Reposted by Paul Whaleyflyingrodent @flyingrodent.bsky.social · 01/10/2026If you’re not familiar with the way industry insiders, political hacks, oddball volunteers and some of the world’s largest media outlets regularly combine on idiotic stunts intentionally constructed to fool the public into believing drivel and bullshit, then “Climategate” is a handy place to begin. 122237
Paul Whaley @dangerwhale.bsky.social · 03/09/2026My ancestors so suck it up and get back to the plough, losers. 000
Paul Whaley @dangerwhale.bsky.social · 03/09/2026oh shit no john redwood calls it this, reverse reverse 000
Paul Whaley @dangerwhale.bsky.social · 01/09/2026Spoiler alert: Noah tried to do research with editors. I feel like someone should've warned him. 021
Paul Whaley @dangerwhale.bsky.social · 27/08/2026WE ARE HIRING. We are seeking another Associate Editor for our team. Excellent critical appraisal and written communications skills are a must. Early-career researchers strongly encouraged: aptitude and enthusiasm more important than experience. editorresources.taylorandfrancis.com/editor_recru...editorresources.taylorandfrancis.comAssociate Editor needed for Evidence-Based ToxicologyAssociate Editor needed for Evidence-Based Toxicology 000
Paul Whaley @dangerwhale.bsky.social · 06/08/2026Open Research would be a hell of a lot easier to do if, when I logged into the infrastructure for doing it, it actually worked at a decent speed with a decent interface a decent percentage of the time. Bah. 000
Paul Whaley @dangerwhale.bsky.social · 05/08/2026To everyone I said "It won't be so bad, just use the software, it's good to be on top of your accounts blah blah blah". Sorry! 😬 (I am right, by the way, it is good to be on top of accounts, and software is worth investing in. But not *this* way. Oh no, not this way. What a fuck up.)static.klipy.comMy Apolocheese: Funny Cat MemeALT: My Apolocheese: Funny Cat Meme 000
Paul Whaley @dangerwhale.bsky.social · 05/08/2026That's my Making Tax Digital done. It cost about 1300 quid this year to sort out, in extra accountancy fees for set-up and submission. It'll be 800 a year thereafter. I can afford this, luckily, but adding this cost to a sole trader on 50k turnover is really bad, IMO. Or doing it themselves? 🤮 000
Reposted by Paul WhaleyMetaArXivBot @metaarxivbot.bsky.social · 30/07/2026How reproducible are preclinical systematic reviews? Evidence from a multi-team challenge: osf.io/8y4pn 021
Paul Whaley @dangerwhale.bsky.social · 24/07/2026Big news for the Rothman-Dahly Evidence Pyramid. After introducing it to other participants in today's GRADE Ontology project group call, it is supposedly to become part of the AORN Evidence Model as of... immediately! Stick that in your REF case study @statsepi.bsky.social (and credit me!)static.klipy.comCat Explosion Ellie Cat ExplosionALT: Cat Explosion Ellie Cat Explosion 100
Paul Whaley @dangerwhale.bsky.social · 23/07/2026Since you're a bunch of absolute nerds, you're going to thoroughly enjoy a dose of heavy definitional work that sets up a tool for assessing the external validity of in vitro studies. Have fun, but not too much fun! www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti... 000
Paul Whaley @dangerwhale.bsky.social · 21/07/2026RegCheck is going straight into the editorial triage workflow for testing at EBT www.tandfonline.com/journals/teb...tandfonline.comEvidence-Based ToxicologyAn open science journal publishing evidence-based research in the toxicological and human environmental health sciences, investigating how environmental exposur 1112
Paul Whaley @dangerwhale.bsky.social · 15/07/2026I'm pleased to be on the Editorial Committee for @sci-integrity.com and I recommend you read the latest issue of REACH. Especially if, like me, you were not able to attend the 9th World Conference on Research Integrity - everything there is in here! 064
Reposted by Paul WhaleySam Antics @dsoart.com · 13/07/2026If I get 2 more patrons, I can start sending out stickers like this! patreon.com/dsoart 110428
Reposted by Paul WhaleyDorothy Bishop @deevybee.bsky.social · 05/07/2026Just as publishers are waking up to the threats from paper mills, they are adopting a new approach to keep one step ahead, as explained in this guest blogpost by Matt Spick. deevybee.blogspot.com/2026/07/how-... #researchintegrity #publishing #papermillsdeevybee.blogspot.comHow paper mills go straight (without going clean): a shift to dual-use servicesGuest post by Matt Spick Photo: Parsadanov/Shutterstock.com From relative obscurity, paper mills have recently mo... 02111
Paul Whaley @dangerwhale.bsky.social · 30/06/2026Ahh this is so great I'm gonna have to do my own. Poor old Mondrian. :D 000
Paul Whaley @dangerwhale.bsky.social · 09/06/2026@twpiggott.bsky.social To get you in the mood for the World Cup! 000
Paul Whaley @dangerwhale.bsky.social · 08/06/2026Recommend reading Silverchair's sober analysis of the state of peer-review in 2026. "Before accepting a crisis narrative ... the report asks for evidence. What the report finds is more complicated, and (hopefully) more useful, than a simple alarm." www.silverchair.com/news/the-num...silverchair.comThe Numbers Behind the Noise: What Our 2026 Peer Review Report Shows - SilverchairThe 2026 Future of Peer Review Report doesn't accept the crisis narrative at face value. Here's what the evidence actually shows. 000
Paul Whaley @dangerwhale.bsky.social · 05/06/2026Three bloody cheers for @pollytoynbee.bsky.social, the best defence of selective screening programs I have read in a long, long time. www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...theguardian.comThe right’s culture war over prostate cancer screening is damaging trust in medicine | Polly ToynbeeThe decision not to test all men and only screen the most at risk, including black men, is fact-based. Yet it’s been called ‘two tier’ – and labelled as misandry, says Guardian columnist Polly Toynbee 100
Paul Whaley @dangerwhale.bsky.social · 03/06/2026I like this take, it helps make sense of the avalanche of I'm not sure exactly what to call it that has in the last year made academic LinkedIn a haystack of bullshit and a needle of information. (Neal Stephenson in Anathem did, in fact, call it bullshit and you should all read that book.) 000
Reposted by Paul WhaleyMichael Balazo @mbalazo.bsky.social · 17/05/2026Here it is: my official audition to play the part of Ozzy in the upcoming Ozzy Osbourne biopic. NOTE: I can also play guitar, sing and drive a car. I am willing to gain/lose weight for the role, and will perform in the nude if it serves the story. #audition #ozzy #blacksabbath #acting #actor 4638
Paul Whaley @dangerwhale.bsky.social · 06/05/2026Tangentially, I think this is a structural problem for researchers as well - I feel acutely disadvantaged by not having a university infrastructure around me. However, that infrastructure comes with its own demands that may not ultimately be a net benefit (so I try to fret less about that). 1/2 110
Reposted by Paul WhaleyHadas Weiss @hadas.bsky.social · 02/05/2026great, now i have to reconsider atheism 8877
Paul Whaley @dangerwhale.bsky.social · 24/04/2026Just to get this on the record, the term "chinfluencers", used to describe researchers who develop high-profile social media accounts by relentlessly posting dubiously helpful science commentary, is mine. Thank you for your attention. 011
Paul Whaley @dangerwhale.bsky.social · 06/03/2026I'm sorry, but "Hitler Lewis"? It only gets better when you discover one of his main co-authors is Innocent Benjamin. cen.acs.org/research-int... 110
Paul Whaley @dangerwhale.bsky.social · 27/02/2026Very nice essay from your man @iandunt.bsky.social on how to think about AI. It is a tool. (Could we expand on the concept of tools? I am not sure people know how to think about tools either: know your task, and judge the tool against how it performs that task.) iandunt.substack.com/p/how-to-thi...iandunt.substack.comHow to think about AI and not have an existential crisisIt is a tool, not a replacement. 010
Paul Whaley @dangerwhale.bsky.social · 19/02/2026old: two spaces after a full stop. bold: one space after a full stop. cold: carriage return after a full stop. 000
Paul Whaley @dangerwhale.bsky.social · 10/02/2026If it makes you uncomfortable, think how I feel? That's my great-grandpa Maurice in the fourth pic. 000
Paul Whaley @dangerwhale.bsky.social · 05/02/2026I don't think we should require anyone to have a licence to be a researcher, but I do think we should require a researcher to have a licence to use a keyboard. 000
Paul Whaley @dangerwhale.bsky.social · 03/02/2026Classic UK approach. Figure out how fast the horse is bolting and where it is bolting to, then shut the stable door. www.theguardian.com/environment/...theguardian.comEnvironmentalists decry ‘crushingly disappointing’ Pfas action plan for UKMinisters’ proposals to tackle ‘forever chemicals’ fail to match tougher stance taken in Europe, say experts 000
Paul Whaley @dangerwhale.bsky.social · 02/02/2026writing: i have beautiful cogent thoughts how can they come out so wrong editing: fuck you very much for that writing paul nobody can understand thanks for nothing checking proofs: huh i guess writing paul won the battle of attrition with editing paul reading my published work,ever: <snorts> 010
Paul Whaley @dangerwhale.bsky.social · 25/01/2026I think autocorrect would work a lot better if it assumed you typed a valid spelling correctly, rather than assuming you meant to type a different, correctly-spelled word. 000
Paul Whaley @dangerwhale.bsky.social · 24/01/2026Right that's it I've decided: there is no such thing as construct validity, there is just internal validity and external validity. Construct validity is a type of external validity, where you are measuring a surrogate for the thing you are interested in (e.g. IQ instead of intelligence). 230
Paul Whaley @dangerwhale.bsky.social · 16/01/2026I love methods, but why oh why did they decide to call it Love Methods Week? 000
Paul Whaley @dangerwhale.bsky.social · 18/12/2025Equating an individual with their culture *and* saying that some cultures are worth less than others is racism squared, just get the fuck out of here. As if doing just one of the two wasn't already bad enough. 130
Reposted by Paul WhaleyJohn Scalzi @scalzi.com · 18/12/2025"Are we still capable of talking to each other," asks the woman hired by billionaires whose economic model is predicated on fomenting polarization to install an actual criminal who dismantles the regulatory state that kept them from fully extracting what remaining wealth there was from the lower 99% 16879136
Paul Whaley @dangerwhale.bsky.social · 16/12/2025Starting interviews today. 10 points for anyone with the stones to look me in the eye and say "I'm not an applicant, I'm an applican", in a low-key way like they are serious about it. 130
Paul Whaley @dangerwhale.bsky.social · 15/12/2025Crikey, HSBC no longer accept international cheques. They would charge me 30 quid a throw for these, and even at that rate they think it is STILL not worth it. 000
Paul Whaley @dangerwhale.bsky.social · 11/12/2025If you want an object lesson in how generative AI works, look no further than this checklist for (checks notes) "stalitative methods". 😊 010
Reposted by Paul WhaleyCharles Louis Richter @richterscale.bsky.social · 10/12/2025SKULL OF THOMAS AQUINAS: TAKE A LEFT NOW PRIEST: No, the GPS says we have to keep going— SKULL: I KNOW A SHORTCUT PRIEST: Do you remember the last ti— SKULL: FOR THOSE WITH FAITH, NO EVIDENCE IS NECESSARY; FOR THOSE WITHOUT IT, NO EVIDENCE WILL SUFFICE 126182396488
Paul Whaley @dangerwhale.bsky.social · 08/12/2025Huh, so in GMail in the UK, the trash can is the "bin" (yay, culturally appropriate) but if you want to search in the bin you have to type in:trash so what the hell 010