Gregor Kalinkat
@gkalinkat.bsky.social
science educator & communicator | biodiversity scientist | ecologist | guest scientist at @igb-berlin.de
posts in EN and DE, occassionally in ES
https://linktr.ee/gkalinkat
posts in EN and DE, occassionally in ES
https://linktr.ee/gkalinkat
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Gregor Kalinkat
@gkalinkat.bsky.social
· Jun 17
Our new forum piece is out now in @cp-trendsecolevo.bsky.social 🥳
We argue that existing & expanding regulations to protect specific animal groups from light pollution 💡 (e.g. bats 🦇 marine turtles 🐢 insects 🦋) might co-protect many other organisms ...
doi.org/10.1016/j.tr... 🔓🧪
We argue that existing & expanding regulations to protect specific animal groups from light pollution 💡 (e.g. bats 🦇 marine turtles 🐢 insects 🦋) might co-protect many other organisms ...
doi.org/10.1016/j.tr... 🔓🧪
ICYMI
Our new Forum article in @cp-trendsecolevo.bsky.social is out now. A short read about combating light pollution 💡 & approaches to push nocturnal biodiversity conservation 🦇 to the next level. Free to read for everyone 🔓🧪
@sibylleschroer.bsky.social @andreasjechow.bsky.social @igb-berlin.de
Our new Forum article in @cp-trendsecolevo.bsky.social is out now. A short read about combating light pollution 💡 & approaches to push nocturnal biodiversity conservation 🦇 to the next level. Free to read for everyone 🔓🧪
@sibylleschroer.bsky.social @andreasjechow.bsky.social @igb-berlin.de
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This is a legitimate scientific revolution in meteorology.
Also, to be clear, these models are not the AI LLMs that most people are familiar with. They are machine learning algorithms trained on observations (actually reanalysis).
Also, to be clear, these models are not the AI LLMs that most people are familiar with. They are machine learning algorithms trained on observations (actually reanalysis).
Meteorologists are surprised that the weather model that did the best job forecasting hurricanes this year was a new one, introduced by Google. AI may be the beginning of a new era of forecasting. n.pr/49MFa1M
As the 2025 Atlantic hurricane season ends, the future of forecasting is AI
Meteorologists are surprised that the weather model that did the best job forecasting hurricanes this year was a new one, introduced by Google. AI may be the beginning of a new era of forecasting.
n.pr
November 30, 2025 at 5:55 AM
This is a legitimate scientific revolution in meteorology.
Also, to be clear, these models are not the AI LLMs that most people are familiar with. They are machine learning algorithms trained on observations (actually reanalysis).
Also, to be clear, these models are not the AI LLMs that most people are familiar with. They are machine learning algorithms trained on observations (actually reanalysis).
Reposted by Gregor Kalinkat
Yeah, the comments are a trip. I seriously think that people believe AI weather forecasting is people going to ChatGPT and typing in “what’s the weather going to be tomorrow?”
November 30, 2025 at 6:33 AM
Yeah, the comments are a trip. I seriously think that people believe AI weather forecasting is people going to ChatGPT and typing in “what’s the weather going to be tomorrow?”
Reposted by Gregor Kalinkat
The 3rd chapter of A.A. Milne's "Winnie-the-Pooh" is titled
"In which Pooh & Piglet Go Hunting & Nearly Catch a Woozle."
The characters find footprints in the snow, deduce the presence of a 'Woozle,' which they track.
But they're tracking their own footprints.
Let's talk about 'WOOZLE EFFECT'.
"In which Pooh & Piglet Go Hunting & Nearly Catch a Woozle."
The characters find footprints in the snow, deduce the presence of a 'Woozle,' which they track.
But they're tracking their own footprints.
Let's talk about 'WOOZLE EFFECT'.
November 29, 2025 at 5:05 PM
The 3rd chapter of A.A. Milne's "Winnie-the-Pooh" is titled
"In which Pooh & Piglet Go Hunting & Nearly Catch a Woozle."
The characters find footprints in the snow, deduce the presence of a 'Woozle,' which they track.
But they're tracking their own footprints.
Let's talk about 'WOOZLE EFFECT'.
"In which Pooh & Piglet Go Hunting & Nearly Catch a Woozle."
The characters find footprints in the snow, deduce the presence of a 'Woozle,' which they track.
But they're tracking their own footprints.
Let's talk about 'WOOZLE EFFECT'.
Reposted by Gregor Kalinkat
How to stop the revolving door of German academia 🧪🎓
www.nature.com/articles/d41... @nature.com
#IchbinHanna #wisszeitvg
www.nature.com/articles/d41... @nature.com
#IchbinHanna #wisszeitvg
How to stop the revolving door of German academia
Germany is one of the most popular destinations for students and scholars worldwide, but those pursuing academic careers face significant hurdles to success.
www.nature.com
November 28, 2025 at 8:46 PM
How to stop the revolving door of German academia 🧪🎓
www.nature.com/articles/d41... @nature.com
#IchbinHanna #wisszeitvg
www.nature.com/articles/d41... @nature.com
#IchbinHanna #wisszeitvg
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🌃 Night lights don’t just brighten the sky—they reshape earthworm communities and soil structure. Evidence shows that tailored management of artificial light at night, tuned to illuminance and spectrum can safeguard earthworm diversity and soil function 🪱
🌍 Read more: buff.ly/nu5sf87
🌍 Read more: buff.ly/nu5sf87
November 25, 2025 at 12:01 PM
🌃 Night lights don’t just brighten the sky—they reshape earthworm communities and soil structure. Evidence shows that tailored management of artificial light at night, tuned to illuminance and spectrum can safeguard earthworm diversity and soil function 🪱
🌍 Read more: buff.ly/nu5sf87
🌍 Read more: buff.ly/nu5sf87
Reposted by Gregor Kalinkat
Water reserves drying up in face of climate change.
Our latest article, out now:
share.google/0eyMBdzbmWkA...
🧵
1/6
Our latest article, out now:
share.google/0eyMBdzbmWkA...
🧵
1/6
Revealed: Europe’s water reserves drying up due to climate breakdown
Exclusive: UCL scientists find large swathes of southern Europe are drying up, with ‘far-reaching’ implications
share.google
November 29, 2025 at 7:18 AM
Water reserves drying up in face of climate change.
Our latest article, out now:
share.google/0eyMBdzbmWkA...
🧵
1/6
Our latest article, out now:
share.google/0eyMBdzbmWkA...
🧵
1/6
Reposted by Gregor Kalinkat
Does anyone want a survivorship bias shortbread
November 29, 2025 at 4:50 AM
Does anyone want a survivorship bias shortbread
How to stop the revolving door of German academia 🧪🎓
www.nature.com/articles/d41... @nature.com
#IchbinHanna #wisszeitvg
www.nature.com/articles/d41... @nature.com
#IchbinHanna #wisszeitvg
How to stop the revolving door of German academia
Germany is one of the most popular destinations for students and scholars worldwide, but those pursuing academic careers face significant hurdles to success.
www.nature.com
November 28, 2025 at 8:46 PM
How to stop the revolving door of German academia 🧪🎓
www.nature.com/articles/d41... @nature.com
#IchbinHanna #wisszeitvg
www.nature.com/articles/d41... @nature.com
#IchbinHanna #wisszeitvg
Happy 35th anniversary to the women 👩 of swiss canton Appenzell Innerrhoden 🇨🇭 for gaining their voting rights
www.swissinfo.ch/eng/politics...
www.swissinfo.ch/eng/politics...
Appenzell Inner Rhodes: the last Swiss canton to give women the vote in 1991
While women in Switzerland were allowed to vote in 1971, those of canton Appenzell Inner Rhodes had to wait until 1990.
www.swissinfo.ch
November 27, 2025 at 10:24 PM
Happy 35th anniversary to the women 👩 of swiss canton Appenzell Innerrhoden 🇨🇭 for gaining their voting rights
www.swissinfo.ch/eng/politics...
www.swissinfo.ch/eng/politics...
Reposted by Gregor Kalinkat
Check out paper and thread by @colincarlson.bsky.social on the crossroads of biodiversity conservation and zoonosis surveillance 🧪
NEW! 🦠🦧 We revisited a perplexing paradox: do wildlife really pose less of a risk to human health as they become more endangered? Turns out, it's sampling bias all the way down: conservation risks correlate with disease surveillance blindspots. 🔓 esajournals.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/full/10....
Viral diversity and zoonotic risk in endangered species
A growing body of evidence links zoonotic disease risk, including pandemic threats, to biodiversity loss and other upstream anthropogenic impacts on ecosystem health. However, there is little current...
esajournals.onlinelibrary.wiley.com
November 25, 2025 at 9:35 PM
Check out paper and thread by @colincarlson.bsky.social on the crossroads of biodiversity conservation and zoonosis surveillance 🧪
Reposted by Gregor Kalinkat
@buddepiept.bsky.social mit aktuellen Entwicklungen aus der forensischen Entomologie im DLF
'Insekten am Tatort - Nach dem Mord kommen die Fliegen'
🪰💀🧪
www.deutschlandfunk.de/todeszeitpun...
'Insekten am Tatort - Nach dem Mord kommen die Fliegen'
🪰💀🧪
www.deutschlandfunk.de/todeszeitpun...
Insekten am Tatort - Nach dem Mord kommen die Fliegen
Insekten verraten heute schon den Zeitpunkt von Mord und Totschlag. Demnächst könnten sie auch Jahre zurückliegende Kriminalfälle aufklären helfen.
www.deutschlandfunk.de
November 25, 2025 at 8:21 PM
@buddepiept.bsky.social mit aktuellen Entwicklungen aus der forensischen Entomologie im DLF
'Insekten am Tatort - Nach dem Mord kommen die Fliegen'
🪰💀🧪
www.deutschlandfunk.de/todeszeitpun...
'Insekten am Tatort - Nach dem Mord kommen die Fliegen'
🪰💀🧪
www.deutschlandfunk.de/todeszeitpun...
Check out paper and thread by @colincarlson.bsky.social on the crossroads of biodiversity conservation and zoonosis surveillance 🧪
NEW! 🦠🦧 We revisited a perplexing paradox: do wildlife really pose less of a risk to human health as they become more endangered? Turns out, it's sampling bias all the way down: conservation risks correlate with disease surveillance blindspots. 🔓 esajournals.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/full/10....
Viral diversity and zoonotic risk in endangered species
A growing body of evidence links zoonotic disease risk, including pandemic threats, to biodiversity loss and other upstream anthropogenic impacts on ecosystem health. However, there is little current...
esajournals.onlinelibrary.wiley.com
November 25, 2025 at 9:35 PM
Check out paper and thread by @colincarlson.bsky.social on the crossroads of biodiversity conservation and zoonosis surveillance 🧪
@buddepiept.bsky.social mit aktuellen Entwicklungen aus der forensischen Entomologie im DLF
'Insekten am Tatort - Nach dem Mord kommen die Fliegen'
🪰💀🧪
www.deutschlandfunk.de/todeszeitpun...
'Insekten am Tatort - Nach dem Mord kommen die Fliegen'
🪰💀🧪
www.deutschlandfunk.de/todeszeitpun...
Insekten am Tatort - Nach dem Mord kommen die Fliegen
Insekten verraten heute schon den Zeitpunkt von Mord und Totschlag. Demnächst könnten sie auch Jahre zurückliegende Kriminalfälle aufklären helfen.
www.deutschlandfunk.de
November 25, 2025 at 8:21 PM
@buddepiept.bsky.social mit aktuellen Entwicklungen aus der forensischen Entomologie im DLF
'Insekten am Tatort - Nach dem Mord kommen die Fliegen'
🪰💀🧪
www.deutschlandfunk.de/todeszeitpun...
'Insekten am Tatort - Nach dem Mord kommen die Fliegen'
🪰💀🧪
www.deutschlandfunk.de/todeszeitpun...
Reposted by Gregor Kalinkat
Die @bpb.de hat ihren Account auf X geschlossen. Dafür werden sie dort extrem beschimpft, was natürlich auch ein Zeichen dafür ist, wie wichtig die Präsenz staatlicher Institutionen, Orgas etc. für das Image von X ist. Den Abgang aus dem Höllenpfuhl kann man hier mit nem Folllow würdigen.
November 25, 2025 at 11:20 AM
Die @bpb.de hat ihren Account auf X geschlossen. Dafür werden sie dort extrem beschimpft, was natürlich auch ein Zeichen dafür ist, wie wichtig die Präsenz staatlicher Institutionen, Orgas etc. für das Image von X ist. Den Abgang aus dem Höllenpfuhl kann man hier mit nem Folllow würdigen.
Reposted by Gregor Kalinkat
Archaeologist here. For 99.5% of human history (ca 300-400,000 years), we were peaceful (no war). There was conflict and smaller scale violence, but countless studies on the 119 known modern hunter gatherer groups show cooperation, negotiation, and peace instead of conflict. Please read books.
Revenge/physical combat was how people settled things for literally millions of years, it's normal human behavior, we're wolves not sheep, the government project trying to social engineer us and domesticate us into sheep has been unsuccessful
November 17, 2025 at 10:46 PM
Archaeologist here. For 99.5% of human history (ca 300-400,000 years), we were peaceful (no war). There was conflict and smaller scale violence, but countless studies on the 119 known modern hunter gatherer groups show cooperation, negotiation, and peace instead of conflict. Please read books.
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Cats love to massacre bugs, and scientists have the videos to prove it 😼🪲🧪
www.popsci.com/technology/c... @popsci.com
www.popsci.com/technology/c... @popsci.com
Cats love to massacre bugs, and scientists have the videos to prove it
Cat videos aren’t just funny, they fuel the growing field of iEcology.
www.popsci.com
November 21, 2025 at 8:41 PM
Cats love to massacre bugs, and scientists have the videos to prove it 😼🪲🧪
www.popsci.com/technology/c... @popsci.com
www.popsci.com/technology/c... @popsci.com
Cats love to massacre bugs, and scientists have the videos to prove it 😼🪲🧪
www.popsci.com/technology/c... @popsci.com
www.popsci.com/technology/c... @popsci.com
Cats love to massacre bugs, and scientists have the videos to prove it
Cat videos aren’t just funny, they fuel the growing field of iEcology.
www.popsci.com
November 21, 2025 at 8:41 PM
Cats love to massacre bugs, and scientists have the videos to prove it 😼🪲🧪
www.popsci.com/technology/c... @popsci.com
www.popsci.com/technology/c... @popsci.com
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My new Emmy Noether Group is recruiting!
🔬 Two PhD positions in plant pathogen evolution
🧬 Start: April 2026 (flexible)
📍 Dept. of Phytopathology & Plant Protection @rstam.bsky.social @uni-kiel.de
⏰ Apply by 15 Dec 2025
🔗 More info: www.uni-kiel.de/personal/de/...
Do get in touch or share 😊
🔬 Two PhD positions in plant pathogen evolution
🧬 Start: April 2026 (flexible)
📍 Dept. of Phytopathology & Plant Protection @rstam.bsky.social @uni-kiel.de
⏰ Apply by 15 Dec 2025
🔗 More info: www.uni-kiel.de/personal/de/...
Do get in touch or share 😊
Aktuelle Ausschreibungen
Aktuelle Ausschreibungen
www.uni-kiel.de
November 3, 2025 at 9:03 AM
My new Emmy Noether Group is recruiting!
🔬 Two PhD positions in plant pathogen evolution
🧬 Start: April 2026 (flexible)
📍 Dept. of Phytopathology & Plant Protection @rstam.bsky.social @uni-kiel.de
⏰ Apply by 15 Dec 2025
🔗 More info: www.uni-kiel.de/personal/de/...
Do get in touch or share 😊
🔬 Two PhD positions in plant pathogen evolution
🧬 Start: April 2026 (flexible)
📍 Dept. of Phytopathology & Plant Protection @rstam.bsky.social @uni-kiel.de
⏰ Apply by 15 Dec 2025
🔗 More info: www.uni-kiel.de/personal/de/...
Do get in touch or share 😊
Sorry, I just can't resist quote-posting a @science.org paper 🧪 on sponges with a Spongebob Squarepants GIF
November 19, 2025 at 9:24 PM
Sorry, I just can't resist quote-posting a @science.org paper 🧪 on sponges with a Spongebob Squarepants GIF
Wow! Just got the news that the luminaire 💡 that was developed in our @bfn-de.bsky.social project @aubenews.bsky.social w/ industry partner Selux will receive a big award! Congratulations to all involved, particularly @sibylleschroer.bsky.social & F Hölker 🎉
@igb-berlin.de @leibnizbiodiv.bsky.social
@igb-berlin.de @leibnizbiodiv.bsky.social
November 19, 2025 at 6:16 PM
Wow! Just got the news that the luminaire 💡 that was developed in our @bfn-de.bsky.social project @aubenews.bsky.social w/ industry partner Selux will receive a big award! Congratulations to all involved, particularly @sibylleschroer.bsky.social & F Hölker 🎉
@igb-berlin.de @leibnizbiodiv.bsky.social
@igb-berlin.de @leibnizbiodiv.bsky.social
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Johnston et al (2025) Widespread influence of artificial light at night on ecosystem metabolism 💡🧪🔓
www.nature.com/articles/s41... @natclimate.nature.com
(H/T @zarahpattison.bsky.social)
www.nature.com/articles/s41... @natclimate.nature.com
(H/T @zarahpattison.bsky.social)
Widespread influence of artificial light at night on ecosystem metabolism - Nature Climate Change
The authors combine light intensity data with eddy covariance observations from 86 sites to show that artificial light at night increases ecosystem respiration and alters carbon exchange, with impacts...
www.nature.com
November 18, 2025 at 10:08 PM
Johnston et al (2025) Widespread influence of artificial light at night on ecosystem metabolism 💡🧪🔓
www.nature.com/articles/s41... @natclimate.nature.com
(H/T @zarahpattison.bsky.social)
www.nature.com/articles/s41... @natclimate.nature.com
(H/T @zarahpattison.bsky.social)
Johnston et al (2025) Widespread influence of artificial light at night on ecosystem metabolism 💡🧪🔓
www.nature.com/articles/s41... @natclimate.nature.com
(H/T @zarahpattison.bsky.social)
www.nature.com/articles/s41... @natclimate.nature.com
(H/T @zarahpattison.bsky.social)
Widespread influence of artificial light at night on ecosystem metabolism - Nature Climate Change
The authors combine light intensity data with eddy covariance observations from 86 sites to show that artificial light at night increases ecosystem respiration and alters carbon exchange, with impacts...
www.nature.com
November 18, 2025 at 10:08 PM
Johnston et al (2025) Widespread influence of artificial light at night on ecosystem metabolism 💡🧪🔓
www.nature.com/articles/s41... @natclimate.nature.com
(H/T @zarahpattison.bsky.social)
www.nature.com/articles/s41... @natclimate.nature.com
(H/T @zarahpattison.bsky.social)
Every day now we learn about another freedom being canceled in the "Land of the Free"
The legendary HOPE hacking conference has been banned from its venue at St. John's University over what the university seems to be calling an "anti-police agenda." Part of a broader crackdown on security research / hacking / open source: www.404media.co/hope-hacking...
HOPE Hacking Conference Banned From University Venue Over Apparent ‘Anti-Police Agenda’
"The lack of due process on its own is extremely disturbing," the conference said.
www.404media.co
November 18, 2025 at 7:45 PM
Every day now we learn about another freedom being canceled in the "Land of the Free"
Reposted by Gregor Kalinkat
This is misinformation by default, so if you're a journal and you use AI slop for your cover or your announcements, you're not scientific in any way and should be shamed mercilessly 🧪
November 18, 2025 at 2:07 PM
This is misinformation by default, so if you're a journal and you use AI slop for your cover or your announcements, you're not scientific in any way and should be shamed mercilessly 🧪
Reposted by Gregor Kalinkat
If any big-name 🧪science or 🎨artist accounts would like to share the SciArt Feed with their followers, I’d be grateful. 👉👈
November 18, 2025 at 4:27 PM
If any big-name 🧪science or 🎨artist accounts would like to share the SciArt Feed with their followers, I’d be grateful. 👉👈