Merkel lab

Woah! Such an important study published in Nature today! Quick thread with some of their key figures!
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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)

Italian workers' strike in solidarity with Gaza brings disruptions across the country Thousands of workers and students across Italy have joined a general strike and demonstrations in solidarity with Palestinians in Gaza.

Thousands of Italian workers and students are on strike for Gaza

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Israel committing genocide in Gaza, world’s top scholars on the crime say International Association of Genocide Scholars resolution backed by 86% of members who voted

In case you missed it, according to the International Association of Genocide Scholars, Israel is committing genocide in Gaza.

You may have been aware of it - some people still are not.

The text of the resolution: genocidescholars.org/wp-content/u...

www.theguardian.com/world/2025/s...

Gleichschaltung.

Exactly this

The EU credibility is at stake. We must do more on Gaza.

Our @baseickhout.bsky.social to Commission President @vonderleyen.ec.europa.eu.

illustration of a hand from a business suit hold a match, lighting a fuse on a bomb that is planet earth Moor Studio—Getty Images

No individual billionaire, corporation, or country should be allowed to block the will and wellbeing of 8 billion people and the future of our planet.

The Planet Can’t Afford Billionaires

Read more: time.com/7305649/the-...

MEPs, together, drawing a red line for Gaza.

Killing civilians is a red line.
Starving people is a red line.
Bombing hospitals and shelters is a red line.

Israel’s assault on Gaza is unlawful, disproportionate, and devastating.

We call on @vonderleyen.ec.europa.eu and the EU to take action!

‘China Is the Engine’ Driving Nations Away From Fossil Fuels, Report Says

"Last year, more than 90 percent of wind and solar projects commissioned worldwide produced power more cheaply than the cheapest available fossil-fuel alternative."

Most-viewed Guardian articles last night. Editors shouldn’t think that the public doesn’t want to know more about climate change.
Or about ocean science 🌊!
Read the article about our paper: www.theguardian.com/environment/...

Israel Abducted Child Aid Seeker and Tortured Him for a Month While Carrying Out Aid Site Massacres A recent report reveals Israel is also abducting Palestinians near aid sites, on top of near-daily massacres.

Israeli forces abducted a Palestinian child near a GHF site in June and took him to a notorious prison camp where they subjected him to severe torture for nearly a month. Omar was alongside other aid seekers when Israeli forces encircled them, held him at gunpoint, and then forced them to strip.

From genes to patterns: five key dynamical systems concepts to decode developmental regulatory mechanisms Summary: Dynamical systems theory provides a powerful quantitative and intuitive framework to understand developmental processes. This Primer brings key concepts of this framework to the ever-growing ...

A Summer reading recommendation: new primer in @dev-journal.bsky.social explains how dynamical systems theory unlocks the logic of developmental patterning

Everything from bistable switches & oscillators to phase portraits & more with Python code to explore

journals.biologists.com/dev/article/...

Israeli public figures call for ‘crippling sanctions’ on Israel over Gaza starvation Thirty-one high-profile Israelis accuse Tel Aviv of ‘brutal campaign’ and demand permanent ceasefire in letter

www.theguardian.com/world/2025/j...

Israel committing genocide in Gaza, say Israel-based human rights groups Reports detailing intentional targeting of Palestinians as a group, and systemic destruction of Palestinian society, add to pressure for action

“I think every human being has to ask himself: what do you do in the face of genocide?”

“It couldn’t happen without the support of the western world. Any leader that is not doing whatever they can to stop it is part of this horror.”

www.theguardian.com/world/2025/j...

‘We faced hunger before, but never like this’: skeletal children fill hospital wards as starvation grips Gaza For months Israel kept food shipments to Gaza far below starvation rations. Now the death toll is rising rapidly

www.theguardian.com/world/2025/j...

SARCOMERES divide! Mechanism how muscles grow while contracting - daughter sarcomeres appear everywhere. Seen live, registered on our cover. Pioneered by @clementrodier.bsky.social @friedrich-group.bsky.social Ian Estabrook @ibdm.bsky.social $ by @hfspo.bsky.social www.science.org/doi/10.1126/...

If the Royal Society had decided to expel Elon Musk simply for violating their Code of Conduct, they wouldn't now face the embarrassment of having a Fellow who built MechanoHitler. Hey ho.

If you don’t think this moment of symbolism is 100% deliberate, you haven’t been paying attention.

The Speaker surrendering his gavel is purposeful, self-subjugation to the “King”. Congress betraying its role & yielding its power.

All on #July4th too.

Sham Tlili, winner of the CNRS 2025 bronze medal - IBDM | Institut de Biologie du Développement de Marseille A distinction that rewards a promising and already fruitful scientific career.

🥇Sham Tlili has been awarded the CNRS 2025 Bronze Medal! She studies how physical forces shape living tissues by using mouse stem cell models known as gastruloids. A unique blend of physics & biology.

🔗 Read more: www.ibdm.univ-amu.fr/sham-tlili-w...

“Rates of Warming are Unprecedented” Scientists Warn in Latest Dire Assessment Unless carbon emissions and fossil fuel use are slashed drastically, global heating could surpass the limits set out in the Paris Agreement.

“What we know from the science is that unless we halve emissions by 2030, we’re not going to be able to get anywhere close to the Paris Agreement’s limit.” “Overshooting the Paris Agreement’s 1.5 °C target would be a very serious political failure.”
Very true.
www.oneearthnow.org/p/rates-of-w...

Kluger Klimaschutz lohnt sich. Für alle – sagt eine neue Studie Hier kommt die Antwort auf »Wer soll das alles bezahlen?«. Denn Klimaschutz könnte zu 13% mehr Wohlstand führen.

»Wer soll das alles bezahlen?« ist bis heute wohl eines der beliebtesten Gegenargumente, um Klimaschutzmaßnahmen zu verschleppen.
Wer heute noch an dieses Strohmann-Argument glaubt, sollte einen Blick in den neuen Bericht des Industrieländerverbandes OECD werfen.
perspective-daily.de/article/3771...

Harvard appears to think all Jews support Israel. That is discriminatory | Barry Trachtenberg, Victor Silverman, Atalia Omer, Raz Segal, Rebecca T Alpert We are Jewish scholars who filed an amicus brief with the US supreme court on Harvard’s discriminatory assumption that being Jewish means supporting Israel

www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...

Research from 2022 that every Democrat apologist should chew on:
“We do not find any evidence that accommodative strategies reduce radical right support. If anything, our results suggest that they lead to more voters defecting to the radical right.“

www.cambridge.org/core/journal...

Even Once Reluctant Scholars Now Agree on Israel's Gaza Assault: It's a Genocide | Common Dreams Is Israel committing genocide against Palestinians in Gaza? Leading international experts say yes, with the majority of their peers in academia concurring. The debate is shifting as the death toll ris...

'Melanie O'Brien, president of the International Association of Genocide Scholars, told NRC that Israel's deliberate blockade on "food, water, shelter, and sanitation" convinced her the Netanyahu government was carrying out a genocide'
www.commondreams.org/news/israel-...

Trump's sanctions on ICC prosecutor have halted tribunal's work Nearly three months ago, U.S. President Donald Trump slapped sanctions on the International Criminal Court's chief prosecutor, Karim Khan.

The ICC’s chief prosecutor has lost access to his email, and his bank accounts have been frozen.

American staffers at the court have been told that if they travel to the U.S. they risk arrest.

NGOs have stopped working with the ICC, the leader of one won’t even reply to ICC emails.

The way forward • Develop robust MRV for CDR, especially open systems • Assess the effectiveness, side effects, and social acceptance of various CDR techniques. • Research which methods require the least amount of energy, water, land, and resources. • Research how much CDR is possible given geophysical, environmental, technological, economic, social/cultural, and regulatory constraints.

Here's the last slide from my recent presentation about how we should move forward on CO₂ removal (CDR).

There's a lot of research to be done over the next few decades before we consider whether to deploy CDR. Just because something doesn't work today doesn't make it a scam. It's valuable research.

Climeworks’ capture fails to cover its own emissions The carbon capture company Climeworks only captures a fraction of the CO2 it promises its machines can capture. The company is failing to carbon offset the emissions resulting from its operations – wh...

“This technology [carbon capture and storage] perpetuates the business model of oil and gas companies.”
“This is what this technology is designed to do. None of this is doing any good for the climate. On the contrary, this kind of technology is making things worse.”
heimildin.is/grein/24581/...

Benjamin Widom, influential physical chemist, dies at 97 | Cornell Chronicle Benjamin Widom, Ph.D. ’53, Goldwin Smith Professor Emeritus in the Department of Chemistry and Chemical Biology in the College of Arts and Sciences, died Jan. 23 in Ithaca. He was 97.

A beloved professor and legend 🙏 news.cornell.edu/stories/2025...

I'm excited to join @pritiagarwal.bsky.social and @tarafinegan.bsky.social as a co-organizer for the International Developmental Mechanics Seminar Series. The series will resume in September 2025, and call for speakers is now open! More info is on our new website: sites.google.com/view/devmech...