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Ustinoffs Hausgeist 🎃 @ustinoff.bsky.social · 1d

Auch hier ist nicht drin was drauf steht. Verbieten!

Frank Hause @fhause.bsky.social · 1d

"EU, what’s our biggest challenge? Militarization in the face of Trump’s next meltdown? Safeguarding democracy from disinformation and creeping fascism? Competing with China’s science and tech dominance?"

EU: "Hold my beer ..."

www.bbc.com/news/article...

EU parliament votes to ban meat names for plant-based foods

Pressure to ban meat labels for plant-based products comes from Europe's livestock farmers.

www.bbc.com

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Andrea Sinz 🧪 @sinzandrea.bsky.social · Aug 29

🚨 Two manuscripts accepted at Nature Communications within one week!🎉 Both papers deal with GPCRs. Thank you, Anette Kaiser and Tobi Langenhan, the wonderful collaborations! 😀 More details will follow. @unihalle.bsky.social @unileipzig.bsky.social

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Andrea Sinz 🧪 @sinzandrea.bsky.social · 5d

🧪 And this is the second Nature Communications @natcomms.nature.com paper where we contributed:
www.nature.com/articles/s41...
@academic-chatter.bsky.social @academicsky.org #teammassspec
@unileipzig.bsky.social @unihalle.bsky.social

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Oded Rechavi @odedrechavi.bsky.social · 6d

Friday Papers Club! 🍿In light of Pubmed going down, the collapse of social media, and my recent success at getting recommendations for interesting papers from those still around, I am starting a new tradition! - Recommend a good scientific manuscript! 👇

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Frank Hause @fhause.bsky.social · 6d

Can't stop loving this one: "Dilution of expertise in the rise and fall of collective innovation" by Duran-Nebreda et al.

www.nature.com/articles/s41...

Dilution of expertise in the rise and fall of collective innovation - Humanities and Social Sciences Communications

Humanities and Social Sciences Communications - Dilution of expertise in the rise and fall of collective innovation

www.nature.com

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Frank Hause @fhause.bsky.social · 7d

The gentle rays of morning hint at summer’s end.

Foggy morning view of a cable-stayed bridge with a tall central pylon and multiple suspension cables, silhouetted against the rising sun shining through the mist, with tram lines and street lamps in the foreground.

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Frank Hause @fhause.bsky.social · 7d

Mit saisonaler Regelmäßigkeit tauchen dort verloren geglaubte Fahrradhandschuhe auf 😅

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The New Yorker @newyorker.com · 21d

D. T. Max writes about the slow becoming of one of the world’s most unusual—and soon to be tallest—churches: the Sagrada Família.

Is the Sagrada Família a Masterpiece or Kitsch?

In the century since Antoni Gaudí died, his wild design has been obsessively realized, creating the world’s tallest church—and an endlessly debated icon.

www.newyorker.com

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Andrea Sinz 🧪 @sinzandrea.bsky.social · 26d

Our manuscript "Conserved hydrophilic checkpoints tune FocA-mediated formate:H+ symport" has just been accepted at Nature Communications!🎉🎉 I feel truly honored to be part of this work that was headed by Panos Kastritis and Gary Sawers.More information to follow! @unihalle.bsky.social
#Academicsky

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Conference on Complex Systems @css-conference.bsky.social · Sep 5

Thank you Prof. Mirta Galesic (University of Vienna and Santa Fe Institute) for the inspiring talk “Collective moderation of public discourse” at CCS 2025!

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Conference on Complex Systems @css-conference.bsky.social · Sep 5

Hiroki Sayama announced that CCS2026 will be held in Binghamton, USA — see you there! 🇺🇸 #CCS2026

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Conference on Complex Systems @css-conference.bsky.social · Sep 3

Andrés Aragoneses @drphysics.bsky.social · Sep 3

Do not erase.
About the language, the stories, and the life of chalkboards.
@css-conference.bsky.social

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Oded Rechavi @odedrechavi.bsky.social · Sep 3

"It's not the end of the world, let's just send it to another journal"

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Frank Hause @fhause.bsky.social · Sep 3

What reading through the reviewer comments feels like.

#AcademicSky 🧪

A Baroque-style painting showing a man in a brown monastic robe looking upward toward three angels who are holding up a large golden tablet inscribed with ornate sacred letters.

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Hannah Shelley, MLIS (Metadata, Lattes & Impostor Syndrome) @hannahshelley.bsky.social · Aug 13

Since search is dead, how soon do you think Google Scholar is headed for the Google Graveyard? I'm betting it's soon, and academia is NOT prepared

Google Scholar Is Doomed

Academia built entire careers on a free Google service with zero guarantees. What could go wrong?

hannahshelley.neocities.org

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Oded Rechavi @odedrechavi.bsky.social · Aug 26

Editor searching reviewers in August

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Frank Hause @fhause.bsky.social · Aug 4

Well …

www.reuters.com/world/un-rep...

UN report finds United Nations reports are not widely read

A United Nations report seeking ways to improve efficiency and cut costs has revealed: U.N. reports are not widely read.

www.reuters.com

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Frank Hause @fhause.bsky.social · Jul 23

Nothing beats a Jet2 holiday... except, maybe, finding a high-quality set of hyperparameters for your autoencoder.

🧪🧬🖥️ #AcademicSky

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Frank Hause @fhause.bsky.social · Jul 18

Four weeks of heavy science — demanding but productive. Now I’m really looking forward to the weekend and recharging around the people who matter most.

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Rainer Mühlhoff @rainermuehlhoff.bsky.social · Jul 16

Das @surplusmagazin.bsky.social bringt heute einen Auszug aus meinem neuen Buch "KI und der neue Faschismus" – jetzt erhältlich beim Reclam-Verlag und im Buchhandel. @reclamverlag.bsky.social

rainermuehlhoff.de/KI-und-der-n...

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Frank Hause @fhause.bsky.social · Jul 10

What twisted path led me here, where every progress::progress_bar in my scripts ticks up longer than it ticks down? Here is neither forgiveness nor convergence. 🧪🧬🖥️ #AcademicSky

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Frank Hause @fhause.bsky.social · Jul 7

Finally, the draft is submitted. Starting tomorrow, I can focus on new goals — at least until the manuscript decision arrives.

🧪 #AcademicSky

Frank Hause @fhause.bsky.social · Jul 6

Whoever designed manuscript submission portals for scientific papers clearly hated people — and someone else looked at it and said: “Brilliant. Let’s make every scientist suffer with this.”

🧪 #AcademicSky

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Oded Rechavi @odedrechavi.bsky.social · Jul 7

Pending editorial decision

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Frank Hause @fhause.bsky.social · Jul 6

Whoever designed manuscript submission portals for scientific papers clearly hated people — and someone else looked at it and said: “Brilliant. Let’s make every scientist suffer with this.”

🧪 #AcademicSky

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