Today felt like Christmas in spring 🌸 Sun, flowering trees & some new lab equipment 💚 No advertisement but it’s nice that it is possible to buy stuff second hand or a bit more sustainable alternatives.

Not ready to include brain rot into my lectures so it ended up being old school humour. Since I know some of the students aren’t that young I hope it might still work - it’s part of the instructions for presentations of biodiversity case studies btw

Reviewing papers can be fun. You get to know interesting insights & find that some people apparently were meant to do their research

Heute in der Post 😊 danke an Johannes Kopton & Nathan Weis, für die Arbeit an dem Artikel, hat Spaß gemacht & nochmal Nathan & @peterschadt.bsky.social für die Orga etc. im Hintergrund.

Bin gespannt auf die anderen Texte

Finally, after 2y in Spain, I managed it Madrid & just fell into Reina Sofía from the train. Amazing collection with some pieces by Ben Shahn like the Blind Botanist reflecting on a scientist responsibility for his/her/their work.

Just encountered the most absurd merch I have seen so far in Mercadona (Spanish discounter). Who doesn’t want to smell like Baby Yoda?

So I‘m gonna start here with some actual blue sky taken today in Montseny, Catalunya. The summit of Matagells, highest peak in that area (1.697m), cannot go without the Catalan flag displaying bloody fingers of Charles the Bald. And I was lucky to spot some (hopefully I’m right) Dianthus deltoides