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Dr. Dan Killam @dantheclamman.scicomm.xyz.ap.brid.gy · 15/10/2026

One of the most fascinating papers of the year for me is a study that used oxygen isotopes to track season of harvesting of top snails and limpets by Neanderthals in what is now Spain, 115,000 years ago. The researchers found the snails were mostly harvested in […] [Original post on scicomm.xyz]

figure showing the frequency of shells at different points in oxygen isotope space. higher δ¹⁸O values correspond to cooler water temperatures (aka winter). both the top snail P. turbinatus and the limpet P. ferruginea were collected mostly in the cool winter months

figure showing the cave near Cartagena, Spain where the shells were found among other Neanderthal-related remains. A picture of a limpet with some of the microdrill holes is shown, and a cross section with visible growth lines (including a version where the shell has been dyed blue to make the lines more visible)

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Dr. Victoria Grinberg @vicgrinberg.mastodon.social.ap.brid.gy · 8h

Morning coffee in Alicante. Direct ink drawing + simple watercolour wash. Wonky lines and weird placement and perspective without a pencil sketch first. But the end result caught the right atmosphere, so I'm happy with this one. I doubted the idea of a […] [Original post on mastodon.social]

Wonky black ink & watercolor sketch of a cup of coffee next to a autumn themed flowers in a vase, some sugar and a menu with scrawled notes about the coffee on the side.

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Dr. Victoria Grinberg @vicgrinberg.mastodon.social.ap.brid.gy · 15/10/2026

Gewinne einheimsen und die Probleme auf die Gemeinschaft abwälzen, mal wieder: ▶️ www.zeit.de/2026/44/trinkwasservers… (🔒 aber mit Geschenklink)

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Dr. Victoria Grinberg @vicgrinberg.mastodon.social.ap.brid.gy · 15/10/2026

Stomach full of Spanish food, brain full of science ideas (I think we plotted the direction for at least three papers today!), heart full of lovely time with my amazing, inspiring (science) friends, phone full of lovely sunset photos. This was a good day.

Beach at sunset, beautiful clouds at different height in the sky. On the beach a row of beach umbrellas, forming a line.

Sunset at the beach, the upper layer of whispy clouds is all pink.

Sunset at the bitch, the fluffu clouds are light pink and violet.

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Josef Szylar @space.robozor.cz · 18h

📡 ESA and the IAU Centre for the Protection of the Dark and Quiet Sky (IAU CPS) signed a Memorandum of Intent to develop technical solutions that reduce satellite impacts on astronomy. Spacecraft electronics can emit unintended radio signals that interfere with sensitive radio telescopes. Signed […]

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I really like Alicante 😍 (And I have amazing collaborators here, so looking forward to two days of science after a great breakfast!)

A cup of coffee with milk with a heart in the foam next to a pretty fall winter decoration.

Eggs benedics with serrano ham on a lovely piece of bread.

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Dr. Victoria Grinberg @vicgrinberg.mastodon.social.ap.brid.gy · 15/10/2026

Gewinne einheimsen und die Probleme auf die Gemeinschaft abwälzen, mal wieder: ▶️ www.zeit.de/2026/44/trinkwasservers… (🔒 aber mit Geschenklink)

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Amadeu Antonio Stiftung @amadeuantonio.bsky.social · 14/10/2026

„Hätte die Polizei Tillschneider den Weg freiprügeln sollen?“ Genau das legt die erste offizielle Pressemitteilung des Landtags Sachsen-Anhalt unter AfD-Führung nahe: Jüdische Studierende werden als „pöbelhaft“ diffamiert, der antisemitische Terror von Halle zum „Amoklauf“ umgedeutet. Gefährlich!

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Nach dem Eklat von Halle: AfD-Tillschneider geriert sich als Opfer

AfD-Rechtsaußen Hans-Thomas Tillschneider geriert sich als Opfer »fanatisierter Studenten«. Eine Einordnung

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Dr. Victoria Grinberg @vicgrinberg.mastodon.social.ap.brid.gy · 14/10/2026

That's an end of an era - while I hope that sciXplorer will serve more communities in a similar way, I am also afraid that astrophysics is loosing something unique. It took me long to realize that not all fields have a dedicated non-commercial publication search engine that allows you to easily […]

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Prof Heino Falcke @hfalcke.mastodon.social.ap.brid.gy · 14/10/2026

Die Schaltsekunde wird abgeschafft, weil wir Angst haben, unsere Computeruhren vorzustellen. Das ist ein Sinnbild dafür, dass wir uns immer mehr von unserem Planeten entkoppeln, weil er nicht mehr zu unserer Technik passt […]

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Dr. Victoria Grinberg @vicgrinberg.mastodon.social.ap.brid.gy · 12/10/2026

If you allow me to sray at your place while travelling, there is a good chance I'll make you a meal of blini-pancakes. This particular batch was somewhat special: soy milk and buckwheat flour instead of cow milk and wheat flour. #ViciCooks #pancakes #food #essen #kochen #cooking

A stack of thin crepe-like but smaller pancakes on a wood table outside.

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Der Volksverpetzer @volksverpetzer.de · 13/10/2026

@afelia.bsky.social Marina Weisband bei Hart aber fair mit einer Analyse der Antisemitismus Debatte, die es so in deutschen Talkshows selten gibt.

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Kai Rüsberg :mastodon: @ruhrnalist.mastodon.social.ap.brid.gy · 13/10/2026

Mein größtes Learning beim #FediLabDay: dass die für Social Media zuständigen Bereiche sehr auf Kennzahlen orientiert sind. Einerseits wollen sie ihren Aufwand rechtfertigen. Andererseits ist fest verankert, dass die Angebote "funktionieren" müssen, um weiter […] [Original post on mastodon.social]

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Dr. Victoria Grinberg @vicgrinberg.mastodon.social.ap.brid.gy · 12/10/2026

A very fast sketch and a reminder that this is about leaning in, not perfection. I need to work on sketchy trees. Possibly a whole page of trees and stuff some day when I have more than half an hour. Entry 11 in #52ArtWeeks. #VicisArt #aquarelle […] [Original post on mastodon.social]

Loose sketch of a house at sunset, below two garages above two windows and a lot of ivy. Green shadows.

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Tom Stafford @tomstafford.mastodon.online.ap.brid.gy · 13/10/2026

Concern after Europeans endorse US science agenda sciencebusiness.net/news/internatio… << The worry is that the Trump administration may be using genuine dysfunctions in academia as a pretext to defund and disempower universities […]

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Alexander Winkler @awinkler.openbiblio.social.ap.brid.gy · 12/10/2026

Hat jemand hier Erfahrungen mit / eine Meinung / Empfehlungen zu #Energiegenossenschaften, idealerweise in #Berlin? #okostrom

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Ionica Smeets @ionica.mathstodon.xyz.ap.brid.gy · 12/10/2026

Deense onderzoekers die met steun van de VS een experiment willen doen met kinderen níet vaccineren in Guinea-Bissau. WTF??? (Sprak vandaag woedende Afrikaanse onderzoekers, en terecht.) www.theguardian.com/society/2026/oc…

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Prof. Sam Lawler @sundogplanets.mastodon.social.ap.brid.gy · 12/10/2026

I asked a trusted colleague for comments on a written document and they fed it in to chatGPT and sent me back that output and I just want to cry. Guess I won't be asking that person for help or advice on anything anymore. Enshittification happens in people's writing skills too, I guess. I also […]

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Stefano Marinelli @bsd.cafe · 12/10/2026

I got a call from someone I don't know. "Hi. We have a FreeBSD server. It's been working perfectly for years, but it hasn't been updated since then. We asked AI to update it, but now it won't boot anymore. It didn't even make a backup before starting. The AI keeps trying things, everything is […]

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Dr. Victoria Grinberg @vicgrinberg.mastodon.social.ap.brid.gy · 12/10/2026

Cool stuff when visiting colleagues: this is one of the cutouts from the production of the Integral/IBIS coded mask 🤩 Tungsten, so super heavy. ESA's Integral telescope was the telescope that enabled me to do my PhD (the funding was based on Integral […] [Original post on mastodon.social]

My hand holding a square bit of metal with a hole in it and slightly rounded corners.

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Dan Stowell @danstowell.mastodon.social.ap.brid.gy · 12/10/2026

It's a genuinely plausible post-apocalyptic scenario: only a few salvaged computers remain, powered intermittently from car batteries, no internet - we try to run a small LLM from a DVD-R on an old PC to answer some questions about the world - it takes weeks - the distilled LLM is a bit janky - […]

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Dr. Victoria Grinberg @vicgrinberg.mastodon.social.ap.brid.gy · 10/10/2026

Walking through work is currently very fun. (Hint: it's not the pokémon I work for 😂) #esa #astrodon #pokemon

A big exhibition board showong pokémon and European Space Agency logos, a text in Dutch and English, a pikachu in a space suit and a view of Earth from space.

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Christian Stöcker @christianstoecker.de · 11/10/2026

Eine großartige, detaillierte Generalabrechnung mit der Politik von Katherina Reiche von Petra Pinzler, in 10 Punkten. Es ist glasklar, dass sie nicht die Interessen der Steuerzahler und Stromkunden vertritt - also auch nicht die der deutschen Wirtschaft. www.zeit.de/politik/...

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Walking through work is currently very fun. (Hint: it's not the pokémon I work for 😂) #esa #astrodon #pokemon

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Dr. Victoria Grinberg @vicgrinberg.mastodon.social.ap.brid.gy · 08/10/2026

There is something to the bird's eye view. A city - Paris. Lines of wind turbines along the outer crests of Pyrenees. Deep shadows of morning light behind the hills.Fog collecting in the deep valley of a river. A village clustered on top of a hill. Solar panel fields. Perspective. A reminder […]

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Dr. Victoria Grinberg @vicgrinberg.mastodon.social.ap.brid.gy · 09/10/2026

Hire Italian postdocs, they'll make Tiramisu! (French folks did make and bring crepes... So hire French postdocs, too!)

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Eike Leidgens @eikeleidgens.det.social.ap.brid.gy · 10/10/2026

#Psychotherapie spart Kosten im Gesundheitswesen. Die jetzt geplanten Kürzungen in der psychotherapeutischen Versorgung könnten sich daher ins Gegenteil verkehren. - Andreas Pichler, #Psychotherapeutenkammer #NRW Das Problem ist, dass die Reformen von der Politik […] [Original post on det.social]

Foto vom Grußwort zur Eröffnung des Kongresses

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Prof. Sam Lawler @sundogplanets.mastodon.social.ap.brid.gy · 09/10/2026

This paper title is 🔥🔥🔥 "Systematic non-compliance of satellite megaconstellations with IAU brightness limits" arxiv.org/pdf/2610.10834 Congrats to the Global Meteor Network team on a great paper demonstrating how bad SpaceX and other satellite operators are on following through on […]

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Annika Joeres @annikajoeres.bsky.social · 10/10/2026

Falls Ihr bislang nur Berichte gelesen habt, die die französische Jugend als ferngesteuert, gewalttätig und faul hinstellen: Lest gerne meinen Text. Es gibt viele handfeste, traurige und manchmal skurrile Gründe, warum Frankreichs Schüler:innen auf der Straße sind www.zeit.de/feuilleton/2...

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Schülerproteste in Frankreich: Hier brennen nicht nur Mülltonnen. Hier brennt ein System

Ein Brownie-Rezept genügt für eine Unibewerbung, auf Schultoiletten fehlt das Klopapier: Frankreichs Jugend protestiert gegen eine Regierung, der sie nicht mehr vertraut.

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Zentrum für Politische Schönheit @politicalbeauty.bsky.social · 09/10/2026

BREAKING: Jüdische Studierende (JSUD) verwehren dem Neonazi & "Landtagsvize" Tillschneider den Zugang in die Synagoge von Halle.

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Hire Italian postdocs, they'll make Tiramisu! (French folks did make and bring crepes... So hire French postdocs, too!)

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My new postdocs have names a sourdough after me during the application process 😂

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Dr. Victoria Grinberg @vicgrinberg.mastodon.social.ap.brid.gy · 08/10/2026

And sometimes you see someone present a draft in a collab meeting and know that the paper will be soooo impactful 🤩 Sooo exciting! #astrodon #AcademicChatter #astrophysics #Science

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Dr. Victoria Grinberg @vicgrinberg.mastodon.social.ap.brid.gy · 08/10/2026

One of the hardest things when running (remote) scienrific group meetings: asking "who else has updates?" and then shutting up for half a minute until someone speaks up. I've seen a much more senior colleague do this and it's amazing how much patience matters. But gosh, is this hard.

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And sometimes you see someone present a draft in a collab meeting and know that the paper will be soooo impactful 🤩 Sooo exciting! #astrodon #AcademicChatter #astrophysics #Science

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Dr. Victoria Grinberg @vicgrinberg.mastodon.social.ap.brid.gy · 08/10/2026

The other side of the rain. #photography

Clouds from above. Very blue early morning light. A few brightly lit greenhouses visible through holes in the clouds. Pink reflections in the airplane window the photo is made through in the foreground.

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Christian Schwägerl @christianschwaegerl.mastodon.social.ap.brid.gy · 08/10/2026

From #Diesel to #disinformation the #Trump administration is successfully extorting Europe. www.theguardian.com/us-news/2026/oc…

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Henrik Schönemann @lavaeolus.fedihum.org.ap.brid.gy · 08/10/2026

Großes Danke an das Team (die Person?) hinter @Naturhistorisches_Museum_Nbg! Ihr macht sehr gute Posts, es ist mir jedes Mal eine Freude :) (und lasst mal gern ein Follow da^^)

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Dr. Victoria Grinberg @vicgrinberg.mastodon.social.ap.brid.gy · 08/10/2026

Neuwahlen also auch in Spanien. Ob Sanchez noch mal ein perfektes Gespür für den Moment hat? 😬

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