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Dr Jay @doctorgalactic.bsky.social · 26/09/2026

Oh boy, considering the so-called "organic chemistry" I see AI come up with I'm not surprised that humans need to be involved...

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Dr Jay @doctorgalactic.bsky.social · 24/09/2026

I would very much love to see the peer review that was (or was not) conducted on this article....

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Dr Jay @doctorgalactic.bsky.social · 24/09/2026

What in the hell did I just read Nessa...?

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Roberta Metsola @president.europarl.europa.eu · 11/09/2026

25 years on, the world still remembers where it was when everything changed. Time stands still around the memory of #September11 2001. The lives lost, families left behind & extraordinary courage of the heroes who ran towards danger so others might live. Today we honour them all. Europe remembers.

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Dr Jay @doctorgalactic.bsky.social · 10/09/2026

There aren't enough version of that Jeff Goldblum in Jurassic Park meme for this.

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Dr Jay @doctorgalactic.bsky.social · 10/09/2026

This makes a massive amount of sense when you consider the effects that many serious illnesses have on the cardiovascular system and the brain. It's maddening that we live in this ridiculous anti-science world when the majority of people living now simply wouldn't be living without modern medicine.

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Dr Jay @doctorgalactic.bsky.social · 09/09/2026

Don't you need, like permission to perform animal testing in your garage? I'm pretty sure that's completely illegal.

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Altmetric @altmetric.com · 08/09/2026

Update: The academic flight from Twitter is now complete and appears permanent. April 2023, after the pandemic research surge, we recorded 2,234,307 posts sharing research on Twitter. As of April this year, "X" had 896,741 posts about research. That's a 60% drop in traffic.

Graph showing cumulative research sharing across platforms, including Twitter - April 2023

Graph of April 2026 cumulative research sharing including "X". One third of what it was.

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Organic Chemistry Frontiers @orgchemfront.rsc.org · 26/08/2026

🎉 Welcome Professor Qiang Liu (Tsinghua University) as the new Associate Editor of OCF! Prof. Liu's research focuses on coordination chemistry and metal hydride catalysis. Learn more: cbms.chem.tsinghua.edu.cn/liugroup/ Please join us in welcoming Professor Liu! 👏

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Dr Jay @doctorgalactic.bsky.social · 10/08/2026

Please note that the RSC has just updated it's policies on AI for Authors and Reviewers - you can find the updated guidance here: www.rsc.org/publishing/j... & www.rsc.org/publishing/j...

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Author responsibilities

Ethical guidelines and code of conduct for authors.

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Dr Jay @doctorgalactic.bsky.social · 04/08/2026

Great read @katarinazimmer.bsky.social! As an Editor, I encounter excessive self citation in reviewers reports a lot. It's definitely a problem that has gotten worse.

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Dr Jay @doctorgalactic.bsky.social · 30/07/2026

Jokes on him, we're not going to end up with a Mediterranean climate. Idiot.

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Dr Jay @doctorgalactic.bsky.social · 30/07/2026

Good case in point that "Impact" can mean many things beyond citations for journals. I'd rather publish a paper like this one then another highly citing paper in a "hot topic" area where it racks up citations, even though it's just another example on the pile.

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Dr Jay @doctorgalactic.bsky.social · 30/07/2026

It's really quite elitist and also makes science less personal and less accessible. There will always be a need for a certain standard to ensure that the science being presented makes sense, but other than that we shouldn't be straight jacketing authors into sounding like an encyclopaedia entry.

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Joe Flanigan Says 'You Do You'

ALT: Joe Flanigan Says 'You Do You'

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Dr Jay @doctorgalactic.bsky.social · 29/07/2026

In all honesty Matt I would far prefer to be able to hear the authors voice through their writing than have to read through yet another bland AI-corrected bore fest of a review that we get every single day of the week.

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Dr Jay @doctorgalactic.bsky.social · 23/07/2026

How exactly do they think this is going to work in practice? Have they ever even been to a classroom and seen what teachers do? It's not all just sitting there and spewing facts at children and they sit there and learn.

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Dr Jay @doctorgalactic.bsky.social · 17/07/2026

Part of its skills is to condense the literature into long form reviews. As it says, instead of a 2 year writing process, you can now produce ten 100 page reviews in no time at all. What is the point? I look forward to an even bigger flood of reviews topics that authors aren't actually experts in.

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Dr Jay @doctorgalactic.bsky.social · 16/07/2026

The guy is a stone cold idiot. He's got a 6 year old child's understanding of chemistry and biology.

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Dr Jay @doctorgalactic.bsky.social · 11/07/2026

This is without getting into Figures of course. Or reviewer reports (for which you are not supposed to use AI). Anyway, please disclose when you use AI if you are going to use it. I'd rather you didn't, but if you must, just disclose.

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Dr Jay @doctorgalactic.bsky.social · 11/07/2026

...with fairly obvious tells and yet you look at the acknowledgements and almost without fail AI is not disclosed. If you look up previous submissions from these authors they have suddenly changed from passable English to that somewhat flat formalised way that AI does English.

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Dr Jay @doctorgalactic.bsky.social · 11/07/2026

It is getting a little bit frustrating that despite guidance on AI being that authors can use it, but they must disclose it's use that so many authors are simply unwilling to disclose that they've used it. I mean I'm not a flawless AI detector by any means but there are many submissions submitted...

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Dr Jay @doctorgalactic.bsky.social · 09/07/2026

I'll check the back of the sofa.

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Dr Jay @doctorgalactic.bsky.social · 07/07/2026

It's genuinely disappointing to here about the poor culture that occurs in many laboratories. Nobody does research, including the research that wins Nobel prizes alone. Maybe it's time to ditch individual prizes and give them to research groups instead?

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Dr Jay @doctorgalactic.bsky.social · 09/06/2026

While I'm thinking about CERP, it's had some of my favourite covers since it started publishing them last year.

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Dr Jay @doctorgalactic.bsky.social · 09/06/2026

Plus we're Diamond OA these days and we even do covers now!

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Dr Jay @doctorgalactic.bsky.social · 06/06/2026

I'd love to say I'm surprised, but as someone who's been dealing with paper mills daily since about 2018... I'm not.

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Dalton Transactions @daltontrans.rsc.org · 04/06/2026

Dalton Transactions is delighted to announce that Professor Christine Thomas of The Ohio State University has been appointed as our new Editor-in-Chief‼️ Please join us in congratulating and welcoming Christine to the journal👏 Find out more: blogs.rsc.org/dt/2026/06/0... #ChemSky 🧪

Dalton Transactions
New Editor-in-Chief

Editor-in-Chief
Professor Christine Thomas
The Ohio State University, USA

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Natural Product Reports @natprodreports.rsc.org · 03/06/2026

We have partnered with the #SBNP conference taking place in Playa del Carmen, Mexico from 01 – 04 November 2026. #natprod This is not a conference to miss out on! Click here to register now: bit.ly/3QQrw6o

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Dr Jay @doctorgalactic.bsky.social · 03/06/2026

The irony is that this is just going to blow up in their face because the best science is conducted via international collaborations. They are, of course, idiots.

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Royal Society of Chemistry @rsc.org · 19/06/2025

Changing with the times: our evolving approach to open access Shaping our #OpenAccess approach amid a complex, evolving open research landscape, while supporting authors in ways that suit them best in a local context. Find out more rsc.li/evolving-OA-...

Image shows two Open Access scientific journals on a computer desk. Their titles are Digital Discovery and Chemical Science, published by the Royal Society of Chemistry

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Sensors & Diagnostics @sensorsdiagnostics.rsc.org · 02/06/2026

🚨New guidelines: discussing study limitations. Recognising methodological limitations is vital for responsible scientific reporting. Authors submitting to Sensors & Diagnostics must now describe study limitations within the Discussion section. ➡️Read the full editorial here: doi.org/10.1039/D6SD...

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Dr Jay @doctorgalactic.bsky.social · 22/09/2025

Modern “journalism” just can’t call out dangerous nonsense can it? “Many experts are sceptical” is putting it far too mildly.

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Chemistry World @chemistryworld.com · 22/09/2025

Long known for being chemistry's reliable workhorse, it's now being claimed that stirrer bars do next to nothing in the 300+ organic reactions one team examined.

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Comprehensive investigation suggests stirrer bars have little impact on reactions

Examination of over 300 organic reactions suggests stirring is nothing more than a placebo

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Dr Jay @doctorgalactic.bsky.social · 22/09/2025

The idea that paracetamol is responsible for autism is the biggest pile of horse manure I’ve ever heard as a scientist. It’s irresponsible, it’s dangerous. It’s anti-scientific political ideology gone mad.

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Senator Bernie Sanders @sanders.senate.gov · 12/09/2025

For generations doctors have understood that germs — like bacteria or viruses — cause infectious diseases. Yet we now have an HHS Secretary casting doubt on the germ theory — the foundation of modern medicine. That’s not only unacceptable, it is dangerous. RFK Jr. must resign.

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RFK Jr does not just reject vaccines. He rejects science and must step down | Bernie Sanders

Kennedy is unfit to be our nation’s leading public health official because he rejects the fundamental principles of modern science

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Dr Jay @doctorgalactic.bsky.social · 13/09/2025

Anybody tried turning the world off and then on again recently? Just in case.

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Dr Jay @doctorgalactic.bsky.social · 02/07/2025

Tthere’s zero percent chance that this doesn’t go horribly wrong.

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Dr Jay @doctorgalactic.bsky.social · 09/04/2025

So America is now an abusive country. This is the language of abusers.

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