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Thibaut Brunet @thibautbrunet.bsky.social · 14h

... but I feel even this would be unpopular due to the probabilistic nature of those tools. I worry we'll take the alternative route of having AI triage AI-generated proposals, and then we'll be in Absurdistan: we might as well directly give the grant to whoever has the latest version of Claude.

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Levayer Lab @levayerr.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

Not sure how the community will be consulted, but if so this will be really critical and time to be vocal...delegating our peer judgement (admittedly imperfect) to LLM feels like removing the cornerstone of how science works. If this is the way it goes, I'd rather become a teacher or bake bread🤷‍♂️

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Levayer Lab @levayerr.bsky.social · 28/09/2026

Here it is...by delegating decision to non transparent AI models we generate an incentive for grant applicants to use AI writing to tweak system and the vicious/absurd feedback loop is set (which all started by an overload of grant application driven by AI writing). www.science.org/content/arti...

science.org

U.K. funder uses ‘AI triage’ to reject grant proposals—leaving researchers dismayed

The AI-based assessment, which wasn’t explicitly described in the funding call, has raised privacy and fairness concerns

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Flo Débarre @flodebarre.eurosky.social · 24/09/2026

"[...] la réalité institutionnelle contraint de reconnaître l’inexistence de garants solides contre une offensive politique qui choisirait de cibler le monde universitaire et de la recherche." tnova.fr/societe/sant... (via TheMetaNews)

tnova.fr

Mettre la science au pas : un scénario français | Terra Nova

Quand Donald Trump s’attaque aux universités et à la recherche américaines, chacun se console en se disant qu’au moins, cela ne pourrait pas arriver en France, pays des Lumières, patrie de Louis Paste...

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Flo Débarre @flodebarre.eurosky.social · 24/09/2026

Coucou c'est la Covid ! Comme la France ne dépose pas ses données de séquençage sur des plateformes publiques, et que GISAID interdit désormais les sites de visualisation de ses données, on ne sait plus dire facilement quels variants circulent. cov-spectrum.org/explore/Fran...

capture d'écran du site en lien, montrant 0 séquences pour la France

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Flo Débarre @flodebarre.eurosky.social · 23/09/2026

Hasard des choses, j'ai d'abord cliqué sur un lien vers la version anglaise de l'article dans Le Monde. Je ne sais pas qui est en charge des traductions, mais c'est étonnant de laisser passer ce genre de chose ! @english.lemonde.fr

A roughly 20-meter wall dating from the Gallo-Roman period was discovered in Paris this summer beneath a hotel on the Ile de la Cité, a stone's throw from Notre Dame Cathedral in the heart of the City of Light. The stone-and-wood find is thought to be a fragment of the ramparts of Lutetia – the ancient name for Paris – built by the Gallic Parisii tribe which lived along the river Seine in the Iron Age.

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Stefan Schoenfelder @stefanschoenfelder.bsky.social · 20/09/2026

The number of MSCA Postdoctoral Fellowship applications in 2026 (21,627) has more than doubled since 2024 (10,360 proposals) and more than tripled since 2022 (7,044). Stating the obvious here but this is not sustainable.

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Systems Ecology @systems-ecology.bsky.social · 21/09/2026

🌱 Systems Ecology is now live! A new independent, researcher-run, diamond OA journal for ecological research through systems science. Free to read. Free to publish. No APCs. We are now open for submissions: systems-ecology.org Please help spread the word!

systems-ecology.org

Systems Ecology

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Flo Débarre @flodebarre.eurosky.social · 18/09/2026

Incredible this needs to be said but: Fact-checking by an AI does not replace proper fact-checking by a human.

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Flo Débarre @flodebarre.eurosky.social · 17/09/2026

La rubrique Sciences du journal Le Monde, tombé dans des théories complotistes autour de la Covid-19, nous a fait cet été du sanewashing d'un comité sénatorial US dirigé par Rand Paul et avec Ron Johnson. Les voici ici invités à la conférence antivax CHD, avec Wakefield archive.ph/AcRbc

capture d'écran d'orateurs à la conférence CHD, avec RFK Jr, Ron Johnson, Rand Paul, et Andrew Wakefield

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Flo Débarre @flodebarre.eurosky.social · 14/09/2026

Je suis surprise qu'il n'y ait pas plus de protestations contre les nouvelles conditions d'éligibilité pour les PRC anr.fr/fileadmin/aa... #HelloESR Je ne sais pas si vous avez beaucoup de jeunes chercheur·es éligibles et disponibles sur vos thématiques autour de vous ; moi non

En plus de cette condition minimale, le
partenariat PRC complété dans IRIS à date et heure de clôture du dépôt doit
répondre à au moins l’une de ces 3 caractérisations :
• PRC impliquant un responsable scientifique jeune chercheur ou une responsable scientifique
jeune chercheuse : la ou le responsable scientifique d’un partenaire français de type
« établissement participant au service public de la recherche » correspond aux attendus de
l’instrument JCJC en termes de date de soutenance de thèse et de date de prise de fonction,
incluant une possible dérogation à ces dates telle qu’applicable à l’instrument JCJC (cf. descriptif
de l’instrument JCJC à la section dédiée)26 ;
Et / ou
• PRC impliquant un partenaire international : le partenariat inclut un partenaire étranger sur
fonds propres ;
ET / ou
• PRC impliquant un partenaire socio-économique : le partenariat inclut un partenaire socio-
économique, i.e. un partenaire qui ne répond pas aux attendus d’« établissement participant au

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Tatiana Giraud @tatianagiraud.bsky.social · 14/09/2026

Je serai en dédicace à l’Institut de France à l’occasion des Journées du patrimoine, samedi 19 septembre, de 15h à 17h. L’Institut de France ouvre des espaces historiques : la bibliothèque Mazarine, la bibliothèque de l’Institut, les salles où se réunissent les cinq Académies et la Coupole.

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Terence Tao @teorth.bsky.social · 11/09/2026

A group of 25 Fields Medalists, including myself, have made a joint declaration on Math and AI: mathandai.org . We welcome additional signatories. See also this article in the Economist announcing the declaration: www.economist.com/science-and-...

mathandai.org

Declaration — Math and AI

Read the declaration and add your name.

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Gro-Tsen @gro-tsen.bsky.social · 10/09/2026

Un billet de blog pour parler de la destruction en cours des mathématiques par les boîtes d'IA et leurs petites mains: www.madore.org/~david/weblo...

madore.org

Sur la destruction des maths par les boîtes d'IA

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Jessica Hullman @jessicahullman.bsky.social · 10/09/2026

With Auyon Siddiq, I wrote up a statement reviewers can use to signal to venues that they want more assurance of author involvement before they donate their scarce expert judgment. jhullman.github.io/author_accou... More motivation here: shorturl.at/6OcZY 4/

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Reviewer Commitment to Authorial Accountability

A commitment by peer reviewers to decline review invitations when a submitted paper's prose appears to be predominantly AI-generated.

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Kristian G. Andersen @kgandersen.bsky.social · 05/09/2026

"The F.B.I., which has for years asserted that the virus originated in the Wuhan lab, has also more recently examined whether Dr. Fauci pushed a group of scientists in early 2020 to downplay early suspicions that the coronavirus may not have evolved naturally". www.nytimes.com/2026/09/05/h...

nytimes.com

Inside the D.O.J.’s Investigation of Fauci and Other Virus Scientists (Gift Article)

As Dr. Anthony Fauci has faced public scrutiny from congressional Republicans, the D.O.J. has pursued a quieter and more expansive effort against a wider circle of researchers.

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Flo Débarre @flodebarre.eurosky.social · 04/09/2026

Oh... Missing in the NYT description is the fact that Kadlec is the author of an idiosyncratic, weird and, should I specify it, unsupported lab leak scenario for the origin of Covid-19. In his version, SARS-CoV-2 was made by Chinese military during the development of a neurological bioweapon

The agreement was signed by Dr. Bhattacharya and Dr. Robert Kadlec at the Defense Department. Dr. Kadlec previously served as assistant secretary for preparedness and response at the Department of Health and Human Services and played a central role in Operation Warp Speed, the federal government’s effort to rapidly develop vaccines and therapeutics against Covid-19

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Flo Débarre @flodebarre.eurosky.social · 04/09/2026

I had missed this important detail 👇, and I had not seen it either in the news articles I had read about the latest IgNobel prizes (Nature, LeMonde) www.nature.com/articles/s41... 🧪 @chrisnsimms.bsky.social

Retraction Note
Open access
Published: 11 February 2025
Retraction Note: Study of defensive behavior of a venomous snake as a new approach to understand snakebite

João Miguel Alves-Nunes, Adriano Fellone, Selma Maria Almeida-Santos, Carlos Roberto de Medeiros, Ivan Sazima & Otavio Augusto Vuolo Marques
Scientific Reports volume 15, Article number: 5027 (2025) Cite this article
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Click and Read was published on 03 May 2024

Retraction of: Scientific Reports https://doi.org/10.1038/s41598-024-59416-6
Click and Read, published online 03 May 2024

The Editors have retracted this Article.

After publication, concerns were raised about the animal work reported in this paper. The Animal Ethics Committee of Butantan Institute confirmed that the approval granted to the Authors for their research on snakes (Bothrops jararaca) did not include newborn snakes or the use of the “soft stepping” method.

All authors disagree with this retraction.

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Jason Gale @jasongale.bsky.social · 03/09/2026

2/2 It’s a problem that long predates this outbreak: real health workers can go unpaid while “ghosts” make it onto payment lists. Now that dysfunction is complicating the response to the world’s fastest-growing Ebola epidemic. 🎁🔗👇 www.bloomberg.com/news/article...

bloomberg.com

Congo Keeps Struggling to Pay the People Fighting Its Ebola Outbreaks

Six Ebola checkpoints in northeastern Democratic Republic of Congo stopped reporting last month because the people staffing them hadn’t been paid.

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Flo Débarre @flodebarre.eurosky.social · 02/09/2026

Currently watching (will try to post notes) 🧵

screenshot of Zoom broadcast of L Gostin and A Fauci discussion

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simine vazire @simine.com · 02/09/2026

Psych Science has retracted Ariely & Wertenbroch (2002). The second author requested the retraction. Both authors agreed to it. journals.sagepub.com/doi/full/10.... So grateful to @datacolada.bsky.social for these blog posts and the work behind them: datacolada.org/138 and datacolada.org/139 1/2

journals.sagepub.com

Sage Journals: Discover world-class research

Subscription and open access journals from Sage, the world's leading independent academic publisher.

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Magdalena Skipper @magdalenaskipper.bsky.social · 02/09/2026

Bland new world: is AI making us all think the same? Do not ask your favourite AI pal to summarise this news feature for you; read it yourself ;-) @nature.com www.nature.com/articles/d41...

nature.com

Bland new world: is AI making us all think the same?

Researchers worry that generative AI is homogenizing culture and cognition.

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Flo Débarre @flodebarre.eurosky.social · 01/09/2026

First Tuesday of the month -- my (self-imposed) blog post day! Today, I am revisiting the weird story of the "other eight" (aka "clade 7896", lineage 4): eight bat coronavirus sequences from the Mojiang mine, at the center of a narrative invented by lab leakers. ▫️1/6🧵 #covidorigin 🧪

pandemonium.hypotheses.org

The saga of the “other eight”

DRASTIC and Chan & Ridley fabricated a narrative about eight virus sequences from the Mojiang mine. With the benefit of hindsight, lets reevaluate their claims. Latinne et al.'s study In late May 202...

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Francois Jobard @francoisjobard.bsky.social · 31/08/2026

Ce diagramme @leparisien.fr situe l'été 2026 à #Paris en termes de nuits >= 20 °C et jours >= 30 °C et illustre parfaitement le côté lunaire de la chaleur de cet été 2026 à Paris, dépassant largement 2003, qui à l'époque était très comparable à 1976 (et peu éloigné de 1995) sur ces paramètres.

diagramme Le Parisien annoté illustrant l'été 2026 en termes de nuits chaudes (Tn>= 20 °C) en abscisse, et de jours très chauds en ordonnée (Tx >= 30 °C)

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Bluesky @bsky.app · 27/08/2026

Now you can opt out of having your posts shown to non-followers in the Discover feed. We know not everyone wants to go viral. Sometimes you're just posting for your followers. This is one of a few updates we're working on to give you more control over your experience and help you find your people.

Instructional image titled "Hide your posts from non-followers in Discover" accompanied by a screenshot of the "privacy and security" options from the Bluesky settings menu. "Ask apps to hide my posts from algorithmic recommendations" is toggled to the "on" state.

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Flo Débarre @flodebarre.eurosky.social · 26/08/2026

The number of scientific and technical publications with authors from Russia increased a lot from the mid-2010s, compared to other countries -- differently depending on the source, but still. Do you know what happened? source: ourworldindata.org/grapher/scie... ; (not showing China and the US)

Annual articles publisehd in scientific and technical journals, over time, per country (excluding China and the US), highlighting Russia
big increase for Russia from around 2015 to new, just behind Germany and the UK

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Flo Débarre @flodebarre.eurosky.social · 26/08/2026

Que s'est-il passé en Russie entre 2015 et 2021 pour avoir eu une telle augmentation du volume de publications ?? www.lemonde.fr/sciences/art... Source d'origine : www.hceres.fr/sites/defaul... (Fig3)

evolution du volu;e de publications entre 2004 et aujourd'hui, par pays ; grosse augmentation de la Russie entre 2015 et 2021, puis retour à son classement d'origine

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Louise Matsakis @lmatsakis.bsky.social · 26/08/2026

Amazon is officially shutting down Mechanical Turk next month. It feels like the end of an era. I've written about the platform on and off for close to a decade. We wouldn't have the AI tools we do now if it weren't for the low-paid, largely invisible labor of MTurkers

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P(aul) Frazee @pfrazee.com · 25/08/2026

X shuts down apps that show its posts. Bluesky exists to ernable it. One of these networks is about promoting freedom, the other is not.

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Flo Débarre @flodebarre.eurosky.social · 25/08/2026

In a new blog post, I revisit a claim made by Steven Quay, rumored to be the next NIAID director: that "Genome sequence archives" for SARS-CoV-2 sequences from patients at an Army hospital "were created on December 10, 2019". This was not the case ▫️1/🧵 #covidorigin pandemonium.hypotheses.org/1938

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Did the European Nucleotide Archive receive SARS-CoV-2 sequences from Wuhan as early as 10 December 2019?

(TL;DR: No.) Some lab leakers claimed that SARS-CoV-2 sequences had been submitted to the ENA online repository on 10 Dec 2019, several days before the first known submitted sequence, and also even be...

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Aylwyn Scally @aylwyn-scally.bsky.social · 23/08/2026

Physicists doing biology again?

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Dan Garisto @dangaristo.bsky.social · 20/08/2026

Finally, this has gone a bit under the radar, so I want to highlight it: The social, behavioral and economic sciences directorate (SBE) has simply ceased to deliver grants to many of its subareas. Any topic not specifically OK'd by the Trump administration is receiving zero new awards.

All of the NSF’s directorates are awarding fewer new grants, but the hardest hit is the social, behavioural and economic sciences (SBE) directorate, which the White House proposed eliminating in its 2027 budget request to Congress. SBE has so far awarded 84 new grants this year, about 11% of its average, mainly in areas of artificial intelligence, cognitive neuroscience and decision-making. Much of its portfolio, such as sociology, archaeology, political science, economics and geography, has received zero new awards. “I don’t think they’ve realized yet that there’s no awards,” one NSF staff member says of researchers in those fields. “That’s going to be clear soon.”

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Flo Débarre @flodebarre.eurosky.social · 19/08/2026

Pretty amazing timing: basically the opposite viewpoint was recently published in Science "Except I did not author most of those texts. I came up with the idea, the experiments, the data, and the references. But the process was devoid of writing, and really, of me." www.science.org/content/arti...

science.org

I had to unplug from AI to rediscover my love of writing

I realized relying on AI was making me a less critical scientist, this clinician-researcher writes

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Flo Débarre @flodebarre.eurosky.social · 19/08/2026

Briefly using this to tell people who may not know it yet that the name of the "Holtz @biorealism" account that lab leakers like to quote on Twitter/X is a direct reference to scientific racism. Before Covid, the person was tweeting about IQ and race.

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Hardeep Matharu @hardeepmatharu.bsky.social · 14/08/2026

Jason Arday's utterly sad death holds a stark mirror up to the dehumanising political-media-societal culture we are in – one we must all be honest about being complicit in – which forgets there is a human being at the centre of a story, a case study, an issue, a scandal. It is dehumanising.

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Flo Débarre @flodebarre.eurosky.social · 14/08/2026

I have so . much . contempt for all the people who jumped on the Arday story, while never having heard of him until a few days ago, just to signal their opposition to EDI/DEI Such a sad story -- human beings are more than tokens

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Richard Sever @richardsever.bsky.social · 13/08/2026

bioRxiv/medRxiv have been dealing with endless bot attacks recently (plus usual DDOS stuff, etc). Tricky to address without impacting genuine users - many of you affected. Apologies. We're working with our hosting service on solutions & think we're getting there [he shouts in his Red Queen costume].

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Katie Mack @astrokatie.com · 14/10/2023

🌓🌎🌞 <-- lunar eclipse  🌎🌓🌞 <-- solar eclipse  🌎🌞🌗 <-- apocalypse

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Flo Débarre @flodebarre.eurosky.social · 11/08/2026

Prior to Fauci's hearing, Rand Paul released emails from 2021 that revived a conspiracy theory alleging that the genetic sequence of RaTG13 (once SARS-CoV-2's closest relative) had been altered. I wrote up what used to be a Twitter thread and updated it with new information: ⬇️ #covidorigin

pandemonium.hypotheses.org

Yu’s table 3.2

In 2021, leakers tried, and failed, to reproduce a table of identities between SARS-like coronaviruses that was presented in a 2019 MSc thesis from the Wuhan Institute of Virology. They concluded that...

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Flo Débarre @flodebarre.eurosky.social · 09/08/2026

Quay was not that prominent during Covid, so people may not realize how abysmally stupid his lab leak scenarios were and how incompetent he is. In late 2024, he revived the claim that SARS-CoV-2 had been designed after HIV -- a claim fully debunked in early 2020 ▫️1/7🧵 zenodo.org/records/1455...

Published December 26, 2024 | Version v1
Preprint Open
The thrombo-inflammation and neuropathology sequence motifs of the SARS-CoV-2 spike protein appear to have been engineered into the virus
Authors/Creators
Quay, Steven Carl (Researcher)1
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Flo Débarre @flodebarre.eurosky.social · 08/08/2026

Who is the greater narcissist: The guy who writes about events celebrating him in a private journal at the end of the day, or the guy tweeting about himself parading with a muscular cut-out while ignoring the memorial service for a shot officer in the background?

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Prof Gavin Yamey MD MPH @gavinyamey.bsky.social · 06/08/2026

NIH Director Jay Bhattacharya continues to kill health disparities research, with a new slew of "anti-DEI" cancelations This is so grotesque, and so brazenly political He keeps praising himself for "curing the NIH of DEI"

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Flo Débarre @flodebarre.eurosky.social · 05/08/2026

Steven Quay, in line to be NIAID director, is not just any lab leaker. He is of the type of leakers who still talk about "HIV inserts". He has deleted his tweets from 2021-2025, so here are some screenshots to give you an idea of who Quay is: ▫️1/🧵 #covidorigin #quayniaid

Tweet screenshot

@quay_dr
My new analysis indicates these same inserts are responsible for long
COVID.
Designed into the virus.
zenodo.org/records/145597...

Quote-tweeting:
Dr David Cartland BMedSci MBChB MRCGP (201 v) @CartlandDavic • 11h
"It was the job of a professional [and] it's NOT Natural"
Nobel Prize winner for HIV research, Luc Montagnier (RIP), said someone
"inserted small sequences of HIV" into the original covid Pandemic virus. He died after he presented the findings aired here on a French
[photo of Montagnier on CNews]

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Flo Débarre @flodebarre.eurosky.social · 05/08/2026

On ne peut pas dissimuler ce qui n'existe pas ou ce dont on n'a pas connaissance. Pourtant, les tenants d'une origine de labo utilisent à foison le mot "dissimulation" (coverup). C'est une technique typiquement conspirationniste pour justifier l'absence de preuve d'une origine de laboratoire.

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Flo Débarre @flodebarre.eurosky.social · 04/08/2026

Today is the first Tuesday of the month, my (self-imposed) blog posting day -- I wrote about accusations of coverup and conspiracies, thrown without any evidence, in the context of the recent release of private documents by Rand Paul #covidorigin

pandemonium.hypotheses.org

Conspiracies and coverups

There is no evidence for a lab origin of SARS-CoV-2, so commenters default to meta-discourse and accuse scientists of coverups, for which there is no evidence either. So far, available data and scient...

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Flo Débarre @flodebarre.eurosky.social · 04/08/2026

People using AI to write: your readers can tell. Your texts become insufferably boring, full of AI-isms (e.g.: it's not this -- it's that) and of stupid statements that seem logical to a machine but are just dumb truisms for humans. Please, don't.

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Flo Débarre @flodebarre.eurosky.social · 03/08/2026

Les vagues de chaleurs et canicules, c'est comme les vagues de Covid-19 : au bout d'un moment il y en a tant qu'on en perd le compte

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