We are alarmed by reports that Germany is on the verge of a catastrophic about-face, reversing its longstanding and principled opposition to the EU’s Chat Control proposal which, if passed, could spell the end of the right to privacy in Europe. signal.org/blog/pdfs/ge...

If you happen to be in London on October 10th, this will be a great time!

„So beginnt der Faschismus. Er nennt sich nie beim Namen, er schleicht sich heran, er schwebt in der Luft, und wenn er sich zeigt, sagt man: „Ist er es? Glauben Sie wirklich? Man darf nichts übertreiben!“ Eines Tages, bekommt man ihn zu spüren, und es ist zu spät“ (Françoise Giroud, 1996).

#TW Blut #TW Gedärme #TW Tierkadaver #TW Kot Magische "Präparate" bei #Demeter werden aus Innereien von Rind und Hirsch, aus Tierschädeln, Kristallen oder Kot-gefüllten Hörnern hergestellt. Es ist ein vor-aufklärerisches, okkultes Ritual ohne Sinn und Verstand - und vor allem, ohne jede Wirkung.

For the XENONnT Collaboration, the most significant dark-matter-impostor (background) events come from decays of tiny amounts of radioactive radon. Using a whiskey-still-like system, the team has now reduced the amount of radon so much that its effect is comparable to that of solar neutrinos.

"Enceladus ticks all the boxes to be a habitable environment that could support life: the presence of liquid water, a source of energy, a specific set of chemical elements and complex organic molecules." 🧪🪐🔭 www.esa.int/Science_Expl...

Today Oct 1. On this date in 1990 physicist John Stewart Bell passed away. The originator of Bell's theorem in quantum physics regarding hidden-variable theories. In 2022, the Nobel Prize in Physics was awarded for work on Bell inequalities and experimental validation of Bell's theorem.

I do not know what I would do with myself if scipy.stats didn't exist. It is SO useful to have so many complicated statistical distributions & methods in such a simple Python package. It's a heavy lifter in basically every paper I've ever written. Best library ever

Werden wir wissenschaftlich abgehängt? Ein Kommentar von Prof. Ulrike Diebold, Vizepräsidentin der österreichischen Akademie der Wissenschaften. Lesenswert!

#Astronomers take note: the next generation of the @adsabs interface is here. Your links, libraries, and notifications will continue. #astrophysics #heliophysics #planetaryscience

Cecilia Payne-Gaposchkin ✨ figured out what stars are made of ✨ when she was just 25. 🔭🧪 Her PhD thesis basically established the Harvard astro department — at a time when Harvard didn't officially allow woman students. I wrote this little profile to mark the 100th anniversary of her thesis:

The Fascinating Physics Behind the Subtle Safety Features of Escalators laughingsquid.com/physics-of-e...

Neutron stars are born running, and recent research explores just how fast they start off. aasnova.org/2025/09/24/k... 🔭🧪

Happy birthday to astrophysicist Cecilia Payne-Gaposchkin (1900-1979), a trailblazer for women in #astronomy who discovered that hydrogen & helium are the most common elements in the universe.⁠ 🐡🧪👩🏼‍🔬🎢🔭 ⁠ Born England, she won a scholarship to Newnham College at Cambridge in 1919 where she heard 🧵1/n

📌 "Die Studie misst nicht die Wirksamkeit von #Akupunktur, sondern die Wirkung eines gut choreografierten Settings mit PR-Ambitionen. [...] Wer Akupunktur als evidenzbasierte #Medizin verkaufen will, muss tief in die Trickkiste greifen." scienceandsense.de/2025/09/18/a...

Evangelion celebrates its 30th by returning to the airwaves (sort of):

BBC News rips apart President Trump's absurd rant at the United Nations ht: @implausibleblog.bsky.social

While Trump was displaying real-time cognitive decay at the UNGA, we were all cringing. Here is the Swiss Foreign Minister. We are all Ignazio Cassis today. Maybe everyday the Dolt in Chief speaks.

In 1954, physicist Robert Dicke predicted that a group of atoms could collectively emit an intense burst of radiation. Does the effect involve quantum entanglement? New work has confirmed previous suggestions that the answer is no.

To be clear, there are no data that provide a link between short-term use of Tylenol during pregnancy and autism. In fact, one of the best prospective studies w/ sibling controls, if anything, pointed to a protective effect for use less than 7 days acamh.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1002/...

I loved talking to Signal's @meredithmeredith.bsky.social, who is such a consistent, clear voice of sanity (and always a great interview). We talked about (of course) SignalGate, what AI means for Signal, why tech bros continue to be such a disappointment, and much more. Read, listen, etc!

A vital tool for our ELT is being assembled. The Phasing and Diagnostics Station will align the hundreds of segments making up the ELT main mirror, so that they work as a single, unified "phased" surface. www.youtube.com/watch?v=EKdF... 🔭 🧪 #instrumentation

Unsere Mikroelektronik beruht darauf, Halbleiter mit Fremdatomen zu dotieren. Aber was, wenn das gar nicht nötig ist? An der TU Wien wurde eine faszinierende neue Art von Transistor gebaut, mit entscheidenden Vorteilen:

Verrückter Fakt des Tages: #vfdt Über eine Million Menschen erkrankt weltweit jedes Jahr wegen Kohlekraftwerken an Lungenkrebs. Wie würden wir reagieren, wenn so eine Zahl durch andere Ursachen zustande käme? Durch eine nuklear Explosion? Eine Krankheit? Eine Terrorgruppe?

Forget autism. What causes narcissism?

Die Aufklärung von Falschinformationen & Impfmythen ist ein wichtiges Anliegen, daher klären wir regelmäßig auf. Fakt heute: Autismus entsteht durch Veränderungen in der früh­kindlichen Gehirn­entwicklung. Als Haupt­ursache gelten genetische Faktoren. 🔗 www.rki.de/impfmythen

Population-Dependent r-process Scatter in the Globular Cluster M15 https://arxiv.org/pdf/2509.16840 Lauren E. Henderson, Roman Gerasimov, Evan N. Kirby.

Heute vor 306 Jahren - Weil der Kirchenmann Kritik übte an den ungnädigen Herren der Macht, wird kurzerhand seine Show gecancelt.

🧘 Wir möchten, dass Sie sich in diesen chaotischen Zeiten zurechtfinden können. Denn nur wer gut informiert ist, kann auch sinnvolle Entscheidungen treffen. Darum gibt es die Republik aktuell zum Einstiegspreis für 1 Franken. Jederzeit kündbar. 🔗 vist.ly/47s5f

Steve Silberman is so pissed about this Tylenol bullshit that he's screaming from the afterlife he didn't even believe in. Increased rates of autism are due to testing, a broadened definition, and greater awareness. It's not vaccines. It's not Tylenol. It's like his work never happened.

We have STELLAR Nordic research showing no link between Tylenol and autism. Nordic research is the gold standard. Because Nordic healthcare system covers every person and documentation is perfect. Unlike in some other countries I could mention

Bhattacharya just claimed that genetics “cannot be the only cause of autism” because rates are rising. Rates are not rising, and genetics are the overwhelming contributing factor to the development of ASD.

Finished spread! The lives of different types of stars, the various ways they give back all they had taken in changed, and the new forms they give rise to! This took me some time to say the least! It's a lively place out there! On to the next spread (finale of this chapter!!) #Nostos #Unflattening 2

📥 Heute schon nominiert? Lassen wir das Jahr Revue passieren… Wer ist besonders mit antiwissenschaftlichen Aussagen oder Produkten aufgefallen? Der unwissenschaftlichste Unsinn des Jahres 2025 wird gesucht! goldenesbrett.guru

Phew! It's been a busy day here at the RAS today 😅 We've been having a great time welcoming the public to our HQ for guided tours, scientific fun and comet making as part of this year's Open House Festival. Bygone astronomers Caroline Herschel and her nephew John have also made an appearance! 🔭💫🪐

GRB 241105A: A test case for GRB classification and rapid r-process nucleosynthesis channels. Dimple et. al. https://arxiv.org/abs/2507.15940

Timeline-cleanse: Fly through 3D map of stellar nurseries made by #esa's #gaia mission: ▶️ https://youtu.be/cejvjP-a77k Especially from ~1 min on: just turn on the volume, put the video on full screen and enjoy. #Astrodon #nature #astronomy

it's so funny to see America's health insurance companies be like "look. If there's one thing we love it's denying you care. but we ran the numbers - and we cannot BELIEVE we're saying this - and it's cheaper for us to just pay for the vaccines than deal with you going to the ER."

New paper: "High-Precision Measurement of D($\gamma$, $n$)$p$ Photodisintegration Reaction and Implications for Big-Bang Nucleosynthesis", link: https://arxiv.org/abs/2509.11743

One of these rich dudes invested in a food company with all proceeds going to kids in need. The other started Sundance Institute, boosting the lives of countless artists. Hey modern rich dudes, don't be a typical greedy AI crypto-prick, be like these two.

What if we told you black holes flip the switch on their magnetic fields? Recent images from the EHT show exactly that in M87*. This reshapes what we know about how black holes feed and power their colossal jets. Explore Steward’s role in the discovery: bit.ly/4prwzGV

During a visit to NASA’s Johnson Space Center last March, I was confronted with an environment of fear, uncertainty and discrimination which struck me as a troubling moral issue that also raises serious safety concerns. Read all about it here: www.thespacereview.com/article/5060/1

This is amazing: A direct image of the shadow of a black hole. A direct image of the hot, swirling gas circling and falling into it. And brand-new images showing an apparent magnetic flip around the black hole, a sign of turbulent, tumultuous changes. 🧪🔭 eventhorizontelescope.org/new-eht-imag...

I am here to say vaccines are awesome because guess what Denmark is close to completely eliminating the two most dangerous HPV strains (serotype 16 and 18) and with the cervical cancer.I think that is bloody AMAZING!!!! bit.ly/4pbHxjT

On this day in 1966, Star Trek first beamed into living rooms across America. None of us could have imagined then the journey it would set us on. And not just the cast and crew, but the millions of fans who would find hope, inspiration, and community in its vision of the future.

LEGO and STAR TREK Announce First Ever Partnership nerdist.com/article/lego...

My European colleague just taught me a new aphorism: "Europeans think 100 km is a long way to travel. Americans think 100 years is a very long time ago."

Heute vor 279 Jahre - Viel Lärm um nichts im Münsterkreuzgang

Nichts davon ist neu, originell oder unbekannt. Diese Rechnung haben sicher unzählige Leute schon gemacht. Dass der US-Energieminister solchen völlig faktenfremden Unsinn ins Internet pustet und stehen lässt, ist ein schockierendes Zeichen für den Niedergang politischer Kultur.