Today, REFORM (a privately funded party with 5 seats) holds a press conference and farage is given air time to drone on about our national ills on BBC, SKY NEWS and GB NEWS. Yes, report on facts. But is this journalism or marketing? Stick to The Pigeon Post if you want free and fair reporting.

Journal of Personalised medicine: several special issues with guest editor Richard Frye. 2 egs: www.mdpi.com/journal/jpm/... 12/22 articles coauthored by Guest editors www.mdpi.com/journal/jpm/... 7/15 articles coauthored by Guest editors (same guest editors as the previous special issue)

The guy pushing Leucovorin for autism (Frye) works closely and repeatedly with the guy who pushed heavy metal chelation for autism (Rossignol), a practice that has actually killed children.

Rufous-throated Tanager at La Minga Ecolodge #Colombia #birds #nature

Namaste #Photography #Birds #Yogasky #EastCoastKin

Symmetry at Finsbury Park I'm always on the lookout for symmetrical locations on the London Underground tube map. So I've always been a fan of this platform pedestrian tunnel at Finsbury Park tube station.

Jimmy Kimmel and other late-night comedians have certainly said things about me that I found offensive, even outrageous. It never crossed my mind to call up the networks and say, "Hey, get rid of this guy." Because that's not how America works. play.prx.org/listen?ge=pr...

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This does not look like “impartiality”. It looks like propaganda. www.thelondoneconomic.com/politics/how...

Fucksake, this #discourse AGAIN? Yes this platform is smaller, very observant. But I don't spend all day being force fed Nazi slop or getting harassed by Nazis on a Nazi platform specifically engineered to amplify Nazis. It's not a hard decision, let's all just move on.

Those colours.

Disappointingly, NOT a sequel to 'The Little Mole who knew it was None of His Business'.

You're looking at a Morelet's Tree Frog (Agalychnis moreletii), and more importantly, she's looking at you. 🐸 They're also known as "Black-eyed Tree Frogs", for obvious reasons. Those big eyes collect light without acting like reflectors, allowing them to hunt at night.

I’d argue that’s exactly what free speech is.

Kind words from a recent connection “I have been going through your wonderful book. I am going to assign readings from your book to my students. I am currently teaching a course where the students conduct a research project with a client. There is so much here that is relevant to their process.”

I watched the 1st meeting day of RFK Jr’s handpicked committee of vaccine advisors. It was utterly depressing. 1/

Britain's 4th-wealthiest man says its better to be poorer but independent. www.independent.co.uk/news/uk/home...

her name couldn’t really be WILL OBEY

Unfortunately any academic has a certain % of Casaubon in them and we can at best control where we are on the slide between 1% and "the key to all mythologies".

I wanted to get a video of this ghost crab but every time I got close to their hole they scuttled back in, so I tried getting clever with it. I made a little sandcastle and shoved my phone into it, hit record, and walked away. Crab was VERY suspicious of this addition to their environment.

as predicted. This is a cynical use of arrest to keep protesters out of the way to avoid embarrassing the orange one. The charges seemed spurious at the time. I hope @ledbydonkeys.org sue.

My latest, based on an oddly unimpressive MI5 assessment document.

My thread on the Neurology paper on sweeteners & cognitive health: skywriter.blue/pages/did:pl... And a follow-up thread on some weird patterns in the Appendix tables: skywriter.blue/pages/did:pl... Collated by Skywriter onto a web page for easier reading!

If you want some Friday night comedy, just go compare the reactions to this on BlueSky vs LinkedIn.

A+ content from The Onion as usual

Yesterday, we had the pleasure of listening to Dorothy Bishop emphasize the responsibility of editors during the 12th PCI Webinar! If you weren't able to join, you can catch her talk and the following Q&A session at this link: https://youtu.be/0NJ87tYE8_s

Man this dismissal of Trump’s NYT lawsuit is quite the read: “…a complaint is not a public forum for vituperation and invective — not a protected platform to rage against an adversary.” storage.courtlistener.com/recap/gov.us...

An actual quote from the Secretary of State for Business and Trade Too often people go to university to ‘explore research and knowledge’ Look forward to Wes S saying 'too often people go to hospital to have operations' or Heidi Alexander saying 'too often people go to the station to catch a train'

The US as viewed by latenight comedians in Europe (it’s 20 secs of Dutch, the rest is English. We are so worried about you all we’re specifically trying to reach you through our latenight I guess…)

Here’s how Jimmy Fallon responded to Jimmy Kimmel being pulled off air:

The magnificent @deevybee.bsky.social gave a #fosci talk pointing out to the major issue in #scientificpublishing that corporations are desperately trying to ignore — the editors who let all the garbage in their prestigious journals 🎇 + brilliant term: Negligent Open Access Publisher = NOPE

I have fallen in love with sleepy lizards (Tiliqua rugosa). They're slow-moving omnivores, so they tend to eat slow-moving food. When available, they love a good flower snack, slurping up daisies with their blue tongues. (📷: Rhys Moult, rhysatwork on IG)

Credit @jemmaforte.bsky.social in #Instagram.

My first academic article was on the dictatorship of Uzbekistan inventing a group called "Akromiya" that did not really exist but which they used to arrest anyone with whom they disagreed under the pretext of "terrorism". Just bringing this up for no reason whatsoever!

Another photo taken from this perfectly placed puddle at Amersham London Underground station

I assume this is obvious, but I’ll say it anyway: The advantage of proscribing a non-existent organisation is that no one can prove they don’t belong to it.

Look who came with

@davidallengreen.bsky.social Would you be able to write a short list of things which could be done to harden our democracy against takeover by a strongman party? Because I think that would be a very good thing to have right now.

Trump climate panel not exempt from transparency requirements, judge rules reut.rs/46mB8tp

Great to see this out! Only ~23% of psychology journals have a post-publication critique format (e.g., letter to the editor). Some impose strict limits (e.g., 400 words & 4 weeks to submit). Critiques are rarely published — in two random samples of 101 empirical articles we found only 1 critique.

Our preprint on our translations of CRediT into 36 languages. We've come a long way with this project! osf.io/preprints/me... If you know of non-English academic journals that don't have a policy on saying who did what, get in touch - CRediT may be part of the answer.

I gave a talk this week on the vulnerability of UK institutions to a populist govt and I was told by an audience member that the US and Hungary couldn't happen here. I said it absolutely could and Reform are learning fast. The complacency is scary

I give this AI generated image I found on LinkedIn a 3 out of 10 because at least the brain is facing the right way

OK, who put Melania into 'sleep' mode?

former CDC official Dr. Houry: "I first learned that the secretary had changed our CDC covid vaccine guidance on an X social media post. CDC scientists have still not seen the scientific data or justification for this change. That is not gold standard science."

The rest of us can learn not to waste the precious time we have being this stupid.