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Thomas Rauscher
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Physicist working on nucleosynthesis, theoretical nuclear physics, astrophysics, AI, ML; patent expert

PhD, FInstP FRAS FHEA, AvHumboldt Fellow

Homepage: thomasrauscher.ch
Mastodon: @[email protected]
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Thomas Rauscher @rauscherthomas.bsky.social · Nov 15
I bridged my Mastodon account to BlueSky. To see all posts, on BlueSky also follow @RauscherThomas.mastodon.online.ap.brid.gy .

some duplicate reposts may appear because I may forget that I already reposted the same in the other socialverse.
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rahmstorf.bsky.social
Is the Atlantic Ocean circulation close to tipping?
Hear the latest science as I presented it last month at the ATLAS25 event in Helsinki.
Let me know if anything is unclear, or if you see good reasons why your government shouldn't immediately act on this. 🌊
youtu.be/ULJXqOZuY-8
Is the Atlantic Ocean circulation close to tipping?
YouTube video by Earth System Analysis - Potsdam Institute
youtu.be
November 16, 2025 at 3:35 PM
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rahmstorf.bsky.social
In 2024, renewable energy accounted for over 90% of global power capacity expansion. That is because it makes economic sense. IRENA_DAT_RE_Capacity_Highlights_2025-1.pdf
November 16, 2025 at 11:22 AM
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koppenburg.ch
Students, apply for a CERN summer studentship. Greatest experience ever!
Deadline 26 January 2026. careers.cern/programmes/s...
(It's not just for physicists. Check it out.)
Summer Studentship
Programme overview Join the CERN Summer Student Programme and dive into cutting-edge research. You’ll work on advanced scientific and technical projects, contributing directly to CERN’s…
careers.cern
November 15, 2025 at 3:24 PM
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bluelle.bsky.social
new normal.
November 16, 2025 at 8:15 AM
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hbhammel.bsky.social
Now that the US gov is open, 3I/ATLAS images from the Mars-orbiting HiRISE camera will soon be out. My money is on them looking just like regular cometary images. If that disappoints you, scan the HiRISE catalog for spectacular Mars images like this one uahirise.org/catalog/
The image shows a piece of Mars from the HiRISE camera on NASA's Mars Reconnaissance Orbiter: these are martian dunes, from a region dubbed Kolhar. A mottled terrain of beige and gray is overlain with very dark gray dust deposits. This patterned landscape was sculpted by aeolian (wind-blown) processes. The image was taken on 25 September 2025, and addresses the science theme of "seasonal processes." Source: https://www.uahirise.org/ESP_089803_2650
November 15, 2025 at 3:35 PM
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klenkflorian.bsky.social
Alle Medien sollten damit aufhören sich von Politikern/Unternehmern auf Reisen einladen zu lassen. Dass man das heute noch sagen muss. (#kurz)
November 16, 2025 at 9:43 AM
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natrevphys.nature.com
Review: Unlocking i-process nucleosynthesis by bridging stellar and nuclear physics ⚛️

by Mathis Wiedeking, Stephane Goriely, Magne Guttormsen, Falk Herwig, Ann-Cecilie Larsen, Sean N. Liddick, Dennis Mücher, Andrea L. Richard, Sunniva Siem & Artemis Spyrou
www.nature.com/articles/s42...
Unlocking i-process nucleosynthesis by bridging stellar and nuclear physics - Nature Reviews Physics
Our understanding of how heavy elements form within stars is incomplete. This Review highlights the emerging role of the intermediate neutron-capture process (i process) — between the slow and rapid p...
www.nature.com
November 13, 2025 at 10:37 AM
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acritschristoph.bsky.social
Defunding scientists for the nationality of who they co-author with or who they train.

One of the most radical attack on freedom of speech in US history. A far right nationalist destruction of US science. Such a shameful time to be an American that this racist stupidity has become mainstream.
environmicrobio.bsky.social Roland Hatzenpichler @environmicrobio.bsky.social · 8d
“The prohibited activities would include joint research, co-authorship on papers, and advising a foreign graduate student or postdoctoral fellow. The language is retroactive, meaning any interactions during the previous 5 years could make a scientist ineligible for future federal funding.”
U.S. Congress considers sweeping ban on Chinese collaborations
Researchers speak out against proposal that would bar funding for U.S. scientists working with Chinese partners or training Chinese students
www.science.org
November 14, 2025 at 3:32 AM
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environmicrobio.bsky.social
“The prohibited activities would include joint research, co-authorship on papers, and advising a foreign graduate student or postdoctoral fellow. The language is retroactive, meaning any interactions during the previous 5 years could make a scientist ineligible for future federal funding.”
U.S. Congress considers sweeping ban on Chinese collaborations
Researchers speak out against proposal that would bar funding for U.S. scientists working with Chinese partners or training Chinese students
www.science.org
November 14, 2025 at 1:03 AM
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nsousanis.bsky.social
He really doesn’t quit with these, it’s a real treat to look forward to each week in my science mag… both my interest in comics formalism and science intersect nicely!
A multi panel strip, arranged as a golden spiral. A roller coaster is rolling through it with two characters in it. Text “THIS ROLLERCOASTER USES THE GOLDEN SECTION TO SPIRAL INFINITELY INWARDS. I HOPE IT WILL REVEAL THE UNIVERSE'S DEEPEST SECRETS TO US.” Then “great idea! But how do we get off?” Finally “hmmm… an interesting question…” the roller coaster is spiraling inward as the panels get increasingly smaller as a golden section A comic in six panels - three across the top and same below, imagery in top is mirrored - rotated 180 for the bottom. Text panel one reads “THIS DEVICE LETS US SEE INTO A PARALLEL UNIVERSE WHERE TIME FLOWS BACKWARDS.” Panels 2 “it’s us!” And three “THOSE POOR SODS. THEY HAVE NO IDEA OF ALL THE TROUBLES AHEAD OF THEM.” Same everything on the bottom only flipped 180
November 14, 2025 at 2:21 AM
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kevinmkruse.bsky.social
If you have tenure at Texas A&M and aren't maliciously emailing the president a dozen times every day to ask if you can say this or you can say that, then what's the point in having tenure?
phillewis.bsky.social Phil Lewis @phillewis.bsky.social · 8d
COLLEGE STATION, Texas (AP) — Texas A&M adopts policy requiring professors to get OK from school president to discuss certain race and gender issues.
A photo of Texas A&M University’s logo
November 13, 2025 at 11:18 PM
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astrokatie.com
You can disagree and argue as much as you like but the point of evaluating something scientifically is that not every statement should be given equal credence because evidence matters
atrupar.com Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 9d
JD Vance: "Science as practiced in its best form is that if you disagree with it, then you ought to criticize it and you ought to argue against it."
November 13, 2025 at 7:36 PM
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zacheverson.com
“Housing shortage – Jews to blame," letter sticker, German Reich, 1938

zwangsraeume.berlin/en/context
A stamped letter saying "Die Wohungsnot Schuld Der Juden"
November 14, 2025 at 2:16 AM
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nsousanis.bsky.social
Talking image-text relations in class today - great opportunity to share Ibn Al-Rabin's seminal “Le Verbe Prophétique” alongside the always brilliant @tomgauld.bsky.social to demonstrate how the seemingly simple can be bewilderingly complex - things that can only be done in comics!!
A six panel comic of a man and a woman where their word balloons are actually other panels (there are no words) indicating future actions and explaining why they did what they did. a three panel comic about Søren Kierkegaard in which the text of the man reads backwards and the dog forwards "Life can only be understood backwards" and the dog "but it must be lived forwards"
October 1, 2025 at 8:42 PM
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science.esa.int
#CometInterceptor will be the first mission to visit a comet coming directly from the outer reaches of the Sun's realm, carrying material untouched since the dawn of the Solar System.

Part of #CosmicVision, Comet Interceptor is an ESA-led mission in collaboration with JAXA.

1/ #CM25 🔭
Illustration showing spacecraft A, probe B1 built by JAXA and probe B2, and the suite of instruments they each carry, alongside other important components. The instruments and parts are colour coded according to four categories: blue for Dust, Fields and Plasma (DFP) instrument suite, orange for Plasma instrument suite, red for other scientific instruments, and green for important components.
November 11, 2025 at 1:03 PM
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grabmacherjoggi.bsky.social
Heute vor 171 Jahren - Basel bekommt mit der "Rhymugge" die erste seiner berühmten Fähren (und sie dient der Kunst) | #fähri #rheinfähre
November 14, 2025 at 5:34 AM
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mbkplus.bsky.social
Number 5 is the funniest to me: the lovable guy from Star Trek and two of the smartest human beings ever to walk the planet, or Elon Musk
The New Origins Project Presents: Strange Bedfellows: Culture, Meet Science/Science, Meet Culture This series will bring together cultural icons, celebrities, movie stars, directors, writers and musicians with famous scientists to talk about commonalities and differences. Each segment will be moderated by scientist/author/provocateur Lawrence Krauss, who has spent much of his career successfully crossing the chasm separating science and culture. 3000 people would regularly attend live, and up to 500,000 people would watch the recorded events to hear dialogues and panels, to be entertained and informed. First Season (Proposed 23 participants have already agreed in principle) 1. Johnny Depp, Courtney Love, Marilyn Manson talk creativity in music versus creativity in Science with Nobel Laureates Frank Wilczek and Yuval Hoffman. 2. Woody Allen talks about the human condition with Linguist Noam Chomsky. 3. Ricky Gervais and Astronomer Royale, 4. Sarah Silverman 5. William Shatner and Nobel Prize winning physicists Kip Thorne/ Steve Weinberg or Elon Musk. 6. Director Werner Herzog, Cormac McCarthy, with biologist Svante Paabo. 7. Ian McEwan and Nobel Laureate Biologist Elizabeth Blackburn. 8. Barack Obama and psychologist Steven Pinker. Director Alex Garland and IT computer scientist Eric Horvitz/Larry Page 10. Actor Bill Pullman, Magician Penn Jillette and Nobel Prizewinning economist/psychologist Danny Kahneman. 11. Actor/writer Stephen Fry and Psychologist Robert Sapolsky 12. Actress Andie Macdowell and Evolutionary Biologist Richard Dawkins The series will bring together Krauss and the directorial team that produced the Feature Documentary The Unbelievers. location in a different city around the world. Format will be moderated discussion. will be encouraged whenever possible to dialogue with each other as well. and UK. We will take one or two questions from the audience to end the program before the program ends.
November 13, 2025 at 3:15 PM
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rahmstorf.bsky.social
Never forget: At breakneck speed we are leaving the stable Holocene climate in which human society developed and thrived. Weather extremes are outside historical experience. Sea-level rise is accelerating. Dangerous tipping points are ahead.
Graph: ed-hawkins.github.io/climate-visu...
November 13, 2025 at 11:52 AM
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crobertcargill.bsky.social
What's from Chicago, hates Illinois Nazis, and is holy as fuck?

It's the Pope in 1982.
Exactly what it says on the label: The Pope in 1982. He's wearing a black hat, dark RayBans, and looks like he's a member of the Blues Brothers.
November 13, 2025 at 1:37 AM
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brodnig.bsky.social
Dieses Gerichtsurteil sollte uns alle beschäftigen

Die FPÖ nennt das DÖW, das über Rechtsextremismus aufklärt, „pseudowissenschaftlich“

Das Gericht erlaubt das - dabei wurde im Gerichtsverfahren nicht einmal inhaltlich geklärt, ob der Vorwurf stimmt

Hier erkläre ich das 👇
Wie ein Gericht der FPÖ auf den Leim geht
Mit einem Urteil verkennt das Oberlandesgericht, wie problematisch die FPÖ gegenüber der Wissenschaft agiert. Aktuell betroffen ist das DÖW, das die FPÖ "pseudowissenschaftlich" nennen will
www.derstandard.at
November 13, 2025 at 11:06 AM
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ritter-wurnig.com
Jeffrey Epstein hat für sich und ein "girl" Tickets für den Life Ball 2012 in Wien besorgt. Auch ein "background check" für das Gala Dinner mit Präsident Heinz Fischer und Bill Clinton wurde offenbar durchgeführt.
November 13, 2025 at 9:46 AM
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ingwarpero.bsky.social
Harald Lesch hat zu 100% recht! "Technologieoffenheit ist häufig ein Ausdruck für technologische Ahnungslosigkeit" und "Die Wärmepumpe ist die beste Maschine, die die Physik anzubieten hat, da gibt es keine Alternative"

Endlich rechnet mal jemand mit diesem Bullshit-Argument der Union ab.
November 13, 2025 at 7:33 AM
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pikarl.reporter.social.ap.brid.gy
Sogenanntes Gender-Sternchen.

/von: @schwarwel
Viele Sternpünktchen. Ein Pfeil zeigt quasi ins nichts; "Sie befinden sich hier und Ihre grösste Sorge ist das Gendern."
November 13, 2025 at 9:58 AM
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elvirarosert.bsky.social
Harald Lesch im Heute Journal zum Klimaschutz:

„Technologieoffenheit“ steht in der Regel für technologische Ahnungslosigkeit.

🤭🎯
November 12, 2025 at 9:07 PM
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roland.giersig.net
Ja, das war vernichtend. Früher wären Politiker wegen so was zurückgetreten... 🙈
November 13, 2025 at 10:09 AM