Andrew Bissette @andrewbissette.bsky.social · 5hTfw the haunted Victorian pencil is the one making sense 010
Andrew Bissette @andrewbissette.bsky.social · 16hI don't believe for a second this charlatan is doing this for real, but the fact he's encouraging others to is sheer evil. 010
Reposted by Andrew BissetteMike Elgan @mikeelgan.bsky.social · 03/10/2026Even without a camera, you can't trust Ray-Ban Meta Glasses. Here's why. www.computerworld.com/article/4228... 1225
Reposted by Andrew BissetteChuck Pearson (he/him/etc.) @shorterpearson.bsky.social · 03/10/2026Thanks to @kvasquez.bsky.social for a wonderful conversation that contributed to her reporting on generative AI in the chemistry classroom for Chemical and Engineering News. cen.acs.org/education/un... 153
Reposted by Andrew BissetteJohn Scalzi @scalzi.com · 02/10/2026The rush to accuse, without anything approaching due diligence, artists of using "AI," should be treated with contempt. An artist gets their work *ripped off* to train a plagiarism machine, which then shits out inferior versions of that work, so then you accuse the artist of using "AI"? Fuck you. 251516408
Reposted by Andrew BissetteRoger @arbejdsmyren.bsky.social · 02/10/2026In Denmark a scientist plotted data and research findings into Claude, only to see Anthropic publish the findings as something the LLM had conjured up on its own. The theft of one scientist’s data and work translates into false claims about the model’s ability to generate research #ai #eupol 38549
Andrew Bissette @andrewbissette.bsky.social · 01/10/2026The 2026 version of drowning your Sims, but it requires carpeting the earth in data centres rather than a 200 MHz processor and a few MB of ram. 020
Reposted by Andrew BissettePhilip Ball @philipcball.bsky.social · 30/09/2026Replicating proto-cells with heritable states? Bah, who needs nucleic acids for that? My latest for @chemistryworld.com (Why the pepper moth? Read on.) www.chemistryworld.com/opinion/auto...chemistryworld.comAutocatalytic networks could lie at the beginning of evolutionNew modelling suggests how compartmentalised cross-catalysing networks can evolve adaptations that are passed on through chemical states 2175
Andrew Bissette @andrewbissette.bsky.social · 01/10/2026Some people say working with LLMs is not a skill. But a couple of years using them at work is really helping me run rings around the terrible chat bot my letting agent uses for repair reporting. 120
Reposted by Andrew BissetteGavin Lingiah 🧬⚖️ @gav1nx.bsky.social · 01/10/2026Andy Burnham: We shall improve society a little bit. Conservatives: 717341
Andrew Bissette @andrewbissette.bsky.social · 30/09/2026For a while back there I was concerned Rollie didn't like boxes. But croissant mode has been activated. 030
Reposted by Andrew BissetteDavid K Smith @professor-dave.bsky.social · 30/09/2026One of the most interesting biographies I discovered during my #DecolonisingChemistry project for the @chemistryatyork.bsky.social curriculum was that of Alice Ball a black chemist, whose leprosy treatment, using carbonyl chemistry to build on traditional medicine, was stolen by a male colleague. 25624
Reposted by Andrew BissetteDerek Lowe @dereklowe.bsky.social · 29/09/2026The craziest compound-impurity story I’ve ever heard:science.orgNow That's An Impurity Story 1010143
Reposted by Andrew BissetteRoland Smith @rolandmcs.bsky.social · 29/09/2026"A sort of 2 and half lock" - yes, that's what it sounded like. Hardly doom. 2354
Reposted by Andrew BissetteAlice Roberts @profaliceroberts.bsky.social · 29/09/2026Reform want to indoctrinate our children. Freedom of (and from) belief is a human right. humanists.uk/2026/09/10/s...humanists.ukReform UK Braverman promises 'consequences' if pupils don't sing hymnsReform UK has said schools will face ‘consequences’ if they fail to make pupils regularly sing hymns and the national anthem under a Reform government. The party’s education spokesperson, Suella Brave... 3011855563
Reposted by Andrew BissetteJill "Bury a Friend" Pantozzi @jillpantozzi.bsky.social · 28/09/2026Last month, a Google alert directed me to an interview I did with cartoonist Matt Furie—creator of Pepe the Frog…only I haven’t done any interview and I’d never even met Furie. So I clicked. "None of this is true": AI, content farms, and one completely made-up article. bsky.app/profile/then... 12715375
Andrew Bissette @andrewbissette.bsky.social · 28/09/2026This very brave boy came home with us today and is already coming out to say hello 170
Reposted by Andrew BissettePhilip Ball @philipcball.bsky.social · 28/09/2026"I believe that science derives its authority from something more than mastering the pipeline from data generation to publication. Rather, it comes from interactions within a community of people trained to interrogate evidence and answer for the conclusions they draw from it." Brandon is spot on. 13810
Reposted by Andrew BissetteSimon Evans @drsimevans.carbonbrief.org · 28/09/2026EVs are now up to 9x cheaper to drive than diesels in UK www.carbonbrief.org/analysis-evs... 417058
Reposted by Andrew BissetteCarl Zimmer @carlzimmer.com · 27/09/2026Four days ago, a scientist was surprised by the news that Anthropic discovered new virus genes for making DNA. He says he’s been studying them for years—and feeding his data to Anthropic’s AI as part of his own research. Coincidence? Here’s my story. nyti.ms/3VSWaycnyti.msDid Anthropic’s A.I. Really Make a Scientific Discovery on Its Own? (Gift Article)An expert at the University of Copenhagen said his team had been sharing its research with the company’s A.I. model, Claude, and that its new finding matched their work. 882122873
Reposted by Andrew BissetteAlejandro Montenegro @aemonten.bsky.social · 27/09/2026That the Oxford comma is essential, and I will add it to all your manuscripts. 77412
Reposted by Andrew BissetteAlejandro Montenegro @aemonten.bsky.social · 27/09/2026I'm sorry, what now? www.cell.com/cell/fulltex...cell.comDirect cell-to-cell transmission of retrotransposonsRetrotransposons can infect neighboring cells using a mechanism that relies on a small fusogen-like protein rather than on the envelope protein that is typically required for infection. 1103
Reposted by Andrew Bissettemonk @warisaracket.me · 25/09/2026I believe this is the reverse centaurism that @doctorow.pluralistic.net warned us about... 1418
Reposted by Andrew BissetteDr. Robin Bond, biogeochemist at a PUI 🧪 @diygeochemist.bsky.social · 25/09/2026Hey #ChemSky and other environmental types: I'm looking for a few papers to read in the seminars we do in my Environmental Chemistry class. I have the aqueous environment pretty well covered, but I could use more suggestions for atmospheric papers. 245
Reposted by Andrew BissetteChemistry World @chemistryworld.com · 25/09/2026‘Every hour a chemist spends deciphering figures or images to see what has already been made is an hour that could instead be spent on chemistry discovery,’ says Mirit Eldor, life sciences managing director at Elsevier. #ChemSky www.chemistryworld.com/news/elsevie...chemistryworld.comElsevier teams up with AI firm to extract chemical structure data from papersPublishing giant will host data on Reaxys but researchers have concerns about independently validating the method 031
Andrew Bissette @andrewbissette.bsky.social · 25/09/2026PSA: sending an abusive email and then asking for a favour isn't a great way to do business. 020
Reposted by Andrew BissetteSunder Katwala (sundersays) @sundersays.bsky.social · 23/09/2026BBC "broadcast a livestream" Other outlets (Times, Metro) see slashing the dinghy as the headline 1011525
Reposted by Andrew BissetteSunder Katwala (sundersays) @sundersays.bsky.social · 23/09/2026It is probably right to make it the headline. To omit it entirely while finding space for "organised recent protests" looks like bowlderising the news out of some curiously skewed idea that being even handed means out leaving out the facts www.theguardian.com/world/2026/s...theguardian.comFar-right activist Daniel Thomas slashes dinghy in Channel with blade while rescue worker onboardThomas called followers to protest against arrival of asylum seekers in Gosport, but Border Force instead transported them to Dover 313424
Reposted by Andrew BissetteSunder Katwala (sundersays) @sundersays.bsky.social · 23/09/2026The BBC news report simply says Mr Thomas broadcast a livestream. This seems highly inadequate in quite a lengthy report, leaving out such key details: what he did; the French stating the behaviour was unlawful www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...bbc.co.ukDozens of migrants taken to Dover after more than 30 hours at seaProtesters had earlier gathered in Gosport after an initial report that the small boat would be brought further west. 927880
Reposted by Andrew BissetteDr Zubaida Haque @zubhaque.bsky.social · 25/09/2026And they thought Muslim women choosing to wear hijabs (headscarves) and niqabs (face veil) was a threat to British values lol 923655
Reposted by Andrew BissetteBy Cory Doctorow (GPG 0xBF3D9110957E5F4C) @doctorow.pluralistic.net · 24/09/2026...and at the end of it John Henry is like 'well, it felt kind of efficient using two hammers but I’m not sure what the point was.'" -Rusty Foster, Today in Tabs www.todayintabs.com/p/meta-s-new...todayintabs.comMeta's New A.I. Agent For LosersAlso: "fast as hell and built for sickos?" That's what they called me in high school. 49113
Reposted by Andrew BissetteAaron Huertas @aaronhuertas.bsky.social · 24/09/2026This really puts stuff like publicly funded third spaces in perspective for me. It's so relatively cheap to build out community centers, gyms, makerspaces, studios etc. 211432346
Reposted by Andrew BissetteLeah McElrath @leahmcelrath.bsky.social · 24/09/2026AP Stylebook warns against anthropomorphizing AI systems: “Avoid language that gives them human characteristics… Instead, explain what a system does, how well it performs, who built it and who could be affected by it.” 1970182264
Reposted by Andrew BissetteMax Renner @maxrenner.bsky.social · 23/09/2026Maybe those antibody vendors should have just said their validation western blots were AI-enhanced. Then it would all be fine 😌 111
Reposted by Andrew BissetteWill @popher.bsky.social · 23/09/2026BBC news has been by and for the far right for many many years. 121
Reposted by Andrew Bissettedr. rich traditions, JD @helldude.bsky.social · 22/09/2026it's weird that ai got too dangerous to keep advancing right around the time money got more expensive to borrow 344710971
Andrew Bissette @andrewbissette.bsky.social · 22/09/2026Decades of cowardice and appeasement of the far right by successive governments has led us to a place where volunteers in lifeboats are at risk from armed thugs. 020
Reposted by Andrew BissetteCompound Interest | Chemistry infographics @compoundchem.com · 22/09/2026Happy Birthday Michael Faraday! 🎉 Faraday was born #OTD (22 Sep) in 1791. He made significant contributions to electrochemistry, including popularising many of the electrochemical terms used today ⚡ wp.me/s4aPLT-faraday #ChemSky 🧪 23710
Reposted by Andrew BissetteEmily M. Bender @emilymbender.bsky.social · 22/09/2026From @timnitgebru.blacksky.app and me on what we should take from the 2026 summer of AI hype: www.technologyreview.com/2026/09/22/1...technologyreview.comDon’t be fooled by this summer of AI hypeBreathless claims about AGI and new capabilities fall apart pretty quickly under scrutiny. 8346193
Reposted by Andrew BissetteJohn Scalzi @scalzi.com · 22/09/2026I don't know, maybe all those non-"straight white dude" people won their awards because their books were actually really fucking good, how about that as a hypothesis 262017198
Reposted by Andrew BissetteDalmeet Singh Chawla @dalmeet.bsky.social · 22/09/2026A study tracking diamond open-access journals has found an increase in titles switching to other publishing models — especially over the past few years. My latest for @nature.com: www.nature.com/articles/d41...nature.comHundreds of ‘free’ academic journals have started charging feesA study tracking diamond open-access journals has found an increase in titles switching to other publishing models — especially over the past few years. 064
Andrew Bissette @andrewbissette.bsky.social · 21/09/2026Whoever decided all images should be webp instead of literally any other format needs a slap 020
Reposted by Andrew BissetteNY Times Pitchbot @nytpitchbot.bsky.social · 21/09/2026If Democrats continue to focus on elite issues like the price of diesel fuel instead of on kitchen table issues like chem trails and racial purity, they're going to get walloped in November. 11854114