Impacts of #climate change: from the observations collected in the #FloraIncognita app, researchers can indirectly infer the #flowering periods of the #plants. Almost all of the species flowered several weeks earlier in 2022–2024 compared with 2021. www.mpg.de/26484618/flo... @bgc-jena.mpg.de

Die MS Wissenschaft legt ab: Das Ausstellungsschiff, das sich dem Thema #Medizin widmet, wird heute in Berlin eröffnet und in den nächsten Monaten 36 Städte in Deutschland, Polen und Österreich ansteuern. Drei Max-Planck-Institute sind mit an Bord. www.mpg.de/26467643/ms-... @w-i-d.de

Been training for this moment my whole life.

1/3 🔭 Exciting discoveries from the James Webb Space Telescope! Researchers from MPIA and CfA | Harvard & Smithsonian analysed the rocky exoplanet LHS 3844 b, revealing a dark, hot surface likely composed of basalt. We are beginning to do #exogeology. 🌌 #Exoplanets #JWST www.mpia.de/news/science...

Ob verspätet eingeführte Diesel-Fahrverbote oder vorzeitige Abschiebungen: Was kann der Staat tun, wenn Bundesländer rechtsbrüchig werden? Bundesjustizministerin Stefanie Hubig (SPD) will Gerichten und dem Bund mehr Rechte im Fall behördlichen Fehlverhaltens gewähren ➡️ www.mpg.de/26434612/exe...

Physik am Küchentisch: Harald Lesch und ich reden über das nukleare Energieparadox - über den krassen Unterschied zwischen den kühnen Träumen von Investoren, Autokraten und den Medien, und den Fakten, die uns etwas ganz anderes sagen

🌕Once in a blue moon, there are two full moons! 🌕😉 Carolin Liefke @hausderastronomie.bsky.social erklärt, was es mit dem "Blue Moon" im Mai auf sich hat und wie er zu seinem Namen kam. www.spiegel.de/wissenschaft... @spiegel.de

Leinen los für die MS Wissenschaft: Am 7. Mai eröffnen wir in Berlin feierlich die Ausstellung im Wissenschaftsjahr 2026 – Medizin der Zukunft. Von Berlin aus steuert das Ausstellungsschiff zwischen Mai und September 36 Städte in Deutschland, Polen und Österreich an. Wir freuen uns auf euren Besuch!

The US agency #ICE uses a #Palantir software called Elite to track down people living in the US without valid residency permits. How does this app work? What is the difference between it and the Palantir tool Vera, which is also used by the German #police? www.mpg.de/26430251/int... #dataprotection

Euer Blick auf blühende Apfelbäume kann Forschung verändern!🌸 🍎 Ladet die #FloraIncognita-App, aktiviert „PhänoNetz“ und meldet eure Beobachtungen zu Pflanzenphasen – so wird das DWD-Netz dichter und Vorhersagen genauer. Mehr Infos: 🔗 www.dwd.de/DE/presse/pre…

1/5 Well over three years of work and I’m thrilled to see it out today in Science Advances: the cover feature no less! Using an innovative pipeline, we show that malaria shaped the spatial organization of human groups in sub-Saharan Africa over the last 74,000 years. www.science.org/doi/10.1126/...

Happy birthday, Max Planck! 😊 Heute hätte unser Namensgeber Geburtstag. Ein guter Grund, sich den genialen Physiker und Nobelpreisträger genauer anzusehen: Wer war er wirklich? Und wie hat er die Welt verändert? Ein kurzes, filmisches Porträt. #OnthisDay #OTD

Just a quick reminder that this singular, beautiful, blue & white bauble is our shared home. May we keep it safe. The iconic "Earthrise" image, one of the most famous photos ever taken, was captured by astronaut Bill Anders on Dec. 24, 1968 from the Apollo 8 spacecraft. #EarthDay

1/4 🌌 Become a citizen scientist for ESA’s Euclid mission! The universe is vast, and we need your help to unlock its secrets. In collaboration with @ec-euclid.bsky.social and ESA, we are hunting for "Space Warps" – gravitational lenses that bend light from distant galaxies. #Astronomy #STEM #Euclid

Morgen urteilt der Europäische Gerichtshof über ein ungarisches Gesetz aus dem Jahr 2021, das unter dem Deckmantel des "Kinderschutzes" die Darstellung von #Homosexualität und #Transgeschlechtlichkeit in Schulen und Medien verbietet. (1) #Ungarn

Excited to see two new Max Planck Centers deepen our collaboration with Singapore in data-driven chemistry and in research on biodiversity, culture, and knowledge—bringing together complementary strengths to enable discoveries no institution could achieve alone. www.mpg.de/26395088/wit...

Foods with added #sugar are everywhere – even in some surprising places. So how easy is it to go without sugar and what difference can it make to your #health? A self-experiment by BBC correspondent Melissa Hogenboom ➡️ www.bbc.com/future/artic...

Knife crime! Pronouns! Meat bans! Some political issues lead to "hotter", more emotional and polarizing debates than others. We show how these "trigger points" reveal a contested structure of moral expectations and how they get weaponized by polarization entrepreneurs. OA @bjsociology.bsky.social 🧵

Persönliche KI-Assistenten greifen auf private Daten zu: Krishna Gummadi, Direktor am Max-Planck-Institut für Softwaresysteme, erläutert, was #KI - Agenten ausmacht, und äußert sich zu den Vorteilen und Risiken, die sie für die Gesellschaft darstellen. www.mpg.de/26374949/kue... #OpenClaw #Moltbook

Between cutting-edge research and responsibility: how the Max Planck Society cooperates with #China ➡️ www.mpg.de/china

In Beijing, we opened two new Max Planck Centers with the Chinese Academy of Sciences: one on synthetic biochemistry, exploring new bioactive compounds & one on the links between air pollution, extreme weather, and climate — a meaningful step for our future collaboration. www.mpg.de/26373030/two...

Können wir die gesellschaftlichen Folgen neuer Technologien erforschen, bevor sie existieren?🤔Genau das will "Science-Fiction-Science“! Was dahinter steckt – & was das "Collingridge-Dilemma" damit zu tun hat – erklärt Euch Doktor Whatson im Video. @iyadrahwan.bsky.social @mpib-berlin.bsky.social

14 things PhD supervisors got right and why it mattered: #PhD students reflect on how their supervisors made a meaningful difference - from quiet acts of kindness to career-shaping guidance. www.nature.com/articles/d41... @nature.com

At the center of the galaxy Markarian 501, there appears to be not just one supermassive black hole, but two. Radio observations over several years suggest that the duo could merge in as short as 100 years. www.popsci.com/science/blac... #radioastronomy #blackholes @popsci.com

Meet people @mpi-cbg.de and their younger selves! At MPI-CBG, 500 curiousity-driven individuals, from over 50 countries & from the most diverse backgrounds, explore fundamental molecular and cellular processes underlying the formation of organs and organisms and their healthy maintenance. #thisiswho

Sorge vor neuer Technik, Angst vor Krieg und Umweltzerstörung, Hass auf Demokratie: Wiederholt sich gerade alles? Die Historikerin Ute Frevert sagt: Es ist kompliziert.

Not all #eggs are the same: birds‘ eggs have an incredible range of different sizes, colors, patterns and shapes. 🪺 🤩 Happy #Easter, everyone!

We are hiring! The Matthias Mann Lab @mannlab.bsky.social @mpibiochem.bsky.social in Munich has 3 exciting #postdoc openings in proteomics & computational biology. #MSProteomics #PostDoc postdocprogram.mpg.de

With an emphasis on first-hand accounts, this collection @elife.bsky.social provides insights into the diverse experiences of #neurodivergent academics. It also highlights ways that research could become more neuroinclusive. elifesciences.org/collections/... w/th @schulzscience.bsky.social

It’s International #FactChecking Day! Refresh your #AI identification skills and help to identify AI-generated false news apnews.com/article/misi... @apnews.com @melissagoldin.bsky.social

Neue #Antibiotika werden für den Kampf gegen resistente Krankheitserreger dringend gebraucht. Helge Bode und Tobias Erb vom Max-Planck-Institut für terrestrische Mikrobiologie haben neue Wege gefunden, diese schneller über molekulare Fertigungsstraßen herzustellen www.mpg.de/26296724/neu... #Medizin

Project Hail Mary is a beautiful brilliant film. But molecular biologists be warned there's a deeply disturbing scene midway through when Ryan Gosling's scientist places two eppendorfs directly next to each other in an otherwise empty unbalanced microcentrifuge & sets it spinning with wild abandon.

Spring is coming 💜 The pretty-in-purple Pasque flower (Pulsatilla vulgaris) is now a rare plant, restricted to just a few chalk and limestone grasslands. Steeped in legend, it flowers at #Easter, so is known as the 'anemone of Passiontide'. #wildflowers #pascqueflower Credit: #floraincognita / Jena

Biologists in Europe, the Middle East and U.S. planted 360 small plots of the thale cress Arabidopsis thaliana in various types of climates from alpine to desert. Their findings show that genetic diversity is crucial for the survival of plant populations. #biodiversity @plantevolution.bsky.social

I've always shied away from social media – but current times have changed this. The categories shaping our lives are being challenged rapidly & profoundly. That's why I've launched FoD: to explore where these trends are leading.The future of difference isn't predetermined - join the conversation

Ist unser neues Magazin schon bei Euch angekommen? Wenn nicht könnt Ihr es Euch kostenlos bestellen abo.mpg.de oder als ePaper lesen. Im Fokus: Therapien für morgen 💊💓📱-> bc.pressmatrix.com/de/profiles/... #Wissenschaftsjahr #Medizin

We are hiring! The Department of Inequality, Transformation and Conflict under @steffenmau.bsky.social is looking for Postdoctoral & Doctoral Researchers (m/f/d). Find out more & apply via www.ips.mpg.de #MaxPlanck #Postdoc #PhD #Sociology #SocialScience #PoliticalScience #Inequality #Conflict

This chart goes a long way in explaining why Orbán’s system is under real pressure for the first time. The growth that sustained it has stalled—and with it, the political bargain that kept voters on board. I tried to unpack what that means. 👉 brettoninthewoods.substack.com/p/can-hungar...

Smart Watches, Apps und Chatbots: In Zukunft lassen sich digitale Helfer im Gesundheitsbereich nicht mehr wegdenken. Worauf es ankommen wird -> www.mpg.de/26291391/dig... #Wissenschaftsjahr #Medizin

A new beginning in Göttingen 👋🤗 The #MaxPlanckInstitute for Political and Social Sciences launches under Ursula Daxecker & Steffen Mau addressing social & political challenges, including democratic backsliding, social inequality & conflict www.ips.mpg.de @steffenmau.bsky.social

Spring is coming! 💐🌷🪻 If you need help identifying #plants, get the #FloraIncognita app now! It‘s free, and your findings make a valuable contribution to global #biodiversity research.

What I like here is that the solution comes from the students themselves "multiple low-stakes attempts rather than single high-pressure performances, conversations rather than presentations, uncapped formative practice that builds confidence, and peer explanation normalised as a routine activity"

Gauguin? Matisse? Miró? Well, actually, it’s… sea slug!😊🐌🌊 A team at @ Max Planck Institute of Colloids & Interfaces discovered that #nudibranchs - called “the #butterflies of the #sea” - produce their vibrant glow through structural colouration, arranged in pixel-like patterns @mpici.bsky.social

Ever wonder why one #cookie leads to five...or six or seven? 🍪🍪🍪🍪🍪Turns out #sugar is a most refined 😉manipulator! It alters the neural connections within our #brain’s reward system & makes us crave more (& MORE!) sweet tastes😋. Read more: www.mpg.de/26278931/how... @mpi-metabolism.bsky.social

Der Abelpreis 2026 für Gerd Faltings würdigt eine herausragende wissenschaftliche Leistung – und unterstreicht die internationale Stärke des Max-Planck-Instituts für Mathematik mit zwei Fields-Medaillenträgern und einem Breakthrough-Preisträger. Herzlichen Glückwunsch!

Huge congratulations to Gerd Faltings, our director emeritus at the Max Planck Institute for #Mathematics in Bonn, on receiving the 2026 #AbelPrize, an annual mathematics lifetime-achievement award often called the “Nobel Prize of math” !🎉😀https://www.mpg.de/26279645/gerd-faltings-2026-abel-prize

Transatlantic research is strong—but also vulnerable. This is the moment to defend academic freedom, sustain collaboration, and keep opportunities open. Science remains a global endeavor. My full speech at the German Consulate in New York: www.mpg.de/26279100/202...

Klaus Blaum, Christian Doeller und Johannes Krause werden heute in Berlin mit dem wichtigsten deutschen Forschungspreis geehrt, dem #LeibnizPreis 2026. www.tagesschau.de/wissen/forsc... Die @dfg.de überträgt die Zeremonie live ab 16 Uhr auf YouTube 🎦 www.youtube.com/watch?v=hBrE...

The United States are falling behind, Germany remains unchanged: the #AcademicFreedom Index Update 2026 provides an overview on the state of academic freedom in 179 countries and territories around the world. academic-freedom-index.net @fau.de @vdeminstitute.bsky.social

"Die Max-Planck-Gesellschaft gedenkt Jürgen #Habermas in Dankbarkeit – für ein Jahrzehnt in Starnberg, das zu den kühnsten Kapiteln ihrer Geschichte gehört, und für ein Werk, das weit über dieses Jahrzehnt hinaus wirkt." Ein Nachruf auf Jürgen Habermas www.mpg.de/26269576/jue... / Von Jürgen Renn