Recently encountered this poem from Kurt Vonnegut:
Tiger got to hunt, bird got to fly;
Man got to sit and wonder 'why, why, why?'
Tiger got to sleep, bird got to land;
Man got to tell himself he understand.
I'm happy to announce that the program of our 4th Marburg climate camp is ready :)
Consider stopping by! 🌳
climateconnect.earth/de/projects/...
2 high school students in the library:
S1: I asked chat GPT, but it only gives bad answers lately
S2: You need to switch to Claude ai. I used it to prepare my physics presentation
S1: Really? How did it go?
S2: Extremly bad. But I think it was my fault, not Claude's
(difficult not to laugh)
Meta-Psychology owns April 1st with the "Inaugural Editorial of Questionable Research Ideas and OtherPeculiarities: The QRAP section": open.lnu.se/index.php/me...
A CRT on top of a 90s PC (with floppy disk) showing the Trans Pride Flag
Happy International Transgender Day of Visibility!
We're everywhere and we're cool.
Here's the trans pride flag 🏳️⚧️ on a mid-90s Pentium running DOS.
The Program for Online #SIPS2026 is now available online!
Let's meet online May 6-7 for exciting hackathons, unconferences, and workshops!
Check out the program preview here 👇️
buff.ly/Ezzyql9
@dwdderwetterdienst.bsky.social: Der langfristige Erwärmungstrend in Deutschland setzt sich weiter fort. Das Jahr 2025 war demnach erneut deutlich zu warm, sonnig und zu trocken im Vergleich zum langjährigen Mittel. Besonders auffällig ist die Zunahme von Zunahme von Extremereignissen.
Surprise surprise / pointing out the obvious
Nice! We keep having 2nd, 3rd and even 4th thoughts about this question~
@danielheck.bsky.social @semihaktepe.bsky.social
The French embassy in Germany will finance research stays of up to 3 months for early carreer researchers employed in German academia- list of research fields& other details in their link (EN/FR/DE available). Worth sharing with PhDs~
@rtg2271.bsky.social
www.science-allemagne.fr/appels-actue...
Trigger warning: AI hype x)
I really liked this brand though. Without their products it would be too difficult to get vegan things in Chile.
notco.com/foods/
Actually, they're probably either imitating or partnering with the vegan Chilean company that came up with the "Not X" products (Not Meat, Not Cheese, even Not Mayo, etc.)
Introducing skytrails by @kennypeng.bsky.social, a way to browse posts across Bluesky!
Follow trails to navigate the space of content/conversations here, and discover new interests beyond your usual feeds 🕸️
I'll talk more about it tomorrow in my talk at #atscience #atmosphereconf!
@leonarddung.bsky.social ? :)
codeinplace.stanford.edu
Sharing this Python coding course from Stanford (bc they asked me to by email) - it's free, interactive, and entirely online. I took it 3 years ago and it was fun 🙃
Very basic/intro level so like, accessible to anyone I think
Kudos to the @teap2026.bsky.social team for the gamification of networking at the conference -
Seriously, you're amazing 💛
Including vegan chocolate, individualized psych quotes on our bags - and a bingo that says if you have the same quote as me, please find me so I can check this field. 😏
Digits of pi encoded as colours, arranged as a spiral with the symbol pi in the middle
Happy #PiDay!
Here's the first 1,000 digits of pi encoded as colours 🎨 made with #RStats
Today on #InternationalWomensDay, we celebrate outstanding women whose research spans the disciplines – from mathematical imaging to medieval diets, translations on reproductive health, designing better cities, planetary science, forensic science, and female friendships. media.leverhulme.ac.uk
📢 Our ViolEx 2.0 paper reached 1️⃣0️⃣0️⃣ citations 🥳
🎉 Congratulations to all RTG members!
🔗 doi.org/10.3389/fpsy...
Yesterday during lunch break I heard that my RTG is on bluesky now // follow @rtg2271.bsky.social 🥳
and, don't ask me how my brain works, but this made me want to make magic the gathering cards based on RTG researchers (there are magic card generators online)
I volunteer myself as an example
Call for Submissions for the Theory Methods Conference 2026, September 30-October 2! theorymethodssociety.org/conference.h...
We invite you to:
1) Submit your proposal: edu.nl/mj9x6
2) Invite your colleagues/lab/(PhD) students, and encourage them to submit
3) Share this post
The algorithmic curation of information online can exacerbate polarization and support the spread of misinformation.
This review makes the case that social media algorithms amplify content from extreme parties, especially the far right, and threatens democracy.
www.science.org/doi/full/10....
:)
We were asked to forward this petition by the national German PhD representatives, to protect diversity research and disability studies in particular:
weact.campact.de/petitions/di...
Visuel Fluctuat Nec Mergitur, Paris se souvient.
Dix ans après, Paris se souvient.
Le 13 novembre 2015, les terroristes frappaient Saint-Denis et Paris en plein cœur, sa jeunesse, sa liberté et sa joie de vivre. Ce soir-là, c’est notre humanité tout entière qui vacillait.
Tomorrow is the PhD / Postdoc day at @unimarburg.bsky.social - meet us in the uni library at 3pm, or come earlier for the welcome speech, from 2pm.
Workshops start from 4:15, no signing up required.
We're looking forward to meeting you!
This was a fabulous, once in a lifetime colloquium -- and now the videos are available in high quality on the College de France web site @college-de-france.fr
www.college-de-france.fr/fr/agenda/co...
With talks by Edvard Moser, Nancy Kanwisher, Liz Spelke, Manuela Piazza, Luca Bonatti and more!
...scary things
Actually, we recently spooked away some ghosts with warnings and other scary things (with @semihaktepe.bsky.social)
If that counts as nocebo, I got bad paradoxical effects from benzodiazepines the one time I took one - anxiety, restlessness, and more that I don't want to describe. But I never trusted benzos in the first place and thought it'd make me feel bad. 🫠
