Richard Van Noorden @richvn.bsky.social · 09/10/2026At this stage more impactful to find evidence it hasn’t been checked eg fake references 010
Reposted by Richard Van NoordenNature @nature.com · 08/10/2026International students in the US would face a $100,000 price tag to work a science job in the country after graduation under a proposal made public yesterday by the Trump administration go.nature.com/4AWqQi8go.nature.comUS proposes $100,000 charge for international students to do post-graduate workProposed rule would choke off a crucial STEM talent pipeline, policy specialists say 114843
Reposted by Richard Van NoordenMax Kozlov @maxkozlov.bsky.social · 06/10/2026After our investigation into sham honor societies, many universities quietly deleted posts congratulating their faculty on joining them. Others... are still posting new ones! @stonybrooku.bsky.social news.stonybrook.edu/newsroom/pre...news.stonybrook.eduStony Brook University Professors Inducted into European Academy of Engineering - SBU NewsStony Brook University professors make up two of 14 members elected internationally STONY BROOK, NY – October 1, 2026 – Two professors from the State University of New York at Stony Brook (Stony Brook... 1105
Reposted by Richard Van NoordenNature @nature.com · 08/10/2026Russia's spare disclosures combined with unverified rumours of a lab accident have triggered a plague scare. Here's what scientists know — and what Russia won't say. go.nature.com/4AVaSoDgo.nature.comPlague scare: what scientists know — and what Russia won’t sayUnverified rumours swirl around the death of a Siberian laboratory technician. Nature talks to a biosecurity specialist to unpack the fallout 22515
Reposted by Richard Van NoordenNorio Nakatsuji @norionakatsuji.bsky.social · 08/10/2026[The science of superintelligence and why AI is still a useful word] “President Donald Trump wants to replace ‘artificial intelligence’ with ‘Super Intelligence’ — but there are questions about whether we’re there yet.” www.nature.com/articles/d41...nature.comThe science of superintelligence and why AI is still a useful wordPresident Donald Trump wants to replace ‘artificial intelligence’ with ‘Super Intelligence’ — but there are questions about whether we’re there yet. 002
Reposted by Richard Van NoordenEd Morrish @edmorrish.com · 19/07/2025another good way of thinking about what cracking value radio 4 is that it makes twenty hours of programming a day - news, drama, comedy, documentaries, a soap opera, arts - for about £90m/yr, while spotify pay joe rogan about £60m/year to listen gullibly to liars for about nine hours per week 426984
Reposted by Richard Van NoordenBunnicula'd berries @frozen-cranberry.bsky.social · 08/10/2026This is going to end up killing cc-by unless there's a carve out for AI stuff. This sucks. 1169
Reposted by Richard Van NoordenColumbia Journalism Review @columjournreview.bsky.social · 08/10/2026Editors are facing an influx of AI-written pitches, including at science publications like mine. What now? www.cjr.org/analysis/fak...cjr.orgFake Caroline.Editors are facing an influx of AI-written pitches, including at science publications like mine. What now? 035
Reposted by Richard Van NoordenPhilip Ball @philipcball.bsky.social · 08/10/2026When people tell me I'm a fool not to use AI in my writing, I might point them to this. www.cjr.org/analysis/fak...cjr.orgFake Caroline.Editors are facing an influx of AI-written pitches, including at science publications like mine. What now? 7289
Richard Van Noorden @richvn.bsky.social · 08/10/2026I think he's referring to this work he co-authored lawzero.org/en/publicati...lawzero.orgLawZero | The Scientist AI: Safe by Design, by Not DesiringScientific theories aspire to describe what is, as opposed to prescribe what ought to be. At LawZero, we take this idea as a design principle for safe artificial intelligence: that understanding—even ... 110
Reposted by Richard Van NoordenKerri Smith @kerri-smith.bsky.social · 07/10/2026We were hoping we’d have to update the main portion of this quiz — but this year’s awardees were all men. Nonetheless, come test your knowledge: how many of the women who have won a science Nobel prize can you name? www.nature.com/immersive/d4...nature.comCan you name the women who have won a science Nobel prize?Take Nature’s quiz on female Nobel laureates in physics, chemistry or physiology or medicine. 112
Reposted by Richard Van NoordenMatthew Cobb @matthewcobb.bsky.social · 06/10/2026A lot of excitement on here about the article in Science summarising the discoveries of @alistairsponsel.bsky.social and Brian Sutton, just published in the Journal of the History of Biology. Some people have asked, so here is what I think they show, and what are the implications:link.springer.comPhotograph 49 is the Key to Understanding the History of Rosalind Franklin’s DNA Photograph 51 - Journal of the History of BiologyThis essay, co-authored by a historian of science and an X-ray crystallographer, sheds new light on Rosalind Franklin’s Photograph 51. We refute the infamous claim that, unlike James Watson, Franklin ... 4247143
Reposted by Richard Van NoordenMatthew Cobb @matthewcobb.bsky.social · 06/10/202611. I will not be taking questions.The story of a woman whose data was stolen by two ambitious men who then did not credit her seems to be too powerful to be overcome by mere facts. This is, of course, all Watson's fault because of how he presented events. We are all hoist by his petard. 35110
Reposted by Richard Van NoordenDavide Castelvecchi @castelvecchi.bsky.social · 07/10/2026My latest, on OpenAI's dump www.nature.com/articles/d41...nature.comOpenAI posts 700 maths preprints online: mathematicians are up in armsThe firm used unreleased models to tackle hundreds of high-profile problems. 078
Reposted by Richard Van NoordenPhilip Ball @philipcball.bsky.social · 07/10/2026It feels very good to have been the editor who handled Soai's 1995 paper in Nature on autocatalytic amplification of an enantiomeric excess - now known as the Soai reaction. This seemed a curiosity at the time, but we clearly made the right call. 310719
Reposted by Richard Van NoordenEvan Urquhart @evanurquhart.bsky.social · 07/10/2026I have said in the past that there are uses I think are acceptable - and that's still true. Advanced validated academic research seems fine. I'm not sure there's a single other use that I currently believe is safe or morally okay. 1461235
Richard Van Noorden @richvn.bsky.social · 07/10/2026Love your stuff! Trying to come up with the names on the fly a bit different I think - though I saw you got them all right ;) 100
Reposted by Richard Van NoordenNature @nature.com · 07/10/2026None of this year's science Nobel Prizes have gone to women. The number of these prizes to go to women remains at 27 out of more than 600. See how many you can name in our quiz: www.nature.com/immersive/d4... 19390233
Richard Van Noorden @richvn.bsky.social · 07/10/2026So, no women won Nobel science prizes this year, meaning the number of female winners remains at 26. How many of them can you name? Take the challenge here (I've seen one person say they got them all first try, which is very impressive). @nature.com www.nature.com/immersive/d4...nature.comCan you name the women who have won a science Nobel prize?Take Nature’s quiz on female Nobel laureates in physics, chemistry or physiology or medicine. 067
Reposted by Richard Van NoordenJames O'Malley @jamesomalley.co.uk · 07/10/2026Holy shit. Someone has decompiled the Adobe suite, rebuilt it in Rust and released it as open source. Either all software is dead or the US copyright laws are about to receive an update. getartcraft.com/appsgetartcraft.comCrafting Apps: open-source creative toolsImage editing, vector illustration, video, photography, PDFs, motion graphics and page layout: seven native, open-source apps from the ArtCraft team, built in Rust and free to use. 19844031242
Reposted by Richard Van NoordenMatt Binder @mattbinder.bsky.social · 07/10/2026the tech industry is about to invent books 572215224193
Reposted by Richard Van NoordenNature @nature.com · 07/10/2026BREAKING: The Nobel Prize in Chemistry has been awarded to to Henri B. Kagan and Kenso Soai “for the discovery of non-linear effects and autocatalysis in asymmetric organic synthesis.” More to follow. 611734
Richard Van Noorden @richvn.bsky.social · 07/10/2026Kagan and Soai deserve it, but is this the Nobel Committee adding another award for what they already rewarded in 2001? (Knowles, Noyori and Sharpless for chiral catalysis - i.e. asymmetric organic synthesis)? Even at that time some were saying Kagan in particular missed out. Discuss! 000
Reposted by Richard Van NoordenDan Garisto @dangaristo.bsky.social · 20/08/2026Scoop: For nearly a year, NSF has struggled to make new grants. Now we know that it will not catch up. In fact, NSF will award just 6,100 new grants—a 30% y/o/y decline, itself down from a previous avg. of 11,000+. In fact, the last time NSF awarded so few grants was in the early '80s.nature.comExclusive: NSF set to issue lowest number of new grants in four decadesThe US science-funding agency is withholding $1 billion of its budget so that the money can go to a special White House project. 14760478
Reposted by Richard Van NoordenDr Dean Burnett @drdeanburnett.bsky.social · 06/10/2026"By using AI, tasks like essays that used to take hours can be completed in minutes!" Sure, like how if I arrive at the gym and immediately go for a shower, my workout is done in record time. And if I throw my sandwiches straight in the bin, I can finish my lunch in under 10 seconds. 7070041916
Richard Van Noorden @richvn.bsky.social · 06/10/2026I also find that the modern edifice of statistics helps me hugely to think about how chance plays a part in so many patterns in life, and to recognise how we‘re ‘fooled by randomness‘. 000
Richard Van Noorden @richvn.bsky.social · 06/10/2026What about Darwin’s discovery of evolution? Displacing certainty in religion. What about the uncertainty principle and relativity? 110
Richard Van Noorden @richvn.bsky.social · 06/10/2026(from Feynman: www.feynmanlectures.caltech.edu/I_01.html )feynmanlectures.caltech.eduThe Feynman Lectures on Physics Vol. I Ch. 1: Atoms in Motion 000
Reposted by Richard Van NoordenNature @nature.com · 06/10/2026BREAKING: The Nobel Prize in Physics has been awarded to Francis Halzen “for decisive contributions to the IceCube Neutrino Observatory and the discovery of high-energy neutrinos of astrophysical origin.” More to follow. 713639
Reposted by Richard Van NoordenAndrew Deck @andrewdeck.bsky.social · 05/10/2026ChatGPT is adding the signatures of real New Yorker cartoonists to its AI-generated images. So far, I've found the signatures of more than 15 contributors. "It’s slop, and unlike the other slop that I’ve encountered, this is slop that’s pretending to be me." www.niemanlab.org/2026/10/chat... 9042201691
Richard Van Noorden @richvn.bsky.social · 05/10/2026www.nature.com/articles/d41...nature.comThe top cancer success stories of the past 50 years, by the numbersOutcomes have improved drastically in the United States for some forms of the disease, but those for others continue to lag. 110
Reposted by Richard Van NoordenMike Cook @mtrc.bsky.social · 05/10/2026Every AI/HCI paper I review now just sounds like this. 32822197
Reposted by Richard Van NoordenRowan Hooper @rowhoop.bsky.social · 05/10/2026Rosalind Franklin had already noted the helical structure of DNA in photograph 49! 1118
Reposted by Richard Van NoordenDan Jagger @auditorynerves.bsky.social · 05/10/2026Can you name the women who have won a science Nobel prize? 🧪🔬🧬⚛️ Since the Nobel prizes were first awarded in 1901, few women have been recognized in the categories of physics, chemistry & physiology or medicine. Take Nature’s quiz on female Nobel laureates here: www.nature.com/immersive/d4...nature.comCan you name the women who have won a science Nobel prize?Take Nature’s quiz on female Nobel laureates in physics, chemistry or physiology or medicine. 2199
Reposted by Richard Van NoordenNature @nature.com · 05/10/2026Karl Deisseroth, Peter Hegemann and Georg Nagel win the 2026 Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine for their work on optogenetics, which has revolutionized neuroscience go.nature.com/4yBpO9Ogo.nature.comMedicine Nobel awarded for brain ‘switch’ that controls neurons with light: live updatesKarl Deisseroth, Peter Hegemann and Georg Nagel win the 2026 Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine for their work on optogenetics, which has revolutionized neuroscience. 18822
Reposted by Richard Van NoordenNature @nature.com · 05/10/2026"In terms of opening our eyes to a new way of looking at things, this sort of discovery is, I think, illuminating" Listen to new Nobel Prize winner Karl Deisseroth talk about his work on the Nature Podcast 🔊 Recorded in 2023 go.nature.com/4xXPY5pgo.nature.comHow an increased heart rate could induce anxiety in miceHear the biggest stories from the world of science | 01 March 2023 0247
Reposted by Richard Van NoordenNature @nature.com · 05/10/2026BREAKING: The Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine has been awarded to Karl Deisseroth, Peter Hegemann and Georg Nagel “for their discoveries concerning light-gated ion channels and optogenetics.” More to follow. 222655
Reposted by Richard Van NoordenNature @nature.com · 05/10/2026Can you name the women who have won a science Nobel prize? go.nature.com/3Tkl2OLgo.nature.comCan you name the women who have won a science Nobel prize?Take Nature’s quiz on female Nobel laureates in physics, chemistry or physiology or medicine. 22417
Reposted by Richard Van NoordenDewie @judgedewie.bsky.social · 04/10/2026OMG I had to check my work emails regarding an extra case in court tomorrow and I've just read this from an HR person. "on a knee to nose basis" A KNEE TO NOSE BASIS 😳 2503554648
Richard Van Noorden @richvn.bsky.social · 03/10/2026It does seem like they just didn‘t look carefully enough. 100
Richard Van Noorden @richvn.bsky.social · 03/10/2026“But Plöderl notes that this seems to be because the Iranian trial was graded as of ‘uncertain’ risk of bias, lumping it in with the low/uncertain group for the analysis.” (2/2) ‘Seems to be’ cos not explicitly stated in 2016 meta-analysis — based on 2020 meta-analysis 110
Richard Van Noorden @richvn.bsky.social · 03/10/2026Extra reporting cut for length: “Cipriani’s team also conducted a subgroup analysis, checking whether trials they judged to have a ‘high risk’ of bias produced substantially different findings from trials rated at ‘low or uncertain risk’ of bias. They found no difference.” (1/2) 110
Richard Van Noorden @richvn.bsky.social · 03/10/2026Well — there’s a comment from the lead author of the 2016 and 2020 studies in the article. 100
Richard Van Noorden @richvn.bsky.social · 03/10/2026Tbf the latest Cochrane review, 2021, excluded this study — though it appears somewhat fortuitously: they excluded all comparison studies with tricyclics, so this one dropped out too. 110
Richard Van Noorden @richvn.bsky.social · 03/10/2026FYI @retractionwatch.com www.nature.com/articles/d41...nature.comProzac use for childhood depression skewed by single flawed medical trialOne small study in Iran swayed meta-analyses in favour of antidepressant use in children, researchers say. 020
Richard Van Noorden @richvn.bsky.social · 03/10/2026she deserved it and got the Wolf Prize the year after. physicsworld.com/a/twenty-thr...physicsworld.comTwenty-three nominations, yet no Nobel prize: how Chien-Shiung Wu missed out on the top award in physics – Physics WorldMats Larsson and Ramon Wyss reveal why Chien-Shiung Wu never won a Nobel prize 110
Reposted by Richard Van NoordenKara Gavin @karagavin.bsky.social · 03/10/2026Hey @learnedleague.com players, #Jeopardy fans and #womeninSTEM folks - this is a worthy challenge. (My physicist husband and I collaborated and were still humbled by our performance.) 021
Reposted by Richard Van NoordenAlex Turnbull @alejandroturnbull.space · 13/08/2026Oceans of digital ink have been spilt wondering whether humans can correctly align AI. Now we face the truest test: can AI correctly align a dumbass human 1277