Eerste goede foto van de meteoriet van gisteren: First good picture of yesterday's meteorite (found in Koblenz):

Historians are quite capable of explaining the hellscape that is the US at this particular minute, and its kind of telling that you imagine we won't because it means you haven't been listening or reading

Meanwhile, Spain's massive investment in renewables is paying dividends now: with prices for Spanish industry and consumers low and stable compared with other European economies. www.ft.com/content/ac77...

I know that the people who need to read this aren’t here, but here goes: Rules of engagement aren’t for the enemy. They’re for you. They’re for your soldiers when they’re captured or wounded. They’re for your civilians when they’re in range of the enemy. They’re for your allies, to reassure.

A US submarine sinking a lonely, dinky Iranian surface ship an ocean away from the theater of the main conflict—and 9000 miles from North America—makes it pretty clear the US is fighting a general war, without the declaration required by the Constitution. www.reuters.com/world/asia-p...

I thought I had found a good use case for some small-multiple pie charts. It turned out, not so much.

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THE DEATH OF US SCIENCE ☠️

Glob-glob! Absolutely magical sea anemone larva (about 7 mm) from The Lombok Strait, Indonesia 🇮🇩

Oil spills from tankers have fallen by more than 90% since the 1970s— In the 1970s, oil spills from tankers — container ships transporting oil — were common. Between 70 and 100 spills occurred per year. That’s one or two spills every week.

BREAKING — 51 Iranian children are dead after a strike hits Minab girls elementary school in Iran.

Nine months ago, the United States "completely and totally obliterated" Iran's nuclear program. Tonight, we're attacking Iran to disrupt their nuclear program. A sizable percentage of this country thinks that's normal.

“We are falling dangerously behind our competitors.” ERC President Maria Leptin on the next EU R&I budget: “Maintaining the Commission proposal is the minimum. Strengthening it would be strategic.” Listen to the hearing at the European Parliament (9’32’30) 🎥 bit.ly/4scILfc

Or we can keep staring at our screens.

Warner Bros. und damit auch CNN, der letzte große unabhängige Nachrichten-TV-Sender in den USA, geht an Paramount und damit an die Ellisons, Trump-Buddies und aktuell große Profiteure des KI-Investment-Wahns. Das ist nicht gut.

I had a really positive impression of Glasgow. Before visiting, I dreaded the weather. But you can dress for it. The cycle infrastructure wasn’t bad, the people are nice and the food was good. There’s a sense that the city was once great, hit a rough patch, and is on its way back. Would visit again.

Das ist bemerkenswert: Anthropic weigert sich, seine KI-Software (u.a. Claude) soweit zu entsichern, dass man damit autonome Kampfsysteme steuern könnte. Damit verzichtet das Unternehmen bewusst auf Milliardenaufträge vom US-Militär, anders als Google, xAi und OpenAI. www.zeit.de/politik/ausl...

So the Telegraph is taking this well

Exciting #scicomm news tomorrow at 1000 UK time! 😃

"Any similarity to actual persons, living or dead, is purely coincidental" Hitler’s Greenland Obsession After creating an economic mess with ill-advised tariffs, Hitler looked north in pursuit of resources and national security. www.theatlantic.com/ideas/2026/0...

Yeah agreed. New saying: 'That's waaay better than a finger in the eye.'

Der Edeka Wollny in Friedberg bei Augsburg, gegen den NIUS derzeit hetzt, weil sie Fck-AfD-Tassen verkaufen, hat auch schon mal ein Benefiz-Konzert für Volksverpetzer veranstaltet. Der Laden freut sich gerade extrem über die unfreiwillige Werbung durch die Rechtsradikalen – und eure lieben Worte.

4 Jahre =48 Monate =208 Wochen= 1460 Tage = 35040 Stunden=2012400 Minuten= 126144000 Sekunden. 🇺🇦

Konservative Politik bedeutet heute den Vorschlag einer Zuckersteuer wegen „grüner Bevormundungspolitik“ abzulehnen und morgen zu fordern, dass Zahnarztbesuche künftig nicht mehr von der Kasse bezahlt werden sollen, damit die Kosten für das Gesundheitssystem nicht weiter steigen🤦‍♂️

A reminder to those at #OSM26, there's an oceanography feed where your stuff could be seen by thousands, even if you have only one follower. Join, pin, like, post, enjoy.

If you're at #OSM26, this town hall is today. Come hear Brandon Jones (President of @agu.org), Margaret Leinen (Director Emeritus of @scrippsocean.bsky.social), Mike Sieracki (Director of Horn Point Lab), Sabrina Speich (Professor at ENS), and Steve Rocliffe (Senior Technical Advisor of ORCA).

New Yorkers: if you can do so safely, take a moment to step outside (even on your front stoop) for a moment and appreciate how quiet the city is right now. ❄️ Cities aren't loud. Cars are loud.

If you're an environmental journalist in the UK or Europe, the biggest gathering of ocean scientists in the world is happening in Glasgow next week, and you should consider coming to cover some of the most important findings about our life support system. #OSM26

Pritzker’s invoice to White House: (via @nbcnews.com) @govpritzker.illinois.gov

For me that means: phone in another room, one browser tab, unfamiliar location, time pressure. You can't willpower your way past a notification-filled environment.

Stellt euch vor, Stiftung Warentest würde Tipps zum Schwarzfahren geben oder zum bequemen Einkauf von Marihuana auch ohne Arztrezept. Die Law-and-Order-Heuchler stünden mit Fackeln und Mistgabeln vor den Warentestertoren. Einen Falschpark-Rabatt zu ermogeln ist in der Auto-Nation hingegen cool. 🙄

"Die fallen auf jeden KI-Müll rein" – Jugendliche fordern Social-Media-Verbot für Menschen über 40 www.der-postillon.com/2026/02/soci...

Bekanntmachung: Meine Doku "KI: Der Tod des Internet" wird dank der vielen Nachfragen ab 28.02. erneut für drei Monate in der Arte-Mediathek zu sehen sein. Slop, slop, Hurra! 🥳 www.arte.tv/de/videos/12...

Do you remember when people said they didn't have any tech privacy concerns because 'they have nothing to hide'?

Fatal ist mir das Lumpenpack, Das, um die Herzen zu rühren, Den Patriotismus trägt zur Schau, Mit allen seinen Geschwüren." Heinrich Heine 

5 Landesverbände gesichert rechtsextrem, 4 Landesverbände Verdachtsfälle. Ehemalige Jugenorganisatiom gesichert rechtsextrem. Bundespartei gesichert rechtsextrem. Es ist noch zu früh, um sich ein Urteil zu bilden.

I *love* this ternary chart showing developing economies increasingly go directly for clean electrons (solar plus some wind), bypassing the fossil economy that the US and EU went through. I expect Africa will take an even more direct route than India. ember-energy.org/latest-insig...

Das ZDF sollte den Fehler mit dem ungekennzeichneten KI-Video nutzen, um Vorreiter bei KI-Transparenz zu werden: KI-generierte Bilder müssen während der Ausstrahlung klar gekennzeichnet sein. Ungekennzeichnet ist Täuschung – gekennzeichnet ist Illustration.

I think this meme is basically true to the story thus far. Which is bananas. #RAM #Gaming #AI

The new PAGES IMPACT working group will hold its first workshop on Past abrupt changes, thresholds and tipping points: Definitions, Identification, and Context at the University of Bern (Switzerland) on May 11-13 2026

Die Schweiz hat den Einsatz der Software #Palantir abgelehnt, #palantir raus aus Deutschland

This offer is good for anyone at #OSM26 next week. Message me.

If you’re a climate/energy person, I will take your portrait pro bono.

🌊✨ Did you miss our latest eNewsletter? ✨ 🌊 Catch up on recent GEOTRACES activities and science highlights! 👉 www.geotraces.org?na=view&id=370

Excited to have this paper out showing a strong coupling between Central American tree-ring oxygen isotopes and ocean–atmosphere dynamics (interbasin SST gradients, ITCZ, CLLJ... ). Many thanks to all co-authors! agupubs.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1029/...

Ich schlage dich doch nur weil ich dich so sehr liebe. Das war im Kern Rubios Message heute

I'm giving a talk at @uniofeastanglia.bsky.social this Tuesday (Feb 17) at 1 pm about marine carbon dioxide removal. Be there or be a rectangular rhombus.

How many more years will it take before people start to understand what this means?

New Pub 🚨📝🎓: "Stratification of Post-Birth Labour Supply in a High- and Low- Maternal Employment Regime" www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti... Short version: Germany has much bigger motherhood penalties than France, but they are not more socially stratified. That wasn’t what we expected. 🧵⬇️