pauloffit.substack.com/p/rfk-jrs-ne... RFK Jr.'s latest anti-vaccine initiative might be his most dangerous.
RFK Jr.’s Next Move
RFK Jr. just announced a new vaccine safety initiative. Here’s what happens next.
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Valentin Rodionov
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Chemist. Neurodivergent. Orcophobe. Hand-tool woodworker. Faculty @ CWRU Macro. Founder @intellicat.ai
I nominate this thread for Best of Bluesky today.
Peer-Reviewed Slop@peer-reviewed-slop.bsky.social · 8h agoSomething truly amazing has happened to me:
Something truly amazing has happened to me:
I sent this letter to the editor of @economist.com on September 6 and followed up several times. As it remains unpublished six weeks later, I’m sharing it here. chakhoyan.substack.com/p/a-letter-t...
A letter The Economist didn’t print
When moscow threatens to expand russia’s war, calling putin “cornered” misrepresents the aggressor for the victim.
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Kremlin couldn’t have written it better. I also like that this time the translation was pretty on point, too. ALLEGEDLY.
This is playing out like Eric Schmitt's faceplant in the Jack Smith hearings, where the right has so completely cooked its brains on Twitter and Truth Social that they don't realize how stupid the initial attack sounds but then they don't even realize how badly it's gone over so they double down.
ghost malone ergo propter bones@proptermalone.bsky.social · 20h agoso on that AES video seems pretty clear that the group-chat gotcha was "AES didn't disavow the Muslim Brotherhood" and now somebody in those group chats is doing asscovering because, actually, he did, he just did it real fast before counterpunching and they didn't notice
Interesting report on NSF from the metascience/reform crowd. On one hand it admits that there's no good way to measure the quality of output (esp. from basic science), on the other hand it insists on the importance of studying/using metascience.
New Science’s Report on the NSF - New Science
By Matt Faherty October 2026 Contents Executive Summary Introduction Part 1 – The National Science Foundation’s Past and Present Part 2 – Why the National Science Foundation Needs Metascience and Exp...
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a friend of mine’s was a member of his lab and witness to the allegations against him (which are true).
New post! In which I discuss a truly amazing piece of science sleuthing that recently appeared on @pubpeer.com neuroskepticbsky.substack.com/p/the-sherlo...
The Sherlock Holmes of Science Sleuths?
How an anonymous poster cracked the case of the random data
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Part of the answer to "how did we get here?" is that many major journalists—since 1998, Crawford has covered SCOTUS for PBS, ABC, and CBS—are lying bigots. Here Crawford is praising a guy who asked a dumb racist question, glitched out when asked why, then admitted he wanted a Christian theocracy.
Steve Vladeck@stevevladeck.bsky.social · yesterdayThis is a really striking tweet.
Today I'm posting a new video to my YouTube channel. Over 100 toxicology research papers, mostly published by Egyptian labs, include fabricated images of comet assays! youtu.be/s2ul4tBMzbs
Dozens of Toxicology Research Papers Contain Fabricated Images
YouTube video by Sholto David
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This is Tommy. Tommy had a question about my allegiances. Listen to the end to hear about his.
Thank you for pointing that out! You are 100% correct: cars aren't supposed to fly, and you are completely justified in being upset that we are currently upside down in a ditch. I must be honest with you: I am unable to open these doors, and batteries will combust by rising water in 32.7 seconds.
Matt Novak@paleofuture.bsky.social · 2d agosentient
What's actually going to fuck up Microsoft is the US' current enshittified federal government, which has caused many other nations across the world to decide to stop using US-based software and pursue their own (usually open-source-based) alternatives.
Rachel Greenham@strangenoises.org · 2d agoso what we *really* need is for MS to enshittify their products so much as to overcome even the inertia of the publishers. luckily that seems to be their goal too. 😉
DEVELOPING: Northwestern alum Ali Slayie was detained by ICE Thursday night in Seattle while boarding a flight back home to San Francisco, @thedailynu.bsky.social can confirm. See article in top comment for details. GoFundMe to help cover expenses:
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1/ The Musk-Trump decision to degrade Ukraine's Starlink access as a pressure tactic is a disaster not just for the United States' reputation but for the entire US defence industry. Musk's action may end up burning the whole industry. ⬇️
My brief thoughts on Sabatini winning lawsuit against his accuser, who's to pay him $6 million. 1. The law always serves those with money. MIT won because they're rich. Whistleblower Knouse, who never publicly accused Sabatini, lost.
Increasing their visibility can’t be a bad thing. A lot of places it’s basically impossible to avoid warrentless police surveillance. www.androidauthority.com/mapquest-flo...
MapQuest's new tool can help you avoid Flock cameras
MapQuest is leaning further into solutions for 2026's increasingly dystopian bent, adding a new Surveillance Layer to its maps.
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"Because manuscripts reflected real progress towards our field’s goals, our assessment systems began relying on them as primary metrics...which is obviously flawed...Generative AI has broken this already-flawed proxy completely" journals.plos.org/plosbiology/...
What is biology research for?
In the age of generative artificial intelligence (AI), the assumption that writing a paper requires doing science no longer holds true. Before deciding how to respond to the surge of AI-generated pape...
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My quote of the day When I hear a guy lost a battle to cancer, that really did bother me, that that's a term. It implies that he failed and that somebody else that defeated cancer is heroic and courageous. Norm MacDonald
Beating up a woman at a Trump rally is ghastly. But she didn't exactly inspire civility when she arrived in a shirt reminding the crowd of their icon's ties to child sex trafficking. by David Brooks
Im deeply confused. They claim discovery of crystal structures but dont actually make crystals or show they exist? Like...wtf? You dont have a crystal if you dont have a crystal. We predict shit all day everyday, but I dont claim it is real and publish in Science without way more evidence.
Dalmeet Singh Chawla@dalmeet.bsky.social · 4d agoGoogle DeepMind's latest version of the AI crystallography GNoME database still flooded with near duplicate entries and unrealistic compounds — my latest for @cenmag.bsky.social: cen.acs.org/research-int... #ChemSky
What’s this “on hold” bullshit? Impeach and convict and remove him from office. This is clearly illegal. Perhaps we will have to wait until January, but we shouldn’t need to.
Kyle Griffin@kylegriffin1.bsky.social · 3d agoBREAKING: WASHINGTON (AP) — Trump puts new Russia sanctions passed by Congress on hold, saying a waiver is in the US national interest.