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Ed Gerstner 印格致

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Director of Research Environment Alliances, Springer Nature ― Open Science advocate ― Zhongguo tong. orcid.org/0000-0003-0369-0767

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Ed Gerstner 印格致 @silentypewriter.bsky.social · 21/09/2026
Also, what's her purity test? My grandfather was born in The Bold Forester pub just outside of Southampton. Can you get more English than being born in an English pub? But my other grandfather was born in Budapest. Does that disqualify me from having a cultural identity?
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Springer Nature @springernature.com · 17/09/2026
Peer review doesn't have to be a black box. Nature's transparent peer review helps researchers see how papers are reviewed, challenged and improved before publication. #PeerReviewWeek #PRW2026 @nature.com @natureportfolio.nature.com @natcomms.nature.com @magdalenaskipper.bsky.social
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Ed Gerstner 印格致 @silentypewriter.bsky.social · 25/08/2026
The 5 Simpsons lines I’ve uttered most off the top of my head: 1. Argh! Somebody spilled beer in this ashtray! 2. The Bart, the! 3. All right! Okay! I promise you victory! I promise you good times! 4. We're the MTV generation. We experience neither highs nor lows. 5. D'OH! A deer. A female deer.
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Ed Gerstner 印格致 @silentypewriter.bsky.social · 25/08/2026
Dear @newstatesman1913.bsky.social, how do I turn off auto-renew on my New Statesman subscription? The steps suggested on your help pages don't help. It's not clear how to select the 'Actions' button that doesn't exist on the 'My Account' page. Is this what Andy Burnham means by subscription traps?
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Ed Gerstner 印格致 @silentypewriter.bsky.social · 22/08/2026
Too much time hanging out with Russell Brand.
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Magdalena Skipper @magdalenaskipper.bsky.social · 28/05/2026
I am very happy that we are expanding Registered Reports to all disciplines in which we publish, which is all areas of natural, clinical and social sciences, engineering & public health. We’ve learned a lot since 2023 when we first invited RRs; we are ready to expand 🧪 www.nature.com/articles/d41...
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Nature is expanding Registered Reports to all the fields in which we publish
Registered Reports improve the credibility of scientific claims by rewarding big questions, sound methods and solid analyses. They need to become a standard tool in research.
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Ed Gerstner 印格致 @silentypewriter.bsky.social · 03/05/2026
OMG! All reCAPTCHAs should be this!
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James O'Malley @jamesomalley.co.uk · 23/04/2026
Open this in a new tab so it’s ready for lunchtime:
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Stella Creasy MP @stellacreasy.bsky.social · 27/02/2026
Plans to make refugee a status of perpetual limbo will do nothing to stop people who need help seeking it nor make it possible for them to rebuild their lives and contribute. I call for humane and effective asylum reforms because I am true Labour, not blue Labour. www.thetimes.com/uk/politics/...
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Ed Gerstner 印格致 @silentypewriter.bsky.social · 28/01/2026
This. Completely and utterly, this.
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Diana Kwon @dianakwon.bsky.social · 26/01/2026
Looking for sources for a @nature.com story about how researchers are coping in the midst of current events: If you're a PhD or other academic who's struggling to focus with everything that's happening in the world and would like to be interviewed for this story, please get in touch ASAP!
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Kevin M. Levin @civilwarmemory.bsky.social · 26/01/2026
History teachers across the country and at every grade level should organize a teach-in this week by having students explore the Boston Massacre as part of the #America250 commemoration.
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DORA @dorassessment.bsky.social · 04/12/2025
"I started laughing immediately!", "It's so practical!", "There's both metric and imperial systems". We are so happy people got the joke and had fun unboxing their bag goodie! 🤩 Join us in increasing awareness of negative impacts of inappropriate metrics and spread alternative practices! #CeRRA2025
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Ed Gerstner 印格致 @silentypewriter.bsky.social · 03/12/2025
I *love* the marketing from DORA in the delegate bag for the EU Presidency High-Level Conference on Reforming Research Assessment in Copenhagen. #CeRRA2025
DORA (San Francisco Declaration On 
Research Assessment) branded tape measure given out at the EU Presidency High-Level Conference on Reforming Research Assessment in Copenhagen.
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Ed Gerstner 印格致 @silentypewriter.bsky.social · 27/11/2025
Except that from the image used on this post, Hitler seems to have had left-handed DNA. Which is EXTRAORDINARY!
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Ed Gerstner 印格致 @silentypewriter.bsky.social · 23/11/2025
Also, it's an export industry that is immune to tariffs!!!
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Ed Gerstner 印格致 @silentypewriter.bsky.social · 24/10/2025
This is an important question that gets to the heart of how people consume and pass on information. And I'll bet the AI number is connected to the human number. Because guess who the AI learns from.
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Ed Gerstner 印格致 @silentypewriter.bsky.social · 18/10/2025
Something had indeed changed since the 80s. Jenrick should try googling, "Why were English football clubs banned from Europe in the 1980s?" It wasn't because of good-natured rough and tumble.
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Ben Ansell @benansell.bsky.social · 04/10/2025
Couldn’t agree more with this para from @jonathanfreedland.bsky.social www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...
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Stephen Frost @sfrost.bsky.social · 03/08/2025
Great piece on the Welsh government’s 20mph policy by @willhaycardiff.bsky.social “What is great about evidence based policy is that it has a wonderful habit of working” Inspiration for England as DfT work on the promised road safety strategy.
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Turns out the 20mph limit was great idea!
Two years on from the controversial policy, it's becoming increasingly clear that the doubters were wrong
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Ed Gerstner 印格致 @silentypewriter.bsky.social · 29/07/2025
"Boomers bought houses at a time when saving a couple of pounds per day taking a packed lunch to work would give you a house deposit in eight years. For a millennial this would take two centuries."
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Ed Gerstner 印格致 @silentypewriter.bsky.social · 15/07/2025
That's a nice piece. And feels just as relevant to the UK as the US. Though the point about the absurdness of US bureaucracy makes for less headroom in the UK case.
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Stephen Curry @scurry.bsky.social · 26/06/2025
Bracing myself for an intense but stimulating few days next week. A year in the planning at @rorinstitute.bsky.social but now it’s almost here! metascience.info
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Metascience 2025 Conference
A global gathering for knowledge sharing, community building, and opportunities to define a roadmap of research and intervention priorities to accelerate science.
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Ed Gerstner 印格致 @silentypewriter.bsky.social · 06/06/2025
When people claim that peer review is irreparably broken, the development of the COVID vaccine is the counterexample I offer.
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Philip Ball @philipcball.bsky.social · 31/05/2025
Well worth a look. As I explain in my book Serving The Reich, there was very little resistance to these measures from the physicists, even in the early days. Most kept their heads down. As Chanda says, none left Germany unless they had "non-Aryan" hanging over them.
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Satoshi Tanaka @sato51643335.bsky.social · 30/05/2025
Springer Nature reported its international web survey on research integrity. Congratulations! @silentypewriter.bsky.social In Japan, many researchers recognize that "avoiding research misconduct" is research integrity. We should update our thoughts. figshare.com/articles/onl...
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White paper: Surveying the provision of research integrity training around the world
Springer Nature surveyed a total of 7,871 researchers in Australia (993), the UK (1,078), the USA (1,962), India (659), Japan (1,190), China (1,008), and Brazil (981), to explore understanding of rese...
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Ed Gerstner 印格致 @silentypewriter.bsky.social · 28/05/2025
It seems to me that if we believe in free trade, we should believe in free trade. That's not to say that there might not be nationally strategic reasons to protect domestic bioethanol production, but I'd be interested to hear them.
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Stella Creasy MP @stellacreasy.bsky.social · 22/05/2025
Here’s what a Labour government at its best can achieve - share to spread the word and ask for more. #TrueLabour
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Ed Gerstner 印格致 @silentypewriter.bsky.social · 02/05/2025
Huh! I feel utterly disabused.
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Springer Nature @springernature.com · 02/05/2025
🚀 The 2025 #StateOfOpenData survey is live! 🌐 Researchers worldwide, we want to hear about your experiences and challenges with data sharing. Help shape the future of #OpenScience and stand a chance to win 1 of 5 $100 gift cards! Participate today: go.sn.pub/024jk6 @figshare.com @digital-science.com
The image is a promotional banner for 'The State of Open Data 2025' survey. It features the logos of Springer Nature, Digital Science, and Figshare at the top. Below the logos, there are aerial photographs of winding roads through different landscapes: one with autumn foliage, one with snow-covered trees, and one with lush green forest. The text on the banner reads 'The State of Open Data 2025 Survey now open.'
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Ed Gerstner 印格致 @silentypewriter.bsky.social · 28/04/2025
Love this!
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Ed Gerstner 印格致 @silentypewriter.bsky.social · 05/03/2025
"If traditional computers are precision machines that struggle with fuzziness, LLMs are the inverse: fuzzy machines that struggle with precision." 💯! And crucial to deciding when LLMs should and shouldn't be used.
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Ed Gerstner 印格致 @silentypewriter.bsky.social · 27/02/2025
Suella's refusal to accept the consensus of the English that being English has nothing to do with race is at least consistent with her assertion that she isn't herself English.
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Magdalena Skipper @magdalenaskipper.bsky.social · 25/02/2025
Great minds… within 24 hrs both us at @nature.com and @science.org make similar appeals to the research community. And @holdenthorp.bsky.social and I didn’t even exchange notes about it ;-) 🧪 www.nature.com/articles/d41... www.science.org/doi/10.1126/...
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Come together, right now
The chaos, conflicting information, firings, and hurtful rhetoric of the Trump administration’s approach to science over the past month are causing anxiety, grief, and concern for the scientific commu...
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Sergey Frolov🇺🇦 @spinespresso.bsky.social · 24/02/2025
3 years from when russia invaded Ukraine. When the USA told the leader of the free world President Zelensky to leave, and he replied "I don't need a ride. I need ammunition". This is the first slide of every talk I gave in the last 3 years. This thread is about (quantum) science in Ukraine. 🧵
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Ed Gerstner 印格致 @silentypewriter.bsky.social · 14/02/2025
Every talk that I've ever given on writing — and I've given MANY — has begun with Tim Radford's first rule of writing to think of the reader. “This is because, although you — an employee, an apostle or an apologist — may feel compelled to write, nobody has ever felt obliged to read.”
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Zoe Gardner @zoejardiniere.bsky.social · 14/02/2025
Good morning to this man, and this man only #bbcqt
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Stella Creasy MP @stellacreasy.bsky.social · 11/02/2025
This should be changed asap. If we give someone refugee status, it can't be right to then refuse them route to become a British Citizen. To say they can have a home in our country, but never a place in our society and be forever second class. freemovement.org.uk/good-charact...
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Good character guidance amended to block refugees from naturalisation - Free Movement
There have been some important additions to pages 50 and 51 of the Good Character guidance (a comparison of the new and old versions is here) that have the
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Zen Faulkes @doctorzen.net · 11/02/2025
Take this #AresnicLife article with a grain of salt. The described timeline is NOT really how it went down. People like Rosie Redfield are obliquely called "critics." Wolfe-Simon never says, "We made a mistake." If anything, it sounds like she STILL thinks GFAJ-1 doesn't use phosphorus.
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Ed Gerstner 印格致 @silentypewriter.bsky.social · 11/02/2025
I think NASA gets off far too lightly in this piece. It's framed as if the folks on social media were primarily responsible for things getting out of control. Rather than the utterly shameless hyperbole of the press release and subsequent press conference.
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Richard Sever @richardsever.bsky.social · 05/02/2025
BMJ: "instruct[ing] scientists to withdraw or retract articles from journals is sinister...We will not retract articles on the basis that they contain so-called banned words.." www.bmj.com/content/388/...
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Medical journal editors must resist CDC order and anti-gender ideology
The news that on 31 January 2025 the Trump administration instructed scientists employed by the US Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) to withdraw or retract articles from medical and sci...
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Ed Gerstner 印格致 @silentypewriter.bsky.social · 02/02/2025
Coincidentally, that's the only song I've ever quoted in a Nature Physics editorial. doi.org/10.1038/nphy...
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Science policy in a changing world - Nature Physics
Nature Physics - Science policy in a changing world
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Nature @nature.com · 24/01/2025
Roughly 6,000 readers answered our poll, with many declaring that Bluesky was nicer, kinder and less antagonistic to science than X go.nature.com/42tH8Ai
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Bluesky’s science takeover: 70% of Nature poll respondents use platform
Roughly 6,000 readers answered our poll, with many declaring that Bluesky was nicer, kinder and less antagonistic to science than X.
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Stephen Curry @scurry.bsky.social · 17/01/2025
AI and potholes: James quietly handles THE TRUTH.
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John Bull @garius.bsky.social · 06/01/2025
Dear New York Congrats on your congestion charge! Be aware that every Christmas your towny relatives will tell you how angry it makes them (though it doesn't affect them at all). Also 99% of people shouting about how its ruined their life in the newspapers will be filthy rich. Regards, London
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Gavin Schmidt @climateofgavin.bsky.social · 26/12/2024
Even God can be wrong once in a whi….
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The Distributed AI Research (DAIR) Institute @dairinstitute.bsky.social · 11/12/2024
In this op-ed for Nature, our very own @nyalleng.bsky.social writes: "It is this difference in prioritization that is..missing... Which problems people focus on, what we regard as informative data & what types of failure are...acceptable are all human choices.” www.nature.com/articles/d41...
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Better data sets won’t solve the problem — we need AI for Africa to be developed in Africa | Nature
Language models developed by big technology companies consistently underperform in African languages. It’s time to focus on local solutions. Language models developed by big technology companies consistently underperform in African languages. It’s time to focus on local solutions.
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Zoe Gardner @zoejardiniere.bsky.social · 16/12/2024
Listening to politicians talk about asylum seekers it sounds like their one & only purpose is to keep people out. Which of you is not too much of a coward to say: it is GOOD that people escape from danger. And it is GOOD that the UK can be a place of sanctuary, actually.
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Anna Abalkina @abalkina.bsky.social · 10/12/2024
‪Happy Advent! 🎄 Day 10. This is a special 10th case on a special day for me due to my Nature's 10 award (www.nature.com/articles/d41...). You can train your skills to become a sleuth yourself. #fraudbuster papermills.tilda.ws/advent - all cases Days 1-10 papermills.tilda.ws/advent10 - case Day 10
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Elisabeth Bik @elisabethbik.bsky.social · 10/12/2024
This fearless science sleuth risked her career to expose publication fraud Anna Abalkina @abalkina.bsky.social is part of Nature’s 10, a list of people who shaped science in 2024. Holly Else reports at Nature. www.nature.com/articles/d41...
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This fearless science sleuth risked her career to expose publication fraud
Anna Abalkina is part of Nature’s 10, a list of people who shaped science in 2024.
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