science educator & communicator | biodiversity scientist | animal ecologist | guest scientist at @igb-berlin.de
posts in EN and DE, occassionally in ES
https://linktr.ee/gkalinkat
Gregor Kalinkat
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🌿 We are hiring a new 2-yr postdoc in @econovoau.bsky.social at @aarhusuniint.bsky.social, on large-#herbivore ecology, trophic #rewilding & novel ecosystems- asking when alien & feral #ungulates enhance biodiversity & when they contribute to degradation🐪🐎🦓
Deadline: 28 June 2026. Details below 👇
Why AI cannot do good science without humans🧪
www.nature.com/articles/d41...
With the arrival of ‘AI scientists’, it’s as well to remember that human wisdom, empathy and sheer messiness are as much part of progress as are process and efficiency.
Never ever brag about your H-index. It's pointless and will bring you to the attention of people who will check your claims.
freethoughtblogs.com/pharyngula/2...
To piss in it, or live in it... 🚽
Duchamp called it art. 🏛️
Pigeons call it home. 🏠
Good news of the day:
"Während sich schwule Sportprofis anderswo noch mit Alibi-Frauen ablichten lassen, zeigen sich vier schwule Spieler der brasilianischen Nationalmannschaft stolz in gemeinsamen Bildern."
Das ist überraschend und cool.
Missed this amazing thread on caddisfly larvae incorporating microplastics in their castings when it came out. Fascinating stuff 🧪
Missed this amazing thread on caddisfly larvae incorporating microplastics in their castings when it came out. Fascinating stuff 🧪
New Video by the amazing @dradriansmith.bsky.social dropped a few days ago. Why was nobody telling me! I almost missed it 🧪🕷️
New Video by the amazing @dradriansmith.bsky.social dropped a few days ago. Why was nobody telling me! I almost missed it 🧪🕷️
YEP!
Wait until you find out how Google was started with a sub $1m NSF grant, GPS was developed with fed funding, we've reduced overdose deaths by 25% with fed funding, and of 354 new medications released between 2010-2019 99.4% of them were started by NIH grants/funded labs.
Während sich schwule Sportprofis anderswo noch mit Alibi-Frauen ablichten lassen, zeigen sich vier schwule Spieler der brasilianischen Nationalmannschaft stolz in gemeinsamen Bildern. (Sport)
NEW PAPER, JUST OUT! 👀
Insects from the '70s and '80s were already collecting microplastic, decades before the term microplastic even existed. 🤯
A thread on the surprising history of this pollutant and the incredible insect larvae that helped us uncover it. 🐛
Let's dive in! 🧵👇 1/x
NEW PAPER, JUST OUT! 👀
Insects from the '70s and '80s were already collecting microplastic, decades before the term microplastic even existed. 🤯
A thread on the surprising history of this pollutant and the incredible insect larvae that helped us uncover it. 🐛
Let's dive in! 🧵👇 1/x
Auke-Florian 🪹
Auke-Florian 🪹
TIL that the basic research that led to GLP-1 drugs was conducted by government scientists at the VA and NIH whyy.org/segments/oze...
Elon Musk wants to cut funding for scientific research, but the weight loss drugs he promoted also came from government funded basic science.
