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Amrei Bahr @amreibahr.bsky.social · 2d

This. Hoffe sehr, dass angesichts dieser Einsicht auch öffentliche Resignationsbekundungen zu politischer Arbeit/Aktivismus im Modus „das bringt doch eh nichts!“ etwas abnehmen, die seit Monaten Timeline & DruKos fluten. Doch, es bringt was. Lasst uns auch in anderen Bereichen gemeinsam dranbleiben!

Frau Büüsker @uedio.bsky.social · 2d

Ihr habt wahrgenommen, welchen Unterschied zivilgesellschaftliches Engagement in den letzten Tagen bei der Frage der Chatkontrolle gemacht hat?
Gut.
Lasst euch nicht einreden, Engagement nütze nichts.

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Katharina Nocun @kattascha.bsky.social · 3d

Hab so viele Fragen: Bleibt die Schnitzeljagd bei Kindergeburtstag ohne Fleisch legal? Muss Wurstsalat zukünftig Kopfsalat enthalten? 🧐 … …und dann ist da noch dieser schlimme Verdacht: „Spaghetti-Eis enthält gar keine Nudeln?!“ (Mein Gott, Kulturkampf war auch mal origineller) 🥱

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Gerald Butts @gmbutts.bsky.social · 4d

Perfect cartoon.

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Andy Brockman @andybrockman.bsky.social · Sep 19

Everybody makes money out of academic authors except the authors...News.

Wiley is the latest academic publisher to reach a multi-million deal to allow access to its content to AI developers, with no opt out, let alone payment, for the authors who created that content.

Wiley set to earn $44m from AI rights deals, confirms “no opt-out" for authors

The US publisher is the latest to capitalise on deals to give tech firms access to its authors’ content to train their Large Language Models (LLMs).

www.thebookseller.com

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Peter Jelinek @peterjelinek.bsky.social · 6d

"Ich glaube, es hakt aber nach wie vor am Verständnis des Klimawandels, am Verständnis dessen, was da auf uns zukommt. Auch übrigens bei politischen Entscheidungsträger innen."

@kschwanke.bsky.social mit einem sehr eindrücklichen Beispiel auf dem Extremwetterkongress.

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Traqua.be 💧🧪🔦 @traqua.bsky.social · 6d

🚨 Have you heard about the proposed EU Chat Control?

It's time to pay attention...and contact your MEPs
👉 fightchatcontrol.eu

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netzpolitik.org @netzpolitik.org · 9d

In den kommenden Tagen wird die Bundesregierung entscheiden, wie sie am 14. Oktober in der EU zur #Chatkontrolle abstimmt. Eines ist klar: Kommt die Chatkontrolle, wird es keine verschlüsselte und sichere Kommunikation mehr geben.

netzpolitik.org/2025/anlassl...

Anlasslose Massenüberwachung: Messenger Signal wird Deutschland verlassen, wenn Chatkontrolle kommt

In den kommenden Tagen wird die Bundesregierung entscheiden, wie sie am 14. Oktober in der EU zur Chatkontrolle abstimmt. Eines ist klar: Kommt die Chatkontrolle, wird es keine verschlüsselte und sich...

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Robert Reinecke @reinecke.bsky.social · 8d

You are not alone. Unfortunately they keep sending me invites. I also have colleagues that disagree with me but sticking to your principles is never easy. I accept +1 additional invite from community journals for every rejection I give mdpi or also if possible elesevier.

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Ben Sanderson @benmsanderson.bsky.social · 11d

Paris-Berlin sleeper: low carbon, 2 years old, constantly full, but currently losing SNCF a few million EUR/yr

Intl Jet fuel tax exemptions are 80 years old and cost the EU 22 million EUR/yr for the Paris-Berlin route alone.

And you're cutting... the sleeper?

www.theguardian.com/travel/2025/...

It’s goodnight Vienna as Paris sleeper train to Austria and Berlin hit by cuts

Some Nightjet services suspended from mid-December after French withdrawal amid public budget crisis

www.theguardian.com

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Leon Simons @leonsimons.bsky.social · 15d

BREAKING 🌍🌡📈
The German Meteorological Society and Physical Society warn today that 3°C of global warming could be reached already by 2050!

Global warming is accelerating - A call for decisive action

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Yona Silvy @yonasilvy.bsky.social · 18d

Do you think climate science needs to be better communicated? We do too! That's why we are looking for a climate science communication specialist to join the Technical Support Unit of the IPCC Working Group I.
All details can be found here: www.ipcc.ch/2025/09/17/c...
Please share!

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Lina Stein @liinastein.bsky.social · 21d

„it is the “system” and not luck that should provide the necessary support [to academic parents]“

Very happy to have been part of the enlightening blog series. Thank you to all our interviewees for giving their honest insights.

Rodolfo Nobrega @rodolfonobrega.bsky.social · 24d

And here is our latest blog post on Parenting in Academia, shared as a contribution to the Young Hydrologic Society (@younghydrology.bsky.social): younghs.com/2025/09/05/n...

Parents in Academia

Raising a child in combination with a full-time career is no easy feat. That is true in general and maybe even more true in academia. Juggling the workload, conference attendance, or the potential …

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Frederik Kratzert @kratzert.bsky.social · 21d

After about one year in review, the dataset paper for the Caravan-GRDC extension was finally published.

See: essd.copernicus.org/articles/17/...

I am so happy that GRDC was open for this effort and made some of their data freely available through Caravan.

GRDC-Caravan: extending Caravan with data from the Global Runoff Data Centre

Abstract. Large-sample datasets are essential in hydrological science to support modelling studies and advance process understanding. Here, we present the GRDC-Caravan dataset, an extension to the lar...

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Traqua.be 💧🧪🔦 @traqua.bsky.social · 21d

The State of Global Water Resources report of @wmo-global.bsky.social is out...... but don't read it now if you're looking for some light-hearted end-of-week reading material.

wmo.int/publication-...

State of Global Water Resources 2024

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Johannes Gutenberg-Universität Mainz @unimainz.bsky.social · 23d

WMO-Bericht zu Weltwasserressourcen: 2024 war geprägt von extremen Dürren und Starkregen / JGU-Prof. Robert Reinecke maßgeblich an Bericht der Weltorganisation für Meteorologie beteiligt 👉 presse.uni-mainz.de/wmo-bericht-...

#Wasser #Wasserressourcen #Weltwasserbericht #WMO #Meteorologie

Eine Abflussmessstelle in Tirol (Foto/©: Robert Reinecke)

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Bob Kopp @bobkopp.net · Sep 5

I had an engagement with blogger, failed California gubernatorial candidate, and self-identified reporter Michael Shellenberger this past week, which started out being about this new paper being heralded by climate skeptics as disproving global sea-level acceleration. (LONG 🧵)

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Robert Reinecke @reinecke.bsky.social · Sep 4

Thanks to @dfg.de for funding sustainable research software!

Robert Reinecke @reinecke.bsky.social · Sep 4

4) Documentation and process automation during software development lead to more sustainable software.

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3) Following best practices in software design to develop a software architecture is pivotal for sustainable software.

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Robert Reinecke @reinecke.bsky.social · Sep 4

2) Agile principles offer significant benefits in academic software development.

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Robert Reinecke @reinecke.bsky.social · Sep 4

1) A more sustainable software may have negative runtime consequences in the short term.

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Robert Reinecke @reinecke.bsky.social · Sep 4

In the paper we evaluated the reprogramming process itself and share four lessons:

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Robert Reinecke @reinecke.bsky.social · Sep 4

Global water models are complex software projects. We reprogrammed the established WaterGAP model from scratch!

Check out the GMD paper here: gmd.copernicus.org/articles/18/...

Check out the new well-documented Open Source version of WaterGAP here:
github.com/HydrologyFra...

GitHub - HydrologyFrankfurt/ReWaterGAP

Contribute to HydrologyFrankfurt/ReWaterGAP development by creating an account on GitHub.

github.com

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Mike Dickison @adzebill.bsky.social · Aug 31

Wikipedia editors trying to fend off the onslaught of AI crap have crowdsourced some telltale signs of LLM-generated writing; it might be handy for editors and proofreaders generally. Thanks to @ellenrykers.com for pointing me to it. en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikiped...

Wikipedia:Signs of AI writing - Wikipedia

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Dr. Felix Henselowsky @henselowsky.bsky.social · Aug 14

Just arrived today and it is beatiful!
In addition to our first #scicomm for kids (free PDF here: www.researchgate.net/publication/...). it's great to see what can grow out of a large overarching project, in addition to the purely scientific results.

Thanks to @dfg.de for our #CRC806 2009-2021!

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