Xaver Forthuber

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i'm not getting one now!

YouTube video by Naturnahe Weidelandschaften e.V. Vortrag: Why make Europe wilder again? - Dr. Jens-Christian Svenning

…wir sollten endlich zur Kenntnis nehmen: Megaherbivoren waren da, geschlossener #BuchenWald also nicht!

#Klimaxtheorie und Buchenwaldhypothese - ab damit in die Mottenkiste der #Naturschutzgeschichte

Great talk by @jcsvenning.bsky.social ! Unbedingt hören!

www.youtube.com/watch?v=pqHS...

Two galaxies that look more like an artful coil lie in a colorful starry night.

This astronomical snake thing is my most distant observation to date! You're peering beyond our Local Group at the "Rose Galaxies", 350 million light years away.

Image credit: my tiny telescope plus 16 hours of photon collecting.

#science #astronomy 🔭👩🏾‍🔬

Here's a T. Rex bored to death trying to bite their own tail. My partner asked me to animate it in stop motion, after she watched a video about the very important topic of "could T. Rex chew its own tail like a dog". The puppet is still a work in progress 🦖

"fighting dinosaurs" fossil reimagined as The Kiss by Gustav Klimt

The Kiss

#paleoart #berensart2025

An abstract looking archaeopteryx on a plain green background

A mischievous archaeopteryx has appeared!

It’s so weird to come to social media to be like “how bout those Jays!” but simultaneously wade through the ongoing documentation of fascism in the country next door 🙃

he's that close to throwing a "thank you for your attention to this matter" in there

Virenflut und Impfstrategien | DI | 30 09 2025 | 13:00 Impflücken, Impfempfehlungen, neue Forschung gegen neue Risiken. Gast: Priv.-Doz.in Dr.in Monika Redlberger-Fritz, Virologin, MedUni Wien. Moderation: Xaver Forthuber. Anrufe 0800 22 69 79 | punkte...

#ö1 punkt eins heute zum start der impfsaison mit monika redlberger-fritz von der @meduniwien.ac.at

Two Gastonia from WWD2025.

After a 3-month hiatus, thread number 3! Band of Brothers is the third episode of WWD2025, and focuses on the coming-of-age story of George the teenage Gastonia as he is pursued by Utahraptor, framed around the Lorrie’s site quarry in the Cedar Mountain Formation. (1/40)

What's your sign?

Deadly new dinosaur with giant killer claws discovered – with it's last meal still trapped in its teeth | Discover Wildlife Mega-clawed predatory dinosaur discovered in southern South America

New article by me on the very impressive new megaraptoran Joaquinraptor (title typo not mine!) ... www.discoverwildlife.com/dinosaurs/jo... #dinosaurs #fossils #theropods

I get that the news cycle is packed right now, but I just heard from a colleague at the Smithsonian that this is fully a GIANT SQUID BEING EATEN BY A SPERM WHALE and it’s possibly the first ever confirmed video according to a friend at NOAA

10 YEAR OLD ME IS LOSING HER MIND (a thread 🧵)

Extremely Spiky Dinosaur a Reminder of Fossil Record's Surprises — Riley Black The discovery of an ornately-armored dinosaur underscores how much we don't yet know about the "terrible lizards."

I'm blogging again, because sometimes I just want to write about what I want to write about. The latest is on a very spiky dinosaur and why dinosaurs are always going to be stranger than our expectations.

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*deep sigh*

Our new book, THE SECRET LIVES OF DINOSAURS, is out today!
Written by Dr Dean Lomax & 49 full-colour illustrations from me – you can buy it on Amazon or from the publisher (link in bio). The fossils in this book will blow your mind!

#SciArt #SciComm #PaleoArt #Dinosaurs #WildlifeArt #JurassicWorld

I don’t think I’ve ever seen America so embarrassed in front of the entire world.

“When we spoke to executives, they would often say the internal tool was very successful (...) But when we spoke to employees, we found zero usage.”

Nachhaltige Akkus | MO | 15 09 2025 | 17:55 Eine Grazer Firma produziert recyclebare Batterien auf Natrium-Ionen-Basis

über den na-ionen-akku in der praxis - (noch?) nicht für autos, aber als speicher - hat digital leben vor kurzem berichtet: oe1.orf.at/programm/202...

Europas Autoindustrie: ein lebendes Fossil? | DO | 18 09 2025 | 13:00 Die Autobranche und der globale Wettbewerb um die Mobilitätswende. Gäste: Dr. Peter Mock, Europe Managing Director, International Council on Clean Transportation (ICCT) Berlin & Dr. Melanie Pichler...

jetzt gleich ab 13 uhr in #ö1 punkt eins mit @melaniepichler.bsky.social und @petermock.bsky.social: ist die grüne transformation die zerstörung der europäischen autobranche - oder ihre einzige rettung?

Jeri Taylor was remembered in the In Memorium tribute of this evening's Emmy Awards.

Here's a thread of relaxing fun websites to get away from the noise

1. This is sand dot com

Let the sand flow and create weird little landscapes
(this is one I did)

thisissand.com

Scientists directly date dino eggshells for the first time The new findings narrow age estimates for the clutch of eggs—and may help identify which species laid them

As we're all taught, you can (usually) only directly date the age of a rock if it cooled from lava.

But here, scientists have dated dinosaur eggs, using uranium-lead ratios in the calcite. Hugely exciting, maybe groundbreaking.

My take @science.org

www.science.org/content/arti...

From Star Trek episode Balance of Terror, Captain Kirk says to Lt. Stiles, "Leave any bigotry in your quarters. There's no room for it on the bridge."

Happy Star Trek Day.

Early morning Mount Fuji. I love the twilight light from the opposite direction of a sunrise, especially with mountains. This was late autumn season, when I saw lots of autumn leaves at the bottom of the lake. Taken with a CPL to make them visible.

A studio portrait photograph of Venetia Burney, aged 11, around the time she named the dwarf-planet, Pluto; Taken by J. Weston & Son Photographers, Eastbourne, Brighton in England, UK. She is a white, happy girl posing on her profile. She has short hair, held back with a hair pin. She is wearing a white buttoned shirt.

Pluto's image taken by New Horizons on July 14, 2015, from a range of 22,025 miles (35,445 kilometers). The striking features on Pluto are clearly visible, including the bright expanse of Pluto's icy, nitrogen-and-methane rich "heart," Sputnik Planitia. The natural-looking colors (beige, warm greys, and browns) result from refined calibration of data gathered by New Horizons' color Multispectral Visible Imaging Camera (MVIC). The processing creates images that would approximate the colors that the human eye would perceive, bringing them closer to “true color” than the images released at the time of the encounter. The source single-color MVIC scan includes no added data from other New Horizons imagers or instruments.

Pluto was named by an 11-year-old girl.
In 1930, Venetia Burney of Oxford, England, suggested to her grandfather that the new discovery be named for the Roman god of the underworld. He forwarded the name to the Lowell Observatory and it was selected.

I’m proud and over the moon to share the news that I’m a finalist in the Wildlife category of NZ Geographic Photographer of the Year 2025.

This is the big kahuna for Aotearoa wildlife photographers and a major goal I’ve been chasing for a long time. To achieve it is exceptionally special to me.

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The world's largest sand battery just went live in Finland Finland has inaugurated an industrial-scale sand battery this week in the southern town of Pornainen, where it'll take over heating duties from an old woodchip power plant for the municipality. It's s...

Sand batteries are literally just silos of sand that retain heat exceptionally well -- so well that they can be tied to heat exchange systems to serve as proxy *electrical* batteries. Finland's new model can store enough power (100 MWh) to heat an entire town for a week.
newatlas.com/energy/large...