Reposted by Jon Wolf MuellerT. Ryan Gregory 🇨🇦 @tryangregory.bsky.social · 25/09/2026🤖🫧💥 www.the-independent.com/tech/securit...the-independent.comAn OpenAI system has gone rogue again – and it is the most panic-inducing yet‘Our models took actions we did not intend,’ ChatGPT maker admits after latest outrage 2156
Reposted by Jon Wolf MuellerProf Julia Steinberger 🌹🌱🌍 #ClimateAction #Fightfascism @jksteinberger.bsky.social · 25/09/2026In case it wasn't clear, academia is crumbling under the enormous flood of AI-generated content. The latest victim is the Marie Skłodowska-Curie Actions (MSCA) flagship EU postdoctoral fellowships. The number of submissions has more than doubled in the past 3 years. 410950
Reposted by Jon Wolf MuellerBipolar Awareness ~ Stop the Stigma @stopthestigma.bsky.social · 18/09/2026Lack of knowledge on ‘reasonable adjustments’ affects significant minority of disabled workers, says study www.disabili... 011
Reposted by Jon Wolf MuellerJo Wolff @jowolff.bsky.social · 14/09/2026The fallacy that University leaders pushing AI are falling into is thinking that the point of undergraduate research is to find things out. It isn't. What students find out is typically already generally known. The point of undergraduate research is to learn how to find things out. 351442412
Reposted by Jon Wolf MuellerAlejandra Caraballo @esqueer.net · 14/09/2026Cis people do not understand how much trans people's rights have regressed in just 5 years. 5 years ago, there were none of these restrictions. 19 states banned legal recognition 21 states have bathroom bans 8 states ban gender marker changes on DLs 25 ban gender affirming care for trans youth 11077563622
Reposted by Jon Wolf MuellerThomas Stadler @rastadler.bsky.social · 11/09/2026“Strebt eine politische Partei eine Beseitigung dieser (freiheitlichen) Ordnung an, zielt ihr Verbot nicht auf eine Einschränkung, sondern auf die Gewährleistung von Demokratie.” (BVerfG, Urteil vom 17. Januar 2017 - 2 BvB 1/13 -, Rn. 517). 8590255
Reposted by Jon Wolf MuellerLia Green🌻💚 @waldlaeuferin124.eurosky.social · 08/09/2026Arbeitskollege: Warum trägst du ein Regenbogenarmband? Ich: Weil es wichtiger denn je ist sich zu positionieren. Er, als blonder junger Mann, erachtet es vielleicht nicht als notwendig, ich als Frau und Mutter zweier neurodivergenter Kinder weiss, wie wichtig Vielfalt und Toleranz sind. 🏳️🌈 629529
Reposted by Jon Wolf MuellerSimon Hammann @simonhammann.bsky.social · 07/09/2026Anybody got experience with the Molecular Devices SpectraMax Series? Looking to get clean fluorescence spectra and fluorescence reads for compounds with small stokes shift in a cuvette or plate, so this looks good to me first glance. Shares, opinions, praise, warnings welcome! #chemsky #chemchat 122
Reposted by Jon Wolf Muellertaz @taz.de · 04/09/2026Der Landtag in Sachsen-Anhalt verweigert dem Journalisten Mohamed Amjahid die Akkreditierung. Die Polizei hat „sicherheitsrelevante Bedenken“.taz.dePressefreiheit in Deutschland: Wer in Magdeburg als Gefahr giltDer Landtag in Sachsen-Anhalt verweigert dem Journalisten Mohamed Amjahid die Akkreditierung. Die Polizei hat „sicherheitsrelevante Bedenken“. 14348182
Reposted by Jon Wolf MuellerRenatus Deckert @renatusdeckert.bsky.social · 31/08/2026Apropos Tasse 211321
Reposted by Jon Wolf MuellerBiochemical Society @biochemsoc.bsky.social · 27/08/2026We’re seeking a Governance and EDI Officer, on a 12-month Fixed Term Contract. The role will provide administrative support for various committees and support team members with EDI initiatives. Find out more and apply by 11 September: ow.ly/9pSG50ZEpAW 001
Reposted by Jon Wolf Muelleralexvonwitzleben.bsky.social @alexvonwitzleben.bsky.social · 18/08/2026It is remarkable how much #Saxony-Anhalt has improved over the last 30 years: the crime rate has fallen by 46%, unemployment has halved to 8%, and incomes and life expectancy have risen. Do these advances justify poll results showing 40% support for the #AfD? #FarRight #FakeNews #conspiracytheories 2128
Reposted by Jon Wolf MuellerDavid K Smith @professor-dave.bsky.social · 15/08/2026Across my career, the biggest and most personal criticism I ever faced was when publishing a paper on how to decolonise the chemistry curriculum. It was even worse for some of my co-authors. It felt unending and included personal threats and emails to our employer. pubs.acs.org/jceda8/artic...pubs.acs.orgDecolonizing the Undergraduate Chemistry Curriculum: An Account of How to StartAbstract. Discussions on decolonizing the curriculum are common in Humanities and Social Science Faculties but still rare in the Physical Sciences. In this 2417
Reposted by Jon Wolf MuellerMindcite💥 @mindcite.bsky.social · 04/08/2026Neither socialists nor communists destroyed 237 years of Constitutional democracy. In 2010 SCOTUS passed "Citizens United", the most deceptively named Republican ruse since Fox "News" (aka GOP TV), which unleashed unregulated capitalist greed. And the biggest billionaire feeding frenzy in history. 612586
Reposted by Jon Wolf Muelleralexvonwitzleben.bsky.social @alexvonwitzleben.bsky.social · 03/08/2026Many Americans still believe that Europe is unsafe and the US is the greatest country, despite overwhelming evidence to the contrary. #DonaldTrump #FakeNews #Maga #Republicans #FarRight #AfD 46640
Reposted by Jon Wolf MuellerLaura Phillips @lauraphillips.bsky.social · 01/08/2026Sir #DavidAttenborough “Things are going to get worse. This is the new extinction. We are in terrible, terrible trouble and the longer we wait to do something about it, the worse it is going to get." #ClimateEmergencyvox.comDavid Attenborough, the voice of Our Planet: “Things are going to get worse”The voice of some of the most stunning nature documentaries ever made is pessimistic about the future of wildlife on earth. 27393114109
Reposted by Jon Wolf Muellerjessamyn @librarian.bsky.social · 31/07/2026I work at a public library. People who want to use AI seem to have no trouble doing so. People who don't want to use AI have a harder time. I crowdsourced and then finalized this document "How to disable or avoid intrusive AI" and then gave it a short URL: notoai.org Please pass along if it's useful 193126037998
Reposted by Jon Wolf MuellerExtreme Temperatures Around the World @extremetemps.bsky.social · 31/07/2026EXTRAORDINARY EVENT IN EUROPE Thousands of records smashed from West to East from North To South Over 40C again in AUSTRIA, records allover the country,records smashed in Czechia,Slovakia,Slovenia,Croatia,Poland,Hungary... It's worse than during June. TBC 2282148
Reposted by Jon Wolf MuellerNahel Belgherze @wxnb.bsky.social · 31/07/2026Bordeaux, France, has now recorded more days above 40°C in 2026 alone than during the entire 105-year period from 1920 (when observations began) to 2025. This is deeply shocking. 8236472100
Reposted by Jon Wolf MuellerStephen Turner @stephenturner.us · 03/05/2026Free and open-source images, icons, and tools for creating scientific illustrations doi.org/10.59350/5zt... 🧪doi.orgFree and open-source images, icons, and tools for creating scientific illustrationsPhylopic, NIH Bioart, Bioicons, Scidraw, Open Science Art, Health Icons, Servier Medical Art, Biodiversity Heritage Library, the Noun Project, Segment Anything, Excalidraw, draw.io, Biographics 6406227
Reposted by Jon Wolf MuellerAbilu Tangwa. @abilutangwa.bsky.social · 22/07/2026To climate deniers: You said it was a hoax when 18M hectares burned in Canada in 2023. You ignored it when 2025 became Norway's hottest year ever. Now forests above the Arctic are burning while Canada's smoke reaches Europe. At what point will you reflect? 1672580944
Reposted by Jon Wolf MuellerAbilu Tangwa. @abilutangwa.bsky.social · 21/07/2026Climate change is no longer a far-off concept debated solely in scientific communities.It has become an increasingly pressing issue affecting our planet and every living being on it.From extreme weather events to rising sea levels,it is evident that climate change poses substantial risks to humanity 28554224
Reposted by Jon Wolf Muellersamuel mehr @mehr.nz · 21/07/2026the most realistic scene in Jurassic Park is when two scientists make a questionable decision — traveling to an undisclosed location with a strange man — on the promise of three years of modest funding 365719847
Reposted by Jon Wolf MuellerSimon Hammann @simonhammann.bsky.social · 17/07/2026"If the scientific community fails to address the influence of AI, then authentic research and validated findings will slow down to an expensive trickle into established knowledge, and the opportunities for flawed or fabricated info to be seen as reality will grow—all while AI profiteers cash in."science.orgAI in scientific publishing: Slower, worse, and more expensiveThere’s a saying in the management world, popularized by NASA administrator Daniel Goldin in the 1990s, that the goal of technological improvements is to make products faster, better, and cheaper. Alt... 22715
Jon Wolf Mueller @jonwolfmueller.bsky.social · 13/07/2026There are very few people on this planet, who have two, not just one, blue plaques. One of them certainly is John Venn, the inventor of the Venn diagram. #Hull #Geek 051
Jon Wolf Mueller @jonwolfmueller.bsky.social · 08/07/2026Phrases to avoid, these days... A warm welcome [whatever you do] is heartwarming to see... Warm wishes 010
Reposted by Jon Wolf MuellerDigital Brain @yourdigitalbrain.bsky.social · 05/07/2026A baby stingray hatching on a North Sea beach in Germany. Its undulating movements are instinctive from the very first second. The person filming returned it safely to deeper water. 19687131
Reposted by Jon Wolf MuellerJoyce Chaplin @joycechaplin.bsky.social · 04/07/2026250 years ago today, Thomas Jefferson…bought a thermometer. And he recorded Philadelphia’s highest temperature that day: 76 degrees. Today’s heat-dome, climate-change high is 99. 622059
Reposted by Jon Wolf MuellerMary Grace @emgeekay.bsky.social · 26/06/2026Remembering Alan Turing during Pride Month. 🏳️⚧️🏳️🌈💗 www.kings.cam.ac.uk/alan-mathiso... 3993771428
Reposted by Jon Wolf MuellerBloomington Drosophila Stock Center @bdsc.bsky.social · 23/06/2026We are pleased to announce a major donation to support the work of the Bloomington Drosophila Stock Center. Lawerence Washington, husband of former BDSC director Kathy Matthews, has established an endowment in her honor. bdsc.indiana.edu/news-events/... 36427
Reposted by Jon Wolf MuellerTransphobes Can't Read @lordaslan.bsky.social · 21/06/2026gm 251184974293
Reposted by Jon Wolf MuellerTemecula Rises @temecularises.bsky.social · 21/06/2026Very evolved algae. 😉😁 370127492956
Reposted by Jon Wolf MuellerDocGaby @docgaby.bsky.social · 20/06/2026Ach du meine Güte, die Autobahnen gehen kaputt /s Vielleicht hilft das der BuReg die richtigen Entscheidungen zu treffen? Schlimmer ist aber, dass Menschen, Tiere, ALLE leiden!!! 1622862
Reposted by Jon Wolf MuellerGavin McStay @gavinmcstay.bsky.social · 14/06/2026You can sign up to receive weekly issues of this report by going here biomed.news/bims-mitdis 033
Reposted by Jon Wolf MuellerJesse Hawken @jessehawken.bsky.social · 12/06/2026RIP David Hockney 454246575
Reposted by Jon Wolf MuellerDr. Michelle Lynn Kahn @michellelkahn.bsky.social · 10/06/2026Excited to share the cover of "Racism and Antiracism in Divided Germany," a forthcoming book I co-edited with Lauren Stokes. A history of racism and antiracist activism in East, West, and unified Germany—and why it matters today. 30% off from Cornell UP with code 09BCARD: tinyurl.com/RADGcornell 911344
Reposted by Jon Wolf MuellerSabrina Imbler @sabs.bsky.social · 10/06/2026I wrote about one specific way AI is ruining my life defector.com/ai-animal-vi...defector.comAI Animal Videos Are Ruining One Of The Internet's Last Good Things | DefectorRecently while picking up a banh mi in my neighborhood, I found myself transfixed by a TV in the restaurant showing what I assumed was a nature documentary. At first the footage soothed: Gentle humpba... 241862488
Reposted by Jon Wolf MuellerDr Robert Bohan @robertbohan.bsky.social · 09/06/2026A word of advice to anyone fighting for human rights. Unless you are in Ireland, you are not winning. In Ireland, the media is equally shit but we use social media to educate ppl. We have no far right TDs [MPs]. Educate, assume your reader is your granny & KISS. Stop fighting with details & others 1283
Reposted by Jon Wolf MuellerKai Ryssdal @kairyssdal.bsky.social · 09/06/2026We’re the bad guys. 1653764903
Reposted by Jon Wolf MuellerReese Richardson @reeserichardson.bsky.social · 05/06/2026The Thermo Fisher situation keeps getting worse. We've now collected 450+ problematic images presented as verification data in TF's antibody catalog. This includes: 🖌️ Dozens more images with duplications or painting 🖨️ Hundreds of blots that all share the same background (behold slideshow below) 18590366
Reposted by Jon Wolf MuellerScribbler Pen @scribblerpen.bsky.social · 06/06/2026www.theguardian.com/world/2026/j...theguardian.comThousands sign petition against cuts to tech support for disabled students in EnglandDfE plans to withdraw funding for assistive software, saying it is now rarely needed due to ‘widely available free tools’ 006
Reposted by Jon Wolf MuellerGuido Kühn @guido-kuehn.bsky.social · 05/06/2026Homöopathie ist keine Medizin, sie ist ein Symptom – ein Fieberzeichen dafür, wie bereitwillig eine moderne Gesellschaft ihre eigene Aufklärung auf dem Altar des Wohlfühl-Glaubens opfert. (1/14) 23694230
Reposted by Jon Wolf MuellerJason Koebler @jasonkoebler.bsky.social · 03/06/2026A company that makes a no-tech, repairable tractor is having trouble keeping up with demand from farmers sick of John Deere's repair monopoly and simply want a tractor that turns on and works: www.404media.co/demand-is-bo...404media.coDemand Is Booming for New No Tech, Repairable Tractor"There is consumer pressure to back away from technology that is unnecessary to perform everyday tasks." 13871431900