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Martin Dominik @everfurther.bsky.social · 29/04/2026

A big shoutout of respect to the ERC Scientific Council for revising their previous decision on re-submission rules. @erc.europa.eu

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European Research Council (ERC) @erc.europa.eu · 29/04/2026

NEWS: The ERC Scientific Council has listened to the concerns from members of the research community about changes to the re-submission rules, intended to manage the surge in demand for grants. The Scientific Council will readjust some of the changes: link.europa.eu/TBqRQJ

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ERC Scientific Council readjusts rules for reapplication

The ERC Scientific Council has listened to the concerns from members of the research community about the recent announcement on changes to the re-submission rules. The changes, intended to manage the ...

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Martin Dominik @everfurther.bsky.social · 01/09/2025

Who will become Prime Minister when Keir Starmer defects to Reform UK?

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Suzi Gage @soozaphone.bsky.social · 01/09/2025

I am so upset by this. WHY would it be a problem having to walk past a hotel? At the moment - the problem is GANGS OF PRICKS kicking up a fuss outside them.

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Michael Zingale @michaelzingale.bsky.social · 23/08/2025

as a Chicago alumn (Astonomy & Astrophysics PhD 2000), this saddens me greatly. Chicago was such a great institution because of the strength of _all_ of the departments.

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Benne W. Holwerda @benneholwerda.bsky.social · 23/08/2025

Dutch TheOnion: “Iraq announces it will invade US to bring freedom and democracy”

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Anthony Moser @anthonymoser.com · 26/04/2025

A key difference here is that while either can be incorrect, the structure of Wikipedia *creates context* and the structure of LLMs *destroys context* Wikipedia has linked sources and an edit history showing where information came from and who added it when An LLM just generates text

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Dan Sohege @danielsohege.bsky.social · 16/08/2025

We have seen, time and again, there are stories on this, that trying to placate the hard/far right inevitably ends up emboldening them and causing them to gain ground. Lesson here isn't to try and appease them, but to confront them, because absolutely none of their arguments stand up to scrutiny. 2/

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Stephen Curry @scurry.bsky.social · 09/08/2025

A social media site run by a fellow of the @royalsociety.org is producing deepfake porn of Taylor Swift and they are fine with it.

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SocArXiv @socarxiv.bsky.social · 09/08/2025

Why, when, and where to share your papers, in 3 minutes #ASA2025

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Post your papers on SocArXiv

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Benne W. Holwerda @benneholwerda.bsky.social · 09/08/2025

This is absolutely brilliant. The best lampooning of a certain “Harvard Astronomer” I have seen.

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Dave Andress @davidandress.bsky.social · 29/07/2025

"Bannign VPNs" would, apart from many other things, make it literally impossible for millions of students to access online library resources off-campus, & completely destroy the learning-model of thousands of degree programmes...

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Keff 🍊 @kefyor.bsky.social · 11/07/2025

Every UK petition is like this

Mockup drawing of a UK parliament petition where the petitioner has asked for "good thing please" with description "we think the UK needs this".
Government responded: "No."

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BeeKaay @beekaay.bsky.social · 28/07/2025

the only people LLMs are qualified to replace are the people who think LLMs are qualified to replace anyone

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Otto English @ottoenglish.bsky.social · 27/07/2025

Here's an idea politicians! Why not chase the votes of the majority rather than a minority of racist thugs. Crazy thought I know.

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Sen. Adam Schiff @schiff.senate.gov · 22/07/2025

What happened to this Republican Party?

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Yvette Cendes @whereisyvette.bsky.social · 22/07/2025

😬😬😬

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Stephen Curry @scurry.bsky.social · 22/07/2025

So Machine Learning is really only Machine Memorizing?

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Lonni Besançon @lonnibesancon.bsky.social · 22/07/2025

Aujourd'hui, c'est @nature.com qui mentionne notre travail sur les papiers COVID (bmcmedresmethodol.biomedcentral.com/articles/10....) et les problèmes de l'IHU(researchintegrityjournal.biomedcentral.com/articles/10....) en décrivant mon parcours académique L'article: nature.com/articles/d41...

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Prof Chris Jackson @seismatters.bsky.social · 21/07/2025

During my last years in academia, I grew weary of helping NERC with their EDI initiatives... And RE: "...are limiting applications from institutions based on past success rates...", I'm guess this means that institutions *not* currently in recent of a NERC grant will be viewed more favourably...🤔

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Marcus Chown @marcuschown.bsky.social · 20/07/2025

Jail the regulators. End what is universally agreed to be the worst example of a disastrous privatisation - and that is out of a crowded field of disastrous privatisations

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Martin Dominik @everfurther.bsky.social · 10/07/2025

Die Bahn ist ein ausgezeichnetes Beispiel dafür, was passiert wenn man Fachleute durch Manager ersetzt....

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Hetan Shah @hetanshah.bsky.social · 10/07/2025

We are calling on the UK Government to not introduce a levy on higher education provider income from international students, reduce visa costs to attract global talent, and to review higher education funding to create a sustainable model www.thebritishacademy.ac.uk/documents/58...

• Discontinue the idea of introducing a levy on higher education provider income from international students.
• Reduce visa costs to ensure they are at least as competitive in cost as other leading science nations, and preferably have a target to become the mos competitive in the G7.
• Provide immediate clarity that the current time length for Indefinite Leave to Remain is kept in place for current and future Global Talent visa holders and their dependents.

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Martin Dominik @everfurther.bsky.social · 27/06/2025

Sorry to hear that you had trouble with Reviewer #3 😉 www.youtube.com/watch?v=-VRB...

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Scientific Peer Review, ca. 1945

YouTube video by indusieumgresium

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Martin Dominik @everfurther.bsky.social · 27/06/2025

Mir ist die Frau eines Zahnarztes bekannt, die für alle Kinder immer Süßigkeiten zur Hand hatte... 😉

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Research on Research Institute (RoRI) @rorinstitute.bsky.social · 26/06/2025

🌍 Together with our partners, we’re reshaping research systems. RoRI’s new Impact Report shares what we’ve achieved with 30 funders across 15 countries – and where we’re heading next: rori.figshare.com/articles/rep...

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Martin Dominik @everfurther.bsky.social · 25/06/2025

Elon Musk's vision of "democratization": Destroy all public institutions that serve the common good and are responsible to the taxpayer, and give free hand to those with lots of money

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Martin Dominik @everfurther.bsky.social · 24/06/2025

Alternativ: Fahre mit der Bahn über Hamm (Westf)…

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Martin Dominik @everfurther.bsky.social · 21/06/2025

Neutrality = not taking any action, Impartiality = standing for the same values regardless of who violates them

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Stephen Curry @scurry.bsky.social · 19/06/2025

How might the Royal Society get out of the Musk-shaped hole it has dug for itself – and strengthen its voice in a world of misinformation? Some suggestions in my latest blog post: occamstypewriter.org/scurry/2025/...

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Conduct Unbecoming – how can the Royal Society escape its Musk box? | Reciprocal Space

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Martin Dominik @everfurther.bsky.social · 19/06/2025

When Du “&&” schreibst, programmierst Du in C o.ä.

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globalyacademy.bsky.social @globalyacademy.bsky.social · 19/06/2025

Interested in how collaboration across boundaries can drive real-world solutions? Read more about this topic in the GYA Connections article by GYA member Luisa Maria Diele-Viegas 👇👇👇 globalyoungacademy.net/wp-content/u...

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Michael Merrifield @astromikemerri.bsky.social · 17/06/2025

My caveat to this depressing story is to be careful — sometimes those who purport to be fighting for fairness are doing it as a cover for their own bullying behaviour. Not in this case, however — I know Wyn well, and he is a thoroughly decent person. (archive.is/SSL41) 🔭🧪

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Martin Dominik @everfurther.bsky.social · 18/06/2025

Why don't we prevent Israel from having a nuclear weapon and support Iran's ability to defend itself?

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Natanella Illouz-Eliaz @natanellae.bsky.social · 11/06/2025

We are strict with time #TCTeAC

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Ed Yong is offline @edyong209.bsky.social · 30/05/2025

I urge everyone to read Unbreaking’s new page on everything the govt is doing to destroy & diminish medical research funding. It’s the best thing I’ve read on this topic: @lizneeley.bsky.social & co have such done an incredible job. unbreaking.org/issues/medic...

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Medical Research Funding — Unbreaking

How the administration is breaking the government, and what that means for all of us.

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Alan Beattie @alanbeattie.bsky.social · 30/05/2025

"Good old American know-how, as provided by good old Americans like Dr Wernher von Braun." - Tom Lehrer

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Martin Dominik @everfurther.bsky.social · 30/05/2025

Spam journals now becoming aggressive: "The following message was sent by the journal on the date of 16 April 2025.You failed to receive this message, or intentionally you are not responding (sorry if I am wrong). Please send a manuscript on ongoing research to this email along with a cover letter."

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Martin Dominik @everfurther.bsky.social · 25/05/2025

“Ich habe einen österreichischen Freund, ich kann kein Nazi sein.“ 🙄

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Michael Merrifield @astromikemerri.bsky.social · 25/05/2025

As my old physics teacher once told me (thank you Mr York), An Eskimo needs twice as much wallpaper as carpet.

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Martin Dominik @everfurther.bsky.social · 25/05/2025

We cannot pay our workers more because all the money went to the CEOs

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Robert Reich @rbreich.bsky.social · 24/05/2025

CEO pay is up 1,085% since 1978, while typical worker pay is up just 24%. Why do we always hear "we can't afford to pay our workers more" but never "we can't afford to pay our CEO more"?

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Stephen Curry @scurry.bsky.social · 23/05/2025

Astonishing that Elon Musk FRS continues to enjoy the unequivocal approval of the @royalsociety.org, an organisation established to promote science but which appears sadly to have lost its bearings. www.nature.com/articles/d41...

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NIH killed grants on orders from Elon Musk’s DOGE

Court documents and internal correspondence show the cost-cutting force has broad control over the world’s largest public biomedical funder.

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Martin Dominik @everfurther.bsky.social · 22/05/2025

Worth keeping in mind that APC = Astronomical Prestige Charge

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David Mair @davidmair4.bsky.social · 17/05/2025

Excellent listen, not least for the emphasis on building trustworthy public institutions to tackle disinformation.

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