@peterkuehn37.bsky.social
Soil scientist and physical geographer @uni tübingen
...earthling...
...earthling...
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Perpetual reminder: extreme rainfall events increase due to #globalheating. Weather station data show what has been predicted for over 30 years by climate scientists. These extremes are now far outside the historical climate.
Study: www.nature.com/articles/s41...
Study: www.nature.com/articles/s41...
December 26, 2025 at 6:27 PM
Perpetual reminder: extreme rainfall events increase due to #globalheating. Weather station data show what has been predicted for over 30 years by climate scientists. These extremes are now far outside the historical climate.
Study: www.nature.com/articles/s41...
Study: www.nature.com/articles/s41...
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Astonishing feat!
US will break its record for the warmest Christmas by ~5°F! That’s remarkable.
Anomalies are up to +40°F in the nation’s middle and as you can see the US has the warmest air - relative to average - in the World!
H/T to @BenNollWeather
US will break its record for the warmest Christmas by ~5°F! That’s remarkable.
Anomalies are up to +40°F in the nation’s middle and as you can see the US has the warmest air - relative to average - in the World!
H/T to @BenNollWeather
December 25, 2025 at 5:09 PM
Astonishing feat!
US will break its record for the warmest Christmas by ~5°F! That’s remarkable.
Anomalies are up to +40°F in the nation’s middle and as you can see the US has the warmest air - relative to average - in the World!
H/T to @BenNollWeather
US will break its record for the warmest Christmas by ~5°F! That’s remarkable.
Anomalies are up to +40°F in the nation’s middle and as you can see the US has the warmest air - relative to average - in the World!
H/T to @BenNollWeather
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Nazi Germany’s Reichsbahn treated humans as "cargo," optimizing logistics via transit "warehouses" and standardized "bulk shipments."
By integrating cattle-car transports into national rail schedules, they achieved terrifying efficiency, managing millions like a routine industrial supply chain.
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By integrating cattle-car transports into national rail schedules, they achieved terrifying efficiency, managing millions like a routine industrial supply chain.
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December 24, 2025 at 7:55 PM
Nazi Germany’s Reichsbahn treated humans as "cargo," optimizing logistics via transit "warehouses" and standardized "bulk shipments."
By integrating cattle-car transports into national rail schedules, they achieved terrifying efficiency, managing millions like a routine industrial supply chain.
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By integrating cattle-car transports into national rail schedules, they achieved terrifying efficiency, managing millions like a routine industrial supply chain.
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OK, that was super-fast typesetting: the #AMK24 special issue "Four decades of the Working Group on Marine and Coastal Geography" is now published as Vol 79(3/4) in #ERDKUNDE 💎 #openaccess
doi.org/10.3112/erdk...
www.erdkunde.uni-bonn.de/issue/view/404
doi.org/10.3112/erdk...
www.erdkunde.uni-bonn.de/issue/view/404
December 24, 2025 at 9:36 PM
OK, that was super-fast typesetting: the #AMK24 special issue "Four decades of the Working Group on Marine and Coastal Geography" is now published as Vol 79(3/4) in #ERDKUNDE 💎 #openaccess
doi.org/10.3112/erdk...
www.erdkunde.uni-bonn.de/issue/view/404
doi.org/10.3112/erdk...
www.erdkunde.uni-bonn.de/issue/view/404
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🧒🪱 Wie bringt man hochbegabten Grundschulkindern #Bodenkunde bei – mit echten Schaufeln? In SC175 spricht Christoph @genzelicious.bsky.social mit Jennifer Raffler, Thomas Scholten & Steffen Seitz über „An die Schaufeln, fertig, los!“ #Soilcast
December 24, 2025 at 9:41 AM
🧒🪱 Wie bringt man hochbegabten Grundschulkindern #Bodenkunde bei – mit echten Schaufeln? In SC175 spricht Christoph @genzelicious.bsky.social mit Jennifer Raffler, Thomas Scholten & Steffen Seitz über „An die Schaufeln, fertig, los!“ #Soilcast
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"It is a failure of systems that prioritise paperwork over people, & profit over prevention..heroes tackled a gunman bare-handed, yet the event itself lacked basic security measures..The answer lies in quiet complicity of a society addicted to scrolling past red flags"
theaimn.net/the-factory-...
theaimn.net/the-factory-...
“The Factory We Built: How Economic Violence, Digital Addiction, and Institutional Neglect Manufacture Mass Killers”
In Part 1, we examined the paradox of a godless society where emptying churches still wield outsized power; granting exemptions to discriminate in hiring, for example, while Australian media elevates ...
theaimn.net
December 25, 2025 at 3:15 AM
"It is a failure of systems that prioritise paperwork over people, & profit over prevention..heroes tackled a gunman bare-handed, yet the event itself lacked basic security measures..The answer lies in quiet complicity of a society addicted to scrolling past red flags"
theaimn.net/the-factory-...
theaimn.net/the-factory-...
If a child abuser remained president, what would that say about the social conditions in a country? Shouldn't all parents stand up and protect their children?
Merrick Garland hid this from us for 4 YEARS,
and allowed this disgusting monster to be reelected
and allowed this disgusting monster to be reelected
December 25, 2025 at 7:29 AM
If a child abuser remained president, what would that say about the social conditions in a country? Shouldn't all parents stand up and protect their children?
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Eine Geschichte von Erde und Feuer: Töpferwerkstatt im Dinka-Siedlungskomplex gibt Einblicke in die Keramikherstellung der Eisenzeit sohub.io/yuyk @lmumuenchen #Keramik #Dinka #Irak #Eisenzeit #Archäologie Foto: Andrea Squitieri
December 23, 2025 at 2:48 PM
Eine Geschichte von Erde und Feuer: Töpferwerkstatt im Dinka-Siedlungskomplex gibt Einblicke in die Keramikherstellung der Eisenzeit sohub.io/yuyk @lmumuenchen #Keramik #Dinka #Irak #Eisenzeit #Archäologie Foto: Andrea Squitieri
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The natural world is a wonderful place. This is timelapse video from a few years ago of a marine sponge sneezing. It has mucus inside that traps the sort of particles that might clog it up, and expels them in periodic contractions every 3-8 hours. Atchoo!
www.youtube.com/watch?v=yJqI...
www.youtube.com/watch?v=yJqI...
Timelapse footage shows a sea sponge sneezing
YouTube video by Guardian News
www.youtube.com
December 23, 2025 at 7:05 PM
The natural world is a wonderful place. This is timelapse video from a few years ago of a marine sponge sneezing. It has mucus inside that traps the sort of particles that might clog it up, and expels them in periodic contractions every 3-8 hours. Atchoo!
www.youtube.com/watch?v=yJqI...
www.youtube.com/watch?v=yJqI...
It is just nice how young stars known as the Christmas Tree Cluster and Collagen fibers and fat cells appearing under a laser microscope could look like. .....Chandra X-ray Observatory and Nikon Small World contest -SWNS
December 22, 2025 at 7:09 AM
It is just nice how young stars known as the Christmas Tree Cluster and Collagen fibers and fat cells appearing under a laser microscope could look like. .....Chandra X-ray Observatory and Nikon Small World contest -SWNS
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Sunday reading:
I wrote about the MAGA civil war - about the different factions and what they want, the dynamics that are shaping the Right, and where MAGA is headed as the end of Trump’s reign is looming on the horizon.
This week’s piece:
I wrote about the MAGA civil war - about the different factions and what they want, the dynamics that are shaping the Right, and where MAGA is headed as the end of Trump’s reign is looming on the horizon.
This week’s piece:
What the “MAGA Civil War” is Really About
Different factions are fighting for supremacy on the Right. What will post-Trump MAGA look like – and how dangerous is Trumpism without Trump?
steady.page
December 21, 2025 at 2:14 PM
Sunday reading:
I wrote about the MAGA civil war - about the different factions and what they want, the dynamics that are shaping the Right, and where MAGA is headed as the end of Trump’s reign is looming on the horizon.
This week’s piece:
I wrote about the MAGA civil war - about the different factions and what they want, the dynamics that are shaping the Right, and where MAGA is headed as the end of Trump’s reign is looming on the horizon.
This week’s piece:
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Do people realize that this is also happening with case law?
Like Do You Understand What That Fucking Means???
Like Do You Understand What That Fucking Means???
December 20, 2025 at 2:48 AM
Do people realize that this is also happening with case law?
Like Do You Understand What That Fucking Means???
Like Do You Understand What That Fucking Means???
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ICE is building a 24/7 social media monitoring program that would scan Facebook, TikTok, Instagram and dozens of other platforms. Private contractors would turn public posts into enforcement leads fed directly into government databases.
buff.ly/qJjcqIx
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Always watching: How ICE’s plan to monitor social media 24/7 threatens privacy and civic participation
ICE’s dragnet is expanding across social media, putting everyone’s digital lives into the realm of border and immigration enforcement.
buff.ly
November 19, 2025 at 5:14 PM
ICE is building a 24/7 social media monitoring program that would scan Facebook, TikTok, Instagram and dozens of other platforms. Private contractors would turn public posts into enforcement leads fed directly into government databases.
buff.ly/qJjcqIx
buff.ly/qJjcqIx
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“Far from ‘innovating’ education, as AI proponents claim, the algorithmic turn has made public education more vulnerable to corporate capture.” www.digitalcultureandeducation.com/volume-161
(h/t @melhogan.bsky.social)
(h/t @melhogan.bsky.social)
December 5, 2025 at 3:07 PM
“Far from ‘innovating’ education, as AI proponents claim, the algorithmic turn has made public education more vulnerable to corporate capture.” www.digitalcultureandeducation.com/volume-161
(h/t @melhogan.bsky.social)
(h/t @melhogan.bsky.social)
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“School officials have created a Microsoft Copilot prompt to review course descriptions with an eye toward avoiding ‘advocacy-oriented or prescriptive terms.’”
Terms: “dismantling, decolonizing, interrogating, challenging, centering, combating, liberation, resistance, activism, justice oriented”
Terms: “dismantling, decolonizing, interrogating, challenging, centering, combating, liberation, resistance, activism, justice oriented”
To Root Out Wokeness in the Course Catalog, This Texas University Is Turning to AI
“The AI was upset with my use of the phrase ‘women's rights movement.’”
www.texasmonthly.com
December 6, 2025 at 2:42 PM
“School officials have created a Microsoft Copilot prompt to review course descriptions with an eye toward avoiding ‘advocacy-oriented or prescriptive terms.’”
Terms: “dismantling, decolonizing, interrogating, challenging, centering, combating, liberation, resistance, activism, justice oriented”
Terms: “dismantling, decolonizing, interrogating, challenging, centering, combating, liberation, resistance, activism, justice oriented”
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"Insofar as LLMs are used to avoid reading, thinking, & writing, their use is incompatible with liberal education...
I also find the idea of anything even vaguely punitive in the university classroom embarrassing at best, & against the very idea of education at worst."
I also find the idea of anything even vaguely punitive in the university classroom embarrassing at best, & against the very idea of education at worst."
This description/reflection from @mattdinan.bsky.social on how he essentially delegitimized using LLMs as a way to outsource student thinking/writing is a model on how to work through your values and build a course around them. mattdinan.substack.com/p/the-ai-ske...
Permission Structures
How AI-skeptic Professors Can Still Help Students Write Papers
mattdinan.substack.com
December 10, 2025 at 8:42 PM
"Insofar as LLMs are used to avoid reading, thinking, & writing, their use is incompatible with liberal education...
I also find the idea of anything even vaguely punitive in the university classroom embarrassing at best, & against the very idea of education at worst."
I also find the idea of anything even vaguely punitive in the university classroom embarrassing at best, & against the very idea of education at worst."
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This astonishing fact, linked to in the piece, comes from the always sharp @propublica.org
www.propublica.org/article/the-...
www.propublica.org/article/the-...
The Secret IRS Files: Trove of Never-Before-Seen Records Reveal How the Wealthiest Avoid Income Tax
ProPublica has obtained a vast cache of IRS information showing how billionaires like Jeff Bezos, Elon Musk and Warren Buffett pay little in income tax compared to their massive wealth — sometimes, ev...
www.propublica.org
December 18, 2025 at 4:48 PM
This astonishing fact, linked to in the piece, comes from the always sharp @propublica.org
www.propublica.org/article/the-...
www.propublica.org/article/the-...
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Academics are making the decision to shove unpublished original research that isn’t even theirs into the plagiarism machine. I can’t.
I find this very alarming. AI is being used in explicitly prohibited ways. No doubt this will soon be the norm. The consequences of this will be dramatic. Over the holidays, the publishers and the whole of academic community are doing nothing else but working on a solution to this, right? RIGHT?!
More than half of researchers now use AI for peer review — often against guidance
A survey of 1,600 academics found that more than 50% have used artificial-intelligence tools while peer reviewing manuscripts.
www.nature.com
December 18, 2025 at 10:27 PM
Academics are making the decision to shove unpublished original research that isn’t even theirs into the plagiarism machine. I can’t.