Constant threats and backlash undermine women's rights around the globe, but women still continue to fight against repression.
This International Women's Day, we honor the courage of those working to improve the lives of women and girls everywhere. #IWD26 #InternationalWomensDay
Katherina Reiche steht vor dem Scherbenhaufen ihrer Energiepolitik. Der Gaspreis an der europäischen Börse hat sich jetzt verdoppelt (+100%) gegenüber dem Stand vor Beginn des Iran-Kriegs.
Die offene Frage ist, wie hoch wird er noch gehen, wenn die Straße von Hormuz weiterhin geschlossen bleibt?
‘No one quite like her’: meet the female colleagues who inspire these award-winning women in science
To mark International Women’s Day, Nature asked winners of its awards programmes to nominate a colleague who brings out the best in them.
www.nature.com/articles/d41...
This is truly disgusting
Started updating friends and family about the situation. There's bigger discussions about AI use in general - but if you must use it, don't give OpenAI your money
Genuine question: what's a good use case for a double-y-axis plot in a scientific studie?
I have not yet seen a case where visual correlation of features outweighs the confusion about which axis refers to what info (bonus points if one starts at 0 and the other doesn't)
The technique is cool, but definitely missing number of PSMs and a quantitative analysis here (precision, accuracy, extreme ratios, dilution experiment etc). Difficult to say how this would translate to a real biological study
A major Pentagon–Anthropic showdown is underway. The Pentagon is pushing for Claude to enable mass AI surveillance + autonomous drones, threatening a supply-chain-risk label or a defense production act takeover if they don’t.
Ultimatum was issued for tomorrow.
Anthropic just refused.
Confused about the seemingly contradictory reporting on transgender topics these days? Consider giving Erin a follow, she and her team do amazing work fact-checking stories and contextualizing mainstream news
not inspiring a lot of confidence www.404media.co/meta-directo...
What’s happening with American media, American education, and America’s approach to places like Greenland & Honduras harmonizes with the “network state” movement (backed by Thiel, Lonsdale, Andreessen, etc), which calls for the construction of “parallel institutions” and “parallel societies”. 1/
“We can’t be shrinking away from this space,” say the scientists combating misinformation by taking strategies from the influencer playbook.
Good feature on what's involved in getting very online by @catrionaclarke.bsky.social @nature.com www.nature.com/articles/d41...
1/ Finally wrote up “The Story of Mendeley”! Most people know the tool, few know about its rise and fall. The Mendeley story provides important clues for how to build self-sustaining AND non-extractive knowledge commons, which is why I think it deserves more attention 🧵
no foreign foe has ever dreamed of being able to sack and pillaging this country the way Trump admin and its congressional and scotus enablers do every day.
AI agent goes nuts on open source maintainer after having its pull request denied. This is a pretty insane story. Open source development as we've been used to for the last few decades is likely over. 1/
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🚨 Registration Opens 15th February!
Join us in Madrid on 16th April 2026 for the 3rd Annual Proteomics Gathering.
📍 Facultad de Farmacia, Universidad Complutense de Madrid, Spain
💶 Free event
🗓 16 April 2026
#APG2026 #YPIC #Proteomics
📢 Mark your calendars!
We’re excited to announce the EuBIC-MS 2027 Hackathon!
📍 Gimo, Sweden
📅 31 January – 5 February 2027
💡 Have a hackathon idea?
The call for topic proposals is now open on the EuBIC GitHub repository: github.com/EuBIC/EuBIC2...
We’re looking forward to seeing you there!
New Yorkers return Pride flag to Stonewall after Trump administration removed it reut.rs/4qCvPyh
Das schlimmste Wort, das mir dort begegnet ist: Klima-Keulung (climate culling).
Natürlich wissen die Herrschaften ganz genau Bescheid über Planetare Grenzen. Ihre Antwort darauf ist in ähnlich abartiger Form verfasst, wie auch ihr sonstiger Umgang mit Menschen.
„Wählerinnen und Wähler haben das Gefühl, dass Politik sich nicht darum bemüht, gute Rahmenbedingungen zu schaffen. Stattdessen wird irgendetwas erzählt, um an die Macht zu kommen – und dabei gleich miterzählt, dass alle das so machen würden.“
#Vertrauensverlust
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I was getting my MPH in environmental health when the endangerment finding first allowed EPA to regulate greenhouse gases. The harm of climate change to health is real and disproportionately born by marginalized communities.
It’s gutting to see us go backwards.
www.nytimes.com/2026/02/09/c...
It is absolutely outrageous that Moderna’s flu vaccine was met with a “refusal-to-file” even after their approved their protocol with FDA and carried out the trial as agreed. This vaccine works better in older adults than the current flu vaccines.
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Newly released files from the investigation of convicted sex offender Jeffrey Epstein reveal that his ties to the scientific community were deeper than previously known
go.nature.com/4r4eUFD
No joke: I got angry hate mail today for writing an obituary of a Black woman scientist—because the person felt she did didn’t deserve the recognition.
Which just makes me want to share it again: www.nature.com/articles/d41...
Kompromisse sind keine News, Konflikte dagegen schon - so jedenfalls tickt der Journalismus bisher. #
In der neuen Folge NEU DENKEN spricht Julia Reuschenbach mit Maja Göpel darüber, warum und wie wir Kompromisse wieder wertschätzen.
The big tech founder whose 417-foot, $500 million superyacht needs a 256-foot, $75 million superyacht to "shadow" it -- because the bigger yacht lacks a helipad -- had to cut his paper's newsroom almost in half, for reasons
This is an intentional demolition of a very important check on power & lies. Selection of who got fired not random.
Marissa J. Lang @Marissa Jae X.com I was laid off today by The Washington Post. I'm proud of the work I have done at this place — not just the award-winning work, but the stories that spurred change, that were steeped in this beautiful local community. Job tips welcome. DMs open. Or: marissalang(@)gmail(dot)com 9:15 AM • 2/4/26 • 76K Views
The Washington Post Sign in Marissa J. Lang Washington, D.C. Enterprise reporter Marissa J. Lang is an enterprise reporter for The Washington Post focused on high-impact stories in the D.C.region. She previously covered housing and gentrification, zeroing in on the affordable housing crisis, homelessness and the transformation of cities. She joined The Post in 2018 as its lead protest reporter. Her coverage of domestic extremism and the violence that led to the Jan. 6, 2021, attack on the U.S. Capitol culminated in her on-the-ground reporting of the insurrection and its aftermath. Marissa was part of the team of journalists recognized with a Pulitzer Prize for Public Service
WaPo laid off one of the journalists who won a 2022 Pulitzer Prize for reporting on the January 6th attack on the Capitol.
