dia de luto nacional: 17 mortos e 21 feridos no descarrilamento do Elevador da Glória www.publico.pt/2025/09/04/l...

I cannot overstate just how awful this stupid fucking bill proposal is - adding backdoors into encryption on OS level - "sniff" every single message before it gets encrypted AND SAVE IT CENTRALLY - let a goddamn hallucinating "AI" mark people as criminals it needs to be stopped, post haste

There is still time to submit an abstract and sign up for this year's DVR congress. With a great program and many sessions in English it's also great for an international audience. And added bonus you can visit the Münster Christmas markets! www.dvr-kongress.de #reprosky #reproduction #andrology

I am calm. I am breathing deeply through my nose. I am counting to ten. I… WHAT, ARE YOU AFRAID YOUR DOG WILL INFODUMP TO YOU ABOUT THE FUCKING BALL?!?

The ESHG calls for caution regarding the proposed use of the SRY gene test in sport. Eligibility rules must acknowledge biological complexity, allow for exceptions, and ensure proper athlete support. Read the full statement:

Yes, it was carefully hidden in the New England Journal of Medicine. Pfizer/BioNTech vaccine (www.nejm.org/doi/pdf/10.1... ) 1/2

✏️ Happy Labor Day! 🖌️ Did you know that AI “art” is labor theft? Hi. I’m a professional traditional artist of over 15 years & I was able to make a decent living until 3 years ago. In May 2023, over 50 of my paintings had been scraped without my consent to fuel AI image generators like Midjourney.

This is unbelievably cruel. www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025...

Breaking News: An earthquake in eastern Afghanistan killed at least 250 people and injured more than 500, officials said. The death toll was expected to rise.

The new head of the CDC, Jim O’Neill, has no degree in science or medicine, and has pushed unproven treatments for COVID like ivermectin. This is so incredibly dangerous.

If a dude offered to help you write crappy memos and essays, and you found out they were also helping children kill themselves, would you keep working with that dude?

Surpreendendo um total de 0 pessoas, um Conselho escolhido pelo ministério, com líder sem qualquer ligação à Ciência e com um pendor aplicado e empresarial, dá parecer positivo a iniciativa do ministério com visão aparentemente aplicada e empresarial #Independencia www.publico.pt/2025/08/28/c...

"A farsa global em q estamos metidos, mesmo q não seja inédita, torna insustentável qualquer ordem global digna desse nome. (...) A grande questão é porque escolhem nações e blocos regionais inteiros prescindir da sua dignidade, participando da farsa?" 👉 www1.folha.uol.com.br/colunas/rui-...

Mitochondrial challenges? Must be caused by vaccines, windmills and migrants!

realistic Star Trek

Look what they did to Notepad. Shut the fuck up. This is Notepad. You are not welcome here. Oh yeah "Let me use Copilot for Notepad". "I'm going to sign into my account for Notepad". What the fuck are you talking about. It's Notepad.

The #Gaza famine has unfolded in front of the world’s eyes. We saw it coming. We warned about it. We were not allowed to stop it. Now, as we count the lives lost to this intentional starvation, there is only one question to ask leaders: Where is humanity? End the blockade of aid TODAY. CEASEFIRE!

En direct, Gaza : l’ONU déclare officiellement la famine à Gaza

And then you have this related gem served up by the oh so talented #bing #genAI #fail

“The arc of the moral universe is long, but it bends towards justice." —-Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. "If slavery is not wrong, nothing is wrong." —-Abraham Lincoln “Those who cannot remember the past are condemned to repeat it.” —-George Santayana

Academia may not give you job security, flexibility, or wealth, but it will let you unexpectedly connect to eduroam in foreign cities

Discworld QOTD, from Going Postal

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