Swiss glaciers have lost 3% of their ice volume in 2025! 🔥 ...and ONE QUARTER only over the last 10 years! 📈 2025 is the 4th most disastrous loss ever measured (after absolute record years 2022 and 2023)! JUST CRAZY… 😱 Full report: doi.glamos.ch/pubs/annualr... Data @matthias-huss.bsky.social

Denmark is becoming the new Norway! Electric vehicles in Denmark follow a text book S-curve. In August: 69% of new sales were full battery electric vehicles. Source @leraffl.bsky.social

Our starter pack of quantum PhD students is now full! (Unfortunately Bluesky caps it at 150.) We're happy to report that we have rescued at least 36 souls from X who joined Bluesky via our starter pack! go.bsky.app/AUTn1di

UNEP is recruiting a Chief Scientist and Director of the new Office of Science. Exciting role for a senior professional working internationally at the science-policy interface on nature, climate and pollution. Deadline 5 November. careers.un.org/jobSearchDes...

I get that the news cycle is packed right now, but I just heard from a colleague at the Smithsonian that this is fully a GIANT SQUID BEING EATEN BY A SPERM WHALE and it’s possibly the first ever confirmed video according to a friend at NOAA 10 YEAR OLD ME IS LOSING HER MIND (a thread 🧵)

Fand ich sehr "nachdenklich-machend" und anregend.

GUESS WHAT WEEK IT IS

These days show why bluesky is great. Having enough from the same news and takes? Just mute names or words for... 24 hours A week 30 days For me that does the trick and I can enjoy science and biodiversity content 🐠🌱🧪

For the rest of your life, you can only eat food from one of these regions. Which do you choose? For more maps: brilliantmaps.beehiiv.com/s...

Good morning!

Interview with Dr Mònica Mir Llorente @ibecbarcelona.eu on #robotic plant roots & other #plantoids 👉https://wp.me/panTdn-4m4 #plantoidproject #RiDaysEU #ESMH @horizoneu.bsky.social #robots @mariabolevich89.bsky.social #EUResearch

Passionate about science? Enjoy working with people? Experienced in science communication/event organisation? If that's you, apply by 5 October to be a part of Germany's biggest science festival as a paid volunteer. More info 👉 berlinscienceweek.com/volunteer #BerlinScienceWeek25

NYT: Laut dem jüngsten jährlichen NATURE Index, der Forschungseinrichtungen anhand ihrer Beiträge zu führenden Wissenschaftszeitschriften erfasst, ist die einzige verbliebene US-Institution unter den Top 10 Harvard, die an 2. Stelle liegt, weit hinter der Chinesischen Akademie der Wissenschaften.

Thanks to journalist @felixschmidtner.bsky.social for bringing the plight of the key scientific database @flybase.bsky.social to a German/European audience www.faz.net/aktuell/wiss...

Nicht verpassen: Die Dankesrede von @herrscherfer.bsky.social für die Auszeichnung von Phoenix beim Deutschen #Fernsehpreis:

This is quite a nice read. Recommended.

"Building Bridges - Shaping Europe's Science-for-Policy Landscape" conference report now available! Insights on strengthening #ScienceAdvice across Europe. Download it now and let's keep building those bridges together! scadv.eu/17054736

if you're a passenger and the driver is using their phone please don't stay quiet to avoid confrontation. family member, long time friend, coworker, doesn't matter, make it awkward. If they persistent ask to get out, find another way there. Not worth risking your life or being party to manslaughter

Zwecks Sonntagslektüre nochmal Repost. Bemerkenswert finde ich auch die sehr mutige und direkte Auseinandersetzung mit Jessen. Für sowas braucht es Rückgrat. Mehr als man sich außerhalb von Redaktionen vielleicht vorstellen kann.

There is so much cool stuff in the science 🧪 feed !

"For Better Soil, Get Better Data" issues.org/better-soil-... @forscherrobert.bsky.social @moritzfritschle.bsky.social @martinreich.bsky.social @natabolite.bsky.social

"how the NIH’s relatively small investments [...] yielded tech that have contributed to $133 billion in US sales [...] As much as it is the work of scientists [...] is also the work of bureaucrats, politicians,a creative industrial sector & sophisticated consumers" issues.org/innovation-h... #scipol

One of the strongest, clearest increases in likelihood & intensity, attributable to climate change, I've seen in a complex index like fire weather - the more intense & frequent events in Greece & Türkiye are already outpacing efforts to adapt. www.worldweatherattribution.org/weather-cond...

What could be more exciting than watching Euplotes scurry around under the microscope? How about adding some raptorial predation by supergiant cannibal cells? www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1... Video by Vittorio Boscaro. 1/n

German car industry loses 50.000 jobs in Germany in a single year. Compared to 2019, there are 245.000 fewer industry jobs. Yet, in the public discussion the China shock factor does not play any significant role.

I wrote (ranted) on experimental design as I was frustrated as an editor at how little guidance students were getting. I underestimated the interest in the issue: it has been downloaded 10,000+ times! Clearly it’s something we need to be talking about more. onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/full/10....

I can't wait to get bitten again by this absolute stunner so I can take more photos like this one! Soon, very soon 🤩 Beautiful bloodsucker. Sabethes mosquito from the Ecuadorian Amazon in mid-bite. This photo was highly commended in the 57th Wildlife Photographer of the Year competition in 2021.

🧪 #scipol

„Nicht der Bär, die Kakerlake müsste dein Nationaltier sein (…) Barmherzigkeit war noch nie deine Stärke. Um ans Ziel zu kommen, kennst du nur Gewalt.“ Die taz-Korrespondentin verlässt #Russland. Ihr solltet ihren Text lesen! taz.de/Abschied-von... #Putin #Ukraine

One of the most sensible suggestions I've heard in a long time. Publish less, but better. #academicsky www.researchprofessionalnews.com/rr-news-worl...

This is the second-largest glacier in the Pyrenees, but it’s disappearing fast.

Of interest also for other disciplines and professions #scipol

🌍 Außenpolitik im Wandel - hier trifft sich die neue Generation! Am 23.9.2025: 150 Future Faces beim #StrategicYouthCongress mit Workshops & Panels zu ⚡ Systemkonkurrenz, 🤝Globaler Verantwortung und 💡 Technologie. Infos & Anmeldung 👉 strategicyouthcongress.org

Trees, hedgerows and small woodland patches can significantly improve butterfly populations in agricultural landscapes, according to new research:

love this new york times clip. they recently did a story about how sesame street's set has changed over the years, along with our urban politics. IG nytimes

This surprisingly relaxing footage is from SIX MILES under the ocean – and it’s the deepest ecosystem yet discovered

(1/2) 🧬 The African BioGenome Project 🌍 is training the next generation of genomics experts through groundbreaking, hands-on workshops across 50 African countries—laying the foundation for innovation and discovery across the continent. 🚀📖 Read the 2025 publication: go.nature.com/40INiek

Someone on here compared AI produced material as "digital asbestos " which in a few decades' time we will have to work out how to eradicate from the fabric of research.

(1/4) 🧬 Why Sequence the Genomes of Earth’s Biodiversity? The Earth BioGenome Project 🌍 is a global network of initiatives working together to create a complete genome library for all Eukaryotic life—from mushrooms 🍄 to mammals 🐘. #biodiversity #genomes #sequence #earthbiogenome #education #stem

📆Save the date for this #EGU science for policy #hangout on Monday, 4 August 2025 at 14:00 CEST. In this session Asmae Ourkiya will explore how #geoethics, an ethical framework rooted in #geoscience, can be enriched by exploring queer, intersectional perspectives. Register here: egu.eu/7L9YUE

Really nice metastudy of citizen science contributing to ecology & biodiversity research @inaturalist.bsky.social @aibsbiology.bsky.social 👀🔎🍄🧪🌎🌐 iNaturalist accelerates biodiversity research academic.oup.com/bioscience/a...

There are so many fascinating examples for convergent evolution. Don't always go for shark/dolphin!

I think a lot about what Carl Sagan said in one of his final interviews.

An accurate description of the whole idea. (new - though admittedly, not very novel - comic)

There are 26 new World Heritage sites. "this as an excuse to learn [about them]" writes @shamjaff.bsky.social in her excellent newsletter. Could not agree more! Well said. www.africanews.com/2025/07/16/u...

Advancing sustainability and circularity in aquaculture to build a resilient global food system by @leopoldina.org #scipol www.leopoldina.org/publikatione...

This is very cool. A website where you can see and visualise different migration patterns of mammals. Helps to identifiy important regions for species protection: www.cms.int/gium/resourc... 🌱🧪🌿 inat