A group of research integrity activists say they have found widespread evidence of image manipulation in Thermo Fisher Scientific’s catalog of antibody reagents. #chemsky 🧪

The rebellions continue! The publisher Springer put pressure on a journal's editors to accept more papers, just to make more money. The editors resigned and started their own journal, which is peer reviewed and 'diamond open access'. That means FREE to publish in and FREE to read! (1/n)

The Thermo Fisher situation keeps getting worse. We've now collected 450+ problematic images presented as verification data in TF's antibody catalog. This includes: 🖌️ Dozens more images with duplications or painting 🖨️ Hundreds of blots that all share the same background (behold slideshow below)

To our dismay, the artist and author Marjane Satrapi has passed away. As she wrote, ordinary Americans and Iranians have more in common with each other than we do with either of our governments, which have far too much in common with each other. We honor her memory and oppose the war.

Since Google revealed its plans for an AI search overhaul, visits to our "No AI" search page have tripled…and they’re still rising! Want to make it your default on Chrome or Firefox? Grab our No-AI extensions and banish AI-assisted answers, chat, and AI images. (1/3)

Thermo Fisher has responded to research integrity activists who spotted apparent manipulation in its antibody catalog: "In ... preparing antibody images for publication on our website, some images may have been adjusted to clarify for presentation purposes." More: cen.acs.org/research-int...

TL;DR: We've identified more than 100 cases of apparent manipulation in Thermo Fisher Scientific's antibody verification data. @sholtodavid.bsky.social @johanduchene.bsky.social reeserichardson.blog/2026/05/28/h...

#braggyourpattern Kusuma exhibition Cologne

Maybe I am biased as a scientist but if I am not learning and thinking then I see no point to existing

Neanderthals were definitely tough, but they weren't necessarily dumb. Also, this story by @kionasmith07.bsky.social will make you SQUIRM. 🧪

Lemme explain supply and demand to leaders who don’t get it. Around 20% of oil blocked via Hormuz means supply is down. Demand, however, is about the same, so price of related products like gas goes up. To balance, it needs to get pricey enough to lower demand. Cutting gas taxes won’t stop that.

Booking a cross-border train shouldn't require five websites, a degree in logistics and a prayer. We are fighting for a Single European Train Ticket to make travel simple, reliable, and accessible for everyone. Join us and let's get European rail back on track. share.greens-efa.eu/s/GZZzJRWC

"Die TU ist jetzt nicht nur pleite, sondern obdachlos" Nach der Vollsperrung des Hauptgebäudes der TU Berlin streiten Senat und Hochschulen über Schuld, Geld und Bauorganisation. Und die Hochschulen im Rest des Landes schauen gebannt zu. Im Wiarda-Blog: www.jmwiarda.de/blog/2026/05...

Finde den Fehler in der Prioritätensetzung der Berliner Landespolitik #ExzellenzinBruchbuden #berlin #SaveBrainCity #Insolvenzantrag @regberlin.bsky.social @tagesspiegel.de @tuberlin.bsky.social

Ab heute kann man unser Nuklearchemie Lernspiel online kaufen!🎉 Know Your Nuclides ist ein Kartenspiel, welches auf 32 Karten wichtige Radionuklide spielerisch vorstellt. Ab 3 Stück, 1,50€ Rabatt pro Deck. Momentan auschließlich nationaler Versand. www.simonschemiebaukasten.com/product-page...

When Einstein developed general relativity the closest thing to a practical application that could even be imagined at the time was a slightly more precise description of where to look for the planet Mercury in the sky, and yet now we’d all be literally lost without it. Anyway: fund basic research.

It is beyond belief that the UK government is speaking to these people with a view to entrusting them with sensitive data. This is a very handy overview of why that is madness.

Extremely normal and fine for a company to put this in a public statement

Als Vater zweier Kinder kenne ich diese Gefühle allzu gut. Beim Lesen kamen mir die Tränen. Nicht nur ein Verkehrsunfall, sondern unterlassene Hilfeleistung von Kersten Augustin www.taz.de/!6168170

Clarence's new paper on Alkali-crownether-pertechnetates and perrhenates reveals surprising structures... congrats! chemistry-europe.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1002/... @chemunicologne.bsky.social @unicologne.bsky.social 🧪

It’s official: the UK is rejoining Erasmus! 👏🇪🇺

Sehr treffende Einordnung von @mbauchmueller.bsky.social : www.sueddeutsche.de/meinung/spri...

Das Deutschlandticket kostet die Bundesregierung 1,5 Milliarden Euro für das ganze Jahr. Der ineffektive Tankrabatt soll für nur 2 Monate 1,6 Milliarden Euro kosten. (Wenn es wie 2022 läuft, kostet er am Ende 3,2 Milliarden Euro pro Quartal.)

“A crew is inescapably, beautifully, dutifully linked… when we saw tiny Earth,ppl asked our crew what impressions we had.& honestly,what struck me wasn’t…just Earth. It was all the blackness around it. Earth was just this lifeboat, hanging undisturbingly in the universe…Plant Earth:You.Are.A.Crew.”🧪

Tonight in the ai reading group i was reminded of something that happened in 2006 after I dropped out of college, when I was living in a run-down old house next to jb alberto's in rogers park with a bunch of dudes. it was, as you can imagine, not clean.

I can't unsee this. doi.org/10.1016/j.in... 🧪

The biggest story in the world right now is that the president of the United States is a demented old man who takes pleasure in torturing and killing people and is committing crimes with impunity. And yet most legacy media outlets are too cowardly to tell it like it is.

Before you think of paying 2490€ for open access and getting this abstract through review without someone stopping you, you might consider that you can already get a nice bicycle for the same price. 🧪 www.nature.com/articles/s41...

Bruce Springsteen. #NoKings

#NoKings at San Francisco’s ocean beach — protesters joined to form a human banner saying Trump must go now.

„Sollten Artikel offensichtliche Zeichen eines KI-Modells zeigen, können sie umgehend gelöscht werden, wie zuvor bereits bei eindeutigen Fällen wie Vandalismus oder reiner Werbung.“ www.heise.de/news/Wikiped...

Corporations as vectors of chronic disease, @nejm.org Calling out 6 commercial products that contribute to 31% of all deaths globally. Chemicals include pesticides, PFAS, manufactured. And counterstrategies to address www.nejm.org/doi/10.1056/...

This is how real "excellent" science may look like 🧪 see also #ichbinhannah bsky.app/profile/darr... www.slow-science.com

This seems excellent. "The Slow Science Movement challenges the prevailing "publish or perish" culture in academia & research institutions. We believe that the current pressure for rapid publication & high citation counts undermines the quality, integrity & societal value of scientific work."

Love it! 🥰

Glad to see this profile of Fritz Strassmann in @chemistryworld.com. As the standfirst says, his moral courage in the face of the Nazis does indeed deserve wider recognition. (You can read a briefer account of that in my book Servingh The Reich.) www.chemistryworld.com/features/fri...

The primary cause of the national debt is that the very wealthy don’t pay taxes. Migrants pay their share. The oligarchs Miller fronts for do not.

In cities, most people don’t need anything bigger or that goes faster than a golf cart.

Not even the Nazis expressly announced they were committing war crimes. Indeed, at Nuremberg war crimes were denied. But here, openly, the US Secretary for Defense is explicitly admitting to committing war crimes.

39th "Technetium Matters" online seminar on zoom Thursday March 19th 16:00 MET Vijay Kumar (HZDR Dresden) "Pyrite solubility and its capacity to immobilize technetium-99 in metabolite-rich environments" Please send me a DM if you like to participate. 🧪

Nuclear Chemistry Cologne @chemunicologne.bsky.social @unicologne.bsky.social meets André "Dr Dre" Isaacs www.instagram.com/drdre4000/?h... at the @jungchemikerforum.bsky.social spring symposium. 🧪

A reminder that humans in cars - notably omitted from this thanks to motonormativity - kill 1.2m people every year

"The Dawn of Nuclear Physics: The Role of Women" is an article of mine where I tried to provide a historical context to the fundamental role some female scientists have had in the early stages of nuclear physics and its history. ➡️ www.tutto-scienze.org/2013/04/lalb... #InternationalWomensDay ⚛️ 🧪

The German Federal Ministery of Research wants to make historical woman more visible... with AI generated portraits. 🙄 Once driven onto invisibility, now regenerated as zombies. 🧪 www.bmftr.bund.de/SharedDocs/D...

Oh now I get it. Dubai is Golgafrinchan Ark B.

If this goes on long enough we will eventually evolve not to trust statistical autocomplete software with medical decisions.

Auf meinem Ende des Flurs sitzen zwei Iraner, ein Israeli und ein US-Amerikaner, und wir haben hier echt einen guten Vormittag, man darf nicht vergessen, dass Menschen auch gut sind.

Dieser gemeinsame Appell von Strahlenschutz-, Reaktorsicherheits- und Entsorgungskommission trifft genau den Punkt. Langfristiger Kompetenzerhalt braucht Grundlagenwissenschaft & grundlegende Lehre. Das stärkt langfristig Wissenschaft, Gesellschaft und Standort. ssk.de/2026/2026-02...

AI agents do not become angry, or bratty, or wrathful. If we don't like developments like these, a good first step would be to stop with the personification.