Profile avatar
gkalinkat.bsky.social
ecologist and science communicator currently at @LeibnizIGB.bsky.social in Berlin, DE posts in EN and DE, occassionally in ES https://linktr.ee/gkalinkat
1,629 posts 2,597 followers 3,456 following
Prolific Poster
Active Commenter

“The death of human empathy is one of the earliest and most telling signs of a culture about to fall into barbarism.” ― Hannah Arendt

I wish there was some fancy economic term for when a person deliberately lowers the price of every single stock on the planet before then raising them all with a wave of their hand, in a manner you might say would grant immediate, near-infinite wealth to anyone informed of such plans beforehand.

Final_Version_of_Tarrifs_actualFINALcopy_version7_USETHISONE.docx

🔥🔥Wir haben gewonnen!🔥🔥 Keine Rede mehr im #Koalitionsvertrag von der Abschaffung des Informationsfreiheitsgesetzes! Stattdessen soll's eine Reform mit "Mehrwert für Bürger*innen & Verwaltung" geben. Für uns kann das nur heißen: Weg frei für das #Transparenzgesetz! fragdenstaat.de/dokumente/25...

Talking about Degrowth Donald‘s weird climate policies 🛩📉

Safe to say that travelling to the UK as an American is less dangerous than vice versa ⚽🍻 uk.sports.yahoo.com/news/america... vs www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article...

This Polydesmidae millipede was about 4mm long and found under a log. Millipedes like this give us a slice of what life is really like beneath the soil. It's not just a mound of "dirt." Soils are their own ecosystem we take for granted. 🌿 #millipede #macrophotography #invertebrate

Let’s call him Degrowth Donald 🍊

Check the date baby we're right on schedule

The chaos continues. www.science.org/content/arti... (by @sarareardon.bsky.social)

NEWS: Despite fears about insect declines, we know very little about 99% of species globally 🌍📉. Scientists are proposing a new approach to get a more complete picture of insect populations and analyse how they are responding to threats. Read more: www.ceh.ac.uk/press/some-i... 🧪 🧵 1/

♥️

These aren't tariffs. They are a horse's head in the bed of (almost) every world government and business leader.

if you think "make it make sense" (RE: tariffs), check this thread

if you think "make it make sense" (RE: tariffs), check this thread

Elon Musk decided to turn a Supreme Court race in Wisconsin into a referendum on Elon Musk. You’ll never believe what happened next.

This is, in large part, pandemic revenge. As far as these oligarchs are concerned, all science does is tell them stuff they cannot do. They can't keep spewing carbon. They can't keep businesses open as usual when millions are dying. They have concluded that research is the enemy of profit.

'The Stanford department of mathematics has come under fire [...] owing to its repeated use of a controversial symbol, two lines stacked atop one another (“=”) which reliable sources confirm represents the concept “equality”'

Legendary European cup games from the 1990ies ⚽️

The pollutocracy doesn’t care about international laws nor the planet 🌎

Veríssimo et al (2024) Changing Human Behavior to Conserve Biodiversity 🧪🌎🔓 www.annualreviews.org/content/jour...

Very honoured to be featured in the 'Best Science Images' gallery from @nature.com with my plastic stratigraphy, found in a bird's nest. 🐦 'The month’s sharpest science shots, selected by Nature’s photo team.' 🧪 Scroll through the nest yourself ⬇️ www.nature.com/immersive/d4...

We're thrilled to share that FACETS, a @cdnsciencepub.com journal, will be joining the BlueSky community soon! Stay tuned for updates as we prepare to connect, share, and engage with researchers and science enthusiasts in this exciting space. See you soon! 🌟 #ScienceCommunication #BlueSky

PhD and postdoc positions in our group at LMU Munich; topics: phage therapy as well as ecology and evolution. Open to international applicants as well so please consider applying Deadline April 15! Please repost and share with your networks because of the close deadline

I'll repeat: one of the core ideologies that made the rise of Trumpism possible is eugenics

Really though, how to tell these days?

Crystallographer Kathleen Lonsdale 1 of 1st women elected Fellow of RoyalSociety 1945. 1st woman tenured professor @ucl.ac.uk 1st woman president IUCr & BritSciAssoc. Elected Women's Eng Soc member 1946 in recognition of “brilliant & important work" d. 1 April 1971 en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kathlee...

Come join us at beautiful UBC! The King Lab is recruiting a Post-doc Fellow to develop mathematical theory on infectious disease evolution and emergence, together with Ben Ashby (SFU) #zoonoses #biodiversity www.zoology.ubc.ca/kinglab/join...

Has anyone calculated/estimated what Trump's war on science will mean for (for-profit) academic publishers? Given the political and financial turmoil I see no way how academics from US institutions can publish the same volume of new articles like they did before 🧪📝🎓

!!𝐏𝐨𝐬𝐭-𝐝𝐨𝐜 𝐩𝐨𝐬𝐢𝐭𝐢𝐨𝐧𝐬!! Join our lab in Berlin: 3 positions opening up: - 5 year chemical ecology - 5 year ACElab-matching topic - 2 year !open topic! see 🧵 for details For more information check: www.animal-economics.com/join-the-team PLEASE SHARE WIDELY