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Elizabeth Jacobs, PhD @elizabethjacobs.bsky.social · 30/09/2026

New survey from the Annenberg Center is out. Less than a quarter of Americans (23%) have a favorable view of RFK Jr. Meanwhile 42% of us have a “very unfavorable” view of him, and many people (40%) are confused about whether he recommends the MMR vaccine. Horrifying stats for an HHS Secretary.

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About 1 in 3 Americans Say RFK Jr. Recommends Measles Vaccine | The Annenberg Public Policy Center of the University of Pennsylvania

1 in 3 U.S. adults say HHS Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr. recommends vaccinating children against measles - as many as those who say he does not recommend it.

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Byline Times @bylinetimes.bsky.social · 30/09/2026

Times Higher Education, Sponsored by Orbán’s Hungary, Failed to Report James Orr Allegations The publication signed a partnership with Viktor Orbán's government and has since published no coverage of the allegations around a Cambridge academic and former Reform UK policy chief whose foundation…

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Times Higher Education, Sponsored by Orbán’s Hungary, Failed to Report James Orr Allegations

The publication signed a partnership with Viktor Orbán's government and has since published no coverage of the allegations around a Cambridge academic and former Reform UK policy chief whose foundation receives Hungary-linked funding

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Frank Norman @franknorman.bsky.social · 30/09/2026

Well, I dare say that AI is better informed than Kennedy.

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Iris van Rooij 💭 @irisvanrooij.bsky.social · 30/09/2026

Also, in light of all of the above considerations and resources, I again present my below advice to the @erc.europa.eu, in line with the principles of scientific integrity mu.social/profile/iris...

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Prof Jenny Rohn @jennyrohn.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

"Our findings underscore that infectious disease spillover and emergence are multi-causal, and that no one-size-fits-all strategy can prevent #epidemics and #pandemics." So what can we do, then? See suggestions in this interesting (but sobering) read #IDSky

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Kevin Elliott @kjephd.bsky.social · 28/09/2026

Did Anthropic's Claude discover something new in biotech? Well, just like with those recent alleged math proofs, it looks like it was given the answers in advance from real humans doing actual research. (gift: www.nytimes.com/2026/09/27/s...)

Dr. Mestre and his colleagues have yet to publish their findings. But for the past three years, they have regularly used Anthropic’s A.I. models as they have written code, drafted manuscripts and performed other tasks.

In doing so, Dr. Mestre said he and colleagues shared key findings about the enzymes with Anthropic.

Anthropic said that Claude’s key contribution was identifying an array of RNA molecules and a protein associated with reverse transcriptase in a system. But Dr. Mestre said that he and his colleagues had made that discovery over a year ago.

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DrWeb @drweb2.bsky.social · 28/09/2026

Library’s Viral ‘Bye, Bye AI’ Event Will Take AI Off Your Phone – Business Insider The poster was made by the library's sole full-time librarian, Shea Wert. Wert told Business Insider that she had made this event in response to community...

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Library’s Viral ‘Bye, Bye AI’ Event Will Take AI Off Your Phone – Business Insider

The poster was made by the library's sole full-time librarian, Shea Wert. Wert told Business Insider that she had made this event in response to community...

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Paul Bernal @paulbernal.bsky.social · 27/09/2026

Personally, I’d rather have healthy kids than mollycoddled millionaires

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Mark @maetl.bsky.social · 26/09/2026

“I had to explain that a camera does not see” pretty much sums up everything we’re seeing in media right now with the verb to think.

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The Empty City @davidallengreen.bsky.social · 26/09/2026

The Prospect paywall is down! These are all my articles, you lucky people www.prospectmagazine.co.uk/author/2821/...

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DAT Green - Prospect Magazine

The latest news, opinion and analysis for Prospect by DAT Green

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Frank Norman @franknorman.bsky.social · 25/09/2026

Goodness, what web of deceit. Should we call these 'Predatory Societies'?

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clnzjay 🌱 🐶 🇨🇦 @clnz.bsky.social · 24/09/2026

🇪🇸 Spain’s PM Sánchez Rebukes Trump-Era Politics. “They start by questioning the rules. Then they break them, knowing nobody will dare to hold them accountable.” Sánchez called the forces attacking multilateralism “selfish, ignorant and cruel.” Forceful defence of "might is NOT right!" 👏 #UNGA81

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FULL: Spain’s PM Sánchez Rebukes Trump-Era Politics and Far Right in Fiery UN Speech | AC1G

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Thomas Zeindl @tomtennis4u.bsky.social · 24/09/2026

The Spanish Prime Minister delivers a speech at the UN General Assembly that is uniquely sharp for an EU member state. From the very first second, he takes aim at Trump’s fascist and cruel policies, without naming him.

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FULL: Spain’s PM Sánchez Rebukes Trump-Era Politics and Far Right in Fiery UN Speech | AC1G

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Leah McElrath @leahmcelrath.bsky.social · 24/09/2026

AP Stylebook warns against anthropomorphizing AI systems: “Avoid language that gives them human characteristics… Instead, explain what a system does, how well it performs, who built it and who could be affected by it.”

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Artificial intelligence systems do not think, feel, want or understand. Avoid language that gives them human characteristics. This is called anthropomorphizing, when we ascribe human traits, emotions or behaviors to non-human things, such as animals or inanimate objects.
Instead, explain what a system does, how well it performs, who built it and who could be affected by it.

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Cape May Dave @capemaydave.bsky.social · 23/09/2026

It's a rare man who gleefully tapes "I'm with stupid" to a mirror and then gazes longingly. Trump is such a rarity.

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CYM Library @cymlibrary.bsky.social · 23/09/2026

Amazing - a 99-year old still singing in her choir, the Memory Lane Singers. thefinch.news/article/finc...

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James Briscoe @jamesbriscoe.bsky.social · 22/09/2026

Our latest paper on building models of cell fate decisions -with David Rand, Marine Fontaine & @joadelas.bsky.social- combines developmental biology, dynamical systems theory and bioinformatics. I wrote a short piece to summarise it & explain ideas behind the approach briscoelab.org/blog-quantif...

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Quantifying Waddington's Landscape | Briscoe Lab

I have written before about how two conceptual frameworks have shaped our thinking about cell fate, Waddington's epigenetic landscape and Davidson's gene...

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Frank Norman @franknorman.bsky.social · 22/09/2026

Refreshing sense on the ‘Ai apocalypse’ frothing. ‘If we do go extinct in the near future, I doubt it will happen because of a surplus of intelligence.’

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Adam Rutherford @adamrutherford.bsky.social · 22/09/2026

You should all read this. It’s superintelligent, organically so.

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Kate Starbird @katestarbird.bsky.social · 20/09/2026

I wrote up this story about my mom's survival from polio and its connections to world history, family lore, & current events: katestarbird.substack.com/p/a-family-t... We need to keep telling our stories of the world before vaccines — to prevent ourselves from having to live in a world after them.

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A Family Tree, Nearly Broken by Polio

As MAHA leaders call the polio vaccine a "fraud," an old family photo tells the story of the world before vaccines — and warns of the risk of forgetting.

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Frank Norman @franknorman.bsky.social · 19/09/2026

“an alarming example of political authority being used to legitimise medical misinformation.”

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Ben Gross @bhgross144.bsky.social · 18/09/2026

History of science & #BookHistory friends: What was the size of the initial print run of Hooke's Micrographia? (I've frequently seen the 1st edition referred to as a bestseller, but haven't found a source that confirms how many copies the Royal Society commissioned...) #HistSTM #histsci 🗃️📜🔬

Robert Hooke, Micrographia, Schema XXXIV (The Flea)
Image source: https://www.theguardian.com/artanddesign/2019/apr/22/big-tick-energy-how-a-humble-flea-kickstarted-british-art

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Dr Eleanor Shaw @eleanorshaw.bsky.social · 16/09/2026

Fancy coming to work with me at the British Library? Part time for 18 months, collecting oral histories about covid and thinking about covid commemoration. www.nationalmuseums.org.uk/jobs/job/228...

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Jobs - National Museum Directors' Council Website

Association of directors and chief executives of the UK's national museums, galleries, libraries and archives.

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Dr Vanessa @hpsvanessa.bsky.social · 17/09/2026

Maybe this is a wild take but I can't help but feel that if you are not only bad at, but actively dislike a) explaining your research via text to a variety of audiences (students, academics, funders) AND b) finding out about other people's research via reading ...adademia's a poor career choice?

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Jessica Smith @thedaybooks.bsky.social · 16/09/2026

This is a question for more experienced scholars than me: I'm revising an article I wrote, and one of the PRs asked me to expand on a subtopic. I recently presented a conference paper on this exact subtopic, but it's not essential to this paper, and I'm hoping to publish the conference paper. 1/2

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Carl T. Bergstrom @carlbergstrom.com · 16/09/2026

Short thread: 18 months ago, as part of their assault on higher ed, Trump/DOGE/Vought terminated my friend Kelton Minor's NIH Director's award that would have allowed him to take a faculty position there. Without the funds, Columbia ultimately rescinded the position. Kelton moved to Denmark.

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Ketan Joshi @ketanjoshi.co · 16/09/2026

I'm just going to keep yelling this louder and louder until it clicks: weird overpaid AI nerds hand-wringing about human extinction are trying to distract you from the extremely deadly and serious harms they are causing yesterday, today and tomorrow www.bloomberg.com/news/article...

Headline: "US Data Centers Set to Burn More Natural Gas Than Most Nations" above a photo of natural gas compressor towers, power lines and a crane at an industrial site, illustrating rising gas use tied to data centers.

News excerpt reporting that U.S. data centers’ natural gas use is expected to grow by 15 billion cubic feet per day by 2035—amounting to more gas than every country except China, Russia, Iran and the U.S., citing the U.S. Energy Information Administration.

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Bianca Kramer @msphelps.bsky.social · 16/09/2026

Excellente nouvelle et signal important ‼️ At the @oecd-ocde.bsky.social Blue Skies forum on STI Data & Indicators, the minister of Higher Education & Research presented the new French Open Science strategy: www.ouvrirlascience.fr/french-open-… @ouvrirlascience.bsky.social

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Barry Combo @barry-combo.bsky.social · 16/09/2026

the BBC is your enemy, they must be destroyed.

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Aparna Nair @disabilitystor1.bsky.social · 14/09/2026

For any classicists or historians of ancient periods, would you have any recommendations for a translation of a poem or bit of writing on pain (physical pain) that you think might be interesting to undergrads? Appreciate it, in advance.

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Frank Norman @franknorman.bsky.social · 15/09/2026

I hope that somewhere a games developer is working on a game that involves accumulating huge amounts of dodgy funding for a political party. www.independent.co.uk/news/uk/poli...

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Fury as Reform UK launch small boats mobile ‘game’

Reform launches mobile game amid questions over party’s £72 million donations

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Margot Finn @eicathomefinn.bsky.social · 15/09/2026

A question on women in science 'answered' at length by 2 blokes without reference to women or gender. Interestingly, an assertion that this government, compared to its predecessor, does not view government Departments as effective delivery vehicles; that will be reflected in its mode of working.

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Astrobites @astrobites.bsky.social · 15/09/2026

From @dornanv.bsky.social: 700 years of astronomical progress is currently being laid out on the tables of the library of the Royal Observatory of Edinburgh. Join Astrobites for a glimpse into the process! ⚛️ 🔭 ☄️ 🧪 astrobites.org/2026/09/11/crawford-collection/

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An Afternoon in The UK’s Most Extensive Astronomical Library

700 years of astronomical progress is currently being laid out on the tables of the library of the Royal Observatory of Edinburgh. Join astrobites for a glimpse into the process!

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Tom Ewing @tomewing.bsky.social · 14/09/2026

Spinning out of the HHG conversation, a prompt! What is the oldest piece of media that you find intentionally very funny?

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Anthony 💙🇺🇳🇪🇺🇬🇧🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿🇦🇺 @antenor-eu4uk.bsky.social · 13/09/2026

Last Night of the Proms is a joyous expression of our national identity... which is clearly very European and not at all like GBN fantasises.

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Athene Donald @athenedonald.bsky.social · 13/09/2026

Condescension. Such a common irritation in our (women's) lives, whether scientists or not.occamstypewriter.org/athenedonald...

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Condescension | Athene Donald's Blog

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Nick Cohen @nickcohen.bsky.social · 13/09/2026

“Never in British political history has so much money been donated by so few” Piece from me on a question that isn’t asked often enough: What does the crypto industry want in return for the extraordinary sums it is giving Farage?

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Never has a British politician received so much from so few

What crypto wants from Farage

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QtipsANON @qtipsanon.bsky.social · 13/09/2026

QtipsANON. Grow a spine... like Irish President Catherine Connolly!

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Frank Norman @franknorman.bsky.social · 12/09/2026

Trump shows his usual level of understanding of complex issues, I.e. none.

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Enough Of That Now @andygilder.bsky.social · 12/09/2026

Trump becomes the first orange man to support a united Ireland

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Otto English @ottoenglish.bsky.social · 11/09/2026

As the government bans social media for kids further evidence emerges that it's a minority of retired adults we should really be concerned about. www.devonlive.com/news/devon-n...

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Pensioners attack traffic lights over wild 'deadly weapon' claims

An online movement say that the sensors on traffic lights can cause heart attacks, brain cancer, anxiety and even sudden death

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Owler Nook @owlernook.bsky.social · 11/09/2026

Let's normalise not having an opinion on everything.

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Hetan Shah @hetanshah.bsky.social · 10/09/2026

When asked in the Q&A about arts and humanities he says he personally values them (seems very genuine) but that he is the Science Minister, and it’s for the DCMS Minister to make the case for those. He’s perhaps not yet clocked he is responsible for all R&D. Would Wissenschaft Minister work better?

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M a r c u s 🏳️‍🌈🇧🇧 @marcusjdl.bsky.social · 10/09/2026

Labour MP challenge 1) Call racists racist 2) Discuss racism without using the word “legitimate” and victim blaming 3) Don’t talk about people who are seeking asylum as if they deserve racist mobs

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