Sebastian Neun
@sebastianneun.bsky.social
PhD Student @icbm-uol.bsky.social | Phytoplankton - Zooplankton. All about light.
Very much enjoyed this year's joint #nsogfö2026 conference hosted by @nordicoikos.bsky.social and @gfoesoc.bsky.social in beautiful Odense, Denmark! Loved coming together to talk about #phytoplankton and #bacteria in a multifactorial and variable world!
New baby hippo born at Berlin Zoo. Named Brötchen. Which means "little bread roll." You're welcome
"Drawing on an analysis of over 100000 articles in ecology-related disciplines [...], we show that the shift to pay-to-publish OA has already reduced participation by researchers from many middle-income countries." nsojournals.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/full/10....
Payment‐based open access is biasing scientific participation from the Global South in ecology
Opening access to the products of scientific research is widely considered a key step toward both fairness and better science worldwide. Since the 1990s, different forms of open access (OA) to journa...
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Yesterday afternoon 14:09 in Lacanau Océan in France. A pale red sun through the smoke tinged everything in Mars style orange. Welcome in the climate emergency! Despite all denial of the fossil fuel lobby, it’s scientific fact: CO2 emissions heat up Earth & make fires worse. 🔥🔥🔥
Ausschreibung: #Briese-Preis für #Meeresforschung 2026🚢 Mit dem Preis werden herausragende Promotionen ausgezeichnet, deren zugrundeliegende Daten im Rahmen von Ausfahrten oder Expeditionen auf einem #Forschungsschiff gewonnen wurden. Bewerbungsfrist: 30. Oktober 2026 Details: tinyurl.com/4jf547yy
Never seen such a massive bloom of *Noctiluca scintillans* in the North Sea! Impressive dinoflagellates which probably liked the recent hot days. And, of course, the waves were flashing at night... Plankton is sooooo cool! #phytoplankton #marineplankton #seasparkle @icbm-uol.bsky.social
Never seen such a massive bloom of *Noctiluca scintillans* in the North Sea! Impressive dinoflagellates which probably liked the recent hot days. And, of course, the waves were flashing at night... Plankton is sooooo cool! #phytoplankton #marineplankton #seasparkle @icbm-uol.bsky.social
If you sign a publishing agreement with Wiley, you agree that your work can be used for AI models. Other publishers probably do the same. As a federal employee, I can't sign that, so our ms is stuck. Publishers won't buckle for a few of us, so can't I publish anymore? What do universities say?
Don’t reach for ChatGPT Images or Nano Banana as your first option when creating scientific images There are multiple free and open-source images, icons, and tools for creating scientific illustrations. #plantscience @stephenturner.us blog.stephenturner.us/p/free-open-...
Free and open-source images, icons, and tools for creating scientific illustrations
Phylopic, NIH Bioart, Bioicons, Scidraw, Open Science Art, Health Icons, Servier Medical Art, Biodiversity Heritage Library, the Noun Project, Segment Anything, Excalidraw, draw.io, Biographics
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🌿 BE20 Keynote Speaker Line-up 🌍🎤 We are thrilled to welcome an outstanding group of international scientists and researchers to the BE20 Conference as our keynote speakers. ✨ #BE20conference
Announcing #RStats package ggcube, now on CRAN -- make 3D #ggplot2 figures using `coord_3d()` matthewkling.github.io/ggcube/
The European Commission (@ec.europa.eu) has updated the top follow buttons on its web page. Mastodon and Bluesky are in, X is out. commission.europa.eu/index_en
In a sea of opinions about the role of LLMs in academics I offer my own. Apart from being harmful, exploitive plagiarism machines, LLMs rob us of the opportunity to experience the gift of friction in writing, which changes how we think. We must not give away that gift. doi.org/10.1002/fee....
Thinking like a mountain in the age of AI
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Today, an Atlantic reporter punctured Pete Hegseth and Sam Altman's lies. The Pentagon wants AI for mass surveillance of Americans. Anthropic refused. ChatGPT complied. BOYCOTT NOW.
What conservatives did to Bud Light in 2023, that's what progressives should do to ChatGPT in 2026. OpenAI is so vulnerable right now. With enough pressure, I think it's actually possible to take the whole company down. quitgpt.org
”once misinformation from AI-generated summaries remains uncorrected and seeps into published theses, research papers, and other outputs, it could contribute to a loop of misinformation.”
Maarten Paulusse@maartenp.bsky.social · 7mo agoTired of AI hype posts? You might like my sober assessment of whether AI-generated summaries are suitable for studying and research. Spoiler alert, they are not. The text is primarily aimed at students and researchers, but has much broader relevance. So share freely!: www.tue.nl/en/our-unive...
Tired of AI hype posts? You might like my sober assessment of whether AI-generated summaries are suitable for studying and research. Spoiler alert, they are not. The text is primarily aimed at students and researchers, but has much broader relevance. So share freely!: www.tue.nl/en/our-unive...
Are AI-generated summaries suitable for studying and research?
Despite didactic, ethical, and environmental concerns, the use of GenAI is on the rise in academia. For most applications, the jury is still out on whether and how they will benefit education and rese...
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This Microscope Monday 🔬 we present an adorable Daphnia. Did you know that pioneering Dutch microscopist Jan Swammerdam (1637–1680) is credited as the first scientist to identify & describe #waterfleas? Referring to them as Pulex aquaticus arborescens: "the water flea with the branching arms". Fab!
I made a map of 3.4 million Bluesky users - see if you can find yourself! bluesky-map.theo.io I've seen some similar projects, but IMO this seems to better capture some of the fine-grained detail
Bluesky Map
Interactive map of 3.4 million Bluesky users, visualised by their follower pattern.
bluesky-map.theo.io
Anyone here who's joining #OSM2026 in Glasgow and has interest in reviewing some student posters? I've some posters in my session who will need feedback (but many others will too!). Might be a great way to create a schedule for your conference! Lemme know 👩💻
A German soccer federation executive committee member says it's time to consider a World Cup boycott because of the actions of U.S. President Donald Trump.
German soccer federation official wants World Cup boycott considered because of Trump
A German soccer federation executive committee member says it’s time to consider a World Cup boycott because of the actions of U.S. President Donald Trump.
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LLMs can spit out a terrifying volume of junk/pseudo-science to feed predatory journals and fuel a full ecosystem of science-mimicking slop. And some players will use this consciously to undermine trust in science! We can't ignore that!
Heini M Natri@heinimnatri.bsky.social · 8mo ago
Die lebenswichtigen Funktionen der Hohen See für das weltweite Klimageschehen - und wie beim @icbm-uol.bsky.social in #Wilhelmshaven Phytoplankton untersucht wird. www.arte.tv/de/videos/13...
Phytoplankton: Garant für Biodiversität auf hoher See - Die ganze Doku | ARTE
Bei der Bestimmung von Schutzgebieten auf hoher See spielt die Forschung eine wichtige Rolle. Sie untersucht zum Beispiel, wie Klimawandel und Überfischung die natürliche Nahrungskette in der Hohen Se...
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The German Research Foundation, possibly the most important funding body for academic research in Germany, is now not only allowing the use of AI to write applications, they‘ll also allow it to evaluate said applications. Only prerequisite is that one makes this transparent. It‘s a farce.
I just heard that Stackoverflow has seen a decrease in activity since AI started. That makes me so sad because I still use it and I think is a great way to teach/show others how to code (among other things).
Closing out my year with a journal editor shocker 🧵 Checking new manuscripts today I reviewed a paper attributing 2 papers to me I did not write. A daft thing for an author to do of course. But intrigued I web searched up one of the titles and that's when it got real weird...
All travelers from ESTA countries (yes the ones on visa waiver programs) will have to disclose 5 years of social media + huge amounts of personal data to enter the US now. All US academic associations should now meet outside the US if we want to meet our international colleagues.
Clara Jeffery@clarajeffery.bsky.social · 10mo agoThis is INSANE www.nytimes.com/2025/12/09/t... and these are our closest allies!
