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Melanie I Stefan

@melanieistefan.bsky.social

Computational Neurobiologist at Medical School Berlin. Poster child of failure. She/her

created August 10, 2023

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Profile picture Emissary Of Night | ليلى (@diplomatofnight.com) reposted

The list of countries that are confirmed to be set to recognize the State of Palestine on Sunday and Monday, September 21st and 22nd. The United Kingdom France Canada (conditional, gradual) Australia Belgium (gradual) Portugal Luxembourg Malta Andorra San Marino

20/9/2025, 4:13:28 PM | 816 225 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture Melanie I Stefan (@melanieistefan.bsky.social) reply parent

Gorgeous!

20/9/2025, 10:55:35 AM | 1 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture DaniBrodesser (@danibrodesser.bsky.social) reposted

So, meine Lieben, hilft ja nix: ich werd in einigen Tagen 50 (genau genommen am 10.10.). Vor 10 Jahren waren wir weit, sehr weit unter der Armutsgrenze. Und ich wäre es auch heute noch, hätten 2017 nicbt manche Menschen begonnen, mich zu bestärken. Mir den Glauben an meine Fähigkeiten wieder zu 1/3

20/9/2025, 6:00:49 AM | 100 54 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture Melanie I Stefan (@melanieistefan.bsky.social) reply parent

I have been a student/staff member whose first language doesn’t match the local language for most of my life. The thing is, a bad translation won’t help me, nor will a translation that I can’t trust.

20/9/2025, 7:20:14 AM | 3 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture Dr. Sabrina Mittermeier (@smittermeier.bsky.social) reposted

I am not against translation software but I‘m against 1. it being uncritically used to just translate public facing websites instead of just paying translators cause the results are horseshit 2. AI based tools being shoved at me without alternative when are the best examples of enshittification

20/9/2025, 6:56:29 AM | 23 4 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture Dr. Sabrina Mittermeier (@smittermeier.bsky.social) reposted

Universities: - Stop offering workshops on how to use ChatGPT to write papers - stop using DeepL to translate your websites or make it sound useful for our research - stop pretending AI usage is inevitable. I don‘t want to work for institutions who can‘t employ critical thinking to new tech.

20/9/2025, 6:28:37 AM | 320 93 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture Melanie I Stefan (@melanieistefan.bsky.social)

Im Prinzip weiß man ja immer vorher dass Warntag ist, und dann ist man doch jedes Mal überrascht

11/9/2025, 9:02:32 AM | 2 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture rahaeli (@rahaeli.bsky.social) reposted

Have been tagged in to provide the reminder about traumatic video because of the Charlie Kirk shooting video going around! 1. Settings -> Content & Media, turn off "autoplay video" 2. Keep your device sound off while browsing so an accidental activation won't include the sound

10/9/2025, 7:43:46 PM | 2435 1329 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture Melanie I Stefan (@melanieistefan.bsky.social)

„Ooooh, I love Austria! It’s like Germany, but with irony.”

10/9/2025, 5:28:33 AM | 1 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture Olivia Guest · Ολίβια Γκεστ (@olivia.science) reposted

Finally! 🤩 Our position piece: Against the Uncritical Adoption of 'AI' Technologies in Academia: doi.org/10.5281/zeno... We unpick the tech industry’s marketing, hype, & harm; and we argue for safeguarding higher education, critical thinking, expertise, academic freedom, & scientific integrity. 1/n

Abstract: Under the banner of progress, products have been uncritically adopted or even imposed on users — in past centuries with tobacco and combustion engines, and in the 21st with social media. For these collective blunders, we now regret our involvement or apathy as scientists, and society struggles to put the genie back in the bottle. Currently, we are similarly entangled with artificial intelligence (AI) technology. For example, software updates are rolled out seamlessly and non-consensually, Microsoft Office is bundled with chatbots, and we, our students, and our employers have had no say, as it is not considered a valid position to reject AI technologies in our teaching and research. This is why in June 2025, we co-authored an Open Letter calling on our employers to reverse and rethink their stance on uncritically adopting AI technologies. In this position piece, we expound on why universities must take their role seriously toa) counter the technology industry’s marketing, hype, and harm; and to b) safeguard higher education, critical thinking, expertise, academic freedom, and scientific integrity. We include pointers to relevant work to further inform our colleagues. Figure 1. A cartoon set theoretic view on various terms (see Table 1) used when discussing the superset AI (black outline, hatched background): LLMs are in orange; ANNs are in magenta; generative models are in blue; and finally, chatbots are in green. Where these intersect, the colours reflect that, e.g. generative adversarial network (GAN) and Boltzmann machine (BM) models are in the purple subset because they are both generative and ANNs. In the case of proprietary closed source models, e.g. OpenAI’s ChatGPT and Apple’s Siri, we cannot verify their implementation and so academics can only make educated guesses (cf. Dingemanse 2025). Undefined terms used above: BERT (Devlin et al. 2019); AlexNet (Krizhevsky et al. 2017); A.L.I.C.E. (Wallace 2009); ELIZA (Weizenbaum 1966); Jabberwacky (Twist 2003); linear discriminant analysis (LDA); quadratic discriminant analysis (QDA). Table 1. Below some of the typical terminological disarray is untangled. Importantly, none of these terms are orthogonal nor do they exclusively pick out the types of products we may wish to critique or proscribe. Protecting the Ecosystem of Human Knowledge: Five Principles
6/9/2025, 8:13:35 AM | 2745 1389 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture Melanie I Stefan (@melanieistefan.bsky.social) reply parent

See also: people saying “ye olde”

9/9/2025, 4:51:24 AM | 4 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture Melanie I Stefan (@melanieistefan.bsky.social) reply parent

For a bunch of supposedly smart people, academics are extremely bad at advocating for themselves, and extremely gullible when someone tells us that doing some task now will pay off later “on our cv”. We need to do better.

7/9/2025, 2:21:54 PM | 27 1 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture Melanie I Stefan (@melanieistefan.bsky.social) reply parent

Tasmanische Beutelwölfe sind von einem ansteckenden Gesichtskrebs befallen, der durch Beißen übertragen wird. Will man auch nicht haben.

6/9/2025, 6:14:46 AM | 1 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture Melanie I Stefan (@melanieistefan.bsky.social) reply parent

(Also, I have thought of it for all of ten minutes, so will most definitely regret some of my answers when I think of something else)

4/9/2025, 9:08:46 AM | 2 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture Melanie I Stefan (@melanieistefan.bsky.social) reply parent

1. Zero (more specifically, positional number writing system) 2. Germ theory 3. Anesthesia 4. Understanding mental illness as illness 5. Chemical synthesis

4/9/2025, 9:06:43 AM | 7 1 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture Cal (@dragonsworn.net) reposted

Yes, hello, I am a cis white suburban mom, and I am a single-issue voter. That issue: EVERYONE IS PEOPLE, STOP FUCKING TRYING TO UNPEOPLE PEOPLE

3/9/2025, 1:40:16 PM | 521 141 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture Brian Merchant (@bcmerchant.bsky.social) reposted

This is not the AI boom creating a new type of work, this is a classic example of managers using automation to deskill old ones. Creative workers who once made a higher wage creating original art and writing are now paid in piecework to edit automated output. Bosses are using AI to cut labor costs.

2/9/2025, 11:12:01 PM | 3368 1492 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture oleschri (@oleschri.localfluff.space) reposted

Ein Horror, dass es nötig war. Gut, dass es funktioniert hat.

2/9/2025, 11:08:27 AM | 149 53 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture Melanie I Stefan (@melanieistefan.bsky.social)

Look, it’s not that I am /against/ teleportation. It’s just, where and when would I prepare my presentations if not on the train ride to the event?

2/9/2025, 7:44:17 AM | 2 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture Melanie I Stefan (@melanieistefan.bsky.social)

My postdoc needed a second pair of eyes to look at some calculations, and I suggested we schedule an afternoon where we lock ourselves in a room with a whiteboard and figure it out, and now she calls it “‘math prison”.

31/8/2025, 6:17:34 PM | 5 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture Melanie I Stefan (@melanieistefan.bsky.social) reply parent

*you‘re But other than that, I don’t discuss with people who call trans women “male”

29/8/2025, 4:58:24 AM | 0 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture Melanie I Stefan (@melanieistefan.bsky.social) reply parent

Obst ist was man in einen Obstsalat tun würde.

26/8/2025, 5:40:12 AM | 3 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture Melanie I Stefan (@melanieistefan.bsky.social) reply parent

Introducing laws that cast trans people as sex offenders, so transphobes can then turn around and go: See? So many trans people are convicted sex offenders!

26/8/2025, 5:37:54 AM | 13 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture Melanie I Stefan (@melanieistefan.bsky.social) reply parent

Aber zumindest änderts was an der Gegenwart, das ist auch was wert.

23/8/2025, 11:38:53 AM | 4 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture Melanie I Stefan (@melanieistefan.bsky.social) reply parent

An der Stelle möchte ich den unbekannten Held*innen danken, die immer wieder die Ö-Pünktchen darauf malen. Unter allen Graffitis in Berlin mit meine Liebsten. 🥰

23/8/2025, 11:26:02 AM | 7 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture Melanie I Stefan (@melanieistefan.bsky.social) reply parent

Die Richard-der-Dritte-Methode, um Kinder in Sicherheit zu bringen.

22/8/2025, 6:56:46 AM | 6 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture Melanie I Stefan (@melanieistefan.bsky.social) reply parent

Yes, that’s true.

22/8/2025, 6:52:02 AM | 1 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture Melanie I Stefan (@melanieistefan.bsky.social) reply parent

It was the reality for a lot of people even ten years ago. We were (and still are in a lot of instances) just incredibly privileged with our European passports.

22/8/2025, 6:37:06 AM | 2 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture Melanie I Stefan (@melanieistefan.bsky.social) reply parent

It is such a great piece though! So it was then scheduled again for Last Night of the Proms a few years later, on 15 September 2001. Yep. Cancelled again.

20/8/2025, 6:30:59 AM | 11 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture Melanie I Stefan (@melanieistefan.bsky.social) reply parent

“Short ride in a fast machine” by John Adams was scheduled to be performed at the 1997 Last Night of the Proms. But then the car crash that killed Princess Diana happened just before that, so the performance was cancelled, because the name of the piece seemed tactless given recent events [1/2]

20/8/2025, 6:25:07 AM | 10 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture Melanie I Stefan (@melanieistefan.bsky.social) reply parent

Nope. Companies being thoughtful and responsible about AI use is the answer.

17/8/2025, 5:33:42 AM | 2 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture Dr. Damien P. Williams Wants A Better Sociotechnical Paradigm (@wolvendamien.bsky.social) reposted

Stop offloading cognitive tasks to "generative AI." Stop using systems w/ "AI" features either inextricably woven through them or prominently displayed at the top to nudge you into their use. Stop *Designing* "AI" tools & integrations that way. Stop building or using "AI" like this. Fucking Stop it.

15/8/2025, 4:44:43 AM | 1703 674 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture Melanie I Stefan (@melanieistefan.bsky.social)

If you are really bad, not only will you go to hell, you’ll have to go there on the number 24 bus.

A bus timetable in France. The buses go in the direction of “Geule d’Enfer”
14/8/2025, 9:09:56 AM | 1 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture Melanie I Stefan (@melanieistefan.bsky.social) reply parent

Ah yes. Finally an answer to the many many times I have sighingly thought “Gee, I wish my operating system was more ambient.”

14/8/2025, 2:53:33 AM | 4 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture Melanie I Stefan (@melanieistefan.bsky.social)

Am I a ginormous nerd? No, of course not. Am I just listening to and really enjoying a three-part podcast on dictionary editing? Yes. Why do you ask? (Thank you @merriam-webster.com for bringing back Word Matters 🥰)

31/7/2025, 7:05:45 AM | 3 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture Melanie I Stefan (@melanieistefan.bsky.social)

Me: How are you doing ahead of your viva? PhD student: Fine, until further notice.

28/7/2025, 8:56:43 AM | 1 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture Melanie I Stefan (@melanieistefan.bsky.social) reply parent

Thank you for posting this clip and in particular for including the Aristotelian version as well. Little known, but it cracks me up every time!

28/7/2025, 8:00:36 AM | 1 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture Melanie I Stefan (@melanieistefan.bsky.social) reply parent

Also, how could I post this without posting a link to one (of many) of my favourites m.youtube.com/watch?v=EGB9...

28/7/2025, 7:51:03 AM | 0 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture Melanie I Stefan (@melanieistefan.bsky.social) reply parent

Don’t tell AI you’re doing crimes. But also, don’t tell it you are queer. Or worry you might be pregnant. Or support Palestinian civilians. An alarming number of things can end up being “a crime” in the US at the moment.

28/7/2025, 5:46:50 AM | 1 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture Melanie I Stefan (@melanieistefan.bsky.social)

Tom Lehrer brought so much joy into my life. My condolences to all who loved him.

27/7/2025, 8:22:58 PM | 2 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture Melanie I Stefan (@melanieistefan.bsky.social) reply parent

Aha, interessant, ich muss jetzt aber auch gleich los ein Sparkonto eröffnen

26/7/2025, 11:36:57 AM | 2 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture Melanie I Stefan (@melanieistefan.bsky.social) reply parent

Und wenn doch, will die Ansage immer nie petzen, stellt aber sicher, dass man weiß was los ist: „Der Zug aus München ist verspätet wegen Verspätungen in einem NACHBARLAND.“ Es könnte jedes Nachbarland sein theoretisch, wo der Zug sich verspätet hat zwischen München und Salzburg.

25/7/2025, 8:05:32 AM | 1 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture Rae Radford (@raeradford.bsky.social) reposted

#BookSky

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19/7/2025, 8:15:09 AM | 39467 7863 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture Kit Yates (@kityates.bsky.social) reposted

Lucy Bronze on how she decided to blast her penalty down the middle (and score). “Statistically it’s risky for the goal keeper to stand still… so yeah, I love maths”.

17/7/2025, 10:32:15 PM | 414 95 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture Melanie I Stefan (@melanieistefan.bsky.social) reply parent

Does he care whether or not he’s allowed to?

16/7/2025, 6:22:38 AM | 1 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture Melanie I Stefan (@melanieistefan.bsky.social) reply parent

Guess I’ll never find out.

14/7/2025, 7:25:52 PM | 2 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture Melanie I Stefan (@melanieistefan.bsky.social)

I saw my first raccoon today, please congratulate me.

10/7/2025, 5:16:37 AM | 1 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture Dr. Sabrina Mittermeier (@smittermeier.bsky.social) reposted

I did this before in German but I guess today is a good day to compile English resources on why AI isn‘t actually intelligent and also a real danger: 🧵

9/7/2025, 7:32:04 AM | 622 273 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture Melanie I Stefan (@melanieistefan.bsky.social)

Air France cabin announcer not waiting for the mic to be off before he says “ça m’énerve, ça” is a whole mood today

6/7/2025, 6:02:14 PM | 2 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture Melanie I Stefan (@melanieistefan.bsky.social) reply parent

For security reasons, can we just cut out the middle man and nobody does anything?

3/7/2025, 3:50:53 PM | 0 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture Melanie I Stefan (@melanieistefan.bsky.social)

„We‘ve sent you a Security Code“ [Checks e-mail] - No code [Checks e-mail] - No code [Checks e-mail] - No code [Checks e-mail] - No code [Checks e-mail] - No code [Checks e-mail] - Code! „Your code has expired.”

3/7/2025, 3:14:57 PM | 4 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture Melanie I Stefan (@melanieistefan.bsky.social) reply parent

Herzlichen Glückwunsch! 🎉

3/7/2025, 10:49:33 AM | 1 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture Melanie I Stefan (@melanieistefan.bsky.social) reply parent

Die Wörterbuch-Definition von „es geschafft haben“ 😍

3/7/2025, 5:51:12 AM | 4 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture Melanie I Stefan (@melanieistefan.bsky.social) reply parent

„People who are negatively affected by white dudebro tech have surprisingly negative attitudes about the tech that’s negatively affecting them.”

3/7/2025, 5:44:45 AM | 2 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture Iris van Rooij 💭 (@irisvanrooij.bsky.social) reposted reply parent

Many students realize that “AI” use in academia leads to deskilling. Here is some of what they say themselves: www.voxweb.nl/en/they-are-...

29/6/2025, 12:33:03 PM | 73 33 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture Melanie I Stefan (@melanieistefan.bsky.social) reply parent

Counterpoint: A tasteful butt cape should really be part of everyone’s capsule wardrobe. How else would you effortlessly take your look from day to evening?

28/6/2025, 4:42:43 AM | 0 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture Melanie I Stefan (@melanieistefan.bsky.social)

Frittenwerk Codename quasi Horoskop

Eine Rechnung von einem Fast Food Laden. Oben steht „Darth Vader“
27/6/2025, 11:14:26 AM | 0 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture Melanie I Stefan (@melanieistefan.bsky.social) reply parent

Auch a bissi die Frage, ob wir mehr Tourismus-Werbung brauchen.

25/6/2025, 5:58:43 AM | 4 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture Melanie I Stefan (@melanieistefan.bsky.social) reply parent

Two rich families \\ In Italy \\ Have been fighting for a long time \\ And are still at it.

22/6/2025, 8:12:05 PM | 37 2 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture Melanie I Stefan (@melanieistefan.bsky.social) reply parent

For me, it was this: „For a moment, nothing happened. Then after a second or so, nothing continued to happen.”

22/6/2025, 8:04:01 PM | 3 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture Michelle Bastian (@mhbastian.bsky.social) reposted

Yup! "I am sick to my stomach as I write this because I've spent 20 years developing a pedagogy that's about wrestling with big ideas through writing and discussion, and that whole project has been evaporated by for-profit corporations who built their systems on stolen work. It's demoralizing."

22/6/2025, 8:36:46 AM | 67 16 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture Melanie I Stefan (@melanieistefan.bsky.social) reply parent

A great and thoughtful voice has gone. My condolences to all who loved them.

21/6/2025, 4:48:46 AM | 6 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture Melanie I Stefan (@melanieistefan.bsky.social) reply parent

Or eight 25-year-olds, for that matter 😅

16/6/2025, 2:01:01 PM | 23 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture Craig Shackleton (@craigshackleton.com) reposted

It is really really sinking in for me the degree to which LLMs are the ultimate expression of right wing anti-intellectualism. Its proponents are literally mocking the idea that anyone would ever want to learn anything, know anything, develop any actual skill, or have a thought of their own.

15/6/2025, 4:51:07 PM | 10171 2950 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture Melanie I Stefan (@melanieistefan.bsky.social)

More power to the Great Republic of Ice Cream!

Taiwan Tunisko Turecko Ukrajina Venezuela Vietnam Zmrzlina
7/6/2025, 6:59:35 AM | 2 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture Melanie I Stefan (@melanieistefan.bsky.social) reply parent

Eh, und er tut mir auch sehr Leid, der Arme. 🎻

5/6/2025, 7:44:13 AM | 1 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture Melanie I Stefan (@melanieistefan.bsky.social) reply parent

web.archive.org/web/20240630...

5/6/2025, 7:27:07 AM | 2 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture Melanie I Stefan (@melanieistefan.bsky.social) reply parent

Naja, a bissi reich ist er bestimmt trotzdem, so verglichen mit den meisten von uns.

5/6/2025, 5:45:29 AM | 6 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture Melanie I Stefan (@melanieistefan.bsky.social) reply parent

Korrektur: irgendeinem Udo im Internet. Sorry

5/6/2025, 5:33:41 AM | 14 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture Melanie I Stefan (@melanieistefan.bsky.social) reply parent

Den „verschiedenen Gruppen“ einfach einmal zuhören, ohne immer sofort zu denken, es geht um Dich? Selber drüber nachdenken, statt eine Erklärung verlangen? Frauen und Minderheiten einmal so zur Seite springen, wie Du irgendeinem Uwe im Internet zur Seite springst:

5/6/2025, 5:33:16 AM | 26 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture Melanie I Stefan (@melanieistefan.bsky.social) reply parent

And when I say “students”, I mean a lot of my colleagues also, to be fair

4/6/2025, 7:38:41 AM | 1 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture Melanie I Stefan (@melanieistefan.bsky.social) reply parent

That’s what I keep telling my students: a language machine, not a fact machine. They look at me and nod, and then turn around and use it for their work with gay abandon.

4/6/2025, 7:38:08 AM | 1 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture Melanie I Stefan (@melanieistefan.bsky.social) reply parent

Sure. Take the side of the soulless lying machine. I am sure it will be your friend.

4/6/2025, 7:35:41 AM | 4 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture Melanie I Stefan (@melanieistefan.bsky.social) reply parent

What really broke me is how it said, about the first essay: “It lingers.” Oh really? Did it linger for all of the three seconds it took you to produce the answer? Do you still think about it sometimes, out of nowhere, while you’re making breakfast or out on a walk? Is that what happens, ChatGPT?

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Profile picture Carl T. Bergstrom (@carlbergstrom.com) reposted

Possibly the best thing I've read about ChatGPT yet. h/t @melaniemitchell.bsky.social amandaguinzburg.substack.com/p/diabolus-e...

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Profile picture Melanie I Stefan (@melanieistefan.bsky.social) reply parent

Und manchmal ein sehr wütendes dreijähriges Kind. Aber stimmt, der Unterschied ist nicht immer leicht zu erkennen.

4/6/2025, 6:33:43 AM | 29 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture Lilah Sturges (@lilahsturges.com) reposted

Are all muppets the same species just with wildly different phenotypes like dogs or are there a lot of different species of muppet

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Profile picture Katie Mack (@astrokatie.com) reposted reply parent

If you burn down a forest, you don't miss out on lumber for just that season. You have to replant all the trees, nurture them, and wait for them to grow. The science and research budget cuts happening now are wanton, senseless arson. Recovery, if it ever happens, will take generations.

3/6/2025, 9:02:02 PM | 7947 2538 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture Melanie I Stefan (@melanieistefan.bsky.social)

Seiten und Apps, die mir einen Bestätigungscode schicken: Schickt in gleich. Sonst warte ich ein paar Minuten und mache dann was anderes, und denke erst morgen wieder dran, und dann ist der Code mittlerweile da, aber fix abgelaufen. Und dann gehts wieder los.

3/6/2025, 9:00:21 PM | 1 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture Melanie I Stefan (@melanieistefan.bsky.social) reply parent

Was machen eigentlich Wiener 14-jährige statt der Wienwoche? Habts Ihr Provinzwoche?

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Profile picture Natascha Strobl (@nataschastrobl.bsky.social) reposted

Das ist übrigens genau das was ich meine, wenn ich bei Vorträgen frage was man glaubt wer zwischen einem selbst und einem Unrechtsstaat stehen wird? Es sind die Leute um einen herum: die Nachbar_innen, die Freund_innen, die Gemeinschaft. Das ist die Quelle des Widerstands.

3/6/2025, 7:05:43 AM | 1962 559 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture Melanie I Stefan (@melanieistefan.bsky.social) reply parent

Transylvania! The plot thickens!

2/6/2025, 5:06:39 PM | 5 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture Melanie I Stefan (@melanieistefan.bsky.social) reply parent

Also, the way „trans“ is used in the sentences like it’s some kind of demonic possession. The entire post would make more sense if it was spelled “trance”

2/6/2025, 11:59:45 AM | 191 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture Melanie I Stefan (@melanieistefan.bsky.social) reply parent

Bedeutet der Hashtag #ussteel etwas bestimmtes oder soll das bedeuten, dass die erfolgreiche Produktion von täuschend echten Robo-Bidens immerhin für die Qualität der amerikanischen Stahlindustrie spricht?

2/6/2025, 11:54:11 AM | 1 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture Melanie I Stefan (@melanieistefan.bsky.social) reply parent

* and immigrants, and people with disabilities and LGBTQ people and poor people, the list goes on …

2/6/2025, 11:43:29 AM | 5 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture Melanie I Stefan (@melanieistefan.bsky.social) reply parent

And also, it’s quite clear from following the US discourse that “DEI” is really just dogwhistle for “women and people of colour*“ That’s who they want to root out of public life.

2/6/2025, 11:41:01 AM | 7 3 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture Melanie I Stefan (@melanieistefan.bsky.social) reply parent

Not overrated enough!

1/6/2025, 3:22:42 PM | 0 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture ryan cooper (@ryanlcooper.com) reposted

"Roughly 1,500 babies have been born HIV-positive every day since January 21, because Musk cut off their mothers’ medication." prospect.org/power/2025-0...

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Profile picture Katie Mack (@astrokatie.com) reposted

Everyone involved in trying to pass off that ChatGPT-extruded disinformation manifesto as a scientific report should be, at the very least, barred from public office for life. The MAHA report is dangerous criminal misconduct and an offence to the process of science.

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Profile picture Melanie I Stefan (@melanieistefan.bsky.social) reply parent

Nice!

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Profile picture Melanie I Stefan (@melanieistefan.bsky.social)

My brain is upside down today

Results from the New York Times Games “Connection” game. The first row is all purple, the second row blue, the third row green and the fourth row yellow
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Profile picture Melanie I Stefan (@melanieistefan.bsky.social) reply parent

Someone out there reading this and already working on the new bestselling book “The 1500s Shropshire Diet”

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Profile picture Becker Group at CRTD (@beckergroup.bsky.social) reposted reply parent

if your research is in biomedical sciences with a focus on regeneration, repair, and bioengineering, talk to me tu-dresden.de/cmcb/die-ein... @tudresden.bsky.social and the @cmcb-tud.bsky.social offer an excellent, open and collaborative research environment, fabulous nature and culture!

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Profile picture Becker Group at CRTD (@beckergroup.bsky.social) reposted

Are you a US-based scientist and thinking of moving abroad? Talk to potential host unis - there are a number of attractive measures in place, eg the ERC advance grants that offer 2.5 mio € for 5 years, plus 2 mio € if you are coming from outwith the EU. erc.europa.eu/apply-grant/...

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Profile picture Melanie I Stefan (@melanieistefan.bsky.social) reply parent

Shape of liquid?

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Profile picture Melanie I Stefan (@melanieistefan.bsky.social) reply parent

I am not religious, but some specific people make me wish there was a hell.

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Profile picture Melanie I Stefan (@melanieistefan.bsky.social) reply parent

Never underestimate the long arm of the T. rex lobby.

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Profile picture Melanie I Stefan (@melanieistefan.bsky.social) reply parent

Bei uns auf der Arbeit hat sich echt einmal ein junger Mensch mit noch wenig Berufserfahrung beworben, und im Lebenslauf stand: „Karlspreis der Stadt Aachen“. Tatsächlich ging dieser Preis 1986 an die Bevölkerung von Luxemburg, es war also ned amal gelogen.

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Profile picture Guillotine Hunger Force (@themilfmag.net) reposted

typical corrupt science

= Nation & World - The Seattle Times My Account ™ The T. Rex may have been a lot smarter than you thought Jan. 9, 2023 at 7:36 am | Updated Jan. 9, 2023 at 7:36 am By DINO GRANDONI The Washington Post
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