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Glückwunsch, @gruene.de

Jetzt noch das mit den Holz- und Pelletöfen verstehen, dann seid Ihr wieder die beste Partei von allen.

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November 29, 2025 at 10:12 AM
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📼| Wenn Wauzi jault und Mieze reihert, wird endlich wieder Weihnacht g'feiert!

Zur Weihnachtszeit steigt die Anzahl tierärztlicher Notfälle bei Hund und Katze.

Karo erklärt uns zum ersten Advent, was zu beachten ist, wenn unsere vierbeinigen Freunde von Weihnachtsleckereien naschen.
Karo Paschos SKEPTIX ADVENT 30.11.25
YouTube video by Skeptix
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November 30, 2025 at 6:34 PM
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Nom nom nom
June 12, 2025 at 5:35 PM
Some seeds of edible flowers (or weeds...)
Berteroa incana, Lapsana communis, Sisymbrium loeseli, Sisymbrium officinalis
July 17, 2025 at 7:25 PM
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If you read one Science Thing today:
The deep-sea mining news is grim, but I want to talk about why the deep ocean is so exciting and why we still know very little about how the ecosystems function.

Why don't we know more about large, mobile fauna in the deep sea? It's because we are loud and they are fast.
First live video of a colossal squid highlights one of the most exciting knowledge gaps in deep ocean exploration

www.southernfriedscience.com/first-live-v...
April 28, 2025 at 5:04 PM
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Watching animals eat is like my biology crack. I don’t need it, I don’t have to do it, I don’t even always like it, but there’s just something about critters noshing on one another that leaves me gobsmacked. And nothing does it like the comb jelly Beroe [Thread 🧵]
📽️ www.youtube.com/watch?v=1xkN...
April 21, 2025 at 8:55 PM
Wo kann man in Leipzig einen Verdacht auf Befall mit Riesenknöterich melden? Es geht um einen steilen Abhang direkt an einer Straße, und dieses Gewächs kann ja sowohl den Unterbau der Straße durchbohren als auch den Hang ins Rutschen bringen.

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Rhizomatous Knotweeds (Genus Reynoutria)
Rhizomatous Knotweeds from Südvorstadt, 04275 Leipzig-Süd, Deutschland on April 23, 2025 at 09:05 AM by Ralf Muschall. Right side of the ramp that connects Wundstraße to Kurt-Eisner-Straße.
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April 23, 2025 at 10:04 AM
@dannastaaf.bsky.social What do you think about this paper:
www.science.org/doi/full/10.... ?

Does it influence the standard theory about cephalopod evolution (i.e. a monoplacophoran puts septae (correct plural?) into the shell, starts to float above the seafloor and invents tentacles)?
A genome-based phylogeny for Mollusca is concordant with fossils and morphology
Extreme morphological disparity within Mollusca has long confounded efforts to reconstruct a stable backbone phylogeny for the phylum. Familiar molluscan groups—gastropods, bivalves, and cephalopods—e...
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March 18, 2025 at 6:45 PM
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Really wish people would stop talking about the problem with Science under Trump as “budget cuts”.

No. Budgets are set deliberatively by elected members of congress. Budgets haven’t been cut.

What’s happening are *purges* and *censorship*.
March 8, 2025 at 1:36 AM
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One of the funniest long-term trends in The Onion is their deeply impassioned, and surprisingly knowledgeable, gags about marine biology. @whysharksmatter.bsky.social
March 8, 2025 at 1:22 AM
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This is the most relevant article to NIH and research cuts I’ve seen.

Imagine if this was today , how many people would be saying “Why are we studying Gila Monsters and their impact on diabetes ? That’s wasted money !”

globalnews.ca/news/9793403...
How a Canadian scientist and a venomous lizard helped pave the way for Ozempic - National | Globalnews.ca
In 1984, Dr. Daniel Drucker, an endocrinologist from the University of Toronto, discovered a hormone that helped pave the way for popular diabetes drugs such as Ozempic.
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February 9, 2025 at 9:58 PM
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I made this Pride flag using only NASA images and our team thought it would be cool to share on social (I work on the NASA heliophysics communications team), but it's getting all sorts of hate on the bird app and Fbook. Thought y'all might be more appreciative of it here. ☺️🏳️‍🌈💖
June 14, 2024 at 2:19 AM
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IHR ZITIERT DIE HERITAGE FOUNDATION? IST DAS EUER ERNST? ALS „DENKFABRIK“? SPÜRT IHR EUCH EIGENTLICH NOCH?!
February 15, 2025 at 11:22 PM
Toller Vortrag von Kirsten Wiley (Kentucky Reptile Zoo) auf der Intox2024 in Indien über niedliche Sneks und deren Betreuung.

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January 23, 2025 at 6:03 AM
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Herpetologist? Interested in doing a Master by Research (MScRes)? We at @bangoruniversity.bsky.social have many really cool #herpetology projects on offer, including a number using #genomic techniques to answer questions in #conservation, #evolution and #systematics. Interested? Get in touch!
Today we are releasing 64 (!) adverts for Masters by Research projects at the College of Science & Engineering. All are self-funded. Spanning 18 themes/disciplines this is the richest offering we’ve had in years. Check out the projects now and get in touch: tinyurl.com/4bw29ucv
January 17, 2025 at 4:10 PM
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Let’s share this one more time: advice for US government scientists before the new administration takes over. 🧪🌎

therevelator.org/scientists-m...
Advice for U.S. Government Scientists: Lessons Learned From the ‘Muzzling’ of Their Canadian Counterparts • The Revelator
The next four years will be awful for the science and conservation community. By learning from past experiences, we can minimize the damage.
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January 19, 2025 at 7:33 PM
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tinyurl.com/4bk4bj6a

Nice write-up by @nerdychristie.bsky.social of the recent paper by Vásquez-Torres et al. on AI-designed snake toxin-neutralising proteins (tinyurl.com/55y297n9). Delighted to see my photo of a Naja nigricincta, taken in Namibia early last year, being used to illustrate it 😎🐍
AI could help develop cheaper, faster, and more effective snake antivenoms
“It’s really this whole change from letting the animals’ immune system do the work to now being able to do it very intentionally on the computer.”
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January 17, 2025 at 10:32 AM
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The #penguinpicoftheday #PPOTD is of 10 emperor penguin tracks - an update on our research! This is where the birds have gone since November: >1000 km, in some cases, from where they started. What's even better is three of the birds seem to have found each other after all that way.
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January 6, 2025 at 8:41 PM
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Eine Lese-Empfehlung fürs Wochenende: Das ist eine beeindruckende Erklärung, wie LLMs (dazu zählt auch ChatGPT) funktionieren

Von @binarybits.bsky.social & @seantrott.bsky.social, gefunden dank @janerosenzweig.bsky.social
Large language models, explained with a minimum of math and jargon
Want to really understand how large language models work? Here’s a gentle primer.
www.understandingai.org
December 13, 2024 at 4:53 PM
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Das wächst sehr zügig. Werden das heute noch 10.000?

Wenn Ihr nicht wollt, dass Eure Kinder wieder nach Holland fahren müssen, dann werdet laut, und unterschreibt.

#§218MussWeg
Eil-Appell: Entkriminalisierung von Schwangerschaftsabbrüchen – Petition fordert sofortige Abstimmung im Bundestag. Bitte unterschreiben: innn.it/abstimmungje...
Reproduktive Gerechtigkeit! Am 14. November 2024 haben 236 Abgeordnete verschiedener Fraktionen einen Gesetzentwurf zur Neuregelung des #Schwangerschaftsabbruch in den Bundestag eingebracht. Der djb begrüßt die vorgeschlagene Neuregelung.
December 12, 2024 at 8:57 PM
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Die Abschiebung aus dem Hamburger Frauenhaus hat ein Tabu gebrochen. "Wie sollen wir den Frauen noch glaubhaft vermitteln, dass sie bei uns sicher sind?", fragt eine Mitarbeiterin des betroffenen Frauenhauses im Interview taz.de/Nach-Abschie...
Nach Abschiebung aus Frauenhaus: „Die Kinder hatten riesige Angst“
Wenn gewalttätige Expartner ihre Kinder sehen, ist das oft ein Sicherheitsrisiko für ein Frauenhaus. Auch Abschiebungen erschweren den Gewaltschutz.
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December 11, 2024 at 5:22 PM
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A doctor’s letter to United Healthcare for denying nausea meds for a child on chemo
December 5, 2024 at 3:01 PM