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Discoverer and liberator of known biodiversity. Scientist. President of Plazi, diplomat spouse and father. Activist.

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Massimo
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General relativity for babies [📹 readplaysing] https://t.co/kFPYAsNsOC
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Donat Agosti
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"Offensichtlich kann man der künstlichen Intelligenz Regeln beibringen. Gute Kunst muss jedoch Regeln brechen, und wie soll man das einer Maschine beibringen? Das hat mich sehr glücklich gemacht." kenn Follett https://t.co/QzeDIfwJnl
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Mit über 190 Millionen verkauften Exemplaren gehört Ken Follett zu den erfolgreichsten Autoren der Gegenwart. Im Gespräch mit Rico Bandle und Lucien Scherrer spricht er über seinen neuen Roman, in...
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@KlausRiede
Klaus Riede
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@myrmoteras @popecologist @NFDI4BioDiv ...und ich dachte immer wir #Forschende LIEFERN die Daten für die großen Plattformen...oder welche Plattformen meint die @bnetza da?
@KlausRiede
Klaus Riede
1 month
"er #DSA bietet Forschenden unter bestimmten Voraussetzungen die Möglichkeit, für wissenschaftliche Zwecke Zugang zu Daten sehr großer Online-Plattformen und Online-Suchmaschinen zu erhalten"
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@mbeisen
Michael Eisen
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I rarely praise @nature, but this is well worth a read.
@sndurlauf
Steven N. Durlauf
1 month
In light of James Watson's death, I post this article which clarifies Rosalind Franklin's contributions to the discovery of the structure of DNA. It is richer than the conventional narrative. https://t.co/BW5abtUUba
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Donat Agosti
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"The #gbf needs to look forward, not just backward. " #biodiversity #COP30 so should natural history institution's Research programs @eurotaxonomy @iDigBio
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pnas.org
Predicting the way forward for the Global Biodiversity Framework
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@rmwaterhouse
Rob Waterhouse also @rmwaterhouse.bsky.social
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Our #Genomics for #Biodiversity conference in Porto, Portugal https://t.co/lLQ4EAO6ZB with two keynotes and our tranche of @BioGenEurope & @erga_biodiv Case Studies in reference #genome applications for conservation or bioeconomy
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@valigo
Valentin Ignatev
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Computer Science is not science, and it's not about computers. Got reminded about this gem from MIT the other day
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Donat Agosti
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Congratulations to @SISeneviratne for the Deutschen Umweltpreis of the @umweltstiftung she received today in Chemnitz. @ethz https://t.co/DhrjRvQUXr
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Donat Agosti
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I made it to an amazing place to participate in @gbif #gb32, discuss #opendata management #biodiversity #Colombia
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@DisavowTrump20
Protect Kamala Harris ✊
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🚨NEW: The Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) has rejected the Trump Administration’s offer of federal funding in exchange for aligning with Trump’s agenda. This is the first university to do so. RETWEET to thank MIT President Sally Kornbluth for standing up to Trump!
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@EvolAppJournal
Evolutionary Applications
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🌲How do Scots pine seedlings cope with drought? A new study combines high-throughput-phenotyping & genomic modeling to reveal the genetic basis of drought tolerance - laying the groundwork for GWAS, genomic prediction & climate-smart forestry 🌱💧 https://t.co/aTqaP4dqZ3
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@frei_geist_
freigeist
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Die längste begehbare Straße der Welt führt von Kapstadt in Südafrika bis nach Magadan in Russland – eine Strecke von unglaublichen 22.387 Kilometern. Auf dieser Route braucht man weder Flugzeug noch Boot, denn alle Übergänge sind durch Brücken möglich. Wer sie zu Fuß zurücklegen
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Donat Agosti
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Schweiz und Deutschland: ich glaub zu beobachten, dass sich CH D anpasst, was ja durchaus nicht so schlecht ist, zumindest für einen ganz kleinen Teil der #biodiversity @tagesanzeiger
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tagesanzeiger.ch
Ein Clip vom Basler Rangierbahnhof an der Grenze zu Deutschland geht viral. Er zeigt den Sauberkeitskontrast der Nachbarländer.
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@FrontScience
Frontiers in Science
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Explore phase II of the Earth BioGenome Project at our #FrontiersForum webinar—one of the largest biological collaborations in history—on a mission to sequence 150,000 eukaryotic species 10x faster to protect biodiversity & improve global health. Register ⬇️
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Donat Agosti
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I am glad to belong to the dark taxonomists, like @RudolfMeier15 or Emilie hartop in the Golden Age of discovery! #biodiversity
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vox.com
We still haven’t documented 90 percent of animals on Earth
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@caitoz
Caitlin Johnstone
4 months
This is not the most shocking or evil thing that Israel does to the Palestinians, but it does speak to what its true intentions are in a unique way. Like how they killed all the buffalo to help eliminate the American Indians.
@SMohyeddin
Samira Mohyeddin سمیرا
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Israel uprooted 8,000 olive trees with bulldozers in the occupied West Bank in the last 48 hours.
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@rmwaterhouse
Rob Waterhouse also @rmwaterhouse.bsky.social
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Many students also came to talk to me about new methods for extracting #biodiversity species knoweldge/information from the scientific literature to support research linking #genomics and species trait / life history #evolution at #eseb2025
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@sahouraxo
sarah
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Israel just assassinated the entire Al Jazeera crew in Gaza: fearless journalists and cameramen reporting the truth amid genocide. This is a war crime and a crime against humanity. Where are the Western journalists? Will they condemn this, or choose silence and complicity?
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@DsouzaAjwal
Ajwal Dsouza
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If you like potatoes, thank tomatoes. Recent study shows that potatoes evolved from a wild tomato species around 9 million years ago. In a recent study published in @Cell, Zhang et al analyzed 450 genomes of cultivated and wild potato species. They found that modern potatoes
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