I had the fantastic opportunity to interview @firefoxx66.bsky.social for our @unibas.ch magazine UNI NOVA. Her voice should be heard, not only in Switzerland but especially in the US: www.unibas.ch/en/News-Even...
Quokkas am Montag!
Eine simple Strichmännchen-Zeichnung: Links steht eine Figur mit beiden Händen an den Kopf gefasst, die laut “Aaaaaaaah!!!” schreit. Ein Zickzack-Blitz symbolisiert den Schrei. Rechts stehen zwei andere Strichmännchen. Das eine sagt zum anderen: “Er spricht aus, was viele denken.” Die Zeichnung ist mit “@kriegundfreitag” signiert.
Hier eine erste Analyse der Situation.
Protestbanner und Transparente an einer Kundgebung mit Aufschriften wie „Qualität statt Häppchen“
„So bad even introverts are here!” - Protest gegen die Sparmassnahmen beim SRF, denen u.a. das Wissenschaftsmagazin zum Opfer fallen soll. Weil Hörer:innen angeblich kürzere Wortbeiträge wollen. Und das in Zeiten, in denen Podcasts boomen und Einordnung wichtiger ist denn je.
Die Situation für die Wissenschaft in den USA unter Trump ist sehr besorgniserregend. Vielen Dank an Irène Dietschi @SRF für die Berichterstattung über dieses wichtige Thema!
(Beginn 18:50) (Deutsch)
www.srf.ch/audio/wissen...
Wissenschaftler:innen der ETH und der Universitäten Bern, Zürich, St. Gallen und Basel haben eine Petition gegen die geplanten Sparmassnahmen beim Wissenschaftsjournalismus von SRF.
Hier unterschreiben!⬇️
openpetition.eu/!sciencejour...
Image with text that reads: It's happening now: I know it's totally overwhelming but here are just a handful of things happening in US Science & public health RIGHT NOW. I need you to know, so you can realise how you are being defrauded from a healthy, disease free future, with thriving science. I need you to know, so you can tell others.
Huge thanks to my sister for helping put these together.
Image with text that reads: It's happening now: - All US health meetings around the world remain cancelled indefinitely. This includes critical ones on ‘bird flu,’ flu vaccines, and seasonal flu - and things like the recent Ebola case in Uganda, and other global health crises. Disease respects no borders. To combat disease we must benefit from and contribute to international information and dialogue. (Source: Reuters)
Image with text that reads: It's happening now: The NIH (National Institute of Health) has issued guidance to terminate all contracts or grants that include 'gender ideology'. This includes using the word 'gender' according to the memo issued. That means potentially all studies that say 'gender: M/F' instead of 'sex: M/F' on a survey or intake form could be cancelled. It could also impact studies specifically designed to better understand treatments and drugs on diverse populations - including women (traditionally excluded from medical trials!), people of different sexuality, different races, different gender presentations, and people with disabilities. Potentially years of research and studies lost. (Source: Science.org)
Image with text that reads: It's happening now: - The NSF (National Science Foundation) has frozen payments on all grants. PhD student and Post-doc salary requests were denied this Tuesday. No news on when they will get paid. This applies to ALL NSF grants (which are hugely prestigious) - work on evolution, geology (earthquakes), cancer, novel chemicals, and more. If funds stay frozen, animals will have to be euthanized, and billions of dollars of experiments will be lost. This impacts all kinds of work, in the name of stopping programs that may list DEI principles. (Source: NPR)
Image with text that reads: It's happening now: All of the American Public Health Labs (APHL) Global Health team has been furloughed. This is everyone outside of the US, including deployed staff and locally employed staff. These are people working on infectious diseases (and more) all over the world. Designing tests. Improving diagnostics. Improving lab procedures. This is a huge team, doing critical work.
Image with text that reads: It's happening now: Critical disease-related publications like MMWR (Morbidity and Mortality Weekly Report) are frozen, with no release this week. This report is a lifeblood of health events in the USA. it has been published weekly without pause since 1960. It is essential for keeping all US (and global) researchers updated on outbreaks and investigations. This week alone there were reportedly to be 3 publications on the bird flu. The publication is also a likely venue for further information about the ongoing Tuberculosis outbreak in Kansas. (Source: Reuters)
A line graph showing atmospheric CO2 levels at Mauna Loa Observatory from 1955 to 2025. The y-axis represents CO2 mole fraction in parts per million (ppm), ranging from 320 to 420 ppm, while the x-axis is years.
The most iconic figure in the environmental sciences is the Keeling Curve, the CO₂ record from Mauna Loa, Hawaii.
@noaa.gov had a wonderful site where you could visualize and download these data, and now it's just gone. These data belong to us and we should not let this happen!
A bar chart in the shape of milk cartons displaying the cost of a liter of milk in Swiss francs based on different attributes. Prices are: low emissions, bad for animal welfare (1.6 CHF), Swiss standard price (1.8 CHF), low emissions (2.0 CHF), organic (2.0 CHF), and free-range cows (2.5 CHF).
Consumers in Switzerland are prepared to spend much more money on cow’s milk products if they have been produced in an animal-friendly way. This factor is even more important to them than climate sustainability, as shown by a new study by the University of Basel.
👉 www.unibas.ch/en/News-Even...
“the management I was dealing with didn’t understand the difference between having an opinion and having an informed, factually sourced opinion.”
At the NYT. 😳
Highly recommended - for both, journalists and scientists. 👇
This story from @elaberwarren.bsky.social includes the not-so-secret recipe for getting compelling quotes from your sources. 🧪
An die App-Entwickler*innen da draußen: Ich wünsche mir eine News-App, die alle Bilder von Trump mit Quokka-Bildern ersetzt. Tierkinder wären auch ok. Ich zahle in Form von Kuchen. Viel Kuchen.
Ist es eine Aufgabe von Wissenschaftsjournalist*innen, #Desinformation aufzudecken? Welche Rolle kann die Ironie im Wissenschaftsjournalismus spielen? Diese und weitere Fragen stelle ich @fischblog.bsky.social in Ep. 38 von #SciComm Palaver.
🎧 Hört rein! (auch bei Apple Podcasts, Spotify & Co)
Let's get this party started. 👇
“Hello ChatGPT, can you help me?”
Interactions between humans and chatbots have become part of our daily lives. But do we trust them? And what factors influence our trust?
@fannylalot.bsky.social
@socpsychbasel.bsky.social
The Horizon Magazine @horizonmagazine.bsky.social features Michael Hall's research: Curiosity and a simple compound in soil bacteria help unlock a potential way to slow down ageing. 👉 projects.research-and-innovation.ec.europa.eu/en/horizon-m...
Hier noch mein heutiger Spektrum-Kommentar zu "Krankheit X" im Kongo. Aus meiner Sicht ist die mögliche #Pandemie gar nicht das größte Problem dabei.
Von Musik und nächtliche Schlafgewohnheiten, über die vielfältigen Facetten der Nacht und Vitamin D-Mangel bis hin zu Therapien, die das Augenlicht wieder herstellen sollen. All das gibt es zu entdecken in der aktuellen Ausgabe von UNI NOVA: www.unibas.ch/de/Aktuell/U...
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Lesenswert! „Sind wir so abgestumpft und müde von der digitalen Dauermanipulation, dass wir diese schulterzuckend in Kauf nehmen?“ www.spektrum.de/news/dark-pa...
a cartoon with two panels panel one is a stick figure saying "oh! a fossil fuel!!" standing above a crudely drawn black lump under a brown ground Panel two is them walking away and saying "I'll just leave it there" The head of the person is not a drawn circle but the letter O, because the random software I used to draw it did that for unexplained reasons
Please allow me to re-share my rough sketch of some advanced carbon capture technology
