Lisa Pecher

@lisipea.bsky.social

Coordinating manager of @gdch.de divisions | Formerly @angewandtechemie.bsky.social | PhD in computational chemistry | DE&I advocate | musician | nerdy about tea, board games, synthesizers, and sci-fi | 🏳️‍🌈 she/her (views are my own)

Just watched the new Knives Out and I think it's really important you know that the scene in the Seminary's Gym is filmed in the same place Rick Astley filmed the music video for Never Gonna Give You Up. I saw the window tracery and immediately made my friends pause the film so I could tell them.

A screenshot from Rick Astley's Never Gonna Give you up music video A screenshot from Rick Astley's Never Gonna Give you up music video A screenshot from Rick Astley's Never Gonna Give you up music video A photograph of the seminary gym in knives out. It has the same window.

"Demokratie schützt sich nicht von allein. Sie braucht Menschen. Sie braucht Haltung. Und sie braucht den politischen Willen, sie aktiv zu verteidigen und zu fördern – jeden Tag" erklärt Karamba Diaby. Sicherheit heißt, dass Demokratie lebendig bleibt und wir Haltung zeigen. Was das bedeutet:

Karamba Diaby: „Demokratie muss schützen, wer sie verteidigt“

Im Interview erzählt der ehemalige SPD-Bundestagsabgeordnete Karamba Diaby warum Demokratie nur funktioniert, wenn sie Menschen schützt, die sie verteidigen.

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I have a PhD position available in my lab at the University of Freiburg!! If you, or someone you know, might be looking for a position using modeling and simulations to uncover secrets in (glyco-)protein structure/function relationships please take a look at our website! www.kearnslab.org

Beautiful picture looking out of the chemistry building at the University of Freiburg in Freiburg Germany. The old cathedral can be seen in the distance with a backdrop of a blue sky with clouds and distant foothills of the black forrest with fall colors showing through in the trees picture of the Münster at dawn in the Altstadt of Freiburg, Germany, with a still dark sky in the background and moon over the Münster, in the foreground a well-lit flowers stand can be seen preparing for the daily morning market

I am super grateful to have had the opportunity to speak at the Women in Science Erlangen symposium this week about my career, my identity, and the work of the @gdch.de – and to sing and play the ukulele for a scientific audience for the first time in my life 😃 (1/3)

Two women standing next to a poster that says Women in Science. One is wearing dark blue and green colors, one is wearing pink colorsLisa is singing and playing the ukuleleA group of people wearing pink shirts in front of a blackboardSix happy people smiling next to a poster that says Women in Science

Scientific organizations (or any really): please be aware that if you host international conferences in the US, you will be excluding quite a few people from this point on, for whom the risk is just not worth it.

Rechtsextreme setzen gezielt auf Transfeindlichkeit – zur Mobilisierung, als Brückenideologie & zur Aushöhlung demokratischer Rechte. Unsere neue Broschüre mit dem BVT* zeigt: Transfeindlichkeit ist kein Randphänomen, sondern politische Strategie, die weit über rechtsextreme Kreise hinausreicht.

Warum sind Rechtsextreme transfeindlich?

Eine neue Broschüre erklärt, wie Transfeindlichkeit in der extremen Rechten funktioniert und wie gefährlich das für uns alle ist.

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This is really important. Do NOT use the AI summaries at the top of google searches. Ignore them. This is especially important if you don't have any prior knowledge about the topic, but also a good general rule. Search sources, scrutinize them carefully and double-check with other sources.

Katie Drummond@katie-drummond.bsky.social · last yr.

Google’s AI Overviews will not only confirm that a gibberish idiom is a real saying, it will also tell you what it means and how it was derived -- often including reference links. www.wired.com/story/google...