Though it is leaving the current solar cycle's maximum behind, the sun today exhibited quite a number of active regions again. Skymax102, Panasonic S5 (total view), ASI220 (partial views) 🔭 #astrophoto

The morning starts with Guacamole 🥑: what looks like a slightly mishappen dip is in reality the precursor for our newest set of proton and oxide ion conductive ceramics. The green color comes from Praseodymium. It's now in the oven to change to a brown powder. PS: Please don't eat, it's toxic. 🧪👩‍🔬

Impressively thorough - but bleak - survey of the spread of H5N1 through the antarctic and sub-antarctic www.biorxiv.org/content/10.6...

“Matthews … we’re getting another one of those strange ‘aw blah es span yol’ sounds.”

Centimeter Wavelengths xkcd.com/3224/

Exceptional 1950s graph paper books we found in Tokyo last year. www.instagram.com/p/DWWXtIqjM2P/ Sold, but not forgotten.

Oh nothing, just a peer reviewed paper my colleagues found... doi.org/10.1016/j.ma... "1 mL of the mass killing of an ethnic group was opposed to 20 mL of the skin sample and unprotected to light for 7 min." Even AI knows what's wrong here, but @elsevierconnect.bsky.social doesn't.

Neutrons are back at the ILL! 💥 The first reactor cycle of 2026 at the ILL started today and will go on for 48 days at a power of 56 MW. Many thanks to everyone involved for ensuring that operations ran precisely on schedule.👏

Inconvenience stores

Leicht werden sie übersehen oder sogar als Schmutz abgetan: Flechten. Dabei sind es faszinierende Lebewesen, die an den verschiedensten Orten der Erde anzutreffen sind: von der Antarktis bis hin zu den Wüsten. Sie wachsen auf Untergründen wie Baumrinde, dem Boden, auf Steinen und sogar Beton. 1/5

Depuis la pandémie de Covid-19, l'Hexagone pullule de chamanes, magnétiseurs et autres guérisseurs quantiques. Un marché en plein essor, aidé par l'effondrement du système de santé et la crédulité d'une population en détresse.

The new T&F guidelines for editors when accepting paper submissions. #humor #funny #ai #fakepapers #academia #academicchatter #academicpublishing

a very interesting take on #TheArchers from an American perspective. archive.ph/60rls

The Virus Diseases of Plants Working Group of the Deutsche Phytomedizinische Gesellschaft e.V. (DPG) met to discuss “New innovations & techniques in plant virology”. Co-organised by @jki-research.bsky.social and DSMZ, there were featured talks, posters, and lively exchanges. 🌿 #PlantHealth 📷 DSMZ

New record @nanogune.bsky.social, two "magnetic seminars" in two days 😃 Today Zhenyang Xu @kingscollegelondon.bsky.social from the Ainslie group.

Bert - from The Guardian Bet Joe is pleased to see his old sparring partner again #TheArchers www.theguardian.com/tv-and-radio...

It’s different out in the actual countryside though. The George pissing incident was in the village. There’s quite a problem in some more touristy places like Cornwall where entitled young drunk men piss into gardens and all over the place. I was glad #TheArchers brought this up.

👏 Proud moment at nanoGUNE! Our former PhD researcher Manuel Suárez wins the GEFES 2025 prize for his pioneering work on non-linear transport in chiral semiconductors. 🔬✨ Read more:

Just another Monday… A Roman mosaic depicting a somewhat whimsical owl 🦉, found in Uzès, southern France, dating second half of the 1st century BC. 📷 Denis Gliksman, Inrap 🏺 #MosaicMonday

Tomato and pepper production faces emerging threats - Novel virus strains overcome key crop resistance genes #DSMZ #plantvirus #planthealth #tomato... weiterlesen

"Susan will find out." And after that it'll be like Reuters know. #thearchers

La Trumperie de la semaine | Le 18 février, l’allumé de la ­Maison-Blanche a dégainé une loi qui permet de réquisitionner des usines d’armement pour sécuriser la production de... glyphosate. Make Monsanto Great Again !

Nein, ich bin NICHT fein mit irgendwas. Einer der bescheuertsten Anglizismen unseres an bescheuerten Anglizimen so reichen Sprachgebrauchs #bescheuerteAnglizismen

Over 84% of examined dead black vultures tested positive for H5N1, indicating year-round avian influenza circulation and raising concerns about ongoing transmission and viral evolution. doi.org/hbq6wn

A swine flu case to keep tabs on https://www.statnews.com/2026/03/02/health-news-swine-flu-case-in-spain-investigate/ ↷ canadahealthwatch.ca/insights 🍁

"Zwischen der Erde und der Sonne ist die Atmosphäre. Und wenn die immer dünner wird, dann wird die Sonne immer heißer. Und der Grund dafür sind Abgase, CO₂ und und und" - Manuel Hagel, CDU Spitzenkandidat für die Landtagswahl in Baden-Württemberg zu Schülern, ARD Mittagsmagazin vom 2. März 2026

“Millions of years old and they look as if they were laid yesterday!”

Being Bossy is frequently confused with good management

"Trump’s Best Foreign Policy? Not Starting Any Wars He has my support in 2024 because I know he won’t recklessly send Americans to fight overseas." J.D. Vance, Jan. 31, 2023 www.wsj.com/articles/tru... Thanks for finding this gem, @hirstein.bsky.social

The arrival and then departure of the Gills sits at number 1 in the top 5 chart of pointless storylines Esme currently sits at number 2 but perhaps there is a purpose in the madness In case you are wondering the introduction and disappearance of Richard Locke’s daughter is third #TheArchers

For what it’s worth - this is the same ongoing H5N1 panzootic as we’ve been observing in birds/cows/carnivores on other continents; it hadn’t been an issue in California’s elephant seals *yet* but was likely just a matter of time. Dead or sluggish birds are easy snacks for lazy predators.

#SAHMN #SAHMN26 conference, Palacio Miramar, #Donostia: EUS not just international, but intercontinental! Speakers from DE,USA,IT,IL,BR,JP,FR,FI,ES,SG,TH,IR,CH,AT,CN, and I write AR in very big letters ;-) @nanogune.bsky.social , @cicbiomagune.bsky.social , @brtaeus.bsky.social

#SAHMN Donostia #SAHMN26

Of course!

📢 Donostia welcomes world leaders in #nanomedicine. The international congress on nanomedicine SAHMN 2026, organized by Dr Sergio Moya, group leader at CIC biomaGUNE, is taking place from 25 to 27 February. #SAHMN26 More information: https://www.cicbiomagune.es/new-detail?id=43289&year=2026

📜 Mit ihrer Gründung im Jahr 1946 stand die #TUBerlin vor einem Neuanfang – akademisch und architektonisch. Dabei war der Wiederaufbau des Hauptgebäudes mehr als ein Bauprojekt. Er war ein Symbol für Neues, für wissenschaftliche Freiheit & für Zukunftsorientierung. 🏛️🌟

Lancés dans une course effrénée à la publication, les chercheurs utilisent l'IA pour gagner en efficacité rédactionnelle. Résultat : noyés sous une tonne de publications scientifiques de piètre qualité, les savants doivent utiliser l'IA pour faire le tri

Sadly overlooked by most visitors at Palacio Miramar en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Miramar... @donostiakultura.bsky.social is Richard Serra's "Five Plates Counter Clockwise". www.santelmomuseoa.eus/atlas/detalle.php?ni=EP-0129&lang Find the point group!

#SAHMN conference in Donostia: Self-Ass. Hybrid Materials in Nanomed Sergio Moya and Aitziber Cortajarena @cicbiomagune.bsky.social in front of old Donostia. Bottiglieri and @bittner-ass.bsky.social represent our @nanogune.bsky.social.

#SAHMN conference in Donostia: Self-Ass. Hybrid Materials in Nanomed Sergio (Moya) and your group @cicbiomagune.bsky.social, how did you order this fantastic weather, after weeks of atlantic ocean downpours? Well done!

Zum Wochenende möchte ich hier einen besonderen Shoutout an diejenigen richten, die mit chronischer Krankheit und/oder Behinderung in der Wissenschaft tätig sind (oder waren) 💛 Meiner Meinung nach bekommt das Thema zu wenig Beachtung im alltäglichen Leben.

One of the best books I've ever read is The Immortal Life of Henrietta Lacks.

Wir gedenken: Gökhan Gültekin Sedat Gürbüz Said Nesar Hashemi Mercedes Kierpacz Hamza Kurtović Vili Viorel Păun Fatih Saraçoğlu Ferhat Unvar Kaloyan Velkov Ermordet vor 6 Jahren, am 19. Februar 2020, beim rassistischen Anschlag von #Hanau. Wir gedenken Ibrahim Akkuş, verstorben an den Spätfolgen.

Im stationären Bereich der Kliniken ist der Höhepunkt der aktuellen Influenzawelle endlich überschritten. Zahlen des RKI passen zur Lage auf unseren Stationen. Gleichzeitig beobachten wir auch einen Anstieg der RSV-Infektionen, noch auf niedrigem Niveau.

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Virology Africa 2026 Abstract submission deadline extended!!

Das Tandemprogramm der Deutschen Universitätsstiftung ist übrigens ziemlich cool: Richtet sich an frist generation students, gibt u.a. ein Mentorat mit Hochschullehrer:in vor Ort. Hab das schon gemacht, war sehr gut. Also, wenn ihr jemanden kennt auf den das passt, schickt ihnen das!

Alcohol death rates in Europe. Apparently very low in cultures where drunkenness is frowned upon and where alcohol is only consumed in company of others and served alongside meals. Spain and Italy for example. Source: buff.ly/3wDQcRz

Comet 3I/ATLAS faded from the news once it became impossible to sustain the "alien spaceship" fantasy. But the science kept going! Studies from the SPHEREx satellite show how water escaped from the interstellar comet, exposing buried dust & organic molecules. 🧪🔭 science.nasa.gov/blogs/sphere...