Kerstin Neuhaus

I’m looking for folks to send me specimens of golden oyster mushrooms (Pleurotus citrinopileatus) collected from natural areas all over North America. I need specimens from everywhere other than Wisconsin: 2/n
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An unwanted guest in the electrochemical oxidation of high-voltage Li-ion battery electrolytes: the life of highly reactive protons Lithium-ion batteries (LIBs) are central to the urgent societal need to decarbonize both transportation and energy storage on the grid. Unfortunately, despite their attractive energy/power density, as...

Protons are bad actors in Li-ion batteries, but what is their "life cycle"? Where do they come from? Where do they go? Are they consumed? So many transcendental questions! Some answers in our latest ⁦‪⁦‪from Argonne‬⁩, w/ ⁦‪Kemijski‬⁩ Institut in Slovenia #battchat

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I was actually wondering: how long has nature made babies look cute to make grown-up animals care for them? This one really is a cutie...😍

The kids like rice with peanut sauce, so why not try something new 😁

I'll try it when it gets a bit colder, currently we have more than 30 °C. But it defintely sounds like the rest of the family would enjoy it, too 🤤

Lithium-Ionen-Batterien: Kosten für Recycling variieren stark In der Elektromobilität und Energiespeicherung kommen Lithium-Ionen-Batterien zum Einsatz. Um deren Wertschöpfungskette zu schließen, ist Recycling ein wichtiger Schritt. Doch wie hoch sind die Kosten...

In der #Elektromobilität und Energiespeicherung kommen Lithium-Ionen-Batterien zum Einsatz. Um deren Wertschöpfungskette zu schließen, ist #Recycling wichtig. Doch wie hoch sind die Kosten? Ein Team des Instituts für betriebswirtschaftliches Management @chempharmms.bsky.social hat das untersucht.

Sounds amazing. I would live to try it, although it's difficult to get ocra here... Do you have a receipt?

A small snake on concrete

I am again meeting local wildlife on my evening walk...

Panoramic view from Mount Säntis towards Lake Constance in the North and the Rhine Valley in the East, the flags of Germany, Austria and Liechtenstein mark the neighbouring countries visible from the spot, the flag of Switzerland in the front the country the picture was taken in.

How I like my borders: invisible.

A drink and some nuts

The beach

Life is good...

Actually, in some areas in Germany it's already done with local funding programs.

Yellow Sticker "Not Bad. But have you been to Baden-Württemberg?"

Seen in Ypern/Belgium.

My friend Alec is missing. Please share this widely incase it reachers any hikers who have seen him over the past 5 days during his solo hike in a Norwegian national park.

Behind Science: Clara Immerwahr - Im Schatten des Nobelpreisträgers Die engagierte Chemikerin trotzt dem gesellschaftlichen Druck und schafft die Promotion, doch das Eheleben zwingt sie in die Rolle der Hausfrau.

Die engagierte Chemikerin trotzt dem gesellschaftlichen Druck und schafft die Promotion, doch das Eheleben mit ihrem Mann Fritz Haber zwingt sie in die Rolle der Hausfrau. 🎙️

Seven volcanoes wake up in Russia's Kamchatka after powerful quake Klyuchevskoi, Krasheninnikov, Avachinsky and others have all woken up following the 8.8 magnitude quake, the strongest in the region since 1952.

Seven volcanoes wake up in Russia’s Kamchatka after powerful quake!

The scientists of the Volcanology and Seismology Institute of Russia’s Academy of Science said it was the first time the mass awakening had happened for the first time in 300 years.

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Transparent yellow pear shaped cabochon on white paper. At the Canadian Museum of Nature.

Another Guess the Gem!! What mineral or variety do you think this cabochon is? Hint: it has an optical effect named after it.
#GuessTheGem #GeoscienceBluesky ⚒️🧪💎

Sketch of a "pterodactyl" labelled as Archeopter by Nicholas Miklouho-Maclay

Doodle below writing of a plesiosaur and Pterodactyl

Ammonite anatomical drawings

Imagine your notebook surviving for centuries to be studied by historians. This happened to transcriptions by Nicholai Miklouho-Maclay, Russian of Ukrainian Cossack descent, of a palaeontology class delivered by Ernst Haeckel (1866) This unlikely record, captures the rise of race science in Germany🧵

Haüyne in a volcanic rock in the Eifel region near Mendig, Germany

Tiny blue-green crystals (there's a green coloured arrow stuck on the specimen to point these out) with some leaf-green illite and blue azurite on a matrix. From Bambollita Mine, Moctezuma, Sonora, Mexico. Specimen from the Natural History Museum, London's collections.

1 of #365Minerals 🧪⚒️

Quetzalcoatlite:
- Named after Quetzalcoatl, an Aztec and Toltec god of the sea, due to its sea-blue colour
- Forms in the oxidised zone of tellurium-bearing hydrothermal deposits #minerals
- This below is a co-type specimen (one of the specimens used to define the species)

Specimen with bright blue massive chrysocolla above and below a cavity with lighter bright blue chrysocolla rounded masses of crystals. A small amount of green matrix can be on top. It sits on a frosted plinth labeled “Chrysocolla/Chrysocolla”on a black shelf. It sits between two other specimens.

The lovely bright blue mineral chrysocolla, which is common in copper deposits. #MineralMonday #GeoscienceBluesky ⚒️🧪

Belgian waffle

Milo-les-Bains in Dunkerque

Finally vacations 😍. Life is good.

Since I recently retired, I can gleefully work all day figuring and testing my 62 cm (24 inch) cellular primary mirror. Having produced a good spheroidal figure, it's finally ready to parabolize. Amazingly, this is Norway's largest optical telescope. 🔭

After 5x carcinization here comes the 12x anteaterization (?!) Evolution knows they're cool so it makes some more!

🧪 #science #zoology #evolution #biology #mammals

Rust-based battery connects to an electricity grid for the first time An iron-air battery in the Netherlands, which can store energy for 100 hours or more to make renewable power sources more consistent, has become the world’s first “rust” battery to connect with an ele...

An iron-air "rust" battery has connected to an electricity grid for the first time. Such batteries could enable European and US power grids to store and use more renewable energy over much longer periods. 🧪

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Was plant @pdprekaer.bsky.social in der nächsten Zeit?

- Vernetzung von PDs über Fächer hinweg: Wir wollen mehr über den Umgang mit der PD-Thematik in verschiedenen Fächern wissen. Denn dazu gibt es kaum empirische Studien - wie überhaupt zur #Privatdozentur. 1/3

Schaltjahre!!1!!1!

Danke schön, geht schon wieder. War nur sehr schlecht für das Laufpensum...

Fühle das sehr, gerade vierter Infekt in drei Monaten 🥴

Herzlichen Glückwunsch! In Anerkennung seiner herausragenden Leistungen in der #Batterieforschung und -entwicklung hat die Europäische Akademie der Wissenschaften (EurASc) Martin Winter als Mitglied aufgenommen. www.fz-juelich.de/de/imd/imd-4...

An infographic titled "How BIG are the BLACK HOLES we find with GRAVITATIONAL WAVES?" by @astronerdika. The graphic displays a range of black hole masses detected via gravitational waves, categorized by their size in solar masses (mass of the Sun) and represented with playful cat-like black hole illustrations. The categories from left to right are: 1. "<5 times the mass of the Sun" - Labeled "smol" - Very small black hole illustration represented by a curled up black cat - Arrow pointing left: "THIS WAY TO NEUTRON STARS" - Example: "Big component of GW230529 (~3.6 times the mass of the Sun)" 2. "~10 times the mass of the Sun" - Labeled "basic" - Slightly larger black hole cat illustration - Caption: "LOTS OF BLACK HOLES" 3. "~35–45 times the mass of the Sun" - Labeled "hefty" - Bigger black hole cat illustration - Continues the idea of a populated range 4. ">60 times the mass of the Sun" - Labeled "chonky" - Large black hole cat illustration - Caption: "FORBIDDEN TERRITORY? (can these even be made from the collapse of star cores?!)" - Example: "Components of GW190521 (~85 + ~66 times the mass of the Sun)" 5. ">100 times the mass of the Sun" - Labeled "oh lawd" - Very large, curled-up black hole cat illustration - Arrow pointing right: "THIS WAY TO INTERMEDIATE MASS BLACK HOLES" - Example: "Components of GW231123 (~137 + ~103 times the mass of the Sun)" Below the categories is a stylized black curve representing the inferred population of black holes detected by LIGO-Virgo-KAGRA. It rises sharply in the "basic" range and falls off toward the "hefty" and "chonky" ranges, with a note reading: "this curve is an artistic representation of the black hole population inferred by LIGO-Virgo-KAGRA." This infographic draws from the “Chonky Cat” meme.

Heard the latest news from the LIGO-Virgo-KAGRA collaboration? We detected the collision of the most massive pair of black holes so far: #GW231123 weighing in at ~137 + ~103 times the mass of the Sun!

So to celebrate, here’s a handy chart ✨

Just how chonky are these black holes? 🤔