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Journalist covering science, culture, politics, business, and cycling. @newsfromscience and @archaeologymag contributor; putting the English in @nzzEnglish.
Mar 10, 2022 5 tweets 4 min read
Amidst death and destruction, scientists in #ukraine are racing to save their research collections. More than careers, physical specimens and decades of data represent the hope for a post-war future. @scienceinsider #ScienceForUkraine science.org/content/articl… In besieged #Kharkiv, conservation #biologist Anton Vlaschenko has stayed to care for injured #bats – and safeguard irreplaceable collections of skulls and frozen specimens dating back decades. bat-kharkov.in.ua/en/thanks-for-…
Dec 21, 2018 14 tweets 6 min read
Just finished reading @DerSPIEGEL's report on how Claas #Relotius duped them, and all I can say is #factchecking clearly means something different in Germany, because most of what he got away with never would have flown at a US magazine with fact-checkers. spiegel.de/international/… "Every text printed in DER SPIEGEL," they say, "goes through a thorough fact-checking and vetting process to review the accuracy of every fact stated in an article." As far as I can tell from their mea culpa, this vetting process is limited to what can be Googled from Hamburg.