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Joe Bak-Coleman @jbakcoleman.bsky.social · 5h

✅exciting sounding finding ✅authors funded by effective altruists ✅Bad study design ✅dumped in an industry funded conference ✅news coverage as tho it’s actual unbiased good science

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Prof Gavin Yamey MD MPH @gavinyamey.bsky.social · 15h

I’ve seen a few folks comment that “Guinea-Bissau is a low income country and cannot afford the hep B vaccine birth dose, so why is this study unethical?” It’s a good question. Let me have a go at answering it. In a nutshell, researchers cannot ethically exploit poverty & scarcity to do a trial

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Ruth Mottram @ruthmottram.eurosky.social · 10/10/2026

This deep dive on XKCD's famous comic on all modern infrastructure manages to be important, fascinating and more than a little bit scary all at the same time. Worth a scroll. And massive kudos to Germany for their sovereign tech fund, all countries should have one sheets.works/data-viz/hol...

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The people holding up the internet

Four billion phones ask one text file what time it is. One lecturer keeps it in his spare time. We counted the rest.

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Carl T. Bergstrom @carlbergstrom.com · 10/10/2026

Large language models are not the sorts of entities that can be held responsible. This lede should read "Using AI agents, Anthropic tried to gain access to a range of government websites...."

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Csilla Gal, PhD @cgal.bsky.social · 10/10/2026

Except for construction (where your can disregard skilled labor), this solution is inferior to the traditional brick cavity wall: - hydrothermally, - structurally, and - environmentally.

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Csilla Gal, PhD @cgal.bsky.social · 09/10/2026

🙋‍♀️ Airtightness? Water tightness? Stability of the High-Density Polyethylene (HDPE) clips after 25, 50 and 100 years under standard urban conditions (heat, UV light, polluted air & rain mix)? Which obscure filed do these innovators come from?

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Csilla Gal, PhD @cgal.bsky.social · 08/10/2026

I've been wondering if the color scheme is to signal the Italian identity of the owner or the maker.

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bryan newbold @bnewbold.net · 07/10/2026

ah damn, RIP Margaret Hamilton. she took safety-critical software engineering seriously, and got people to the moon and back. news.mit.edu/2026/margare...

old photos of a woman (Margaret Hamilton) standing next to a tall stack of books (printouts of Apollo space mission software source code)

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Adam @abrokenbattery.bsky.social · 06/10/2026

“The harm you have done is incalculable. It’s not me who has been spreading great harm around the world. It’s you, mate.” George Monbiot on being accused by Prof Michael Sharpe of “spreading” #LongCovid by writing about it and why he started writing about the #MECFS scandal.

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Csilla Gal, PhD @cgal.bsky.social · 04/10/2026

TBH, I am concerned that once all diligent reviewers exit, we will be left with science-masquerading gibberish.

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Csilla Gal, PhD @cgal.bsky.social · 04/10/2026

I am sorry this happened to you as well. I ended up writing a long review detailing which parts were BS, and why, even after a thorough review, the paper shouldn't be published. I also wrote to the editor. The most disappointing thing was that I met & was familiar with half of the author's work.

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All Our Yesterdays @allouryesterdays.bsky.social · 04/10/2026

"El Nino Digest" Times ("END Times", geddit?) An 8 page round-up of what is happening/about to happen. Front page - from The Climate Brink, a handy impacts map... 1/8

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Willard @climateball.bsky.social · 04/10/2026

The answer to "has global warming accelerated?" is "considerably". agupubs.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1029/...

Recent record-hot years have caused discussion over whether global warming has accelerated. Previous analysis found acceleration (i.e., increase in warming rate) has not yet reached a 95% confidence level, given natural temperature variability. We remove the estimated influence of three main natural variability factors: El Niño, volcanism, and solar variation. The resulting adjusted and thus less “noisy” data show that there has been acceleration with over 98% confidence, with faster warming over the last 10+ years than during any previous decade.

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Barbara Fantechi @barbarafantechi.bsky.social · 03/10/2026

I would find it much more interesting to name all the women who won Nobel prizes for men. I can start with Franklin and Meitner, anyone wants to go on?

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Sam Burgess @oceanterra.org · 02/10/2026

#Climate change is not just raising temperatures. It is increasing the likelihood of prolonged periods when heat, water stress and wildfire risk occur simultaneously. Understanding these compound extremes is essential for building resilience across our water, food, energy and health systems.

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Sarah J. Jackson @sjjphd.bsky.social · 02/10/2026

One of the most apparent truths about universities in this era is that student journalists have tended to exhibit the greatest courage and tenacity when it comes to applying their institutional mottos and academic lessons to the world.

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The Student Journalists Who Never Let the Cornell Assault Case Go (Gift Article)

The student newspaper, The Cornell Daily Sun, covered the allegations of rape at a fraternity house since they were first made in 2024 and led the reporting on the case.

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derek guy @dieworkwear.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

Tweed is such a beautiful fabric to wear this time of year because it produces, in Dolly Parton's phrasing, a coat of many colors. Even a solid-colored brown is not just brown, but bits of red, blue, and yellow to produce something that looks lifted off the Scottish landscape.

There are two photos taped together. The top shows a brown stone building with a brown thatched roof. It's surrounded by green grass, stone walkways, and blue-gray sea. Below is a checked brown tweed that reflects the colors in the landscape above it.

There are two photos taped together. The one at te top shows a rocky hillside with green and straw-colored grass, gray rocks, and a tan sandy beach below. The blue waters are crashing at the shore. Below is a green herringbone tweed that reflects the colors in the landscape above it.

There are two photos taped together. The top shows a field of green and straw colored fields with bits of purple flowers. Below is a a series of checked brown tweed that reflect the colors in the landscape above it.

A swatch book of solid-colored tweeds. The green tweed has visible flecks of red, gold, and blue.

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Lawrence Culver @lawrencecphd.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

“People are cutting back on food or medicine or resorting to payday lenders because you need to get the power back on…Poorer people and older people aren’t turning on the AC because of the cost and when you get back-to-back heatwaves they may die because of that.” www.theguardian.com/environment/...

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‘It’s just cruel’: US households hit by surge in electricity shutoffs amid record hot summer

Utility disconnections were up 28% in 10 states in July 2026 – the hottest month ever recorded in the US – compared with July 2024, data shows

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Tom Ackers @tomackers.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

v informative thread👇

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Andrew Dessler @andrewdessler.com · 29/09/2026

In Texas, the State is removing climate change courses from the core curriculum. They have decided that climate change is just too dangerous to teach the students. This is indoctrination. I wrote an oped about it in the SA Express-News. Gift link: www.expressnews.com/opinion/comm...

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Texas can’t hide from climate change by stopping students from learning about it

Texas has removed climate change courses from core curriculum at public universities. Ignoring climate change will not serve the state.

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Csilla Gal, PhD @cgal.bsky.social · 27/09/2026

How to turn cities into urban-themed suburbs. 👇

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Neil Flanagan 🧱🗃️ @jgbollard.bsky.social · 26/09/2026

It’s cool. Revit makes drawing boxes really easy.

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Csilla Gal, PhD @cgal.bsky.social · 25/09/2026

I've been offered less than the advertised wage at an interview bc I was a woman. They couldn't believe that I was very competent in CAD. I offered to work for reduced wages for 2 weeks to prove myself, if they would reconsider my wage afterwards. They said no. I walked out.

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NBC News @nbcnews.com · 25/09/2026

NBC News' Claudio Lavanga asked Pope Leo if he had anything to do with Chicago White Sox 'miraculous' historic ride to the playoffs during the pope's flight to Paris.

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Csilla Gal, PhD @cgal.bsky.social · 25/09/2026

IMHO the image is misleading. The baseboard seems to be about 6" tall, but because of the reflection, it appears to be an extra tall, double row kinda thing.

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Erin Biba @erinbiba.bsky.social · 24/09/2026

YESSSSSS This bot exists for you to tag or reference every time someone defends Newsom and says they’re the great white hope of the Dem party and you want to dispel that.

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Csilla Gal, PhD @cgal.bsky.social · 23/09/2026

I've been avoiding them like the plague for some 10+ years now.

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WBEZ @wbez.org · 17/09/2026

Five of Illinois' public universities have spent nearly half a million dollars on AI-powered surveillance services from Flock, records show.

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5 public universities in Illinois use controversial Flock cameras to surveil campus, records show

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All Our Yesterdays @allouryesterdays.bsky.social · 23/09/2026

Can any readers of Swedish/Scandi children's adventure novels provide title? Set in Arctic, from 1970s or 1980s, follows the struggle to survive of the crew of a helicopter that has flown off course b/c a powerful magnet had been stored too close to the compass, giving a false reading.

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Lawrence Culver @lawrencecphd.bsky.social · 22/09/2026

Known today for traffic jams and motorist misery, it’s hard to imagine that this monument to LA and US oil & car culture was once featured in the triumphant conclusion of “How the West Was Won” as a symbol of Anglo-American triumph over the wilderness. (It appears at 2:45.) youtu.be/8t_qToyqiOU?...

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How the West Was Won (1962) --- the grand finale

YouTube video by edwc0322

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Zeke Hausfather @zekehausfather.com · 21/09/2026

This year's El Niño event is moving into record territory, with the daily Oceanic Niño Index (ONI) tying the record previously set during the 2015/2016 super-El Niño. My latest over at Carbon Brief: www.carbonbrief.org/...

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Csilla Gal, PhD @cgal.bsky.social · 22/09/2026

I have been thinking about it a lot. Especially since we left all the options and initiatives that 2020 brought about.

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Naomi Kritzer @naomikritzer.bsky.social · 21/09/2026

No one is disposable, including the canary ❤️🦜✊

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Mar Hicks @histoftech.bsky.social · 21/09/2026

This is the outcome of the “you do you” approach to public health that so many people favor

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Karen K. Ho @karenho.bsky.social · 20/09/2026

This is incredibly well-done reporting from NPR on an issue I have thought a lot about this summer: youtu.be/71qcn0xUtIY?...

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Why are doomed beach homes left fully furnished?

YouTube video by NPR

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Csilla Gal, PhD @cgal.bsky.social · 20/09/2026

Warm makes it feel good, but cold (ice pack) makes it regenerate faster. This is the advice I've got from the physiotherapist when likewise dealing with lower back issues.

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Ian @ianlivingston.bsky.social · 20/09/2026

The blobs are overtaking the globe 👀

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Shannon Vallor @shannonvallor.bsky.social · 20/09/2026

Have just learned a lesson, so for the benefit of others: if you are contacted by a reporter for a media outlet, before you respond to their questions, ask whether they will be writing the piece themselves or whether their AI assistant will be writing it (if that matters to you).

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