Philipp Markolin

“You’re heading into the most challenging era our business has ever experienced, and all of a sudden David got this thing he really wanted. And did he get there on merit or experience? No.”

The world is getting hotter faster — its pace nearly doubled in the past decade Earth is now warming at a rate of around 0.35 ºC per decade, fresh analysis finds.

Climate change is accelerating. A new paper from @rahmstorf.bsky.social and Grant Foster argues they've nailed it statistically for the first time. 🧪

www.nature.com/articles/d41...

It's really unfair to compare this to Iraq in 2003, at least then they had the decency to put some effort into their lies and deception.

How Stand Up For Science is trying to 'pull every lever' to win over the public Stand Up For Science has become a formal organization and adopted a new strategy that's more confrontational with grassroots tactics

Real change takes a movement that goes into the public square, and as @cdelawalla.bsky.social explains, the public square has expanded & requires moving beyond business-as-usual engagement. More on @standupforscience.bsky.social and its strategic calculus:

www.statnews.com/2026/03/06/s...

Well, start an deeply unpopular and entirely illegal war of aggression...

You'd think that be it with the presidency.

Instead, the dictators enjoys renewed elite support from the supposed opposition party & shows US citizens & the world how out of touch and unaccountible elites in US are.

I read about this last night and have been feeling sick about it since then. In addition to the direct violence, it tarnishes the service of every member of our military past and present, like Abu Ghraib.

War crime.

Not so hard to name it.

Stand Up for Science plans second rally on March 7 Public health chaos and research funding cuts are inspiring nationwide pro-science protests against the Trump administration

Thank you @sciam.bsky.social and @meghanbartels.bsky.social for covering the @standupforscience.bsky.social National Day of Action on March 7th!

Save Science. Protect Health. Defend Democracy.

#standupforscience

www.scientificamerican.com/article/stan...

From FT comments

Rüstungsexporte nach Israel: Die fatale Lücke Mitten im Gazakrieg bewilligte die Schweiz über hundert Exporte von Dual-Use-Gütern nach Israel. Alles gesetzeskonform, sagt das zuständige Staatssekretariat für Wirtschaft. Genau das ist das Problem.

Brisante Enthüllung @woz.ch: CH-Güter im Einsatz bei den israelischen Kriegsverbrechen in #Gaza.
Zwei der wichtigsten Firmen, Starrag AG und Fritz Studer AG, verdankt auch Putin Raketen, mit denen er die #Ukraine angreift.
@janjirat.bsky.social @lonaeg.bsky.social
www.woz.ch/2610/ruestun...

Palantir’s Double Conflict of Interest in the War Against Iran War was inevitable claimed the three most senior figures in the AI analytics firm which both provided the justification for US/Israeli strikes and profits from the conflict

But war with Iran has been good for the firm’s shareholders, its stock rising 7% in the first week of the conflict.
Palantir did not respond to request for comment.

bylinetimes.com/2026/03/05/p...

What Are Heterodox Free Speech Warriors Doing About Trump's Censorship-Industrial Complex? Nada Trump is issuing subpoenas demanding social media platforms hand over data about ICE protesters but the 'Twitter Files' agitators couldn't care less

The "Twitter Files" crowd spent years warning about a censorship industrial complex. Now DHS is using administrative subpoenas to unmask anonymous critics of ICE—bypassing judges entirely. The "free speech warriors" have nothing to say.

We have let @raskin.house.gov's team know that he can only select *one* (1) historical text to lecture on this year! Meet you on the National Mall on Saturday to see which one he chooses!

Isn't it much cheaper to give patients new antibiotics that work for bacterial issues, rather than long hospital stays?

...

I swear, once we knew all of that stuff.

But I guess socialism...

Ihm gehört Zürich: Henning Conle, 82, Immobilien-Milliardär, mutmasslicher AfD-Unterstützer Henning Conle hat sich in Zürich unbemerkt von der Öffentlichkeit ein Immobilienimperium aufgebaut. Bekannt wurde er erst in den letzten Jahren als mutmasslicher Spender der AfD.

(1) Hinter Rechtsextremisten stehen häufig Milliardäre. (2) Niemand sollte soviel besitzen dürfen.

I, too, sit with lots of rage.

But I also stand up with rage!

JOIN US MARCH 7th! NATIONWIDE! Let’s pull every lever. Together.

Notably, the union endorsed a scathing declaration of grievances about Bhattacharya’s leadership.

Shouldn't the headline actually be:

Why the mainstream media is hungry for war? (&therefor amplifies the lone voices of outliers, hawks or regime sycophants?)

How many headlines about "illegal by international law & unconstitutional by US law" have you seen versus this performative garbage?

3 DAYS TILL STAND UP FOR SCIENCE TAKE BACK OUR SCIENCE RALLY NATIONAL DAY OF ACTION

In just 3 days, the Take Back our Science Rally hits the streets in Washington DC and all across the country! Join a local rally, or if notning's nearby, start your own pop-up rally. Details at zurl.co/NUhkK
(1/2🧵)

#science
#standupforscience
#rally
#March7

Tagesschau bisher ebenfalls ohne Korrektur.

@cdelawalla.bsky.social insists that legacy science institutions need to wake up and realise that keeping their heads down to maintain funding is not productive.

🗣️ "NIH is going to be the research arm of MAHA!"

Clip: youtube.com/shorts/m6ibo...
Full talk: youtube.com/watch?v=KDTt...

🧪⚛️

CEO of @standupforscience.bsky.social @cdelawalla.bsky.social explains how the Trump admin's attacks on sci forced her to act.

Fighting back is not "politicising science".

🗣️ "I wasn't the one who banned f*cking words!"

Clip: youtube.com/shorts/RPMf9...
Full talk: youtube.com/watch?v=KDTt...

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Please to announce that University of Pennsylvania Professor @michaelemann.bsky.social will offer a keynote discussion about systemic science and climate risks from disinformation and platforms that amplify its reach at the Cambridge Disinformation Summit.

earth.sas.upenn.edu/people/micha...

Little teaser for our upcoming episode with @lewan.bsky.social

"Stickly lies and engineer beliefs"

Airs Friday, 5pm UK on YouTube and the RSS will be on your favorite podcatchers.

Steve had a lot of insightful things to say about algorithms, heuristics, our info ecosystem and democracy.

China’s 450km/h bullet train is the fastest ever built Dart between Beijing and Shanghai in under four hours, with airline-like business class comfort.

China is testing a train that will go 280mph, making it the fastest conventional train in the world.

The US can't get its shit together to build a single new line.

Large-scale online deanonymization with LLMs We show that large language models can be used to perform at-scale deanonymization. With full Internet access, our agent can re-identify Hacker News users and Anthropic Interviewer participants at hig...

Delete your socks, people.

"We show that large language models can be used to perform
at-scale deanonymization...at high precision, given pseudonymous online profiles and conversations alone, matching what would take hours for a dedicated human investigator."

They have religious exemptions. That means the parents are liars, tbc, because no major religions object to vaccines…but they do usually have moral objections to lying!

People lying ab their religion are putting other people’s kids & the broader community at risk in schools w/21% MMR uptake rates.

The new pandemic that was not How information about an outbreak of respiratory disease in China in late 2023 was distorted by politically-motivated media. In late 2023, The Free Press, an online outlet founded by Bari Weiss, publi...

Do you remember the other pandemic that started in China in late 2023?
Probably not, and for a good reason: it did not happen.

The alarm was due to misinformation coming from a Falun Gong-linked outlet, laundered through other media. ▫️1/7 #covidorigin

We Need To Rewild The Internet  | NOEMA The internet has become an extractive and fragile monoculture. But we can revitalize it using lessons learned by ecologists.

If you're at #Rebuild thinking about the nature-inspired "richness over reach", you might enjoy: www.noemamag.com/we-need-to-r...