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The rate at which claims you read in the introduction of papers are supported by the cited study is definitely worse than it used to be. Given that AI will probably cite claims from paper introductions as readily as claims from other section, this trend seems like it could be self-reinforcing.

England received only 7% of the long-term average rainfall for July. Southern England, just 1%. Factoid: There has been a weather station in Kew Gardens for 155 years. This July was the first month ever to record 0mm of rain. Tomorrow, London will again hit 30C+ www.theguardian.com/environment/...

July set to be driest on record for England and Wales after relentless heatwaves

Climate scientist urges better planning as southern England had just 1% of long-term average rainfall last month

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"We show here that the protein sequence is insufficient for the biogenesis of fully active IDR-containing transcriptional regulators in cells, suggesting that mRNA 3′ UTRs control their activity by preventing co-translational misfolding" doi.org/10.1016/j.ce...

About 2.5 years ago I decided I'd list enough of my life to doomscrolling. I deleted my Twitter account (as it then was) blocked facebook and my favorite news site, and subscribed to a physical weekly news magazine. Within a month I was completely transformed for the better. But it didn't last...

Naomi Alderman@naomialderman.bsky.social · last mo.

She’s here! Today is the start of this Couch to 5k for reading I’ve put together! Come and join us :-D open.substack.com/pub/naomiald...

stats job in the department where R was invented, here in new zealand!

tenuretracker.info@tenuretracker.bsky.social · 4w ago

The University of Auckland is hiring: Lecturer to Senior Lecturer to Associate Professor - Department of Statistics #lecturer #professor #statistics

Senior Bioinformatics Software Developer opening in my team in ONT's Applications department! Hybrid with a few days a week in our Oxford headquarters. We can sponsor visas! www.linkedin.com/jobs/view/44...

It often surprises me how many anti-AI people are convinced that we should be able to rely on an AI to tell the difference between AI.and human written text.

Summer Brennan@summerbrennan.bsky.social · last mo.

I ran an absolutely 100% human, zero AI-involvement at any stage passage of my writing through an "AI detector," curious if it could really tell human from AI work, and it said my own writing was "84% AI written" then asked I wanted to pay to have it "humanized." So there's that to keep in mind.

🚨🚨NEW PREPRINT ALERT!🚨🚨Proud to present our recent study, out now on bioRxiv, in which we reveal an RNA-dependent positive feedback loop that drives malignant ribosome biogenesis and tumour growth (1/15). 🔗 www.biorxiv.org/content/10.6...

EMBL's new AI unit is recruiting. We are seeking a machine learning scientist to establish their independent research group bridging innovations in machine learning/AI with modern biology. embl.wd103.myworkdayjobs.com/en-US/EMBL/j...

🚨 Breaking news: from today, it's no longer a crime to sleep rough in England and Wales. The Vagrancy Act has finally been repealed. For more than 200 years, this archaic law criminalised people for sleeping rough or begging. But no more.

Twitter is going kind of crazy about crime and genetics right now (What's new?). My next post is a deep dive into a paper behind a widespread claim that brutal execution in Medieval Europe selected for reduced aggression, allowing civilization to develop. The title says it all, really.

Capital punishment is not a breeding program

No, medieval execution didn't "genetically pacify" Europe

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The Government: Get rid of jury trials because judges are best placed to make decisions. Also the Government:

Politics UK@politicsuk.com · last mo.

🚨 NEW: Shabana Mahmood has announced members of the public will replace judges in deciding appeals from failed asylum seekers

This is one of the dumbest and saddest things I've ever seen. We should not think of universities in this way, and if we do that'll destroy everything that is both useful and good about them. www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...

Find out which university degrees could earn you most across your lifetime

New data suggests which university degrees have the highest and lowest financial returns over a lifetime.

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1/ So do you still need the fundamentals now that AI writes the code? More than before. Your job shifted from typing commands to judging whether the results hold up, and that judgment runs on understanding the methods underneath.

This is my real problem with this, I think. Any system that tries to quantify "impact" objectively is blind to be a bad system, because impact is not a thing that can be quantified objectively - impact is a act of judgement. And will therefore be different for everyone judging.

Pedro Beltrao@pedrobeltrao.bsky.social · last mo.

As a scientist, there are so many issues with this. Besides the simple technical things (e.g. no baseline or comparative models), the critical one is that there are so many dimensions of impact that any single metric is bound to be horrible and biased. This is clear already in their analysis.

Real science: 1. Is not correlated with the amount of funding 2. Progresses slowly, usually taking many years 3. Leads to more questions than it answers 4. Advances when we disengage a bit and have improvisational discussions 5. Is too serious a thing to be done in a non-playful way

"Genome sequence data underwent quality control using FastQC [13]" means "We ran FastQC on all our data, but we didn't really look at, or understand the reports, and we certainly didn't remove any samples from our study." #bioinformatiocsr #humour #reality

Reform UK councillors have introduced a motion to rescind King's Lynn and West Norfolk's climate emergency declaration and deprioritise decarbonisation efforts The council were going to vote on it on Thursday But the meeting has been postponed due to extreme heat

Very little. The Holy See is (adjusted for inflation) the single biggest funder of astronomical research in history. As for Galileo, he was found guilty of suspicion of heresy, spent one day in gaol, and the rest of his life living in a palace, and continued to publish heliocentrism around Europe.

🇨🇦 l.faraday 🇨🇦@mizati.bsky.social · last mo.

I always wonder how much science would have advanced if it wasn’t held back by religion. #Atheist

Science-fiction writer Octavia E. Butler was born #OTD in 1947. A multiple recipient of both the Hugo and Nebula awards, she became the first science-fiction writer to receive a MacArthur Fellowship (1995). #booksky #litsky #scifi #SpeculativeFiction

Not really sure this is an unpopular opinion, at least in my circles.

Itai Yanai@itaiyanai.bsky.social · 2mo ago

Unpopular opinion: Going straight to AI limits your creatively, because it short-circuits the iterative process you need to develop new ideas.

Shocked someone who left academia after 10 years (in 2008) following tenure denial thinks a system that requires research AND teaching sucks. We should VALUE and REWARD TEACHING MORE. We don’t have to eliminate research to do so. Setting Research against Teaching undermines both.

Chronicle of Higher Education@chronicle.com · 2mo ago

Opinion | Liberal education once prepared students for citizenship. Reviving it will require a radical shift: less academic research, far more serious teaching. https://chroni.cl/4uJBSmy

"Right now, in some underfunded lab, a scientist is chasing a question that sounds pointless...a century of experience says that funding people to do this work is a good bet. If we stop making that bet, we will pay for it in cures no one will know to miss."

Victor Ambros@vambros.bsky.social · 2mo ago

A column by Jeff Coller: “The Science That Turned Lizard Venom Into GLP-1s Is Under Attack” www.nytimes.com/2026/06/20/o...

Noooooo..... The whole point of the BBC is to do unshowy, but worthy and useful shows that would be totally commercially unviable (money box live, the last show, crossing continents). And I love putting in the world tonight while cleaning the kitchen after everyone else has gone to bed.

Scott Bryan@scottygb.bsky.social · 2mo ago

BREAKING – BBC CUTS: Radio 4 to end The World Tonight, Midnight News, Money Box Live, AntiSocial, The Law Show and Crossing Continents next year. Newshour will replace The World Tonight on Radio 4 and World Service.

If someone chooses to live in a smaller home in the inner city in part to avoid a long commute, they generally don’t pressure society to build them a bigger house with more stuff. So if you choose a bigger stuff-filled house in the suburbs, don’t expect society to build you a fast car commute.

Brent Toderian@brenttoderian.bsky.social · 2mo ago

Don’t forget what REALLY “drives” a lot of regional growth and infrastructure politics. It’s pretty much this. Great drawing via Ian Lockwood.

I am SO VERY EXCITED for this

Harmit Singh Malik@harmitmalik.bsky.social · 2mo ago

One of the world's most tightly controlled experimental evolution projects is underway in DC, and I hope someone has had the foresight to collect a time series of algal samples. www.cnn.com/2026/06/16/p...

they even got the gradients right by pouring the H2O2 in from the side. it's a giga-plate fr @baym.lol is seeing his vision fully realized

Harmit Singh Malik@harmitmalik.bsky.social · 2mo ago

One of the world's most tightly controlled experimental evolution projects is underway in DC, and I hope someone has had the foresight to collect a time series of algal samples. www.cnn.com/2026/06/16/p...

Here's a really exciting #phd opportunity to work with us on non-coding #RNAs in Bladder Cancer as part of a collaboration with Dr Jon Griffin and @iansudbery.bsky.social -check it out! tinyurl.com/4rp9abxr

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PhD Project - Developing a non-coding RNA predictive biomarker in bladder cancer at University of Sheffield, listed on FindAPhD.com

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