Tobias Hoffmann
@tobias1hoffmann.bsky.social
Biochemist, now working in science policy.
Passionate about biodiversity 🪲🌿, science and innovation policy #scipol, scientific policy advice, science diplomacy and of course the life sciences (cancer & RNA #splicing) - my own views only
Passionate about biodiversity 🪲🌿, science and innovation policy #scipol, scientific policy advice, science diplomacy and of course the life sciences (cancer & RNA #splicing) - my own views only
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[email protected] has the right of it.
November 24, 2025 at 2:46 AM
[email protected] has the right of it.
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There's this woman doing an absolutely wild social experiment on TikTok. She calls random US churches with the sound of a baby crying in the background, explain the baby hasn't eaten in over 12 hours, and asks for 1 bottle of baby formula. She has a public spreadsheet of how each one responded. 1/3
November 13, 2025 at 6:48 AM
There's this woman doing an absolutely wild social experiment on TikTok. She calls random US churches with the sound of a baby crying in the background, explain the baby hasn't eaten in over 12 hours, and asks for 1 bottle of baby formula. She has a public spreadsheet of how each one responded. 1/3
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Switzerland is joining Horizon Europe!
We are uniting two research powerhouses.
For cutting-edge innovation that will boost our energy security, digital transformation, health and so much more.
Today is a good day for science, and for our EU-Switzerland partnership.
We are uniting two research powerhouses.
For cutting-edge innovation that will boost our energy security, digital transformation, health and so much more.
Today is a good day for science, and for our EU-Switzerland partnership.
November 10, 2025 at 2:58 PM
Switzerland is joining Horizon Europe!
We are uniting two research powerhouses.
For cutting-edge innovation that will boost our energy security, digital transformation, health and so much more.
Today is a good day for science, and for our EU-Switzerland partnership.
We are uniting two research powerhouses.
For cutting-edge innovation that will boost our energy security, digital transformation, health and so much more.
Today is a good day for science, and for our EU-Switzerland partnership.
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Imagine splitting open a rock and seeing this.
A paper in Scientific Reports presents the origins of vivid colours within the gemstone ammolite — a rare type of brightly coloured fossilised ammonite shell. go.nature.com/48OT5DX #Paleosky ⚒️ 🧪
November 5, 2025 at 3:27 AM
Imagine splitting open a rock and seeing this.
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November 3, 2025 at 5:56 PM
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Book covers of your favourite books are too kiddy-ish? Why not hand-make a new bunch and replace them yourself? Here's how..
Renewing and rebinding books for bibliophiles.
#books #rebind #bookcovers #craftsmanship #skills
Renewing and rebinding books for bibliophiles.
#books #rebind #bookcovers #craftsmanship #skills
October 31, 2025 at 2:56 PM
Book covers of your favourite books are too kiddy-ish? Why not hand-make a new bunch and replace them yourself? Here's how..
Renewing and rebinding books for bibliophiles.
#books #rebind #bookcovers #craftsmanship #skills
Renewing and rebinding books for bibliophiles.
#books #rebind #bookcovers #craftsmanship #skills
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Hurricanes feed off of warm water. Watch how quickly the eye of #Melissa collapsed as it moved onto land and over the mountainous terrain of Jamaica, and how quickly it is reforming now that it has moved back over water! I will be adding this radar loop to my earth science lectures.
October 29, 2025 at 1:20 AM
Hurricanes feed off of warm water. Watch how quickly the eye of #Melissa collapsed as it moved onto land and over the mountainous terrain of Jamaica, and how quickly it is reforming now that it has moved back over water! I will be adding this radar loop to my earth science lectures.
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UNESCO is urgently seeking bold ocean science solutions to strengthen the critical science-policy-society interface and accelerate progress toward a sustainable ocean. Submit your proposal to access global networking & funding. Clcik the link for detail:👇
primeprogressng.com/opportunitie...
primeprogressng.com/opportunitie...
UNESCO calls for bold ocean science solutions - Prime Progress NG
The Call for Decade Actions No. 10/2025 focuses on strengthening the science-policy-society interface in ocean science.
primeprogressng.com
October 28, 2025 at 8:10 PM
UNESCO is urgently seeking bold ocean science solutions to strengthen the critical science-policy-society interface and accelerate progress toward a sustainable ocean. Submit your proposal to access global networking & funding. Clcik the link for detail:👇
primeprogressng.com/opportunitie...
primeprogressng.com/opportunitie...
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This is one case where being a boring economist helps.
Forget the list: *Donate money*
Food banks can turn it into food more efficiently than you can and also know what's needed better than even this list.
Forget the list: *Donate money*
Food banks can turn it into food more efficiently than you can and also know what's needed better than even this list.
For those making good donations over the holidays this is really a good read!
October 27, 2025 at 3:10 AM
This is one case where being a boring economist helps.
Forget the list: *Donate money*
Food banks can turn it into food more efficiently than you can and also know what's needed better than even this list.
Forget the list: *Donate money*
Food banks can turn it into food more efficiently than you can and also know what's needed better than even this list.
Does #science communication still feel challenging?
This #webinar will offer insights on how to make your science communication resonate with your audience by connecting with their values and identity. It will focus on building bridges between #scientists and #policymakers.
👉Register: egu.eu/5FJA3V
This #webinar will offer insights on how to make your science communication resonate with your audience by connecting with their values and identity. It will focus on building bridges between #scientists and #policymakers.
👉Register: egu.eu/5FJA3V
October 26, 2025 at 10:51 AM
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Solar is EU's biggest power source for first time
Solar booms that no one saw coming --Netherlands and Hungary --- are now over 40% solar, higher than Spain! Installation boomed once policy became supportive few years ago @palmapolyak.bsky.social @janfichtner.bsky.social
www.ft.com/content/0894...
Solar booms that no one saw coming --Netherlands and Hungary --- are now over 40% solar, higher than Spain! Installation boomed once policy became supportive few years ago @palmapolyak.bsky.social @janfichtner.bsky.social
www.ft.com/content/0894...
August 13, 2025 at 12:57 AM
Solar is EU's biggest power source for first time
Solar booms that no one saw coming --Netherlands and Hungary --- are now over 40% solar, higher than Spain! Installation boomed once policy became supportive few years ago @palmapolyak.bsky.social @janfichtner.bsky.social
www.ft.com/content/0894...
Solar booms that no one saw coming --Netherlands and Hungary --- are now over 40% solar, higher than Spain! Installation boomed once policy became supportive few years ago @palmapolyak.bsky.social @janfichtner.bsky.social
www.ft.com/content/0894...
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Updating my LEGO White House
October 23, 2025 at 2:51 AM
Updating my LEGO White House
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I’m less concerned about part of the White House being torn down, and more concerned about the fact that it’s being replaced with a $250m privately funded ballroom. I don’t think people who intend to leave office in 3 years typically spend a quarter of a billon on a 4 year construction project.
October 21, 2025 at 6:02 PM
I’m less concerned about part of the White House being torn down, and more concerned about the fact that it’s being replaced with a $250m privately funded ballroom. I don’t think people who intend to leave office in 3 years typically spend a quarter of a billon on a 4 year construction project.
Interesting also from the science policy dialogue point of view.
I think a very good example how to deliver key messages to high level politicians within a very limited timeframe without too much sacrifice on details #scipol
I think a very good example how to deliver key messages to high level politicians within a very limited timeframe without too much sacrifice on details #scipol
It was a call I couldn't ignore.
I was formally invited by the Danish EU Presidency to Luxembourg to speak about industrial electrification and energy efficiency directly to the energy ministers from every single one of the 27 EU member states on the 20th of October.
www.youtube.com/watch?v=FO30...
I was formally invited by the Danish EU Presidency to Luxembourg to speak about industrial electrification and energy efficiency directly to the energy ministers from every single one of the 27 EU member states on the 20th of October.
www.youtube.com/watch?v=FO30...
Speaking at EU Energy Council
YouTube video by Jan Rosenow
www.youtube.com
October 21, 2025 at 6:36 AM
Interesting also from the science policy dialogue point of view.
I think a very good example how to deliver key messages to high level politicians within a very limited timeframe without too much sacrifice on details #scipol
I think a very good example how to deliver key messages to high level politicians within a very limited timeframe without too much sacrifice on details #scipol
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The Foldscope brings a powerful science tool to schools that can't afford microscopes. Scientists use it too. Its creators have handed out 2 million units, including a new mini-model for younger kids.
Fold paper. Insert lens. This $2 microscope changes how kids see the world
The Foldscope brings a powerful science tool to schools that can't afford microscopes. Scientists use it too. Its creators have handed out 2 million units, including a new mini-model for younger kids.
www.npr.org
November 24, 2024 at 5:29 PM
The Foldscope brings a powerful science tool to schools that can't afford microscopes. Scientists use it too. Its creators have handed out 2 million units, including a new mini-model for younger kids.
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The fundamental problem with "Sapiens" is that Harari doesn't actually know the scholarship he's haphazardly citing. He's a historian of early modernity - his first book was on Renaissance military memoirs - and I'd bet he had grad students doing most of the research for "Sapiens."
"Sapiens" is so normal for the first 70,000 years of human history but then goes absolutely buckwild as soon as it gets to colonialism
October 14, 2025 at 5:24 PM
The fundamental problem with "Sapiens" is that Harari doesn't actually know the scholarship he's haphazardly citing. He's a historian of early modernity - his first book was on Renaissance military memoirs - and I'd bet he had grad students doing most of the research for "Sapiens."
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The European Commission has launched a new Science, Research & Innovation account.
On 🦋 @scienceinnovation.ec.europa.eu !!
They promise:
- EU scientific news
- Horizon Europe funding opportunities
- Innovative EU-supported projects
- Events, tools & resources
Share the news 🔁
On 🦋 @scienceinnovation.ec.europa.eu !!
They promise:
- EU scientific news
- Horizon Europe funding opportunities
- Innovative EU-supported projects
- Events, tools & resources
Share the news 🔁
October 6, 2025 at 6:23 AM
The European Commission has launched a new Science, Research & Innovation account.
On 🦋 @scienceinnovation.ec.europa.eu !!
They promise:
- EU scientific news
- Horizon Europe funding opportunities
- Innovative EU-supported projects
- Events, tools & resources
Share the news 🔁
On 🦋 @scienceinnovation.ec.europa.eu !!
They promise:
- EU scientific news
- Horizon Europe funding opportunities
- Innovative EU-supported projects
- Events, tools & resources
Share the news 🔁
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Auch heute empfehle ich dieses ausgesprochen lebenskluge Interview.
Vom taz-Drucker zum S-Bahn-Fahrer: „Wer liest heute schon noch gedruckte Zeitungen?“ taz.de/Vom-taz-Druc...
Vom taz-Drucker zum S-Bahn-Fahrer: „Wer liest heute schon noch gedruckte Zeitungen?“
Als Drucker hat Jürgen Rademacher die taz gedruckt. Dann schulte er um zum S-Bahn-Fahrer. Seitdem sieht er, wie Licht und Tageszeiten wechseln.
taz.de
October 4, 2025 at 8:50 AM
Auch heute empfehle ich dieses ausgesprochen lebenskluge Interview.
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Swiss glaciers have lost 3% of their ice volume in 2025! 🔥
...and ONE QUARTER only over the last 10 years! 📈
2025 is the 4th most disastrous loss ever measured (after absolute record years 2022 and 2023)!
JUST CRAZY… 😱
Full report:
doi.glamos.ch/pubs/annualr...
Data @matthias-huss.bsky.social
...and ONE QUARTER only over the last 10 years! 📈
2025 is the 4th most disastrous loss ever measured (after absolute record years 2022 and 2023)!
JUST CRAZY… 😱
Full report:
doi.glamos.ch/pubs/annualr...
Data @matthias-huss.bsky.social
October 1, 2025 at 9:49 AM
Swiss glaciers have lost 3% of their ice volume in 2025! 🔥
...and ONE QUARTER only over the last 10 years! 📈
2025 is the 4th most disastrous loss ever measured (after absolute record years 2022 and 2023)!
JUST CRAZY… 😱
Full report:
doi.glamos.ch/pubs/annualr...
Data @matthias-huss.bsky.social
...and ONE QUARTER only over the last 10 years! 📈
2025 is the 4th most disastrous loss ever measured (after absolute record years 2022 and 2023)!
JUST CRAZY… 😱
Full report:
doi.glamos.ch/pubs/annualr...
Data @matthias-huss.bsky.social
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Denmark is becoming the new Norway!
Electric vehicles in Denmark follow a text book S-curve.
In August: 69% of new sales were full battery electric vehicles.
Source @leraffl.bsky.social
Electric vehicles in Denmark follow a text book S-curve.
In August: 69% of new sales were full battery electric vehicles.
Source @leraffl.bsky.social
September 30, 2025 at 10:49 AM
Denmark is becoming the new Norway!
Electric vehicles in Denmark follow a text book S-curve.
In August: 69% of new sales were full battery electric vehicles.
Source @leraffl.bsky.social
Electric vehicles in Denmark follow a text book S-curve.
In August: 69% of new sales were full battery electric vehicles.
Source @leraffl.bsky.social
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Our starter pack of quantum PhD students is now full! (Unfortunately Bluesky caps it at 150.) We're happy to report that we have rescued at least 36 souls from X who joined Bluesky via our starter pack!
go.bsky.app/AUTn1di
go.bsky.app/AUTn1di
Quantum PhD students
Join the conversation
go.bsky.app
September 29, 2025 at 1:53 PM
Our starter pack of quantum PhD students is now full! (Unfortunately Bluesky caps it at 150.) We're happy to report that we have rescued at least 36 souls from X who joined Bluesky via our starter pack!
go.bsky.app/AUTn1di
go.bsky.app/AUTn1di
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UNEP is recruiting a Chief Scientist and Director of the new Office of Science. Exciting role for a senior professional working internationally at the science-policy interface on nature, climate and pollution.
Deadline 5 November.
careers.un.org/jobSearchDes...
Deadline 5 November.
careers.un.org/jobSearchDes...
UN Careers
United Nations
careers.un.org
September 26, 2025 at 8:33 AM
UNEP is recruiting a Chief Scientist and Director of the new Office of Science. Exciting role for a senior professional working internationally at the science-policy interface on nature, climate and pollution.
Deadline 5 November.
careers.un.org/jobSearchDes...
Deadline 5 November.
careers.un.org/jobSearchDes...
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I get that the news cycle is packed right now, but I just heard from a colleague at the Smithsonian that this is fully a GIANT SQUID BEING EATEN BY A SPERM WHALE and it’s possibly the first ever confirmed video according to a friend at NOAA
10 YEAR OLD ME IS LOSING HER MIND (a thread 🧵)
10 YEAR OLD ME IS LOSING HER MIND (a thread 🧵)
September 24, 2025 at 8:30 PM
I get that the news cycle is packed right now, but I just heard from a colleague at the Smithsonian that this is fully a GIANT SQUID BEING EATEN BY A SPERM WHALE and it’s possibly the first ever confirmed video according to a friend at NOAA
10 YEAR OLD ME IS LOSING HER MIND (a thread 🧵)
10 YEAR OLD ME IS LOSING HER MIND (a thread 🧵)
Fand ich sehr "nachdenklich-machend" und anregend.
5 nach 12 - Embracing hopelessness als Gegenwartsform von Hoffnung! ... und hier nochmals mein Essay mit freiem Zugang! Dennoch: schönen Sonntag! www.zeit.de/kultur/2025-...
Tech-Oligarchie: Es ist fünf nach zwölf
Die Verschmelzung von Autoritarismus und Tech-Wirtschaft könnte bald die liberale Demokratie zerstören. Um sie davor zu retten, darf man eines nicht sein: optimistisch.
www.zeit.de
September 22, 2025 at 5:08 PM
Fand ich sehr "nachdenklich-machend" und anregend.