Maximilian Schich @schichmax.bsky.social · 29/09/2026"A smartphone analogy to explore the origin of animals" by Ruiz-Trillo et al. I got so many questions: 🧽 Where's the sponge function on my phone? 🐙 Will land-octopi scrub themselves with phones in 380m yrs? 🌈 How about superradiant tryptophones? @multicellgenome.bsky.social @ricardsole.bsky.social 120
Maximilian Schich @schichmax.bsky.social · 28/09/2026Join us today @cudanlab.bsky.social for a lab encounter with Kaisa Langer et al. – The Humanities Data Lab (HUMAL) of the Estonian Research and Cultural Data Infrastructure @etkad.bsky.social 16:00-18:00 Tallinn time UTC+3 🇪🇪🇪🇺🌍 8 hours from this post. Details & zoom: cudan.tlu.ee/events/2026-... 001
Reposted by Maximilian SchichJer Thorp @jerthorp.bsky.social · 27/09/2026Posting this @nsousanis.bsky.social mini comic about AI and creative work for no particular reasonspinweaveandcut.comFall 2025 Syllabi! 2158
Maximilian Schich @schichmax.bsky.social · 22/09/2026'the greater the degree of interdisciplinarity, the lower the probability of being funded." This insight is now 10 years old. 🎉 Fellow "born this way" #multidisciplinaries, who want to survive: Read Anderson's Imagined Communities and Butler's Who's Afraid of Gender (and think "disciplines"). 030
Maximilian Schich @schichmax.bsky.social · 16/09/2026This is awesome! Do you agree that broader audiences should understand that crazy-ass feats, such as vocabulary consensus, can emerge from relatively simple local rules and interactions, as in bio & human social systems, rather than requiring anything resembling god-like "artificial intelligence"? 110
Maximilian Schich @schichmax.bsky.social · 15/09/2026Had raw shrimp from a small booth at Haneda airport in 2017, and questioned my motifs all the way to Munich. Fortunately nothing happened, other than reminiscing how awesome it was. Sushi is the food-equivalent of back country skiing. :) 000
Reposted by Maximilian SchichChristoph Bautz @christophbautz.bsky.social · 25/01/2025"Es gibt nicht die echten und die unechten Bürger. Es gibt nicht die richtigen und die falschen Familien. Es gibt nicht die normalen und die nicht normalen. Das ist faschistischer Sprech!" 100% was Carolin Emcke sagt. 412125586
Reposted by Maximilian SchichOmas* gegen Rechts Leipzig 🌈🦄🏳️🌈 @omasgegenrechtsle.bsky.social · 12/09/2026WOW! Heute waren in ganz 🇩🇪 Menschen auf der Straße & machten klar: Es ist Zeit zum Handeln! 👏 Die Wahl in LSA muss eine Zäsur sein, wenn wir die AfD stoppen wollen. Um das zu erreichen, fordern wir: Solidarität mit allen, die vor Ort dafür kämpfen, dass Rechtsextreme nicht 1/3 171493482
Reposted by Maximilian SchichRichard McElreath 🐈⬛ @rmcelreath.bsky.social · 12/09/2026I do wonder what David Hilbert would think about all this. He was accused of trying to automate mathematics, in the 1920s! The "Hilbert program" failed in an exact sense, because Gödel, but it succeeded by making formal proof systems like Lean possible. And Lean makes the AI-sausage-machine work. 3749
Maximilian Schich @schichmax.bsky.social · 12/09/2026And Hilbert was not just talking: Their "Anschauliche Geometrie" is a timeless master-class of intuitive visualization, building on a decades-long tradition at the Göttingen institute. cf. bsky.app/profile/schi... 020
Maximilian Schich @schichmax.bsky.social · 12/09/2026This is indeed curious: Later, Hilbert strongly argued for the importance of "vivid intuition" to grasp and honor the "abstract results" of algebraic geometry. As such, the 1932 preface of "Anschauliche Geometrie" resonates deeply with the recent letter by @teorth.bsky.social et al. 251
Maximilian Schich @schichmax.bsky.social · 12/09/2026There is a special feeling of excitement and disgust emerging in trained experts when they look into the window of an antiquarian prints & drawings salesman, who sells sheets – obviously cut out of mutilated books. Click "View original page", to recover context, lost in the app, sometimes lost . 011
Maximilian Schich @schichmax.bsky.social · 09/09/2026Or the Dürer Melancholia I projection. :) en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Melenco...en.wikipedia.orgMelencolia I - Wikipedia 010
Maximilian Schich @schichmax.bsky.social · 09/09/2026"The word Dymaxion, Spaceship Earth and the Fuller Projection Map are trademarks of the Buckminster Fuller Institute. All rights reserved." Pretty sure Elmo would want to extend "copyright" to infinity, buy BFI, and claim "Spaceship Earth" is all his. www.reddit.com/r/legaladvic...reddit.comFrom the legaladvice community on Reddit: Copyright vs Patent: Can I use the Dymaxion Projection? [NY/DC]Explore this post and more from the legaladvice community 100
Maximilian Schich @schichmax.bsky.social · 09/09/2026cf. somethingaboutmaps.wordpress.com/2022/11/14/t...somethingaboutmaps.wordpress.comThe Unnecessary Peril of the Fuller ProjectionThroughout my career, I’ve heard a variety of rumors and conflicting opinions about whether or not you can get in trouble for using the Fuller projection. Let’s find out if it’s true. 100
Maximilian Schich @schichmax.bsky.social · 08/09/2026Just in case your Navier-Stokes equations blow up or get stolen, rest assured that snails have a mucus for every occasion: fyfluiddynamics.com/2026/09/snai... 🌊🐌fyfluiddynamics.comSnails Tune Their SlimeSnails have a mucus for every occasion. The grove snail/lemon snail makes five different varieties: one for lubricating its motion, one for adhering to surfaces 010
Reposted by Maximilian SchichScientific American @sciam.bsky.social · 08/09/2026Prior to OpenAI's announcement today that its AI solved one of the seven Millennium Problems, rumors were circulating online among mathematicians over the proof's origins—OpenAI has denied all allegations.scientificamerican.comOpenAI claims blockbuster math breakthrough amid swirl of controversyPrior to the announcement, rumors were circulating online among mathematicians over the proof's origins—OpenAI has denied all allegations 42012
Maximilian Schich @schichmax.bsky.social · 07/09/2026Speak AfD as one word, not Ah-eff-deh, and it sounds like Aphte (mouth ulcer) for Germany. 010
Maximilian Schich @schichmax.bsky.social · 07/09/2026The Musk-backed AfD is three votes short of an absolute majority in Saxony-Anhalt. In a secret ballot, it may only need three CDU lawmakers to discover their independence. Americans may remember Kyrsten Sinema and Joe Manchin. 020
Reposted by Maximilian SchichRichard McElreath 🐈⬛ @rmcelreath.bsky.social · 07/09/2026For Americans reading the German election news this morning, it might help to know that Saxony-Anhalt is like the West Virginia of Germany. Population similar size and age, GDP similar, high out-migration, old dying industry. No less worrying, but good for comparison. 3644
Reposted by Maximilian SchichPetter Törnberg @pettertornberg.com · 04/09/2026🛎️ Final call: Advanced School on AI Research Practice in Media and Communication. Apply by 15 Sept for VI MeLCi Lab Autumn School on AI research in media & communication. 📅 10–13 Nov. 🌐 Online PhD/postdoc/ECR melcilab.cicant.ulusofona.pt/training/vi-... 073
Maximilian Schich @schichmax.bsky.social · 06/09/2026Today, extreme-right AFD 💩 won 44% in Sachsen Anhalt 🇩🇪. AFD wants "peace politics with Russia" 🇷🇺, while signalling "Germany First" (as in "America First" 🇺🇸), and "Vision 2026" (as in "Project 2025" 🎃). Center-right CDU already does "Project 2025 light". The German media is tragically unprepared. 030
Reposted by Maximilian SchichChristina Clemm @clemm.bsky.social · 06/09/202645 Prozent haben für Rassismus, Frauenhass, Queerfeindlichkeit, Behindertenfeindlichkeit, Menschenverachtung gestimmt. Das muss uns entsetzen. 611691404
Maximilian Schich @schichmax.bsky.social · 06/09/2026I now want pickups on my Gerber Variable Scale.. . . . . . . 000
Reposted by Maximilian SchichSebastian Leber @tieresindfreaks.bsky.social · 05/09/2026Wunderbare Menschen heute in #magdeburg 151098204
Maximilian Schich @schichmax.bsky.social · 05/09/2026Functional descriptions share compression ("Dichtung") with poetry. Can't speak to sadomasochism (no experience, beyond pursuing a tenure track position in Texas). 000
Reposted by Maximilian SchichMaximilian Schich @schichmax.bsky.social · 04/07/2026Social media is an excitable #medium. It functions like a dynamic #reservoir, taken to #criticality by noise induction, made hypersensitive for external input. The readout is narrow-minded ideas. There is no central control, just game-theoretic #fracking, for profit. #piracy, not conspiracy. 🌊☠️ 102
Maximilian Schich @schichmax.bsky.social · 05/09/2026"Man kann es auch positiv formulieren[...]: Wir brauchen Weltoffenheit, [...] eine Willkommenskultur, [...] Offenheit für alle Geschlechter. Alle sind bei uns willkommen, die Rationalität mitbringen, kritisches Denken, die die Wissenschaft voranbringen wollen und die in diesem Geist zu uns kommen."🔥 010
Maximilian Schich @schichmax.bsky.social · 05/09/2026Ich wünsche allen Trittbrettfahrern des 🇺🇸🇷🇺 Rechtsrucks in #Deutschland einen heftigen Wahlverlust, und allen anderen ein schönes Wochenende. 🌍🇪🇺🇩🇪 💚 🌼 🎉 Es geht auch ohne #Gier & #Nepotismus, ohne #Xenophobie, #Misogynie, #Queer- & #Transphobie, ohne #Ignoranz der #Wissenschaft und des #Klimawandels! 000
Maximilian Schich @schichmax.bsky.social · 05/09/2026Vorsicht... 🕳️🐇 :) fyfluiddynamics.com/2022/11/mixi...fyfluiddynamics.comMixing EffectivelyMixing two fluids is a tougher task than you might think. One of my favorite asides from a fluids lecture concerned how to mix fruit into yogurt in an industria 000
Reposted by Maximilian SchichRobert Fietzke @robertfietzke.bsky.social · 04/09/2026Stell dir vor, du arbeitest beim Verfassungsschutz, nimmst das einigermaßen ernst, sammelst Material und erarbeitest Gutachten, die die Einstufung der AfD als gesichert rechtsextremistische Bestrebung untermauern und dann lädt der ÖRR den Fascho-Spitzenkandidaten ins KINDERFERNSEHEN ein. 472563679
Maximilian Schich @schichmax.bsky.social · 04/09/2026Just in case you have no plans for the weekend, this year's Ig Nobel cohort is hilarious. 😘 [seriously] 020
Maximilian Schich @schichmax.bsky.social · 04/09/2026Hi Carl, this is cool work. Qmax: The welfare function covers authors, readers, and reviewers, yet excludes those who fare well the most: publishing houses, whose merger and acquisition officials think scientists are the dumbest cash cows, providing free labor and buying their own work. 130
Reposted by Maximilian SchichULTRAKÆRL @ultrakaerl.bsky.social · 02/09/2026Ich liebe einfach alles daran, wie @ricardalang.eurosky.social den Schaumschläger und peinlichen Selbstvermarkter Poschardt bei Maischberger rasiert. 🔥🥰 64957260
Maximilian Schich @schichmax.bsky.social · 02/09/2026Hey Bruce, about that diagonal angle in your laser-cut bookshelf: Speccing the lab furniture over here, I had my eyes on a "futuristic" couch that looked totally "science fiction" to me. But my Estonian colleague convincingly talked me out of it, saying it looks like the Soviet couch of her grandma. 120
Maximilian Schich @schichmax.bsky.social · 02/09/2026www.publishersweekly.com/9781452176826publishersweekly.comWhat Do People Do at the Science Museum? by Maggie Tokuda-HallTokuda-Hall (Love in the Library) and Leng (At the Window) pack a science and natural history museum to its neoclassical rafters... 000
Maximilian Schich @schichmax.bsky.social · 02/09/2026Just in time for the Academy of #NaturalScience in to reconsider closing their #museum in #Philadelphia... 100
Reposted by Maximilian SchichJohn Scalzi @scalzi.com · 02/12/2025The real question is not "Why is Bluesky so left-coded," the real question is "Why can't the right exist in a social media environment without algorithmic assistance, where people can ignore them" 588367977981
Reposted by Maximilian SchichSarah McAnulty, Ph.D. @sarahmackattack.bsky.social · 01/09/2026I feel like I’m going to throw up 13834701031
Maximilian Schich @schichmax.bsky.social · 01/09/2026Living room #lullaby ... 🕸️ 🕷️🦋 🍽️ Spiderman is having moth for dinner tonight. 010
Maximilian Schich @schichmax.bsky.social · 01/09/2026There is a neat indicator to test Bavarian proficiency, asking the speaker what they use to count in their head. For me there is a pretty significant speed difference using Bavarian, English, or high German (in that sequence). 020
Reposted by Maximilian SchichMark Riedl @markriedl.bsky.social · 31/08/2026Yann LeCun throwing bombs at the ACM AI Leadership Summit 2020423