Tijd voor taart en slingers. We hebben zojuist succesvol het account van @NRC gemigreerd van mastodon.nl naar onze eigen server nrc.social. Tegen de vrijwilligers achter mastodon.nl zeg ik: dank voor de goede zorgen! I'll take it from here. Overigens blijft het devies dat we klein beginnen. Ik […]

Personally ( @zeno4ever ) I am excited to see this maker, Koppelting is showing (WIP) "The MicroLab", a DIY lab reactor device to make your own (small molecule) medicine.

Full program HackFest on https://hackfest.nl/program/

Still 2 days left you can buy […]

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From bioRxiv to PNAS! 🎉

Very happy to see our paper “Diversity and spatial segregation of TRP channels in the closest relatives of animals” now published in @pnas.org.

Another piece in the puzzle of how animal cell signalling evolved.

www.pnas.org/doi/10.1073/...

Der Aufruf von @SafeguardingResearch ist (ohne Überraschung) seit gestern noch dringlicher und wichtiger geworden:
https://safeguar.de/src_sachsen-anhalt/

Nominiert weiter Webseiten zur Archivierung (~30 [Update: >50 [Update2: >150]] haben wir schon).
Aber vor allem: Weist Leute in bedrohten […]

Naive Frage: sammelt sich die deutschsprachige #Fledermaus-Fangemeinde eher unter dem Hashtag #Flediverse oder #Fledermaustodon?

(Dieser Tröt entstand aus Verzweiflung, weil der 5-Jährige den ganzen Nachmittag "Fledi Fledermaus" von Hurra Kinderlieder gesungen hat. Eltern wissen ggf. schon […]

The new #Mispel law in Germany provides clear pathway for home batteries including bidirectional EV chargers to feed into the grid and avoid double grid charges.

The existing EVs on German roads already have enough battery capacity to cover the entire national electricity demand for two hours […]

Taifun Surigae, aufgenommen von einem europäischen Sentinel-Erdbeobachtungssatelliten am 28.9..Der Radar misst, wie aufgewühlt das Meer unter dem Sturm ist (orange: sehr, blau wenig).
In der aktuellen Frankfurter Allgemeinen Sonntagszeitung gibt es von mir […]

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De #NRC, one of the main newspapers in the #Netherlands, set up its own Mastodon server!

Journalist @MarloesdeKoning played a key role in this development.

We believe journalists and academics have a special responsibility to start building the alternative networks of the future. Step by step […]

Today we had the most unusual PhD defense of my career. Leon Houben fell 15 m in the Alps, landing on his head and loosing his memory while working on his PhD thesis. When he met me again, he had to google me. He had to re-learn everything and wrote two more […]

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Today my son did not want to get out of the bathtub. So my wife improvised a serenade about bathing. He exited the tub in less then a minute. What is your parenting hack?

#fediparents

Edit: Slides are published https://shield.tib.eu/events/berlin-fediday-2026/

Recording: https://fair.tube/w/uQCVZArwr6BitUCbmTfeWJ

At #FediDay, @julian presents how multiple #SciOp-instances could federate via ActivityPub 💜

If you want to check it out, here is […]

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RE: https://fosstodon.org/@napari/117334208794998643

#GetFediHired #SciPy #visualization

I'm surprised a community of publishing writers can blame AI for the problems of peer review when those same writers cite our study, "the strain on scientific publishing", which characterizes how this problem existed before AI.

bit.ly/StrainQSS

It's the incentives structure, not the AI. 1/n

@lavaeolus note that this implies that the current BS going on in the world can be summarized as "the grinddown" ("der Abschliff"), and by refusing it you can construct an identity as "Abschliffverweiger*in" (grinddown refuser).
I hope that sounds encouraging enough :)

@lavaeolus Abschleifungsverunmöglichung! (Derived from: Don't let the bastards grind you down")

@lavaeolus Fahrradkettengefühl (von: "Hätte hätte, Fahrradkette").
Or slightly less snarky: Weltverbesserungseinsforderung?

Our new Nature paper has just come out! Here, we analyse #genomic and #morphological datasets across all 21 bat families to greatly advance our understanding of how #bats 🦇 evolved.

Enjoy! https://www.nature.com/articles/s41586-026-11007-3