To everyone I said "It won't be so bad, just use the software, it's good to be on top of your accounts blah blah blah". Sorry! 😬 (I am right, by the way, it is good to be on top of accounts, and software is worth investing in. But not *this* way. Oh no, not this way. What a fuck up.)

My Apolocheese: Funny Cat Meme

ALT: My Apolocheese: Funny Cat Meme

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Paul Whaley@dangerwhale.bsky.social · 9h ago

That's my Making Tax Digital done. It cost about 1300 quid this year to sort out, in extra accountancy fees for set-up and submission. It'll be 800 a year thereafter. I can afford this, luckily, but adding this cost to a sole trader on 50k turnover is really bad, IMO. Or doing it themselves? 🤮

That's my Making Tax Digital done. It cost about 1300 quid this year to sort out, in extra accountancy fees for set-up and submission. It'll be 800 a year thereafter. I can afford this, luckily, but adding this cost to a sole trader on 50k turnover is really bad, IMO. Or doing it themselves? 🤮

i did indeed

Paul Whaley@dangerwhale.bsky.social · 2w ago

couldn't count binface stand against infantino?

How reproducible are preclinical systematic reviews? Evidence from a multi-team challenge: https://osf.io/8y4pn

Big news for the Rothman-Dahly Evidence Pyramid. After introducing it to other participants in today's GRADE Ontology project group call, it is supposedly to become part of the AORN Evidence Model as of... immediately! Stick that in your REF case study @statsepi.bsky.social (and credit me!)

Cat Explosion Ellie Cat Explosion

ALT: Cat Explosion Ellie Cat Explosion

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Since you're a bunch of absolute nerds, you're going to thoroughly enjoy a dose of heavy definitional work that sets up a tool for assessing the external validity of in vitro studies. Have fun, but not too much fun! www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...

RegCheck is going straight into the editorial triage workflow for testing at EBT www.tandfonline.com/journals/teb...

Evidence-Based Toxicology

An open science journal publishing evidence-based research in the toxicological and human environmental health sciences, investigating how environmental exposur

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Jamie Cummins@jamiecummins.bsky.social · 7mo ago

Comparing registrations to published papers is essential to research integrity - and almost no one does it routinely because it's slow, messy, and time-demanding. RegCheck was built to help make this process easier. Today, we launch RegCheck V2. 🧵 regcheck.app

couldn't count binface stand against infantino?

I'm pleased to be on the Editorial Committee for @sci-integrity.com and I recommend you read the latest issue of REACH. Especially if, like me, you were not able to attend the 9th World Conference on Research Integrity - everything there is in here!

Science Integrity Alliance@sci-integrity.com · 3w ago

The April–June 2026 issue of REACH is now live! 🎉 🔗 www.sci-integrity.com/reach Our special coverage takes you inside the 9th World Conference on Research Integrity in Vancouver, where 700+ people from 57 countries met to confront the forces reshaping how science is done and trusted. 🧵 1/7

If I get 2 more patrons, I can start sending out stickers like this! patreon.com/dsoart

Just as publishers are waking up to the threats from paper mills, they are adopting a new approach to keep one step ahead, as explained in this guest blogpost by Matt Spick. deevybee.blogspot.com/2026/07/how-... #researchintegrity #publishing #papermills

How paper mills go straight (without going clean): a shift to dual-use services

Guest post by Matt Spick                            Photo: Parsadanov/Shutterstock.com From relative obscurity, paper mills have recently mo...

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Ahh this is so great I'm gonna have to do my own. Poor old Mondrian. :D

Tammy Schirle 🇨🇦@tammyschirle.bsky.social · last mo.

Saw this in the Dali museum, whereby he ranks other geniuses and himself by various criteria. Couldn't help but think of economists' love for rankings, but what would our categories be?

@twpiggott.bsky.social To get you in the mood for the World Cup!

Michael Balazo@mbalazo.bsky.social · 2mo ago

Here it is: Canada's World Cup 2026 song! "Canada is Balls" is an inspirational song designed to unite the country during the World Cup... and beyond! 🇨🇦⚽️🏆⚽️🏆🇨🇦 Song concept, music & lyrics by Michael Balazo Editing, graphics, captions: @soozuk.bsky.social #worldcup #canada #music #football #soccer

Recommend reading Silverchair's sober analysis of the state of peer-review in 2026. "Before accepting a crisis narrative ... the report asks for evidence. What the report finds is more complicated, and (hopefully) more useful, than a simple alarm." www.silverchair.com/news/the-num...

The Numbers Behind the Noise: What Our 2026 Peer Review Report Shows - Silverchair

The 2026 Future of Peer Review Report doesn't accept the crisis narrative at face value. Here's what the evidence actually shows.

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Three bloody cheers for @pollytoynbee.bsky.social, the best defence of selective screening programs I have read in a long, long time. www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...

The right’s culture war over prostate cancer screening is damaging trust in medicine | Polly Toynbee

The decision not to test all men and only screen the most at risk, including black men, is fact-based. Yet it’s been called ‘two tier’ – and labelled as misandry, says Guardian columnist Polly Toynbee

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I like this take, it helps make sense of the avalanche of I'm not sure exactly what to call it that has in the last year made academic LinkedIn a haystack of bullshit and a needle of information. (Neal Stephenson in Anathem did, in fact, call it bullshit and you should all read that book.)

Marie Le Conte@youngvulgarian.marieleconte.com · 2mo ago

am currently working on a large take which is that the only type of things online are "posting" and "content", and you can only be truly good at one of them, and we recentlyish lived through a regime change from the Posting era to the Content era

Here it is: my official audition to play the part of Ozzy in the upcoming Ozzy Osbourne biopic. NOTE: I can also play guitar, sing and drive a car. I am willing to gain/lose weight for the role, and will perform in the nude if it serves the story. #audition #ozzy #blacksabbath #acting #actor

Tangentially, I think this is a structural problem for researchers as well - I feel acutely disadvantaged by not having a university infrastructure around me. However, that infrastructure comes with its own demands that may not ultimately be a net benefit (so I try to fret less about that). 1/2

Hannah Fearn@hannahfearn.bsky.social · 3mo ago

I've spent the last two years fretting that my isolation as a freelance journalist have caused the rotting in my brain and my inability to think and write freely like I used to. It's reassuring that even in the busiest staff role @katharineviner.bsky.social is apparently facing the same blocks.

great, now i have to reconsider atheism

preach

Crystal Lewis@cghlewis.bsky.social · 3mo ago

I was asked to speak with a graduate class today about research data management. I was asked, "How do people become convinced that beginning data management early on in a project is worth it?" Me: "Suffering. They usual have to suffer first." 😅

Just to get this on the record, the term "chinfluencers", used to describe researchers who develop high-profile social media accounts by relentlessly posting dubiously helpful science commentary, is mine. Thank you for your attention.

This is what the kids call a deep cut.

Paul Hünermund@p-hunermund.com · 4mo ago

It takes a tough nurse to make you understand the Monty Hall problem

I'm sorry, but "Hitler Lewis"? It only gets better when you discover one of his main co-authors is Innocent Benjamin. cen.acs.org/research-int...

the brutality

Darren Dahly@statsepi.bsky.social · 5mo ago

This, but it's professors who refuse to use reporting guidelines explaining why.

Very nice essay from your man @iandunt.bsky.social on how to think about AI. It is a tool. (Could we expand on the concept of tools? I am not sure people know how to think about tools either: know your task, and judge the tool against how it performs that task.) iandunt.substack.com/p/how-to-thi...

How to think about AI and not have an existential crisis

It is a tool, not a replacement.

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Ribbit.

old: two spaces after a full stop. bold: one space after a full stop. cold: carriage return after a full stop.

If it makes you uncomfortable, think how I feel? That's my great-grandpa Maurice in the fourth pic.

Emi@kayamalie.bsky.social · 6mo ago

Whale evolution makes me uncomfortable

I don't think we should require anyone to have a licence to be a researcher, but I do think we should require a researcher to have a licence to use a keyboard.

Classic UK approach. Figure out how fast the horse is bolting and where it is bolting to, then shut the stable door. www.theguardian.com/environment/...

Environmentalists decry ‘crushingly disappointing’ Pfas action plan for UK

Ministers’ proposals to tackle ‘forever chemicals’ fail to match tougher stance taken in Europe, say experts

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