This moment from our latest episode with science writer @edyong209.bsky.social is 🔥 We asked Ed — how do we talk up the benefits of science in the face of government cuts? He told us that's the wrong approach. 🧪 Listen wherever, or watch on Spotify 👇 open.spotify.com/episode/7Evh...

Jane Goodall, ethologist and conservationist, has died. She was 91

Bitte lesen. Wer glaubt, es bliebe bei der Menschenjagd auf Migranten und Linke, sollte so langsam die Realität zur Kenntnis nehmen.

Happy to share this article with my views on @elislenders.bsky.social and @vicidominilab.bsky.social work and discussing current developments in single-molecule localization combining structured excitation and detection. So many exciting perspectives in the field! www.nature.com/articles/s41...

Im Gespräch bei Hart aber Fair am 29. September 2025 erklärt Anwalt Chan-jo Jun, warum die Blockade der Gesetzesdurchsetzung von Seiten politischer Akteure problematisch ist.

Für den Erhalt elementarer Grundrechte für Geflüchtete, bitte hier unterzeichnen: weact.campact.de/petitions/pa...

The conservative Merz government in Germany plans to introduce the 48 hours week. More paid work undermines democracy, increases inequalities and the crisis of care. I wrote about why we need a feminist chronopolitics instead: Less paid work and more time for caring democracies.

Otd in 1962, Rachel Carson published one of the most consequential books ever written: "Silent Spring", about the deleterious impacts that widespread and uncontrolled pesticide use in the U.S. was having on the environment. More info in the alt text 👇

It is really funny that Jimmy Kimmel Live showed more moral fortitude and adherence to a system of values than Columbia University

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Proud to share that our CEO, Rainer Erdmann @raierdmann.bsky.social, is running for the @spie.org SPIE Board of Directors. His mission: → Empower young scientists → Support open science and sustainability → Strengthen global collaboration 🎥 Watch his personal statement: spie.org/news/2025-sp...

Soo on stage presenting self-labeling enzymes with weak-affinity fluorophore labels for (1) high-density live SMLM using DeepSTORM (doi.org/10.1016/j.bp...) and (2) molecular counting ... great collaboration with @kjohnsson.bsky.social @juliankompa.bsky.social 🙏 #PQ30 @picoquant.bsky.social

It’s finally here – @picoquant.bsky.social 's 30th Single Molecule Workshop! I’m super excited to see so many great scientists and big names in the field gathered here in Berlin. Let’s go #WS30 🚀 #WS30 #SingleMolecule #Spectroscopy #Microscopy

The 30th (!) "Single Molecule Spectroscopy and Super-resolution Microscopy" workshop has just been opened by @raierdmann.bsky.social @picoquant.bsky.social A great line-up of speakers & posters 🔬 #PQ30

The atmosphere at #WS30 is already buzzing – and we’ve only just started! 🚀 Since 9 AM, the first talks have already sparked lots of interest, including inspiring contributions from Thorben Cordes & @heilemannlab.bsky.social #WS30 #singlemoleculemicroscopy #fluorescence #superresolution #community

POV: Taking a group picture of over 250 scientists with a drone because a regular camera wouldn't be innovative enough. 😄 #WS30

Day 2 at #WS30 already started! 🚀 We started the morning with exciting insights from Paul Wiseman. Right now, @joergenderlein.bsky.social is sharing his personal story with single molecule science – a personal highlight for many. Coming up at 11:25: Nobel laureate W. E. Moerner takes the stage! ✨

More than 1800 detainees are missing after the closure of Alligator Alcatraz. Their families and lawyers can’t find them and they’ve vanished from the ICE database. Feels like this should be a much bigger story www.miamiherald.com/news/local/i...

For context, the natural sciences are already at a low baseline, e.g. the Guardian lists 44 institutions offering physics degrees, vs 95 for history and 108 for English. I'm not sure most humanities folk realise how much science has already been squeezed. www.theguardian.com/education/20...

This is amazing.

Seit ein paar Jahren bin ich stolzer Besitzer eines Orgon Akkumulators. Hätte ich gewusst, dass es dabei um S*x geht, hätte ich mir viel früher einen zugelegt! youtu.be/JhhHi-m-4ww

Keine Gewinne ohne Gewissen - Rette mit das Lieferkettengesetz. Bitte hier unterzeichnen: weact.campact.de/petitions/ke...

"Solange wir gehorchen, wird alles gut. Das ist Freiheit. Das ist Amerika." Starke Anti-Trump-Kampagne.

Any academic folks on H1B visas (even with stamps in passports) please get legal advice from your University attorneys before leaving the US.

Nun holt der NDR die ehemalige BILD-Chefredakteurin Tanit Koch als Nachfolgerin von Ruhs, um die Lage zu beruhigen. Dass man sich nicht anders zu helfen weiß, als sich Ex-Führungspersonal vom Organ der Niedertracht zu holen, ist ein Offenbarungseid für den ÖRR. www.zeit.de/kultur/film/...

How can there be any doubt? Kick him out! www.bbc.com/news/article...

Still true

Über Monate haben meine @kontraste.de Kollegen zur AfD-Jugend recherchiert, mit Aussteigern gesprochen, an Veranstaltungen teilgenommen - einmal forderte dort jemand die Abschaffung des Grundgesetzes. Hier die Link zum Film: Die Höcke-Jugend. www.ardmediathek.de/film/Y3JpZDo...

What a time to relive

“ABC and CBS are making a serious miscalculation. Their servility to Trump will not earn them peace, only greater pressure.” That’s the German professional association of journalists, @djv.de, calling on major US media to support their journalists instead of preemptively silencing them.

Bad news for my hometown university. And before anyone says "FAFO" or "leopards and faces," the students who are most directly harmed by these cuts are disproportionately Indigenous students from the rural villages. They/their parents tend to vote Dem.

Die Reaktionen der organisierten Trumpisten auf die Ermordung von Charlie Kirk zeigen, dass es längst nicht mehr um die Befriedung der Gesellschaft geht, sondern um einen geradezu apokalyptisch begriffenen Endkampf einer machttrunkenen Elite,die die Überwindung der liberalen Demokratie zum Ziel hat.

This story is not getting the attention it deserves in fact it should be so shocking that it took over the CK story at this point. However, you would be hard pressed to find more than a couple people who even know what happened

Well. The RS is clearly feeling the heat. They could have saved themselves the embarrassment months ago. How did they ever imagine this wasn't going to get even worse?

Mini-scoop: After resisting pressure to strip Elon Musk of his fellowship for months, the Royal Society is meeting on 1 October to discuss his removal – following his decision to address Tommy Robinson's far-right rally on Saturday. www.thenewworld.co.uk/james-ball-r...

Major airlines, including American Airlines, United, and Delta, are selling access to five billion plane ticketing records to the government for warrantless searching and monitoring of peoples’ movements, including by the FBI, Secret Service, ICE. 🔗 www.404media.co/airlines-sel...

JUST IN! Congress is considering a stopgap bill to keep the government open through Nov. 20. OMB is planning to cut billions from NASA during this, risking paid-for missions and thousands of jobs. Tell Congress to protect NASA science and prevent these cuts: www.planetary.org/advocacy-act...

I just signed Budapest's petition with All Out that could really change things for LGBT+ people. Add your name and join me in the fight for LGBT+ rights! a.allout.org/s/P29lG/

@theobserveruk.bsky.social front page sums it up best.

A reminder that Elon Musk is still a Fellow of the Royal Society. Surely THIS is the point at which he is expelled @royalsociety.org

Today people went around my neighborhood in north east London spray painting St George’s crosses onto people’s homes. Many of these houses have non British people living in them. This is getting very dark, very quick.

"…and Magda Goebbels made a great strudel.”

Closing your eyes to inconvenient truths doesn’t make them go away. It’s far better to have the guts and maturity to face up to reality!

The audio version of the piece is up. As always, and for better or worse, read by me, not some AI. This isn’t exactly a light topic, but I hope the additional audio makes it more accessible and perhaps more easily digestible. The Right Wants a Reichstag Fire:

Dass Lahav Shani als israelischer Künstler unter Generalverdacht gestellt und mitsamt seinem Orchester einer kollektiven Bestrafung unterworfen wird, ist ein unerträglicher Schritt der Belgier und ein erschütternder Skandal. Und ehrlich gesagt: purer Antisemitismus. Europa 2025.

Der Rassist, Antisemit, Frauen- und Queerfeind, Verschwörungsideologe und Antidemokrat Charlie Kirk hat in den USA Jugendliche gezielt zum Hass aufgestachelt. Oder wie die Tagesschau sagt: "Er hat wirklich Millionen junger Leute für Politik begeistert." Eine unfassbare Fehlleistung.

🚨🚨🚨 In the worst tradition of the McCarthy-era anti-communist House Un-American Activities Committee, the GOP House Oversight Committee has just launch a massive, grotesque, ad hominem, partisan assault on the US National Academy of Sciences. oversight.house.gov/wp-content/u...