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depths of wikipedia @depthsofwikipedia.bsky.social · 43m

you'd think after doing this for six years i wouldn't still find myself thinking "wow, wikipedia really has an article about EVERYTHING" but here i am

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Klaus Pforr @klauspforr.eurosky.social · 02/10/2026

The sheer figure of 20% blows my mind. Experts are probably well aware of that. That seems to be a little higher than the chances for russian soldiers to die within one year on the front. And we talk about scaring them away by depriving them of money or putting them in camps. And people think it's

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Dead Neanderthals @deadneanderthals.bsky.social · 06/08/2026

We published a new paper in the #CanadianJournalOfCardiology doi.org/10.1016/j.cj... We show that 57 of 201 included articles (28.4%) contain image-related or data-related issues. All these papers investigated microvascular injury after acute myocardial infarction in mouse, rat and pig models.

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Tits McGee @scientits.bsky.social · 30/07/2026

Oh my God, this is not a drill - LinkedIn has added 'seems like AI slop' as an option on posts Genuinely thought it was a joke until I clicked on a few posts

Drop down menu from a LinkedIn post offering the following options

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Randall Munroe @xkcd.com · 24/07/2026

Calibration Nobel xkcd.com/3275/

Comic. [Person 1 with short hair on stage behind podium reading off paper while addressing audience. People are shown sitting in chairs while Person 2 with ponytail and Person 3 waving are walking toward stage.] PERSON 1: This year’s Nobel Prize in “calibrating your equipment carefully and not embarrassing yourself by publishing spurious results” goes to Dr. Adams and Dr. Smith, who did *not* announce the discovery of microbes on Titan. PERSON 3: Thank you, thank you.

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Anthony Moser @anthonymoser.com · 14/07/2026

google's "why don't you want to use our documentation chatbot" survey offers a pretty good list of reasons not to use their documentation chatbot

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Fredrik Jutfelt 🐠 @jutfelt.bsky.social · 01/07/2026

Deadline coming up on this position soon. Spread please!

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Reese Richardson @reeserichardson.bsky.social · 05/06/2026

The Thermo Fisher situation keeps getting worse. We've now collected 450+ problematic images presented as verification data in TF's antibody catalog. This includes: 🖌️ Dozens more images with duplications or painting 🖨️ Hundreds of blots that all share the same background (behold slideshow below)

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Julia M. Rohrer @dingdingpeng.the100.ci · 28/05/2026

TIL heat is really killing a lot of people in Europe. hannahritchie.substack.com/p/heat-guns-...

Heat versus gun deaths in the European Union and the United States. Average annual deaths per 100,000 population, as close to the year 2024 as possible. Heat deaths are based on excess death methodology, not the number recorded on death certificates.

US, heat: 1.94
European Union, guns: 1.24
US, guns: 13.27
European union, heat: 12.57

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Aki Vehtari @avehtari.bsky.social · 30/03/2026

I'm looking for a post-doc to help organize Bayesian Data Analysis course avehtari.github.io/BDA_course_A... (200 students) and to do research on Bayesian workflow users.aalto.fi/~ave/publica... at Aalto www.aalto.fi/en, Finland. Background in Bayes needed. Up to five year contract possible.

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Bayesian Data Analysis course - Aalto 2025 – Bayesian Data Analysis course

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Michèle Nuijten @michelenuijten.bsky.social · 03/02/2026

I wrote a blog for the Meta-Research Center expressing my infinite frustration about not getting data. What else is new, you might think? Well, I added an extra layer of annoyance directed at the journals who do NOTHING to enforce promised data sharing. metaresearch.nl/blog/2026/2/...

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Promised Data Unavailable? – I’m Sorry, Ma’am, There’s Nothing We Can Do — Meta-Research Center

This blogpost has been written by Michèle Nuijten. Michèle is an assistant professor of our research group who investigates reproducibility and replicability in psychology. Also, she is the developer ...

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Altmetric @altmetric.com · 08/01/2026

X/Twitter's rough full volume is around 500 total million posts every day, or 182 (and a half) billion posts per year. By contracts, we found 11.2 million research posts in all of 2025 on there. In other words, 0.000006% of Twitter appears to be sharing research. Basically zero.

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Otto @okalliokoski.bsky.social · 14/12/2025

Gift ideas from your friends at Springer

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Caroline Bartman @cbartman.bsky.social · 09/12/2025

Today i leqrned iron smell is actually volatile metabolite fomed when you touch iron! Thanks to Yuta Matsuoka for explaining! cen.acs.org/articles/84/...

cen.acs.org

Mystery Behind Iron's Smells Is Revealed

'Metallic' odors attributed to iron are due to organic carbonyl and organophosphine compounds

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Zen Faulkes @doctorzen.net · 01/12/2025

If you run across a gen A.I. slop 🤖💩 diagram in an academic journal, I’d love to know about it! Please fill out this form: docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1F... Slop in journals is illuminating about journals’ quality control. And journals would like you to forget their mistakes. #AcademicChatter

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Slop graphics in academic journals

Use this form to share graphics (e.g., figures, covers, graphical abstracts) made using generative A.I. that have appeared in academic journals. The plan is to compile these slop graphics in an ope...

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Smut Clyde, X-Ray Haruspex @smutclyde.bsky.social · 04/11/2025

So I thought that Elsevier was already as enshittified as possible. I was wrong.

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Lex Bouter @lexbouter.bsky.social · 31/10/2025

"We included 608 articles, of which 243 articles were identified as problematic (40.0%)." (bit.ly/3X4PtGF) This finding of so many image-related problems by a team that wanted to do a systemic review, is deeply concerning.

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Dare Obasanjo @carnage4life.bsky.social · 01/11/2025

arXiv will no longer accept review articles and position papers unless they have been accepted at a journal or a conference and complete successful peer review. This is due to being overwhelmed by a hundreds of AI generated papers a month. Yet another open submission process killed by LLMs.

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Attention Authors: Updated Practice for Review Articles and Position Papers in arXiv CS Category – arXiv blog

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Science for Animal Welfare @scifaw.bsky.social · 01/10/2025

📢Nominations are now open for the UFAW Medal for Outstanding Contributions to #AnimalWelfareScience! Do you know an individual whose research, teaching, service, or advocacy has significantly benefited the welfare of animals? Nominate them here: ow.ly/Bs7b50X3ENT 📅 Nominations close 10 December

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Dorothy Bishop @deevybee.bsky.social · 29/09/2025

Open Science Workshop - detecting errors and misconduct in science Dates: 20-22 October Location: Radboud University, Nijmegen, The Netherlands Registration link: tinyurl.com/3xkd8twf ONLY PHYSICAL ATTENDENCE POSSIBLE! NO ONLINE POSSIBILITIES.

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Helen Czerski @helenczerski.bsky.social · 26/09/2025

In discussion with a computer scientist from the University of Cambridge last night: Me: "you've described some of the things that AI is good at. How would you describe the category of things it's not good at? **pause** Him: "Anything where it has to be right".

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Siri Leknes @sirileknes.bsky.social · 24/09/2025

Please RT 2 new positions in the lab as postdoc & PhD! Interested in stress, pain, or reward? This project has it all! We are a friendly but ambitious group. Oslo is a capital city on the fjord & bordered by forest, great urban & outdoors opportunities: 💃 ⛷️ 🚣 🎭 🎶 www.jobbnorge.no/en/available...

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Postdoctoral Research Fellowship (286516) | University of Oslo

Job title: Postdoctoral Research Fellowship (286516), Employer: University of Oslo, Deadline: Wednesday, October 15, 2025

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Dannagal Goldthwaite Young @dannagal.bsky.social · 13/09/2025

You’re think *you’re* depressed? Try being at the annual meeting of the American Political Science Association right now with 5,000 political scientists presenting their work on the state of democracy, public opinion, and media. They are also drinking heavily.

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Richard Kadrey @richardkadrey.bsky.social · 06/09/2025

Orson Welles would murder every one of you motherfuckers with a hammer.

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Richard Van Noorden @richvn.bsky.social · 06/08/2025

IMO the strongest challenge against your view is that the sludge does in fact pollute meta-analyses and systematic reviews (an issue which is likely to grow as evidence synthesis becomes more AI-assisted) Cf e.g. www.nature.com/articles/d41...

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Giant study finds untrustworthy trials pollute gold-standard medical reviews

Two-year collaboration aims to create tools to help counter the tide of flawed research.

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Hadas Weiss @hadas.bsky.social · 19/07/2025

when i'm asked to review the revised version

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PHD Comics @phdcomics.com · 13/07/2025

A guide to academic event names

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Mark A. Hanson @hansonmark.bsky.social · 10/07/2025

The "reproducibility crisis" in science constantly makes headlines. Repro efforts are often limited. What if you could assess reproducibility of an entire field? That's what @brunolemaitre.bsky.social et al. have done. Fly immunity is highly replicable & offers lessons for #metascience A 🧵 1/n

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Darren Dahly @statsepi.bsky.social · 07/07/2025

There is no scientific concept of "real world" data or evidence - there is nothing about this terminology that can't be more accurately and honestly conveyed using other accepted methodological terms.

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Jack Wilkinson @jdwilko.bsky.social · 04/07/2025

This Delphi is live! Invitations are rolling out. Contact me if you have expertise in trials and would like to participate.

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Jeff Lees @leesplez.bsky.social · 01/07/2025

Help me find a paper! I think it came out 5-10 years ago, and it showed that academic psychologists (or maybe social scientists) had trouble interpreting complex statistical interactions, and couldn't explain a 4-way interaction. 1/2 #openscience #psychology #metascience #statistics

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Otto @okalliokoski.bsky.social · 17/06/2025

It's been a long journey, but our study of (potentially) fraudulent studies in preclinical medicine is finally out as a peer-reviewed paper!

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Otto @okalliokoski.bsky.social · 15/06/2025

This is the way to go. We should celebrate also our null results! We are not our hypotheses and if we get to anxious about being right all the time, we become worse and more cowardly scientists.

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rsbains.bsky.social @rsbains.bsky.social · 24/05/2025

Top quality teamwork by @cost-teatime.bsky.social repositories WG to address a key issue in maximising the impact of #Home-cageMonitoring. From the first working group meeting @mrcharwell.bsky.social in Oct’24 to V1 of the preprint in May’25!! Take a sneak peak 👀 here: osf.io/preprints/os...

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Simon Gandevia @simongandevia.bsky.social · 14/05/2025

International Research Integrity Conference. I am arranging this in Sydney in November 16-18th 2025. researchintegrityconf.com Note the excellent speaker list. Contact me!

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International Research Integrity Conference | 17-18 November 2025, Sydney, Australia

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Randall Munroe @xkcd.com · 25/04/2025

PhD Timeline xkcd.com/3081

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LOWρUFO 🇺🇦🇵🇸🌍 @lowrhoufo.bsky.social · 13/04/2025

I found the most incredible graph on the other site

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