Congrats, Google. We now have unreliable AI narrators of impoverished information sources, representing their hallucinations as truth. I'm glad I learned to use a card catalog when I was a kid, because fuck this. I'm going to the library. (3/3)

Paragraph by @henrygjeffreys.bsky.social neatly explaining why I (so far) haven’t found any role for AI in my writing (professional or non-professional). (From open.substack.com/pub/henryjef...).

How the media hypes “research that is absurd on its face”

🔴 NEW: Justice secretary David Lammy has told Parliament the government will "bring forward legislation" to tackle Slapps - abusive lawsuits used by oligarchs and the super-rich. Comments come in response to Democracy for Sale's recent investigation: democracyforsale.substack.com/p/we-investi...

One other thought -- if your collaborator puts fake references into your shared manuscript, then you have to ask, where else are they taking shortcuts/doing unreliable work? Maybe it's time to find a new collaborator.

Some 2 years ago I was approached to write an article about being trans. Took a year to write, with many rewrites to keep up to date with the world. Long story short, got rejected. Was devastated. Took me over a year to recollect myself. Now it can be read: #idahobit medium.com/@Tanja.Junke...

The thing I hate most about LLMs is the way they get put in your way. Google now has an "ask" button that can't (to my eye) be removed at the bottom of the in built browser on android. Gonna switch to Firefox, but now the quick access to search on android is useless for me as it's too annoying

Not that I ever took it personally when I was in the lab. #chemsky #chemchat

Joe: I am a 73 year-old retired mechanic in Forsberg, Nebraska. My 3 biggest problems are Iran's uranium enrichment capability, the casting of Helen in Christopher Nolan's "Odyssey," and the ability of Tennesseeans to check out "Roots" from a library 1000 media outlets: can we please talk at length

Online petition and open letter to the University of Nottingham in response to its plans for redundancies in the School of Chemistry. nottinghamchemistry.github.io/Open_Letter/

Funny things still happen over at the bad place This guy put a prompt in his LinkedIn and now AI recruiters are writing him in Old English and calling him "my lord"

ArXiV has a new LLM policy (Screenshots with alt text so you don’t have to click through to the other place and see all the stupid responses)

Online now: Secondary active ion transport against concentration gradients

Another banger from @inprep.bsky.social

Exactly! Authorship comes with responsibilities, even more so if you're delegating things to LLMs. Similarly, hallucinated references are not the editors responsibility either. Yes, publishers need to implement tools and checking, same as for plagiarism etc., but authors ultimately responsible.

Agree with this entirely. It's not the responsibility of reviewers. It's the responsibility of researchers to act with integrity, of institutions to hold their employees to basic standards of ethics, and publishers to develop scalable research integrity tools.

Super happy to see the final version of our paper out now 🎉🎉🎉 www.science.org/doi/10.1126/... Proud of PhD student Rupesh @rupeshjayachandran.bsky.social and postdoc Erwan for doing really nice work on this 😊

Yes indeed. And any suggestion that "we can't say for sure that AI isn't conscious because we don't know what consciousness is" verges on the famous "teapot orbiting Jupiter" that sceptics love to cite.

100 years have passed since the Schrödinger equation. It is celebrated by a webinar series 👇🏻👇🏻👇🏻👇🏻👇🏻 thertlab.org/100-years-of...

These are mind-boggling-big groupings of galaxies (we are in a dull part in Laniakea).

This is perfection.

I'd love to think Angela Raynor could be a good, credible leader who is a stark contrast to Farage and actually has a record of fighting for workers rights. But you just know the misogyny and class snobbery would override everything.

If anyone in government has a few minutes to run the country in between plotting leadership challenges, could they please cast their eye over the devastation of Higher Education in the UK. www.theguardian.com/education/20...

Jesus tapdancing Christ these Republicans are unhinged. (I know, hot take) Just pure conspiratorial brain worm shit. And it's at the heart of the US government.

Bullseye. www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...

If you're online now we strongly recommend watching the nest box live cam.... www.youtube.com/watch?v=pBM_...

24% of trips on China's highways during the May 1 holiday were in EVs, while the share of EVs in all vehicles is 15%, highlighting how EVs are making a bigger dent in oil consumption than their share in the fleet. EV charging volumes along the highways were up 56% year on year.

Happy to announce the first @veloxchem.bsky.social workshop dedicated to experimental chemists. CCEC 2026: Computational Chemistry for Experimental Chemists When: 14 – 18 September 2026 Where: Nicolaus Copernicus University in Toruń, Poland. More information and registration: ccec.umk.pl

Very, very good news. I know it seems very strange and counter-cultural to put people who believe in equality and human rights in the Equality and Human Rights Commission, but maybe this weird new approach will work.

This has to be some kind of money laundering scheme, right? No competent engineer looked at the proposal of data centers in space, thought about the monumental (and completely unnecessary) difficulties of this vs ground-based, and said "yes we should put a billion dollars in this idea"

The fantasy of a university that is “cutting edge” without disciplinary basics and does football but not history and produces knowledge first but also profit first and makes expertise but improves nothing and saves the sector by cannibalizing it is incoherent, besides being a project of social harm

Happy things: finally getting my @flophousepodcast.com poster up a mere two years after the peaches visited Oxford

These guys have such a weird idea of how research does (or could) work. Like saying "I don't think we should teach kids to read. Just get them quickly to the edges, to write something new". How are they meant to even know where the edge is, let alone what's interesting, without the fundamentals?

And they have come far too late.

Remember when EVVVVVVVVVERYTHING was going to be on the blockchain? Remember how so many people say AI is inevitable so just start using it?

Mahmood calling for Starmer's resignation? LoL. Starmer hasn't allowed her to be hard enough on asylum seekers? She is the expression of what's wrong with Labour.

This must be one of the most delicious figures we have ever published. In this primer Guoan Zhou, Zhixi Tian and colleagues introduce the domestication history and biology odyssey soybean and its many uses. www.cell.com/current-biol...

Wes Streeting would be the final nail in Labour's coffin. More neoliberalism, more privatisation, more austerity, more grovelling to economic power, when we desperately want change.

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Middle school kid brought me a question from their science hw: "A coal burning power plant involves what type of energy change? [select one] ( ) Chemical to thermal ( ) Mechanical to electrical ( ) Thermal to electrical ( ) Chemical to mechanical" Me: "Uh... yes?" Kid: "Oh no, not again. 🙄"

Absolutely. In 2025, Parliament was recalled to pass emergency legislation to keep the two blast furnaces at Scunthorpe alight. In contrast, zero sense of urgency to save from collapse universities - often the 2nd/3rd largest employer in otherwise struggling regions

this graduation speech moment is notable, and her amazed shock at having failed to read the room feels instructive. when you're inside the bubble, you think everybody else is. but everybody isn't.

Adding to already great commentary. A large majority of white “Christians” worship a god made in their image & a savior that upholds their supremacy. TBQH white evangelicalism is a false religion. A false doctrine, a false church full of false prophets and are antithetical to Christ.

I find this work very exciting, it addresses what I think is the giant elephant in the MLIP room: influence of our “ground truth” (DFT) on physical properties far down the computational workflow. We all know it exists, but very few studies actually investigate it.

In a pub listening to the group at the next table moan that they can't find a church that hasn't gone "woke", which they define as "thinking a man can become a woman" Motherfucker Jesus spent his time with every marginalised group in Gallilee and you can't even share a pew with a trans person?

Excellent analysis from my BBC elections team colleague and YouGov data guru @patrick-pme.bsky.social on what the local elections data tells us about whether Labour is losing more to Greens or Reform. Spoiler alert: its the Greens open.substack.com/pub/patricke...

Did carbon dioxide write this