iiinova — where your digital self keeps evolving

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arXiv @arxiv.bsky.social · 01/10/2026

arXiv has updated our policy on rate limiting for all submitters. This update was made to fairly distribute moderator time & support the arXiv community of staff, volunteers, readers & authors. Please read our announcement to learn more: blog.arxiv.org/2026/10/01/updated-r…

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Carl Zimmer @carlzimmer.com · 27/09/2026

Four days ago, a scientist was surprised by the news that Anthropic discovered new virus genes for making DNA. He says he’s been studying them for years—and feeding his data to Anthropic’s AI as part of his own research. Coincidence? Here’s my story. nyti.ms/3VSWayc

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Did Anthropic’s A.I. Really Make a Scientific Discovery on Its Own? (Gift Article)

An expert at the University of Copenhagen said his team had been sharing its research with the company’s A.I. model, Claude, and that its new finding matched their work.

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Eugenie Reich @eugenie-reich.bsky.social · 23/09/2026

Science afficionados in Boston, this Monday at 7pm we'll discuss replication of exploratory research. Scientists on curiosity-driven random-walks may not document or pre-register same as they do later. Are these adventures important to discuss, or should we wait for comprehensive studies?

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Replication of Curiosity Driven Exploration, Mon, Sep 28, 2026, 7:00 PM | Meetup

This week we'll discuss the problem of replication of curiosity-driven exploratory research. When researchers are browsing random-walk style through a historical archive, s

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Eugenie Reich @eugenie-reich.bsky.social · 12/09/2026

Wishing everyone steady reliable progress in their projects this coming year.

apple bundt cake with squashed raspberries in the middle

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Eugenie Reich @eugenie-reich.bsky.social · 31/08/2026

I hear a lot about the difficulty in publishing negative replications, but what about publishing / funding positive replications? In a world where many fast-paced claims later falter, there should be more glory to coming in second in an important race. We don't know until an expert community knows.

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Andy Hall @testtubegames.com · 28/08/2026

Once you're trapped inside the Standard Model, there's no way out... until now. Agent Higgs 2 - my particle physics puzzle game is out today! Electrons, protons, photons, and more! The particles may be small, but big forces are at play. On PC/Mac/Linux/Android/iOS testtubegames.com/higgs2.html

Movie poster titled Agent Higgs 2: Escape from the Standard Model. Underneath a red Higgs boson wearing groucho marx glasses is surrounded by a variety of particles and blue characters. Underneath, the tagline: time for another run. The particles are listed by name underneath, like actors in a movie poster. At the bottom: Coming August 28, 2026.

Level in Agent Higgs 2, titled Electricity 8. Agent Higgs and a mysterious figure are both in a room with many crates. An electron and proton seem to be attracting with the help of a photon. The figure says: "The scientists caught you last time... but with my help you'll never get trapped again!"

Cartoon image of a collectible card - with a scared character at the top saying "What happened?!" The card title is Electric Repulsion and it has an image of two electrons repelling in the game. The text says: The electric force will make like electric charges repel. This force is stronger than the swiping force. Under that there's a stick figure character who is literally a stick who says: Sticky the Stickler Says... No distance dependence... and only cardinal directions?!

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Musicology Duck @musicologyduck.bsky.social · 28/08/2026

used all the brain cells this week all gone nothing left

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Eugenie Reich @eugenie-reich.bsky.social · 27/08/2026

Right. Some decent trademark firm needs to intervene on the part of traditional Indonesian kentongan players for their rightful share of Tung Tung revenues.

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Science News @sciencenews.bsky.social · 27/08/2026

The Swift Observatory is slowly falling toward Earth’s atmosphere. A rescue mission was sent to save the space telescope, but it tumbled out of control. There is no backup mission to save Swift. www.sciencenews.org/article/swift-s…

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A space telescope was falling from orbit. Its rescue mission fell apart too

NASA’s attempt to save the falling Swift telescope failed, revealing the realities of the burgeoning field of satellite servicing.

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Eugenie Reich @eugenie-reich.bsky.social · 23/08/2026

And is there evidence against sitting in the file drawer?

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Jason Wright @astrowright.bsky.social · 13/08/2026

One of the enormous advances in astronomy since my grad school days has been in our understanding of gyrochronolgy. Look at this amazing figure and reflect on the rich physics it contains about stellar spin down!

Rotation period vs. effective temperature for several clusters.

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Margaret Harris @drmlharris.bsky.social · 07/08/2026

From a physicist who used AI to solve a nagging maths problem: “We desperately need to figure out how to filter & review this influx [of AI slop research]. We also need to design novel pedagogical frameworks to responsibly integrate tools like Claude into courses." 🧪 physicsworld.com/a/ai-model-h...

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AI model helps physics Nobel laureate out of a decade-old mathematical jam – Physics World

Artificial intelligence is radically changing how researchers in some disciplines work

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Gavin Schmidt @climateofgavin.bsky.social · 09/07/2026

this seems like a big deal (though I'm not qualified to judge). This would be seem to be a very rapid collapse of a claim in a high profile paper.

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Nereide @drnereide.bsky.social · 09/07/2026

1/11 In late June 2026, a paper in Nature by Labini & Galoppo using data from the DESI project claimed to have found anisotropy (directional differences) in the #Universe on scales up to 1 gigaparsec (about 3.26 billion ly). 🔭 This would have challenged the standard ΛCDM model.⚛️ 🧪 #cosmology

This is a slice from DESI’s large 3D map of the Universe. You can see galaxies and quasars as bright points spread above and below the Milky Way. Earth sits in the center of the view. A black area blocks the light from behind our own galaxy. The small inset shows the web-like pattern of galaxies and voids. The farthest light we see here left its source 11 billion years ago.
Credit: Claire Lamman / DESI collaboration.

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Brendan @chemscrapes.bsky.social · 04/07/2026

Give me liberty, or give me chemistry! Actually, you can have both. #chemsky #chemchat #4thofJuly

A cartoon drawing of the statue of liberty. It is made of the atoms Lithium (Li), Boron (B), Erbium (Er), Titanium (Ti) and Yttrium (Y) - which spells out LiBErTiY

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Paul Halpern @phalpern.bsky.social · 14/06/2026

The little-known story of how two of history’s greatest physicists waged a war over the existence of the atom and the nature of reality itself THE GREAT ATOM DEBATE Preorder now at www.amazon.com/dp/1541607228/ www.barnesandnoble.com/w/the-great-... bookshop.org/p/books/the-... #BookSky #Books

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Electronic Frontier Foundation @eff.org · 20/06/2026

Court records belong to the public. PACER's paywall puts a price on public access. The Open Courts Act would modernize federal court records and eliminate PACER fees. www.eff.org/deeplinks/2...

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Court Records Should Be Free

Court records belong to the public. Yet anyone seeking access to federal court filings through PACER, a government software system that stands for Public Access to Court Electronic Records, is

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Eugenie Reich @eugenie-reich.bsky.social · 20/06/2026

I am sorry to see this. Peter Littlewood had a key insight into how egregious cases of scientific fraud exploit the expectations of fellow scientists when I interviewed him re Bell Labs ~20 years ago. He said: "we all made it up."

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Dalmeet Singh Chawla @dalmeet.bsky.social · 19/06/2026

Professional rivalries, scandals, and retractions mar graphyne research, but can the material be a promising one? My latest for @cenmag.bsky.social: cen.acs.org/research-int... #ChemSky

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Michael Busch @michael-w-busch.bsky.social · 28/05/2026

It remains way past time to stop letting corporations unilaterally make a mess of the sky. And, no, we cannot avoid the problem by putting telescopes in space. Borlaff et al. 2026, "SPHEREx confirms predictions for artificial satellite trail pollution in Low Earth Orbit" - arxiv.org/abs/2605.27501

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SPHEREx confirms predictions for artificial satellite trail pollution in Low Earth Orbit

The number of artificial satellites in Low Earth Orbit (LEO) is increasing at an exponential rate since 2019. Satellites are visible to both ground and space telescopes, and their bright emission in o...

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Eugenie Reich @eugenie-reich.bsky.social · 27/05/2026

Boston area scientists and science advocates: we will meet on Monday June 1 at 7pm in the garden at my house to discuss whether replacing research articles with Tiktok can solve the reproducibility crisis. RSVP here, or reach out direct to me if you prefer.

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Should we replace journal articles with Tiktok?, Mon, Jun 1, 2026, 7:00 PM | Meetup

We will meet at 7pm Monday June 1 at 7 Kingston Street, Somerville, to discuss whether to replace journal articles with videos. I'm thinking Tiktok, Jamie Oliver style repl

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Sholto David @sholtodavid.bsky.social · 17/05/2026

Surprised to discover that Thermo Fisher appears to show a fake western blot for the validation of one of their p53 antibodies. I've added a diagram to show the very similar bands. This does not appear to be one of the "published figures" but their own internal data.

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Dr. Laci Brock 🪐 @stellerarts.com · 17/05/2026

tiny Rise vibing in the Milky Way

4x4” painting of the Milky Way with Rise in the bottom right corner. The painting is on a mini easel next to a plant

Close up of Rise on a print of my painting

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Scott Horton @robertscotthorton.bsky.social · 30/04/2026

An American scientist convicted of lying to US authorities about payments from China while he was at Harvard Univ has rebuilt his research lab in Shenzhen to pursue technology the Chinese government has identified as a national priority: embedding electronics into the human brain. Charles Lieber

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Convicted former Harvard scientist rebuilds brain computer lab in China

An American scientist convicted of lying to U.S. authorities about payments from China while he was at Harvard University has rebuilt his research lab in Shenzhen to pursue technology the Chinese gove...

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Eugenie Reich @eugenie-reich.bsky.social · 13/05/2026

Lately, I’m thinking of the most egregious research misconduct cases as “fraud trains” making stops on their way to disaster; with failing authors, journal editors and RIOs repeatedly missing opportunities to disembark. Theresa deFino has more here. www.jdsupra.com/legalnews/no...

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Notice ‘Subtle’ Behavior, Fight Cynicism: Tips From Whistleblower Attorney in $15M Dana-Farber Case | JD Supra

The principal investigator (PI) looks away, perhaps bored, when the postdoc honestly describes an experiment that doesn’t work. In contrast, the PI...

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Retraction Watch @retractionwatch.com · 08/05/2026

An appeals court in Switzerland has overturned a 2025 defamation conviction against @solalpirelli.bsky.social, a sleuth who had identified dozens of conference proceedings with signs of citation manipulation. The ruling orders the plaintiff to pay Pirelli's legal expenses.

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Swiss court clears sleuth in defamation case, awards him legal costs

iStock An appeals court in Switzerland has overturned a 2025 defamation conviction against a sleuth who had identified dozens of conference proceedings with signs of citation manipulation. The ruli…

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Nikolay Tumanov @ntumanovxray.bsky.social · 01/05/2026

Which mineral one can find in this food supplement that I acquired in France? Yes, really, it is a food supplement. #chemsky #crystallography

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Jay Patel @infotainment.bsky.social · 27/04/2026

#SciComment The state of sleuthing, in a nutshell 🥜

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Eugenie Reich @eugenie-reich.bsky.social · 27/04/2026

Very cool and moving review, but also a lesson for all publicly funded science. Every lab with a novel material, tool, or sample is on their own frontier; and it shouldn't take a space mission to understand how much more can be learned by sharing.

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Times Higher Education (THE) @timeshighered.bsky.social · 17/04/2026

After winning a huge legal claim against a Harvard University cancer centre, @eugenie-reich.bsky.social tells @jgro-the.bsky.social about the impact of the case, how universities ‘stonewall’ fraud allegations and why she quit journalism to help whistleblowers in science #research #fraud

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Eugenie Reich @eugenie-reich.bsky.social · 15/04/2026

This is very good, but perhaps worth noting that a pattern of errors and omissions arising from supervisory failure in science qualifies as civil fraud, i.e., reckless. Dana-Farber resolved accordingly.

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Paul Byrne @theplanetaryguy.com · 14/04/2026

I am really proud to have played a small part in helping organise the 2026 Planetary Science Community Workshop at the Kentucky Science Center in Louisville, KY! We're a small workshop, but we're entirely community driven. And maybe the start of something bigger.

A group of planetary scientists and researchers gather to listen to a talk about Venus; beyond, the Ohio River.

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jhokjournal.bsky.social @jhokjournal.bsky.social · 10/04/2026

📣Join us for the 3rd History of Knowledge Conference, "Decentering the History of Knowledge"! The event will take place in Utrecht on 25-27 August 2027. 📝A call for papers will follow in Fall 2026. For more information: 1) Register with "hokconference27@uu.nl" 2) Visit: www.uu.nl/en/news/thir....

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Third International History of Knowledge Conference

The History of Knowledge Conference brings together scholars from a variety of backgrounds to further develop the field and its impact on other disciplines and society. The theme of this year’s confer...

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Eugenie Reich @eugenie-reich.bsky.social · 06/04/2026

The recovery of misdirected science funding must go by expert laser not blunt lay axe. @sholtodavid.bsky.social followed up on the scientific aspects of every question or project we had. Rainy scenes but each cloud burned off leaves a clearer view of science worth defending.

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Ruben C. Arslan @ruben.the100.ci · 05/04/2026

Very enjoyable video. Pleased to discover that he's not just a great sleuth but also likeable and sane.

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Nicole Rust @nicolecrust.bsky.social · 05/04/2026

Fascinating to learn about how this quirk of the US legal system that dates back to the Civil war is contributing to the battle against scientific fraud, especially in areas like cancer research where falsification is most abominable.

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Sholto David @sholtodavid.bsky.social · 05/04/2026

Now that I have finally been paid I made a video about the Dana-Farber legal case from my own perspective: youtu.be/ioRtnMEV46Y

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I Sued the Dana-Farber Cancer Institute for Research Fraud and Won $2.6 Million Dollars

YouTube video by Sholto David

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Ance Tetere @ancetetere.bsky.social · 06/04/2026

The involvement of lawyers in academic affairs is definitely a way forward: collecting the bill reminds scientists why they exist. Amazing story by @sholtodavid.bsky.social and @eugenie-reich.bsky.social

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I Sued the Dana-Farber Cancer Institute for Research Fraud and Won $2.6 Million Dollars

YouTube video by Sholto David

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Jason, and countless screaming Argonauts @jseabird.bsky.social · 04/04/2026

“Why Legal Professionals Choose CoCounsel: Content validated by more than 1,200 attorney editors and backed by over 4,000 hours of rigorous testing, CoCounsel’s GenAI technology delivers results you can trust.” Their marketing materials read to me like the AI is reviewed by an editor.

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