jeez. Like a chef saying “only 2% of our meals had salmonella in them, and nobody died, but I lost my job”

Very sad to see the major university in the East Midlands 'suspending' (i.e. planning to close) key courses like Modern Languages and Music and scaling back Nursing. It's a scandal that top universities are just being left to go to the wall after years of underfunding. www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...

More useful material for the @royalsociety.org’s bio of their esteemed fellow. Though I’m still struggling to understand how a society that claims to value scientific rigour continues to honour someone who spreads so much disinformation.

This policy is so profoundly ignorant of the rich art of teaching that it can only have been dreamt up by someone who's used to maximising the sale of knickers. bsky.app/profile/ruth...

I’m also looking forward to the Professional Darts Council’s first Physics Prize which I guess will also be won by Donald Trump

Ok, just wow. If the content of this article is right, this is depressing. We're slowly reaching the point where ~100% of what I was taught in Social Psych was either innocently wrong or plainly frauded onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/abs/10.1...

One of the first papermills was 'MedChina' - a Dr Jia-Li Liu - following a template to churn out fake meta-analysis papers. forbetterscience.com/2022/06/07/t... 12 years too late, the editors of Gene finally got around to checking the .doc metadata of the manuscript. pubpeer.com/publications...

Christophe Jacrot Bologna, Italy Piazza Maggiore

another of those moments where I assume it’s the Onion only to be told it’s for real

📣 Save the date for the 13th PCI webinar on December 1st, 2025, at 4 PM CET!! Simine Vazire (University of Melbourne, Australia) will present "Recognizing and responding to a replication crisis: Lessons from Psychology". For more details and registration, visit: buff.ly/wZNoD2v

A great horned owl at dusk in the parking lot of Izaak Walton Nature Area in Longmont, Colorado. At first I thought this owl was injured, but it caught a rodent. I was about 10-feet away. #BirdoftheDay #closeups #EastCoastKin #bird #birds #owl #owls #birdphotography #photograph #photographs #photo

The UK Must Urgently Distance Itself From Elon Musk and Space X, Warns Parliamentary Report. Musk has used thousands of replies and quote-tweets to massively boost the audiences of pro-Russian accounts on X. He is working with Putin to destroy democracy. bylinetimes.com/2025/11/04/t...

As usual, Leonid provides a wealth of relevant detail and context for the recent BMJ brouhaha. One thing, though. I think it muddies the waters to call it a paper mill. I don't think anyone paid money to a third party for authorship on this one. And the study was registered in 2021.

Many in politics and media are trapped on X/Twitter, a latter-day Plato's cave, mistaking projected shadows for reality. No social media platform can be perfect - the 'social' bit ensures that - as people are also not perfect. But some platforms are better than others.

Really looking forward to the Speaker of the House claiming to be unaware of the election results.

The Iron Age hillfort of Spettisbury Rings (Crawford Castle / Castle Ring) #Dorset This mighty 2ha univallate enclosure is today largely hidden behind the old railway and modern village of Spetisbury. Most people driving on the A350 are unaware of it 📷 © Jo and Sue Crane 2016 #HillfortsWednesday

Democrats.

in the Uk we’d call him a gammon

A network of peer reviewers in Italy is targeting medical journals, threatening “both the scientific record and patient safety,” a team of researchers including @deevybee.bsky.social report.

I’ve spent today painting an icon of a mouse while listening to the rain drumming down on the studio roof. Tomorrow it’s whiskers and a plant between its paws.

Some days I have Darwin days. Today is one of those (I'm not very poorly, but I can't get rid of this stupid cold). "I am very poorly today and very stupid and hate everybody and everything."

There are two possible ways your email finds me

Anyway, we need some joy, so here's the Egyptian foreign minister being given a Lego Pyramid by the Danish foreign minister.

”Manuel” I-know-nothing Johnson supercut. No idea why anyone thinks he should be given a penny in salary given he appears to be operating in an information empty space.

Detection for fabricated or unlikely data in RCT's should be mandatory for HTA-units as well 👇

Boris Artzybasheff, a Ukrainian illustrator who immigrated to the US in 1919, was known for florid, grotesque explorations of surrealistic anthropomorphism, combining human and machine into fearsome, laboring hulks of metal & flesh. These illustrations are from “Machinalia.” #historyofillustration

You may have seen reports about a paper claiming that "Stem cell therapy prevents heart attacks": bmj.altmetric.com/details/1830... If so, you might want to grab some popcorn: pubpeer.com/publications...

Waiting at Fulham Broadway London Underground station.

Norwich Castle. #Portal

HISTORY REPEATS: This 1905 illustration, From the Depths by William Balfour Ker, is going viral again for a reason. Then, it captured a gilded elite dancing above the suffering of workers — their wealth literally built on the backs of the hungry below

@bmj.com Please look at PubPeer comments on an article you published last week. pubpeer.com/publications... I think your research integrity dept shld act swiftly on this one, given clinical significance. I'm aware of even more evidence of problems so let me know if this is not sufficient.

Coming through! Important ptarmigan stuff to do! #birds 🌿

This man is clearly deranged

Of possible relevance, Anthony Mathur on same topic before: pubpeer.com/publications... His friend Thiemermann: forbetterscience.com/2023/07/25/q...

@bmj.com Please look at PubPeer comments on an article you published last week. pubpeer.com/publications... I think your research integrity dept shld act swiftly on this one, given clinical significance. I'm aware of even more evidence of problems so let me know if this is not sufficient.

hopeless autism study still up in J Pers Med despite promise to retract it www.medpagetoday.com/opinion/seco... This is how @mdpiopenaccess.bsky.social pollutes the literature with junk

In this commentary, I argue that student-based teaching evaluations are problematic bc ✳️ systematic biases (e.g., racism, sexism) ✳️ poor construct validity ✳️ undermine standards and learning We should evaluate teaching as seriously as we do research. Or don't do teaching evaluations.

Research aims and objectives aren’t the same thing but are related It helps to understand the differences and connections patthomson.net/2025/11/01/r...

arXiv will no longer accept review articles and position papers unless they have been accepted at a journal or a conference and complete successful peer review. This is due to being overwhelmed by a hundreds of AI generated papers a month. Yet another open submission process killed by LLMs.

Who did this?!

Uffington White Horse chasing sheep up to the hillfort! ​This abstract wonder, carved over 3,000 years ago, still sparks so much debate. Is it a horse, a tribal symbol, or perhaps the iconic mark of a dragon slain by St. George? The enduring mystery is part of its magic. ​ #AncientMystery #Geoglyph

Petition for whoever wins celebrity Traitors to be offered the title and lodge

Next retraction for Italian cancer researcher Sebastiano Andó: molpharm.aspetjournals.org/article/S002... pubpeer.com/publications... The first concerns on this article were raised in 2013 by C. Francis I wrote about this disgraceful saga for FBS a few weeks ago: forbetterscience.com/2025/10/21/l...

"...and in the "French story of the year" category..." 77 year-old cyclist who fell 40m into a ravine survived in the cold and the rain for three days by drinking "several bottles" of the wine he was bringing home from the market. france3-regions.franceinfo.fr/occitanie/ga...

It's HILARIOUS that he says Quantum Computing, AI and Fusion are signature Trump science efforts!!! Someone has GOT to ask Trump to talk about them.

How to create data dictionaries for all your reserch projects!

Things you love to see! www.bbc.co.uk/newsround/ar...

Takahashi Hiroaki (Shotei) Starlit Night, 1930s woodblock print I appreciate you all ✨️ have a good night🌙

my god, what a paragraph (from tonight's @hcrichardson.bsky.social)