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Paul Whaley

@dangerwhale.bsky.social
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Research methods in environmental health. Can't write. Works with words anyway. Editor-in-Chief, Evidence-Based Toxicology. Other stuff too. linktr.ee/paulwhaley

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flyingrodent @flyingrodent.bsky.social · 01/10/2026
If 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.
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Paul Whaley @dangerwhale.bsky.social · 03/09/2026
My ancestors so suck it up and get back to the plough, losers.
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Paul Whaley @dangerwhale.bsky.social · 03/09/2026
oh shit no john redwood calls it this, reverse reverse
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Paul Whaley @dangerwhale.bsky.social · 03/09/2026
It's the Bayeux *Embroidery*, you fools!
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Paul Whaley @dangerwhale.bsky.social · 01/09/2026
Spoiler alert: Noah tried to do research with editors. I feel like someone should've warned him.
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Paul Whaley @dangerwhale.bsky.social · 27/08/2026
WE 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...
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Associate Editor needed for Evidence-Based Toxicology
Associate Editor needed for Evidence-Based Toxicology
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Paul Whaley @dangerwhale.bsky.social · 06/08/2026
Open 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.
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Paul Whaley @dangerwhale.bsky.social · 05/08/2026
To 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.)
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My Apolocheese: Funny Cat Meme
ALT: My Apolocheese: Funny Cat Meme
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Paul Whaley @dangerwhale.bsky.social · 05/08/2026
That'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? 🤮
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Paul Whaley @dangerwhale.bsky.social · 04/08/2026
i did indeed
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MetaArXivBot @metaarxivbot.bsky.social · 30/07/2026
How reproducible are preclinical systematic reviews? Evidence from a multi-team challenge: osf.io/8y4pn
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Paul Whaley @dangerwhale.bsky.social · 24/07/2026
Big 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!)
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Cat Explosion Ellie Cat Explosion
ALT: Cat Explosion Ellie Cat Explosion
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Paul Whaley @dangerwhale.bsky.social · 23/07/2026
Since 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...
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Paul Whaley @dangerwhale.bsky.social · 21/07/2026
RegCheck is going straight into the editorial triage workflow for testing at EBT www.tandfonline.com/journals/teb...
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Evidence-Based Toxicology
An open science journal publishing evidence-based research in the toxicological and human environmental health sciences, investigating how environmental exposur
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Paul Whaley @dangerwhale.bsky.social · 21/07/2026
couldn't count binface stand against infantino?
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Paul Whaley @dangerwhale.bsky.social · 15/07/2026
I'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!
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Sam Antics @dsoart.com · 13/07/2026
If I get 2 more patrons, I can start sending out stickers like this! patreon.com/dsoart
A mockup of a vinyl sticker of the first Garffeld comic strip.
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Dorothy Bishop @deevybee.bsky.social · 05/07/2026
Just 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 #papermills
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How paper mills go straight (without going clean): a shift to dual-use services
Guest post by Matt Spick                            Photo: Parsadanov/Shutterstock.com From relative obscurity, paper mills have recently mo...
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Paul Whaley @dangerwhale.bsky.social · 30/06/2026
Ahh this is so great I'm gonna have to do my own. Poor old Mondrian. :D
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Paul Whaley @dangerwhale.bsky.social · 09/06/2026
@twpiggott.bsky.social To get you in the mood for the World Cup!
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Paul Whaley @dangerwhale.bsky.social · 08/06/2026
Recommend 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...
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The Numbers Behind the Noise: What Our 2026 Peer Review Report Shows - Silverchair
The 2026 Future of Peer Review Report doesn't accept the crisis narrative at face value. Here's what the evidence actually shows.
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Paul Whaley @dangerwhale.bsky.social · 05/06/2026
Three 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...
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The right’s culture war over prostate cancer screening is damaging trust in medicine | Polly Toynbee
The 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
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Paul Whaley @dangerwhale.bsky.social · 03/06/2026
I 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.)
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Michael Balazo @mbalazo.bsky.social · 17/05/2026
Here 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
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Paul Whaley @dangerwhale.bsky.social · 06/05/2026
Tangentially, 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
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Hadas Weiss @hadas.bsky.social · 02/05/2026
great, now i have to reconsider atheism
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Paul Whaley @dangerwhale.bsky.social · 01/05/2026
preach
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Paul Whaley @dangerwhale.bsky.social · 24/04/2026
Just 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.
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Paul Whaley @dangerwhale.bsky.social · 03/04/2026
This is what the kids call a deep cut.
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Paul Whaley @dangerwhale.bsky.social · 06/03/2026
I'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...
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Paul Whaley @dangerwhale.bsky.social · 06/03/2026
the brutality
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Paul Whaley @dangerwhale.bsky.social · 27/02/2026
Very 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...
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How to think about AI and not have an existential crisis
It is a tool, not a replacement.
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Paul Whaley @dangerwhale.bsky.social · 26/02/2026
Ribbit.
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Paul Whaley @dangerwhale.bsky.social · 19/02/2026
old: two spaces after a full stop. bold: one space after a full stop. cold: carriage return after a full stop.
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Paul Whaley @dangerwhale.bsky.social · 10/02/2026
If it makes you uncomfortable, think how I feel? That's my great-grandpa Maurice in the fourth pic.
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Paul Whaley @dangerwhale.bsky.social · 05/02/2026
I 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.
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Paul Whaley @dangerwhale.bsky.social · 03/02/2026
Classic 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/...
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Environmentalists decry ‘crushingly disappointing’ Pfas action plan for UK
Ministers’ proposals to tackle ‘forever chemicals’ fail to match tougher stance taken in Europe, say experts
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Paul Whaley @dangerwhale.bsky.social · 02/02/2026
writing: 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>
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Paul Whaley @dangerwhale.bsky.social · 25/01/2026
I 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.
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Paul Whaley @dangerwhale.bsky.social · 24/01/2026
Right 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).
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Paul Whaley @dangerwhale.bsky.social · 16/01/2026
I love methods, but why oh why did they decide to call it Love Methods Week?
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Paul Whaley @dangerwhale.bsky.social · 18/12/2025
Equating 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.
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John 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%
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Paul Whaley @dangerwhale.bsky.social · 16/12/2025
Starting 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.
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Paul Whaley @dangerwhale.bsky.social · 15/12/2025
Crikey, 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.
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Paul Whaley @dangerwhale.bsky.social · 11/12/2025
If you want an object lesson in how generative AI works, look no further than this checklist for (checks notes) "stalitative methods". 😊
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Charles Louis Richter @richterscale.bsky.social · 10/12/2025
SKULL 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
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Paul Whaley @dangerwhale.bsky.social · 08/12/2025
Huh, 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
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Paul Whaley @dangerwhale.bsky.social · 02/12/2025
The truth is out.
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Paul Whaley @dangerwhale.bsky.social · 02/12/2025
ChatGPT with an absolute banger.
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