Methods of Russian hybrid-warfare activity across Europe, January 2018-June 2025

Having AI crammed down our throats is bullshit, but machine learning has some real uses in science. This awesome page shows experimental cyclone track forecasts from Google DeepMind and Google Research's AI weather models, along with forecasts from ECMWF. 😍 deepmind.google.com/science/weat...

Big ESA news: ▶️ https://www.esa.int/About_Us/Corporate_news/ESA_Member_States_commit_to_largest_contributions_at_Ministerial #Astrodon #space

This banger from the academia / writing / research meme stash definitely has wider applicability but I do really like using it for coaching, mentoring, and workshop activities when we talk about the importance of saying 'no' to things as researchers. #academicchatter #academicsky #PhDchat

Thank you very much for your trust. I am very much looking forward to contributing to the Science Europe Governing Board.🧪

The @snsf.ch is proud to support the Swiss National ORD prize. Congratulations to: “Choice of Law Dataverse (CoLD)” by Agatha Brandão de Oliveira, Uni Lucerne. & “Alplakes – Monitoring and forecasting European alpine lakes”, by James Runnalls at Eawag 🧪 ord.swiss-academies.ch/news/swiss-n...

Heute vor 399 Jahren - Es begab sich aber zu der Zeit, als Kaiser Ferdinand II. herrschte, dass dem Osterhase in einer kalten Novembernacht träumte, er habe Ostern verschlafen. Eilig hüpfte er aus dem Bett und legte los; voller Tatendrang, aber viel zu früh 🐰

Wenn Quantengase sich nicht an die Regeln halten: An der TU Wien wurde ein „Quanten-Draht“ aus ultrakalten Atomen erzeugt, in dem Masse und Energie ohne Reibung fließen – selbst nach unzähligen Kollisionen. www.tuwien.at/tu-wien/aktu...

Is the Atlantic Ocean circulation close to tipping? Hear the latest science as I presented it last month at the ATLAS25 event in Helsinki. Let me know if anything is unclear, or if you see good reasons why your government shouldn't immediately act on this. 🌊 youtu.be/ULJXqOZuY-8

In 2024, renewable energy accounted for over 90% of global power capacity expansion. That is because it makes economic sense. IRENA_DAT_RE_Capacity_Highlights_2025-1.pdf

Students, apply for a CERN summer studentship. Greatest experience ever! Deadline 26 January 2026. careers.cern/programmes/s... (It's not just for physicists. Check it out.)

new normal.

Now that the US gov is open, 3I/ATLAS images from the Mars-orbiting HiRISE camera will soon be out. My money is on them looking just like regular cometary images. If that disappoints you, scan the HiRISE catalog for spectacular Mars images like this one uahirise.org/catalog/

Alle Medien sollten damit aufhören sich von Politikern/Unternehmern auf Reisen einladen zu lassen. Dass man das heute noch sagen muss. (#kurz)

Review: Unlocking i-process nucleosynthesis by bridging stellar and nuclear physics ⚛️ by Mathis Wiedeking, Stephane Goriely, Magne Guttormsen, Falk Herwig, Ann-Cecilie Larsen, Sean N. Liddick, Dennis Mücher, Andrea L. Richard, Sunniva Siem & Artemis Spyrou www.nature.com/articles/s42...

Defunding scientists for the nationality of who they co-author with or who they train. One of the most radical attack on freedom of speech in US history. A far right nationalist destruction of US science. Such a shameful time to be an American that this racist stupidity has become mainstream.

“The prohibited activities would include joint research, co-authorship on papers, and advising a foreign graduate student or postdoctoral fellow. The language is retroactive, meaning any interactions during the previous 5 years could make a scientist ineligible for future federal funding.”

He really doesn’t quit with these, it’s a real treat to look forward to each week in my science mag… both my interest in comics formalism and science intersect nicely!

If you have tenure at Texas A&M and aren't maliciously emailing the president a dozen times every day to ask if you can say this or you can say that, then what's the point in having tenure?

You can disagree and argue as much as you like but the point of evaluating something scientifically is that not every statement should be given equal credence because evidence matters

“Housing shortage – Jews to blame," letter sticker, German Reich, 1938 zwangsraeume.berlin/en/context

Talking image-text relations in class today - great opportunity to share Ibn Al-Rabin's seminal “Le Verbe Prophétique” alongside the always brilliant @tomgauld.bsky.social to demonstrate how the seemingly simple can be bewilderingly complex - things that can only be done in comics!!

#CometInterceptor will be the first mission to visit a comet coming directly from the outer reaches of the Sun's realm, carrying material untouched since the dawn of the Solar System. Part of #CosmicVision, Comet Interceptor is an ESA-led mission in collaboration with JAXA. 1/ #CM25 🔭

Heute vor 171 Jahren - Basel bekommt mit der "Rhymugge" die erste seiner berühmten Fähren (und sie dient der Kunst) | #fähri #rheinfähre

Number 5 is the funniest to me: the lovable guy from Star Trek and two of the smartest human beings ever to walk the planet, or Elon Musk

Never forget: At breakneck speed we are leaving the stable Holocene climate in which human society developed and thrived. Weather extremes are outside historical experience. Sea-level rise is accelerating. Dangerous tipping points are ahead. Graph: ed-hawkins.github.io/climate-visu...

What's from Chicago, hates Illinois Nazis, and is holy as fuck? It's the Pope in 1982.

Dieses Gerichtsurteil sollte uns alle beschäftigen Die FPÖ nennt das DÖW, das über Rechtsextremismus aufklärt, „pseudowissenschaftlich“ Das Gericht erlaubt das - dabei wurde im Gerichtsverfahren nicht einmal inhaltlich geklärt, ob der Vorwurf stimmt Hier erkläre ich das 👇

Jeffrey Epstein hat für sich und ein "girl" Tickets für den Life Ball 2012 in Wien besorgt. Auch ein "background check" für das Gala Dinner mit Präsident Heinz Fischer und Bill Clinton wurde offenbar durchgeführt.

Harald Lesch hat zu 100% recht! "Technologieoffenheit ist häufig ein Ausdruck für technologische Ahnungslosigkeit" und "Die Wärmepumpe ist die beste Maschine, die die Physik anzubieten hat, da gibt es keine Alternative" Endlich rechnet mal jemand mit diesem Bullshit-Argument der Union ab.

Sogenanntes Gender-Sternchen. /von: @schwarwel

Harald Lesch im Heute Journal zum Klimaschutz: „Technologieoffenheit“ steht in der Regel für technologische Ahnungslosigkeit. 🤭🎯

Ja, das war vernichtend. Früher wären Politiker wegen so was zurückgetreten... 🙈

Die #Grundlagenforschung schafft die Basis für ➡️ #Innovation und gesellschaftliches Wohlergehen. Der SNF investiert jedes Jahr rund 800 Millionen Franken in exzellente Grundlagenforschung.🧠💡 🔗 Mehr zum Nutzen ab sofort in unserer Serie von News und Kurzvideos: sohub.io/jr4o 📷 ©Julien Busset

La #recherche fondamentale est la base de l’➡️#innovation et du bien-être social. Le FNS investit environ 800 millions par an dans la recherche fondamentale de haut niveau.🧠💡 Plus d’infos sur son utilité dans notre série d’articles et de courtes vidéos: sohub.io/e52w 📷 : ©Julien Busset

#BasicResearch creates the basis for ➡️ #innovation and social well-being. Every year, the SNSF invests around 800 million Swiss francs in outstanding basic research. 🧠💡  🔗 Find out more about the benefits in our series of news and reels: sohub.io/k1u5 📷 : ©Julien Busset

Von KI-Fakes bis zum Geschäftsmodell von Esoterik! Darüber sprechen wir am 26.11. Zu Gast ist der frühere Gesundheitsminister & Buchautor @rudolfanschober.bsky.social. ORF-Journalistin Nora Zoglauer spricht mit mir über Esoterik & Coaches. Und Kabarettist @berniwagner.bsky.social ist mit dabei! 🙌

This has my favorite line from "What If:" "You wouldn't really die of anything, in the traditional sense. You would just stop being biology and start being physics." 🤣

What if ALL the sun's power was focused in one place? What the latest What If? video in collaboration with @minuteearth.bsky.social! youtu.be/qu8nx1qUwEU

Wenn das so gut wirkt, sollten wir das an allen öffentlichen Gebäuden anbringen... #NazisRaus

Cette question est très importante pour moi - veuillez la signer et la partager : act.campax.org/petitions/un...

I have book news!! Where We Stand, Where We Fall is now available to preorder from Herne Books:

Holy shit, just learned about the typewriter art of Montserrat Alberich Escardívol, a Catalan typist. Using an extra wide typewriter and 180 color ribbons, she built up elaborate images from simple characters like 'm' and '.' and ';'. Here is her typewritten painting of the Cathedral of Barcelona.

More US-based academics exit the United States, including world famous astronomer Sara Seager 🔭🧪 www.utoronto.ca/news/new-con...

Die Stadt Wien verschiebt die Inbetriebnahme der U5, um "18-20 Mio." Euro einzusparen. Die unerwünscht zugestellte Stadtzeitung "Mein Wien", die keiner liest, kostete zuletzt übrigens fast 16 Mio. Euro pro Jahr #priorities

You can’t really blame arXiv for the decision to stop publishing computer science stuff (given the flood of slop) but this is also a textbook example of a global public good being gratuitously degraded www.nature.com/articles/d41...

Finally here! Two years after #nasa 's #OSIRIS-REx mission returned samples of #asteroid #bennu to Earth, we have now received 319 mg to study in our labs. We are hoping to determine Bennu’s isotopic composition and learn more about its “birthplace” in the Solar System. #osirisrex #asteroidbennu

Uncertainties in the production of iron-group nuclides in core-collapse supernovae from Monte Carlo variations of reaction rates. Nobuya Nishimura et. al. https://arxiv.org/abs/2511.01859

Upgrade of Super-Kamiokande with Gadolinium. Yusuke Koshio et. al. https://arxiv.org/abs/2511.03921