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Elizabeth Gibney

@lizziegibney.bsky.social
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Senior reporter at Nature, views my own. Journalist covering physics, AI, policy. Attempting to stop lurking and start posting. See my stories at nature.com/news

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Elizabeth Gibney @lizziegibney.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
Such is AI right now that I spoke to Mark Chen on Thurs last week & by Fri it was out of date (see the update at the end)🧪🤖 It was interesting to hear about their approach to safety (which is much boiled down here)& plans to interact with the scientific community 1/6 www.nature.com/articles/d41...
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OpenAI’s research chief talks of ‘cultural reset’ after wild few weeks
Mark Chen discusses how the Hugging Face cybersecurity incident prompted a pivot to safety — and giving AI models a sense of ‘taste’.
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Elizabeth Gibney @lizziegibney.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
This paper was fun to be a teeny tiny part of: agupubs.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1029/... Did an 18 October space weather event really delay a train in 1841? A wonderful amalgamation of detective work, history and science by @jim-wild.bsky.social & colleagues
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Did Space Weather Delay the 10:05 p.m. Train Departure From Exeter on 18 October 1841?
A reported 1841 train delay in England attributed to geomagnetic disturbance is inconsistent with the opening date of the railway affected The integration of contemporary observations and archiva...
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Elizabeth Gibney @lizziegibney.bsky.social · 23/09/2026
An explainer answering quite *how* AI is supposed to be able to kill us all, why Anthropic is pushing for regulation, what to really worry about, and what might happen next 🧪🤖 www.nature.com/articles/d41...
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Will AI really kill us all? The science behind the hype
Nature examines whether the technology might spell the end for humans, and why AI companies are calling for a slowdown.
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Elizabeth Gibney @lizziegibney.bsky.social · 18/09/2026
Is AI making major discoveries in maths by learning from chats of human mathematicians who are already working on the problems? 🧪 It's not clear... but might be worth checking your user settings Great story by @castelvecchi.bsky.social www.nature.com/articles/d41...
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Who gets credit in the AI era? OpenAI maths bombshell sparks debate
Controversy around OpenAI’s claim to have solved the Navier–Stokes problem highlights how researchers could be inadvertently sharing — and absorbing— ideas through chatbots.
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Astronomer Royal for Scotland | Catherine Heymans @astroroyalscot.bsky.social · 01/09/2026
Well I think I am liking this new +ve PM! In response to @sarahrussellmp.bsky.social on Jodrell: "there must be a way to save #JodrellBank and I give her a commitment at this dispatch box - we will find it" Brilliant Burnham! Can you now save all the other epic projects that have also been cut 🙏🔭
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Elizabeth Gibney @lizziegibney.bsky.social · 01/09/2026
🚨 Metrology klaxon🚨 Next month, the world's timekeepers will vote on whether to abolish the leap second with immediate effect. How then to keep clocks in sync with Earth's natural day, as given by its daily rotations? A leap hour every few millennia of course! 🧪 www.nature.com/articles/d41...
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The leap second is dead. Long live the leap hour?
Fear of a possible ‘negative’ leap second is accelerating plans to abolish the practice.
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Richard Van Noorden @richvn.bsky.social · 26/08/2026
Dolly Parton donated to medical centres, vaccine research and disaster relief. And had Dolly the cloned sheep named after her! Here are some scientist tributes and a reminder of how she contributed to research. www.nature.com/articles/d41... by @lizziegibney.bsky.social & Dhruv Shenai @nature.com
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Dolly Parton dies aged 80 – researchers celebrate her contributions to science
The country singer was an advocate for vaccines, public health, literacy and marginalized communities.
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Elizabeth Gibney @lizziegibney.bsky.social · 13/08/2026
Anthropic has announced that it will include a watermark on text generated by its future models, and create a public detector tool. A win for transparency, but will it improve academic integrity or reduce slop? Probably not much...🧪 More in my story here: www.nature.com/articles/d41...
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Can Anthropic's invsibile watermarks curb ‘AI slop’? Researchers remain sceptical
The move is likely to do little to tackle the rise of ‘AI slop’ in academia, say researchers.
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Elizabeth Gibney @lizziegibney.bsky.social · 07/08/2026
A growing number of voices are calling for UK physics cuts (the result of a long prioritization exercise by the STFC) to be reversed 🧪⚛️ Funding for @jodrellbank.bsky.social's Lovell telescope & @lhcb.bsky.social's upgrade are among those being chopped My latest here: www.nature.com/articles/d41...
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Scientists up in arms about cuts to UK physics and astronomy
Funding is being terminated for projects including a future CERN experiment and the iconic Lovell Telescope.
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Roland Pease @peaseroland.bsky.social · 06/08/2026
great also to talk to @lizziegibney.bsky.social about UK physical science cuts and lost Amazonian civilisation www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/w...
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BBC Radio 4 - BBC Inside Science, The state of our substrate: What is drought doing to our soil?
The surprising science of how drought affects the health of our soils.
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Athena Kugblenu @athenakugblenu.bsky.social · 06/08/2026
The Guardian once asked me 'what one change would you make to achieve Black equality in Britain?' and it feels appropriate to share my answer again
Athena Kugblenu: Allow Black people to be mediocre too!
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I would like to replace #blackexcellence with #blackmediocrity. True equality is when our talent:recognition ratio is allowed to be as broad as white people’s. Lewis Hamilton had to win two Formula One titles before he bagged BBC Sports Personality of the Year in 2014; Greg Rusedski only had to get battered by Pat Rafter to win his. Kwasi Kwarteng steered the economy towards an iceberg and got sacked. Jeremy Hunt drove the NHS over a cliff, now he’s chancellor. Don’t get me started on how many football clubs get ruined by freshly retired white footballers while very qualified Black managers are overlooked. When the arc of the moral universe bends towards Black people failing upwards as their peers do, we will be in the promised land.
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Elizabeth Gibney @lizziegibney.bsky.social · 22/07/2026
The world's gone wild for Kimi K3 -- here's what scientists think 🧪🤖 By my excellent Asia Pacific colleagues @mohanabasu.bsky.social & @rfieldmouse.bsky.social www.nature.com/articles/d41...
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Does China’s latest AI model finally equal US rivals? What scientists think
‘Kimi K3’ can match or outperform cutting-edge models, says Moonshot AI. But its large size might limit uptake.
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Elizabeth Gibney @lizziegibney.bsky.social · 20/07/2026
1/6 Lots to like in @jamesmodonnell.bsky.social's MIT Tech Rev story on @psiquantum.bsky.social www.technologyreview.com/2026/07/14/1... 🧪⚛️ But I wanted to flag one thing: in it the company says journalists misquoted them on aims to make an 'operational' quantum computer by 2027. Not in our case
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Elizabeth Gibney @lizziegibney.bsky.social · 17/07/2026
Kings Cross is increasingly awash with AI firms & London's taking a leading role in AI safety. But a caveat: it's mainly the kind of safety that cares about models from being used in cyberattacks or going rogue, not societal impacts like inequality or AI psychosis www.nature.com/articles/d41...
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A global capital for AI safety is emerging — and it's not in Silicon Valley
The United Kingdom is gaining influence through its growing AI-safety ecosystem.
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Elizabeth Gibney @lizziegibney.bsky.social · 09/07/2026
Scientists have caught Earth in the action of splitting apart at the seams, witnessing fresh oceanic crust forming in real time. Very cool 🧪 by @castelvecchi.bsky.social www.nature.com/articles/d41...
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Ocean floor witnessed splitting apart for the first time — releasing lava
Scientists observed a mid-ocean ridge widen in real time, recording several metres of sea-floor motion and huge lava outflows.
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Elizabeth Gibney @lizziegibney.bsky.social · 09/07/2026
If you're intrigued about the still new-ish ARIA, this one is for you 🧪 www.nature.com/articles/d41... I sat down with the UK agency's new CEO, Kathleen Fisher, (who joins from DARPA) to hear how it all works & who makes a good ARIA researcher (not someone who wants to be left alone apparently!)
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How to advance revolutionary science: high turnover, high risk and a licence to fail
Kathleen Fisher reveals the recipe for funding innovative science that she brings to the UK Advanced Research and Invention Agency.
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Elizabeth Gibney @lizziegibney.bsky.social · 03/07/2026
Awful news that RPN is closing🧪 @smclondon.bsky.social has blog on its huge value to research www.sciencemediacentre.org/in-praise-of... I'd add I'm hugely grateful to (then) Research Fortnight for my first journalism job. So many of us got a great education there: en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Researc...
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Elizabeth Gibney @lizziegibney.bsky.social · 29/06/2026
I spoke to Darío Gil, US under secretary for science at the DoE, about the country's big push of AI in science 🧪🤖⚛️ www.nature.com/articles/d41...
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Trump has big AI and quantum ambitions: this scientist’s job is to make them reality
Darío Gil knows that researchers are sceptical of the massive US artificial-intelligence push — he’s asking them to keep an open mind.
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Elizabeth Gibney @lizziegibney.bsky.social · 25/06/2026
With US science in unprecedented turmoil, can Europe step up to become the free world's science superpower? We crunched the data on Europe's strengths and weaknesses, plans & what headwinds the bloc faces 🧪 www.nature.com/articles/d41...
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Europe as science superpower: what it will take to rival the US and China
Amid chaos in US science and geopolitical turmoil, Europe wants to position itself as a research haven — but questions about funding and innovation remain.
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Elizabeth Gibney @lizziegibney.bsky.social · 22/06/2026
The first working nuclear clocks are here! 🧪⚛️🚨 As well as someday rivalling the best optical clocks, these should make for super-robust devices to take into the field & already allow physicists to monitor the fundamental forces of nature, in search of dark matter www.nature.com/articles/d41...
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The first ticking ‘nuclear clocks’ are here — what can they do?
Two research teams have created a new, long-awaited type of timekeeper.
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Elizabeth Gibney @lizziegibney.bsky.social · 18/06/2026
A look at where we are in science, 10 years from the Brexit vote. The UK is edging back into Horizon Europe (and from next year will be part of Erasmus+) but the country's role as a cornerstone of European research remains much diminished. www.nature.com/articles/d41... 🧪
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Brexit tore apart European science — now the research rifts are healing
The UK's share of EU research funding is climbing, but lost networks will be harder to recover.
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Elizabeth Gibney @lizziegibney.bsky.social · 08/06/2026
CFS published 5 papers last week outlining their "early 2030s" fusion power plant & physics Researchers say it's great they're publishing & plans are promising. But the papers far from "confirm" the plant will deliver net electricity Lots of engineering Qs remain ⚛️🧪 www.nature.com/articles/d41...
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Nuclear-fusion firm says plant will deliver electricity to grid – but big questions remain
Commonwealth Fusion Systems published several papers detailing the design of its ARC fusion power plant.
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Elizabeth Gibney @lizziegibney.bsky.social · 29/05/2026
Measuring the gravitational constant, BIG G, is one of the hardest experiments ever. And it's still driving physicists bananas, hundreds of years after the first attempts 🧪⚛ www.youtube.com/shorts/vksqp...
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Is this the hardest physics experiment?
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Astronomer Royal for Scotland | Catherine Heymans @astroroyalscot.bsky.social · 29/05/2026
"Someone, somewhere, has taken the decision to defund astrophysics research in the UK, but no-one seems quite sure who that was, or why." The latest on the impact of the catastrophic funding cuts to UK astrophysics, by me, in @natastron.nature.com 👩‍🔬🧪🔭 ✒️ www.nature.com/articles/s41...
World View:  A change in UK policy jeopadizes the future of UK astrophysics - By Catherine Heymans

The latest budget proposal announced by the largest UK science funding agency threatens to severely affect UK astrophysics research. My colleagues and I are fighting back.
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Elizabeth Gibney @lizziegibney.bsky.social · 11/05/2026
First science publisher sues an AI firm as a named plaintiff. There seems to be little doubt now that scientific papers, like books and webpages, were used to train LLMs. But whether this counts as copyright infringement is for the courts to decide www.nature.com/articles/d41... 🧪
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Elsevier vs Meta: first science publisher sues over scraped research papers
Science publishing giant Elsevier has joined a class-action lawsuit against Meta that alleges the reproduction of copyrighted works in developing the Llama AI model.
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Elizabeth Gibney @lizziegibney.bsky.social · 01/05/2026
The @erc.europa.eu has rolled back a controversial policy that would have extended how long researchers have to wait to re-apply after a failed application. Good to see the ERC listening 💪 But it's far from clear how the council will now deal with the grant deluge 🧪 www.nature.com/articles/d41...
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Prestigious European science funder scraps stricter rules after researcher backlash
The tough new policy was introduced to curb submissions, but drew criticism from researchers.
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Elizabeth Gibney @lizziegibney.bsky.social · 01/05/2026
Anomalies in physics are an endangered species. But an exciting one is growing in data from @lhcb.bsky.social🧪⚛️ It's a discrepancy in the angles that particles fly out of B meson 'penguin' decays & at 4 sigma🤞 What's a penguin decay & how could new physics affect it? www.nature.com/articles/d41...
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The exotic particles that could finally break the Standard Model
‘Penguin’ decays from CERN’s latest Large Hadron Collider experiment hint at weird new physics.
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Elizabeth Gibney @lizziegibney.bsky.social · 27/04/2026
Have grants become more competitive lately? 🧪 At least some of the uptick in submissions (that we've reported on @nature.com) seems driven by AI-assisted proposal writing -- funders, like journals, are flooded Great comment piece by @jameswilsdon.bsky.social & co: www.nature.com/articles/d41...
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Could agentic AI topple grant-funding systems?
Funders must take action before an increase in submission of high-quality proposals written using AI models makes it impossible to sort the wheat from the chaff.
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Elizabeth Gibney @lizziegibney.bsky.social · 22/04/2026
Should you worry about AI killing us all? I looked at the evidence so you don't have to 🧪 www.nature.com/articles/d41... @nature.com Ft. @garymarcus.bsky.social @sashamtl.bsky.social @gleave.me @andreamiotti.bsky.social @anthonyaguirre.bsky.social @ghadfield.bsky.social among others!
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AI doom warnings are getting louder. Are they realistic?
Researchers are increasingly sounding the alarm that artificial intelligence could end humanity. But such doomsday warnings carry their own risks.
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Elizabeth Gibney @lizziegibney.bsky.social · 22/04/2026
How strong is the gravitational constant big G? It reigns across the Universe yet we still don't know it beyond 3 sig figs! Like climbing Everest, metrologists measure the maddening number because the challenge is there My @nature.com story on the latest results: www.nature.com/articles/d41...
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How big is Big G? Mystery deepens after ten-year effort to measure gravity’s strength
Physicists have spent the past decade trying to pin down the elusive fundamental constant, to no avail.
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Elizabeth Gibney @lizziegibney.bsky.social · 16/04/2026
Can quantum computers be used to improve human health? ⚛️🧪 Seems like a huge leap, but researchers are making inroads: algorithms that simulate light-sensitive drugs and map differences in genomes are being trialled on small quantum systems. My latest in @nature.com www.nature.com/articles/d41...
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Quantum computers take on health care: light-sensitive cancer drugs win US$2 million contest
Quantum machines are making inroads into biology, but have no ‘advantage’ over classical machines yet.
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Elizabeth Gibney @lizziegibney.bsky.social · 15/04/2026
China's gov wants its AI scientists to avoid relying on Western tech & collaborations, which could be behind CAST's decision to still boycott NeurIPS despite its u-turn over sanctions. Might we see China start up its own NeurIPS-level conference? 🤖🧪 More here: www.nature.com/articles/d41...
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Boycott of major AI conference exposes a growing US–China divide
China-based researchers make up more than half of all lead authors at NeurIPS.
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Elizabeth Gibney @lizziegibney.bsky.social · 09/04/2026
We made a short vid about the world's first antimatter delivery. Just 92 antiprotons but an epic achievement! ⚛️🧪 How do you transport something that annihilates whenever it touches matter? Find out here: www.youtube.com/shorts/O4_XU... @cern.bsky.social @nature.com
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Antimatter goes for a drive
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Elizabeth Gibney @lizziegibney.bsky.social · 26/03/2026
@davidbflower.bsky.social Hi David, I'd be keen to get some thoughts from you for a quick news story. Please DM me back if you are interested! Thanks
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Elizabeth Gibney @lizziegibney.bsky.social · 24/03/2026
Antimatter delivery anyone? I first wrote about plans to transport this wildly volatile stuff (looking at another @cern.bsky.social expt) in 2018 They've finally done it! Amazing ⚛️🧪 This tiny sample of 92 antiprotons is a huge world first My @nature.com story here: www.nature.com/articles/d41...
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Antimatter has been transported for the first time ever — in the back of CERN's truck
Physicists have succeeded for the first time in transporting the most expensive and most volatile substance on Earth — antimatter.
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Elizabeth Gibney @lizziegibney.bsky.social · 23/03/2026
This squinty eye is telling you to go watch my first tiktok 🧪⚛️ It's on making the fattest ever Schrödinger's 🐈‍⬛ (& made with the fab Maren Hunsberger). More bitesized physics to come! www.tiktok.com/@nature/vide...
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You may have heard of Schrödinger's cat, but did you know it represents one of the thorniest problems in quantum physics? Where is the boundary between the quantum and classical worlds? This recent ex...
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Magdalena Skipper @magdalenaskipper.bsky.social · 21/03/2026
Hard to believe that static electricity is still a big mystery — Is it the electrons, ions or bits of material that transfer the charge? Why do some materials charge positively & others negatively? What happens when 2 samples of the same material come into contact? 🧪 www.nature.com/articles/d41...
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Static electricity is a big mystery — a jolt of fresh research could help to solve it
The familiar phenomenon has puzzled researchers for centuries, but experiments are finally making sense of its unruly behaviours.
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Max Kozlov @maxkozlov.bsky.social · 18/03/2026
Big news: @nature.com has finally launched its TikTok page! Check out my colleagues Maren Hunsberger with a deep dive on artificial lungs and @shamini.bsky.social talking about an acoustic robot so small it could swim around inside your body. Follow us for much more content to come 🫶
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Elizabeth Gibney @lizziegibney.bsky.social · 12/03/2026
Supernovae are bright. This one is EXTRA bright. Why?! It's hard to study what's behind these super-bright cosmic explosions, but a wobble in the signal from this one gave it away🧪🔭 Here's the story from me with funky 90s graphics from the fab @danjfox.bsky.social With🙏to @drjrfarah.bsky.social
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Elizabeth Gibney @lizziegibney.bsky.social · 04/03/2026
This was a very quick test (and also using AI!) but it demonstrates just how easy it still is to get models to help you to do bad things -- in this case, to clog up the scientific literature. While many LLMs refused requests at first, they were often worn down 🤖🧪 www.nature.com/articles/d41...
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Hey ChatGPT, write me a fictional paper: these LLMs are willing to commit academic fraud
Mainstream chatbots presented varying levels of resistance to deliberate requests for fabrication, study finds.
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Elizabeth Gibney @lizziegibney.bsky.social · 20/02/2026
Hard drives fail after a few years -- ever thought about writing your data into glass instead? Microsoft has developed a ready-to-deploy system which, while pricey to read and write, could save data for millennia, with minimal storage costs 🧪 www.nature.com/articles/d41...
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Microsoft team creates ‘revolutionary’ data storage system that lasts for millennia
Researchers use mini plasma explosions to encode the equivalent of two million books into a coaster-sized device. The method could preserve research data for millennia with minimal storage costs.
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Elizabeth Gibney @lizziegibney.bsky.social · 16/02/2026
My latest @nature.com story on what computer science can do about the deluge of AI-generated/assisted papers. Charge to submit? Use AI to review? Have AI-only outlets? Switch to a journal, rather than conference model? Reprimand repeat offenders? 🧪 More ideas? www.nature.com/articles/d41...
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How AI slop is causing a crisis in computer science
Preprint repositories and conference organizers are having to counter a tide of ‘AI slop’ submissions.
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Elizabeth Gibney @lizziegibney.bsky.social · 12/02/2026
I've written two @nature.com stories this week looking at whether EU efforts to lure US scientists are working 🧪 They are: the number of US applicants wanting to take up ERC grants has doubled. www.nature.com/articles/d41...
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US applications for prestigious European research grants surge
Rush for funds to relocate laboratories to Europe is latest sign of a US brain drain.
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Elizabeth Gibney @lizziegibney.bsky.social · 06/02/2026
Silicon Valley has gone wild for Moltbook, the social network for AI agents. What can scientists learn from studying it? Great @nature.com story from Mohana Basu 🧪🤖 www.nature.com/articles/d41...
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OpenClaw AI chatbots are running amok — these scientists are listening in
Artificial-intelligence agents have their own social-media platform and are publishing AI-generated research papers on their own preprint server.
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Elizabeth Gibney @lizziegibney.bsky.social · 05/02/2026
1/4 RIP Micius 🛰️ The world's first quantum satellite crashed into the Pacific last week (to the west of Ecuador) after an almost 10-year mission Also known as Mozi (& QUESS) it was famously the first to teleport a photon to space (or at least its quantum state) 🧪⚛️ www.nature.com/articles/nat...
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Quantum teleportation is even weirder than you think - Nature
Don't let the catchy name distract you, says Philip Ball: the questions inspired by this arguably misnamed phenomenon go to the heart of quantum theory.
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Elizabeth Gibney @lizziegibney.bsky.social · 03/02/2026
OpenAI is among those investing a whopping $252 million into a start up called Merge Labs. They want to use ultrasound -- rather than electrode implants -- to read out and interact with the brain. What are its chances of success? My @nature.com story here: www.nature.com/articles/d41... 🧪
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OpenAI-backed firm to use ultrasound to read minds. Does the science stand up?
Spin-out Merge Labs aims to rival Elon Musk’s brain-chip company Neuralink. But researchers say the technology is still at an early stage.
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Elizabeth Gibney @lizziegibney.bsky.social · 28/01/2026
We're back with a new vid! First protein, now exercise. How much do you need to reap the health benefits? The good news is, probably not as much as you think... 🧪
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Elizabeth Gibney @lizziegibney.bsky.social · 28/01/2026
"Another remarkable case is a 106-year-old woman who took up swimming at age 70 & won her first competition three decades later. Longevity runs in the family: she has two younger sisters over 100 & a 110-year-old aunt." Great story from @marilenharo.bsky.social www.nature.com/articles/d41... 🧪
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Still working at 107: supercentenarian study probes genetics of extreme longevity
Scientists seek to understand the factors that have allowed people in Brazil to reach their 100th or even 110th birthdays despite facing adversities.
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Auschwitz Memorial @auschwitzmemorial.bsky.social · 27/01/2026
Auschwitz was at the end of a process. We must remember that it did not start from gas chambers. This hatred gradually developed: from ideas, words, stereotypes & prejudice through legal exclusion, dehumanization & escalating violence... to systematic and industrial murder. Auschwitz took time.
A bird's-eye view of a former Auschwitz II-Birkenau camp showing a wide dirt pathway flanked by parallel rows of barbed-wire fences. Groups of visitors walk along the path, surrounded by the remnants of brick structures and barracks, now reduced to foundations. Green grass contrasts with the somber history of the site, as the path leads toward a guard tower in the distance.
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Elizabeth Gibney @lizziegibney.bsky.social · 23/01/2026
I quizzed @cern.bsky.social's new director general on what that $1bn donation will mean for their long-campaigned for future machine, and whether physicists should pursue cheaper, more varied experimental strategies instead ⚛️🧪 www.nature.com/articles/d41...
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What a $1-billion pledge means for CERN’s ambitious supercollider plans
New director-general Mark Thomson discusses fundraising efforts and future priorities for Europe’s particle-physics laboratory.
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