Mathis Riehle

My apartment’s been unseasonably humid, and I’ve been doing what I can to keep things dry to prevent mold. It’s got me thinking about animals that live in wet climates—how do they stay dry?

Some geckos get by with hairs on their skin that literally rocket water off of them.

1/8 ⚛️🧪

Incredible book, if you haven’t seen it. I think about the “technologically precocious boy” all the time.

From the @wsj.com chief foreign correspondent

…come back Theresa how I have missed your missives…

Cover page of the book: making nonfiction comics by Elerii Harris & Shay Mirk ISBN: 987-1-4197-6927-6

This arrived suddenly- preordered months ago and forgotten it appeared & is a big positive surprise - starting to have a closer look & loving it 😻

@elerimai.bsky.social

New paper alert! We report that #zebrafish endodermal cells use contact inhibition of locomotion as a dispersal and spacing mechanism. It’s a neat example of large-scale patterns emerging from local interactions using a simple set of rules. Summary in the thread below 1/9
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Sabrina walking the dog

Sabrina Carpenter made the White House delete their fuck ass tweet.

Alu Brotdose auf der Banane Äpfel und eine Mandarine Mund Augen und Nase formen

Boomer hier, in meiner 20er Jahre Brotdose ist selbstverständlich mein selbst gebackenes Biobauernbrot drin - und Karotten und Radieschen- darf ich?
Der MerSpahSöd plemplemplem Haufen ist von ferne nur schwer zu ertragen!

Das war aber fix 🏃

USA kritisieren Europa und kündigen Einmischung an In ihrer neuen Sicherheitsstrategie greifen die USA Europa scharf an und kündigen eine Einmischung zugunsten rechter Parteien an. Die US-Regierung wolle nun "Widerstand" in Europa kultivieren.

Kürzlich gab Beatrix von Storch zu, dass sie und andere in der AfD Namen von politisch aktiven Menschen weitergeben, die sich zB für eine Digitalsteuer einsetzen.
Die AfD besorgt dazu über kleine Anfragen mitlitärisch relevante Informationen für Russland.
Wann werden sie die Landesverrat verfolgt?

Since becoming a parent I have not, in fact, understood the parents who say “if you were a parent you’d understand” about vaccine hesitancy. Being in charge of this fragile little miracle has me saying things like “give her all the vaccines. Turn this baby into a pincushion” to doctors

two point NINE

From the paper: ..."Another 33% of the control papers were randomly selected from Swedish, Finnish and Norwegian institutions in cancer research, as these countries have no recorded instances of paper mill retractions in the Retraction Watch database.

Nice one!

Maybe we should offer a degree?

Master in Fictional Cancer Science

🧪 🧫 🧬

www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1...

...over 170.000 papers - way to go fakery great one - $$$ beats everything else $$$$ is the thing that makes the world go round

Me thinks this cancer in science will only GROW.

Congratulations 🥂

YouTube video by Still Watching Netflix 'Forks Out': A Benoit Blanc Sesame Street Mystery | Wake Up Dead Man | Netflix

Oh @rianjohnson.bsky.social played all innocent "I'm not doing a muppet thing with Knives Out" he knew HE KNEW

Great culture can save lives. Literally.

Amazing letter in today’s @thetimes.com about Tom Stoppard

Our python workshop is returning! Undergraduate educators, join us on July 27-30 for "Coding with Allen Institute Data."

No prior coding experience needed. Travel, meals, & stipend included.

Apply by Feb. 2 at: https://alleninstitute.org/events/educator-coding-workshop-2026/

#iTeachBio #EduSky

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Slop in journals is illuminating about journals’ quality control. And journals would like you to forget their mistakes.

#AcademicChatter

Wasser für alle statt Profite für Wenige! 💧 Wasser für alle statt Profite für Wenige! Sauberes Wasser ist ein Grundrecht. Konzerne, die es verschmutzen, müssen zahlen und nicht wir Bürger:innen! 💧 Abwasser: Wir zahlen genug, jetzt ...

Deine Wasserrechnung könnte bald deutlich höher ausfallen, weil Konservative (& Rechte) in Brüssel die längst beschlossene Kommunalabwasserrichtlinie aufweichen wollen.

Statt Pharma- & Kosmetik-Konzerne sollen wir für ihre Verschmutzung zahlen. @juttapaulus.bsky.social stellt sich dagegen. Danke!

a close up of a colorful crab with a netflix logo behind it Alt: a close up of a colorful mantis shrimp popping up behind a set of corral

Ok I should’ve looked- thanks

Really good, intelligent cogent discussion, interesting throughout and highly relevant for today’s world.

Long ok

Highly recommend YES!

Nice rant, just hope your blood pressure is okay

Squares of sticky lebkuchen squares in a cookie tin

Lebkuchen cookies, freed from baking paper and corralled in a tin for retention until their final outing ;-)

Happy first Advent all

It’s tiny

Probably too late to post this but my son is at Shake illustration and art fair with his work until 5 this evening. It’s at Shredenhams in Bristol, two quid to get in. He’s c.lockhart.ist on instagram if you want to check out his work.

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Contribution in multi author papers?
Who is responsible and answerable in the exam for things published?
From what level of contribution does it count towards ones PhD?

Repetitive introductions 👎
More papers 👎
More pressure with papers >1 year to publish 👎

(I have supervised & examined such)