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Prof. Sam Lawler @sundogplanets.mastodon.social.ap.brid.gy · 21/10/2026

I have to fill in a bunch of US gov't forms to be an unfunded co-I on a NASA grant and this message is sitting at the top of every page making me want to rage-scream and throw my laptop out the window

screenshot of the top of a webpage. The text says:

NIH Websites Are Changing

* Get the Latest Updates and FAQs on the transition

* Per Executive Order 14434, federal agencies are now using "Super Intelligence" (SI) in place of "Artificial Intelligence" (Al). You may see both terms across NIH content during this transition.

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Vassili Golod @golod.bsky.social · 21/10/2026

Kyjiw unter massivem Raketenbeschuss aus Russland. Wir hören heftige Explosionen und spüren Erschütterungen. @tagesschau.bsky.social

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Dr. Victoria Grinberg @vicgrinberg.mastodon.social.ap.brid.gy · 21/10/2026

Almost wrote to my former PhD student, asking whether she plans to submit ab abstract to a major upcoming conference to make sure that our topic is highlighted. Then checked the invited speakers list. And sure, she is on there already! VERY happy for the now fully independent amazing […]

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Felix Hlatky @mellifluousbox.mastodon.social.ap.brid.gy · 21/10/2026

If you haven't seen it yet, we have a new forum for user feedback. If you want to share your opinions on the new 5.0 design (or other topics), please submit it there so our team can see and process it. If someone already submitted what you wanted to share, there is an upvote function […]

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Dr. Victoria Grinberg @vicgrinberg.mastodon.social.ap.brid.gy · 20/10/2026

🥰 Wenn man einen anstrengenden Tag hat, dann aber plötzlich erzählt bekommt, dass es so aussieht, also ob die erste Auflage deines Buches bald ganz ausverkauft werden würde. Danke an euch alle, Leute 💚💚💚

Cover meines Buchs: "Schwarze Löcher: Schwere Kost, leicht verdaulich."

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Therese Müller-Rezbach @landrichterin.legal.social.ap.brid.gy · 21/10/2026

#Ravensburg hat zwar viele Türme. Die sehen aber erstens nicht alle gleich aus, und zweitens sieht kein einziger davon so aus wie auf dem Bild. Warum nicht einfach ein echtes Foto? #AIslop (Und der #KI-generierte #alttext behauptet natürlich auch noch, das Bild zeige wirklich Ravensburg…)

Ausschnitt aus einem Plakat mit dem Text "Hallo Ravensburg! Wir sind wieder da!" In weißen Buchstaben auf rotem Hintergrund, darunter eine Stadtansicht mit mehreren gleichen Türmen

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Vassili Golod @golod.bsky.social · 21/10/2026

Mittwoch, 21. Oktober 2026 in Kyjiw: Dauerluftalarm, dröhnende Jet-Drohnen über unseren Köpfen, tödlicher Einschlag in ein Wohnhaus kurz vor unserer Live-Schalte über die angebliche „Bewegung um eine Friedenslösung“. Trumps Kurs ermuntert Putin in seiner brutalen Kriegsführung.

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Klaus Lederer @klauslederer.bsky.social · 20/10/2026

Also Kultursenator hatte ich in Berlin sechseinhalb Jahre Verantwortung für diesen Bereich. Ich glaube, das war für die Erinnerungskultur Berlins nicht die schlechteste Zeit. Bislang ist mir nicht untergekommen, dass Herr Weimer dazu Sinnstiftendes beizutragen gehabt hätte. Was redet der Mann da?

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Henrik Schönemann @lavaeolus.fedihum.org.ap.brid.gy · 19/10/2026

[(Polizei) Angriff auf trans Rechte in Berlin] Das ist so so fucked - und genau der Punkt an dem wir Cis-Allies uns dazu/davor/etc. stellen müssen. Das darf nicht einfach in all den Nachrichten untergehen. Und das ist unsere Verantwortung

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Dr. Victoria Grinberg @vicgrinberg.mastodon.social.ap.brid.gy · 19/10/2026

@vlk no idea! It was very windstill, though. Also still a chance that it's just an optical illusion, but it really did not look like one!

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Dr. Victoria Grinberg @vicgrinberg.mastodon.social.ap.brid.gy · 19/10/2026

Huh - negative contrail? First time I'm consciously seeing one.

Slightly cloudy with a more clear blue line above a Dutch suburb.

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Thomas Kahle @tomkalei.mathe.social.ap.brid.gy · 19/10/2026

Ich darf keinen Kaffee bei einer Konferenz aus Forschungsgeldern bezahlen. OK, sollen die Teilnehmer doch ihren Kaffee selbst bezahlen. Nee das geht nicht, weil das ja Geld einnehmen und ausgeben also wirtschaftliche Tätigkeit in den Räumen der Uni ist. Also machen wir eine Konferenzgebühr von […]

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Eat This Podcast @etp.indieweb.social.ap.brid.gy · 19/10/2026

Eat This Newsletter 318: Hindsight Looking back, at gourds and pumpkins as anomalies, at invented gastronationalism, at a rice bowl, at the ur-parents of citrus, and at the potato as social signifier. buttondown.com/jeremycherfas/archiv… #newsletter #food #farming

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Eat This Newsletter 318: Hindsight

Hello Looking back, at gourds and pumpkins as anomalies, at invented gastronationalism, at a rice bowl, at the ur-parents of citrus, and at the potato as...

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Dr. Victoria Grinberg @vicgrinberg.mastodon.social.ap.brid.gy · 18/10/2026

Went to Museum Boerhaave in Leiden today: seen an interview with @SylviaFysica in the special exhibition on Truth and the book by @ionica in the museum shop. Had all the fediverse feels about this!

Museum screen showing an interview with a woman in a blue jacket, next to her a black swan.

A pile of Dutch books "De auto, de geit en de wiskunde"

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Went to Museum Boerhaave in Leiden today: seen an interview with @SylviaFysica in the special exhibition on Truth and the book by @ionica in the museum shop. Had all the fediverse feels about this!

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Dr. Victoria Grinberg @vicgrinberg.mastodon.social.ap.brid.gy · 17/10/2026

Arrived home from Alicante. Took a shower. Realised it's definitely time for the warmer (and more colourful) of my two bath robes. #WinterIsComing

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Dr. Victoria Grinberg @vicgrinberg.mastodon.social.ap.brid.gy · 17/10/2026

Arrived home from Alicante. Took a shower. Realised it's definitely time for the warmer (and more colourful) of my two bath robes. #WinterIsComing

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Thomas Connor @thomasconnor.mstdn.social.ap.brid.gy · 17/10/2026

#CambridgeMA science fans/ parents of Science fans -- your friendly, neighborhood Center for Astrophysics is having our yearly educational (free) open house. More details at the link below, but come catch up on the universe today from noon to four […]

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Dr. Victoria Grinberg @vicgrinberg.mastodon.social.ap.brid.gy · 17/10/2026

@juandesant seriously, just try - the hardest is to let go of the idea that one cannot do it.

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Dr. Victoria Grinberg @vicgrinberg.mastodon.social.ap.brid.gy · 17/10/2026

@hfalcke this. Also bias for the folks who are in the same timezone as you or tend to have the same time usage pattern.

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Prof Heino Falcke @hfalcke.mastodon.social.ap.brid.gy · 17/10/2026

Mastodon has no algorithm, right? Wrong! Mastodon does. The algorithm is chronological ordering. If you do not have the time to read everything this means statistically you mainly get to see those accounts that post a lot of stuff. The precious ones that post little but that you really want to […]

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Dan Stowell @danstowell.mastodon.social.ap.brid.gy · 17/10/2026

Dutch meat consumption continues to decline and decline :) This is measured by Wageniingen researchers. www.wakkerdier.nl/nieuws/nieuw-onde… #netherlands #vegetarian #sustainability

Graph: Average meat consumption per person, in kg. Since 2005 it was roughly constant, then from 2018 through 2025 a steady fall from ~38 to now ~34

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Drehumdiebolzeningenieur @drehumdiebolzen.social.cologne.ap.brid.gy · 17/10/2026

Gerade erfahren, dass offenbar geplant war/ist, den Vater mit einem anderen Flug abzuschieben als die Mutter mit den minderjährigen Kindern. Zu was für perfiden Grausamkeiten Menschen fähig sind 😰 (aktuell wird versucht, sie zur freiwilligen Ausreise zu überreden. Sie haben übrigens bisher […]

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Drehumdiebolzeningenieur @drehumdiebolzen.social.cologne.ap.brid.gy · 16/10/2026

Hier wird gerade eine Familie nach Sri Lanka abgeschoben. Der Sohn ist aktuell auf Klassenfahrt und wird von dort zum Flughafen gebracht. Grund für die Ablehnung des Asylantrages ist die Einreise mit einem Touristenvisum. Es gab Eingaben an die härtefallkommission und den Petitionsausschuss, es […]

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Dr. Victoria Grinberg @vicgrinberg.mastodon.social.ap.brid.gy · 16/10/2026

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. 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 · 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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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 · 16/10/2026

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

@sundogplanets very cool work! And such an excellent feeling when such long projects finally come together!

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

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

@lavaeolus before, the focus was on the needs of our community which were the drivers for the development of the database and the interface. It may not be the case anymore and as always when things get broadened there is also the danger that the original sense and focus may be lost (and that the […]

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

@lavaeolus not really, the whole - it's also fully moved to SciX (it's in the article - let me know if it is not available for you in the link and I can send it to you).

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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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