Leonid Schneider
@forbetterscience.bsky.social
Science journalism by Leonid Schneider, on forbetterscience.com Read at your own risk, people got sacked for much less. Posts may contain #antifa and #russophobia 🇺🇦 https://forbetterscience.com/
4 people, including 3 children, were killed on the evening of August 21 as a result of a Russian strike on the village of Tokarivka in Mykolaiv region‼️ 2 of the children were 11, and the 3rd was 13. A Russian Shahed drone struck a building that housed a shop, a post office, and a pharmacy.
This is horrifying. Fourteen people were murdered and 121 injured, including 22 children as russia attacked the largest mall in Kryvyi Rih on Friday afternoon. 29 people are in severe condition.
Gerry Melino and Guido Kroemer run this journal. forbetterscience.com/2021/10/20/c...
Cell Death and Depravity
Is the journal Cell Death and Disease a disease itself, parasitised by Chinese paper mills? Can it be cured? Not with this team of doctors on editorial board.
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Sholto David@sholtodavid.bsky.social · 8h agoSilly correction at Cell Death & Disease. Authors elected to correct just one of these images after accepting that there was an overlapping area, but disputed the other obviously cloned parts. Who accepted the correction at Springer Nature? Sometimes it feels like there are no adults in the loop.
The death toll in Kryvyi Rih has risen to 14, and over 100 people injured in russian attack on shopping mall‼️ Families are still waiting news from loved ones who were inside the mall during the strike and remain unreachable. Search and rescue operations are ongoing.
Where two scientists, Soraya Valles and Chris Rudd, separately blame their coauthors for everything. In Valles case, it gets particularly nasty and unhinged.
Leonid Schneider@forbetterscience.bsky.social · 19h agoSchneider Shorts 21.08.2026 – Two names inside the same argument forbetterscience.com/2026/08/21/s...
Rest in peace, Jason Arday. Shut your gob and crawl back under your stone, Paolo Macchiarini.
Leonid Schneider@forbetterscience.bsky.social · 19h agoSchneider Shorts 21.08.2026 – Two names inside the same argument forbetterscience.com/2026/08/21/s...
Schneider Shorts 21.08.2026 – Two names inside the same argument forbetterscience.com/2026/08/21/s...
Schneider Shorts 21.08.2026 – Two names inside the same argument
Schneider Shorts 21.08.2026 – after the racists got their lynching, guess who joins the Jason Arday debate, one Spanish professor and one Canadian professor explain things, and two white men …
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Petra de Sutter first defended Cofnas, then sacked him after he helped lynch a Black man. Not the first time De Sutter defended the wrong scientist. www.demorgen.be/nieuws/groen...
“Groen tegen innovatie? Ik werk toch met de nieuwste gentechnologie, hoor”
Fertiliteitsarts en senator Petra De Sutter (UZ Gent) overtuigde wereldvermaard stamcelonderzoeker Cathérine Verfaillie (KU Leuven) om mee op de Europese kieslijst voor Groen te gaan staan. Net nu som...
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Professor Jason Stanley - ex-Yale, now Toronto - is also a leading authority on fascism. He busted Nathan Cofnas back in 2020 BEFORE his appointment at Cambridge. This entire story has been reported without any meaningful expertise of the context. spectator.com/article/acad...
Academics are trying to get my paper retracted — and some of them haven’t even read it
Philosophy is ultimately about questioning orthodoxies and challenging taboos
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Carole Cadwalladr@carolecadwalla.bsky.social · 2d agoA professor writes: (Jason Stanley) The problem is that journalists failed to do basic journalism. Not a single reporter seems to have checked’ Jason Arday’s citations. The ‘quantifiable metrics’ of his work. Prof Stanley did: ‘Arday is easily comparable to the leading scholars in the field’
Calling all academic racists: this young fella needs a new job!
Sunder Katwala (sundersays)@sundersays.bsky.social · yesterdayGhent University suspends Cofnas, a supporter of eugenics and biological racism. Prior to his role in the Arday controversy, the department in Ghent had issued an account doubting the opaque recruitment process was on merit, or that he was qualified for the role www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...
The Trump regime is looking for immigrant detention camps big enough to hold up to 3,000 children. At an industry roundtable discussion, officials wouldn't say exactly where or when they need them, only that they’re expecting a “surge.” New from me in @prospect.org.
Judge Orders Monitors for Child Detention as Trump Administration Plans Expansion - The American Prospect
The order came the same day that the Office of Refugee Resettlement held an industry roundtable to discuss new detention facilities for thousands of children.
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I've published many articles with many of my African PhD students. Reviewer 2, every single bloody time, comes out with "please get the language checked by a native English speaker". Colourblind, my arse!
Just before Jason Arday's tragic death, Ivan Oransky & Adam Marcus of @retractionwatch.com shat themselves with this piece in Bezos' WaPo, claiming that historically there's no such thing as racism in academia: www.washingtonpost.com/opinions/202...
Opinion | The Jason Arday scandal isn’t as simple as DEI gone wrong
This isn’t the first time a university has dug in to protect an obviously flawed professor.
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Nazi pseudoscientist Nathan Cofnas is suspended and about to be kicked out by Ghent University
Last night, russian missile attack on Kyiv killed 15 people in their homes and beds. In the video, an elderly woman asks rescuers if her grandson could still be alive inside the ruined apartment. The clip ends as his body is carried out of the wreckage as she screams in agony.
Without commenting on Arday's tragic case, Jason Stanley's claim "there is no obvious way of “gaming” citations" is plain wrong and naive.
Carole Cadwalladr@carolecadwalla.bsky.social · 2d agoA professor writes: (Jason Stanley) The problem is that journalists failed to do basic journalism. Not a single reporter seems to have checked’ Jason Arday’s citations. The ‘quantifiable metrics’ of his work. Prof Stanley did: ‘Arday is easily comparable to the leading scholars in the field’
"An international team of scientists found concerns in 853 articles published by (...) IHU, (..) Didier Raoult was listed as co-author on 758 of them" Quelle surprise! Raoult has shitloads of retractions, and we all knew he was a fraud since 2020.
Stephanie Kirchgaessner@skirchy.bsky.social · 3d agoPlease read and share the latest by @bymichellersmith.com who has relentlessly been reporting on MAHA's embrace of so-called 'gold standard science' and the ways this has profoundly shaped policy and public perceptions www.theguardian.com/science/2026...
Yet another horrific night for Kyiv.A massive Russian attack killed 12 people&injured 33 more. Several districts of the city suffered extensive damage.Residential buildings,a school,a children’s hospital, warehouses,other infrastructure were hit. 📹:libkos /dobronosov/Radio Liberty / SESU /Suspilne
🙏 A large fire broke out in Boryspil at food warehouses and Red Cross facilities
The russians have once again committed terrible war crimes by bombing urban centres with ballistic missiles, taking full advantage of the fact that Western Europe is ignoring the threat posed by russian supremacism, instead focusing on a conflict that has nothing to do with the continent's security.
At least 12 dead after hours-long Russian ballistic missile, drone attack on Kyiv, children's hospital damaged
The attack is still ongoing and an air raid alert is still in place in the capital.
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70 missiles, on one city. Can those fish finger eaters in Germany even imagine what this means?
Maria Drutska@mariadrutska.bsky.social · 2d agoApocalyptic scenes from Kyiv. Russia’s attack on the capital and the surrounding region has now continued for more than 7 hours. Russia has already launched around 70 missiles of various types. Residential buildings, energy infrastructure, railways and warehouses have all been hit.
Academia again the first to surrender to fascist overlords, as if they always wait for them
Colette Delawalla, PhD@cdelawalla.bsky.social · 2d agoHey @apsphysics.aps.org...why the hell are you bringing in Heritage Foundation supported people to steer the direction of the NSF????? www.aps.org/initiatives/...
russia was last deporting Ukrainians to Siberia in 1940ies...
Olga Nesterova@onestpress.onestnetwork.com · 2d ago
"An international team of scientists found concerns in 853 articles published by (...) IHU, (..) Didier Raoult was listed as co-author on 758 of them" Quelle surprise! Raoult has shitloads of retractions, and we all knew he was a fraud since 2020.
Stephanie Kirchgaessner@skirchy.bsky.social · 3d agoPlease read and share the latest by @bymichellersmith.com who has relentlessly been reporting on MAHA's embrace of so-called 'gold standard science' and the ways this has profoundly shaped policy and public perceptions www.theguardian.com/science/2026...
Germany prevents russia sanctions again, because of russian fish fingers.
Michael Albert@michlalbrt.bsky.social · 3d ago"Deutschland und Portugal sperrten sich gegen Einfuhrbeschränkungen für Alaska-Seelachs und Kabeljau aus Russland. Berlin fürchtet um die Versorgung mit Fischstäbchen." Fischstäbchen. Mir fehlen die Worte, wie sehr ich mich für diese Bundesregierung schäme.
