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#Spahn hat sinnlos Geld verballert. Bekannte von Spahn wurden seltsamerweise plötzlich sehr reich. Spahn hat die Krankenkassen gezwungen, ihre Rücklagen abzubauen. Jetzt sollen gesetzlich Versicherte Einschnitte ins #Gesundheitssystem akzeptieren. Schließlich müssen wir alle sparen. #Frei

Three ways of looking at the iconic Christmas Tree Cluster, 2700 light years from Earth. What the universe looks like depends on how we look at it. These views highlight infrared (left), x-rays (middle), and red emission from hydrogen gas. Beautiful in three different ways. 🧪🔭

Merry Christmas everyone! 🎄⚒️ @berkeleymews.bsky.social

Das Spannende am Klimajournalismus ist, dass man viel Berichterstattung hat, während sich beim Thema selbst wenig verändert. Man kann da total gut Trends und Moden beobachten, die da durchrollen. Den Zuversicht-Take hab ich z.B. vor der COP das erste mal bewusst gesehen und seither häufiger.

Zum vierten Advent: Wenn du jetzt spontan vier beĺiebige Dinge anzünden könntest, welche wären es? 🔥🔥🔥🔥

Das online-Whiskytasting im Februar ist fast ausverkauft. 😱 Deswegen als Geschenk-Alternative hier zwei Präsenz-Tastings in Berlin. Am 6.3. Und 7.3. In einem Laden nahe Schönhauser Allee. Sechs Whiskys und mein Vortrag über Chemie und Physik des Whiskys. 😊 Buchbar hier: www.spektrum.de/live

Das online-Whiskytasting im Februar ist fast ausverkauft. 😱 Deswegen als Geschenk-Alternative hier zwei Präsenz-Tastings in Berlin. Am 6.3. Und 7.3. In einem Laden nahe Schönhauser Allee. Sechs Whiskys und mein Vortrag über Chemie und Physik des Whiskys. 😊 Buchbar hier: www.spektrum.de/live

Übrigens ist bald Weihnachten. 😁 Und ich weiß, ihr seid alle in Panik, weil es nie genug gute Geschenke gibt. Die Lösung: das wissenschaftliche online-Whiskytasting. 😊 Am 6. Februar. Wir schicken die Whiskys und ein Glas, und ihr hört dann den Vortrag und trinkt. www.spektrum.de/lp/Online-Wh...

Since we all have some first-hand experience by now about how AI works, this is not really surprising. AI is entirely derivative... if you are lucky. If not, it just copies stuff.

I got a goodie bag from @mpimarinemicrobio.bsky.social 😍 🦠🐙 Including a really cute coloring book (not just microbes, though). Follow them! It's not just about bacteria. 😀

Also, a very interesting and unusual way to visualize average temperatures.

NSF is about to dismantle NCAR at Russell Vought's direction to protect the fossil fuel industry. It's hard to communicate just how much NCAR does, so let's take a look: I've never worked at NCAR, and I've worked with NCAR researchers once ever. What scientific discoveries has NCAR made possible? 👇

🧪 #chemsky #chemchat

A double dose of good news on the infectious disease front: There’s not just one but two new drugs coming for gonorrhea, one of the most worrying diseases when it comes to antibiotic resistance. 🧪 #IDsky www.science.org/content/arti...

Ich durfte @fischblog.bsky.social zum Wissenschaftsjournalismus befragen. Die Folge gibt es hier. auch-interessant.de/2025/12/06/w...

>> Die dunkle Erdkern-Apokalypse: Wir Werden Alle Sterben von und mit @fischblog.bsky.social #WWAS youtu.be/PDJ5nQPTrks?...

Every now & again, it's useful to say why I do all these eel history tweets. Mostly, it's because eels need our help. They're critically endangered, seeing a c.90% drop in population in the last decades. But it's hard to get people to care! 'Cause...eels are gross & slimy. 1/2 🗃️🧪

BGS scientists have gained access to ‘once in a lifetime’ core from Great Glen Fault. The core provides a cross-section through the UK’s largest fault zone, offering a rare insight into the formation of the Scottish Highlands. More: www.bgs.ac.uk/news/scienti...

One very weird thing about the Rocky Mountains is that since the 1950s or 1960s, we've known they had to have spent most of their geologic history buried under several kilometers worth of their own eroded material until <10 million years ago. Neat recent paper on this here: doi.org/10.1029/2023...

🔴⚠️🌀🇮🇩Catastrophic aftermath of Cyclone Senyar in #Sumatra: 442 died,404 still missing, more than 1 M people affected by the first cyclone formed in the Malacca strait. ⬇️Northern Aceh with devastating floods covering 500km2 in #Sentinel2 view of Nov.29 #ClimateEmergency #indonesia

Damn! Forgot how much I liked this stuff. I grew up with it in Zambia; we didn’t seem to get it in S Africa, so this is the first bottle I’ve bought in 40 years. Almost as good as Marmite - especially if you drip it directly onto your tongue.

The first Goodie Bags from our #5000Follower #Raffle are being shipped – a small token of appreciation for those who dive into the exciting world of marine microbiology with us! @phytophthorarc.bsky.social @zepernickbn.bsky.social @hlee.bsky.social @clemauksch.bsky.social @fischblog.bsky.social

Bis vorgestern kannte ich den Hayli Gubbi überhaupt nicht. Dabei liegt er einer der geologisch spannendsten Ecken der Erde. @fischblog.bsky.social erzählt mehr über den Vulkan www.spektrum.de/news/vulkana...

Ich hab's gesehen und dachte, das wär fake. Aber nee, der Bundesbeauftragte für peinliche und unangemessene Einlassungen hat wieder zugeschlagen.

This is a success story that Sierra Leone deserves credit for. #GoodNews #PublicHealth #Blackademics #Epidemiology

I asked the latest version of Gemini (nano banana..) to DRAW the mechanism of the Wacker oxidation. This is my usual test that always fails! Is this the worst yet? #chemchat #chemsky

I like this new phage paper by Ghatbale et al. It appears that host range and killing power of phages targeting antibiotic-resistant bacteria strains can increase in lab evolution. The narrow host range of phages is a serious issue in using them clinically against resistant infections. 🧪 1/3

I can't fathom why right-wing extremists are such a potent journalist honeypot. Another odd example in here: modest right-wing gains get a prominent spot at the top, while the major upset in copenhagen is further down and we are never really told where most of the other votes went. 🤷‍♂️

In a world where you can be anything, be weird.

@meertext.bsky.social Grad bei der Konkurrenz gelesen. ^^ Schöner Artikel!

Codonobdella is a genus of leech found in the depths of Lake Baikal - there are three different species, and unlike most leeches which feed on vertebrate animals, Codonobdella is a parasite of amphipods #Invertebrate 🧪 www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...

TIL: Goldhamster leben gar nicht in Kolonien. Als nächstes erzählt mir noch jemand, die bilden überhaupt keine Riffe???

55 years ago today the thing with the whale happened. Happy exploding whale day to all who celebrate. youtu.be/V6CLumsir34?...

I absolutely snorted out loud in an important, quiet historic reading room. And then had the giggles for 5 minutes. Fingle rows of tentaculated fuckers!

Wow! I am currently experiencing serious underwater-seismometer-envy. This is so cool.

Germany improved to 20th place. Which just gues to show that people actually start to like you if you refrain from waging war on all your neighbors every few decades. Also I wonder whether it makes a difference to finlands reputation if you ask the question in summer (mosquitos) or winter (sauna).

please don't @ me like "actually cerium is unique among the lanthanides for its +4 oxidation state" ⚗️🧪 #chemsky

This is your periodical reminder that the projected warming due to climate change practically always refers to the year 2100. The full temperature increase will likely be higher. At #COP30, people will claim something like we avoided a truly apocalyptic amount of warming. This is probably not true.

Neue Daten widerlegen ein zentrales Narrativ der Impfgegner: Bei Kindern/Jugendlichen war nicht die #COVID19-#Impfung, sondern die Infektion das deutlich größere Risiko für Myokarditis/Gefäßerkrankungen. Hier die wichtigsten Fakten. 🧵1/15

Anthropogenic Global Warming & Storms🧵 theconversation.com/even-weak-tr...

Yay! Ore Cup is here! 😍 @amphibol.bsky.social

Bundespräsident Steinmeier ist heute in #Angola. Ich war schon vor ihm da und habe mich umgehört: Wo steht das Land 50 Jahre nach der Unabhängigkeit? Zu hören im Deutschlandfunk: www.deutschlandfunk.de/angola-reich...

Sorry. 🤭 #3I/Atlas (Photo by Lotem Loeb, I hope this counts as fair use)

In unserer WWAS-Halloweenfolge mehr als nur ein Hauch von Frankenstein. 🧟‍♂️ Dieses künstliche Leben soll Forschung, Medizin und Biotechnik voranbringen - und könnte versehentlich alles Leben auf der Erde auslöschen. Zumindest nach Ansicht mancher Fachleute. Wir machen es natürlich trotzdem. 😁

When in the woods, best beware of dead man's fingers lurking there. Reaching up above the ground, a creepy fungi to be found. Happy Halloween everyone. Photo: Sheringham Park by Rob Coleman

While this scanning electron microscope image may look like a harbinger of doom—perhaps a symptom of a haunted instrument or a cursed lab—Gustavo Porrata Caraballo says there’s a perfectly rational scientific explanation for it: cen.acs.org/materials/po... #CENChemPics #Halloween #chemsky 🧪

Der neue Haderer - morgen in der Wochenendausgabe der Oberösterreichischen Nachrichten. Zeichnerisch wieder grosse Klasse.

🧪 I agree, this is something researchers urgently need to answer!

Apply for an @esa.int Living Planet Fellowship to work with me @ucalgaryscience.bsky.social! Canada is 'Associated State' and so we can host fellows who use Earth Observation data in their research. 🧪⚒️❄️🛰️ @igsoc.bsky.social @gaphaz.bsky.social @igs-egg.bsky.social eo4society.esa.int/2025/10/17/l...