Bernhard Voelkl
@bernhardvoelkl.bsky.social
or Austrian as well ..
January 15, 2026 at 6:36 PM
or Austrian as well ..
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Happy for them 😊
World’s fattest parrots set for mating bonanza after bumper berry crop
After a four-year hiatus, conservationists in New Zealand are relieved that the flightless kākāpo is once again breeding. Fewer than 300 of the parrots exist.
wapo.st
January 15, 2026 at 1:40 PM
Happy for them 😊
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These are the paleobirds I did for Scientific American last year! #FossilFriday 🪶🧪🐡
January 9, 2026 at 9:25 PM
These are the paleobirds I did for Scientific American last year! #FossilFriday 🪶🧪🐡
I think this is already an advancement to "..as can easily be seen.." and "..the solution is trivial.."
Me: surely at least the statistics literature has its house in order.
The stats literature:
The stats literature:
January 13, 2026 at 6:05 AM
I think this is already an advancement to "..as can easily be seen.." and "..the solution is trivial.."
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One out of 12 rams is uninterested in females. Deemed “non-procreative" by farmers, they're typically sent to slaughter. German farmer Michael Stücke rescues the gay rams. His company Rainbow Wool, sells fabulous wool products from his flock of gay sheep. rainbow-wool.com
January 12, 2026 at 8:26 PM
One out of 12 rams is uninterested in females. Deemed “non-procreative" by farmers, they're typically sent to slaughter. German farmer Michael Stücke rescues the gay rams. His company Rainbow Wool, sells fabulous wool products from his flock of gay sheep. rainbow-wool.com
Great idea by xkcd: sliding number chess. Challenge accepted.
January 10, 2026 at 5:56 PM
Great idea by xkcd: sliding number chess. Challenge accepted.
Gret talk by Berna Devezer @devezer.bsky.social at the reproducibiliTea Basel by @swissrn.bsky.social a case study on scientific rigor. Many thanks Berna -it was very illuminating. 👏
December 18, 2025 at 9:43 PM
Gret talk by Berna Devezer @devezer.bsky.social at the reproducibiliTea Basel by @swissrn.bsky.social a case study on scientific rigor. Many thanks Berna -it was very illuminating. 👏
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It is almost impossible not to read this comic and also not think of @elisabethbik.bsky.social and her work..
November 18, 2025 at 10:03 PM
It is almost impossible not to read this comic and also not think of @elisabethbik.bsky.social and her work..
Final discussion round with all the speakers at the swissRN workshop "How STRANGE are my animals?". Big thanks to Veronika Bokony, Catherine Hobaiter, Hanno Würbel, Elodie Chaillou, Ivana Jaric, Michael Webster and Christian Rutz for their great presentations!
November 18, 2025 at 2:42 PM
Final discussion round with all the speakers at the swissRN workshop "How STRANGE are my animals?". Big thanks to Veronika Bokony, Catherine Hobaiter, Hanno Würbel, Elodie Chaillou, Ivana Jaric, Michael Webster and Christian Rutz for their great presentations!
Catherine Hobaiter at the swissRN workshop "How STRANGE are my animal?" explaining how S.T.R.A.N.G.E. East African chimpazee groups are.
November 18, 2025 at 2:16 PM
Catherine Hobaiter at the swissRN workshop "How STRANGE are my animal?" explaining how S.T.R.A.N.G.E. East African chimpazee groups are.
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What the #USA used to be capable of .. 😞
Happy #anniversary #America
This day in 1969 you sent 3 great men to the moon, for a second time
Don’t @ me conspiracy theorists
You did
This year you sent one of the worst examples of mankind to the White House, for a second time
youtu.be/l11sW5KOi_g
Happy #anniversary #America
This day in 1969 you sent 3 great men to the moon, for a second time
Don’t @ me conspiracy theorists
You did
This year you sent one of the worst examples of mankind to the White House, for a second time
youtu.be/l11sW5KOi_g
Apollo 12: The Pinpoint Mission
YouTube video by NASA
youtu.be
November 14, 2025 at 12:04 AM
What the #USA used to be capable of .. 😞
Happy #anniversary #America
This day in 1969 you sent 3 great men to the moon, for a second time
Don’t @ me conspiracy theorists
You did
This year you sent one of the worst examples of mankind to the White House, for a second time
youtu.be/l11sW5KOi_g
Happy #anniversary #America
This day in 1969 you sent 3 great men to the moon, for a second time
Don’t @ me conspiracy theorists
You did
This year you sent one of the worst examples of mankind to the White House, for a second time
youtu.be/l11sW5KOi_g
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Can you even imagine a pre-tomato Italy?! Weird to think that the entire history of the Roman Empire was tomato-free. 🍅 🇮🇹 🚫
November 6, 2025 at 6:26 AM
Can you even imagine a pre-tomato Italy?! Weird to think that the entire history of the Roman Empire was tomato-free. 🍅 🇮🇹 🚫
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"I’m actually biased in favor of the intuitive value of preregistration; but things that seem intuitively sensible can turn out to be wrong anyway. Increasingly, I’m wondering if this is one of those things."
Preregistration Isn’t the Chief Executive of Science, It’s a Small Part of the Quality Control Department
And I'm Beginnning to Think It Should Be Fired for Poor Performance
open.substack.com
November 2, 2025 at 7:35 AM
"I’m actually biased in favor of the intuitive value of preregistration; but things that seem intuitively sensible can turn out to be wrong anyway. Increasingly, I’m wondering if this is one of those things."
In a misty bog, a hooligan penguin from the clan lost his trousers and his dignity to whiskey galore. The bard laughed till the bottle smashed to smithereens—that were the glory old days.
There are so few Celtic words used in English. The ones I know off the top of my head:
trousers
smithereens
bog
galore
whiskey
bard
hooligan
clan
penguin
trousers
smithereens
bog
galore
whiskey
bard
hooligan
clan
penguin
October 31, 2025 at 12:23 PM
In a misty bog, a hooligan penguin from the clan lost his trousers and his dignity to whiskey galore. The bard laughed till the bottle smashed to smithereens—that were the glory old days.
VetMed25 at the Kultuurikatel in Tallinn -a really unique venue for a scientific conference. Steampunk at its best.
October 30, 2025 at 3:21 PM
VetMed25 at the Kultuurikatel in Tallinn -a really unique venue for a scientific conference. Steampunk at its best.
So ridiculous - no doubt, that can only be sexual selection.
A 164.7 cm #rhino horn from #Yakutia sheds light on woolly rhinoceros morphology, longevity, and sexual dimorphism zslpublications.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/... #permafrost #palaeoecology @davehone.bsky.social @amcell.bsky.social @elissazcameron.bsky.social @conservresearch.bsky.social
October 30, 2025 at 3:15 PM
So ridiculous - no doubt, that can only be sexual selection.
What about ".. our results show that more research is needed in this area"
October 28, 2025 at 7:57 PM
What about ".. our results show that more research is needed in this area"
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Freaky deeeeeeer, thanks Cyndeer!
October 28, 2025 at 10:22 AM
Freaky deeeeeeer, thanks Cyndeer!
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Happy to announce, my palaeoart below, won the "Impression on China" Award (II), organized by the Chinese Embassy in Poland.
October 28, 2025 at 2:05 PM
Happy to announce, my palaeoart below, won the "Impression on China" Award (II), organized by the Chinese Embassy in Poland.
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Meet the team of EU-SABV!
This is a group of researchers with a special interest of including sex as a biological variable into their work.
For the next 4 years, this team will work to enhance current SABV policy in preclinical research!
#SABV
@costprogramme.bsky.social
@jaricivana.bsky.social
This is a group of researchers with a special interest of including sex as a biological variable into their work.
For the next 4 years, this team will work to enhance current SABV policy in preclinical research!
#SABV
@costprogramme.bsky.social
@jaricivana.bsky.social
October 23, 2025 at 7:27 AM
Meet the team of EU-SABV!
This is a group of researchers with a special interest of including sex as a biological variable into their work.
For the next 4 years, this team will work to enhance current SABV policy in preclinical research!
#SABV
@costprogramme.bsky.social
@jaricivana.bsky.social
This is a group of researchers with a special interest of including sex as a biological variable into their work.
For the next 4 years, this team will work to enhance current SABV policy in preclinical research!
#SABV
@costprogramme.bsky.social
@jaricivana.bsky.social
Great talk by Mafalda Dias and Jonathan Frazer on protein prediction models at #CTCRG2025 Check out the site: www.crg.eu/en/programme...
Centre for Genomic Regulation Website
www.crg.eu
October 22, 2025 at 10:24 AM
Great talk by Mafalda Dias and Jonathan Frazer on protein prediction models at #CTCRG2025 Check out the site: www.crg.eu/en/programme...
Just heading to the #CTCRG2025 meeting. Super excited about it and looking forward to the talks. (And of course, it's a splendid idea to have this meeting in Barcelona)
October 22, 2025 at 7:39 AM
Just heading to the #CTCRG2025 meeting. Super excited about it and looking forward to the talks. (And of course, it's a splendid idea to have this meeting in Barcelona)
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So for-profit AI companies have trained on the world's largest collaborative volunteer project and a precious free resource, to make money for their for-profit enterprises. They have crushed traffic to the volunteer project, starving it of donors and volunteers
www.404media.co/wikipedia-sa...
www.404media.co/wikipedia-sa...
Wikipedia Says AI Is Causing a Dangerous Decline in Human Visitors
“With fewer visits to Wikipedia, fewer volunteers may grow and enrich the content, and fewer individual donors may support this work.”
www.404media.co
October 17, 2025 at 2:28 PM
So for-profit AI companies have trained on the world's largest collaborative volunteer project and a precious free resource, to make money for their for-profit enterprises. They have crushed traffic to the volunteer project, starving it of donors and volunteers
www.404media.co/wikipedia-sa...
www.404media.co/wikipedia-sa...
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