Farbbild. Detailaufnahme des Fahrradpedals aus poliertem Aluminium mit Riemen zur Stabilisierung des Fußes. Metall und Leder zeigen Gebrauchsspuren.

'Gebrauchsspuren' #FotoVorschlag

Nur so ein Gedanke. Wenn Merz jetzt den Sozialstaat komplett zerlegt, dann wäre es ja unsinnig danach alles wieder kleinteilig aufzubauen. Es wäre der perfekte Moment groß zu denken und ein bedingungsloses Grundeinkommen einzuführen.
#BGE = Bürokratieabbau, Freiheit & Menschenwürde

Home UN Web TV is available 24 hours a day with selected LIVE programming of United Nations meetings and events as well as with pre-recorded video features and documentaries on various global issues.

All four official candidates for the next UN Secretary General will be holding televised three-hour interactive dialogues with the UN diplomats today and tomorrow—Michelle Bachelet, 10-1 today; Rafael Grossi, 3-6 today; Rebeca Grynspan and Macky Sall at those times tomorrow. webtv.un.org/en

Color photograph of Dr. Dianne K. Newman (born 1971), the pioneering American molecular microbiologist and geobiologist whose interdisciplinary research at the California Institute of Technology has transformed our understanding of microbial metabolism in oxygen-poor environments, ancient Earth geochemistry, and modern applications in chronic infections and sustainable ecosystems. In the image, Newman appears in a warm, close-up head-and-shoulders composition, positioned slightly right of center and looking directly at the viewer with a gentle, knowing smile and bright, intelligent eyes framed by rectangular black glasses. Her dark, wavy, shoulder-length hair falls naturally around her face. She wears a simple black V-neck top, a delicate gold chain with a small heart-shaped pendant and small pearl stud earrings. The background is a softly blurred laboratory or research office setting filled with wooden shelves, glassware, bottles, scientific equipment, and storage containers—evoking the active, hands-on environment where her groundbreaking work takes place. The lighting is natural and even, highlighting her face while keeping the scientific surroundings visible but unobtrusive.

Caltech molecular microbiologist & geobiologist Dianne Newman launched the field of molecular geomicrobiology, which explores how microorganisms have shaped Earth's evolution over billions of years.

+ MacArthur "Genius" Fellow, 2016
+ Elected, National Academy of Sciences, 2019

#WomenInSTEM

coral peony.

Almost everything we argue about is a substitute for the thing we should be arguing about: the immense wealth & power of an oligarchic class, which captures governments, ruins lives and wrecks the living planet.
This class redirects our rage at scapegoats. To resist its lies is to resist its power.

Detailaufnahme einer steinernen Schwelle die durch langen Gebrauch/Abrieb mit einer Trittmulde vertieft ist. Darüber der Ausschnitt einer verzierten Holztür.

'Gebrauchsspuren' #FotoVorschlag

'Gebrauchsspuren' #FotoVorschlag

Nahaufnahme eines grünen Chamäleons auf einem Ast.

'Farbe: Grün (keine Pflanzen)' #FotoVorschlag

Ein Rosenkäfer auf einer geschlossenen Blüte. Er glänzt grün in der Sonne, mit Blütenstaub bedeckt.

'Farbe: Grün (keine Pflanzen)' #FotoVorschlag

Farbbild. Ein Indischer Halsbandsittich (Psittacula krameri manillensis, ein Weibchen, ohne Halsband) sitzt auf einem Metallrahmen vor unscharfem Hintergrund (Dächer und rostrote Kamine). Hellgrünes Brustgefieder und das dunklere Grǔn der Flügeln kontrastieren mit dem intensiv roten Schnabel. Sie schaut mit rot umrandeten Auge direkt in die Kamera.

'Farbe: Grün (keine Pflanzen)' #FotoVorschlag

Pariser Halsbandsittichin

Fahrrad Richtung Meer.

Globe showing the Atlantic Ocean with arrows depicting the AMOC circulation: warm surface currents (pink/red) flowing northward from the tropics toward the Arctic, and cold deep return currents (blue/purple) flowing southward. The background shows sea surface temperature trends, with a prominent blue cold patch, the "cold blob", south of Greenland, contrasting with warming (orange/red) across the rest of the ocean.

1/ There's a system of ocean currents in the Atlantic that shapes Europe's #climate, drives monsoons, and keeps sea levels stable along the US coast.

In the last 5 years, the scientific evidence that it could collapse has shifted dramatically.

Most people have no idea. 🧵

Think if they will be loaded with humanoid robots…

Because we get asked a lot. The Technological Republic, in brief. 1. Silicon Valley owes a moral debt to the country that made its rise possible. The engineering elite of Silicon Valley has an affirmative obligation to participate in the defense of the nation. 2. We must rebel against the tyranny of the apps. Is the iPhone our greatest creative if not crowning achievement as a civilization? The object has changed our lives, but it may also now be limiting and constraining our sense of the possible. 3. Free email is not enough. The decadence of a culture or civilization, and indeed its ruling class, will be forgiven only if that culture is capable of delivering economic growth and security for the public.

4. The limits of soft power, of soaring rhetoric alone, have been exposed. The ability of free and democratic societies to prevail requires something more than moral appeal. It requires hard power, and hard power in this century will be built on software. 5. The question is not whether A.I. weapons will be built; it is who will build them and for what purpose. Our adversaries will not pause to indulge in theatrical debates about the merits of developing technologies with critical military and national security applications. They will proceed. 6. National service should be a universal duty. We should, as a society, seriously consider moving away from an all-volunteer force and only fight the next war if everyone shares in the risk and the cost. 7. If a U.S. Marine asks for a better rifle, we should build it; and the same goes for software. We should as a country be capable of continuing a debate about the appropriateness of military action abroad while remaining unflinching in our commi

8. Public servants need not be our priests. Any business that compensated its employees in the way that the federal government compensates public servants would struggle to survive. 9. We should show far more grace towards those who have subjected themselves to public life. The eradication of any space for forgiveness—a jettisoning of any tolerance for the complexities and contradictions of the human psyche—may leave us with a cast of characters at the helm we will grow to regret. 10. The psychologization of modern politics is leading us astray. Those who look to the political arena to nourish their soul and sense of self, who rely too heavily on their internal life finding expression in people they may never meet, will be left disappointed. 11. Our society has grown too eager to hasten, and is often gleeful at, the demise of its enemies. The vanquishing of an opponent is a moment to pause, not rejoice.

12. The atomic age is ending. One age of deterrence, the atomic age, is ending, and a new era of deterrence built on A.l. is set to begin. 13. No other country in the history of the world has advanced progressive values more than this one. The United States is far from perfect. But it is easy to forget how much more opportunity exists in this country for those who are not hereditary elites than in any other nation on the planet. 14. American power has made possible an extraordinarily long peace. Too many have forgotten or perhaps take for granted that nearly a century of some version of peace has prevailed in the world without a great power military conflict. At least three generations — billions of people and their children and now grandchildren — have never known a world war. 15. The postwar neutering of Germany and Japan must be undone. The defanging of Germany was an overcorrection for which Europe is now paying a heavy price. A similar and highly theatrical commitment to Japanese

Ein Softwareunternehmen ruft öffentlich zur Errichtung einer neuen Weltordnung auf, garniert mit Positionen, die man nur rechtsextrem nennen kann.

Diese Software hat in deutschen Behörden NICHTS verloren.

'Farbe: Grün (keine Pflanzen)' #FotoVorschlag

peony.

peony.

Leonie Schöler im Gespräch "Erinnerungspolitik ist Identitätspolitik"

In unserem Newsletter III/2026 sprechen wir zum Thema mit Leonie Schöler über "Beklaute Frauen".

'Einsamkeit' #FotoVorschlag

A mugshot registration photograph from Auschwitz. A man with a shaved head wearing a striped uniform photographed in three positions (profile and front with bare head and a photo with a slightly turned head with a hat on). The prisoner number is visible on a marking board on the left.

18 April 1914 | A Polish Jew, Hermann Kleinmüntz, was born in Krakow. A hairdresser.

In #Auschwitz from 3 April 1942.
No. 28798
He perished in the camp on 30 June 1942.
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🎧/📖 Our podcast talks about the situation of Polish & Jewish prisoners in the camp: https://bit.ly/46t6L5w

In its tech and in its eugenics, Silicon Valley has such a sad mechanical notion of what intelligence is, one bereft of moral beauty, emotional intelligence, intuition, etc. But in a more meaningful definition of intelligence the titans of industry would discover their own bereftness and dimness.

„Demontage des Sozialstaates“: Merz-Regierung plant massive Einschnitte für Menschen mit Behinderung, Kinder und Familien Ein Leak empört: Demnach plant die Koalition radikale Kürzungen bei der Teilhabe. Vorschläge kommen aus dem SPD-geführten Arbeitsministerium.

"Kein einziger Vorschlag fragt, was die (…) Einschnitte für die betroffenen Menschen bedeuten. Kein einziger Vorschlag erwägt, ob die Einsparung den Schaden rechtfertigt. Das Dokument behandelt Sozialleistungen wie Haushaltsposten. Die Menschen, die auf sie angewiesen sind, kommen darin nicht vor."

„Näher am Kipppunkt“: Atlantikströmung AMOC schwächt sich stärker ab als gedacht – mit verheerenden Folgen Die atlantische Umwälzzirkulation AMOC verliert deutlich mehr an Kraft als bisher angenommen. Wissenschaftler warnen vor dramatischen Folgen.

Ein "wissenschaftliches Alarmsignal": die neue Studie der französischen Kollegen zur Atlantikströmung #AMOC. 🌊
Hört es jemand? 😨
www.fr.de/wissen/atlan...

'Der Weg ist das Ziel' #FotoVorschlag

Berufswahl bei Jugendlichen: Ein Plädoyer für die Geisteswissenschaften Studier was Richtiges, hören junge Personen oft und damit sind selten Geisteswissenschaften gemeint. Obwohl man da kritisch denken lernt. Ein Plädoyer.

"Big MINT is scamming us. Bildung an sich ist ein Wert. Wer profitiert davon, wenn niemand mehr kritisch denken lernt?"

True, wenn aber alle #KI nutzen – dies geht auch raus an die Kolleg*innen, die selbst KI hypen (danke für nichts) – lernt man auch kein kritisches Denken.

taz.de/Berufswahl-b...

Kinder sind in Deutschland so wichtig, dass man sie in der Pandemie erst vergessen hat und danach dann Jugendhilfe und Psychotherapie kürzt.

Danke für Nichts.

Sorry. I mean that insects need that we
1. stop using toxins
2. stop growing invasive and non-native crops like sunflowers in Europe with toxins.

Bacteria > Fungi > Plants > Insects > Birds & Mammals

"Now biologists are warning of a microbial extinction event"

Canaries in coal mines. I had to get out of the Minecraft while I still can. The UK lost 63% of all insect biomass in three years 2021-2024. I don’t need to document what will happen to bats and swifts any further.

Endlich haben Medien den Geruch des BER unter dem Wind wahrgenommen.