Lars Fischer
@fischblog.bsky.social
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.
Writes about chemistry, infectious diseases, earth sciences, disasters and quokkas.
Posts in english and german.
Germany improved to 20th place. Which just gues to show that people actually start to like you if you refrain from waging war on all your neighbors every few decades.
Also I wonder whether it makes a difference to finlands reputation if you ask the question in summer (mosquitos) or winter (sauna).
Also I wonder whether it makes a difference to finlands reputation if you ask the question in summer (mosquitos) or winter (sauna).
According to this ranking, Canada’s reputation has improved since 2024. We are now the 2nd most reputable country in the world.
The United States has dropped from 30th to 48th in that same year, the biggest drop of any nation BY FAR. Its reputation-peers are now Kuwait, Algeria, Kazakhstan…
The United States has dropped from 30th to 48th in that same year, the biggest drop of any nation BY FAR. Its reputation-peers are now Kuwait, Algeria, Kazakhstan…
November 10, 2025 at 10:01 AM
Germany improved to 20th place. Which just gues to show that people actually start to like you if you refrain from waging war on all your neighbors every few decades.
Also I wonder whether it makes a difference to finlands reputation if you ask the question in summer (mosquitos) or winter (sauna).
Also I wonder whether it makes a difference to finlands reputation if you ask the question in summer (mosquitos) or winter (sauna).
This is your periodical reminder that the projected warming due to climate change practically always refers to the year 2100. The full temperature increase will likely be higher.
At #COP30, people will claim something like we avoided a truly apocalyptic amount of warming. This is probably not true.
At #COP30, people will claim something like we avoided a truly apocalyptic amount of warming. This is probably not true.
November 6, 2025 at 11:50 AM
This is your periodical reminder that the projected warming due to climate change practically always refers to the year 2100. The full temperature increase will likely be higher.
At #COP30, people will claim something like we avoided a truly apocalyptic amount of warming. This is probably not true.
At #COP30, people will claim something like we avoided a truly apocalyptic amount of warming. This is probably not true.
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Neue Daten widerlegen ein zentrales Narrativ der Impfgegner: Bei Kindern/Jugendlichen war nicht die #COVID19-#Impfung, sondern die Infektion das deutlich größere Risiko für Myokarditis/Gefäßerkrankungen.
Hier die wichtigsten Fakten. 🧵1/15
Hier die wichtigsten Fakten. 🧵1/15
November 6, 2025 at 8:09 AM
Neue Daten widerlegen ein zentrales Narrativ der Impfgegner: Bei Kindern/Jugendlichen war nicht die #COVID19-#Impfung, sondern die Infektion das deutlich größere Risiko für Myokarditis/Gefäßerkrankungen.
Hier die wichtigsten Fakten. 🧵1/15
Hier die wichtigsten Fakten. 🧵1/15
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Yay! Ore Cup is here! 😍
@amphibol.bsky.social
@amphibol.bsky.social
Have you voted in #OreCup R1M2 #Molybdenite vs #Tetrahedrite?
Vote: www.mineralcup.org/vote-results...
Results:
Vote: www.mineralcup.org/vote-results...
Results:
www.mineralcup.org
November 4, 2025 at 2:53 PM
Yay! Ore Cup is here! 😍
@amphibol.bsky.social
@amphibol.bsky.social
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Bundespräsident Steinmeier ist heute in #Angola. Ich war schon vor ihm da und habe mich umgehört: Wo steht das Land 50 Jahre nach der Unabhängigkeit? Zu hören im Deutschlandfunk: www.deutschlandfunk.de/angola-reich...
Angola - Reiches Land, düstere Zukunftsszenarien
Angola feiert seine Unabhängigkeit. Doch die Menschen werfen ihrer Machtelite vor, den Ölreichtum unter sich zu verteilen. Viele befürchten einen Bürgerkrieg.
www.deutschlandfunk.de
November 4, 2025 at 6:20 AM
Bundespräsident Steinmeier ist heute in #Angola. Ich war schon vor ihm da und habe mich umgehört: Wo steht das Land 50 Jahre nach der Unabhängigkeit? Zu hören im Deutschlandfunk: www.deutschlandfunk.de/angola-reich...
November 3, 2025 at 1:09 PM
In unserer WWAS-Halloweenfolge mehr als nur ein Hauch von Frankenstein. 🧟♂️
Dieses künstliche Leben soll Forschung, Medizin und Biotechnik voranbringen - und könnte versehentlich alles Leben auf der Erde auslöschen.
Zumindest nach Ansicht mancher Fachleute. Wir machen es natürlich trotzdem. 😁
Dieses künstliche Leben soll Forschung, Medizin und Biotechnik voranbringen - und könnte versehentlich alles Leben auf der Erde auslöschen.
Zumindest nach Ansicht mancher Fachleute. Wir machen es natürlich trotzdem. 😁
Wir Werden Alle Sterben: Das gruselige Spiegel-Leben
Technisch erschaffene Monster sind ein Klassiker des Grusels - doch auch in der Realität verursacht künstliches Leben Gänsehaut.
www.spektrum.de
November 1, 2025 at 7:53 AM
In unserer WWAS-Halloweenfolge mehr als nur ein Hauch von Frankenstein. 🧟♂️
Dieses künstliche Leben soll Forschung, Medizin und Biotechnik voranbringen - und könnte versehentlich alles Leben auf der Erde auslöschen.
Zumindest nach Ansicht mancher Fachleute. Wir machen es natürlich trotzdem. 😁
Dieses künstliche Leben soll Forschung, Medizin und Biotechnik voranbringen - und könnte versehentlich alles Leben auf der Erde auslöschen.
Zumindest nach Ansicht mancher Fachleute. Wir machen es natürlich trotzdem. 😁
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When in the woods, best beware of dead man's fingers lurking there.
Reaching up above the ground, a creepy fungi to be found.
Happy Halloween everyone.
Photo: Sheringham Park by Rob Coleman
Reaching up above the ground, a creepy fungi to be found.
Happy Halloween everyone.
Photo: Sheringham Park by Rob Coleman
October 31, 2025 at 8:08 AM
When in the woods, best beware of dead man's fingers lurking there.
Reaching up above the ground, a creepy fungi to be found.
Happy Halloween everyone.
Photo: Sheringham Park by Rob Coleman
Reaching up above the ground, a creepy fungi to be found.
Happy Halloween everyone.
Photo: Sheringham Park by Rob Coleman
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While this scanning electron microscope image may look like a harbinger of doom—perhaps a symptom of a haunted instrument or a cursed lab—Gustavo Porrata Caraballo says there’s a perfectly rational scientific explanation for it: cen.acs.org/materials/po... #CENChemPics #Halloween #chemsky 🧪
October 31, 2025 at 10:27 AM
While this scanning electron microscope image may look like a harbinger of doom—perhaps a symptom of a haunted instrument or a cursed lab—Gustavo Porrata Caraballo says there’s a perfectly rational scientific explanation for it: cen.acs.org/materials/po... #CENChemPics #Halloween #chemsky 🧪
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Der neue Haderer - morgen in der Wochenendausgabe der Oberösterreichischen Nachrichten. Zeichnerisch wieder grosse Klasse.
October 30, 2025 at 10:09 PM
Der neue Haderer - morgen in der Wochenendausgabe der Oberösterreichischen Nachrichten. Zeichnerisch wieder grosse Klasse.
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I agree, this is something researchers urgently need to answer!
I agree, this is something researchers urgently need to answer!
Consider yourself an academic? But where is your hat with tassel, the hair worn in a plait, the spotted suit and checked tights, like this fella from 1773 - called: the Academic Mac - is wearing? #academicchatter
October 30, 2025 at 9:28 AM
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I agree, this is something researchers urgently need to answer!
I agree, this is something researchers urgently need to answer!
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Apply for an @esa.int Living Planet Fellowship to work with me @ucalgaryscience.bsky.social! Canada is 'Associated State' and so we can host fellows who use Earth Observation data in their research. 🧪⚒️❄️🛰️ @igsoc.bsky.social @gaphaz.bsky.social @igs-egg.bsky.social
eo4society.esa.int/2025/10/17/l...
eo4society.esa.int/2025/10/17/l...
Living Planet Fellowship call for proposals 2025 - eo science for society
ESA invites young researchers in ESA Member States to submit scientific proposals to the Living Planet Fellowship Call 2025. The LPF aims at supporting
eo4society.esa.int
October 29, 2025 at 3:37 PM
Apply for an @esa.int Living Planet Fellowship to work with me @ucalgaryscience.bsky.social! Canada is 'Associated State' and so we can host fellows who use Earth Observation data in their research. 🧪⚒️❄️🛰️ @igsoc.bsky.social @gaphaz.bsky.social @igs-egg.bsky.social
eo4society.esa.int/2025/10/17/l...
eo4society.esa.int/2025/10/17/l...
Steampunk is all well and good, but it is really a bit like a cargo cult version of the real thing.
October 29, 2025 at 9:04 AM
Steampunk is all well and good, but it is really a bit like a cargo cult version of the real thing.
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🔴⚠️🌀🇯🇲With landfall in Cat.5, #Melissa is the strongest #hurricane to hit #Jamaica, with winds at almost 300km/h & first below 900mb in the Atlantic for the last 95 years. Stunning 📸#Sentinel2 of it with an eye of more than 20km on Oct.28
October 29, 2025 at 1:02 AM
🔴⚠️🌀🇯🇲With landfall in Cat.5, #Melissa is the strongest #hurricane to hit #Jamaica, with winds at almost 300km/h & first below 900mb in the Atlantic for the last 95 years. Stunning 📸#Sentinel2 of it with an eye of more than 20km on Oct.28
I just read about zoonotic UTI with poultry E. coli and now I'm trying very hard not to jump to conclusions...
October 28, 2025 at 8:51 PM
I just read about zoonotic UTI with poultry E. coli and now I'm trying very hard not to jump to conclusions...
Listening to stories about trying to get a mining operation started in germany. The number of conspiracy theories and other bullshit ideas voiced at hearings is truly insane.
October 28, 2025 at 8:09 PM
Listening to stories about trying to get a mining operation started in germany. The number of conspiracy theories and other bullshit ideas voiced at hearings is truly insane.
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I will try to do a tweetorial about this paper when I have more energy but this is really important data. It looks (tentatively, preliminarily) that COVID-19 mRNA vaccines might significantly enhance the effectiveness of cancer immunotherapy (subject to many caveats).
SARS-CoV-2 mRNA vaccines sensitize tumours to immune checkpoint blockade
Nature - mRNA vaccines targeting SARS-CoV-2 also sensitize tumours to immune checkpoint inhibitors.
rdcu.be
October 25, 2025 at 5:53 PM
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So much of "cancel culture" discourse is a re-description of the normal functioning of a democracy and public discourse by people who didn't like the results of one, or both, or how it made them feel.
Saying that someone doesn’t deserve to be a senator isn’t canceling them, that is the public opinion candidates are subject to in a democracy.
October 25, 2025 at 3:24 PM
So much of "cancel culture" discourse is a re-description of the normal functioning of a democracy and public discourse by people who didn't like the results of one, or both, or how it made them feel.
Recycling concrete is actually a thing: gravel from recycled concrete.
October 27, 2025 at 1:59 PM
Recycling concrete is actually a thing: gravel from recycled concrete.
Visiting a gravel production area near Erfurt. The gravel is dug up, cleaned and directly processed into concrete here. Kilometer-long conveyor belts transport the gravel to the central processing hub.
It's about 12 m of gravel, so it's much less impressive than other open pit mines.
It's about 12 m of gravel, so it's much less impressive than other open pit mines.
October 27, 2025 at 11:00 AM
Visiting a gravel production area near Erfurt. The gravel is dug up, cleaned and directly processed into concrete here. Kilometer-long conveyor belts transport the gravel to the central processing hub.
It's about 12 m of gravel, so it's much less impressive than other open pit mines.
It's about 12 m of gravel, so it's much less impressive than other open pit mines.
Made my day! 😄
October 26, 2025 at 6:46 AM
Made my day! 😄
Everybody talks about raw materials these days. Mostly about rare earth elements. But there are many less glamorous, but equally important resources. In the next days, I will visit sites in thuringia where sand, gravel and salt are produced, among others. I love it! 😀
October 25, 2025 at 1:37 PM
Everybody talks about raw materials these days. Mostly about rare earth elements. But there are many less glamorous, but equally important resources. In the next days, I will visit sites in thuringia where sand, gravel and salt are produced, among others. I love it! 😀
Also wenn der MDR die Kaftwerksprengung schon Live überträgt, dann hätten sie für den Kommentar auch noch Heribert Faßbender aus dem Ruhestand holen können.
October 25, 2025 at 9:55 AM
Also wenn der MDR die Kaftwerksprengung schon Live überträgt, dann hätten sie für den Kommentar auch noch Heribert Faßbender aus dem Ruhestand holen können.