I was following up a Boyle 🧪 reference to alchemists, and – given the talk of the risk of AI hallucinations – would like to acknowledge that the Google AI tool offered an overview that was suitably nuanced by an acknowledgement of lack of certainty.

In these uncertain and worrying times, I thought I would share a claim about the nature of science 🧪 from a book published over 70 years ago. I make no judgement of how reassuring (or not) you should find this idea!

“Galileo Galilei, who is invariably referred to solely by his first name…” John Gribbin (1996) Companion to the Cosmos. Weidenfeld & Nicolson. 🧪 1. No he isn't (invariably referred to solely by his first name) 2. As you have just demonstrated. Is being pedantic a curse or a scientific essential?

So, for £59.29 Amazon will send a technician to connect an external drive to a computer with the USB lead (or 'Home Setup'). But that does not inlcude the cost of unplugging something ('deinstallation') if all my ports are already in use. (Does ANYONE ever choose this option?) 😀 Happy Christmas

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Saw this quote in Humboldt's travel narrative: “Beyond the Atlantic Ocean, only the United States of America offers asylum to those in need. A government that is strong because it is free, and confident because it is just, has nothing to fear in granting refuge to exiles.” Just saying…

Nothing tells me that the Annals of Urology & Nephrology is a serious scientific 🧪 journal rather than a predatory journal more than writing to me with a subject heading i?n?t?e?r?s?p?e?r?s?e?d w?i?t?h? i?r?r?e?l?e?v?a?n?t? q?u?e?s?t?i?o?n? m?a?r?k?s?.

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If they need to cut costs, they could spend less on all those pointless BBC shows with people competing to dance or cook or lie etc- shows which the BBC shamelessly promotes by finding excuses to feature them on news and current affairs programmes at any excuse.

Keith Taber@drkeithstaber.bsky.social · last yr.

I was shocked to learn that the BBC is cutting its 30 min radio show 🧪 'Science in Action' @peaseroland.bsky.social after next week's episode. But at least the schedulers think it is continuing…

I was shocked to learn that the BBC is cutting its 30 min radio show 🧪 'Science in Action' @peaseroland.bsky.social after next week's episode. But at least the schedulers think it is continuing…

Waiting for my Amazon delivery - which today seems to be being delivered by one of their new quantum trucks powered by the Adams infinite improbability drive.

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Okay, I ordered this on Amazon. Wondering: a) It will arrive within a month; b) it will arrive on, or around, 12th Feb, 2026; c) when it gets close to 12th Feb., Amazon will cancel the order. Hoping for (a). Past experience prepares me for (c). Not sure if others have experienced that?

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(3) even though the stats in the paper gave a non-significant result, the authors concluded a positive outcome. The JChemEd 🧪 editor was not interested in publshing a comment on this (let alone a retraction). science-education-research.com/falsifying-r... Poor scientific practice & peer review

Keith Taber@drkeithstaber.bsky.social · last yr.

(2) Despite the lack of equivlence between groups, the very similar (bizarrely so, from my teaching experiecne) successive average course scores were used to argue for a positive experimental outcome. science-education-research.com/falsifying-r... The editor was not interested in acknowledging. …

(2) Despite the lack of equivlence between groups, the very similar (bizarrely so, from my teaching experiecne) successive average course scores were used to argue for a positive experimental outcome. science-education-research.com/falsifying-r... The editor was not interested in acknowledging. …

Keith Taber@drkeithstaber.bsky.social · last yr.

Well it does not seem to apply in chemistry education. (1) These results poltted here justified claiming in an American Chemical Society 🧪 journal that an innovation (red) was effective.… science-education-research.com/falsifying-r...

Well it does not seem to apply in chemistry education. (1) These results poltted here justified claiming in an American Chemical Society 🧪 journal that an innovation (red) was effective.… science-education-research.com/falsifying-r...

Michael Merrifield@astromikemerri.bsky.social · last yr.

I am late to this party, but what is going on? I am all for far more severe sanctions than currently imposed on fraudulent work, but since when was it an editor’s role to retract fully refereed papers from the literature, just because they turn out to be wrong? 🧪

You could say the Dept of Education being excited about going back to slates…oh, hang on a minute - that needs a Department for Education 🤔

Christopher Mims@mims.bsky.social · last yr.

struggling with an analogy here but imagine NASA posting a meme about how excited they are to return aviation to the pre-jet age

A quick typographic question if you will: tbe, or not tbe? That is the question. 🧪

I'll raise you. Europe after the rain.

Shirley Strange@shirleystrange.bsky.social · last yr.

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This is FAR more serious than the wife voluntarily dosing. This is assualt on his wife as well as the baby. And she was drugged not by some stranger but the perosn who was most supposed to love, cherish and protect her. (Not sexist- that should work either way round.) Was he charged for both crimes?

Dirk Gently@ktc2.bsky.social · last yr.

Do not believe everything you find on line. I am not sure which is worse / funnier the claimed distance to the nearest doctor being so wrong (its actually right in the middle of town) the claimed precision for the measurement! 345.9270 miles! Oh, and we have a fire station.

Surely the real issue here is how @trussliz thinks it was the wrong decision to offer admission to Afghans who had supported the British agaisnt the Taliban, when their identities were leaked into the public domain. Her financial incompetence was lack of ability: but this shows lack of moral fibre.

Nuzhat Uthmani@nuthmani.bsky.social · last yr.

She lives in a different dimension, doesn't she?

Does this mean they will no longer teach English (which comes from Britain), and instead only teach Cherokee and Chickasaw?

The Tennessee Holler @thetnholler.bsky.social · last yr.

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Except victims of sexual assualt do not sin, they are sinned against. I don't think Jesus ever specifically mentioned not committing child sexual abuse - almost as if it could be take for granted that does not need pointing out.

Dave, admirer of squirrels@quercusmax.bsky.social · last yr.

(For those who aren't famililar: "If any of you cause one of these little ones who believe in me to sin, it would be better for you if a great millstone were fastened around your neck and you were drowned in the depth of the sea" -Matthew 18:6)