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Remember her name: Aliya Rahman

Her testimony is everything and it deserves to be heard, by everyone. Decide for yourself.

It’s powerful. It’s gut-wrenching. And no one should have to survive what she did.

ICE MUST GO‼️

A Battle over Bison in Montana Sets a Dangerous Precedent | National Review The Trump administration just undermined property rights — and ranchers should be worried.

For years, Republicans have urged environmentalists to put their money where their mouths are. Stop suing. Stop lobbying for new regulations. Respect property rights and buy the land you want to protect. Well, one conservation group took that advice & the administration just punished them for it.

Harrowing.

YouTube video by PBS NewsHour WATCH: Minneapolis resident and U.S. citizen Aliya Rahman describes being detained by ICE

Aliya Rahman testifies about ICE's abuse against her. Please watch
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From the good old days of German railways. When they had not three but four different classes of service and separate waiting rooms for the third and fourth class. Granted, today it feels like all the classes are fourth class.

As seen in Oldenburg. After having missed yet another connection.

A new paper on the genetics of fluctuating asymmetry... An old collaborative work finally published!! Thanks to Fred Peronnet and co and reviewer Ian Dworkin academic.oup.com/genetics/art...

Europe just started building a ‘kill switch’ for U.S. tech — and the market isn’t priced for it, says this strategist — MarketWatch Zoom and Microsoft are among those companies that could lose business, says Matthew Tuttle

“The main event is this: the world is building optionality away from U.S. policy and platform dependence. And once you see it, you can’t unsee it — because it’s showing up in procurement decisions, supply chains, defense budgets, and capital flows”

Wissenschaft als Zukunftsvertrag

Vier mögliche Zukünfte, ein gemeinsames Zielbild: Wie Politik und Wissenschaft im Wissenschaftsrat über Krisen hinweg eine Agenda entwickelt haben, um die Wissenschaft für das Jahr 2040 auf Kurs zu bringen.

Im Wiarda-Blog: www.jmwiarda.de/blog/2026/02...

A digital twin for real-time biodiversity forecasting with citizen science data - Nature Ecology & Evolution Citizen science data are increasingly used in biodiversity monitoring. This study applies a digital twin approach to biodiversity monitoring using a large citizen science dataset on birds from Finland...

More from Finland 🇫🇮…

Is it possible to map a country's entire #bird population in real-time?

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Link: www.nature.com/articles/s41...

#Birds #CitizenScience #AI #GIS #Ornithology #EuropeanBirds #NatureJournal

Bacterial necromass recycling promotes diversity maintenance in bacterial communities via resource partitioning - Nature Ecology & Evolution In this study, the authors conduct experiments involving 276 soil-derived microcosms to reveal that the ecological process of necromass recycling promotes diversity maintenance in bacterial communitie...

Experiments involving 276 soil-derived microcosms reveals that the ecological process of necromass recycling promotes diversity maintenance in bacterial communities 🧪 www.nature.com/articles/s41...

European Scientists who said NO to Epstein-funding are the heroines of this hour🦸‍♀️

They show: It was your choice to SAY NO to Epstein's $ as scientist- you just had to have ethics & a spine

Kudos to Physicist IVETTE FUENTES who said NO

She was working at @quantumunivie.bsky.social @univie.ac.at

Please share!
PhD position (4 years) available in my group @zmbp-tuebingen.bsky.social. We look for candidates with solid aptitude in computer science to cross disciplines and use cutting edge imaging to understand host infection by destructive plant pathogens.
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Local train honoring wife of Karl Marx, Jenny Marx née von Westphalen, who was born in Salzwedel, a town in this area.

Full professor for plant ecology in Regensburg. #plantscience #plantscijobs

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Bruno Studer argues that strict NGT laws favor big corporations by creating high entry barriers. To keep Swiss breeding local and innovative, we need science-based regulation, not more hurdles. 🌾🚫 Thank you, "Schweizer Bauer", for the comprehensive interview! 👇

#PlantSciences #NGT

Comment: A new dawn for innovation – why the EU’s gene editing ruling matters Steve Nelson, CEO of Plant Sciences Genetics, says the EU's agreement on gene-edited plants marks a turning point for plant breeding innovation

A small breeder's perspective on what the silver lining for #NGT approval in the EU means for them.
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Neue Züchtungstechniken: Warum differenziert werden muss Mein Gastbeitrag bei AGRA-Europe Die Reform des europäischen Gentechnikrechts bietet die Chance, eine lange emotional geführte Debatte auf eine sachlichere Grundlage zu stellen. Dabei geht es um eine...

Danke, Frau Lübcke MdB, für diesen ausgewogenen und wohl überlegten Beitrag! #NGT
andrea-luebcke.de/presse/gente...

Uppsala in late autumn

Join us at the Evolutionary Biology Centre at Uppsala University. We’re searching for an Assistant Professor in Biology. www.uu.se/en/about-uu/...

Rittenhouse had a rifle which he brandished, Pretti had a pistol he kept holstered. Rittenhouse shot and killed two people while Pretti didn’t shoot anyone. For that, Rittenhouse became a cause celebre on the right, meeting with Trump at Mar-a-Lago, speaking at TPUSA events, and raising big money.

Great news — forward looking voices are finally prevailing in the discussion on genome editing in crop plants!

This talk tomorrow on disinformation with @eliothiggins.bsky.social and @cward1e.bsky.social will take place at a slightly later time than originally advertised. Join us live at 6pm CET/12pm EST to ask your own questions. discord.gg/rDW7Z6aQ?eve...

My sister-in-law's dad died last week, in hospice in the VA hospital in Minneapolis. I just learned Alex Pretti was part of his care team. They shot Alex less than 1/2 mile from my niece's house while doing the same observation work that my niece is doing. These are real people. Step up folks!

Federal law enforcement agents shot and killed a man in Minneapolis on Jan. 24 according to local police officials. DHS told Fox News that the man was “armed with a gun”. A video of the shooting appears to show that a gun was taken from the man before the first shot was fired. x.com/BillMelugin_...

RP 1/2 Want to become up to date with pangenomes and genome graphs and their history? Check out this fantastic review by @zbao.bsky.social

Last chance to apply - the deadline is tomorrow!

orthogene: a Bioconductor package to easily map genes within and across hundreds of species www.biorxiv.org/content/10.6... #Rstats bioconductor.org/packages/ort...

ICE detained Purple Heart veteran William Vermie for hours at the Whipple Federal Building.

He says he’s speaking out because he’s white, he has privilege and if he doesn’t use it to stand up for others, who will?

That is what solidarity looks like.

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Remarkable that his team has not heard of Google.