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Grady Booch @booch.com · 07/10/2026

Ms Hamilton coined the term “software engineering”.

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Dorothy Bishop @deevybee.bsky.social · 05/01/2026

How long should it take to retract a paper with incontrovertible signs of data fabrication? Sleuths think 2 months is too long, particularly when clinical risks are involved. deevybee.blogspot.com/2026/01/an-o... #retraction #stemcells #cardiology @erictopol.bsky.social

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An Open Letter to the BMJ Editorial Board

to: Editor in chief, Kamran Abbasi , kabbasi@bmj.com Executive editor, Theodora Bloom , tbloom@bmj.com Head of research, Elizab...

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Elisabeth Bik @elisabethbik.bsky.social · 05/12/2024

The senior author, Dr. Chung Owyang, resigned early January 2023 because of allegations of misconduct. He has 25 papers flagged on PubPeer. This now-retracted paper was found by me after that news broke. www.michigandaily.com/news/univers...

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UMich researcher resigns following falsified data accusations

Dr. Chung Owyang, former U-M chief of gastroenterology, left the University due to allegations of falsified data.

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Elisabeth Bik @elisabethbik.bsky.social · 05/12/2024

After I posted this on Pubpeer, with concerns about the multiple gel lanes that appeared to be spliced together, the first author provided tons of photos from which they apparently cut-and-pasted the figures, without explaining which lanes came from where. It's a typical "Gish Gallop" reply.

Screenshot from the author's reply on PubPeer: https://pubpeer.com/publications/FBB32FD5AE24BB32447298C282D804 (comment #3), in which they provide 10 gel photos with lots of different labels.

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David Colquhoun @davidcolquhoun.bsky.social · 07/10/2026

Deluge of fake AI-written papers causes arXiv to limit authors to two submissions per MONTH. That's ridiculously high. I'd limit people to two per YEAR. www.timeshighereducation.com/news/arxivs-...

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arXiv’s new preprint submission cap divides opinion

Some hail preprint server’s two papers per month policy move for promoting ‘quality over quantity’, but others question cap’s scientific implications

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Ricky Davila @therickydavila.bsky.social · 07/10/2026

Sex trafficking rapist pedophile Andrew Tate had beastiality porn of horse and eel as well as videos of minors. A reminder that creepy racist scumbag JD Vance and the orange felon fought to bring him and his vile brother Tristan to the US to protect them. MAGA empowers monsters.

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Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 06/10/2026

Trump: "With the war, it's just artificial. It's a little bit high. It's a small price to pay ... let them take out Los Angeles, let them take out San Diego. This is a very small price to pay."

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Auschwitz Memorial @auschwitzmemorial.bsky.social · 07/10/2026

7 October 1897 | A French Jew, Roger Lucien Levy, was born in Boulogne. In May 1944 he was deported to #Auschwitz. He did not survive.

Vintage portrait of a man in military uniform, wearing a beret.

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The Mouthy Renegade Writer @mouthyrenegade.bsky.social · 07/10/2026

Ok, who came up with this one? 😂

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Lowell Renold @lowellr.bsky.social · 06/10/2026

Last night, I made a Tik Tok quoting what our President said he wanted to happen to Los Angeles and San Diego. And my video got removed because it “violated community guidelines”. Let me repeat. My video got removed because I quoted what the President said.

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BTD 🚫 👑 @benjaminthomas616.bsky.social · 06/10/2026

This is so plausible in 2026 that it hurts...

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Lucy D’Agostino McGowan @lucystats.bsky.social · 05/10/2026

🎙️ Today on Regression to the Mean Girls @sarahlotspeich.bsky.social & I chat with @mattansb.msbstats.info about a marshmallow test (no, not that one!) This ep has everything! Bayesian models! Food science! A twist at the end! Listen wherever you listen to podcasts!

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Lucy D’Agostino McGowan @lucystats.bsky.social · 05/10/2026

See more details here: regressiontothemeangirls.com/posts/06-the... And listen here: open.spotify.com/episode/7mcX...

Results showing when pink marshmallows are different people can tell

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The Tennessee Holler @thetnholler.bsky.social · 05/10/2026

Why is 🇺🇸 media not reporting on this 128 day Albanian protest of Kushner and Ivanka’s insane corruption?

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David Osland @davidosland.bsky.social · 05/10/2026

Beating up pensioners and vandalising curry houses in Gosport is not 'an expression of legitimate concern'

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Otto English @ottoenglish.bsky.social · 06/10/2026

Yes indeed I'm rather tiring of the coverage... a convicted perjuror who brazenly lied his way through life and continued to attend the House of Lords even as this poor woman's life fell apart.

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Mark Hamill @markhamillofficial.bsky.social · 06/10/2026

Who you gonna believe, the lying liar or your own eyes? 👀

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Stephen Graham @stephengraham.bsky.social · 06/10/2026

I had this bit about Jeffrey Archer from the 1995 HIGNFY video memorised for whenever I needed a handy fact about him.

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Darren Dahly @statsepi.bsky.social · 06/10/2026

They hounded Aaron Swartz to death for downloading papers from jstor but society is now supposed to just accept mass theft because this thing can write that TPS report *for* you. en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Aaron_S...

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Aaron Swartz - Wikipedia

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Parody Nigel Farage @parodypm.bsky.social · 05/10/2026

I love talking our country down While offering no solutions Because I’m a grifting gobshite Who likes to incite unrest Small boat crossings are down 44% Deportations are the highest in 10 years Immigration is 82% lower But who needs facts When you can make up lies

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Dr_Aust_PhD @draustphd.bsky.social · 06/10/2026

The Tories are idiots in thrall to the fossil fuel industry.

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Dr_Aust_PhD @draustphd.bsky.social · 05/10/2026

Hear hear. If you want to see what passes for humour on the far right, remember Trump parodying someone w. cerebral palsy, and his supporters guffawing with him. The rest of us have humour. The far right has cruelty. Think Romans laughing at gladiators butchering prisoners in the arena.

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Prem Sikka @premnsikka.bsky.social · 05/10/2026

Energy suppliers urge UK govt to help households struggling with energy bills. Silence on cutting profit margins, windfall taxes on excessive profits. Household energy debt heading to £7bn. 120,000 a year die in fuel poverty. We can't afford privatisation and resulting profiteering.

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Suppliers pile pressure on government over energy bills

Immediate action is needed to help households struggling with bills this winter, says trade body Energy UK.

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Lea Francis @leafrancis.bsky.social · 05/10/2026

After a year of listening to Mike Johnson, I realize what an empty headed shell of a man used by Project 2025 and billionaires to do their bidding. And even with the script they’ve given him he manages to fuck up and calls a recess again and again. Weak in mind and spirit.

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Lincoln Square @lincolnsquare.media · 05/10/2026

Full-page ads demanding the execution of five innocent teens of color. Public sympathy for men accused of gang rape to attack Letitia James, a Black woman prosecutor. lincolnsquare.media #Trump #CentralPark5 #Cornell7 #LetitiaJames

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Parody Nigel Farage @parodypm.bsky.social · 03/10/2026

I'm furious about the two Iranians who came across as part of the surge in small boats created by my Brexit and under a Home Office run by my MPs Suella Braverman and Robert Jenrick.

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David Colquhoun @davidcolquhoun.bsky.social · 03/10/2026

Log transforms, as in log-log Schild plots are terrible for both estimation of KB, and for visualising how well Schild eqn fits the obs. See onemol.org.uk?page_id=331#... especially onemol.org.uk/schild-black...

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Descriptions of DCprogs

Brief descriptions of DC’s analysis programs Introduction | SCAN | EKDIST | PLOTSAMP | HJCFI…

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D Watts @sportinspits.bsky.social · 03/10/2026

Surely this bloke has a few questions to answer as well?

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Elthampug 🇬🇧🇺🇦 @elthampug.bsky.social · 03/10/2026

I’m sure Pochin would love to have a ‘bathtub’ bomb factory next to her house too providing the maker was white British. It’s sheer luck rather than skill no-one was injured or killed by this fucking moron.

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Otto English @ottoenglish.bsky.social · 03/10/2026

A man builds an IED. He sets it off in a busy public street. Shrapnel flies about hitting cars, homes and a child's bedroom. It's a miracle nobody is injured. And Reform MP Sarah Pochin calls his imprisonment "disproportionate" and "two tier justice."

It does raise this point of two-tiered
justice..

Reform's Sarah Pochin believes the
sentence handed to the 64-year-old who
blew up a ULEZ camera was
disproportionate'.

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Parody Nigel Farage @parodypm.bsky.social · 03/10/2026

"Dear Diary, There were six by-elections in England and Scotland this week and Reform lost all of them. Two of them were seats we previously held. The problem with running councils is that people can see how useless we are."

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Dr_Aust_PhD @draustphd.bsky.social · 03/10/2026

Wow. Bet the Stasi would have enjoyed Palantir. Much quicker than all those card indices.

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Otto English @ottoenglish.bsky.social · 01/10/2026

Such an ahistorical, geographically illiterate, and all-around dimwitted take from Harwood. He's one of those entitled people who are so imbued with self-confidence that they rattle crap off, and their followers just accept it to be true.

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Dr_Aust_PhD @draustphd.bsky.social · 30/09/2026

Yup. See also the curated rise in anti-rationalist fear propaganda (Trump, Vance, RFK Jr etc) which is used to distract, frighten & blind all the people losing out to the elite.

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Mark Hamill @markhamillofficial.bsky.social · 27/09/2026

Isn't it nice when there's something we can ALL agree on? #ReleaseTheUnredactedEPSTEIN-Files

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The Liberal BoJack @thelibbojack.bsky.social · 28/09/2026

Condoms: 97% effective The pill: 98% effective IUD: 99% effective Men hanging Trump flags on their house or truck: 100% effective

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Jack Hopkins-The Original @therealjackhopkins.bsky.social · 28/09/2026

Todd Blanche now says "one-sided news" is a national security threat worth barring the press over. That's not a legal standard. It's a viewpoint test. I didn’t go to law school…and didn’t need to, to know that the First Amendment exists to STOP government from judging which coverage is balanced.

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David Colquhoun @davidcolquhoun.bsky.social · 28/09/2026

A company's infernally stupid AI bot just lost them a sale. Infuriating.

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David Colquhoun @davidcolquhoun.bsky.social · 28/09/2026

YES. AI is named misleadngly. The processes used by computers bear very little resemblance to human intelligence (itself a v poorly understood concept). Success of AI in emulating humans is little more than empirical curve-fitting. It IS NOT reason to believe that the machine works like a human.

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David Colquhoun @davidcolquhoun.bsky.social · 27/09/2026

Britain isn't broken. In the last week, I've had superb service from Notts Community Social Care, and from my NHS GP. At 24 hours notice, they've supplied a hospital bed and a hoist at home. The only problem is that 2 carers, 3 times.a day, costs a small fortune.

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Anti-Reform @antireform.bsky.social · 27/09/2026

Jim Ratcliffe patriotic billionaire hater of immigrants who funded Brexit then emigrated to avoid paying UK taxes "Does anyone else NOT give a damn about what Jim Ratcliffe has to say about the country?⁠" via Greenpeace UK

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Christopher Webb @cwebbonline.com · 26/09/2026

ICE BEHIND THE MASKS HAVE NAMES 2 masked agents threatened to arrest Robert Peck for legally observing them. He sued. “And now, because of a lawsuit, the (ICE) agents have names.” A Hylton 📌Nicholas Lapointe 📌Christopher Semler I hope more people take ICE to court when their rights are violated.

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Stephen Senn @stephensenn.bsky.social · 26/09/2026

I shall be attending the International Society for Clinical Biostatics in Freiburg next week (I think it will be my 40th) together with the German Association for Medical Informatics, Biometry and Epidemiology (GMDS) but am travelling via my hometown #Basle #Basel #Bâle #Basilea #ISCB47 #GMDS71

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Linda Hutchison @machutch.bsky.social · 25/09/2026

www.instagram.com/reel/Ddtm-Ci...

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A Blue View @ablueview.bsky.social · 26/09/2026

🧵 Cowardly Republican Rats Are Trying to Jump From Trump's Sinking Ship "... called the ability to criticize the policy without lambasting the man the “safe space...They criticize staff. They criticize implementation... It hasn’t been ‘Trump failed’ or ‘Trump’s wrong.’" twp.ai/4hvMC3 3/3

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