Is social media dying? How much did Twitter change as it became X? Which party now dominates the conversation?

Using nationally representative ANES data from 2020 & 2024, I map how the U.S. social media landscape has changed

Here are the key take-aways 🧵

Full paper out now in in JQD:DM!

A color, macrophoto of a Robin perched on a branch in Virginia, during late April, 2026. The capture was taken during rain and the photographer snapped the photo at the split second a raindrop fell on the top of the bird's head, making it appear like a "natural" crown. 📸 Dawn Denise Boyer of Gloucester, Virginia

#WonderfulBirdWednesday

Right in the middle of rain, the photo was captured the split second a droplet of water landed on the #Robins head like a crown! 👑
04/2026

#Birds #Nature
#FlawlessTiming 🌟
#FMSPAD
#SomethingThatFlies
#Birdsky #Wildlife
#Photography
#BirdPhotography
#Macrophotography

A juvenile jack fish wears a jellyfish like a helmet immune to its sting, it uses the jellyfish for protection while drifting in the open ocean at night. [📹 Chris Gug]

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Europe Chose Greek Deficits Over Hungarian Democracy In April 2010, the EU betrayed Greece and enabled Orbán — and has yet to reckon with either.

Europe Chose Greek Deficits Over Hungarian Democracy

Antiquities from US collection returned to Greece | eKathimerini.com The children of two prominent American art collectors have voluntarily returned to Greece five Greek antiquities acquired by their parents in the 1970s and 80s, the Culture Ministry said Tuesday.

The children of two prominent American art collectors have voluntarily returned to Greece five Greek antiquities acquired by their parents in the 1970s and 80s, the Culture Ministry said Tuesday

www.ekathimerini.com/culture/1301...

Nordic overturning increases as AMOC weakens in response to global warming Abstract. The Atlantic Meridional Overturning Circulation (AMOC) is weakening in response to global warming, while the Nordic Seas Overturning Circulation (NOC) is projected to strengthen. So far, the...

New paper published today that was led by some awesome students who did their master theses with us. We find an increase in Nordic seas overturning as the AMOC weakens due to global warming 🌊

Antarctic Meltwater‐Stratification Feedback Is Less Pronounced Under High Climate Forcing Sub-surface ocean temperature increase due to additional Antarctic meltwater input weakens under strong climate warming Climate warming weakens vertical overturning in the Southern Ocean, making ...

We're on a roll this week! New paper from us: simulations from a coupled climate-ice sheet model show the meltwater stratification feedback is less pronounced under global warming
🌊❄️

Hier, unterschreibt das bitte, wenn ihr eure Daten nicht von Alexander Dobrindt an amerikanische Protofaschisten verschieben lassen wollt!
weact.campact.de/petitions/st...

Screenshot eines Artikels der taz mit der Überschrift „Aus eins mach 140 Demonstrierende“. Im Untertitel wird beschrieben, dass ein 16-Jähriger bei einer Querdenken-Demo spricht und viral geht. Darunter ein Foto: Ein junger Mann steht allein auf einem gepflasterten Weg vor einem Schulgebäude mit gelber Fassade. Er trägt einen grauen Hoodie, dunkle Hose und weiße Schuhe, blickt ernst in die Kamera. Links sind Treppenstufen und Geländer zu sehen, rechts Grünflächen mit Bäumen und Sträuchern.

Ein Jahr maximal.demokratisch. Heute vor einem Jahr bin ich mit ziemlich viel Herzklopfen auf die Montagsdemo der Querdenker gegangen und habe einfach gesagt, was mir seit Wochen durch den Kopf ging. Ein Jahr später: keine Sekunde bereut. Das war erst der Anfang.

Anthropic secretly installs spyware when you install Claude Desktop — That Privacy Guy! Anthropic's Claude Desktop silently installs a Native Messaging bridge into seven Chromium browsers, including browsers Anthropic's own documentation says it does not support, and browsers the user ha...

Die Claude Desktop app installiert still und heimlich Spyware mit.

Ja, coole Sache! 🤡

www.thatprivacyguy.com/blog/anthrop...

#AbolishAI

A group of people standing in the sun next to water. They laugh and have paddles in their hands.

Any ocean (biogeochemical) modeller wants to be part of this fun crowd for a while?

We're hiring a 🧪 PostDoc at @awi.de to assess carbon pathways into the interior 🌊 ocean and timescales of carbon sequestration with Lagrangian tools.

jobs.awi.de/Vacancies/21...

#hiring #scijobs #oceanpeak

Ja🫩

👩‍🔬Next Thursday: Girls’ Day in Physics 💫
Join us and explore the world of physics. I will share my path into science and what cool things we do with it 😊
#GirlsDay #girlpower
@uniheidelberg.bsky.social

www.physik.uni-heidelberg.de/girlsday

Wir können wirklich aufhören Unwissen, Dummheit oder Unfähigkeit zu unterstellen.
Es ist offenbar Bösartigkeit, Rassismus, Hass auf alle, die nicht mittanzen, Sozialstaat Zerstörung, Ignoranz ggü Gesetzen, Gerichten und Grundrechten, Fossilhörigkeit und Schutz der reichsten 10%.
Keine Entschuldigung

Was ein Erfolg: die Klimabewegung ist mit Schwung & neuer Breite in der Öffentlichkeit zurück.

Über 80.000 haben bundesweit klar gemacht, dass die Verteidigung der Energiewende ein Gemeinschaftsprojekt ist und Reiches fossile Lobbypolitik auf massiven Widerstand trifft.

Die Zukunft ist erneuerbar!

Demo-Schild: Ich will Habeck zurück!

Die Lehre aus den Demos für die #Energiewende und gegen Frau Reiche: Wir ALLE wollen Robert Habeck zurück ‼️💚✊

Telling that the people demanding office working because human contact is vital now want to replace their employees with AI.

Very happy to get this one out after having the data and draft for >10 years!

Frontiers | The effects of shell size and mass on trace element incorporation in different species of planktonic foraminifera

Got bored tonight, so I downloaded 3 hours worth of Earthcam replay / archive footage from their Skydeck camera atop of the Willis Tower (Sears Tower) in Chicago and made a time lapse of the fog rolling in off Lake Michigan. Good illustration of how our atmosphere behaves like any other fluid. #ilwx

Kudos that you co-authors finished the paper!

Significant Southern Hemisphere contribution to the Indonesian Throughflow over the last 800,000 years - Nature Communications A sedimentary δ15N record from the Banda Sea shows a higher contribution and a more direct pathway from southern high latitudes to the Indonesian Throughflow over the past 800,000 years than previousl...

New paper on the contribution of Southern Hemisphere source waters to the Indonesian Throughflow (ITF) over the last 800,000 years, led by the late Markus Kienast. 🌊🌏🧪

Out now in Nature Communications @natcomms.nature.com

Full article: www.nature.com/articles/s41...

Not once in the 80s, 90s or 00s do I recall a politician urging the public to embrace email, mobile phones, texting, two factor authentication, online banking, air fryers, or to replace all their cassette collection with a CD collection.

So forgive me if I smell a rat.

Putins Russland: Lebensqualität für viele Menschen furchtbar, viele tausend in den Tod getrieben, in mafiösen Militär-Strukturen. Trumps USA: sinnlose Kriege provozieren eine globale Wirtschaftskrise. Wenn wir in Europa die Verbündeten dieser Figuren wählen, sind wir wirklich selber Schuld.

ERC President explains stricter application measures amid rising demand for funding The text of an open letter sent by ERC President Maria Leptin to ERC panel members, grantees and other stakeholders on 16 April 2026.

The number of grant applications is rising sharply. Our capacity for their evaluation isn’t.

ERC President Maria Leptin explains why stricter resubmission limits are being introduced for 2027 calls and what they mean for applicants.

🔗 link.europa.eu/xF7kjc

This is very true! And as the research on the issue shows and as the Hungarian example confirms, and the Polish one before that, the key to large turnout is long-term, grass-roots organizational labor that helps people understand how their single vote is a dignified part of a larger transformation.

posted 14, 2024
𝕋𝕣𝕖𝕟𝕥 𝕞𝕚𝕔𝕒𝕝𝕝𝕖𝕗
"The moment this southern right mother and calf accompanied by a pod of dolphins. As they curiously approached these surfers 4 yrs ago, still blows my mind"

Frankreichs Plan: Weg von Windows, hin zu Linux Frankreichs Verwaltung soll weg von Windows und US-Tools: Die Regierung legt einen konkreten Fahrplan für digitale Souveränität vor.

Frankreich hat einen konkreten Fahrplan für digitale Souveränität vorgelegt. Weg von Windows hin zu Linux.

Bei uns gibt es vor allem "Könnte man mal vielleicht irgendwann machen" - Durchhalteparolen. Das reicht nicht.

Mehr Schleswig-Holstein wagen.

www.heise.de/news/Frankre...

Endlich machen statt nur reden: Windows raus, Linux rein. Das ist der Plan der französischen Verwaltung.

Zum Artikel: heise.de/-11251566

Wise words from Spain's Prime Minister: “The momentary relief cannot make us forget the chaos, the destruction, and the lives lost. The govt of Spain will not applaud those who set the world on fire just because they show up with a bucket. What is needed now: diplomacy, international law and PEACE.”

Irgendwie gefallen mir Spanische Politiker immer besser. 👍
Die zeigen echt Rückgrat.
Das sollte auch der Weg der EU sein.
Haltung und Rückgrat zeigen, so läuft man nämlich auch nicht Gefahr auf einer Schleimspur sich das Genick zu brechen.