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Chemist, blogger and science journalist. Physical sciences editor for Spektrum der Wissenschaft. Writes about chemistry, infectious diseases, earth sciences, disasters and quokkas. Posts in english and german.
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This is incredible.

submitted 6 days ago • 2 comments

Vielleicht brauchen wir ein besseres Framing „Nein Nein, Herr Schmidt, das ist keine Wärmepumpe, dass ist der Sparheizer9000, das Prinzip kennen sie seit Jahrzehnten aus ihrem Kühlschrank, also kein neumodischer Schnickschnack, sondern erprobte Technik“

submitted 5 days ago • 8 comments

And considering the recent tomato and cucumber recalls due to salmonella, this is a solid look at what makes this so bacteria so tricky and so dangerous. (gift article from The New York Times)

submitted 5 days ago • 0 comments

The tragic landslide in Blatten gives me the excuse to tell you the story of how we found out Ice Ages existed. It's a cool story and the most important bit is rather similar to what's happening now.

submitted 9 days ago • 26 comments

Got distracted... I see this regularly, it's presumably about framing. But framing is something rather specific, not just a wording you don't like. So you should ask yourself honestly which of the two it really is. Most cases I see, people are just annoying (and usually insulting) a journalist.

submitted 5 days ago • 0 comments

Had a bit of a run-in with climate activists over a bit of science that doesn't say what they want it to and my insistence that journalism should - and indeed mostly did - report it correctly. In the end, since the science says what it does, they tried to quibble about wording. Don't do that.

submitted 5 days ago • 6 comments

Development of a transgenic zebrafish embryo. Credit to Dr. Mario Mendieta-Serrano. #ZebrafishZunday 🧪

submitted 6 days ago • 2 comments

LNG aus den USA, um den Globus gehandeltes Mineralöl für unsere Autos,Wasserstoff aus Afrika: Deutschland hängt an Importen unzähliger Staaten. Im neuen Buch mit @susannegoetze decken wir auf, wer uns von Öl und Gas abhängig macht. Und wie es besser geht⤵️ www.piper.de/buecher/die-...

submitted 210 days ago • 10 comments

Asking my students "is your pipette bulb wet?" has the same aura as asking a toddler if they need to poop.

submitted 7 days ago • 1 comment

🔴⚠️❄🏔The aftermath of the catastrophic collapse of #Birch #Glacier in #Swiss. A tremendous landslide pas completely buried the village of #Blatten,also flooded by Lonza river, and a new lake has formed as a consequence.⬇️Animation before-after in 3D of #Sentinel2 images via explorer2.adamplatform.eu

submitted 7 days ago • 2 comments

I made a survey over at Mastodon and found that Fusilli are mostly right-handed spirals, but about a third of the brands is left-handed. So far there seems to be no racemic Fusilli brand. Pasta producerst have achieved a degree of enantiomeric purity chemists can only dream of. 🧪 #chemsky

submitted 7 days ago • 11 comments

What about pasta salad? Are Fusilli enantiomerically pure? And if so, are there brands which sell D-Fusilli and others that sell L-Fusilli? Has anyone ever researched that? #chemsky 🧪

submitted 7 days ago • 8 comments

Teilnehmer:innen für Online-Umfrage gesucht! Mein Junior untersucht im Rahmen seiner Bachelorarbeit in Psychologie, wie Humor am Arbeitsplatz zur Stressbewältigung genutzt wird. Dauert nur 5 Minuten und ist völlig anonym. Gerne auch weiterleiten … 📩 👉 https://tinyurl.com/49ktu3p4

submitted 9 days ago • 16 comments