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Prof. Stefan Rahmstorf (@rahmstorf@fediscience.org)
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Zum Nachdenken: "Darin besteht der atemberaubende Kulturbruch, der in den vergangenen Jahren über uns geschwappt ist: Nicht im Lügen selbst, sondern im Zerstören eines ungeschriebenen Gesetzes, das eigentlich nie jemand hinterfragt hat: Nämlich, dass Lügen falsch...
#USpol #fakenews #autokratie #demokratie #faschismus
6h ago
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Meike Fienitz (@mfi@fediscience.org)
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#ChristianLindner: Das liberale Drehbuch für den Regierungssturz Geheime Sitzungen, Präsentationen, Strategiepapiere: Recherchen der #ZEIT zeigen, wie die #FDP den Bruch der Ampel wochenlang vorbereitete. Der Name der Operation: "D-Day" Für alle ohne ZEIT Abo hier ein Geschenk-Link um den...
21h ago
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Carl T. Bergstrom (@ct_bergstrom@fediscience.org)
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How is this real life? https://www.gov.ca.gov/2024/09/05/governor-newsom-seeks-to-harness-the-power-of-genai-to-address-homelessness-other-challenges/
on Sep 6
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Peter Gleick (@petergleick@fediscience.org)
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No one who's driven an EV will go back to an internal combustion gas engine. No one who gets electricity from wind or solar or other renewables will go back to burning coal or oil. The energy revolution needed to tackle #climatechange is better for society and the environment in countless...
on Sep 5
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Peter Gleick (@petergleick@fediscience.org)
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This. https://newrepublic.com/post/188197/trump-media-information-landscape-fox
on Sat, 7PM
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Peter Gleick (@petergleick@fediscience.org)
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Economic disruptions from #climatechange, especially massive disruptions of real estate and insurance markets in vulnerable regions, are starting to develop now. https://www.houstonpublicmedia.org/articles/news/houston/2024/11/14/506137/houston-move-away-weather-hurricanes-2024-survey/
on Sat, 12AM
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Josh Wells (@josh@fediscience.org)
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I maintain(ed) large series of large lists on Xitter I used as news feeds. I checked the science -themed list (~500 accounts). It's very quiet. Here's what I see: 1. Sci orgs, large labs, and university offices posting because institution hasn't caught up. Low engagement metrics. 2....
on Fri, 9AM
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Prof Christina Pagel (@chrischirp@fediscience.org)
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Hi all, just to say that I am now making Bluesky my main social media account. I do have bridger (?) set up so I think you can follow me from here if you want to? https://bsky.app/profile/chrischirp.bsky.social
on Thu, 10AM
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Zeke Hausfather (@hausfath@fediscience.org)
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This needs to be matched by a commitment by the roughly 30 labs around the world that maintain the models of the earth’s climate system to update their simulations each year to reflect the latest data.
on Thu, 8AM
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Zeke Hausfather (@hausfath@fediscience.org)
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Gavin Schmidt (@ClimateOfGavin) and I have a guest essay in today's New York Times about the exceptional and not fully explained recent global temperatures, and climate science can become more "operational" to address these questions:...
on Wed, 6PM
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Open Science Community Mainz (@OSCMainz@fediscience.org)
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🎉 Willkommen zur Open Science Community Mainz! 🎉 Wir sind eine wachsende Gruppe von Forschenden, Studierenden und Interessierten, die sich für Transparenz, Reproduzierbarkeit und die Förderung von Open Science einsetzen. 🌍✨ Unser Ziel ist es, einen inklusiven Raum für den Austausch über offene...
on Wed, 5PM
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Léo Varnet (@LeoVarnet@fediscience.org)
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In this study, we tackle the century-old question of phonetic cues : what is the acoustic information that listeners use to distinguish a /b/ sound from a /d/ sound or from a /g/ sound? The first empirical experiments addressing this question date back to the 1920s, yet the debate continues to...
on Tue, 11PM
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Helen Czerski (@helenczerski@fediscience.org)
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Attached: 1 image Figure showing market share of heat pumps in different countries (HT Jan Rosenow). The big story isn't the massive increases in Switzerland, Denmark etc - it's near universality in Norway, Sweden, Finland - this is very well-established tech, ESPECIALLY in cold...
on Tue, 9PM
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Rob Larter (@PoLaRobs@fediscience.org)
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Attached: 1 image #Antartctic sea #ice extent has set a new record low for the time of year. Throughout last year Antarctic sea ice extent was less than in any previous year in the satellite record by a considerable margin. The extent this year has nearly matched the record low for particular...
on Tue, 7PM
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Guillaume Gaullier ❄️🔬 (@Guillawme@fediscience.org)
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#DeepMind finally released the code of #AlphaFold3! But with very restrictive conditions to use the model weights... And anyway, I wonder which academic lab has the hardware to run it, beside David Baker's lab maybe... #StructuralBiology #StructuralBioinformatics Announcement:...
on Tue, 6PM
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Gernot Wagner (@gwagner@fediscience.org)
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Attached: 1 image Whoever is running this simulation, you're drunk. Take the day off. #climate #us #trump #COP29
on Tue, 6PM
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Peter Gleick (@petergleick@fediscience.org)
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Attached: 1 image At the ongoing Trump transition meetings about the environment. (Cartoon by S. Harris)
on Tue, 4PM
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Ulrike Hahn (@UlrikeHahn@fediscience.org)
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it’s fascinating watching the latest migration to Bluesky and how much instant network rebuilding is facilitated by “starter packs” and also how much of the dynamics involves people who had accounts, then left, then tried again, left, and are now back again… it may well stick this time as...
on Tue, 4PM
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Open Access Tracking Project (@oatp@fediscience.org)
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Green Open Access - Free for Authors But at a Cost for Readers - The Scholarly Kitchen https://scholarlykitchen.sspnet.org/2024/11/12/green-open-access-free-for-authors-but-at-a-cost-for-readers/?informz=1&nbd=738ad115-0094-46d7-b827-f6a8568b2059&nbd_source=informz
on Tue, 3PM
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John Kennedy (@micefearboggis@fediscience.org)
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Attached: 2 images 17 And finally, global temperature. Starting in June 2023, monthly global temperatures rose above the previous record levels and then stayed there for 17 months and counting.
on Tue, 2PM
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Léo Varnet (@LeoVarnet@fediscience.org)
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Attached: 1 image It was a long process (more than 2 years since we wrote the preregistration document) but our new study was finally published in #JASA yesterday ! The paper itself is rather technical but the central idea is worth sharing in a thread:...
on Tue, 2PM
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Debora Weber-Wulff (@WiseWoman@fediscience.org)
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This is a very serious problem: "Illiteracy has become such a serious problem in our country [the USA] that 130 million adults are now unable to read a simple story to their children" https://www.thenationalliteracyinstitute.com/post/literacy-statistics-2022-2023 #AcademicChatter #Illiteracy
on Tue, 12PM
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Serhat Tutkal (@SerhatTutkal@fediscience.org)
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For the first time in my life I dared to try to write a creative text in English. It was published in the Decolonial Passage today. You can read it here: https://thedecolonialpassage.net/2024/11/10/note-from-nonpeople/
on Mon, 7PM
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Zeke Hausfather (@hausfath@fediscience.org)
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Attached: 1 image We need carbon removal in addition to deep emissions reductions to get to net-zero. But as we show in a new study the durability of removals is key to ensure net-zero actually stabilizes global temperatures and meets our climate goals: https://www.nature.com/articles/s43247-024-01808-7
on Mon, 4PM
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Prof. Stefan Rahmstorf (@rahmstorf@fediscience.org)
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Attached: 1 image Deshalb brauchen wir Politiker, die nicht über jedes von BILD, AfD & Co hingehaltene Stöckchen springen, sondern die führen und unbeirrt die wirklich drängenden Probleme anpacken. Auch wo es mal unbequem und unpopulär ist.
on Nov 10
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Martin Vermeer FCD (@martinvermeer@fediscience.org)
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@evacide@hachyderm.io Yes, that's one boundary condition. Corpses attract unwelcome law-enforcement attention. The point is made here: https://allthatsinteresting.com/gangsters-vs-nazis
on Nov 9
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Ruth Mottram (@Ruth_Mottram@fediscience.org)
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"Thirty five years ago today, the Berlin Wall did not fall. Thirty five years ago today, some people made history, amidst other people making history, thanks to some prior cooperation, and some good thinking about what freedom means https://open.substack.com/pub/snyder/p/the-berlin-wall-never-fell
on Nov 9
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Michael E. Mann :verified: (@MichaelEMann@fediscience.org)
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Attached: 1 image "Trump's win is a victory for the "petrostate" and a major loss for climate action, experts say" by @matthewrozsa@bird.makeup for @Salon@press.coop: https://www.salon.com/2024/11/08/win-is-a-victory-for-the-petrostate-and-a-major-loss-for-climate-action-experts-say/
on Nov 9
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Debora Weber-Wulff (@WiseWoman@fediscience.org)
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Publishers exploit our data: Elsevier's stranglehold on acadamic publishing: https://ukrant.nl/magazine/elseviers-stranglehold-on-academia-how-publishers-get-rich-from-our-data/?lang=en #AcademicChatter
on Nov 9
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Ruth Mottram (@Ruth_Mottram@fediscience.org)
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Russia opened its tenth base + China its fifth, India is building a third + Turkey is planning its first. Iran ...has said it wants an Antarctic base to claim its “property rights How to avoid anarchy in #Antarctica https://www.economist.com/leaders/2024/10/31/how-to-avoid-anarchy-in-antarctica
on Nov 9
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John Kennedy (@micefearboggis@fediscience.org)
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Attached: 1 image While comparison to the distant past is tricky, all datasets agree with much greater fidelity on the recent rate of warming. This shows 20-yr averages of global temperature from 6 datasets. You can see the spread in the late 19th C, but for the past 40+ years, the trend is clear.
on Nov 8
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John Kennedy (@micefearboggis@fediscience.org)
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1.5°C isn't a cliff we fall off, it's more like we're swimming out to sea out past the row of buoys. We don't know exactly where the dangers are, but they're out there, and by the time we find out for sure, it might already be too late.
on Nov 8
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Gernot Wagner (@gwagner@fediscience.org)
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Attached: 2 images No analysis of the election is complete without a long, hard look at this pre-election Reuters/Ipsos poll Yes, something very similar holds for #climate, too. https://www.ipsos.com/en-us/link-between-media-consumption-and-public-opinion #us #trump
on Nov 8
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Michael E. Mann :verified: (@MichaelEMann@fediscience.org)
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Attached: 1 image "Welcome to the American Petrostate" | My new commentary for The @bulletinatomic@bird.makeup: https://thebulletin.org/2024/11/welcome-to-the-american-petrostate/
on Nov 7
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Peter Gleick (@petergleick@fediscience.org)
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It looks certain now that 2024 will be the hottest year on record, breaching the 1.5° C (2.7° F) targets. #climate https://www.bbc.com/news/articles/c1dpnxnvv2go
on Nov 7
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Zeke Hausfather (@hausfath@fediscience.org)
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Attached: 1 image Global surface temps started the year exceptionally warm, on the back of a large El Nino event that peaked at the start of the year. However, they've ticked back up in recent months, despite neutral or slightly negative ENSO conditions in the tropical Pacific.
on Nov 7
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Peter Gleick (@petergleick@fediscience.org)
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People gave up their morality, democracy, rights, and principles so their milk would be cheaper and rent lower. And they're not going to get that either.
on Nov 7
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John Kennedy (@micefearboggis@fediscience.org)
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When an article says "some scientists think" then remember this: I, a scientist, once thought I could fit a whole orange in my mouth. I could, it turns out, get it in there, but I hadn't given sufficient thought to the reverse operation. 🧵
on Nov 7
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Michael E. Mann :verified: (@MichaelEMann@fediscience.org)
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Attached: 1 image "With Republicans Claiming the Senate and Possibly the House, Congress Expected to Reverse Course on Climate" by @jbruggers@journa.host for @insideclimatenews@journa.host: https://insideclimatenews.org/news/06112024/republican-congress-expected-to-reverse-climate-course/
on Nov 7
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Peter Gleick (@petergleick@fediscience.org)
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From a friend... 1) Joe needs to pack SCOTUS in December while Kamala can still serve as tie-breaker in the Senate. 2) Joe needs to resign on Jan. 1 and allow Kamala to become President #47 for 3 weeks. 3) President Harris needs to issue a series of popular executive orders that Trump will have...
on Nov 7
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Helen Czerski (@helenczerski@fediscience.org)
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Attached: 1 image Well, this sounds brilliant and it's coming tomorrow (Thursday 7th): a new podcast series called Sixteen Sunsets. It's all about the history of the space shuttle, and it's made by the fabulous team who made 13 Minutes to the Moon (f you haven't listened to that, do!)....
on Nov 6
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Peter Gleick (@petergleick@fediscience.org)
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If Harris wins, it will be despite intense GOP voter suppression efforts in key states, supported by Russian bomb threats to polling places.
on Nov 6
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Radical Right Research Robot (@RRResRobot@fediscience.org)
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Attached: 1 image Published 20 years ago: J. Rydgren. “Explaining the Emergence of Extreme Right-wing Populism. The Case of Denmark”. In: West European Politics 27 (2004), pp. 474-502.
on Nov 5
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Josh Wells (@josh@fediscience.org)
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Attached: 1 image Me: I wonder when I will feel like Twitter is really over. The Universe: Enjoy some fucking Dinotopia. It’s moved to Mastodon. https://mastodon.art/@jamesgurney
on Nov 5
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Geschichte OVGU Magdeburg (@geschichte_ovgu@fediscience.org)
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Was passiert, wenn das Fach Geschichtswissenschaft abgeschafft wird, wie an der Uni Magdeburg (OVGU)? Im Podcast mit @hsozkult@openbiblio.social Stephan Freund: Das Ende der Geschichte? Zur Abschaffung des Faches Geschichtswissenschaften an der Universität Magdeburg #Magdeburg #Geschichte...
on Nov 5
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tlohde (@tlohde@fediscience.org)
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@Ruth_Mottram re: blogpost. run this (https://overpass-turbo.eu/s/1TDb) overpass-turbo query to get all the trees from OpenStreetMap within Copenhagen & Frederiksberg. comment out line 2, and uncomment line 6 to get output as .csv of lat, lon.🌳
on Nov 5
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Tatjana Scheffler (@tschfflr@fediscience.org)
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Normalize students as co-authors / co-editors if they do author / editorial work! #academicChatter #gatekeeping
on Nov 4
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petersuber (@petersuber@fediscience.org)
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1/ I just asked #Llama 3.1 a factual question & got a decent answer without citations or links. I asked for citations & links, but it gave me citations without links. I pressed. [It] As a text-based AI model, I don't have the ability to provide direct links to sources. [Me] Didn't your...
on Nov 4
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petersuber (@petersuber@fediscience.org)
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I can imagine a very close election with no official result for months. I can imagine a surprisingly large margin for #Trump, and a surprisingly large margin for #Harris, in each case with a surprisingly persuasive retroactive explanation for why the winning coalition of voters was invisible to...
on Nov 4
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Peter Gleick (@petergleick@fediscience.org)
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Pressure is building to reform the failing #water companies in the UK (that Margaret Thatcher privatized) because of their continued pollution of rivers and coastal waters and misuse of money to pay shareholders rather than improve...
on Nov 4