“After having their first child, women are 29% less likely to be employed at a university than if they had not become mothers” #WomenInScience

I want to live in a world where pharma execs have to follow the Hippocratic Oath. Because this is anything but „Primum non nocere“. Infuriating 🤬

I agree, this is important. Here's a Gift Link 🎁🔓 www.nytimes.com/2026/03/27/o...

"If you're not careful, the newspapers will have you hating the people who are being oppressed, and loving the people who are doing the oppressing." - Malcolm X

Vaccination

If you're looking for leadership advice, it's probably not a bad idea to look at Trump and do exactly the opposite of what he suggests: Try to surround yourself by people smarter and more competent than yourself.

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Gotta love the insect 🦋 themed signs 🪧 at #nokings protests. Resist ✊

The only time when „monarchs are having a comeback in North America“ is a desired outcome www.worldwildlife.org/news/stories... @worldwildlife.org

Gotta love the insect 🦋 themed signs 🪧 at #nokings protests. Resist ✊

Wife snapped a hell of a photo. #nokings from the Genesee overpass on i70 just west of #Denver.

Today's the day. America has no king. Come out and stand together in solidarity for freedom. #NoKings Find your event: www.nokings.org

Recently, due to repeated threats from the far-right, one of the bravest people I will ever meet decided to leave Germany. If people like that have decided that the price of staying is too great, then just imagine how much danger German democracy is in. Just imagine it.

No earth scientists, no astronomers, no one with expertise in biotechnology or medicine, no climate scientists, no materials scientists, no field biologists, no ocean scientists, no atmospheric scientists, no biochemists, no developmental biologists, no evolutionary biologists.

Spring has arrived in Berlin ☀️

“I am, somehow, less interested in the weight and convolutions of Einstein’s brain than in the near certainty that people of equal talent have lived and died in cotton fields and sweatshops.” - Stephen J. Gould

🚨 Hiring a postdoc (2 years)! We’re looking for someone with skills in data science, remote sensing, or computer science: 🛰️ Build next-gen nighttime light products 🦅 Link light spectra to migration & collision risk Apply or reach out! aeroecolab.com/opportunities

"Journalists rarely follow up on scientific retractions due to a combination of structural, economic, and professional barriers."

Nature research paper: Moderate global warming does not rule out extreme global climate outcomes go.nature.com/4srlGWO

alternatively science podcasts by actual scientists 🧪 like, for example www.bigbiology.org @bigbiology.bsky.social or www.microbe.tv/twiv/

one thing a whole lot of us struggle with at times is feeling isolated and depressed and like not enough people care about what’s going on and I really cannot emphasize enough that going to a no kings protest helps this feeling a lot there are so! many! people! who hate all of this shit

Cool thread on how this spectacular bird gets its bling

I know Instagram is hell but at least its algorithm recently suggested that comedy/satire account „Puppet Regime“ to me and it was exactly what I needed 🤣 youtu.be/S-sqsvcZJ2w?...

Really torn now if I prefer ‚clicktatorship‘ by @donmoyn.bsky.social or ‚trollocracy‘ by @doctorow.pluralistic.net as THE perfect description of the new political system under DJT

I need this good news.

www.der-postillon.com/2026/02/soci... @der-postillon.com

Celebrate science.

Happy World Meteorological Day 🌍 to everyone #WorldMetDay The science of weather observation and forecast is essential for food security & human wellbeing. Without long-term weather data series we can't understand climate change which we need to develop & build necessary mitigation & adaptation 🧪

Happy World Meteorological Day 🌍 to everyone #WorldMetDay The science of weather observation and forecast is essential for food security & human wellbeing. Without long-term weather data series we can't understand climate change which we need to develop & build necessary mitigation & adaptation 🧪

Eid Mubarak, New York.

This is not cool

Taxonomist Appreciation Day post I am in freakin' AWE of people doing primary taxonomic work. To do it well, you need deep scholarship to track past naming (and misnaming) efforts. You may need to hunt down specimens only to discover they are damaged, misindentified, or lost. 1/3

Eid Mubarak to all those celebrating Eid al-Fitr in the UK and around the world 🌙✨ Shelfmark: MS. Bodl. Or. 793 Take a look at the manuscript on Digital Bodleian: https://digital.bodleian.ox.ac.uk/objects/1d091ec9-33f8-42d9-a620-141dfc7b1816/surfaces/368d0391-3f85-43df-9b07-869638189692/

“If you still don’t understand why @wired.com covers politics,” @katie-drummond.bsky.social said in an interview, “you are either willfully ignorant or a complete idiot.” www.nytimes.com/2026/03/17/b... @nytimes.com gift link 🎁

“If you still don’t understand why @wired.com covers politics,” @katie-drummond.bsky.social said in an interview, “you are either willfully ignorant or a complete idiot.” www.nytimes.com/2026/03/17/b... @nytimes.com gift link 🎁

„Darwin auf Speed – Biologische Evolution im Zeitraffer“ 🧪🎧 www.deutschlandfunkkultur.de/darwin-auf-s...

1/ Paul Ehrlich died this week at 93. The takes split into hagiography and dismissal. But the interesting question isn't whether he got it right, he didn't, it's why he got it wrong, and who was asking the right questions instead 🧵

„Darwin auf Speed – Biologische Evolution im Zeitraffer“ 🧪🎧 www.deutschlandfunkkultur.de/darwin-auf-s...

Herzlichen Glückwunsch der deutschen @wikipedia.org zum 25-jährigen Bestehen 🎂🎉 www.bpb.de/kurz-knapp/h... @bpb.de Artikel von Januar 2026

‪ 🌳 Do you want to contribute to research on how humans perceive forests? Take this quick, anonymous 10-min survey 🌲 👉 www.biodiful.org#/forest This will help us explore how people experience forest biodiversity! Please share on 🦋 & tag @biodiful.bsky.social to reach more participants 🙏💚 🌐🌍🦤🦑🪴🍁🧪

"Vielmehr sind Lehrkräfte verpflichtet, demokratische Werte aktiv vorzuleben, zu vermitteln und zu schützen. Es ist ihr pädagogischer Auftrag, über menschenfeindliche Ideologien aufzuklären und Schüler*innen zu reflektiertem und kritischanalytischem Denken, Urteilen und Handeln zu befähigen."

This. Gen AI is actually very very bad for innovation as most, if not all "discovery" emerges from constraints and collabs. Almost every marvelous medical treatment or tech emerged because a group of curious weirdos kept trying something weird, often for shits and giggles. #ScienceSky 🧪

I'm going to save this and look at it at least once a week for the rest of my life

“In our culture, preferring an algorithm to a trainee feels like a betrayal of the academic mission.” That’s because it is. www.science.org/content/arti...

Yes, that’s the issue. I’ve been trying to find a way to articulate this: to the extent that LLMs serve a purpose in education, it’s an indictment of the education system, not a praiseworthy feature of LLMs.

Take from it what you want, but it's remarkable that the Greens in Baden-Württemberg, who just won the federal state elections, are considered, at the same time, 1. the most conservative Greens in the country 2. the most consequential on environmental policies 3. the most successful on the ballot

This is a superimportant issue regularly overlooked: Reliance and overconfidence in AI powered research (sub-)fields narrows down what the next generation of researchers will focus on. There’s so much knowledge out there that is not (yet) digitised or just not available to us humans as of now 🧪🧵 1/

This is a superimportant issue regularly overlooked: Reliance and overconfidence in AI powered research (sub-)fields narrows down what the next generation of researchers will focus on. There’s so much knowledge out there that is not (yet) digitised or just not available to us humans as of now 🧪🧵 1/

fuck this so much we are so not prepared for the mountain of dogshit “scholarship” about to flood journals everywhere

'Rechte Netzwerke warnen vor „Genderwahn“, wollen Sexualaufklärung an Schulen abschaffen, bedrohen Gender Studies an Hochschulen. Dagegen wirkt sehr erfolgreich: eine Pädagogik der Vielfalt' www.gew.de/aktuelles/de... @gew.de @andreaskemper.bsky.social @paulita.bsky.social