Xaver Forthuber
@xaverdavid.bsky.social
journalist (ö1)? ich stelle nur fragen
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Holy shit, just learned about the typewriter art of Montserrat Alberich Escardívol, a Catalan typist. Using an extra wide typewriter and 180 color ribbons, she built up elaborate images from simple characters like 'm' and '.' and ';'. Here is her typewritten painting of the Cathedral of Barcelona.
November 12, 2025 at 4:19 PM
Holy shit, just learned about the typewriter art of Montserrat Alberich Escardívol, a Catalan typist. Using an extra wide typewriter and 180 color ribbons, she built up elaborate images from simple characters like 'm' and '.' and ';'. Here is her typewritten painting of the Cathedral of Barcelona.
"Proper application of GDPR against online advertising technology firms would do away with the vast data breach at the heart of the industry. Consent pop-ups would become largely obsolete."
As we write in The Guardian this morning, the Commission’s plan to gut EU digital rules will hurt Europe’s startups and give U.S. tech an unassailable advantage, confirming Europe as a digital vassal.
Piece by George Riekeles and I.
www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...
Piece by George Riekeles and I.
www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...
The EU has let US tech giants run riot. Diluting our data law will only entrench their power | Johnny Ryan and Georg Riekeles
The GDPR is Europe’s defence against digital oligarchy and child harm. Deregulation plans are misguided, say Johnny Ryan and Georg Riekeles
www.theguardian.com
November 12, 2025 at 8:04 AM
"Proper application of GDPR against online advertising technology firms would do away with the vast data breach at the heart of the industry. Consent pop-ups would become largely obsolete."
by the end of s2, pulaski has meaningful, individual connections with picard, data, geordi and worf. she clearly was the more interesting character.
Pulaski is the only one who takes Data seriously. He insists his feelings can't be hurt and she takes him at his word while everyone else treats him with kid gloves. Doubting him only pushes Data to greatness, and subsequently Pulaski ends up being one of his best friends.
give me your trash Trek takes 🖖🏼
November 11, 2025 at 1:21 PM
by the end of s2, pulaski has meaningful, individual connections with picard, data, geordi and worf. she clearly was the more interesting character.
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👀 Durchziehende Kraniche gesehen?
Dann melde deine Sichtung bitte hier 👇
www.birdlife.at/vogelschutz/...
Dann melde deine Sichtung bitte hier 👇
www.birdlife.at/vogelschutz/...
Kranich-Meldeaktion
Helfen Sie uns mit der Erfassung von durchziehenden Kranichen im Herbst.
www.birdlife.at
October 22, 2025 at 8:20 AM
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…wir sollten endlich zur Kenntnis nehmen: Megaherbivoren waren da, geschlossener #BuchenWald also nicht!
#Klimaxtheorie und Buchenwaldhypothese - ab damit in die Mottenkiste der #Naturschutzgeschichte
Great talk by @jcsvenning.bsky.social ! Unbedingt hören!
www.youtube.com/watch?v=pqHS...
#Klimaxtheorie und Buchenwaldhypothese - ab damit in die Mottenkiste der #Naturschutzgeschichte
Great talk by @jcsvenning.bsky.social ! Unbedingt hören!
www.youtube.com/watch?v=pqHS...
Vortrag: Why make Europe wilder again? - Dr. Jens-Christian Svenning
YouTube video by Naturnahe Weidelandschaften e.V.
www.youtube.com
October 20, 2025 at 6:25 PM
…wir sollten endlich zur Kenntnis nehmen: Megaherbivoren waren da, geschlossener #BuchenWald also nicht!
#Klimaxtheorie und Buchenwaldhypothese - ab damit in die Mottenkiste der #Naturschutzgeschichte
Great talk by @jcsvenning.bsky.social ! Unbedingt hören!
www.youtube.com/watch?v=pqHS...
#Klimaxtheorie und Buchenwaldhypothese - ab damit in die Mottenkiste der #Naturschutzgeschichte
Great talk by @jcsvenning.bsky.social ! Unbedingt hören!
www.youtube.com/watch?v=pqHS...
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This astronomical snake thing is my most distant observation to date! You're peering beyond our Local Group at the "Rose Galaxies", 350 million light years away.
Image credit: my tiny telescope plus 16 hours of photon collecting.
#science #astronomy 🔭👩🏾🔬
Image credit: my tiny telescope plus 16 hours of photon collecting.
#science #astronomy 🔭👩🏾🔬
October 18, 2025 at 1:24 AM
This astronomical snake thing is my most distant observation to date! You're peering beyond our Local Group at the "Rose Galaxies", 350 million light years away.
Image credit: my tiny telescope plus 16 hours of photon collecting.
#science #astronomy 🔭👩🏾🔬
Image credit: my tiny telescope plus 16 hours of photon collecting.
#science #astronomy 🔭👩🏾🔬
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Here's a T. Rex bored to death trying to bite their own tail. My partner asked me to animate it in stop motion, after she watched a video about the very important topic of "could T. Rex chew its own tail like a dog". The puppet is still a work in progress 🦖
October 15, 2025 at 1:35 AM
Here's a T. Rex bored to death trying to bite their own tail. My partner asked me to animate it in stop motion, after she watched a video about the very important topic of "could T. Rex chew its own tail like a dog". The puppet is still a work in progress 🦖
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October 12, 2025 at 3:09 PM
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A mischievous archaeopteryx has appeared!
October 13, 2025 at 4:27 AM
A mischievous archaeopteryx has appeared!
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It’s so weird to come to social media to be like “how bout those Jays!” but simultaneously wade through the ongoing documentation of fascism in the country next door 🙃
October 5, 2025 at 9:46 PM
It’s so weird to come to social media to be like “how bout those Jays!” but simultaneously wade through the ongoing documentation of fascism in the country next door 🙃
#ö1 punkt eins heute zum start der impfsaison mit monika redlberger-fritz von der @meduniwien.ac.at
Virenflut und Impfstrategien | DI | 30 09 2025 | 13:00
Impflücken, Impfempfehlungen, neue Forschung gegen neue Risiken. Gast: Priv.-Doz.in Dr.in Monika Redlberger-Fritz, Virologin, MedUni Wien. Moderation: Xaver Forthuber. Anrufe 0800 22 69 79 | punkte...
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September 30, 2025 at 8:17 AM
#ö1 punkt eins heute zum start der impfsaison mit monika redlberger-fritz von der @meduniwien.ac.at
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After a 3-month hiatus, thread number 3! Band of Brothers is the third episode of WWD2025, and focuses on the coming-of-age story of George the teenage Gastonia as he is pursued by Utahraptor, framed around the Lorrie’s site quarry in the Cedar Mountain Formation. (1/40)
September 28, 2025 at 6:17 PM
After a 3-month hiatus, thread number 3! Band of Brothers is the third episode of WWD2025, and focuses on the coming-of-age story of George the teenage Gastonia as he is pursued by Utahraptor, framed around the Lorrie’s site quarry in the Cedar Mountain Formation. (1/40)
What's your sign?
September 28, 2025 at 6:29 PM
What's your sign?
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New article by me on the very impressive new megaraptoran Joaquinraptor (title typo not mine!) ... www.discoverwildlife.com/dinosaurs/jo... #dinosaurs #fossils #theropods
Deadly new dinosaur with giant killer claws discovered – with it's last meal still trapped in its teeth | Discover Wildlife
Mega-clawed predatory dinosaur discovered in southern South America
www.discoverwildlife.com
September 25, 2025 at 4:07 PM
New article by me on the very impressive new megaraptoran Joaquinraptor (title typo not mine!) ... www.discoverwildlife.com/dinosaurs/jo... #dinosaurs #fossils #theropods
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I get that the news cycle is packed right now, but I just heard from a colleague at the Smithsonian that this is fully a GIANT SQUID BEING EATEN BY A SPERM WHALE and it’s possibly the first ever confirmed video according to a friend at NOAA
10 YEAR OLD ME IS LOSING HER MIND (a thread 🧵)
10 YEAR OLD ME IS LOSING HER MIND (a thread 🧵)
September 24, 2025 at 8:30 PM
I get that the news cycle is packed right now, but I just heard from a colleague at the Smithsonian that this is fully a GIANT SQUID BEING EATEN BY A SPERM WHALE and it’s possibly the first ever confirmed video according to a friend at NOAA
10 YEAR OLD ME IS LOSING HER MIND (a thread 🧵)
10 YEAR OLD ME IS LOSING HER MIND (a thread 🧵)
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I'm blogging again, because sometimes I just want to write about what I want to write about. The latest is on a very spiky dinosaur and why dinosaurs are always going to be stranger than our expectations.
Extremely Spiky Dinosaur a Reminder of Fossil Record's Surprises — Riley Black
The discovery of an ornately-armored dinosaur underscores how much we don't yet know about the "terrible lizards."
rileyblack.net
September 23, 2025 at 8:50 PM
I'm blogging again, because sometimes I just want to write about what I want to write about. The latest is on a very spiky dinosaur and why dinosaurs are always going to be stranger than our expectations.
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"After the fall of the Roman Empire, elephants virtually disappeared from Western Europe. Since there was no real knowledge of how the animal looked, illustrators had to rely on oral and written transmissions to morphologically reconstruct the elephant" www.uliwestphal.de/elephas-anth...
September 24, 2025 at 12:20 PM
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Our new book, THE SECRET LIVES OF DINOSAURS, is out today!
Written by Dr Dean Lomax & 49 full-colour illustrations from me – you can buy it on Amazon or from the publisher (link in bio). The fossils in this book will blow your mind!
#SciArt #SciComm #PaleoArt #Dinosaurs #WildlifeArt #JurassicWorld
Written by Dr Dean Lomax & 49 full-colour illustrations from me – you can buy it on Amazon or from the publisher (link in bio). The fossils in this book will blow your mind!
#SciArt #SciComm #PaleoArt #Dinosaurs #WildlifeArt #JurassicWorld
September 23, 2025 at 10:29 AM
Our new book, THE SECRET LIVES OF DINOSAURS, is out today!
Written by Dr Dean Lomax & 49 full-colour illustrations from me – you can buy it on Amazon or from the publisher (link in bio). The fossils in this book will blow your mind!
#SciArt #SciComm #PaleoArt #Dinosaurs #WildlifeArt #JurassicWorld
Written by Dr Dean Lomax & 49 full-colour illustrations from me – you can buy it on Amazon or from the publisher (link in bio). The fossils in this book will blow your mind!
#SciArt #SciComm #PaleoArt #Dinosaurs #WildlifeArt #JurassicWorld
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I don’t think I’ve ever seen America so embarrassed in front of the entire world.
September 23, 2025 at 2:31 PM
I don’t think I’ve ever seen America so embarrassed in front of the entire world.
“When we spoke to executives, they would often say the internal tool was very successful (...) But when we spoke to employees, we found zero usage.”
'"When it comes to AI adoption, many companies aren't guided by strategy, but by 'fomo'". For 'companies', read 'universities'.
America’s top companies keep talking about AI — but can’t explain the upsides
FT analysis of hundreds of filings suggest the S&P 500 businesses are clearer about the risks than benefits
www.ft.com
September 23, 2025 at 7:05 AM
“When we spoke to executives, they would often say the internal tool was very successful (...) But when we spoke to employees, we found zero usage.”
jetzt gleich ab 13 uhr in #ö1 punkt eins mit @melaniepichler.bsky.social und @petermock.bsky.social: ist die grüne transformation die zerstörung der europäischen autobranche - oder ihre einzige rettung?
Europas Autoindustrie: ein lebendes Fossil? | DO | 18 09 2025 | 13:00
Die Autobranche und der globale Wettbewerb um die Mobilitätswende. Gäste: Dr. Peter Mock, Europe Managing Director, International Council on Clean Transportation (ICCT) Berlin & Dr. Melanie Pichler...
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September 18, 2025 at 10:23 AM
jetzt gleich ab 13 uhr in #ö1 punkt eins mit @melaniepichler.bsky.social und @petermock.bsky.social: ist die grüne transformation die zerstörung der europäischen autobranche - oder ihre einzige rettung?
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Jeri Taylor was remembered in the In Memorium tribute of this evening's Emmy Awards.
September 15, 2025 at 4:26 AM
Jeri Taylor was remembered in the In Memorium tribute of this evening's Emmy Awards.
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Here's a thread of relaxing fun websites to get away from the noise
1. This is sand dot com
Let the sand flow and create weird little landscapes
(this is one I did)
thisissand.com
1. This is sand dot com
Let the sand flow and create weird little landscapes
(this is one I did)
thisissand.com
September 12, 2025 at 8:16 PM
Here's a thread of relaxing fun websites to get away from the noise
1. This is sand dot com
Let the sand flow and create weird little landscapes
(this is one I did)
thisissand.com
1. This is sand dot com
Let the sand flow and create weird little landscapes
(this is one I did)
thisissand.com
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As we're all taught, you can (usually) only directly date the age of a rock if it cooled from lava.
But here, scientists have dated dinosaur eggs, using uranium-lead ratios in the calcite. Hugely exciting, maybe groundbreaking.
My take @science.org
www.science.org/content/arti...
But here, scientists have dated dinosaur eggs, using uranium-lead ratios in the calcite. Hugely exciting, maybe groundbreaking.
My take @science.org
www.science.org/content/arti...
Scientists directly date dino eggshells for the first time
The new findings narrow age estimates for the clutch of eggs—and may help identify which species laid them
www.science.org
September 11, 2025 at 7:29 PM
As we're all taught, you can (usually) only directly date the age of a rock if it cooled from lava.
But here, scientists have dated dinosaur eggs, using uranium-lead ratios in the calcite. Hugely exciting, maybe groundbreaking.
My take @science.org
www.science.org/content/arti...
But here, scientists have dated dinosaur eggs, using uranium-lead ratios in the calcite. Hugely exciting, maybe groundbreaking.
My take @science.org
www.science.org/content/arti...
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Happy Star Trek Day.
September 9, 2025 at 9:13 AM
Happy Star Trek Day.