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Markus Wagner
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Plant ecologist. Restoration ecology; Grassland; Seed ecology; Agroecology; Regenerative agriculture; Biotic & soil interactions; Arable plants; Invasion ecology. Pers. acct. DMs are disabled.

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Markus Wagner @wagnermarkus.bsky.social · Oct 7
My chat functionality (also for existing chats) is disabled and I can't read your DMs. in the UK, age verification is now required for this functionality. I do not want to give personal data to KWS, the company contracted by Bluesky for age verification. To contact me pls reply to a post / email me.
Tect from Wikipedia stating the following about KWS: In July 2025, social media company Bluesky began requiring users in the UK to register with KWS in order to access certain features, in response to the Online Safety Act 2023. Reviewers including Rupert Goodwins of The Register and Simon McGarr of The Gist have criticised the service for the amount of personal data gathered, and for the fact that such data could be acquired by an as-yet unknown third party if ever the business is sold.
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holdenrestoration.bsky.social
Paid Summer Internships...
Join us for a summer of ecological research at the Holden Arboretum.
Opportunities in restoration ecology, population ecology, plant ecophysiology, forest health, and more.
On-site housing available at low cost.
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January 29, 2026 at 3:06 PM
wagnermarkus.bsky.social
Wild Oxfordshire (a local conservation charity focused on nature recovery) are looking for a fundraising coordinator. See here for information: www.wildoxfordshire.org.uk/news-blogs/w... The deadline for applications is 1st of March.
Wild Oxfordshire
www.wildoxfordshire.org.uk
January 29, 2026 at 4:52 PM
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joelhs.bsky.social
It is literally false that the Jews being hunted by Nazis were citizens, because the first step toward genocide was stripping them of citizenship and making them stateless. As Arendt reminds us, citizenship is a legal category created to facilitate a machinery of exclusion of the out-group.
Tweet from Batya Ungar-Sargon: "Beyond disgusting. Gov. Walz is comparing the innocent Jews that the Gestapo were hunting for extermination—who were citizens—to the illegal migrant murderers, rapists, sex offenders, and child abusers that ICE is seeking to deport because they broke our laws again and again."
January 28, 2026 at 4:19 AM
wagnermarkus.bsky.social
That's an age-old philosophical question: Does a film showing actually exist without any observers in it?
redpeter99.bsky.social Peter Smith @redpeter99.bsky.social · 1d
It's an old joke, but if you phone up your local cinema to find what time they're showing Melania - The Movie they'll ask what time can you make it.
Not a single seat for any of the 14 showings has been sold at Vue in Castleford - I checked.
January 28, 2026 at 8:41 AM
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markuseichhorn.bsky.social
A reward structure that favours productivity over quality will always incentivise the use of tools that make it easier to generate papers. Who cares if anyone actually reads them?
carlbergstrom.com Carl T. Bergstrom @carlbergstrom.com · 2d
“The idea is to put ChatGPT front and center inside software that scientists use to write up their work in much the same way that chatbots are now embedded into popular programming editors.

It’s vibe coding, but for science.”
OpenAI’s latest product lets you vibe code science
Prism is a ChatGPT-powered text editor that automates much of the work involved in writing scientific papers.
www.technologyreview.com
January 28, 2026 at 8:23 AM
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georgetakei.bsky.social
After being held in two of them as a boy, I fought for decades urging America to never again build concentration camps and put human beings in them. It breaks my heart to watch this happen twice now in my own lifetime.
Screenshot of an X.com post by The Associated Press (@AP) stating that dozens of immigrant families protested for better treatment behind fences at a Texas detention facility, where a 5-year-old Ecuadorian boy and his father were sent after being detained in Minnesota. Below is a video thumbnail showing a crowd gathered outdoors along a fenced walkway; many people wear bright blue or red outerwear, and some hold signs.
January 27, 2026 at 9:30 PM
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robinheinennl.bsky.social
We are looking for a colleague with expertise in arthropod community ecology. Do you know someone with a PhD that has this background; please forward this position to them and they may just end up in Freising! 🐜🦋
terrecolgroup.bsky.social Terrestrial Ecology Research Group - TUM @terrecolgroup.bsky.social · 3d
We are currently looking for a postdoctoral researcher with expertise in community ecology to work in the Arthropods Core Project of the Biodiversity Exploratories @bexplo.bsky.social

Reposting is much appreciated for widest reach! Thanks.

More information here:
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January 26, 2026 at 2:08 PM
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pierremariotte.bsky.social
⚠️ New paper out in Nature Ecology & Evolution 🌱
#Grasslands #SoilCarbon @natecoevo.nature.com
The global extent of the grassland biome and implications for the terrestrial carbon sink - Nature Ecology & Evolution
By combining satellite observations with ground-based data and expert validation, this analysis demonstrates considerable misestimation of grassland extent and thereby carbon stock estimates in previo...
doi.org
January 27, 2026 at 8:10 PM
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joelhs.bsky.social
To avoid the possibility Holocaust remembrance might lead to empathy for migrants, Trump's antisemitism envoy claims Anne Frank "was in Amsterdam legally."

In reality, Margot Frank received a summons to go to a labor camp on July 5, 1942. After ignoring this call, they were in Amsterdam illegally.
Tweet from Rabbi Yehuda Kaploun: "Ignorance like this cheapens the horror of the Holocaust. Anne Frank was in Amsterdam legally and abided by Dutch law. She was hauled off to a death camp because of her race and religion. Her story has nothing to do with the illegal immigration, fraud, and lawlessness plaguing Minnesota today. Our brave law enforcement should be commended, not tarred with this historically illiterate and antisemitic comparison."
January 27, 2026 at 3:28 PM
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jvs-avs.bsky.social
How do alpine plants respond to warming?Intraspecific trait shifts depend on precipitation and growth form, with stronger responses in forbs than graminoids.
onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/...
@joshua-erkelenz.bsky.social @sonyageange.bsky.social @joe-atkinson.bsky.social @vvandvik.bsky.social
Intraspecific Functional Trait Responses to Experimental Warming Vary With Precipitation and Growth Form
We assessed the intraspecific functional trait response of 17 alpine plant species to experimental warming across a precipitation gradient. Warming consistently increased plant height. In contrast, t...
onlinelibrary.wiley.com
January 27, 2026 at 1:24 PM
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mskellymhayes.bsky.social
Also, the primary purpose of law enforcement body cams, functionally speaking, will always be the surveillance and criminalization of members of the public, not law enforcement themselves. Extraordinary exceptions confuse people about this.
January 27, 2026 at 3:13 PM
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mskellymhayes.bsky.social
Exactly this. As someone who has held a camera and filmed ICE during terrifying moments: agent body cams are not a replacement. They can get turned off/never get turned on (like cops do all the time), footage might not get released or might be withheld until the incident is cold in the public memory
January 27, 2026 at 3:12 PM
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phillipspobrien.bsky.social
Anyone surprised by this story has been living in a fantasy world. Since Jan 2025, the Trump administration has been using lots of different tactics to force Ukraine to commit strategic suicide. This is just the latest.
The real story is that people have not grasped this reality.
January 27, 2026 at 9:37 AM
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iandunt.bsky.social
Horrific. We are disembloweling any sense of online privacy in the name of child safety.
January 27, 2026 at 10:31 AM
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pgourevitch.bsky.social
Until Miller’s gone these are just gestural purges to sanitize and consolidate his reign of terror.
yappelbaum.bsky.social Yoni Appelbaum @yappelbaum.bsky.social · 2d
BREAKING: The Border Patrol's Greg Bovino has been ousted from his role of "Commander at Large"—and Kristi Noem and Corey Lewandowski could be next to lose their jobs, sources tell @nickmiroff.bsky.social www.theatlantic.com/politics/202...
January 27, 2026 at 1:40 AM
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ayoub.bsky.social
The UK version of “Project 2025” by the Reform party includes a British ICE, a concentration camp for 24,000 people, mass surveillance and withdrawing from refugee, anti-torture and anti-trafficking conventions.

It’s on their website. That’s how comfortable fascists are in the UK today.
The Legislation Upon winning a general election, a Reform government under Prime Minister Nigel Farage will: 1) Leave the ECHR 2.) Repeal the Human Rights Act and replace it with a British Bill of Rights. 3.) Pass The Illegal Migration (Mass Deportation) Bill: This Bill will: Create a legal duty to remove illegal migrants for the Home Secretary The Bill opens with a blunt obligation for the Home Secretary: "The Secretary of State shall ensure the removal from the United Kingdom of each person who does not have extant leave to remain and is not an Irish citizen or otherwise protected by regulations made under this Act." The following parts of the legislation are introduced on an emergency basis, with an in-built sunset clause after 5 years: Disapply the 1951 Refugee Convention, the UN Convention Against Torture, the Council of Europe Anti-Trafficking Convention (ECAT) Derogation is justified under the Vienna Convention doctrine of state of necessity: Britain faces a national emergency in which uncontrolled illegal migration undermines public order. These treaties will otherwise be used by activist judges to frustrate deportations, even after the repeals of the HRA and ECHR. Create Detention Power Without Hardial Singh Constraints This means illegal migrants can be detained until they are deported. Activist lawyers routinely use Hardial Singh to secure their client's bail, after which the client absconds. If you came to the UK illegally, you are ineligible for asylum. End of story All asylum claims will become inadmissible if made by a person within the Act's scope. If you came to the country illegally, you are ineligible for asylum in the UK. This strips the Home Office, the immigration tribunals and the higher courts of jurisdiction to even consider claims. A claim that cannot be considered cannot suspend removal and therefore, cannot delay a flight. Re-entering after deportation and destroying ID becomes a serious criminal offence Re-entry after deportation will be… The Operational Plan We will create an enforcement unit called UK Deportation Command, including an Illegal Migrant Identification Centre - harnessing cutting edge data fusion A Reform government will create a cutting edge enforcement data centre to relentlessly identify and detain all illegal migrants in the UK. Using powers granted by the new legislation, it will automatically share data between the Home Office, NHS, HMRC, DVLA, banks and the police. It will power bulk warrants, including mandatory biometric capture during any police encounter. Each power addresses a failure mode observed over the past decade - for example, banks and GP surgeries unaware of a customer's status, or overstayers slipping through because a warrant covered only a single property. Secure Immigration Removal Centres (SIRC) will be built rapidly to detain up to 24,000 Detention capacity for up to 24,000 will be created within 18 months. The Home Office will build Secure Immigration Removal Centres. This will be modular accommodation built in remote parts of the country. Conditions are basic but not punitive: prefabricated two-person rooms, canteen catering, on-site medical suites. Robust perimeters and internal movement controls prevent escapes. This enables detention-on-arrest: no more bail. This capacity would allow for up to 24,000 illegal migrants to be deported per month. Initial Voluntary Return Window A six-month Assisted Voluntary Return window precedes large-scale raids. Illegal migrants will be offered a financial incentive to self-deport. An app will be launched to facilitate this. The Deportation Flights The Home Office will scale up charters to 5 flights per day. To guard against last-minute aircraft unserviceability, the RAF will keep one Voyager aircraft on six-hour 'hot-spare' readiness. If a commercial charter breaks down, detainees can still be flown out that night, preserving operational integrity. The legal reset will mean activist lawyers will no longer be able preven…
January 26, 2026 at 1:22 PM
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Youth Rangers are off to Stanground Wash in Peterborough in February. Will you join us? www.wildlifebcn.org/events/2026-...
Youth Rangers of the Fens - Practical Conservation Skills in Peterborough | Wildlife Trust for Beds Cambs & Northants
Join the Fens Youth Rangers to learn practical conservation skills for free.
www.wildlifebcn.org
January 26, 2026 at 3:01 PM
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Read their names.
Nine people have died in ICE custody or during ICE operations in 2026.
Every one of them mattered.

Call Congress. ICE should NOT be funded.
📱 202-224-3121

#SheShed #Voices4Victory
January 25, 2026 at 9:38 PM
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ruthe.de
Was sich reimt, ist gut.
In der Werkstatt von Meister Eder. Der Sensenmann steht hinter Eder und hält die Hände ausstreckt in seine Richtung. Eder: "Pumuckl! Du gibst dem Herrn sofort seine Sense zurück!". Rechts im Bild läuft der Kobold mit dem Werkzeug des Todes davon.
January 26, 2026 at 11:34 AM
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oxfordclarion.bsky.social
Oxfordshire County Council is leaving X, the Elon Musk-owned platform formerly known as Twitter. It says it is “deeply concerned about the rise in online hate speech and abuse targeting women and girls… we must make clear and principled choices about how we communicate”.
A lovely bird logo and a decidedly less than lovely X logo
January 26, 2026 at 10:18 AM
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newsjennifer.bsky.social
A reminder that one of the new owners of TikTok is Larry Ellison who also now owns CBS News…
chrismurphyct.bsky.social Chris Murphy @chrismurphyct.bsky.social · 3d
I know it's hard to track all the threats to democracy out there right now, but this is at the top of the list.
January 26, 2026 at 4:16 AM
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davidleavitt.bsky.social
#TikTok has begun censoring anti-Trump and anti-Ice content
January 24, 2026 at 12:50 AM
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bergbrew.bsky.social
www.theatlantic.com/politics/202...
Welcome to the American Winter
In the frozen streets of Minneapolis, something profound is happening.
www.theatlantic.com
January 26, 2026 at 3:22 AM
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elisabethbik.bsky.social
Thousands of scientists inflate their CVs with self-published studies that cost millions of dollars of public money
1 in 8 'special issues' is filled with articles written by the editor, particularly at the publisher MDPI
@manuelansede.bsky.social
english.elpais.com/science-tech...
Thousands of scientists inflate their CVs with self-published studies that cost millions of dollars of public money
An analysis of 100,000 special issues of academic journals reveals that one in eight is filled with articles written by the editor, particularly at the publisher MDPI
english.elpais.com
January 25, 2026 at 7:41 PM
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mjmcoomber.bsky.social
My friend Sara posted this about the superb care her father received from with Alex Pretti

Absolutely heartbreaking
Photos of Alex Pretti with Sara’s caption: On August 16th at approximately 10:00 pm I received a call from the ICU at the VA saying my Dad had sepsis and needed to be intubated to stay alive so Josh and I headed in. We were greeted by the kindest, most calming and warm soul who helped us understand what was happening and showed deep care for us and my Dad. He continued to show utmost patience and kindness over the next few days as my Dad remained in the ICU and we were there continually. It was Alex Pretti, the man shot today by ICE. If you see this video and don't think it's murder, I don't understand your thinking and ask you to question your heart. He was out there trying to help and protect and from the little we knew of him, it doesn't surprise me he was not afraid to be on the front lines of this horrible scene in our Minneapolis. Weeping for his family and all those at the VA who no longer get to work with him or receive his care.
January 25, 2026 at 4:19 PM