Guido Grossmann
@guidogrossmann.bsky.social
Biologist.
Professor @Heinrich Heine University Düsseldorf
Professor @Heinrich Heine University Düsseldorf
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Today at #2025ISMPMI and up for some chat over root colonization patterns and the role of oxidative stress? We show how the spatial patterns of ROS shape the cell differentiation of B. subtilis. Our work at Grossmann Lab @hhu.de up on poster P429 - @ceplas.bsky.social @guidogrossmann.bsky.social
July 16, 2025 at 9:17 AM
Today at #2025ISMPMI and up for some chat over root colonization patterns and the role of oxidative stress? We show how the spatial patterns of ROS shape the cell differentiation of B. subtilis. Our work at Grossmann Lab @hhu.de up on poster P429 - @ceplas.bsky.social @guidogrossmann.bsky.social
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Our latest paper is out in its final form in @theplantcell.bsky.social
We show that in plants the same DNA sequence can act as an insulator or silencer depending on the surrounding regulatory context.
Read the full paper at: doi.org/10.1093/plce...
We show that in plants the same DNA sequence can act as an insulator or silencer depending on the surrounding regulatory context.
Read the full paper at: doi.org/10.1093/plce...
June 17, 2025 at 5:10 PM
Our latest paper is out in its final form in @theplantcell.bsky.social
We show that in plants the same DNA sequence can act as an insulator or silencer depending on the surrounding regulatory context.
Read the full paper at: doi.org/10.1093/plce...
We show that in plants the same DNA sequence can act as an insulator or silencer depending on the surrounding regulatory context.
Read the full paper at: doi.org/10.1093/plce...
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Amazing, what a trip..,Congrats to our friends @Ceplas, plant science rocks!
Green Robust ist dabei! 🥳🥳🥳
Gute Aussichten für spannende Spitzenforschung in den Pflanzenwissenschaften am @cosheidelberg.bsky.social zusammen mit Tübingen und Hohenheim 🌱
Gute Aussichten für spannende Spitzenforschung in den Pflanzenwissenschaften am @cosheidelberg.bsky.social zusammen mit Tübingen und Hohenheim 🌱
Die #Exzellenzcluster stehen fest: Heute hat die Exzellenzkommission 70 Projekte zur Förderung ausgewählt. 45 Cluster werden fortgesetzt, 25 neu eingerichtet. Die Förderung beginnt ab 1. Jan. 2026 für 7 Jahre, die Fördersumme beträgt insg. 539 Mio. €/Jahr. Die Liste: www.dfg.de/resource/blo... 1/3
May 22, 2025 at 3:44 PM
Amazing, what a trip..,Congrats to our friends @Ceplas, plant science rocks!
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🎊 We made it!! @dfg.de has just announced that we have been successful with our CEPLAS III proposal in the current funding round of the Excellence Strategy! Many thanks to all our supporters! @hhu.de @unicologne.bsky.social @mpipz.bsky.social @fz-juelich.de @leibnizipk.bsky.social
May 22, 2025 at 3:37 PM
🎊 We made it!! @dfg.de has just announced that we have been successful with our CEPLAS III proposal in the current funding round of the Excellence Strategy! Many thanks to all our supporters! @hhu.de @unicologne.bsky.social @mpipz.bsky.social @fz-juelich.de @leibnizipk.bsky.social
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New preprint from @erdrich-science.bsky.social of our collaborative project with @borjana-a.bsky.social, @fz-juelich.de and @guidogrossmann.bsky.social @hhu.de:
"Phage biocontrol reduces the burden on plant immunity through suppression of bacterial virulence"
www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1...
"Phage biocontrol reduces the burden on plant immunity through suppression of bacterial virulence"
www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1...
Phage biocontrol reduces the burden on plant immunity through suppression of bacterial virulence
Bacteriophages are increasingly recognized as key players in modulating plant-microbe interactions, including their potential in the biocontrol of plant pathogenic bacteria. In this study, we investig...
www.biorxiv.org
May 3, 2025 at 1:58 PM
New preprint from @erdrich-science.bsky.social of our collaborative project with @borjana-a.bsky.social, @fz-juelich.de and @guidogrossmann.bsky.social @hhu.de:
"Phage biocontrol reduces the burden on plant immunity through suppression of bacterial virulence"
www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1...
"Phage biocontrol reduces the burden on plant immunity through suppression of bacterial virulence"
www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1...
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Important thread! Do pay attention to what is happening at STEM institutes that are not NIH. Their budgets are smaller and their work can be more challenging to defend, but their destruction will be everyone’s demise. 🧪 #academicsky
🧪 The NSF director is lying to you.
Let’s fact check 7 claims from yesterday’s letter to the community, while pointing out 3 critical omissions. 🧵
Let’s fact check 7 claims from yesterday’s letter to the community, while pointing out 3 critical omissions. 🧵
March 12, 2025 at 4:49 PM
Important thread! Do pay attention to what is happening at STEM institutes that are not NIH. Their budgets are smaller and their work can be more challenging to defend, but their destruction will be everyone’s demise. 🧪 #academicsky
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Travel permits of all US government employees (USDA, NSF) have been revoked shortly before the the maize meeting affecting:
- The chair of the meeting
- The winner of the most prestigious McClintock award
- A plenary speaker
- Two short talk presenters
- 22 scientists presenting posters.
#MGM2025
- The chair of the meeting
- The winner of the most prestigious McClintock award
- A plenary speaker
- Two short talk presenters
- 22 scientists presenting posters.
#MGM2025
March 7, 2025 at 2:39 AM
Travel permits of all US government employees (USDA, NSF) have been revoked shortly before the the maize meeting affecting:
- The chair of the meeting
- The winner of the most prestigious McClintock award
- A plenary speaker
- Two short talk presenters
- 22 scientists presenting posters.
#MGM2025
- The chair of the meeting
- The winner of the most prestigious McClintock award
- A plenary speaker
- Two short talk presenters
- 22 scientists presenting posters.
#MGM2025
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WHERE WILL YOU BE TOMORROW?
March 6, 2025 at 3:11 PM
WHERE WILL YOU BE TOMORROW?
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📜 Nucleotide Sugar Transporters: Orchestrating Luminal Glycosylation in Plants
🧑🔬 @beritebert.bsky.social, Ariel Orellana
📔 Annual Review of Plant Biology
🔗 www.annualreviews.org/content/jour...
#️⃣ #PlantScience #PlantCellWalls #PlantTransporters #PlantPhysiology #PlantGlycomics #PlantProteomics
🧑🔬 @beritebert.bsky.social, Ariel Orellana
📔 Annual Review of Plant Biology
🔗 www.annualreviews.org/content/jour...
#️⃣ #PlantScience #PlantCellWalls #PlantTransporters #PlantPhysiology #PlantGlycomics #PlantProteomics
Nucleotide Sugar Transporters: Orchestrating Luminal Glycosylation in Plants | Annual Reviews
Eukaryotic glycobiology revolves around nucleotide sugar transporters (NSTs), which are critical for glycan biosynthesis in the Golgi apparatus and endoplasmic reticulum. In plants, NSTs share similar...
www.annualreviews.org
March 6, 2025 at 6:33 AM
📜 Nucleotide Sugar Transporters: Orchestrating Luminal Glycosylation in Plants
🧑🔬 @beritebert.bsky.social, Ariel Orellana
📔 Annual Review of Plant Biology
🔗 www.annualreviews.org/content/jour...
#️⃣ #PlantScience #PlantCellWalls #PlantTransporters #PlantPhysiology #PlantGlycomics #PlantProteomics
🧑🔬 @beritebert.bsky.social, Ariel Orellana
📔 Annual Review of Plant Biology
🔗 www.annualreviews.org/content/jour...
#️⃣ #PlantScience #PlantCellWalls #PlantTransporters #PlantPhysiology #PlantGlycomics #PlantProteomics
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Researchers are organizing protests and making their voices heard as Trump officials slash funding and lay off federal scientists
https://go.nature.com/4koFGpq
https://go.nature.com/4koFGpq
US science is under threat ― now scientists are fighting back
Researchers are organizing protests and making their voices heard as Trump officials slash funding and lay off federal scientists.
go.nature.com
March 4, 2025 at 12:13 PM
Researchers are organizing protests and making their voices heard as Trump officials slash funding and lay off federal scientists
https://go.nature.com/4koFGpq
https://go.nature.com/4koFGpq
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The 2025 IS-MPMI Congress returns to its origins in Germany after 43 years! First held in Bielefeld in 1982, the premier event on molecular plant-microbe interactions now heads to Cologne, July 13–17. Join 1,400+ experts! More info: www.ismpmi.org/Events/2025C... #ISMPMI2025 #PlantMicrobe
2025 Congress
......2025 IS-MPMI Congress...Save the Date! Sunday, 13 July – Thursday, 17 July, 2025 Confex Conference and Exhibition Centre, Cologne, Germany Mark your calendars for the 2025 IS-MPMI Co...
www.ismpmi.org
March 1, 2025 at 12:03 PM
The 2025 IS-MPMI Congress returns to its origins in Germany after 43 years! First held in Bielefeld in 1982, the premier event on molecular plant-microbe interactions now heads to Cologne, July 13–17. Join 1,400+ experts! More info: www.ismpmi.org/Events/2025C... #ISMPMI2025 #PlantMicrobe
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Congratulations to the Danforth Center to recruiting Giles Oldroyd to succeed Jim Carrington as its next President. In these challenging times, science needs strong leaders!
www.danforthcenter.org/news/interna...
www.danforthcenter.org/news/interna...
February 21, 2025 at 7:46 AM
Congratulations to the Danforth Center to recruiting Giles Oldroyd to succeed Jim Carrington as its next President. In these challenging times, science needs strong leaders!
www.danforthcenter.org/news/interna...
www.danforthcenter.org/news/interna...
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🌾 A major milestone for Healthy Crops!
We will transfer our bacterial blight-resistant rice varieties to our team members at KALRO in Kenya. Next steps are field trials under local conditions with the ultimate aim of combating rice diseases! 🚀🌱
#GenomeEditing #PlantScience
https://buff.ly/3Xam8Ln
We will transfer our bacterial blight-resistant rice varieties to our team members at KALRO in Kenya. Next steps are field trials under local conditions with the ultimate aim of combating rice diseases! 🚀🌱
#GenomeEditing #PlantScience
https://buff.ly/3Xam8Ln
Disease-resistant rice varieties created by means of genome editing
The “Healthy Crops” consortium, an international team of researchers, which includes Heinrich Heine University Düsseldorf (HHU), has – in collaboration with the Kenya Agricultural and Livestock…
buff.ly
February 20, 2025 at 4:51 PM
🌾 A major milestone for Healthy Crops!
We will transfer our bacterial blight-resistant rice varieties to our team members at KALRO in Kenya. Next steps are field trials under local conditions with the ultimate aim of combating rice diseases! 🚀🌱
#GenomeEditing #PlantScience
https://buff.ly/3Xam8Ln
We will transfer our bacterial blight-resistant rice varieties to our team members at KALRO in Kenya. Next steps are field trials under local conditions with the ultimate aim of combating rice diseases! 🚀🌱
#GenomeEditing #PlantScience
https://buff.ly/3Xam8Ln
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🌾 Postdoc Opportunity! 🌾
Join Prof. Dr. Wolf B. Frommer’s research team at @hhu.bsky.social for an exciting postdoc position in disease resistance in rice!
📩 Apply now! Send your CV & motivation letter to [email protected]
RT & share! 🌱
#Postdoc #PlantScience #RiceResearch
Join Prof. Dr. Wolf B. Frommer’s research team at @hhu.bsky.social for an exciting postdoc position in disease resistance in rice!
📩 Apply now! Send your CV & motivation letter to [email protected]
RT & share! 🌱
#Postdoc #PlantScience #RiceResearch
January 29, 2025 at 11:21 AM
🌾 Postdoc Opportunity! 🌾
Join Prof. Dr. Wolf B. Frommer’s research team at @hhu.bsky.social for an exciting postdoc position in disease resistance in rice!
📩 Apply now! Send your CV & motivation letter to [email protected]
RT & share! 🌱
#Postdoc #PlantScience #RiceResearch
Join Prof. Dr. Wolf B. Frommer’s research team at @hhu.bsky.social for an exciting postdoc position in disease resistance in rice!
📩 Apply now! Send your CV & motivation letter to [email protected]
RT & share! 🌱
#Postdoc #PlantScience #RiceResearch
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#LoveData25
If you love your research data, you’ll love the ARC.
Join our CEPLAS MibiNet hands-on workshop next Tuesday.
Details here: nfdi4plants.org/events/2025-...
@ceplas.bsky.social
@mibinet.bsky.social
@nfdi4plants.bsky.social
If you love your research data, you’ll love the ARC.
Join our CEPLAS MibiNet hands-on workshop next Tuesday.
Details here: nfdi4plants.org/events/2025-...
@ceplas.bsky.social
@mibinet.bsky.social
@nfdi4plants.bsky.social
ARCify your research project
Learn how to create ARCs for your datasets, annotate them with metadata and share them via the DataHUB.
nfdi4plants.github.io
February 3, 2025 at 12:27 PM
#LoveData25
If you love your research data, you’ll love the ARC.
Join our CEPLAS MibiNet hands-on workshop next Tuesday.
Details here: nfdi4plants.org/events/2025-...
@ceplas.bsky.social
@mibinet.bsky.social
@nfdi4plants.bsky.social
If you love your research data, you’ll love the ARC.
Join our CEPLAS MibiNet hands-on workshop next Tuesday.
Details here: nfdi4plants.org/events/2025-...
@ceplas.bsky.social
@mibinet.bsky.social
@nfdi4plants.bsky.social
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Book burning?
If everything was digital in Hitler's 1930s Germany, this is what his book burning would have looked like: deletion of data, removal of websites, retraction of scientific studies, censorship of words like "equity," "diversity," "climate change."
If everything was digital in Hitler's 1930s Germany, this is what his book burning would have looked like: deletion of data, removal of websites, retraction of scientific studies, censorship of words like "equity," "diversity," "climate change."
February 2, 2025 at 12:14 AM
Book burning?
If everything was digital in Hitler's 1930s Germany, this is what his book burning would have looked like: deletion of data, removal of websites, retraction of scientific studies, censorship of words like "equity," "diversity," "climate change."
If everything was digital in Hitler's 1930s Germany, this is what his book burning would have looked like: deletion of data, removal of websites, retraction of scientific studies, censorship of words like "equity," "diversity," "climate change."
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Vor dem Hintergrund der bestürzenden politischen Ereignisse dieser Woche lasse ich dieses Zitat nochmal hier. Inzwischen sollte uns allen klar sein: Unsere Demokratie ist unmittelbar bedroht. Liebe Wissenschaftler_innen: Zeigt Haltung für diese Demokratie. Betont ihre Relevanz. Ruft zum Wählen auf!
February 1, 2025 at 9:24 AM
Vor dem Hintergrund der bestürzenden politischen Ereignisse dieser Woche lasse ich dieses Zitat nochmal hier. Inzwischen sollte uns allen klar sein: Unsere Demokratie ist unmittelbar bedroht. Liebe Wissenschaftler_innen: Zeigt Haltung für diese Demokratie. Betont ihre Relevanz. Ruft zum Wählen auf!
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Zum Abschluss der friedlichen #HH0102 Demo gegen Rechts in #Hamburg singen alle Teilnehmer:innen gemeinsam in einem Lichtermeer von (Laut Veranastalter:innen) 80.000 Menschen.
@fridaysforfuture.bsky.social
@politicalbeauty.bsky.social
@fridaysforfuture.bsky.social
@politicalbeauty.bsky.social
February 1, 2025 at 4:57 PM
Zum Abschluss der friedlichen #HH0102 Demo gegen Rechts in #Hamburg singen alle Teilnehmer:innen gemeinsam in einem Lichtermeer von (Laut Veranastalter:innen) 80.000 Menschen.
@fridaysforfuture.bsky.social
@politicalbeauty.bsky.social
@fridaysforfuture.bsky.social
@politicalbeauty.bsky.social
Max Crüsemann visited to discuss "Omics-guided Discovery and Biosynthetic studies of Bioactive Natural Products" in bacteria. Huge potential for identifying novel compounds with therapeutic and plant-protective activities.
@mcrusemann.bsky.social New prof at @goetheuni.bsky.social
#publiclyfunded
@mcrusemann.bsky.social New prof at @goetheuni.bsky.social
#publiclyfunded
February 1, 2025 at 7:00 PM
Max Crüsemann visited to discuss "Omics-guided Discovery and Biosynthetic studies of Bioactive Natural Products" in bacteria. Huge potential for identifying novel compounds with therapeutic and plant-protective activities.
@mcrusemann.bsky.social New prof at @goetheuni.bsky.social
#publiclyfunded
@mcrusemann.bsky.social New prof at @goetheuni.bsky.social
#publiclyfunded
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Do you know Daisy Roulland-Dussoix? She is one of the discoverers of restriction enzymes, who’s findings paved the way for the development of recombinant DNA and cloning technologies. Accordingly, the finding was rewarded with a #NobelPrize. But the prize didn’t go to her.
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February 1, 2025 at 3:29 PM
Do you know Daisy Roulland-Dussoix? She is one of the discoverers of restriction enzymes, who’s findings paved the way for the development of recombinant DNA and cloning technologies. Accordingly, the finding was rewarded with a #NobelPrize. But the prize didn’t go to her.
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Big News (a bit late 🙃): my group is moving to Düsseldorf
@hhu.bsky.social
Looking for next adventure w awesome colleagues @frunzkelab.bsky.social @kedrov-lab.bsky.social @apmweber.bsky.social
Plz RT, positions available for #PhD & #postdoc w focus #CryoEM & #cdiAMP
www.hhu.de/news-einzela...
@hhu.bsky.social
Looking for next adventure w awesome colleagues @frunzkelab.bsky.social @kedrov-lab.bsky.social @apmweber.bsky.social
Plz RT, positions available for #PhD & #postdoc w focus #CryoEM & #cdiAMP
www.hhu.de/news-einzela...
January 31, 2025 at 4:30 PM
Big News (a bit late 🙃): my group is moving to Düsseldorf
@hhu.bsky.social
Looking for next adventure w awesome colleagues @frunzkelab.bsky.social @kedrov-lab.bsky.social @apmweber.bsky.social
Plz RT, positions available for #PhD & #postdoc w focus #CryoEM & #cdiAMP
www.hhu.de/news-einzela...
@hhu.bsky.social
Looking for next adventure w awesome colleagues @frunzkelab.bsky.social @kedrov-lab.bsky.social @apmweber.bsky.social
Plz RT, positions available for #PhD & #postdoc w focus #CryoEM & #cdiAMP
www.hhu.de/news-einzela...
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@cfkaiser.bsky.social provides a sharp analysis of the attack on scientific freedom by the Trump administration and right-wing populists in Europe. Protecting scientific freedom is essential for progress in open and prosperous societies. @leopoldina.org @dfg.de
oekoprog.org/en/a-matter-...
oekoprog.org/en/a-matter-...
A matter of gravity - Science free fallin - ÖkoProg
ÖkoProg - Wie rechte Politik und Trumps Entscheidungen die wissenschaftliche Freiheit bedrohen – vom Pariser Klimaabkommen bis hin zu Diversity-Maßnahmen.
oekoprog.org
January 29, 2025 at 9:21 AM
@cfkaiser.bsky.social provides a sharp analysis of the attack on scientific freedom by the Trump administration and right-wing populists in Europe. Protecting scientific freedom is essential for progress in open and prosperous societies. @leopoldina.org @dfg.de
oekoprog.org/en/a-matter-...
oekoprog.org/en/a-matter-...
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Research has been under siege since the inauguration of #Trump - frozen #NIH grants, silenced communication and isolation from the global community like #WHO. A stark reminder that scientific freedom needs to be defended also in the #EU - my comment on ⤵️
oekoprog.org/en/a-matter-...
oekoprog.org/en/a-matter-...
A matter of gravity - Science free fallin - ÖkoProg
ÖkoProg - Wie rechte Politik und Trumps Entscheidungen die wissenschaftliche Freiheit bedrohen – vom Pariser Klimaabkommen bis hin zu Diversity-Maßnahmen.
oekoprog.org
January 29, 2025 at 8:11 AM
Research has been under siege since the inauguration of #Trump - frozen #NIH grants, silenced communication and isolation from the global community like #WHO. A stark reminder that scientific freedom needs to be defended also in the #EU - my comment on ⤵️
oekoprog.org/en/a-matter-...
oekoprog.org/en/a-matter-...
How the attack on the freedom of science in the US will affect all of us and why we need to protect it in the EU @ec.europa.eu:
oekoprog.org/en/a-matter-...
Analysis and commentary (English version) by @cfkaiser.bsky.social @oekoprog.bsky.social
oekoprog.org/en/a-matter-...
Analysis and commentary (English version) by @cfkaiser.bsky.social @oekoprog.bsky.social
A matter of gravity - Science free fallin - ÖkoProg
ÖkoProg - Wie rechte Politik und Trumps Entscheidungen die wissenschaftliche Freiheit bedrohen – vom Pariser Klimaabkommen bis hin zu Diversity-Maßnahmen.
oekoprog.org
January 29, 2025 at 8:13 AM
How the attack on the freedom of science in the US will affect all of us and why we need to protect it in the EU @ec.europa.eu:
oekoprog.org/en/a-matter-...
Analysis and commentary (English version) by @cfkaiser.bsky.social @oekoprog.bsky.social
oekoprog.org/en/a-matter-...
Analysis and commentary (English version) by @cfkaiser.bsky.social @oekoprog.bsky.social
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Freie #Wissenschaft ist #Trump ein Dorn im Auge. So treffen seine ersten Dekrete Behörden und Organisationen in Forschung und Gesundheit empfindlich. Steht die #Wissenschaftsfreiheit auf dem Spiel?
@cfkaiser.bsky.social kommentiert die aktuelle Lage in den #USA und was wir von der EU erwarten:
@cfkaiser.bsky.social kommentiert die aktuelle Lage in den #USA und was wir von der EU erwarten:
Die Schwerkraft der Lage - Wissenschaft im freien Fall - ÖkoProg
ÖkoProg - Wie rechte Politik und Trumps Entscheidungen die wissenschaftliche Freiheit bedrohen – vom Pariser Klimaabkommen bis hin zu Diversity-Maßnahmen.
oekoprog.org
January 28, 2025 at 4:22 PM
Freie #Wissenschaft ist #Trump ein Dorn im Auge. So treffen seine ersten Dekrete Behörden und Organisationen in Forschung und Gesundheit empfindlich. Steht die #Wissenschaftsfreiheit auf dem Spiel?
@cfkaiser.bsky.social kommentiert die aktuelle Lage in den #USA und was wir von der EU erwarten:
@cfkaiser.bsky.social kommentiert die aktuelle Lage in den #USA und was wir von der EU erwarten: