Max Lau

Max Lau

@max-lau.bsky.social

limno+biogeo-chemist, Junior (asst.) Prof at TU Freiberg, thoughts are my own

98 Followers 154 Following 1 Posts Joined Nov 2024
2 days ago

Ryan (and me) are hiring a PhD student! Sweden is a great country to do a PhD, see the link or ask us for more details, or share with potential students!

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2 weeks ago
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(S+) Wegen Unterstützung der AfD: Molkerei-Milliardär Theo Müller verliert Klage Der Unternehmer Theo Müller hat dagegen geklagt, dass die Kampagnenorganisation Campact verbreitet, er sei ein Unterstützer der AfD. Jetzt hat ein Gericht entschieden: Man darf das.

Um es nochmal laut zu sagen: Theo Müller (Müllermilch,Weihenstephan, Landliebe, Sachsenmilch, Milsani, Milbona, Käserei Loose, Homann, Nadler, Hamker, Lisner uvam.) untertützt die AfD!
www.spiegel.de/politik/deut...

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1 month ago
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Big news! ✨ @aoc.bsky.social is coming to #TUBerlin!
Together with @isabelcademartori.bsky.social, she will discuss the current state of politics in the U.S. & the powerful role young people play in working for a better future.
📅 Feb 15
🕕 6 p.m.
Tune in 🔴 LIVE on YouTube: youtube.com/live/L5V-Xkj...

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📢Abstract submission is now open!

👉 forms.gle/v6hA7ujfDxas...

The deadline is either once the maximum number of participants has been reached or 1 March 2026, whichever is sooner. We will inform you of the outcome of your abstract submission in March.

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Wie schnell wächst Torf wirklich? 🌱
Eine europaweite Analyse von 28 Mooren zeigt große
Unterschiede in der Torfakkumulation. Lea erklärt in
dieser Folge, welche Faktoren dabei
entscheidend sind.

open.spotify.com/episode/5wxy...

#Moor #Torf #Torfakkumulation #Klima
#Kohlenstoffsenken #Klimawandel

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Even today, some things can be said with absolute certainty. These lines will never cross again. www.nathanielbullard.com/presentations

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2 months ago
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💦 Weiter geht’s in der Vortragsreihe „Neue Moorlandschaften“
Am 12. Januar, 18 Uhr spricht Prof. Dominik Zak (Universität Aarhus):
Die Revitalisierung von Mooren steht vor einem (lösbaren) Phosphorproblem
📍 #wiko-greifswald in #Greifswald oder online
🔗 tinyurl.com/wetscapes2

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2 months ago
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Künstliche Intelligenz in der Begutachtung

DFG erlaubt Einsatz von KI in der Begutachtung.

Wenn wir jetzt noch die AI dazu kriegen, die komplette Forschung zu machen, haben wir den Menschen komplett von der Last des Forschungsprozzeses befreit und er kann sich komplett auf wichtige Dinge wie Reisekostenerstattungsanträge konzentrieren.

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2 months ago
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I'm looking for postdoc positions in freshwater biogeochemistry! Interested in any projects investigating nutrient and carbon cycling, phytoplankton coupling with dissolved organic matter cycling in human-altered landscapes, or hydrology and spatial modeling!

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4 months ago
A nice deep blue pond in a peatland. Sparse spruce trees in the background

This one is for the peatland nerds:
We are organizing a session on 💧water in peatlands 🌿 at the ASLO conference in Montreal May 12-16 2026 - join us! Deadline for abstract submission Nov 25, more info here www.aslo.org/aslo-sil-202...

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3 months ago
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Two miles of ice core on the shelf at our national ice core facility in Lakewood, Colorado. The WAIS Divide core from West Antarctica is a 3400m long (deepest US core, 2nd deepest ice core ever) 68,000 year old record of high resolution climate.

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4 months ago
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Trump officials set to approve ‘forever chemical’ as pesticide ingredient Critics say that fifth Pfas Trump’s EPA has proposed for approval this year would put food and water supply at risk

The Trump regime is looking for new ways to kill people.

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4 months ago
Heat map of travel efficiency, updated

“Now Scientific American has updated and re-released what it calls the “classic graphic” that shows that a human on a bicycle—able to coast, or freewheel, without pedaling—remains the world’s most energy effecient traveler.” @carltonreid.com on the re-release of the iconic graph in @forbes.com.

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4 months ago
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München: IAA spart sich die Tickets für den Nahverkehr Besucher können mit ihrer Eintrittskarte normalerweise gratis mit Bus und Bahn zum Messegelände anreisen. Ausgerechnet bei der Mobilitätsmesse aber war das den Veranstaltern zu teuer.

LOL.
"Die IAA Mobility will keine reine Auto-Schau mehr sein, sondern „die weltweit führende Plattform für Mobilität, Nachhaltigkeit und Tech“. Das übliche Kombiticket, das den Messeeintritt und die MVV-Karte beinhaltet, war der IAA Mobility das Geld nicht wert."

www.sueddeutsche.de/muenchen/mue...

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5 months ago

Mobilized heavy metals in the Artic.

"There are few places left on Earth as untouched as these rivers,". "But even here, far from cities and highways, the fingerprint of global warming is unmistakable. No place is spared."

Another indirect effect of climate change on freshwater ecosystems.

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Zusammen mit dem Monitoring-Bericht zur Energiewende hat Katherina Reiche in der letzten Woche einen Zehn-Punkte-Plan vorgestellt. Dieser weist sprachlich wie inhaltlich große Ähnlichkeiten zu einem Papier von RWE und Eon aus dem Frühjahr auf. Ein längerer Thread mit Links und Beispielen. (1/19)

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5 months ago

in case you missed it

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6 months ago

So, endlich den Thread 🧵 fertiggestellt. Sind jetzt 12 Teile, ne Art bluesky-Moor-Exkursion. Viel Spaß.
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7 months ago
A happy book says:
I'm so proud you chose me as your holiday read! I can't wait to start entertaining you! 

A smiling drink says:
And I'm right here! Ready to keep you cool and refreshed while you read! 

A gleeful phone adds:
Yay! So great! How about we kick things off with a load of the same old rubbish you always look at, plus some gloomy news and mavbe a few emails from work!! 

Hours later...

The drink and book lie untouched. 

The phone is out of view but a bubble reads:
Scroll Scroll Scroll Scroll Scroll 

The book says
“I hate that guy.”

My cartoons for this week’s @theguardian.com books
#holiday #vacation #reading

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7 months ago
Drei Personen graben in einem Garten mit hohem Gras und Pflanzen. Foto: Anne Stiller

🌱 Wie tief müssen Wurzeln reichen, damit Städte klimaresilient & lebenswert bleiben?
📝 Auf der Suche nach Antworten darauf legten Student*innen der #TUBerlin Pflanzenwurzeln frei & machten mit Zeichnungen sichtbar, was sonst im Verborgenen bleibt.
➡️ www.tu.berlin/go277297/n74...

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7 months ago
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Why a NASA satellite that scientists and farmers rely on may be destroyed on purpose The Trump administration has asked NASA staffers to draw up plans to end at least two satellite missions that measure carbon dioxide in the atmosphere, according to current and former NASA employees.

The anti-science Trumpers may be planning to destroy two working satellites that provide vital measurements about carbon dioxide & climate (and data that forecasts crop yield, drought conditions, & more). They cost $750 million to make but only $15 million/yr to operate.
www.npr.org/2025/08/04/n...

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7 months ago

Please, please, please-submit to good journals (society + reputed publishers), respect peer review, and do your reviews with integrity. So important. Thanks to all of you who do. @steve-carpenter.bsky.social @esajournals.bsky.social #Ecosystems

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7 months ago
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All Praise Shade To survive a heating planet, humans need shade—lots of it.

Interesting idea: *shade* as a natural resource that is being privatized in the era of climate change.

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7 months ago
Frontansicht eines Hauses.

Die AfD hat einem Demokratie-Verein in Sachsen das Geld gekappt. Wahrscheinlich mit Unterstützung der CDU.

Dieser Fall zeigt, was Vereinen bevorstehen könnte, wenn die AfD auf Bundesebene mehr Macht bekommt – und wenn sich die Konservativen von ihr treiben lassen.

THREAD

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8 months ago
A poster with a cat and the words: 

THE WRONG AMAZON
IS BURNING
THE WRONG ICE
Is MELTING

Good morning 🫡

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8 months ago
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MethaneSAT Loses Contact with Satellite

Bad news - it looks like MethaneSat is dead

"the satellite has lost power, and that is likely not recoverable"

That's huge shame for the team, and for monitoring of this potent greenhouse gas

www.methanesat.org/project-upda...

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8 months ago
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Dieter Lenzen meint herausgefunden zu haben, was der Widerpart von Exzellenz ist: Gremiendemokratie und Partizipation Unbefähigter.
Exzellenz sei Frucht dezisionistischen Durcherrschenskönnens fähiger Hochschulleitungen.
Unschwer ist sein Hauptargument als 1990er Governancelehre erkennbar,

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Bottom trawling is horribly destructive to coastal ocean ecosystems, and deep-sea mining will do the same to the open ocean. #OceanFilm 🌊

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9 months ago

No advert out yet, but I will recruiting a 2yr postdoc, start date autumn 2025, at @livunigeog.bsky.social soon. Lowland and upland peatlands, GHGs, DOM and water chemistry. Plenty of fieldwork. Feel free to drop me a DM or email if you might be interested, and please spread the word.

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The Weather & Climate Livestream Join us starting May 28th, as meteorologists and climate scientists from across the US share their research and answer your questions.

Hi friends - In the face of unprecedented cuts to the basic research science funding, climate scientists are staging an 100-hour live stream of why science matters. There will be many talks on all sorts of things (I'm Saturday at 12:30 PT). Please share widely! wcstreamathon.netlify.app. 🌊🧪

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