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Dave Levitan @davelevitan.bsky.social · 3h

You're gonna need a bigger chart

Chart showing the daily sea surface temperature for the Nino region of the Pacific, with a red line for 2026 shooting off above every other year in record-setting territory, with the latest spot right at the top of the chart

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Miranda Dickinson @wurdsmyth.bsky.social · 8h

Oh HELL no, #Audible. So you're going to not only steal my characters, infringing my copyright and IP, but you're also going to steal the voices of my brilliant audiobook narrators for your utterly crap AI chatbot? Get - and I say this with my whole heart - IN THE SEA! #NoAI

A headline from an online news article that reads: "Audible will soon let you talk to audiobook characters with a new AI feature."

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David @crookedknight.bsky.social · 4h

Rarely has this XKCD been more on point

Stick-figure comic of a man in a lab coat standing on a chair, pointing a pistol at a desk that has a tray and a microscope on it.

"When you see a claim that a common drug or vitamin 'kills cancer cells in a petri dish,' keep in mind: So does a handgun."

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Dr. D Boulware, MD MPH @drboulware.bsky.social · 23h

NIH Funding rate of Early Stage Investigators (ESI). 2025 was a major drop. 2026 will be worse.

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Kelly Dawe @corncolors.bsky.social · 01/10/2026

The UGA Genetics Department is hiring! Please help spread the word. We have an opening for an Associate Professor/Professor in Genetics, Synthetic Biology, and Biological Engineering. See ad for details – and join us here in Athens, GA!

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Jenna Norton @jenna-m-norton.bsky.social · 01/10/2026

Disruption of global research at NIH is endangering people in the United States and around the world. 27unihted.substack.com/p/disruption... Foreign collaborations have been interrupted and discouraged and foreign scientists in the United States are working in an increasingly hostile environment.

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Disruption of global research is endangering people in the United States and around the world

Concern 8 of the Bethesda Declaration: One Year Later

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I-270, Exit 1 @i270exit1.bsky.social · 01/10/2026

Full Quote "Science knows no country, because knowledge belongs to humanity, and is the torch which illuminates the world. Science is the highest personification of the nation because that nation will remain the first which carries the furthest the works of thought and intelligence." Louis Pasteur

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MisterJayEm @misterjayem.bsky.social · 01/10/2026

Chicago police are defunding Chicago

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Dr. Kat Napaaqtuk❄️ @napaaqtuk.bsky.social · 01/10/2026

Yesterday was Orange Shirt Day, in which we reflect on the Boarding schools that Native kids were forced to attend. That includes Alaska Native kids, some of which were sent as far away as Pennsylvania. archives.alaska.gov/education/bo... #OrangeShirtDay

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Boarding Schools | Alaska State Archives

Primary source materials focused on the history of boarding schools in the state of Alaska. Links to digitized resources and descriptions provided by the Alaska State Archives.

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Kumail Nanjiani @kumail.bsky.social · 01/10/2026

AI will never be able to make art. Thanks.

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Doug Gordon @brooklynspoke.bsky.social · 01/10/2026

"Zero of those people have been killed by e-bikes or e-scooters,” said Brooklyn Borough President Antonio Reynoso. “Yet here we are at a hearing [on] 21 bills aimed at regulating e-bikes and e-scooters. None are about regulating dangerous driving and only two are about infrastructure.”

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NYPD's Tisch Skips City Council E-Bike Hearing Despite Focus on Enforcement

NYPD Commissioner Jessica Tisch blew off Wednesday’s City Council hearing about e-bike safety — sending subordinates in her stead.

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Shawn Burgess @burgesslab.bsky.social · 30/09/2026

And they pinky swear that they did not take a peek at all the medical records while they were at it...

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I Travel Like Sound Dog @chadstanton.blacksky.app · 30/09/2026

*literally ban the literature people find engaging* *breathlessly fret about people not engaging with literature*

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The Onion @theonion.com · 29/09/2026

Cornell Vows That Rapists Will Be Forced To Write Much Longer Essays In The Future theonion.com/cornell-vows...

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Kate Baker @ksbakes.bsky.social · 25/09/2026

We have an open Assistant/Associate Professor position in Pathogen Biology at the Department of Genetics - come and join us! 🦠 🧫 🧬https://www.cam.ac.uk/jobs/assistantassociate-professor-in-pathogen-genetics-pc51175

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Assistant/Associate Professor in Pathogen Genetics

Applications are invited for an Assistant or Associate Professorship in Pathogen Genetics to be held in the Department of Genetics. We are searching for a talented individual with a track record of fu...

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Tessa Montague @tessamontague.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

I'm excited to share our new preprint: Generation of a transgenic cephalopod tinyurl.com/pc86jxz8 Cephalopods (cuttlefish, octopus & squid) are crazy critters that dynamically camouflage to their surroundings by changing the color, pattern, & texture of their skin, which they control w their brain.

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Max Heiman @heiman.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

Counterpoint: the endless finicky journal-specific formatting requirements for source data are a massive administrative burden passed to authors at journals that charge thousands of dollars in "processing" fees.

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Shawn Burgess @burgesslab.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

It would be a deep irony if a Chinese government backed journal became the best option for NIH funded researchers that needed to avoid publishing charges because of new rules.

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Mark Peifer (He, him) @peiferlabunc.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

For the last 34 years I have been on the faculty of the UNC-Chapel Hill Department of Biology and have never regretted that decision. This year we are hiring TWO new Assistant Professors in the broad area of Molecular, Cell, Developmental Biology 1/n bio.unc.edu

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Levayer Lab @levayerr.bsky.social · 28/09/2026

Here it is...by delegating decision to non transparent AI models we generate an incentive for grant applicants to use AI writing to tweak system and the vicious/absurd feedback loop is set (which all started by an overload of grant application driven by AI writing). www.science.org/content/arti...

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U.K. funder uses ‘AI triage’ to reject grant proposals—leaving researchers dismayed

The AI-based assessment, which wasn’t explicitly described in the funding call, has raised privacy and fairness concerns

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🗽LOLGOP🗽 @lolgop.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

“You don’t have to stretch to paint this picture: OpenAI models are attacking websites and taking anything they can out of them because that is the business model of the company.”

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Why Is Sam Altman a Free Man? - The American Prospect

OpenAI’s models aren’t “going rogue” from their creators as much as they are mimicking them.

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Django Wexler @djangowexler.bsky.social · 28/09/2026

Volition is irrelevant. If the headline was "vicious dog breaks out of OpenAI office and bites man" there would be no question who was responsible. "But the dog is its own entity making its own choices!" Fuck off, either it's property you own or not, you can't have it both ways.

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Chelsea Harvey @chelseaeharvey.bsky.social · 28/09/2026

NEW - Conservative orgs are filing records requests by the dozens at public universities, demanding documents from climate researchers. @lesleyclark.bsky.social @corbinhiar.bsky.social & I have uncovered more than 100 requests, a campaign targets/allies say is an effort to derail climate litigation

politico.com

Inside the anti-climate campaign against researchers

A POLITICO investigation reveals more than 100 open records requests demanding documents from climate scientists nationwide.

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Kacy Gordon @kacylynn.bsky.social · 28/09/2026

JOB ALERT: UNC Bio is hiring 2 tenure track assistant profs doing molecular, cell, and dev bio. The search is intentionally broad, so please share widely and spread the word! Find more information and apply here: unc.peopleadmin.com/postings/325... Application review begins Nov 1.

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Kevin C Klatt, PhD, RD @kcklatt.bsky.social · 28/09/2026

For any following the continued chaos of the ADA, Diabetes Care EIC Steve Kahn (1 of the 5 scientists thrown out of the ADA conference this summer) just published an article in Diabetologia to avoid continued censorship from ADA link.springer.com/article/10.1...

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Mark Peifer (He, him) @peiferlabunc.bsky.social · 28/09/2026

Are you looking for a postdoc exploring the cell biology of development, defining how cells change shape and move? Do you want to develop a research program & teaching skills preparing you for a position at a college or small University? Our new NIH grant will support those goals 1/n Please share

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dawn of the debb @handle.invalid · 28/09/2026

Monday is scary here, take this teeny tiny owl

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Paul Renfro @renfro.bsky.social · 27/09/2026

Oh, get fucked, @wsj.com. Now and forever. 🗃️

A fatuous WSJ editorial titled “The Ph.D. Job Crisis Is a Needed Market Correction.” The dek reads:
“Universities will produce fewer underemployed, overcredentialed and aggrieved young people.”

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Jaclyn A. Siegel, PhD @jacasiegel.bsky.social · 27/09/2026

With more manuscripts entering the system: 1) It is increasingly challenging to find willing reviewers, 2) The quality of the reviews is declining 3) People are looking for shortcuts to get more of these reviews done, as we are all receiving more review requests than ever

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Jaclyn A. Siegel, PhD @jacasiegel.bsky.social · 27/09/2026

There is not an endless supply of peer reviewers with an endless supply of hours. People's time, generosity, and willingness to participate in unpaid labor are finite resources for our field. The more manuscripts we pump into the peer review system, the work we create for reviewers.

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Jaclyn A. Siegel, PhD @jacasiegel.bsky.social · 27/09/2026

I just read an article about someone who published 200 papers last year, with the help of generative AI. Nevermind the qualms I have about the use of ARTIFICIAL intelligence to generate academic knowledge; that likely means that thousands of hours went into finding reviewers/reviewing that work.

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Mark A. Hanson @hansonmark.bsky.social · 26/09/2026

To close: it's crazy to worry about profit motive in author COI declarations, but not journal editing itself. The damage this was causing was apparent before AI. The power to enact change lies with funders. Funders can use the same mechanisms they already use to support non-profit journals. 14/14

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The strain on scientific publishing

Abstract. Scientists are increasingly overwhelmed by the volume of articles being published. The total number of articles indexed in Scopus and Web of Science has grown exponentially in recent years; ...

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Mark A. Hanson @hansonmark.bsky.social · 26/09/2026

That comes down to career reward structures. Obsessing on N_papers as evidence of productivity is toxic. The game has always been prestige vs. quantity, now taken to an extreme by journal growth offering indefinite quantity. The utility of papers is secondary when there's money to be made. 3/n

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Mark A. Hanson @hansonmark.bsky.social · 26/09/2026

The strain on peer review is due to our obsession of submitting *everything* to a journal and requiring PRE-PUBLICATION peer review of it before it's deemed "mature science." The problem with peer review is that no one can accept we have to stop pre-publication reviewing as default. 2/n

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David Ho @davidho.bsky.social · 27/09/2026

The techbros don't want you to see this trailer. Pass it on.

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Alt-NIHscience4ALL @alt-nihscience4all.altgov.info · 26/09/2026

Vaccines work. They are safe. Protect yourself and those you love.

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Daniel Knowles @dlknowles.bsky.social · 26/09/2026

Same thing with gig tickets. Bots already fight to get Glastonbury tickets and the like. That will get so much worse. A lot of things depend on friction to work well. Being an early adopter of AI agents is gonna be a lot better than when everyone has one

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Daniel Knowles @dlknowles.bsky.social · 26/09/2026

Some unintended consequences I suspect the rise of AI agents will create: 1. Restaurants that only take reservations by hand written letter, or more likely, don't take them at all. 2. Gigs where you can only buy tickets in person. 3. Businesses that operate without websites.

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Zebrafish Rock! @zebrafishrock.bsky.social · 27/09/2026

Electrochemical response triggers organ growth, following tail injury in a #zebrafish embryo. Credit to @ritamateus.bsky.social, @nerlielisa.bsky.social, & @liujinghui.bsky.social. #ZebrafishZunday

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Shawn Burgess @burgesslab.bsky.social · 26/09/2026

When in Vienna, eat like an emperor:

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