1. Are you currently using an AI tool for work-related tasks or projects? * Yes * No, but I would like to (PLEASE SKIP TO QUESTION 7)
My employer asks me to complete a survey on AI usage for which this is the first question (required):
A sad reflection of the state of visiting the USA -
Ig Nobels ceremony moves to Europe over security concerns
Marc Abraham:
“We cannot in good conscience ask the new winners, or the international journalists who cover the event, to travel to the US this year.”
As someone who freaked out about retracting my own Nature paper, I love this initiative!
We're thrilled to announce the Ctrl-Z Award, a US$2,500 prize for researchers “who discover substantial errors in their published work and take meaningful steps to correct the scientific record."
Covered by @nature.com today; read more here: centerforscientificintegrity.org/2026/03/10/a...
Why isn’t Elizabeth Warren the Senate Minority Leader?
A graphic promoting a book review. On the left is the cover of the book Inside an Academic Scandal: A Story of Fraud and Betrayal by Max H. Bazerman. The cover has large orange and black text and an abstract horizontal paint‑stroke graphic beneath the word “Scandal.” On the right, black text reads: “Jennifer Byrne reviews Inside an Academic Scandal: A Story of Fraud and Betrayal.” At the bottom right is small text that reads “Vol. 46 No. 1 (2026): February,” alongside a small circular logo with the letters “PIR.”
Jennifer Byrne (@jabyrnesci.bsky.social) reviews Max H. Bazerman’s 'Inside an Academic Scandal', a narrative of research misconduct, institutional response, and the ethical challenges surrounding fraud in academia.
journals.uvic.ca/index.php/pi...
This 18-year-old Afghan girl had offers from York and Reading – thanks to Shabana Mahmood, she will now never escape the Taliban | The Independent www.independent.co.uk/news/people/...
Explainer: UK government has announced a suspension on student visa applications from nationals of Afghanistan, Cameroon, Myanmar and Sudan. Details here www.gov.uk/guidance/vis...
Medics are possessive about data. There can be good reasons for not sharing - eg data on a sensitive topic, sample is small or on a rare condition so de-identification not reliable.
Another concern is misuse of data. So there can be valid reasons. But usually it's like @steamtraen.eu says
I've been looking at this more systematically and will have more to say about it in due course!
Another Nature Medicine article with highly restrictive data availability statement.
In one week I'll be talking about tips for reproducible R code and why science would love you to try these tips on your own code too 🧪😍🌏
It's an online talk, so feel free to watch comfortably from your couch. Hope to see you there!
@sortee.bsky.social #rstats
events.humanitix.com/sortee-webin...
you’re probably right, but I’d love to know if anyone close to him made $$$$
I remember the widespread pushback when the Peer Reviewer Openness Initiative started in 2017, where we would only review papers that share data and code (or explain why that is not possible) www.opennessinitiative.org/the-initiati...
Now, funders and journals are requiring it.
presumably anyone with insider knowledge is making a killing on the stock market
Pseudoreplication is the practice of treating non-independent observations as if they were independent replicates. This can dramatically increase the rate of false positives.
COSIG's newest entry covers how to spot them. Read it at osf.io/hyxvr
COSIG 🎉now with 34 guides 🎉is available at cosig.net.
Nescio Bridge, Amsterdam. It allows people to cycle from the city centre over the Amsterdam-Rhine canal to the new housing distrcit IJburg. Built in 2005 it cost €9.5m and was designed by British architects WilkinsonEyre.
@plosbiology.org is formalizing its long‑standing practice of asking authors to share research code, introducing a mandatory #code‑sharing policy and clarifying what is meant by code sharing.
Learn more and find guidance on best practice: plos.io/4reyX3v
Image depicts a technique used during the Dust Bowl era to prevent soil erosion by creating protective patterns in the farmland. Farmers used tractors to plow the land in curved lines, or contours, following the landscape's natural shape to stop wind from blowing away the topsoil.
Contour Plowing, Dust Bowl, Colorado
Margaret Bourke-White, 1954
Lindsey’s diplomacy working wonders in UAE.
I love the internet
Don't be so careful in time of death ✊😔
Just read the abstract 🫠 via Alexander Magazinov. I don't believe he is on Bluesky.
I am looking for any published, peer‑reviewed scientific article that has been verified as written by an LLM for a presentation. Happy for input you might have!
And “Whoever commissioned this officer has deprived some village of its idiot”
lmao i wish for this dipshit a lifetime of lawyers talking like this
sometimes i just want to find a headline writer and
Week 9 of recording everything I lose and find in 2026.
BREAKING: Oil surges above $100 a barrel; Trump says ‘small price to pay’ for keeping Epstein off the front page
A bright yellow nudibranch with black and blue markings crawls on underwater vegetation against a dark background. Photo by Olakhalaf.
There's a sea creature whose common name is the pikachu nudibranch and I need everyone to see it immediately.
