I have a pet theory about bluesky: there's actually a silent majority of people with concern, but ultimately a nuanced opinion on AI. But this crowd is generally too hesitant to express any excitement or wonder bc there will be a hard-and-fast backlash from the vocal anti-AI contingent. Kinda sucks

Under a Binface government, anyone who doesn’t accept human-made climate change as fact will be sent back to school, from Year 1 right the way to A Levels, to see if anything goes in the second time round. #VoteBinface

Hi all, putting feelers out: folks looking for a job ASAP in the 🇬🇧 in Cornwall, or willing to move? Collaborating group hiring a couple roles with skills in any of: - insect injections (incl. gene edits) - machine learning for image analysis - experience with 🦋 a plus! Can email me at link below.

Hi all, putting feelers out: folks looking for a job ASAP in the 🇬🇧 in Cornwall, or willing to move? Collaborating group hiring a couple roles with skills in any of: - insect injections (incl. gene edits) - machine learning for image analysis - experience with 🦋 a plus! Can email me at link below.

13. Hence our dismal conclusion: rather than finding that LLMs free us to do a better job of what we were doing before they came along, they shift scientific incentives (and the playing field of academic competition) in ways that compel us to do more and more, faster and faster, less and less well.

My #ExE2026 conference post is now live! It was great chatting with attendees about their research and learning more about the field. Thanks again to the organisers @erikpostma.bsky.social, @btschirren.bsky.social, @blongdon.bsky.social, @ali--wilson.bsky.social, and @hansonmark.bsky.social!

PLOS One@plosone.org · 2w ago

Our Associate Editor @sarahjose.bsky.social reports back from #ExE2026 at @uniexecec.bsky.social. Key themes included microbiomes, ageing, behaviour, environmental change, long-term studies such as @soaysheep.bsky.social, and @plos.org focus area of Open Science. everyone.plos.org/2026/07/21/f...

"AI enthusiasts are telling the world that the remedies should all be easy to automate, creating the impression that journals can not only catch more errors but also do it more efficiently and cheaply. That’s not the reality for scientific publishing right now or likely in the future."

@jimbindon.bsky.social · 3w ago

A cautionary note for those seeking a shortcut to publication--from a very authoritative source.🧪 www.science.org/doi/10.1126/...

New for 2026, we’re launching our member spotlights series, where our members share their successes, achievements and experiences. This month, we’re celebrating two of our fantastic Early Career members, Dr Roberta Cacioppo and Dr Mark Hanson. bit.ly/spotlight-on...

There are a couple of other more granular attempts at this also e.g. MeRIT doi.org/10.1038/s414... and dragon kill points doi.org/10.1186/s129...

As someone in the midst of hiring, I do really appreciate when someone uses CRediT author taxonomy. When the Author Contributions section says "X, Y, Z, performed experiments" in a paper with like... 7 figures spanning all kinds of experiments... please use CRediT! Low-key: I'm hiring. Email me!

Crossref@crossref.bsky.social · 3w ago

Think about the last paper you wrote 🤔 how many different roles were involved? And how many different roles did one contributor 🧑‍💻 take on? Explore how we've built multiple contributor roles and support for CRediT in Schema 5.5 🔗https://doi.org/10.64000/6xx3c-nmp80 #CrossrefUpdate #Schema55

An inevitable development for for-profit Open Access publishers is Fordism: automation & massification. If you earn money piece-rate for each paper you want to increase the flow of papers while minimizing cost. e.g. very low and *uniform* turnaround times at Frontiers and MDPI

Michael Okun@michael-okun.bsky.social · 2mo ago

I’ve officially resigned as Associate Editor for Frontiers in Systems Neuroscience. It used to be a reputable journal, but became a case study in how forced automation destroys academic integrity. 👇

Say hello to @hansonmark.bsky.social, one of our new #ListerPrize2026 Fellows 👋 Mark's research helps explain the evolution of key host defence genes – antimicrobial peptides – and how animals can activate their production. Learn more 👉 mahansonresearch.weebly.com

Nigel Farage resigned to force a by-election in a desparate attempt to distract from corruption investigations he should lose (given he's been caught hiding multi-million pound bribes from crypto billionaires and more). No other party will run in his distraction. Count Binface will. #UKpoli

Farrukh@implausibleblog.bsky.social · 4w ago

People of Clacton, you know who to vote for 😆

I had a great time at the 1st #ExE2026 conference! Lots of amazing talks spanning genetics, behaviour, ecology and evolution 🐤 I presented a poster about the effects of sublethal pesticide exposure on cricket behaviour. The paper is in the final stages of review, so hopefully more to share soon 🦗🤞

12/Editors and journals hold enormous influence over careers and over what science becomes part of the published literature. That influence comes with responsibility, and it can drive great scientists away from science. To fellow #ECRs: do not be afraid to raise concerns when something feels wrong.

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

Luís M. Silva@luismsilva.bsky.social · last mo.

1/🧵 Excited to finally share my latest paper (and my first solo paper)! 🎉 Pathogens evolve. Hosts respond. But does pathogen evolution simply change the magnitude of the host response, or does it reshape which host programmes are activated? 🤔 👇 doi.org/10.1038/s420... #Anopheles #EvoSky

You know when you're deep into dissecting a mechanism for your project, and you've thrown everything at it and it still is not that? I call it "The Magic Gnome principle": there's maybe a invisible property or phenomenon yet to be discovered that's messing with it. This is a Magic Gnome 🧪

Alexey Amunts@amunts.bsky.social · last mo.

RNA can build. A short RNA self-assembles into a 60-subunit icosahedral cage like a viral capsid, but made entirely of RNA. The striking preprint also reveals a 57-nt RNA filament at ~2.7 Å. Congratulations, Lin Huang and colleagues! www.biorxiv.org/content/10.6...

I routinely see kids products that come in the 2 options "Dinosaur" or "Unicorn"- which apart from the obvious, annoys me because one gets science and one gets mythology. This could easily be fixed by swapping dinosaurs with dragons, or, hear me out, aggressively marketing Cambrian sea life to girls

Fifteen minutes into @danielbolnick.bsky.social plenary at #ExE2026 and it’s already clear this is a fabulous presentation. A great start to day 3.

Day 3 of #ExE2026 we have a stellar plenary by @danielbolnick.bsky.social "Parasites Lost" Eco-Evo-Immuno species interactions and trait evolution through natural selection. Andnof course, amazing pictures of stickleback with tapeworms nearly the same size as they are!

Day 2 of #ExE2026 ! Thank you to all our sponsor journals. I am proud to say ExE is sponsored strictly by society and non-profit journals! 👌📄 A huge thanks to our journal sponsors (see next post), who take their APC revenue and use it to support the sci communities like ExE ❤️ 1/2

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Jo Wolfe, PhD@jopabinia.bsky.social · last mo.

🇨🇦🦀 CANADA DAY CRAB THREAD 🦀🇨🇦 Canada encompasses 3 of the world's oceans, so let's meet crabs from each one. In the Arctic, the spiky king crab friend Neolithodes grimaldii is found offshore (300-5000m depth). Same genus, different species, as the famous baby 1/7 🦑🧪

Another great plenary at #ExE2026, this time from Trine Bilde! I'd never heard of social spiders before! Here's that @plosone.org study about inbreeding in the spiders: doi.org/10.1371/journal.pone.0029636 🕷️

Moderate Multiple Parentage and Low Genetic Variation Reduces the Potential for Genetic Incompatibility Avoidance Despite High Risk of Inbreeding

Background Polyandry is widespread throughout the animal kingdom. In the absence of direct benefits of mating with different males, the underlying basis for polyandry is enigmatic because it can carry...

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Day 2 of #ExE2026 ! Thank you to all our sponsor journals. I am proud to say ExE is sponsored strictly by society and non-profit journals! 👌📄 A huge thanks to our journal sponsors (see next post), who take their APC revenue and use it to support the sci communities like ExE ❤️ 1/2

Folks quick to dump on the fact that latest group of amazing @hypothesisfund.bsky.social awardees are all men (n=5) are encouraged to check out the list of all recent awardees to celebrate all their achievements: www.hypothesisfund.org/portfolio

Portfolio — Hypothesis Fund

The Hypothesis Fund enables scientists to take intelligent risks. To defy the predominant expectations in their field. To go after their big ideas.

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Hypothesis Fund@hypothesisfund.bsky.social · last mo.

🔬 Announcing our newest awardees! 🌟 These brilliant minds are pushing boundaries across microbiology, immunology, infectious disease, earth systems, and neuroscience. Celebrate with us as we highlight their projects today👇 in our 🧵: 1/ bit.ly/HFAwardees

Interested in the evolutionary genomics of host-pathogen interactions or the evolutionary ecology of senescence? 1 week left to apply for the two postdoc positions in our badger - bovine TB project🦡🦠🧪🧬👇

Barbara Tschirren@btschirren.bsky.social · 3mo ago

We are recruiting 🌟2 postdoctoral researchers🌟 for a NERC Large Grant project on the eco-evolutionary dynamics of badger - bovine tuberculosis (bTB) interactions.

Looking forward to a brilliant week of Evolution and Ecology at #ExE2026, hosted by @uniexecec.bsky.social! I'm here from @plos.org (@plosone.org) so please feel free to come chat about publishing with us, or just to show off your research! 🦔🌱🧬🦊🦠🌲

Kicking off #ExE2026, @erikpostma.bsky.social introduces the room to the "weaponisation of sea shanties" as a VERY STRICT timekeeping measure to ensure speakers keep to time. Will we all be cursing or singing "Wellerman" by the end of it? We shall see!

A few more days until the start of #ExE2026, the new evolutionary ecology 🧬✖️🌳 conference hosted @uniexecec.bsky.social in #Cornwall: 230 participants, 25 countries, 3 plenaries, 10 keynotes, 70 talks and over 100 posters. Also excursions, workshops, dinner, great swag and sea shanties 🎶 🤩 evoxeco.uk

Erik Postma@erikpostma.bsky.social · 6mo ago

Interested in the interface of evolution 🧬 and ecology 🌳? Then you cannot miss #ExE2026! Hosted by @uniexecec.bsky.social in beautiful #Cornwall, this #conference has a stellar line-up of speakers and lots of pre-and post-conference workshops. Space is limited, so register now at evoxeco.uk!