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David Ho @davidho.bsky.social · 23/09/2026

Wtaf is this question my university just asked me about my project?

Does the project involve any work that could be interpreted as promoting DEIA, climate change research, or non-compliant to any Presidential Executive Orders?

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Bart Penders @penders.bsky.social · 21/09/2026

Back of the envelope calculations: 3600 years of research time went into the collective application process. The research will fund 3200 years of research. We are 400 research years poorer as a result of this. 1/2

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Huw C. Davies @huwcdavies.bsky.social · 19/09/2026

About 2.7 million hours of work for no return.

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Vaughn Cooper @vscooper.micropopbio.org · 16/09/2026

Authors!🚨 While you scramble for scarce $ 🤔 “Springer Nature reports revenue growth of 6.2%..and adjusted operating profit growth of 7.7%. They reported even more stunning submission growth of 30% and published article growth of 13%.” Publishing in society journals helps YOU not them👇🏻. Pass it on.

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Man Lying on a Pile of Money

ALT: Man Lying on a Pile of Money

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elizabethginexi.bsky.social @elizabethginexi.bsky.social · 16/09/2026

The Trump administration has cut or frozen up to $177 billion in federal grants since the president took office for his second term, according to a tracking tool released Wednesday by a pro-democracy nonprofit and a group of researchers and scientists. apnews.com/article/trum...

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Trump administration has cut or frozen $177 billion in grants across every state, analysis shows

An analysis finds that the Trump administration has cut or frozen up to $177 billion in federal grants since the president took office for his second term.

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David Ho @davidho.bsky.social · 15/09/2026

NSF has reduced the research budget for all atmospheric, ocean, and earth sciences by ~80%. 80%! A lot of us will not be conducting new research or training new students for the foreseeable future.

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Mary Lewis @profmarylewis.bsky.social · 16/09/2026

Excellent oped in @theharvardcrimson.bsky.social by my @harvard.edu colleague Jill Lepore. www.thecrimson.com/article/2026...

But of course, the machine conversation is not free. It comes at the cost of our common life together as teachers, learners, and researchers, colleagues, mentors, and friends. Not to mention, supervising student researchers is our job.

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Théotime Grohens @tgrohens.bsky.social · 18/09/2026

#ESR : Odyssée ne marche pas ? C'est normal ?

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RogueESR @rogueesr.bsky.social · 14/09/2026

VeilleESR #ESR Deuxième billet d'une série de 4 consacré à ce que fait aux sciences et à l'Université l'Intelligence Artificielle agentique et générative. Nous proposons une première analyse et une interpellation de la communauté académique. rogueesr.fr/un-moment-da...

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Emily PhD 🎓 @ejwillingham.bsky.social · 12/09/2026

That “encouraged” list is a series of cognitive compromises for people who are supposed to be learning and stretching their capacities and that is just WILD to me that outsourcing that would be *encouraged*

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Dr. DoctriZ Ph.D 👾🦕 @doctriz.com · 10/09/2026

Je suis fille d'ouvriers et d'ouvrières. J'ai deux masters et un doctorat. Les personnes comme moi sont bien trop rares à l'université. Ce genre de mesure ne m'aurait pas permis d'avoir la vie que j'ai. Allez vous faire cuire le cul, le sénat. Vraiment.

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Théotime Grohens @tgrohens.bsky.social · 11/09/2026

Coming soon to a country near you

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Vivek V. Venkataraman @vivek123.bsky.social · 04/09/2026

"...contemporary scientific systems progressively constrain high-risk and conceptually innovative research while being increasingly structured around short funding cycles, productivity-based evaluation criteria and risk-averse frameworks..." www.nature.com/articles/s41...

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Rebecca Sear @rebeccasear.bsky.social · 05/09/2026

Enlightening read on how difficult it is to push back against scientific racism: “When I first started testing the waters about whether we could have frank discussions about racist activism in science, a common response from other biologists (especially senior ones) was, “stop politicizing science”

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Accidental historian: How I got a glimpse into the world of racist pseudoscience activism (Part 1)

Part 1: Setting the Stage

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Flo Débarre @flodebarre.eurosky.social · 04/09/2026

I had missed this important detail 👇, and I had not seen it either in the news articles I had read about the latest IgNobel prizes (Nature, LeMonde) www.nature.com/articles/s41... 🧪 @chrisnsimms.bsky.social

Retraction Note
Open access
Published: 11 February 2025
Retraction Note: Study of defensive behavior of a venomous snake as a new approach to understand snakebite

João Miguel Alves-Nunes, Adriano Fellone, Selma Maria Almeida-Santos, Carlos Roberto de Medeiros, Ivan Sazima & Otavio Augusto Vuolo Marques
Scientific Reports volume 15, Article number: 5027 (2025) Cite this article
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Click and Read was published on 03 May 2024

Retraction of: Scientific Reports https://doi.org/10.1038/s41598-024-59416-6
Click and Read, published online 03 May 2024

The Editors have retracted this Article.

After publication, concerns were raised about the animal work reported in this paper. The Animal Ethics Committee of Butantan Institute confirmed that the approval granted to the Authors for their research on snakes (Bothrops jararaca) did not include newborn snakes or the use of the “soft stepping” method.

All authors disagree with this retraction.

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Anne Roulin @anneroulin.bsky.social · 31/08/2026

An interesting article here about publication costs: www.horizons-mag.ch/2026/06/04/t... From 1 January 2027, @snsf.ch will cap the maximum publication fee at CHF 3,500, and will no longer cover fees that are higher than this, not even partially. www.snf.ch/en/G2XqbkM4D...

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Eric Schares @eschares.bsky.social · 31/08/2026

🚨Update: Our analysis of global APC expenditure has now been expanded to cover more publishers (7 -> 14) and more years (2019-2025). We estimate $15B in APCs paid over seven years, $3.7B in 2025 alone. Elsevier crosses the $1B threshold by itself in 2025. arxiv.org/abs/2608.16322 #ScholComm

Line chart showing 5 biggest publishers from 2019-2025

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Fabrice FRANK @fabricefrank.eurosky.social · 19/08/2026

Dans un premier article, nous émettions des doutes très forts sur l'éthique de 456 articles de l'IHU Méditerranée Infection. Mais nous ne nous sommes pas arrêté là... Oh non ! 1/9 doi.org/10.1186/s410...

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Client Challenge

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Kristian G. Andersen @kgandersen.bsky.social · 20/08/2026

An important point that many miss is that mutational “supply” approximates infinity in nature, so what matters is “selection”. In practice, this means that features, including insertions that code for cleavage sites, come and go all the time, but we rarely, if ever, observe them. Until we do.

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Michel Nivard @michelnivard.bsky.social · 17/08/2026

A mother of a 16 year old, green card holder, a psychology and statistics professor at Los Angeles Pierce College, very much “someone like me”, has been in ICE detention since April. She and her family have even been blocked from self deprorting to Turkey. Bone chilling read.

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One Woman’s Message From the Hell of ICE Detention

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Jean Fisch @jeanfisch.bsky.social · 31/07/2026

@insee.fr released France's daily deaths up to 30/6 so I was curious for Paris (one of the regions hardest hit by the heat in Europe) The impact is "beyond": On Friday 26/6, Paris saw more deaths than on any day during pandemic, incl during its huge wave 1

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Charlotte Weatherill @ckweatherill.bsky.social · 29/07/2026

Full of despair today. Massive lay offs in social sciences and humanities across the country, Burnham puts out a video saying 'AI can write an essay', and my university is busy integrating co-pilot into all staff and student computers. We are being told we're defunct and there's no resistance.

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Mark Histed @markhisted.org · 24/07/2026

I co-sign this great summary from @dereklowe.bsky.social . The goal is to destroy academic science, and these are the reasons. And all the “gold standard” and “needs reform” and “not high risk” stuff is transparent bullshit to hide the ball on what they are doing.

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science. But let me make something clear right up front. When I talk to people about this subject (and that includes some journalists as well) and say what I'm about to at the end of this paragaph I am sometimes met with disbelief. But I mean what I say and I am trying my best to say what I mean: The Trump administration hates academic science funding, full stop. They hate where that money goes, and they hate who it goes to. They want to keep all that money for themselves, to hand out to favored cronies who can help them get elected and to steer yet more money and more power back into their hands.
That's it. That's the story. They are naturally not putting it in those words, but instead talking about "gold standard science" and the
"reproducibility crisis" and funding "bold inquiry" for "transformational
breakthroughs". This is all bullshit, and it's important to realize that. Shameless hand-waving bullshit, delivered in a how-dare-vou-

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Emily M. Bender @emilymbender.bsky.social · 18/07/2026

I did not submit anything to #EMNLP2026, which is probably part of why I missed this when it was first posted in May, but I want to say now that I am utterly appalled that @aclmeeting.bsky.social & @emnlpmeeting.bsky.social are engaging in this nonsense. 2026.emnlp.org/ai-reviewing... A thread 🧵>>

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EMNLP 2026 AI Reviewing Experiment

EMNLP 2026 is running an AI Reviewing Experiment to collect feedback from authors about the quality of AI reviews of their submissions. This experiment is taking place on an opt-in basis, in which aut...

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Jake Charles @jacobdcharles.bsky.social · 16/07/2026

What are the best and worst email sign-offs? I usually use “Thanks” or “Best” but occasionally switch to “Sincerely” when those feel insufficient. “Regards” sounds a tad formal/old fashioned.

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Undone Computer Science @undonecs.org · 08/07/2026

We are happy to announce that the special issue Philosophia Scientiæ 30(2): Undone Computer Science has now appeared in print (Éditions Kimé, Paris) and online by OpenEditions (doi.org/10.4000/16959). Guest editors: Chantal Enguehard, Guillaume Munch-Maccagnoni and Alberto Naibo. Contents ⤵️

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30-2 | 2026 Undone Computer Science

Philosophia Scientiæ est une revue scientifique à comité de lecture qui publie des travaux en épistémologie, en histoire et en philosophie des sciences. Elle accueille notamment des études traitant...

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Théotime Grohens @tgrohens.bsky.social · 08/07/2026

Ce sera dans les jardins de Descartes !

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Luís M. Silva @luismsilva.bsky.social · 06/07/2026

1/🧵 With this paper finally published, I want to talk about the worst peer review experience of my career as a non-native English speaker, early-career researcher, and solo author, and why I think it matters. #AcademicSky #AcademicPublishing #EvoSky

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Théotime Grohens @tgrohens.bsky.social · 02/07/2026

Fantastic talk by Sarah Cohen-Boulakia at #JOBIM2026 on the many challenges of reproducibility in bioinformatics! I didn't even know of the Taverna and Kepler of yore 🤯 👶 And thanks for emphasizing that the publish or perish system does not incentivize allocating time to reproducibility!!

Slide on the changes in the bioinformatics workflow landscape over the last 25 years: from GUI-based Taverna and Kepler to CLI-based snakemake and nextflow

Slide on the principles and challenges of reproducibility: modularization, encapsulation, verifiability, explicit inputs, provenance tracking

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George Monbiot @georgemonbiot.bsky.social · 01/07/2026

Something deeply troubling & shocking is happening at Exeter University*, where a mass cull of staff is planned, even though it's in surplus. No good justifications given. @jamesgdyke.info provides the details: www.technosphere.earth/the-bonfire-... *Disclosure: I have a Visiting Fellowship here. +🧵

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The bonfire of the humanities

150 academic posts at the University of Exeter are to be cut, most in the humanities but also in social sciences, engineering and environmental sciences

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Théotime Grohens @tgrohens.bsky.social · 01/07/2026

@dessimoz.bsky.social at #JOBIM2026: “creating a database is like adopting a puppy, it’s fun in the beginning but it’s a long-term commitment!”

Photo of Christophe Dessimoz giving a keynote talk at JOBIM 2026

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Théotime Grohens @tgrohens.bsky.social · 30/06/2026

En chemin pour ma première participation à #JOBIM2026 !

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Théotime Grohens @tgrohens.bsky.social · 26/06/2026

I don't need some clanker to tell me what good science is, thank you very much

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Flo Débarre @flodebarre.eurosky.social · 26/06/2026

I hope that @qedscience.bsky.social will implement an opt-out mechanism @odedrechavi.bsky.social I personally do not want to be included in those ranking metrics; it is the part of academia I dislike most and find the most damaging

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Ben Phillips @benphillips1989.bsky.social · 23/06/2026

A statement from Exeter UCU branch @ucu.org.uk - please share far and wide.

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Lauren Brent @ljnbrent.bsky.social · 25/06/2026

The University of Exeter is not in budget deficit. Yet are proposing to cut 150 academic jobs. This include my job. Please sign and share the petition, write our Vice Chancellor, to your MP, and get the word out about the act of self harm this university is about to commit. c.org/yKcx6Zr29H

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Stop Redundancies at the University of Exeter

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Manuel Mendoza @longchrom.bsky.social · 22/06/2026

This article in Le Monde about French research in general and the CNRS in particular has a few depressing graphs www.lemonde.fr/sciences/art...

The graph highlights a growing divergence between Germany and France:

* In the mid-1990s, France and Germany spent similar shares of GDP on R&D.
* Germany subsequently increased its R&D investment by about 1 percentage point of GDP.
* France’s R&D effort remained largely stagnant.
* By 2023, Germany spends 3.15% of GDP on R&D compared with 2.18% in France, a gap of nearly 1 percentage point of GDP.
* France is also well below the OECD average (2.93%).

The figure therefore illustrates that France has fallen behind both Germany and the OECD average in R&D intensity over the past three decades.

Sources listed on the graphic: OECD database, UNESCO, ANR, ERC; infographic by Le Monde.

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Crystal Fleming is on sabbatical @alwaystheself.bsky.social · 17/06/2026

I'm attending a digital humanities event in Montreal. There was a keynote on AI and something about the talk made me wonder if it had been written by Claude. I said as much in the Q&A. As I posed the question, the speaker shifted, looking slightly uncomfortable. What he said next shocked the room +

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Jeff Sharlet @jeffsharlet.bsky.social · 16/06/2026

At the end of the term I asked my college creative wriing students to submit anonymous thoughts on AI. No real surprises: Mood ranges from resignation to despair, capitulation from embittered erosion of standards to total, feelings of betrayal from deep to furious. 1/

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Ran Blekhman @blekhman.bsky.social · 15/06/2026

Just start writing. My new post: substack.com/home/post/p-...

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Théotime Grohens @tgrohens.bsky.social · 12/06/2026

Great slide by Thomas Hansen on the importance of theory in evolutionary biology! #EED2026

Photo of a slide saying:
A theoretical perspective
• Francis Crick: "the job of theorists, especially in biology, is to suggest new experiments". (Crick 1988)
• A bit narrow.
• The role of theory is to suggest:
1. New concepts, abstractions and models
2. New hypotheses, perspectives and interpretations
3. New ways of measurement
• New experiments follow.
• Evolvability is a new concept (arguably), and it is associated with new perspectives and questions about the evolutionary process.
• Some of these questions from far back, but evolvability provides an abstraction, an umbrella, for a certain class of questions about evolution.

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Gro-Tsen @gro-tsen.bsky.social · 11/06/2026

On m'a demandé de regarder cette vidéo www.youtube.com/watch?v=AYPQ... de @monsieurphi.bsky.social sur les progrès des LLM en maths et de donner mon avis. Attention, ça va être très long!, parce que forcément j'ai beaucoup à raconter. 🧵⤵️ •1/59

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Arrêt sur images @arretsurimages.net · 11/06/2026

INFO ASI - Étienne Klein perd son doctorat 🚨 Le plagiat de sa thèse, révélé par Arrêt sur images en 2024, vient d'être confirmé à l'issue de 20 mois d’enquête : près de deux tiers des pages seraient concernées. Plus d'infos ⤵️ www.arretsurimages.net/articles/the...

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Thèse plagiée : Étienne Klein perd son doctorat - Par Loris Guémart | Arrêt sur images

Peu après les révélations de plagiat dans la thèse d'Étienne Klein par "Arrêt sur images" en 2024, l'Université Paris Cité avait ouvert une enquête. À la suite de 20 mois de procédure, elle a découver...

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