This is so cool!

Buttons (Ashley) 🏴‍☠️#OFMDForLife🏴‍☠️ 🏳️‍🌈🤡@sevensugars.bsky.social · 2mo ago

Since I did do my PhD in cyanobacteria growth and treatment optimization modeling AND work in the water treatment industry, I’m gonna share my theory as to what’s happening here and how to fix it. People are focusing on the painted bottom of the pool increasing residual heat, and while that 1/19

Beyond the high profile of the affected journals and their unusually rapid response—as noted by @elisabethbik.bsky.social—the most notable aspect of this story is that the home institutions appear to have taken strong disciplinary action against the supervisors and PIs, not just the first authors.

Trust me, the woman of academia are not at all surprised by the number of academic men orbiting Epstein.

Wow. This is [sarcasm ON] one good-looking paper (and journal)[sarcasm OFF].

Science News@scinews.bsky.social · 11mo ago

Looking Good by Doing Good: CEO Attractiveness and Corporate Philanthropy papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers....

The "transcriptomic chaos" preprint has been withdrawn by @mdpiopenaccess.bsky.social! See here for more info: reeserichardson.blog/2025/07/28/n...

No, mRNA vaccines do not cause “transcriptomic chaos”

A review of a recent anti-vaccine preprint

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Elisabeth Bik@elisabethbik.bsky.social · 11mo ago

Preprint claiming link between COVID-19 mRNA vaccines and 'transcriptomic dysregulation'/cancer (based on just 10 people who got cancer in the year after vaccination) has been withdrawn. HT: @reeserichardson.bsky.social preprints.org/manuscript/2... See: scienceintegritydigest.com/2025/07/25/p...

I have tried lao gan ma for the first time and my eyes are opened. God put me on this earth to eat this. There is no other reason.

Metathugs Science, metascience, metametascience, *critical* metascience, and how science's greatest strengths are its greatest weaknesses. Gloomier than usual and it's only Wednesday. diagrammonkey.wordpress.com/2025/08/13/m...

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This is a sort of second part to How to science a science with science but it’s somewhat bleaker and made the whole thing rather long, so I cut it in two. As the ads say: when the fun stops s…

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One of the biggest issues with meritocracy is that it fails to recognise that we massively underrate the role of chance in the outcomes of people's lives. This is even putting aside your birth circumstances, which are also chance.

I guess Ioannidis got the headlines he wanted with his unscientific presentation and straw man claims. Andy Stirling (and many others at the conference) asked better questions and were more willing to discuss the evidence underlying reform efforts. #metascience2025

Research Professional News@resprofnews.bsky.social · last yr.

‘Admit research waste to build trust’, urges iconoclastic professor. John Ioannidis warns of rising levels of fraud and unusable results at #Metascience2025. www.researchprofessionalnews.com/rr-news-worl...

I occasionally look at my "Discover" feed to get a broad idea of what's going on on BSky... I am starting to see borderline unsettling stuff a bit more often. Still quite rare though, and definitely not X grade abuse/trash, but possibly on the rise. Do you have the same impression?

Old news, but still good to reiterate in these dark times.

Francis Sedgemore@hesgen.com · last yr.

Canada joins Horizon Europe programme

Looks like you are right -with of course a little bit of additionnal nuances needed-. And this is quite in line with many studies about peer review (... and indeed as in many randomized controlled trials of many interventions in many fields...).

"Officials from federal institutions have requested the withdrawal of articles supported by federal funds, citing concerns that they address politically sensitive topics such as transgender health." ajph.aphapublications.org/doi/epdf/10....

Last month I did a little experiment. I wanted to see how the exact same post would perform on both X (Twitter) and Bluesky. The results were...interesting... [Thread]

"concerns [have been] expressed about journals run by professional editors. the first problem admittedly concern[s] a journal run by professional editors...the second shows having a journal run by scientists does not preclude poor judgement. But we knew that, didn’t we" www.cell.com/current-biol...

Two Telling Tales

I am writing this despite a reluctance to add to the chorus of criticisms of the scientific publication process — an industry full of easy over-generalisations and proposals to discard babies with the...

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No. Never. I review 20+ of papers a year—it's my job as a scientist. The public pays my salary and trust me to use my time wisely to advance science. Through peer review, I do exactly that. I spend two or three weeks a year reviewing, but I’ve never wasted a day reviewing a paper, and never will.

✨ Excited to have contributed to this valuable resource on #CitizenScience - a collection of insights from the Network of Researchers for Citizen Science (NR4CS) Training Series 2024! 🔗 Check out the resource here: zenodo.org/records/1496... #CitizenScience #Research #OpenScience #NR4CS #ECS

Is there a German word for being simultaneously horrified by clumsy, misguided, and deeply destructive attacks on a critical system, and by the many grossly dysfunctional and inefficient aspects of the system being attacked? Because we really need one right now.

Please.Halt.Nutritional.Epidemiology. Will we run a trial on this? Are we going to have chocolate consumption dietary guidelines? Will it be a J-curved relationship in the end? Is funding from Mars not a problem? But more importantly can we just put a moratorium of 5 years on these studies?

Chocolate intake and risk of type 2 diabetes: prospective cohort studies

Objective To prospectively investigate the associations between dark, milk, and total chocolate consumption and risk of type 2 diabetes (T2D) in three US cohorts. Design Prospective cohort studies. ...

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Just a reminder: All vaccines used in public health have been rigorously tested. Their benefits greatly outweigh their risks. While a few people have a medical reason for not taking vaccines, most people (and the population overall) will benefit. Doctors who claim otherwise are irresponsible.

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