Reposted by Dave FernigYasin Dagdas @plantophagy.bsky.social · 4hReminder! You DO NOT do experiments to prove/validate your hypothesis, you do them to TEST your hypothesis! #FridayThoughtsstatic.klipy.comSlow PokeALT: Slow Poke 0151
Reposted by Dave FernigAdmirable Women @admirablewomen.bsky.social · 5hInvestigative journalist Daphne Galizia reported on government corruption, allegations of money laundering & more in #Malta. A "one-woman WikiLeaks." Known internationally for her investigation of the Panama Papers, she was assassinated by a car bomb in #OTD in 2017. 🧵 #Journalism #PressFreedom 15513227
Dave Fernig @davefernig.eurosky.social · 3hWho'dve thunk it eh, wine is made all over the planet 🥂 000
Reposted by Dave FernigPeter Kay @theonlypeterkay.bsky.social · 8h@mrjamesob.bsky.social @lbc.co.uk Our collective memory is too short. @channel4news.bsky.social exposed this level of racism, misogyny and homophobia two years ago. We forget. 032
Reposted by Dave FernigDuncan Jones (aka Merrion) (he/him) @duncanjonesmerrion.bsky.social · 10hOh no - the payment and asset storage systems used almost entirely by criminals are attracting the attention of criminals... giftarticle.ft.com/giftarticle/...giftarticle.ft.comCriminals stole $90mn of crypto by hiding password readers in USB-like devicesLedger said theft from its secure wallets was ‘one of the most sophisticated attacks’ the industry has seen 265
Dave Fernig @davefernig.eurosky.social · 9hYou are right, but also recall that the KGB/FSB are masters at the art of Kompromat and Trump is a pedo. The latter goes back decades. Those videos are there for sure, Trump has spent enough time in Moscow for plenty of filming... 010
Dave Fernig @davefernig.eurosky.social · 9hto translate: Unlike Putin, Zelensky has not offered to send billions to my personal bank account 020
Reposted by Dave FernigPrem Sikka @premnsikka.bsky.social · 11hWater companies in England failed to report more than 50,000 sewage dumpings within the time required. Water companies routinely ignore laws, have 1,200+ criminal convictions, no exec prosecuted, no licence cancelled. Customers fleeced, human health damaged, environment harmed. Govts do nothing.news.sky.comEngland's water companies failed to report more than 50,000 sewage spills in time, charity claimsAll nine of the country's suppliers failed to meet the legal reporting requirement of one hour, as more than 4,000 of the delayed reports affected designated bathing waters. 31420245
Dave Fernig @davefernig.eurosky.social · 9hEminently suited to the task, as only a true fascist can make sure the Party only has fascists. Don't want to deviate for sure 🤮 020
Dave Fernig @davefernig.eurosky.social · 10hThose pints were happily also cheap - I would love to see a comparison of cost of a pint vs heroin, I suspect they track pretty close! 010
Dave Fernig @davefernig.eurosky.social · 10hWell there are the Epstein files stored somewhat haphazardly in Washington, and there are the complementary videos, very carefully stored in Moscow. 110
Reposted by Dave FernigDuncan Jones (aka Merrion) (he/him) @duncanjonesmerrion.bsky.social · 10hThat's all you need to know. America - your president is a turncoat. 163
Reposted by Dave FernigStewart J. Brookes @stewartbrookes.bsky.social · 21hNot so easy to ex-spleen that though… 011
Dave Fernig @davefernig.eurosky.social · 20hNo, and that is a problem, we have not upped production as much as we should. We also have not sent near out of date stuff, e.g., Spanish Patriots that will otherwise have to be disposed of. 010
Dave Fernig @davefernig.eurosky.social · 20hSome industrial targets don't need so much precision, just a big bang will go. 000
Dave Fernig @davefernig.eurosky.social · 20hAt best giong to be a tough few months, assuming new Congress is actually sworn in . 000
Dave Fernig @davefernig.eurosky.social · 20hHe is quite right - Reform have doubled down on vetting to ensure the purity of the Party and only allow the most fascist in 🤮 010
Dave Fernig @davefernig.eurosky.social · 21hThe 1933 numbers are a poll or a vote of those attending the union debate? Because if the latter, that social class was brought up to fight wars for King and Country... Which would make the numbers even more interesting, in that 93 years on people are more deeply connected to their democracy. 000
Reposted by Dave FernigOtto English @ottoenglish.bsky.social · 22hPoll reveals that 50% of young Britons would never fight for UK under any circumstances. Cue meltdown on talk radio stations and X. Well at least that's down on the 60% who said the exact same in an Oxford Union debate in 1933. Because... guess what kids... people don't want to fight in wars. 631050203
Reposted by Dave FernigDr Lucy Stewart @lcsnz.bsky.social · 15/10/2026Bad puns are an art form! Mind you, this government does hate funding the arts... 0181
Dave Fernig @davefernig.eurosky.social · 21hDNA is an accepted abbreviation not requiring definition according to the rulebook 010
Dave Fernig @davefernig.eurosky.social · 21hAlso for European Commission Framework programme grants - Acronym is REQUIRED and considerable thought goes into these. 010
Dave Fernig @davefernig.eurosky.social · 21hBit of a problem for those working on the lower digestive tract 😉 130
Reposted by Dave FernigKatherine Harloe @katherineharloe.bsky.social · 15/10/2026My partner used to work in external comms for NERC. "Great tits grow old gracefully" (a story about passerines) was both his greatest triumph and greatest failure as a headline writer. It generated a record number of hits, but viewers did not stay on the page for long. 091
Reposted by Dave FernigLeftistJew @leftistjew.bsky.social · 22hMajor Jason Watson USAF is in solitary confinement 24 hours a day since August considered by civilized nations to be torture All for simply telling the truth about this illegal, offensive war of choice that has doubled the price of diesel within months No one wants this war 021
Reposted by Dave FernigOlivia Guest · Ολίβια Γκεστ @olivia.science · 22h> There was no outbreak of oligarch support when Timnit Gebru […] was fired from Google in 2020 for refusing to take down a research paper she had co-authored. […] Her findings were buttressed by another researcher, Abeba Birhane, who co-authored a paper called “On Hate Scaling Laws for Data-Swamps” 212652
Dave Fernig @davefernig.eurosky.social · 22hOne might ask a pathogen- they neither know nor care about borders. Why universal healthcare should be global… 040
Dave Fernig @davefernig.eurosky.social · 22hNot even the next Paris - completely messed up on concept of interchanges with Elizabeth line and can put most of its railway stations into one of Paris’. Mind you the RAPT and SNCF got the idea in a chance jolly to Tokyo 010
Dave Fernig @davefernig.eurosky.social · 23hHence 20% of the fish weight are lump fish that feed on lice. Only Scandinavians eat these so elsewhere they are waste. Totally insane system of course 010
Dave Fernig @davefernig.eurosky.social · 23hWe joke but both chicken and salmon will eat anything they can get down. Chickens happily eat sparrows for example. 110
Dave Fernig @davefernig.eurosky.social · 23hThey didn’t- they simply removed the fish smell - all factory chickens 120
Dave Fernig @davefernig.eurosky.social · 23hThink we might have a fish farm chicken farm paradox. Battery chickens long fed fish waste (removing fishy smell a ‘big step forward’) so now we can do the reverse. A decent step towards Soylent Green technology, What is not to like 011
Reposted by Dave FernigDalmeet Singh Chawla @dalmeet.bsky.social · 15/10/2026Google DeepMind's latest version of the AI crystallography GNoME database still flooded with near duplicate entries and unrealistic compounds — my latest for @cenmag.bsky.social: cen.acs.org/research-int... #ChemSkycen.acs.orgGoogle DeepMind AI crystallography database includes near duplicate structures and unrealistic compoundsAfter hyping previous claims, tech giant doesn’t comment on inquiries about lack of novelty in database of AI-generated crystals 198
Reposted by Dave FernigDuncan Jones (aka Merrion) (he/him) @duncanjonesmerrion.bsky.social · 15/10/2026She was close to my age, and she died so that our house prices would keep rising faster than inflation. 121
Dave Fernig @davefernig.eurosky.social · 23hAlso to ensure tax breaks for the chieftains- as for you unwashed peasants similar to everywhere else you can eff off 😉 010
Reposted by Dave FernigDuncan Jones (aka Merrion) (he/him) @duncanjonesmerrion.bsky.social · 15/10/2026What use are our billions of euro fiscal surplus when this is the cold hard reality of our streets? www.breakingnews.ie/ireland/such...breakingnews.ie‘Such a lovely person’: Tributes paid to homeless woman who died in tent in Dublin | BreakingNewsTributes have been paid to former library worker who died in a tent in Dublin’s city centre last weekend after years of living on the streets. 1105
Dave Fernig @davefernig.eurosky.social · 15/10/2026That would be the Su-34 dacha, very popular among the high ups 😂 042
Reposted by Dave FernigSimon Evans @drsimevans.carbonbrief.org · 15/10/2026REMINDER: If govt cuts heat-pump grants, the UK will have to import a lot more gas In 2023, Energy UK said that'd cost an extra £3bn over 2026-2030, but gas prices today are roughly ~2x what they were at the time of the analysis… 45629
Dave Fernig @davefernig.eurosky.social · 15/10/2026Indeed, the 'weak' today may be tomorrow's survivors. The misunderstanding of Natural Selection and Biology's continued testing of a myriad of possibilities so as to cope with the unknown unknown of tomorrow is the secret of life. 111
Reposted by Dave FernigHal 10000 @hal10000.bsky.social · 15/10/2026The entire rotten edifice of eugenics is based on a complete misunderstanding of evolution. Evolution doesn't care about individuals, it deals with *species*. And a selfish greedy species that lets "the weak" die is more, not less, vulnerable to extinction. 1137
Reposted by Dave FernigAnti-Reform @antireform.bsky.social · 15/10/2026"Congratulations to Professor Mariam Jamal-Hanjani on her appointment as Cancer Research UK’s Chief Clinician! 👏🏽🎉 A massive achievement and another reminder of the incredible contributions Muslims make to Britain through science, medicine, research and public service." via Martin Michael 20820202
Reposted by Dave FernigPeer-Reviewed Slop @peer-reviewed-slop.bsky.social · 08/10/2026All belong to one class, really, of AI-nanoslopticles! 🍇 I don't know if there is a need for this profile anymore; any journal IF <5 is a good substitute #notreallyslop doi.org/10.1007/s126... 101
Reposted by Dave FernigValentin Rodionov @arbitraryeffect.bsky.social · 08/10/2026Thanks @dalmeet.bsky.social for covering TRACES in @cenmag.bsky.social. Short version: we gave 30 AI models 42 truly awful papers, and asked them to extend the work. How awful? Magnetized water awful. Cold fusion awful. The LLMs cheerfully helped, more than 93% of the time. #ChemSky #ChemChat 196
Reposted by Dave FernigPeer-Reviewed Slop @peer-reviewed-slop.bsky.social · 11/10/2026🦆-ery from Scientific Reports Homeopathy advocates using crystals to show that Mistletoe extracts have properties distinct from their chemical composition. doi.org/10.1038/s415... 245
Reposted by Dave FernigPrivate Eye Magazine @privateeyenews.bsky.social · 15/10/2026Eye Told You So… Ministers to send inspectors into Lord (Ben) Houchen’s Tees Valley authority over high debt, rising borrowing levels and its financial relationship with the publicly owned Teesside International Airport, according to the FT. Eye readers knew this already. 16368133
Dave Fernig @davefernig.eurosky.social · 15/10/2026Sadly, this is a common problem whoever someone spends the time to examine rigorously the conditions required to obtain a reproducible endpoint. 010
Reposted by Dave FernigDave Adams @profdjadams.bsky.social · 15/10/2026Said I would do this, so here goes. The first real gel paper I published has just got to 500 cites on Google Scholar. Published in 2009. This paper showed how important the rate of pH change is for pH-triggered gels... pubs.rsc.org/sm/article/5...pubs.rsc.org 261
Reposted by Dave FernigDave Adams @profdjadams.bsky.social · 15/10/2026The paper then got a favourable review and was accepted... Gatekeeping is such an issue. Anyway, now this method is used by lots of groups and in undergraduate teaching labs at a couple of universities. It started us working on controlling process and not just saying molecule X forms gel Y... 111