In a nutshell. 😊

Palantir kommt in immer mehr Behörden zum Einsatz.
Die Daten werden „verknüpft“, „analysiert“, „profiliert“.
Klingt harmlos – ist es nicht.
Denn was hier entsteht, ist ein Repressionsapparat mit KI-Gütesiegel.

You can still “see” a 1100-year-old Viking frontier in England through place names. “-by” and “-thorpe” cluster in the former Danelaw, while “-ton” and “-ham” dominate elsewhere. Not a clean border, but a lasting cultural imprint. Source: buff.ly/NlTRNKY

Seminar talk Cardenas at nanogune

three visitors in the self-ass lab at nanogune

Today @nanogune.bsky.social had not only our seminar guest Marité Cárdenas Gómez from @csic.es Biofisika ...
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... but also Xiaorong "Ron" Xu from Suzhou University of Science & Technology, www.mbit.ustc.edu.cn - double lab tour 😃

Greetings to www.nanoremedi.eu and www.textadna.eu 🙃

... and we live in a fantastic city on the moon, in luxury and joy, with occasional trips to venus ntrs.nasa.gov/api/citation...

Este miércoles 22 tendré la inmensa suerte de compartir escenario con @edurneportela.bsky.social para charlar sobre derechos culturales y el papel de los libros como herramienta crítica. Nos ha juntado la Escuela Tomás y Valiente y nos veremos en la Biblioteca Ignacio Aldecoa a las 18:00. Os espero.

Das muss wohl dieser berühmte billige Strom aus 🇩🇪 AKWs sein 😉

Solidarische Grüße und Dank an die ehrenamtlich Engagierten der Bücherbox.

Wenn wir Bücher zu vergeben haben, unterstützen wir die Bücherbox am Gleis 17 am Bahnhof Grunewald, die dort eine gute, lebendige Ergänzung zum Gedenken an die Deportationen ist.

Gawge with suit&tie 😂

Attempted takeoff 🛫 from taxiway 😱
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www.youtube.com/watch?v=gVW8...

#OnThisDay 1930: the BBC's news announcer said, "there is no news" and piano music was played for the remainder of the 15 minute segment.

More days like this please

No problem, for native English speakers it is quite simple to get into #thearchers after merely a decade 😉 For those who are not, we struggle with comprehending Jazzer, Joe Grundy 😢, Emmur, suhmmtoimes even Roof, all these great accents make it a bit difficult.

‘Academic fraud may be the symptom of a much more systemic problem’ - Vox magazine OPINION - It is not surprising that a case of scientific fraud occasionally comes to light, according to associate professor Empirical Political Science Alex Lehr. ‘Many of us are doing our stinking b...

‘Academic fraud may be the symptom of a much more systemic problem’

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Hypercompetition, score compression and AI co-authorship: a perfect storm for grant success rates - EMBO Reports EMBO Reports - The use of AI in grant writing to address non-scientific selection criteria along with growing application numbers and score inflation have turned many research funding schemes...

I used the recent round of MSCA postdoc fellowship results with unprecedented cutoff scores for funding as an example, but the problem is more general and this is just a showcase. What do you think? Does it align with your experiences?

Read it here:
link.springer.com/article/10.1...

2/2

Owl koban is possibly the most well known muza-chan.net/japan/index....

The picture shows a fibula (a brooch) in the shape of an owl, decorated with enamel in different colours: The large are orange with blsck pupils, the wings are green with red circles.

A charming #Roman enamelled fibula (a pin for fastening garments) in the form of an #owl.

Found in the civilian settlement of the Saalburg fort.

Photo: Römerkastell Saalburg / Peter Knierriem

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Farbiges Plakat mit geschwungenen Linien in Rot, Blau und Weiß, Text "TU BERLIN FOR FUTURE - Die Ringvorlesung zum Klimaschutz Teil 2 (SoSe 2026)". Foto: TU Berlin

🌏 #TUBerlin for Future: Ab 20.04. findet wieder immer montags die #Klima- Ringvorlesung statt. Wissenschaftler*innen der TU & internationale Expert*innen diskutieren über Herausforderungen & Lösungsansätze im Umgang mit der #Klimakrise.
ℹ️ Programm & Anmeldung: www.tu.berlin/go277297/n86...

French woman, 86, held by ICE after moving to US to marry 1950s sweetheart The family of Marie-Thérèse, from Brittany, fear for her health after she was cuffed and placed in a detention centre

'An 86-year-old French woman who moved to the US to marry her 1950s sweetheart is being held in a crowded detention centre in Louisiana after she was arrested by immigration agents and cuffed by her hands and feet.'
www.theguardian.com/world/2026/a...

Hallucinated citations are polluting the scientific literature. What can be done? Tens of thousands of publications from 2025 might include invalid references generated by AI, a Nature analysis suggests.

"Hallucinated citations are polluting the scientific literature." AI-generated fake references are rising in scientific papers, threatening research integrity. Publishers adopt new detection tools, but scale remains unclear. #AI #Science #ResearchIntegrity

Right this instant I am sitting alone in a hotel room, analysing data and listening to #TheArchers on Sounds. I could not be any more rock n roll!

Cardinal Cupich: "We're dehumanizing the victims of war by turning the suffering of people & killing of children & our own soldiers into entertainment. To splice together movie cuts w/ actual bombings & targeting of people for purposes of entertainment is sickening. This is not who we are."

When the Shooting Stops: Securing Iran’s Nuclear Program After the War Convincing Iran to forgo nuclear weapons development may be the most difficult challenge of all.

As the war in Iran rapidly unfolds, concerns around Iran’s nuclear program and highly enriched uranium remain. Simon Thorpe covers these issues in our recent blog post.

Read it now. ⤵️
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🔭 🧪 À noter dans vos agendas

On the other hand, thinking about the fantastic images in astrophysics press releases (beautifully coloured planets) vs the real data (one noisy curve 😉), moving from mouse to human is very simple, I admit 🙂

Fantastic stuff, but please mention this is in the body (actually in the brain) of a mouse. This might be obvious to any biomed researcher, but not automatically to a chemist (🤭) or to people outside academic research.

Protest gegen Kürzungen bei Psychotherapie Mehr als tausend Menschen haben in Frankfurt gegen die beschlossenen Honorarkürzungen bei Psychotherapeuten demonstriert. Sie kritisieren, der Beruf werde abgewertet - bei gleichzeitig großer Nachfrag...

Ich bin tatsächlich glücklich. Ich habe eine wunderbare Ehe, bin erfolgreich und voll belastungsfähig in meinem Traumberuf, und kann meine Freizeit genießen. Ohne Psychotherapie wäre ich heute ein Wrack. Wenn ich überhaupt noch da wäre... #MentalHealth

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Defeated Prime Minister Viktor Orban throttled Hungary’s news media, cracked down on migrants and fought against progressive causes.

Among Orbán's many corrosive effects in Hungary, he politically strangled universities and research funding. His defeat offers the possibility of a better, more open future for Hungarian science. 🧪

www.statnews.com/2025/09/02/h...

Lincoln Square (@lincolnsquare) French senator Claude Malhuret goes off on the Trump regime.. You won't hear a better indictment of Trump and his Gulf war than this. Well worth 5 minutes of your time.

Hört es euch bitte an.

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Certainly not the metal. The oxide (magnesia) or a salt.