Anlässlich des wichtigen Ausstiegs der @bpb.de bei X hier nochmals der (zuerst im Research.Table @table.media erschienene) Artikel von @zolke.bsky.social & mir, der Argumente zusammenträgt, warum Wissenschaft raus muss aus X. Viele der Argumente gelten auch für andere Bereiche! Ohne Paywall lesen:

I really need folks to stop acting like Trump's goons are somehow emotionless terminators. They are super insecure bullies who desperately want to seem strong and powerful and popular and it kills them inside when they're not. Like Trump.

The Rutgers TPUSA chapter — whose characterization of a historian there as a “outspoken, well-known antifa member” led to death threats and moving his family to Europe — think *other* people are being “blatantly defamatory.” Not them, though. They’re doing politics the right way.

kann das alles nur noch mit einem müden schulterzucken quittieren

I’m opening a movie theater in which I show recently released films that I ripped from the internet but the studios are welcome to opt out if they wish.

ICE Nazis in Chicago tried to kidnap a food delivery worker but my man was too fast for those slow bastards

Limits academic mentions? Trans rights are human rights. Get lost.

In 2005 I spent 5 months in Ecuador investigating oil extraction. Around then German bank WestLB funded a new Andes pipeline despite past spills. What I saw was shocking and mostly unseen. This 2022 video shows just one example of repeated spills poisoning rivers and communities.

The Dutch Parliament is moving forward with labeling "antifa" a terrorist organization. The proposal will be decided on next week... nltimes.nl/2025/09/19/d...

Ich will die linksliberalen Kräfte Europas zu ihrem Beitrag zu diesem Projekt beglückwünschen. Die waren die letzten 20 Jahre sehr gerne immer die ersten die sich sehr gerne von "der Antifa" (i.d.R. eine undefinierte Projektsionsfläche) abgegrenzt haben. Bin gespannt wann das in Deutschland kommt

Look who came with

My optimism here is limited, but I really hope centrist institutions like universities and major news organizations understand that the plan is for the govt to dismantle them. They do not care if you fire your columnists or discipline staff for accurately quoting Kirk. They just want us all gone.

Dass sich in Naturwissenschafts-Kreisen tatsächlich die Theorie verbreiten konnte, es gebe eine "postmoderne" Bewegung in den Sozial- und Geisteswissenschaften, die bestreitet, dass es objektive Fakten gibt, ist eine Peinlichkeit für alle, die sich zu den Naturwissenschafts-Kreisen zählen.

As Trump holds Northwestern University hostage with $800 million in frozen funds, Northwestern leadership cracks down on students' right to free speech. These policies put more than 22,000 students at risk of punishment for peacefully protesting for any cause in any way.

Seit Tagen kontaktieren mich sehr viele Afghan:innen, die in Österreich Schutz gefunden haben. Wut, Empörung und Fassungslosigkeit über Österreichs Normalisierung der Taliban. Eine radikal-islamische Terrorbande, die ua Frauen systematisch unterdrückt und verfolgt.

We have a new publication. Thanks @dralexford.bsky.social for leading this work!

So sites that expand public (read-only) access to content (e.g., Internet Archive, Sci-Hub) are getting slapped by courts, while AI majors are allowed to use all manner of texts at will to train and spit out "new" writing as if original. Am I getting this right? cen.acs.org/policy/publi...

BREAKING: Nepal is going through a violent revolution right now as the Parliament, Supreme Court, police stations, and houses of politicians have been set on fire by Gen-Z. The Prime Minister and Home Minister have resigned in succession in the last 24-ish hours. www.nytimes.com/live/2025/09...

A student told her professor “President Trump’s laws state that there are two genders,” and that the lesson was “illegal” for contradicting that. It’s not. Executive orders are not laws. Compliance with authoritarianism will not protect universities. Either we stand up for our missions or we fall.

Staatsanwaltschaft: Das war unpolitisch.. Täter: ICH WOLLTE GRÜNE TÖTEN!! Staatsanwalt: …und ideologiefrei.

Ein israelischer Elitesoldat gesteht mutmaßliche gezielte Tötungen von Zivilisten im Gazastreifen, wohl ein Kriegsverbrechen. Auf Video dokumentiert. Wahnsinn: Gratuliere den Kolleg:innen von @papertrailmedia.de, @spiegel.de @zdfde.bsky.social zu dieser Recherche. www.spiegel.de/ausland/der-...

War die Polizei beim Sommercamp der Identitären, bei dem auch Kampftechniken geübt wurden? Oder war man diesen Sommer mit dem Beobachten von NS-Gedenkstätten ausgelastet? Der Innenminister wird es uns sicher sagen können. www.derstandard.at/story/300000...

We all need to cancel our Google, Meta, Microsoft and what have you-accounts asap. The Trump administration is weaponising its tech industry et vice versa.

Just a reminder to check for your name in this list of books that OpenAI trained from. If your name is there, they probably owe you several thousand dollars. OpenAI cried that if everyone eligible author files, the company will go bankrupt, so I'm alerting every author I have ever spoken to.

How far behind in public transport and inrastructure do you have to be to think that robotaxis are useful

Und jetzt zu unserem derzeitigen Lieblingsforschungsbereich, der Regulierungswissenschaft (regulatory science). Was ist die Regulierungswissenschaft ?

📉 Europe’s flagship #water law set ambitious targets to clean up our waters by 2015. But now, a decade past the deadline, chemical pollution is rising. Today, less than 30% of Europe’s surface waters are in good chemical condition — and that number is getting worse, not better. (1/2)

This week's comic, inspired by a study showing that AI summaries on top of search results are dramatically cutting traffic to websites.

Me five minutes ago: I'm not going to read the Prince Andrew biography, so I'll just read this article about it Me after reading these two paragraphs: LMAO GOOD GOD

Update #Serbien: Letzte Nacht hat der Dekan der Philosophischen Fakultät in Novi Sad, während die Student*innen schliefen, mit (6?) Professor*innen die Schlösser an der Universität ausgetauscht und die Student*innen heute Morgen, unter Androhung von Disziplinarverfahren, aus dem Gebäude geworfen 1/x

HEY friends: recently seen heaps of "disclosures" from AI companies of the energy cost per question you type into chatbots (most recently from Google)? Presenting per-query 'efficiency' is part of big tech's efforts to hide its extremely real and happening-right-now climate impacts! NEW POST -->>>

We have to be purposeful about ending the use of fossil fuels because they’re not going to end themselves anytime soon. While wind and solar are cheaper, they are not as profitable. Therein lies the problem.

@scientistscoa.bsky.social invites you to a press conference: ⏰ Tuesday 12/08/25, 15.30 CEST 📍 INC Press Room XXVII, Building E & online Seating will be prioritized for media & delegations. Media can register to join virtually & submit questions: lnkd.in/eW2Mnanz 💻 Live broadcast: lnkd.in/ed99he3j

Notice how the Sentient piece clearly illustrates the role of land grant universities (in this case UC Davis). It also links big livestock greenwashing efforts to the global round table for “sustainable” beef, to which some env’l NGOs provide cover, as shown in the Desmog piece below. Pretty rotten.

As it should.

the problem with letting democrats backslide their support of trans rights whether it be trans in sports or using bathrooms is we’ve seen “compromise” in the UK labor party. they gave into “reasonable” TERF demands and it destroyed the labor party and all rights for trans people

A university scientist who discovered alarming levels of toxic chemicals in a lake in southeastern Louisiana was abruptly removed from her research position this week without explanation

kurz nach der razzia am peršmanhof und den grindigen aussagen der FPÖ dazu eine koalition mit der FPÖ net ausschließen zu wollen und zu behaupten, sie sei nicht wie die AfD is‘ schon wirklich a meisterleistung 🤝

Am Peršmanhof hat ein SS Polizeiregiment vier Erwachsene & sieben Kinder niedergemetzelt. 80 Jahre später in der Gedenkstätte: Polizei brüllt mit Hand an der Waffe rum. Videos: ZiB 1 & Dnevnik (die wesentliche Nachrichtensendung in SLO): on.orf.at/video/142854... 365.rtvslo.si/arhiv/dnevni...

Kommt heute zur Kundgebung vom KZ Verband Wien um 17 Uhr vorm Innenministerium (Herrengasse 7). Zusammen erheben wir unsere antifaschistischen Stimmen gegen den skandalösen Einsatz der Polizei am #Peršmanhof. Unter kz-verband-wien.at/veranstaltun... findet ihr den vollständigen Aufruftext.

"Goop walked so all these people profiting from wellness on Instagram and TikTok could run.” - Dr. Jen Gunter 🔥🔥

something something don't negotiate with terrorists.

The Economist is neocolonial trash so I generally don’t bother with their crap but I really wish the person responsible for this particular piece a lifelong issue with diarrhea. May your gut have many guests you don’t care for, and may they stay for a very long time.

Young refuseniks burn their IOF draft papers in the middle of Tel Aviv They refuse to serve in the Israeli Occupation Forces, and are willing to go to military jail for their position. The new generation of refuseniks is supported by the older, many of them spent months in jail already

When NPR left Twitter, traffic dropped by only a single percentage point. niemanreports.org/npr-twitter-...

CeMESS is hiring! Join us at the Division of Environmental Geosciences (@edge-vienna.bsky.social) as Full Professor of ENVIRONMENTAL BIOGEOCHEMISTRY OF METALS. Collaborate across a leading institution in microbiome science and environmental research. 🔗 Learn more and apply: tinyurl.com/47bev45k

If you are a scientist working with fluvial ecosystems, consider signing this position paper emphasizing the importance of the upper Drina River as a biodiversity hotspot and refugia. Its intact hydromorphology is currently threatened by several hydropower projects.

I gotta say, as a Jew, it’s incredibly fucked up and sad that Elon Musk and Grok being Nazi sympathizers hasn’t caused a mass exodus (or coordinated boycott) from X. I don’t like to shame people for what is clearly a failure of collective action, but honestly, what the fuck?

Some of my fellow Jews think a college kid wearing a kaffiyeh is a greater threat to their personal safety than an authoritarian government rounding up people to send to torture camps and the world's richest man who made a Nazi AI, and I'm really not sure what to say to them anymore.