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Matthew Russell @matteomics.bsky.social · 19h

My day feels very much like this! Although I only have a cold, Darwin was dealing with worse.

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Colette Delawalla, PhD @cdelawalla.bsky.social · 28/09/2026

The humanities have been calling out genAI theft since the jump, while STEM has rallied around “discovery potential”. I am *ONCE AGAIN* reminding EVERYONE that science is not the sacred cow, STEM isn’t the exception. They are going to steal our IP, too. We aren’t special.

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Matthew Russell @matteomics.bsky.social · 14/09/2026

What does it say about me that my first thought was "deep fry"

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Matthew Russell @matteomics.bsky.social · 12/09/2026

Unit geekary is definitely my favourite kind of geekary.

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Joe Bak-Coleman @jbakcoleman.bsky.social · 11/09/2026

I stand firmly by my assertion that metascientists should have seen this capture of science coming, but there is no reasonable way they can reasonably delude themselves into thinking the new nsf announcements are anything other than epistemic capture. www.science.org/content/arti...

science.org

Science’s reform movement should have seen Trump’s call for ‘gold standard science’ coming, critics say

Efforts to improve the rigor of research may have unwittingly handed the administration a way to attack science

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Matthew Russell @matteomics.bsky.social · 07/09/2026

This is an important take. Environmentalism as a generalisation of the principle that one shouldn't defecate in ones own bath water.

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Matthew Russell @matteomics.bsky.social · 02/09/2026

Love this framework. Current Me is always furious with Past Me but pushing burdens onto Future Me.

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🎃Hana🎃 @robonohana.bsky.social · 02/09/2026

Reading a book before bed is such a dangerous activity. For example, last night: "I'll read a couple chapters." Suddenly it's 1:47 AM and I've negotiated with myself that being tired tomorrow is a problem for Future Me. Future Me is now furious at Past Me. #booksky

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Mark Janello @markjanello.bsky.social · 23/08/2026

You fuckers made me do it. The Racist Academicals Patter Song.

[RACIST ACADEMICAL]
I am the very model of a racist academical,
With footnotes and citations to make bigotry seem credible,

I traffic in ideas that have long since been discredited,
Like human races being real and IQ is inherited!

I’ll sign an open letter that legitimates my bigotry,
My gender ideology is thuggery and piggery,

If criticized it’s academic freedom I will hide behind,
My high and mighty principles shan’t be questioned by your tiny mind!

[CHORUS OF CHUDS]
His high and mighty principles shan’t be questioned by your tiny mind!

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Matthew Russell @matteomics.bsky.social · 26/08/2026

Great little thread. Statistics and experimental design and policy all perfectly covered.

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Julia M. Rohrer @dingdingpeng.the100.ci · 25/08/2026

“…as peer reviewers or question askers at conferences, we must accept that our pet issue is not more important than the other 10 issues and if the analyst has had a good go at handling a bunch of issues, we can’t just pile more and more issues on them to fix. It is impossible.”

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Katie Mack @astrokatie.com · 24/08/2026

Sometimes society at large rejects certain ideas because they’ve been thoroughly shown to be wrong and also because they suck and the people who espouse them suck and when someone comes around arguing those ideas should be part of some edgy modern debate we can and should shun them and move on.

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noam @noamchompers.bsky.social · 11/08/2026

sorry, you want me to *revise* and then *resubmit* this shit? dog, i sent it to you because i never wanted to see it again

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tj mahr 🤘 @tjmahr.com · 11/08/2026

interesting how “correlation is not causation” shifted from a warning about spurious associations to something incurious people say to refute things

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Matthew Russell @matteomics.bsky.social · 10/08/2026

Sounds like an excellent system.

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Natalie Haynes @nataliehaynes.bsky.social · 01/08/2026

Want to learn more about the women of the Odyssey? This is where to start! From ancient epics to Buffy and Beyoncé, meet the women of Greek myth and discover how their stories have been shaped over time. Pandora’s Jar is 99p on Kindle.

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David Neuzerling @md.neuzerl.ing · 29/07/2026

Programming tip: never type out a 10-character command when you could instead press the up arrow for 5 minutes until you find that command in your history

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Matthew Russell @matteomics.bsky.social · 26/07/2026

There's a real risk the loony vote will be split in this election.

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Count Binface @countbinface.bsky.social · 19/07/2023

Under a Binface government, anyone who doesn’t accept human-made climate change as fact will be sent back to school, from Year 1 right the way to A Levels, to see if anything goes in the second time round. #VoteBinface

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Angela Potochnik @apotochnik.bsky.social · 16/07/2026

U.S. science is once again subject to a basic confusion between the *observation* of how values shape science versus the *improper influence* of values on science. Federal grant agencies have banned research mentioning gender, equity, and many other politicized topics... 1/ #philsci #scicomm 🧪

scientificamerican.com

Awareness of Our Biases Is Essential to Good Science

Ideological, social and political values have always influenced research

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Marie Vibbert @reasie.bsky.social · 16/07/2026

No science fiction could have prepared us for just how stupid the end of the world can be. "The environment was on the brink of collapse, and so, rather than deal with that, we burned what fuel we had left getting computers to scam each other for money."

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Matthew Russell @matteomics.bsky.social · 15/07/2026

With the climate change emergency gathering pace, the only thing history will remember about this moment is our failure to avert, mitigate and prepare. Future historians, if they exist, are likely to care about little else.

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Adam Rutherford @adamrutherford.bsky.social · 08/07/2026

I’ve met Binface, broken bread with him, and though his views on Christopher Nolan films are wrong, he is a good man and would have my vote if I lived in Clacton.

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Sean Carroll @seanmcarroll.bsky.social · 30/06/2026

Scientists, especially younger ones, are going to have to come to terms with the idea that “doing science” is no longer enough. We all have to fight for science: what it means, what are its values, and why it matters.

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Matthew Russell @matteomics.bsky.social · 26/06/2026

This probably applies to scientific papers as well.

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Joe Bak-Coleman @jbakcoleman.bsky.social · 26/06/2026

Ok, so please stop using false-discovery rate corrections in social science papers as though it's some new Boneferroni. a) It doesn't make sense, especially when you have a couple of unrelated outcomes on different scales with different power. b) You're misinterpreting the q-values.

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Brent Toderian @brenttoderian.bsky.social · 24/06/2026

“Scientists should stop trying to be neutral and instead embrace their values,”says a group of top climate scientists, including @katharinehayhoe.com. The neutrality myth is harming the reputation of science right when we need it most.” #ClimateCrisis Science isn’t neutral. It’s science.

cbc.ca

Prominent climate scientist argues it's time to ditch the 'myth of neutrality' | CBC Radio

Climate scientist Katharine Hayhoe talks to Bob McDonald about the polarization of science and why she thinks scientists should stop pretending to be neutral when it's our planet at risk.

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Matthew Russell @matteomics.bsky.social · 23/06/2026

UK politics and #rstats visualizations. This is brilliant.

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Matthew Russell @matteomics.bsky.social · 18/06/2026

This. Alas, I've double checked everything I'm going to say in the literature. Don't you want to hear about it?

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Matthew Russell @matteomics.bsky.social · 12/06/2026

What is up with #copilot in outlook sitting in the cursor on every line!? Begging me to press Alt+i. I already write short concise emails! What could #copilot do but waste my time? Even not using it, it's distracting me. Stupidest thing.

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Wolfgang Huber @wkhuber.bsky.social · 10/06/2026

One of the good things about the AI co-scientist brouhaha is that it makes us discuss what science *is*, and how to measure its value, impact, quality. — Questions that have been there all along, but many preferred to gloss over.

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Crystal Lewis @cghlewis.bsky.social · 16/05/2026

Data Management Wisdom

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Dan Quintana @dsquintana.bsky.social · 15/05/2026

Social media platforms and how academics use them change, but one thing doesn't

A venn diagram. Left circle is linkedin, with 'earnest posting'. Right is bluesky with 'shitposting'. the middle is 'I have a new paper' posting

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Irina Bezsonova @irinabezsonova.bsky.social · 28/04/2026

Excited to share that my 2025 collection of science-inspired drawings is now live on the Protein Data Bank (PDB) website. Thank you @rcsbpdb.bsky.social! It is free to explore and download. I’d love to hear what you think! pdb101.rcsb.org/sci-art/bezs...

pdb101.rcsb.org

PDB101: Irina Bezsonova Gallery

PDB-101: Training, Outreach, and Education portal of RCSB PDB

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Dan Quintana @dsquintana.bsky.social · 25/04/2026

I always imagined that papers would become quicker to write as I got more experienced with research, but the opposite has happened instead because now I better understand how papers can be improved and spend much more time tweaking and rewriting

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Ilana Horn @ilanahorn.bsky.social · 16/04/2026

AI is pushing a crisis of meaning. What makes graduation meaningful? Sitting in a robe and a silly hat and waiting your turn to get a piece of paper? Or participating in a ritual that signals your membership into a new kind of person? Too bad so many unis shut down anthropology departments.

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Mrs. Betty Bowers @mrsbettybowers.bsky.social · 11/04/2026

The shared excitement over NASA’s recent mission compared to the general indifference to SpaceX missions speaks to the power of something seen as the product of communal human effort rather than just the ego and avarice of one obnoxious dork.

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Mark Histed @markhisted.org · 29/03/2026

The hardest part of science is posing the right question, not answering it.

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Matthew Russell @matteomics.bsky.social · 24/03/2026

Very much this. My personal process with #proteomics data is gnu-make with comand line tools to get the data as far as #R, then quarto documents to describe reproducable analysis and figure generation.

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Matthew Russell @matteomics.bsky.social · 17/03/2026

First I've heard of this. Really interesting for bioinformatics actually. Little R code wigets to turn one table into another could be very useful.

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John Bull @garius.bsky.social · 15/03/2026

So, BlueSky, one of my passions is the study of tea in WW2. I need you to watch this oral history from three ex-tea ladies from the Bermondsey WVS. Because you could guess for ONE THOUSAND YEARS and you would not guess where it is going... #skystorians #history #tea

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Julia M. Rohrer @dingdingpeng.the100.ci · 15/03/2026

"How could this not be your life goal to work on? To reduce how awful maladies, and the awful solutions to those maladies, are? What else is there really? Better prediction markets? What are we talking about?"

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Ask not why would you work in biology, but rather: why wouldn't you?

1.9k words, 9 minutes reading time

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MwahahahahahadScientist @mads100tist.bsky.social · 25/02/2026

Motion to stop referring to it as Next Generation Sequencing. That's like saying The Matrix is a recent movie

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