The research paper most cited in patent filings is ... BLAST! Originally reported in 1990, it's the OG software tool for comparing DNA/RNA/protein sequences. And three other papers for comparing sequences are in the top ten most-cited works in patents. www.nature.com/articles/d41...

Exclusive: the science papers that patents cite the most

Nature reveals the studies that are mentioned most often in patent filings — and why.

nature.com

Nature@nature.com · 15h ago

Patent citations are one way to examine how academic research flows into commercial innovation. Which scholarly papers have patents cited the most? go.nature.com/4w45J9Z

GUESS WHAT SHE FOUND ha ha ha ha ha ha do you really have to guess 3/6

All 435 are domestic abusin’???? They definitely need an app to monitor each other.

Health Care Renewal@healthcarerenew.bsky.social · 4h ago

Defining down deviance: House Majority Speaker Johnson says everybody is a domestic abuser "There’s all sorts of domestic events going on with 435 members of Congress all the time, it’s not my business to get engaged in it" www.independent.co.uk/news/world/a...

as if millions of statisticians suddenly cried out in terror and were suddenly silenced

Aaron Rupar@atrupar.com · 4h ago

Trump: "An outlier is a person that doesn't have a chance" (That's not what 'outlier' means)

Did folks realise that when you mouse over the ACS logo on their header, it’s animated. I need a cold shower. #chemsky

2024 still holds the record for highest daily global surface temperatures and sea surface temperatures. If those records are going to fall, will likely happen within next few weeks given seasonal tendencies. pulse.climate.copernicus.eu

I feel like I was part of something bigger than myself today. New ACS logo just dropped.

Scott Bagley@bagphos.bsky.social · yesterday

But can we all agree the new ACS logo is very ugly?

A. I could do a mega thread on frustrating, nonsensical things at work, but here are my highlights: 1. The university declared we couldn't use grant $ to buy gloves as well as a variety of other supplies by arguing that these things could be used on other projects too

Yeppers. I am no longer going to conferences in the U.S. And I am not alone.

Detentions of International Scholars at Airports Raise Alarm

A Johns Hopkins University researcher was detained at an airport by immigration officials and later released. Cases like hers make travel fraught for foreign scholars.

insidehighered.com

Wrote about the border search exception: a massive loophole in the Fourth Amendment that allows border officials to search through your phone without a warrant, the exception provides an easy pretext for the Trump administration to target its political enemies. www.theatlantic.com/ideas/2026/0...

Trump Should Need a Warrant to See Your Phone

Federal officers can too easily comb through the most intimate details of your life.

theatlantic.com

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

Here it is. My manifesto for the 2026 Clacton By-Election. It's a once-in-a-lifetime opportunity. Join me, clean up Clacton and let's make 13th August Bin Day! #VoteBinface #VoteyMcVoteface #YesWeTinCan

Can electoral lightning strike twice? #VoteBinface #Clacton

53,800 of these bad boys are landing in Clacton. Ain’t they beauts? #VoteBinface

Random photodump

The successful candidate will work across the full range of our social platforms plus alerts, newsletters and emerging digital platforms. They will be expected to organise, mentor and inspire our award-winning team. Interested? Apply by August 23rd

The Economist is hiring a Deputy Head of Social Media

We are offering a permanent contract in London to work across social media plus notifications, newsletters and emerging digital platforms

bit.ly

No problemo. I get through every working day (and every blog post) without ever using it once.

Charlie Stross@cstross.bsky.social · 16h ago

My answer is LOL ROFL (dickbrain) The terminally AI-pilled can't even *imagine* some people have *never* asked stochastic parrots to cheat at their job for them.

My answer is LOL ROFL (dickbrain) The terminally AI-pilled can't even *imagine* some people have *never* asked stochastic parrots to cheat at their job for them.

🚨🚨 🚨NEVER forget what insurrectionist Donald Trump did on J6

OTD in 1916 USA recognized Greenland as part of Denmark. Trump's plans to annex it have caused people like Mearsheimer a lot of mental anguish as USA, the country they oppose, acts like Russia, the country they appease

The effective federal corporate income tax rate: 1950: 50% 1990: 25% 2020: 13% Stop asking "but how we will pay for it?" Restore the corporate tax rate. That is how we will pay for it.

"question from my mum at the back of the room."

Adam Bienkov@adambienkov.bsky.social · 3d ago

Nigel Farage just took a question from a 'journalist' at his press conference, who turned out to be his former chief adviser Raheem Kassam, who asks him why the media are being so unfair to him

A recent study analysed 635 pairs of crystal polymorphs and found that Z’ = 1 crystal structures are slightly more likely to be energetically stable than Z’ = 2 structures, primarily due to stronger intermolecular interactions. Read more: ccdc-info.com/4x5EQn8 #CrystalStructures #ChemSky

Nigel Farage just took a question from a 'journalist' at his press conference, who turned out to be his former chief adviser Raheem Kassam, who asks him why the media are being so unfair to him

#7PhDSecrets Secret 3: Be realistic “The best is the enemy of the good”. Which in practice means that by striving for a perfect thesis you will find it very hard to finish any thesis. The best thesis is a finished thesis. From: buff.ly/32cMaBK #PhDforum #PhDChat

I'm not sure folks have realized just how crazy the second half of 2026 and 2027 will be for global temperatures – on the back of a record-smashing El Niño event. Here is my latest estimate of where both years will end up compared to global temperatures since 1850.

Lopend Vuur: Ik vind privacy belangrijker dan nieuwe snufjes

Lopend Vuur: Ik vind privacy belangrijker dan nieuwe snufjes

De technologie waar we dagelijks gebruik van maken wordt steeds geavanceerder. Maar zijn er ook grenzen?

rtvnoord.nl

‘Antizuck’ iOS app that claims to detect nearby smart glasses tops App Store chart

‘Antizuck’ iOS app that claims to detect nearby smart glasses tops App Store chart

Vibes around Meta’s AI glasses are off lately. So much so that one of the top three paid iPhone apps today is dedicated to detecting when someone nearby may be using smart glasses.

9to5mac.com