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Ehud @duhe.bsky.social · 09/10/2026

Expect to see more of this in the future

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Butlerian Jihadist of House Dornick @shimminykricket.blacksky.app · 08/10/2026

Harvard just dropped a study AI productivity in software engineering and it found the average increase in productivity from using Claude code is.....zero and for exactly the reasons you'd think fion.ac/jellyfish.pdf

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Kevin Zollman @kevinzollman.com · 07/10/2026

Find an adviser that you like working with. This is more important than topic and more important than fame. It's not that those other things don't matter, but you will do your best work when you get along with your advisor

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Antonio E. Porreca 🐳 @aeporreca.org · 07/10/2026

The Association for Human Mathematics (AHM) statement on OpenAI’s October 6 release of mathematical documents just dropped! www.ahmath.org/statements

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Théotime Grohens @tgrohens.bsky.social · 08/10/2026

Thank you François for writing things so clearly and showing us we're not alone. lookingup.francois-rincon.org/an-open-lett...

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An open letter to academic colleagues consuming genAI – Looking up

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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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Théotime Grohens @tgrohens.bsky.social · 23/09/2026

Thank you, I think it's important to have written-down policies that we can discuss!

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

if we match the output of PhD students to the input of academia jobs, what's preventing people in charge to decrease that input even further and making us go back to square one?

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

For the second part though, in a context where we don't decide how much resources we are given, it feels to me like capitulating in advance:

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

Yeah, while I do agree with the second part of your point, I'm not sure about the first: why would these resources and knowledge be wasted?

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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

I also think that saying that there are too many PhD students shifts the blame onto those PhD students, which I don't think is really the case

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

Personally, I prefer the second option, along with a broader recognition of the value of PhD degrees in society for those that don't continue in academia!

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

So we can try to decrease the number of PhDs, looking for those positions; or, we can also ask for more academic positions -- keeping in mind that there will never be enough for everyone.

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

I think that: - as a society, we benefit from having more people with PhDs (as long as PhDs remain well-earned, but I have no reason to believe otherwise) - as I said before, there will always be a surplus of PhD students wrt available academic positions.

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

I would be curious about stats about what percentage of PhD students go on to do a postdoc for example. I would be curious whether this has increased recently, or if the number of available positions has decreased.

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

Ok, merci ! J'essaie occasionnellement de me connecter mais j'ai toujours un timeout sur la page de connexion...

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

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

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

Of course, none of this is to say that we shouldn't also focus on improving quality of life, pay, etc. for PhD students.

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

Also, I believe that: - not all PhD students enroll with the goal of an academic career and that's OK - it is indeed the responsibility of PhD supervisors to make their students well aware that an academic career is, by far, not the most probable outcome of the PhD career-wise

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

Personally, I would rather focus on working towards a broader recognition for society outside of academia of the skills that a PhD degree confers, and how these can be useful in many other settings!

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

What makes you think that there is overproduction of PhD students? The lack of employments prospects within academia? My take is that, in a (hypothetical) steady state, a researcher needs to train only a single PhD student to replace them. So more than that is already overproduction in those terms?

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Théotime Grohens @tgrohens.bsky.social · 15/09/2026

A thought for the many thousand of flies that must be sacrified to the many-faced monster every day

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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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Théotime Grohens @tgrohens.bsky.social · 10/09/2026

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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
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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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Retraction of: Scientific Reports https://doi.org/10.1038/s41598-024-59416-6
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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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Théotime Grohens @tgrohens.bsky.social · 02/09/2026

I would argue that different kinds of mutations lead to different, possibly intertwined, evolutionary dynamics with different timescales (and so there are different "real drivers" in different circumstances). Why wouldn't be those large-scale mutations representable by (very rare) random vectors?

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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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