Dr. Jens Foell
@jensfoell.de
I used to scan brains, now I talk about science for a living. Science editor, science podcaster, SPIEGEL-bestselling science writer. Founder of @realscientists.de and trainer at @nawik.de. Looks even worse IRL.
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Dr. Jens Foell
@jensfoell.de
· Oct 20
Remember: If it requires the deliberate and coordinated suppression of information by the scientists of the world to be true, it most probably isn’t.
Please don’t hate me for my opinion, but is it worth continuing Pluribus if i found the pilot a bit meh?
November 25, 2025 at 5:07 PM
Please don’t hate me for my opinion, but is it worth continuing Pluribus if i found the pilot a bit meh?
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It's weird to not only have lived through an information revolution but also now living through its undoing, all within less than a generation.
Google at its peak was basically the best information retrieval system in human history and they and every competitor decided going from there to “you didn’t want answers you wanted half-assed auto-complete 80%-wrong hallucinations” in a few years was the right idea
November 25, 2025 at 12:19 PM
It's weird to not only have lived through an information revolution but also now living through its undoing, all within less than a generation.
Interesting news item, at least for Far Cry fans like myself.
I mean, if there *has* to be a Far Cry TV show, then this is the best way to do it. A seasonal anthology with a character-driven approach (which it'll have to have anyway, to save on action scenes)
www.ign.com/articles/far...
I mean, if there *has* to be a Far Cry TV show, then this is the best way to do it. A seasonal anthology with a character-driven approach (which it'll have to have anyway, to save on action scenes)
www.ign.com/articles/far...
Far Cry Getting TV Adaptation From Rob Mac and Alien Earth Creator Noah Hawley - IGN
The series is set to stream on Hulu and will see each season taking on a new setting.
www.ign.com
November 25, 2025 at 3:43 PM
Interesting news item, at least for Far Cry fans like myself.
I mean, if there *has* to be a Far Cry TV show, then this is the best way to do it. A seasonal anthology with a character-driven approach (which it'll have to have anyway, to save on action scenes)
www.ign.com/articles/far...
I mean, if there *has* to be a Far Cry TV show, then this is the best way to do it. A seasonal anthology with a character-driven approach (which it'll have to have anyway, to save on action scenes)
www.ign.com/articles/far...
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Sometimes I think it’s going to be the librarians who will save us all.
November 25, 2025 at 1:47 AM
Sometimes I think it’s going to be the librarians who will save us all.
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Gender-affirming care saves lives
1. A landmark study was just published in The Journal of Pediatrics.
It found a 68% reduction in suicidality for trans youth getting HRT.
It also found only 7 of more than 400 stopped taking HRT... and of those that did, 4 still identified as gender-diverse.
Transgender care saves lives.
It found a 68% reduction in suicidality for trans youth getting HRT.
It also found only 7 of more than 400 stopped taking HRT... and of those that did, 4 still identified as gender-diverse.
Transgender care saves lives.
Study In The Journal Of Pediatrics Finds Trans Youth Care Lowers Suicidality, Few Detransition
The groundbreaking study found that suicidality dropped for transgender youth receiving hormone therapy by nearly 70%, with only 7 patients of 432 discontinuing treatment.
www.erininthemorning.com
November 25, 2025 at 11:49 AM
Gender-affirming care saves lives
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Rest in Power! Thank you for continuing to fight against all the odds. Thank you for keeping the story alive & going.
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www.whatimreading.net/p/viola-ford...
Viola Ford Fletcher, the oldest living survivor of the 1921 Tulsa Race Massacre, has died
Viola Ford Fletcher, the oldest living survivor of the 1921 Tulsa Race Massacre, has died. She was 111 years old.
www.whatimreading.net
November 24, 2025 at 9:01 PM
Rest in Power! Thank you for continuing to fight against all the odds. Thank you for keeping the story alive & going.
www.whatimreading.net/p/viola-ford...
www.whatimreading.net/p/viola-ford...
RIP Udo Kier. You will be missed.
November 24, 2025 at 9:40 AM
RIP Udo Kier. You will be missed.
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reminder if you're german/germany-based, please consider signing!
Offener Brief gegen die zunehmende unkritische Nutzung von KI an deutschen Hochschulen und Forschungseinrichtungen - bitte teilen! openletter.earth/gegen-die-un...
Gegen die unkritische Anwendung und Implementierung sog. Künstlicher Intelligenz (KI) in der deutschen Wissenschaft und im Hochschulalltag
openletter.earth
November 24, 2025 at 8:15 AM
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I need someone to spray me with cold water whenever I try to start an argument about ChatGPT with strangers on LinkedIn
November 23, 2025 at 9:00 PM
I need someone to spray me with cold water whenever I try to start an argument about ChatGPT with strangers on LinkedIn
“The Times has uncovered nearly 50 cases of people having mental health crises during conversations with ChatGPT. Nine were hospitalized; three died.”
If you still want to use ChatGPT after reading this article, I don’t know what else to tell you.
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www.nytimes.com/2025/11/23/t...
If you still want to use ChatGPT after reading this article, I don’t know what else to tell you.
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www.nytimes.com/2025/11/23/t...
What OpenAI Did When ChatGPT Users Lost Touch With Reality
www.nytimes.com
November 23, 2025 at 3:28 PM
“The Times has uncovered nearly 50 cases of people having mental health crises during conversations with ChatGPT. Nine were hospitalized; three died.”
If you still want to use ChatGPT after reading this article, I don’t know what else to tell you.
[gift link]
www.nytimes.com/2025/11/23/t...
If you still want to use ChatGPT after reading this article, I don’t know what else to tell you.
[gift link]
www.nytimes.com/2025/11/23/t...
Having some family fun at the Reiss Engelhorn Museum‘s dino exhibit. Great to see a dracorex hogwartsia skull. In my first book I mention how it might be the origin of dragon lore
November 23, 2025 at 12:14 PM
Having some family fun at the Reiss Engelhorn Museum‘s dino exhibit. Great to see a dracorex hogwartsia skull. In my first book I mention how it might be the origin of dragon lore
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Good. Everyone involved with that operation, up to and including Musk, should be prosecuted. It was just a breathtaking run of illegality. bsky.app/profile/solo...
'Suddenly exposed' DOGE employees fear prosecution after Musk abandoned them: report
www.rawstory.com/doge-employe...
www.rawstory.com/doge-employe...
'Suddenly exposed' DOGE employees fear prosecution after Musk abandoned them: report
Current and former Department of Government Efficiency (DOGE) staffers are growing increasingly concerned that the work they did slashing government programs and eliminating jobs will come back to hau...
www.rawstory.com
November 22, 2025 at 7:53 PM
Good. Everyone involved with that operation, up to and including Musk, should be prosecuted. It was just a breathtaking run of illegality. bsky.app/profile/solo...
The reason Trump offered Mamdani permission to call him a fascist is a good demonstration of his political thinking in general. It’s all just words to him. They’re meaningless except for people’s response to them.
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November 22, 2025 at 1:46 PM
The reason Trump offered Mamdani permission to call him a fascist is a good demonstration of his political thinking in general. It’s all just words to him. They’re meaningless except for people’s response to them.
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Thinking a lot lately about the simple fact that college allows people to spend about 15 weeks immersed in a disciplinary conversation with an expert in that field. And what a special thing that is.
November 21, 2025 at 1:33 PM
Thinking a lot lately about the simple fact that college allows people to spend about 15 weeks immersed in a disciplinary conversation with an expert in that field. And what a special thing that is.
This one has been on my to-be-purchased list for a while, and it looks like the sale includes pre-orders for the paperback, which will come out in March
It's Black Friday and books are going cheap... 🤗
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November 21, 2025 at 7:34 AM
This one has been on my to-be-purchased list for a while, and it looks like the sale includes pre-orders for the paperback, which will come out in March
I feared this in 2016, but now it’s happened:
The CDC is gone. Strike them from your list of reliable purveyors of information.
The CDC is gone. Strike them from your list of reliable purveyors of information.
CDC has overhauled its website to assert that “the claim ‘vaccines do not cause autism’ is not an evidence-based claim”
November 20, 2025 at 8:18 PM
I feared this in 2016, but now it’s happened:
The CDC is gone. Strike them from your list of reliable purveyors of information.
The CDC is gone. Strike them from your list of reliable purveyors of information.
An incredibly important document. Please consider signing this letter against the uncritical adoption of AI tech in academia, now available in multiple languages
As stated, this is a translation of my Dutch colleagues’ letter- so if you need an English version, follow the link and you can still sign theirs, too. Thx again to @olivia.science for letting me use their words & for everyone’s efforts! @irisvanrooij.bsky.social
openletter.earth/open-letter-...
openletter.earth/open-letter-...
Open Letter: Stop the Uncritical Adoption of AI Technologies in Academia
openletter.earth
November 20, 2025 at 4:11 PM
An incredibly important document. Please consider signing this letter against the uncritical adoption of AI tech in academia, now available in multiple languages
I need all my social media platforms to feature an extra button that says “VFAPWDKWMA,” which stands for “voted for a pedophile who doesn’t know what magnets are,” and which just does the same thing as the block button
November 20, 2025 at 11:54 AM
I need all my social media platforms to feature an extra button that says “VFAPWDKWMA,” which stands for “voted for a pedophile who doesn’t know what magnets are,” and which just does the same thing as the block button
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Trans Day of Remembrance. Let's take a few minutes for our dead siblings.
November 20, 2025 at 9:18 AM
Trans Day of Remembrance. Let's take a few minutes for our dead siblings.
Most promoted posts I'm seeing on LinkedIn are from pro-AI accounts. But recently, they're focusing on explaining the limitations of the tech and talking about user responsibility and such. I'm pretty sure that's a response to public backlash: Too many just aren't buying their claims anymore.
November 20, 2025 at 9:17 AM
Most promoted posts I'm seeing on LinkedIn are from pro-AI accounts. But recently, they're focusing on explaining the limitations of the tech and talking about user responsibility and such. I'm pretty sure that's a response to public backlash: Too many just aren't buying their claims anymore.
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November 19, 2025 at 2:57 AM
For the sake of the economy, we need to hope beyond hope that the current AI hype will not end with a bang, but with a fizzle.
But it *will* end, and anyone putting money into it right now is a fool
But it *will* end, and anyone putting money into it right now is a fool
The thing about the government bailing out genAI when the bubble pops, is it can't.
It's almost half the US stock market. It is bigger than consumer spending.
The government would have to spend like half its entire budget, on something that loses billions of dollars a month, forever.
It's almost half the US stock market. It is bigger than consumer spending.
The government would have to spend like half its entire budget, on something that loses billions of dollars a month, forever.
November 19, 2025 at 9:33 AM
For the sake of the economy, we need to hope beyond hope that the current AI hype will not end with a bang, but with a fizzle.
But it *will* end, and anyone putting money into it right now is a fool
But it *will* end, and anyone putting money into it right now is a fool
Europe and Canada are going to space together 🤩
Canada has announced an additional $528.5 million investment in ESA programmes at #CM25.
www.canada.ca/en/space-age...
www.canada.ca/en/space-age...
Canada Deepens Space Ties with Europe Through Historic Investment - Canada.ca
Today, at the SpaceBound 2025 Conference, the Honourable Mélanie Joly, Minister of Industry and Minister responsible for Canada Economic Development for Quebec Regions, made the historic announcement ...
www.canada.ca
November 19, 2025 at 9:09 AM
Europe and Canada are going to space together 🤩
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Ponied up for a month of newspapers.com, went right to the New York Daily News and quickly found this gem from Feb 16, 1936.
November 18, 2025 at 3:25 PM
Ponied up for a month of newspapers.com, went right to the New York Daily News and quickly found this gem from Feb 16, 1936.
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I nearly died at my 3rd Covid ride, so never feel too safe ;)
November 18, 2025 at 4:48 PM
I nearly died at my 3rd Covid ride, so never feel too safe ;)