Happy Holidays everybody!

Dear Santa, could you please stop women from bashing each other no matter whether we work full-time, part-time or are housewifes, with a kid/children or not and instead make us supporting each other and happily smashing patriarchy together?!

Mind you, everything up to now was just autumn. The winter months are still coming.

May I have your attention please?! I would like to inform you that I took a perfect picture. Here's the proof:

So...I have actually shortened my academic CV and tried to write my first corporate CV. It's 2 pages! In words: two. And I have sent out the first job applications with it. Wild.

So, the last picture I took from my last work was from this plagioclase twin in what diorite (something like that) on the floor of the staircase that I walked past ever day. Every morning I told it hi and said goodbye.

man I love avocados but I really wish they weren't so hard to cut

So, the last picture I took from my last work was from this plagioclase twin in what diorite (something like that) on the floor of the staircase that I walked past ever day. Every morning I told it hi and said goodbye.

Mind you, everything up to now was just autumn. The winter months are still coming.

So...I have actually shortened my academic CV and tried to write my first corporate CV. It's 2 pages! In words: two. And I have sent out the first job applications with it. Wild.

A first-of-its-kind study of lip microanatomy in 15 primates finds humans stand out: a curved rbicularis oris muscle, separate labial tractors, & fat-rich lips that may enhance fine motor control & support speech evolution Rotenstreich et al.: anatomypubs.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1002/...

#FossilFriday Stack of opalised vertebrae from an Early Cretaceous ichthyosaur. Another remarkable fossil on display in the South Australia Museum, Adelaide.

Ok, some of you may know, I had have been on a student exchange in New Zealand as a teenager. My school made me get up in the school assembly and get up and sing the national anthem. As a German I did not have to pledge alliance.

Also, how did you notice that I've lately been listening to Eminem again?

May I have your attention please?! I would like to inform you that I took a perfect picture. Here's the proof:

At last, our paper on the biomechanics of hopping in kangaroos is out! elifesciences.org/articles/96437 by Lauren Thornton, @taylorjmdick.bsky.social, me, Glen Lichtwark, Craig McGowan, @jonasrubenson.bsky.social, Alexis Wiktorowicz-Conroy & @cjclemente.bsky.social. Data collected in 2010!

And an OpenSim musculoskeletal model used to estimate moments, moment arms (EMA), work, power and tendon stresses:

Holy CRAP. Retired engineer takes random pics of *kids*, without consent or attribution, bins them into “autistic” or “not autistic”, and uploads that “data” for free on Kaggle. Well over a HUNDRED papers are published, 38 in Springer Nature, 25 in IEEE, using it. And no reviewers objected? WTF.🧪

Tun Männer nur so, als würden sie Literatur lesen? In der aktuellen Ausgabe meines Newsletters "Kultur & Kontroverse" habe ich über das Phänomen des "performativen Lesens" geschrieben und was es damit auf sich hat, dass die Angst vor falschen Lesern ausgerechnet in der Lesekrise hochkocht.

Heartbreaking. The University of Nebraska will terminate its entire Earth science department. One of the country's most successful and respected geology & climate programs: gone. When ideologues & politicians are threatened by the very act of studying climate change, I wonder: who of us is next?

The #pseudoarchaeological appropriation of past and #Indigenous cultural achievements to attribute these to ancient "supercivilizations" or even #aliens is reviving 19th century narratives deeply rooted in #colonialsim. Whole @smartcookies.bsky.social podcast episode here: youtu.be/iUp44_-lbs4

It is a pretty different feeling to be on the job hunt because you chose to look for something else than in comparison to having a terminated contract anyway and now looking for the next thing.

beim Schrottwichteln verschenke ich die fucks that I don't give

If I could have a Euro for every time a guy with a PhD explains to me that to him my PhD doesn't mean anything or doesn't matter in a job context

Jaja, schön und gut, aber warum ist auf dem zugehörigen Foto alles Mögliche zu sehen, nur keine Thuja weit und breit?!

seriously, I can't get over how funny and cute and interesting soft-shelled turtles are also _soft_ _shelled_ turtles and noses

Stu

An exquisite fossil of a 240-million-year-old marine reptile reveals it had partially webbed fingers and toes. The exceptional preservation also hinted at underlying limb muscles that suggest it swam like seal. #Paleontology #MonteSanGiorgio 🧪🏺 New for @sciencenews.bsky.social

Rabbit locomotion — Brehms Tierleben, 1914

Like other academics, I have collected work contracts like other people have collected stamps.

If I could have a Euro for every time a guy with a PhD explains to me that to him my PhD doesn't mean anything or doesn't matter in a job context

Jaja, schön und gut, aber warum ist auf dem zugehörigen Foto alles Mögliche zu sehen, nur keine Thuja weit und breit?!

Stegosaurus Totem 🌱✨ Made a smaller Stego before I attempt a big one because...lord have mercy, them back plates 😭😭😂😂 SOLD #art #pottery #SciArt

Look at this MANPAD-ahh nematode (note: slow motion video 83.3× slower than real time) From the paper www.pnas.org/doi/full/10....

The new Ze Frank video reminded me about an adaptation found in some entomopathogenic nematodes - using both their own muscle power and static electricity, they can leap into the air and home in on their host, like an anti-insect surface-to-air missile #Invertebrate 🧪 news.emory.edu/features/202...

Is there anyone out there who is also put off by certain 'quirks' in people's voices? I for once find creaky voices extremely aggrevating as well as women who switch like an octave higher when talking to dudes. I also find the Beavies and Buttheadish laughter of guy teanagers hard to ignore. Me:

I am always extremely suspicious when everything about someones live is perfect: perfect career, perfect look, perfect partner/marriage, perfect kid that's perfect at every thing... you know what I mean. I truly deeply believe that this doesn't exist because humans do human things and fuck up.

Yeah, well, I can't sit still for a minute but to each their own.

... at least, in the adult. The larval form do have functional eyes, but these never develop, get overgrown as they mature, described as "regressed". They live in total darkness, so other senses are far more developed: electroreception, pressure, smell. But what about the brain regions?

Olms (Proteus anguinus) look like you took an axolotl & stretched them out. 'Dachshund axolotls', if you will. They're a cave-dwelling salamander that live deep under the Alps of Central Europe. When floods flushed them out to streams, they were described as 'baby dragons'. And they lack eyes...

Searching for answers but not seeing shit Cutting through my burdens over and over again Put these beautiful people six feet underground I walk their roads, spill blood through their streets I hate everyone and every fucking thing This is my war

Eine Mutter ist mit ihrer Tochter im Kindergartenalter bei uns in der Praxis. Sie erklärt dem Kind, dass ich jetzt gleich die Zähne zählen und nachschauen werde, ob gut geputzt ist. "Was putzen wir immer raus aus dem Mund?" Die Kleine: "STREPTOCOCCUS MUTANS!" 😳

Does anyone want a survivorship bias shortbread

I had a job interview recently...and for the first time in my whole working life I thought "This isn't my dream job, so you can't use me and make me deal with shitty circumstances and your bs. What if _I_ don't want _your_ job under these premisses?!"

you must become the cactus

Ganz klar: Weil Capybaras mörderische Kampfmaschinen sind. Weshalb denn auch sonst?! Quelle: Merkur search.app/6xHtZ

I have a real pineapple plant in my house because I read somewhere that you can grow them just from a pineapple you buy in the supermarket and, as you know me, I had to try that. I googled how big they can get. Depending on what variety you have 1.5 m. I guess I've got to build it its own house now.

Ganz klar: Weil Capybaras mörderische Kampfmaschinen sind. Weshalb denn auch sonst?! Quelle: Merkur search.app/6xHtZ

I have a real pineapple plant in my house because I read somewhere that you can grow them just from a pineapple you buy in the supermarket and, as you know me, I had to try that. I googled how big they can get. Depending on what variety you have 1.5 m. I guess I've got to build it its own house now.

"Postdoc in the job market"