Georg Wolfram
@georgwolfram.bsky.social
Limnologist in Vienna, Managing Director of DWS Hydro-Ökologie | Enthusiastic about archeology, early modern history and Renaissance art | Claudio Monteverdi cannot be heard and sung enough ORCID 0000-0002-3058-2000
The river Schwechat south of Vienna, a typical pre-Alpine river with * mean discharge: 1.55 m3/s * mean annual low discharge: 250 l/s and today (maybe the all-time low): 22 l/s! And it’ll be 40 degrees Celsius here again tomorrow Global warming is drying up our rivers!!
www.nytimes.com/2026/07/31/w... A few tips worth reading today … or tomorrow – that’s early enough
How to Stop Procrastinating (Gift Article)
Set your “future self” up for success by removing productivity obstacles.
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Erstaunlich, wie schnell sie das schwarze Leichentuch für den Roboter parat hatten! Das Schicksal war wohl vorhersehbar
Rav@rvbdrm.com · 2w agoQuick thinking having a tablecloth handy. I didn’t even notice the twitching from that dead robot.
Schon gesehen? Mittelhochdeutsches Wörterbuch seit heute hier online: mwb.adwmainz.net Kumulierte Lemmaliste ist sehr schick! Congrats, liebes MWB-Team! 🎉 #mittelhochdeutsch #medieval #wörterbuch
Mittelhochdeutsches Wörterbuch
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Altphilologe Georg Danek von der #univie im Interview mit @derstandard.at zu "Odyssee": "Ethnie ist bei Homer überhaupt kein Thema". ⤵️ www.derstandard.at/story/300000...
Altphilologe Georg Danek zu "Odyssee": "Ethnie ist bei Homer überhaupt kein Thema"
Der Kenner liest seit 30 Jahren "Die Odyssee" mit Studierenden, nun hat er sich den Film angesehen. Ein Gespräch über Auslegungen, Kulturkämpfe und Homer
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Über verschwitzte Männerbündler, einen schweigenden Kanzler und einen Wiener Bürgermeister, der so tut, als ginge ihn das alles nichts an. www.krone.at/4225576
Der Fall Walter Ruck: Ist schon alles egal?
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Say it loud, say it clear: the primary solution to invasive species is returning ecosystems to full, natural, functionality. #Rewilding
Dr. Solomon David@solomonrdavid.bsky.social · 3w agoA native fish species is eating some of the most damaging invasive species in the Great Lakes…AND making a significant impact! Freshwater Drum: The overlooked native fish that has been crushing trillions of Zebra & Quagga Mussels in Lake Erie www.canr.msu.edu/news/freshwa...
I've just seen about 40 kids sneak into watch 'The Odyssey' without paying by hiding in a giant wooden coat.
Bisherige "erste" Weinhähnchen in Gumpoldskirchen südlich von Wien nach eigenen Aufzeichnungen: 2003 3. Juli 2012 2. August 2014 11. Juli 2018 4. Juli 2019 6. Juli 2020 20. Juli 2021 21. Juli 2022 12. Juli 2023 22. Juli 2024 9. Juli 2025 29. Juli 2026 14. Juli
So etwas lese ich gerne in diesen Zeiten orf.at/stories/3436...
Ende der Grenzkontrollen zwischen Spanien und Gibraltar
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Football is so much more relaxing once your own team is out #BRANOR
23°C separates Brussels city centre (≈47°C land surface temp) from the nearby Sonian Forest (≈24.5°C). The urban heat island effect. 🌡️🧪https://climate-adapt.eea.europa.eu/en/observatory/publications-data/analysis-data/population-characteristics-in-areas-exposed-to-the-urban-heat-island-effect
Quant'è bella giovinezza - Che si fugge tuttavia! Chi vuol esser lieto sia! Di doman non c'è certezza! (Lorenzo di Medici) How beautiful is youth, though quickly it does flee! Be happy if you want to, for tomorrow may not come.
Carrying a sarcophagus can have an adverse effect on your neck (Entrance to Santa Croce, Florence)
Off to Florence today! Time for Renaissance art, history, and inspiration This is one of the many great YouTube lectures you can find on that time youtu.be/sY7ZpGriNZA?...
How the Renaissance Began
YouTube video by Stanford
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Turns out, if you stop tearing up the seabed, wildlife thrives: ten years after banning bottom trawl fishing, there are 3 times the number of sea creatures + double the number of species in the South Arran MPA, Scotland, than there were before the ban 👏🦪🐟 share.google/2M5WqP3CXwSH...
Seabed life triples after bottom trawling ban in Scotland protected area
Nearly a decade since Scotland established the South Arran Marine Protected Area and banned bottom trawling across much of it, life on the seafloor has thrived, a new study has found. Scientists surve...
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#M.Gessen #NYT #Pulitzer Award Winner 2026 Must read! The Chilling Consequences of Going Along With Trump www.nytimes.com/2025/02/08/o...
Opinion | The Chilling Consequences of Going Along With Trump (Published 2025)
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"To be a good citizen of a bad state, one has to do scary things. ... It is weighing leaving against staying, moral obligation against fear, flying under the radar against taking a risk — and opting for the risk." NYT, M.Gessen, 2026 Pulitzer Prize winner in opinion writing
"2024 global temperature record is consistent with model-predicted warming" | Our new article in @pnas.org (open access): www.pnas.org/doi/10.1073/...
2024 global temperature record is consistent with model-predicted warming | PNAS
We employ a semiempirical approach combining climate model simulations and observational temperatures to assess the likelihood of recent global tem...
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"Human body's hidden pathways" - an interesting article and a (typically NYT) very cool animation 🧪 www.nytimes.com/interactive/...
Inside the Interstitium, the Human Body’s Hidden Pathways (Gift Article)
The detection of another circulatory system in the human body could have enormous scientific implications.
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science.orf.at/stories/3234... Sehr interessant und, wenn man so will, eine sehr erfreuliche Annäherung der tschechischen und österreichischen Sichtweise auf ein schwieriges Kapitel Geschichte #Beneš-Dekrete #Sudetendeutsche
Sichtweisen auf Vertreibung nähern sich an
Die Vertreibung der Sudetendeutschen vor 80 Jahren wird in Österreich und in Tschechien unterschiedlich wahrgenommen. Das betraf lange Zeit auch die Geschichtswissenschaft. In den vergangenen Jahren k...
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