Friedemann Weber
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Basic researcher on viruses and innate immunity. Professor and Chair. Opinions are my own
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Colin Carlson
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@science.org
‼️ In the most comprehensive study to date, we show that wildlife trade is driving animal-to-human zoonotic spillover at a planetary scale, with +1 spillover per host every 10 years. Live animal markets and illegal trade pose even greater risks. 🔓
www.science.org/doi/10.1126/...
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Matthias Meisner
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Jetzt ohne Paywall: Holger Friedrich und die
#OAZ
- wie ein Verleger Demokratiefeinde hofiert. Und die eigenen Zeitungen ruiniert. Mein Longread für die
@blaetter.bsky.social
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www.blaetter.de/ausgabe/2026...
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Holger Friedrich und die OAZ: Wie ein Verleger Demokratiefeinde hofiert
Auf dem deutschen Medienmarkt gibt es seit Ende Februar eine neue Zeitung. Das ist angesichts der andauernden Krise der Printmedien bemerkenswert. Doch über die »Ostdeutsche Allgemeine Zeitung« gibt e...
https://www.blaetter.de/ausgabe/2026/april/holger-friedrich-und-die-oaz-wie-ein-verleger-demokratiefeinde-hofiert
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Hmm, killing off senescent ("aging") cells may not be the road to eternal youth. Oligarchs will not be pleased. Not my field though
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PNAS
Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences (PNAS), a peer reviewed journal of the National Academy of Sciences (NAS) - an authoritative source of high-impact, original research that broadly spans...
https://doi.org/10.1073/pnas.2524897123
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Dr. Jonathan N. Stea
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Problems with pharma don't mean that quackery works. Problems in aircraft design don’t mean that magic carpets can actually fly. - Ben Goldacre
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Extra so verschwommen, damit wir es fühlen können?
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Verschwörungstheoretiker: Wie Querulanten vor Gericht handeln
Tritt ein Verschwörungstheoretiker als Dauerkläger auf, mag er noch so viele Prozesse verlieren: Davon, dass er sich irrt, wird ihn nichts überzeugen.
https://www.faz.net/aktuell/wissen/geist-soziales/verschwoerungstheoretiker-wie-querulanten-vor-gericht-handeln-accg-110848652.html?premium=0x21786b56423599dd5392a4103f07c7da443ccf1ade21ce251e3ace30d547b797
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De novo generation of the furin cleavage site (FCS) in influenza viruses In SARS-CoV2, the existence of an FCS was a key argument of lab leakers that it must have been constructed in the lab. Fantastic work
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Polymerase trapping as the mechanism of H5 highly pathogenic avian influenza virus genesis
Highly pathogenic avian influenza viruses (HPAIVs) derive from H5 and H7 low pathogenic avian influenza viruses (LPAIVs). Although insertion of a furin-cleavable multibasic cleavage site (MBCS) in the...
https://www.science.org/doi/10.1126/science.adr6632
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Also wenn Ordnung das halbe Leben ist, dann kann man doch spätestens ab dem 50sten darauf pfeifen
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SO werden sie ihre Albträume sicher nicht los
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"Nahezu ausnahmslos handelt es sich dabei um Homöopathen, Naturheilkundler oder "integrative Mediziner"." Soennichsen auch erwähnt.
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Gefälschte Masernimpfnachweise gefährden Schutz: Gesundheitsämter kämpfen mit Kontrolldefiziten
Gesundheitsämter in Bayern haben 27 Arztpraxen im Verdacht, bei der Masernimpfung zu betrügen, wie eine Recherche von NDR, WDR und SZ zeigt. Nach Einschätzung der Behörden bleibt aber ein großer Teil ...
https://www.tagesschau.de/investigativ/ndr-wdr/masern-impfungen-betrugsversuch-100.html
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NDR Recherche und Investigation
about 2 months ago
Exklusiv: In Bayern sollen offenbar 27 Arztpraxen bei Masernschutzimpfungen von Kindern betrogen haben. Das zeigen Recherchen von NDR, WDR und SZ.
www.tagesschau.de/investigativ...
@mgrill.bsky.social
, Timo Robben,
@mandysarti.bsky.social
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Betrug bei Masern-Impfungen
Gesundheitsämter in Bayern haben 27 Arztpraxen im Verdacht, bei der Masernimpfung zu betrügen.
https://www.tagesschau.de/investigativ/ndr-wdr/masern-impfungen-betrugsversuch-100.html
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“hasslers”=people in one’s close social networks who create problems or make life more difficult "Each additional hassler is associated with faster biological aging" => the idiots on X shorten our lifespan (here less of a problem)
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Negative social ties as emerging risk factors for accelerated aging, inflammation, and multimorbidity | PNAS
Negative social ties, or “hasslers,” are pervasive yet understudied components of social networks that may accelerate biological aging and morbidit...
https://www.pnas.org/doi/full/10.1073/pnas.2515331123
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Oliver Rautenberg | AnthroBlogger
about 2 months ago
Eine Mitarbeiterin bei
#Weleda
mischt eine homöopathische Verdünnung an. Dieses "rhythmisieren" darf nach esoterischem Glauben nur von Hand geschehen. Damit sich schlechte Gedanken nicht auf das Produkt übertragen, fixiert sie stoisch einen dafür vorgesehenen Punkt an der Wand gegenüber.
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Gunnar Hamann
about 2 months ago
Habe da Mal etwas nachgerechnet für den Volksverpetzer. Mit Einschätzungen von
@cihancelik.bsky.social
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@friedemann.bsky.social
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Junior Research Groups (m/f/d) in the field of Infection Biology
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Junior Research Groups (m/f/d) in the field of Infection Biology
Junior Research Groups (m/f/d) in the field of Infection Biology
https://jobs.helmholtz-hzi.de/job/Braunschweig-Junior-Research-Groups-%28mfd%29-in-the-field-of-Infection-Biology/1342586955/
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Junior Research Groups (m/f/d) AI in Health and Infection Research
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Junior Research Groups (m/f/d) AI in Health and Infection Research
Junior Research Groups (m/f/d) AI in Health and Infection Research
https://jobs.helmholtz-hzi.de/job/Braunschweig-Junior-Research-Groups-%28mfd%29-AI-in-Health-and-Infection-Research/1342586355/
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Every morning I experience this before-after effect
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Coffee linked to slower brain ageing in study of 130,000 people
Study suggests moderate caffeine intake might reduce dementia risk and slow cognitive decline.
https://www.nature.com/articles/d41586-026-00409-y
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The curious world of virus warcraft
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Parasitic wasps use tamed virus to castrate caterpillars
A virus that became integrated into the wasp genome long ago is useful for subduing moth larvae.
https://www.nature.com/articles/d41586-026-00411-4
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ProLOEWE
about 2 months ago
𝗗𝗲𝗿 𝗶𝗻 𝗠𝗮𝗿𝗯𝘂𝗿𝗴
@unimarburg.bsky.social
📽️𝗙𝗶𝗹𝗺 „𝗦𝗶𝗹𝗲𝗻𝘁 𝗙𝗿𝗶𝗲𝗻𝗱“ 𝘄𝗶𝗿𝗳𝘁 𝗱𝗶𝗲 𝗙𝗿𝗮𝗴𝗲 𝗮𝘂𝗳, 𝗢𝗯🌱𝗺𝗶𝘁👨👩👦👦𝗸𝗼𝗺𝗺𝘂𝗻𝗶𝘇𝗶𝗲𝗿𝗲𝗻 𝗸𝗼̈𝗻𝗻𝗲𝗻? 𝗜𝗻 𝗲𝗶𝗻𝗲𝗺🎙️, 𝘃om 𝟭𝟲. 𝗙𝗲𝗯, 𝗶𝗻 𝗱𝗲𝗿 𝗢𝗯𝗲𝗿𝗵𝗲𝘀𝘀𝗶𝘀𝗰𝗵𝗲𝗻 𝗣𝗿𝗲𝘀𝘀𝗲, 𝗴𝗶𝗯𝘁 𝗣𝗿𝗼𝗳. 𝗟𝗮𝗿𝘀 𝗩𝗼𝗹𝗹 𝘃. 𝗟𝗢𝗘𝗪𝗘-
@robucop.bsky.social
𝗲𝗶𝗻𝗲 𝗘𝗶𝗻𝗼𝗿𝗱𝗻𝘂𝗻𝗴 𝗮𝘂𝘀🔬⚗️𝘄𝗶𝘀𝘀𝗲𝗻𝘀𝗰𝗵𝗮𝗳𝘁𝗹𝗶𝗰𝗵𝗲𝗿👀𝗦𝗶𝗰𝗵𝘁➡️
www.op-marburg.de/lokales/marb...
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WHO
about 2 months ago
Protect your kids from measles by ensuring they get two doses of the measles vaccine. Don’t leave health to chance. Check today’s daily dose.
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"curiosity-driven, investigator-led research...has a strong track record in advancing humanity’s knowledge, producing the types of innovation that prosperity and well-being depend on."
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Don’t deprioritize curiosity-driven research
Around the world, governments are demanding that research funding follow broader political priorities. They should be careful what they wish for.
https://www.nature.com/articles/d41586-026-00469-0
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Rare, dangerous side effects of some COVID-19 vaccines explained
“Groundbreaking” study uncovers why adenovirus-based shots caused life-threatening blood clots and bleeding in some people
https://www.science.org/content/article/rare-dangerous-side-effects-some-covid-19-vaccines-explained
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AI agents are hiring human 'meatspace workers' — including some scientists
Biologists, physicists and computer scientists have joined a platform called RentAHuman.ai to advertise their skills.
https://www.nature.com/articles/d41586-026-00454-7
about 2 months ago
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Never make yourself dependent on a specialized software company.
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Electronic Lab Notebooks Are Failing Researchers. Could AI Tools Help?
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Electronic Lab Notebooks Are Failing Researchers. Could AI Tools Help?
Scientists surveyed said that electronic lab notebooks often fail in fundamental research tasks, including recording and recalling experimental data.
https://www.the-scientist.com/electronic-lab-notebooks-are-failing-researchers-could-ai-tools-help-74024
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I didn't know that there is a rare disease in which the body can produce alcohol itself "Auto‑brewery syndrome (ABS) is a rare condition...that occurs because gut microbiota produce high levels of ethanol, which enters the bloodstream"
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Microbial ethanol production in patients with auto-brewery syndrome - Nature Microbiology
In 22 patients with auto-brewery syndrome, we found enrichment of gut bacterial genes in metabolic pathways associated with ethanol production. Treatment with faecal microbiota transplantation in one ...
https://www.nature.com/articles/s41564-025-02250-x
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Cihan Çelik
2 months ago
Die Kommentare unter diesem Tweet liefern das Anschauungsmaterial, was der Grund für zunehmende Ablehnung evidenzbasierter Medizin ist. Eine aufgeklärte Entscheidung im Sinne der Patientenautonomie ist nur dem möglich, der alle relevanten Informationen (aner)kennt.
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Science rules! I imagine the Ig Nobel Prize Committee pricking up their ears (pardon the cheap pun).
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Do their ears hang low? The genetics of dogs’ adorable floppy ears
Scientists are just beginning to understand the signals that determine the length of dogs’ ears.
https://www.nature.com/articles/d41586-026-00071-4
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"disinformation and misinformation — some of which has been spread by US health secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr — have risen sharply and are having a significant impact, driving down vaccination rates for illnesses such as influenza and measles"
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How to improve vaccine uptake: a huge study offers clues
An analysis of more than one million people in the UK found that two-thirds of people who were vaccine-hesitant during the COVID-19 pandemic went on to get vaccinated.
https://www.nature.com/articles/d41586-026-00092-z
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Eine Impfung gegen Krebs, die auch andere schützt.
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HPV vaccine could help to protect the unvaccinated against cervical cancer
A drop in precancerous growths in women who hadn’t received the jab suggests the existence of a ‘herd effect’ against the virus.
https://www.nature.com/articles/d41586-026-00128-4
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RFK Jr. Guts US Childhood Vaccine Schedule Despite Decades-Long Safety Record | The Scientist
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RFK Jr. Guts US Childhood Vaccine Schedule Despite Decades-Long Safety Record
Changes to the childhood vaccine schedule have serious implications for public health, doctors warn, including lower vaccine uptake and an increase in preventable diseases.
https://www.the-scientist.com/rfk-jr-guts-us-childhood-vaccine-schedule-despite-decades-long-safety-record-73925
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- critical role of data-driven models in guiding COVID-19 response strategies - Evidence supports the combined effectiveness of non-pharmaceutical interventions, robust testing and tracing systems and health infrastructure strengthening
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Data-driven strategies for model-informed decision-making during the COVID-19 pandemic: a systematic review
Objectives To systematically review data-driven modelling studies that evaluated the effectiveness of interventions implemented during the COVID-19 pandemic and to identify which measures were most fr...
https://bmjopen.bmj.com/content/16/1/e107660
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The Trump administration says some approved childhood vaccines need better studies. Scientists disagree
Rationale for dropping some vaccine recommendations faces skepticism
https://www.science.org/content/article/trump-administration-says-some-approved-childhood-vaccines-need-better-studies
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Ian M. Mackay, PhD (he/him) 🦠🤧🧬📑🦟🧀
3 months ago
virologydownunder.com/the-infectio...
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The "Infection Pause": because it's about fewer infections, not an immune debt to repay
Infection pause: a drop in circulating infections leading to waning immunity and missed primary infections.
https://virologydownunder.com/the-infection-pause-because-its-about-fewer-infections-not-an-immune-debt-to-repay/
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"when...pandemic began...many but not all common respiratory viruses disappeared... decline...may have been linked to public health interventions... Additionally,...coronavirus 2 may have triggered broad, pathogen-agnostic immune responses"
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The pandemic gap of respiratory viruses during the COVID-19 pandemic | mBio
In this retrospective study using millions of diagnostic tests over 7 years from patients at the Mount Sinai Health System in New York City, we show that when the coronavirus disease 2019 pandemic beg...
https://journals.asm.org/doi/10.1128/mbio.03376-25
3 months ago
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Gunnar Hamann
3 months ago
Ich habe heute Antwort zu meiner Programmbeschwerde wegen des "nano"-Beitrags zum Laborursprung erhalten, der ziemlich eindeutig in mehrfacher Hinsicht gegen journalistische Sorgfaltspflichten verstoßen hat. Beschwerde und Antwort zum Nachlesen:
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ZDF lehnt Programmbeschwerde gegen “nano”-Beitrag zum Laborursprung…
Meine Programmbeschwerde und die Antwort im Wortlaut zum nachlesen.
https://steady.page/de/gunnarhamann/posts/8e3d6d35-108e-43e0-b597-01ecc6ff9e76
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1/6 Öffentliche Aussagen der Enquete-Kommission 8/1 des Landtags Brandenburg: Wohl kaum eine echte
#Aufarbeitung
, bei so vielen "wissenschaftlich unzutreffenden, irreführenden oder bereits widerlegten Darstellungen" Deshalb: Stellungnahme der GfV
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Stellungnahme der GfV zu öffentlichen Aussagen in der Enquete-Kommission 8/1 des Landtags Brandenburg (07.11.2025) | Gesellschaft für Virologie
https://g-f-v.org/stellungnahme-der-gfv-zu-oeffentlichen-aussagen-in-der-enquete-kommission-8-1-des-landtags-brandenburg-07-11-2025/
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"approximately half of researchers never publish in a venue with an impact factor above 15, which, under journal-level evaluation regimes, may exclude them from consideration for opportunities. Many of these researchers publish equally influential work"
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Most researchers would receive more recognition if assessed by article-level metrics than by journal-level metrics
Are authors fairly judged by assessment of the prestige of the journals in which their work is published? This study compares article level metrics with journal level metrics, finding that the vast ma...
https://journals.plos.org/plosbiology/article?id=10.1371/journal.pbio.3003532
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Science’s 2025 Breakthrough of the Year: The unstoppable rise of renewable energy | Science | AAAS
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Science’s 2025 Breakthrough of the Year: The unstoppable rise of renewable energy
Clean energy infrastructure is being deployed with unmatched scale and speed—and China is leading the way
https://www.science.org/content/article/breakthrough-2025
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Bissiges Mäuschen 🐭
4 months ago
10% weniger für die hessischen Unis. Bei 14 Universitäten heisst das, dass Hessen fast eine Uni einsparen will... "Nun stehen teure Labore leer, in denen für Deutschlands Zukunft geforscht werden könnte"
www.tagesschau.de/inland/regio...
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Hessen: Sparzwang durch Hochschulpakt: Hier setzen die Unis den Rotstift an
Die ersten hessischen Unis haben nach dem Hochschulpakt konkrete Sparpläne beschlossen. Es zeigt sich: Die Mittelkürzungen des Landes sorgen für gravierende Einschnitte, die nach Angaben der Unis letz...
https://www.tagesschau.de/inland/regional/hessen/hr-sparzwang-durch-hochschulpakt-unis-in-hessen-streichen-professuren-und-fachbereiche-100.html
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Alle durchseuchen damit wir es schnell hinter uns haben? Schon von SARS-1 anno 2003 waren Langzeitschäden bekannt. "The German government has committed half a billion euros to research into long COVID and other post-infection syndromes"
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Long-COVID research just got a big funding boost: will it find new treatments?
The German government has committed half a billion euros to research into long COVID and other post-infection syndromes.
https://www.nature.com/articles/d41586-025-03904-w
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"deep intersection of MAHA beliefs with conspiracy theories about medicine"
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“Make America Healthy Again” will make the world sicker - EMBO Reports
EMBO Reports - The “Make America Healthy Again” (MAHA) movement are ascendent in the USA, led by Secretary for Health Robert F Kennedy Jr. But despite a superficially laudable intent,...
https://doi.org/10.1038/s44319-025-00639-7
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Happy to have been elected to the Advisory Board by the members of the
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Krimidinner bei uns zuhause? Nur über meine Leiche
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Wenn die Smartwatch morgens “Du scheinst wach zu sein” meldet, dann hat sie den Nagel so was von auf den Kopf getroffen
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Gunnar Hamann
4 months ago
Natürlich darf auch die Thematisierung von
@cdrosten.bsky.social
in so einem Beitrag nicht fehlen. Das Gespräch mit Hauer war es auch, bei dem ich mir an den Seitenrand "Wow!" gekritzelt habe. Falsche Tatsachenbehauptungen verbreiten ist OK, wenn nicht genug Platz für eure Berichterstattung ist.
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5 months ago
Die Wissenschaftssendung „nano“ des öffentlich-rechtlichen Senders 3sat wollte Ende Juni vermeintlich neue Indizien zum Herkunft der Pandemie gefunden haben. Eine Spurensuche zwischen Phantasie und Pandemie.
radiocorax.de/phantasie-un...
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Gunnar Hamann
5 months ago
Wir machen heute GoF*-Forschung im Morgenmagazin der freien Radios. (*Gain of Free Radios)
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Global carbon emissions will soon flatten or decline | Science | AAAS
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Global carbon emissions will soon flatten or decline
With China’s surge in renewable energy, greenhouse gases are reaching a turning point
https://www.science.org/content/article/global-carbon-emissions-will-soon-flatten-or-decline
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Fahrer hinter mir hat entdeckt, dass man durch Hupen die Ampel auf Grün umschalten kann. Man muss sich aber anstrengen
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