Reposted by Chris LeonardJo Wolff @jowolff.bsky.social · 06/10/2026Every now and then, when people say stupid things about socialism, I have to roll out these lines from Arthur Lewis, on what socialists want. 1421885
Reposted by Chris LeonardAlex Holcombe @alexh.bsky.social · 03/10/2026I and others have long argued for more support for scientists to establish data provenance or evidence chain of custody to combat fraud in our journals. Here it's invoked to combat AI slop in ArXiv pracheeac.substack.com/p/arxiv-is-k... "Provenance is the obvious place to start.pracheeac.substack.comarXiv Is Killing Itself So AI Doesn't Have ToDisclosure: I ranted to Claude with a bunch of my grievances and ideas, and had it organize them into this blog post. 121
Chris Leonard @hoohar.bsky.social · 28/09/2026Who at Radio 2, over many years, as decided that weather and traffic people deserve airtime alongside professional presenters. Cos you’re wrong and I hate it. 000
Chris Leonard @hoohar.bsky.social · 26/09/2026Hmmm.static.klipy.comTony Soprano's Disappointed LookAlt: Tony Soprano's Disappointed Look. 221
Reposted by Chris LeonardShahan Ali Memon @shahanmemon.bsky.social · 20/09/2026More than 50,000 submissions to @iclr-conf.bsky.social this year? That's more than all the previous iterations combined. This is after the limit they imposed of 20 max paper per author. With this rate, we will have more than 100k next year. Need better reforms urgently. #SciSci #Academia 184
Reposted by Chris LeonardMargot Finn @eicathomefinn.bsky.social · 17/09/2026'The strike action, planned for 22 September, marks the first time staff have organised to walk out in The Lancet’s 200-year history. The Lancet Group, now owned by the Elsevier publishing conglomerate, comprises 29 monthly specialty titles, in addition to the flagship weekly medical journal'.timeshighereducation.comStaff at prestigious medical journal set to strike over payFor the first time in The Lancet’s 200-year history, union members plan to strike over “unacceptable” pay offer 02922
Reposted by Chris LeonardGautam Kamath @gautamkamath.com · 16/09/2026Nihar Shah did a heroic experiment for TMLR: he spent 20-25 hours over two weeks interviewing authors of seemingly low-quality submissions about their own papers. He confirmed what we all suspected: people submitting these papers have *no idea* what is going on in them. 5293117
Reposted by Chris LeonardPete Fraser @petefrasermusic.bsky.social · 16/09/2026In the movie version of this, after Piddington runs out of food water and money as a result of leaving the UK, the residents apply for asylum and end up housed in a military base, with HILARIOUS consequences. www.bbc.com/news/article...bbc.comPiddington in Oxfordshire votes to leave UK over asylum plansPiddington residents voted over proposals to house up to 1,256 male asylum seekers nearby 1663523839
Chris Leonard @hoohar.bsky.social · 09/09/2026This looks great and I can’t wait to read it. Just FYI B&Q are charging $34.99 for the ebook version. 100
Reposted by Chris LeonardEthan Mollick @emollick.bsky.social · 06/09/2026This is both an interesting experiment and a sign of a tsunami coming for academia. AIs retroactively reading the research and finding both opportunities and issues with published papers, then sharing those judgements publicly. d3jhl7jsny6f2h.cloudfront.net 610821
Reposted by Chris LeonardMutable Joe @mutablejoe.bsky.social · 17/08/2026One for the money Two for the show Three to get ready Four for any other problem Nine to hear these options again 122846
Chris Leonard @hoohar.bsky.social · 02/09/2026static.klipy.comHi Chris: Dancing Shrek BabyALT: Hi Chris: Dancing Shrek Baby 010
Chris Leonard @hoohar.bsky.social · 26/08/2026I'll be speaking on this panel about the impact of AI on open access (and indeed, traditional subscription titles) and asking if OA is still the imperative it once seemed. 021
Reposted by Chris LeonardTed Underwood @tedunderwood.com · 23/08/2026Right now what researchers care about is publication; review is just an obstacle in the way. But actually human review is the scarce commodity. We need a world where ~anything can be published, but if it’s careful and potentially important, it gets expert human review and a second draft. 79510
Reposted by Chris LeonardProceedings of the National Academy of Sciences @pnas.org · 20/08/2026A study of private grant proposal submissions and publicly released awards from NSF and NIH finds a sharp rise in LLM use since 2023. At NIH—but not at NSF—proposals created with LLMs are more likely to be funded and to yield more publications. In PNAS: ow.ly/5zHM50ZBWoP 087
Reposted by Chris LeonardDorothy Bishop @deevybee.bsky.social · 16/08/2026New blogpost deevybee.blogspot.com/2026/08/acce... inspired by recent depressing experience as a peer reviewer. AI-generated #fraud is getting very hard to detect. #peerreviewdeevybee.blogspot.comAcceleration of the arms race between fraudsters and honest researchersI was recently asked to review a paper that piqued my curiosity. From the abstract it sounded as if it was a secondary analysis of a datas... 59552
Reposted by Chris LeonardEthan Mollick @emollick.bsky.social · 09/08/2026I feel like the debate over AI in academic journals is way too focused on where the capabilities of AI are today (or even where they were a couple years ago) and not nearly focused on where they will almost certainly be in the coming years… … and publication & research takes many years. 7824
Reposted by Chris LeonardMichael Hochberg @mkhochb.bsky.social · 06/08/2026Is science beginning to feed on its own AI-generated output? “Epistemic autophagy” describes a self-reinforcing loop in which generative AI helps produce scientific manuscripts and citations. Future researchers and AI systems then treat them as part of the knowledge base. 222
Reposted by Chris LeonardBaldur Bjarnason @baldurbjarnason.com · 08/08/2026“The Gargantuan Lie That is Collapsing The World’s Climate” www.currentaffairs.org/news/the-mas… > This massive lie can best be summed up as “when it comes to climate change... we have more time.” currentaffairs.orgThe Gargantuan Lie That is Collapsing The World’s ClimateThinking we have time left to address climate change, or that “Net Zero by 2050” will save us, is driving us toward full social collapse in ways that become more obvious with every new broken temperat... 210544
Reposted by Chris LeonardOwen Davies @odavies9.bsky.social · 04/08/2026As thousands of research academics are made redundant the whole system of free/cheap peer review will collapse. 47216
Reposted by Chris LeonardCaptain Haddock @realcaptainhaddock.bsky.social · 04/08/2026Am sure this is fine www.scientificamerican.com/article/its-...scientificamerican.comIt’s 90 degrees in the Arctic right nowThe Arctic is heating faster than the rest of the planet. New data illustrate how dire that is 23025
Chris Leonard @hoohar.bsky.social · 03/08/2026I don’t suffer as badly as you, but the last time I was struggling to sleep I burst into tears at the beauty of the Allo Allo theme tune. 130
Reposted by Chris LeonardLiterature Supporter @literaturesc.bsky.social · 25/07/2026The most important book of the year -- get out the pitchforks. LIMITARIANISM: THE CASE AGAINST EXTREME WEALTH by INGRID ROBEYNS 095
Chris Leonard @hoohar.bsky.social · 31/07/2026I’ve just woken up, but it took me a while not to see Andy Burnham’s robot arm tickling this woman’s breast. 010
Reposted by Chris LeonardAdam Schwarz @adamjschwarz.bsky.social · 24/07/2026When the story of why humanity didn't stop climate change is written, it will feature front pages like this. Even as the skies blacken with climate change-induced wildfires, right wing media continue their relentless crusade against measures to tackle it. 23247472019
Reposted by Chris LeonardZach Weinersmith @zachweinersmith.bsky.social · 20/07/2026Very worried about this sort of thing hitting more broadly: 2435121
Chris Leonard @hoohar.bsky.social · 20/07/2026Looking up the lyrics to Being Boiled, and Google's AI summary helps me yet again. 001
Chris Leonard @hoohar.bsky.social · 13/07/2026Commentator on the England game the other night said Jude Bellingham was "worth his weight in gold". Assuming he is around 75kg, that's around £10m. Not really close to his value. He should have said "worth his weight in crystalline osmium" - £200m. 153
Chris Leonard @hoohar.bsky.social · 12/07/2026When I was waiting for the race to go through Beynac, where we’ve holidayed before, they got there and then the live feed switched to a tiny inset while they showed still images from Google Streetview. Told you it was a niche complaint. 140
Chris Leonard @hoohar.bsky.social · 11/07/2026Good yes. What’s your beef? Mine is quite specific. 100
Chris Leonard @hoohar.bsky.social · 06/07/2026FIFA presidents are like UK Prime Ministers - somehow each one is worse than the previous one. Imagine yearning for the days of Sepp Blatter and Gordon Brown as some kind of halcyon days. Looking forward to Voldemort and F**age next. 010
Reposted by Chris LeonardHattifattener @hattifattener.bsky.social · 06/07/2026As in 1066 England will prevail against the Norwegians before tragically losing to the French a couple of weeks later. 442010482
Reposted by Chris LeonardGeneral Boles @generalboles.bsky.social · 05/07/2026"I know it's not the sort of thing you usually do Mr Havelange but speaking as a nuclear power we'd appreciate Gascoigne's yellow being overturned and the match result annulled" 9676204
Chris Leonard @hoohar.bsky.social · 06/07/2026Let’s all laugh at the Yellow Cowdenbeath before the England game starts. 011
Chris Leonard @hoohar.bsky.social · 25/06/2026I gave a talk exactly on this at SSP last month. Personal peer review lenses finding stuff you’d never look at in adjacent (and wildly different) disciplines. 241
Reposted by Chris LeonardEmma Monk @monkemma.bsky.social · 24/06/2026It was inevitable, wasn't it🙄 Of course the Telegraph would run with something like this👇 So let's remove some of the rose-tinted spectacles and also look at some of that data comparing 1976 with modern heat waves Because the 1976 nostalgia porn is wearing a bit thin at this stage 🧵1/23 16531841761
Reposted by Chris LeonardCarceral Abolition @carceralabolition.bsky.social · 18/06/2026Mural in San Andrés Cholula, Mexico www.reddit.com/r/MarchAgain... 91107792134
Chris Leonard @hoohar.bsky.social · 15/06/2026Been on the proplus all night, revising for an exam he’s done no work for. 110
Reposted by Chris LeonardPaul Kingsley @paulkingsley7.bsky.social · 30/05/2026“The result is a horror show for US science research. Not only is peer review made a secondary consideration, but the new rules would allow any federal agency to cancel any grant at any time based on the vague assertion that it isn’t in the “national interest.” 1/2 🧪 arstechnica.com/science/2026...arstechnica.comProposed new US funding rules: We can cancel any grant at any timePeer review now optional, political staff would screen grants for forbidden topics. 35031
Reposted by Chris LeonardEthan Mollick @emollick.bsky.social · 29/05/2026GPT-5.5 Pro is the model producing many of the novel math proofs, and also the model you should have reviewing any technical or academic paper for flaws. 1252
Chris Leonard @hoohar.bsky.social · 24/05/2026Over 200! Who’d thought? flavor365.org/the-ultimate...flavor365.orgThe Ultimate Guide to Fanta's 200+ Flavors WorldwideHow many Fanta flavours are there? Discover the surprising answer for 2026. We explore the full list of 200+ global, rare, and discontinued Fanta drinks. 100
Chris Leonard @hoohar.bsky.social · 24/05/2026I had lychee Fanta in Morocco and it’s my life’s mission to find it again. 110
Chris Leonard @hoohar.bsky.social · 22/05/2026Except they have to call it stuff like hyper nutrition or neo-protein renewal. Chill out Chad, it’s just a ragu. 010