Turns out it's possible to go below zero and have a negative numbers of fucks to give.

Not literally (I don't think) but...

It's been turning me crazy seeing how far the data center heat island paper, which hasn't been peer reviewed, has made it in the media, with every headline implying it's the air that's warming. A stupid lie spreading fast in real time. blog.andymasley.com/p/data-cente...

This is what a maternity hospital in Odesa looks like after a Russian attack. Russia has attacked countless maternity homes and hospitals in Ukraine. This is pure genocide.

Lionel Jospin's ghost has decided to haunt California, apparently.

Did a double take when I saw the list at 8.21%... Imagine running for mayor and getting fewer votes than Rémi Gaillard. youtu.be/pIrvpn3k9A4

"Please fake more convincing data"

To make sure your filling doesn't leak, add leeks. The filling will be too confused to move. Khachapuri recipe from Helen Rennie, with added leeks: youtu.be/sOTXIpMyiYI

Hey @brown.edu what the hell?

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Fun election math: you can get an absolute majority and still not be elected in a multi-seat constituency!

few know this, but in Switzerland we use yogurt for all road markings

The tech influencer's father?

Hopefully CS can follow suit, it's a little ironic that biologists are beating us to this milestone 🙃

In which we learn @acm.org is exceptionally bad at retracting articles that need retracting: arxiv.org/abs/2602.191...

The Verge going with the pseudojournalist version of "actually she was asking for it even though she said no"

The sky is blue, the grass is green, the @acm.org is undermining trust in science through terrible publishing practices... Just another day!

the only place this should happen is academic conferences

🇺🇦 Ministry of Ed.: universities shouldn't partner with companies that guarantee paper acceptance and other such dubious things 🏭 One such company: that's unfair and defamatory :( 🇺🇦 court: no no that's fair, get lost Yay for good govt! h/t @abalkina.bsky.social opendatabot.ua/court/133906...

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For your information, this is what one day of the so-called Russian “energy ceasefire” looked like - something foreign media outlets, for some reason, simply call a “ceasefire.” It is unclear when it began or when it will end. This is what it was like: 🧵

I know that @frontiersin.bsky.social are trying hard to be taken seriously. But addressing the problems in the original figure (left) by a completely new set of panels (that also have problems; right) puts them straight back into predatory journal range. #ImageForensics #ScientificPublishing /

Wiley: "We’re supporting responsible research assessment practices" onlinelibrary.wiley.com/journal/1520... Also Wiley: "Prove that your article is a good fit for this journal 😉😉😉😉😉 by citing at least two of our articles in your manuscript before we will even consider reviewing it" 🤡

ACM: we need money for our digital library to survive now that we're OA 🥺 ACM when they get money:

Today in IEEE nonsense: When you use outdated language and then paraphrase it...

88,000 families in Kyiv are without electricity after Russia's attack on the city last night. About 6,000 residential buildings are without heating (hundreds of thousands of people). It is -8 degrees, and will be up to - 15 in the night. Russia continues its energy genocide.

The publishers of Frontiers are very proud of their fraud-detection software and have appointed themselves as "Guardians of Research Integrity". Also, they publish stuff like this.

🇮🇹 Italians and their...evil software? Presumably someone wrote "IT software" and fed it to a thesaurus. Then @acm.org accepted it for publication as a "scientific" paper, also ignoring all the other oddities in there. pubpeer.com/publications...

You can make a community more inclusive by kicking people out! Welcome to paradoxical social dynamics! Thank you for following this thread, please share it with whoever needs to see it.

When a chatbot says it’s sorry it’s improv When a chatbot says it’s sorry it’s improv You can never change or guilt it Just go find the guys who built it When a chatbot says it’s sorry it’s improv

I cannot even. pdxscholar.library.pdx.edu/socwork_fac/...

This is true and I was the only one on set excited about it (and playing the song on my phone to blank stares)

Ironically I think one reason this article is much weaker than it could be is that Sweden clearly did a bad job integrating its author so she's not prioritizing the convincing arguments, instead diluting them with weaker and weirder ones.

Christmas attack on civilians in Kyiv. Sure, the Russians want peace

Doesn't get more Swiss than this. "We're just fine with the way things are, thanks for asking"

At the ___ Journal of ___, it's always too late to correct the scientific record.

"The russian peace plan." Dobropillia. Photo samotniyskhid

Hi @springernature.com How come this article got published in Scientific Reports despite not meeting any of the criteria you claim to use for clinical trials? pubpeer.com/publications... #autism

Some people doomscroll on BlueSky or other social media, others doomscroll on bad journals... 🐕

I'm no longer surprised by problems in @acm.org papers, but these two PubPeer comments deserve a special mention: pubpeer.com/publications... pubpeer.com/publications... The author in common in both self-plagiarism cases is... the ACM CEO. Oops.

Contrast with my previous repost.

The death toll in the russian terrorist strike against Ternopil has risen to 35. The 12yo girl succumbed to her wounds after doctors had hard fought to save her life for 9d. Her mother was killed too and her sister is still in the hospital. 35 innocent souls stolen at once. 35.

What does it take to publish in Scientific Reports? Access to an LLM, a few weeks, and 2690$ for the APC. What does it take to obtain a retraction? A lot of sleuthing time & work, pubpeer, repeated emails, time, evaluation committees, appeals, and more. Let's make errors like this costly!

No matter how stupid you expect this answer to be, there is no way you are prepared for how stupid it actually is.

Will say again. If this was London or Paris, it would not be tolerated. But we expect Ukrainians to put up with this horror every night. Indeed, we in the west are getting inured to it. It should enrage us.

I'm tracking retractions here: docs.google.com/spreadsheets... Let's see how long it takes for @acm.org to accept that if the program chair of a conference and other organizers "violated the ACM Policy on Plagiarism, Misrepresentation, and Falsification" they should retract the whole thing...

When even PubPeer moderators, who are usually restrained, have to chime in on a publisher's non-answer: pubpeer.com/publications...

Ireland's defense policy was created in a lab to make Switzerland look reasonable.