The bathmat comment is still cracking me up. Hilarious

Glorious Andrew O’Hagan piece about his friendship with Edna O’Brien www.theguardian.com/books/2025/s...

To British eyes this looks like comedy duo, Morecambe and Wise.

We're going to be hosting a one-day event in Cambridge on Dec 3rd focusing on the Publish Review Curate model. More info very soon but save the date!

50+ scientific societies sign letter objecting to Aug 7 Trump executive order. Letter urges Congress to take action to safeguard integrity of independent peer-review system. arstechnica.com/science/2025...

The majority of the world's Viagra is produced in Ringaskiddy, a small village in County Cork, Ireland. In 2018, the Pfizer facility in Ringaskiddy manufactured approximately 45 tons of Viagra.

Numerologists take note: tomorrow, 27th September 2025, is a square date in both US and Everywhere Else notation. 5205² = 27092025 and 3045² = 9272025 This is the last time this will happen for a thousand years! (from @EdPeggJr on math-fun)

We need good practices for DOI registration for publish-review-curate platforms like @metaror.bsky.social and others. @andre-brasil.bsky.social and I wrote a blog post about this: doi.org/10.64000/76j... Together with @crossref.bsky.social we hope to receive input from the community on this issue!

It’s important to realize how many men grow up thinking that having ‘the pleading eyes of a girl looking up for protection’ makes them more of a man, without questioning why the bolstering of their self-esteem demands someone else’s distress.

This morning’s episode of Woman’s Hour was perfect for me: interview with new Crick Director Edith Heard; novelist Oyinkan Braithwaite; new film by Kim Snyder about book banning in USA libraries. Wide-ranging conversations w brilliant minds. #books #libraries #science www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/m...

OA-doing library folks can any of you help with this query?

Ben Jennings on Donald Trump’s UN speech – cartoon

The science on Tylenol and autism isn't clear, despite President Trump's claims. Here's what parents need to know to make their own decisions about acetaminophen.

Instead of the promised "answer to autism," Trump offered families distorted science, false hope, and dangerous medical advice. My latest @opinion.bloomberg.com (gift link):

Trump’s attack on vaccines yesterday — delivered from the White House — “was the most dangerously irresponsible press conference in the realm of public health in American history” @pauloffit.bsky.social told us. More on Trump’s false claims with @lenasun.bsky.social

The alt: Arthur Caplan, the founding head of the division of medical ethics at N.Y.U. Grossman School of Medicine, wrote: "The announcement on autism was the saddest display of a lack of evidence, rumors, recyling old myths, lousy advice, outright lies and dangerous advice I have (cont)

Only 1 person in the whole study went from identifying as trans to not identifying as trans. The 1/5 number came from youth going between the binary and non-binary spectrum. This headline and post are misleading on purpose to fit the economist's editorial bent on the political issue.

Why is Trump so keen to damage America’s health? His speech yesterday will have a long and terrible effect.

RFK Jr: “Research on vaccines and autism has been suppressed.” PubMed: “Here’s over 1200 research papers on vaccines and autism… …including this first one which is a meta-analysis showing that vaccines are not associated with autism.”

“We’re grateful to RFK Jr.—otherwise we might put something unnatural into our bodies, like vaccines.”

Vaccines cause adults Tylenol causes pain relief Neurodiversity is good

Robert F. Kennedy Jr. and Trump will claim that Tylenol is linked to autism. But every expert Julia Musto and I interviewed say this is a gross misreading of the data. via @the-independent.com www.independent.co.uk/news/health/...

MERTON'S NORMS are appearing early in the #OASPA2025 discussion on Who Owns Knowledge panel - specifically Stefano Bertuzzi referring to Universalism (he hasn't used the term but that's what he is talking about)

Promising direction to recognise the reward of immigration at a time when so much toxic rhetoric is spewed in the opposite direction in #UKPoli. The question is can the Labour government actually do... something? For once? Forget their snafus. Let's see a positive policy established & celebrated.

Wonder if BBC Verify will look into whether Charlie Kirk was such a great guy?

I’m in Vienna right now. A city which went from being the intellectual and cultural capital of the world to a “provincial backwater” (to quote Brian Barry) in a couple of decades due to nationalism, anti-semitism and fascism which drove away the leading scholars and artists it didn’t murder.

I think he means Brexit was worth it even though it made OTHER people poorer. Twat.

After years of complaining about cancel culture, the current administration has taken it to a new and dangerous level by routinely threatening regulatory action against media companies unless they muzzle or fire reporters and commentators it doesn’t like.

This looks worth a read. Another interesting #histsci book. #epigenetics

I’m beginning to think they lied about liking free speech…

@silversprite.bsky.social

Small group of Trump supporters seen in London as Tate, Musk, Netanyahu, Putin and Farage gather…

Mini-scoop: After resisting pressure to strip Elon Musk of his fellowship for months, the Royal Society is meeting on 1 October to discuss his removal – following his decision to address Tommy Robinson's far-right rally on Saturday. www.thenewworld.co.uk/james-ball-r...

multiculturalism has been a success for the UK. Austerity should be blamed for failing the country. It's not a hard message to communicate

📣 NEWS: Digital Science supports research integrity start-up VeriMe Cooperative. The new VeriMe Cooperative, which is aimed at securing #ResearchIntegrity by providing digital verification for researchers, has received start-up funding. 🔗 Read more: verime.coop/blog/step-3-...

I thought this was about a policeman from Inverness who got lucky in business. Took me a while to figure out it wasn't.

This puts discussions of the London biotech ecosystem into context. Boston is really suffering.

New book published today by Sandra Thom Jones:-Autistics at Work: a practical guide. Sounds like a useful addition to the literature . www.simonandschuster.co.uk/books/Autist... @nlisn.bsky.social

"Vance boldy and falsely claimed “it is a statistical fact that most of the lunatics in American politics today are proud members of the far-left.” In true Vance fashion — exactly the opposite of his claim is true." He's full of shit and he knows it. kaivanshroff.substack.com/p/debunking-...

JD Vance: "It is a statistical fact that most of the lunatics in American politics today are proud members of the far-left." 🙄 The ADL reports that FAR-RIGHT extremists committed 75% of extremist murders. FBI backs it up. THAT is the statistical fact.

This is an archived government report that found that “Since 1990, far-right extremists have committed far more ideologically motivated homicides than far-left or radical Islamist extremists.” It existed yesterday and is gone today.

2/2 Part of leadership is learning how to adapt, without losing who you are. My new book ‘It’s Not Magic’ is out 25th September, pre-order here before it drops: bit.ly/44yW7JZ

The wonderful @johnamaechi.apsintel.com is on BBC Radio4 right now, talking about leadership.

At the Reform UK conference, Dr Aseem Malhotra made a number of claims about Covid vaccines, some of which were misleading or simply not backed by any credible evidence. We’ve fact checked a few of his claims 👇

Arrange these words into a sentence “poisoning minds”, “is” “Nigel Farage”.

Apropos of nothing.... Peer-review should be rigorous, not rude. Critique the work, not the author team. Explain, don’t sneer. Build science up, don’t beat the authors down. Respect in peer-reviews isn’t optional — it’s how good research gets better.

This paper is an interesting read, touching on journalists, open access, predatory publishing, and diversity. Raises many more questions too. Good topic to explore further, imho. /cc @drbeth.bsky.social @andytattersall.bsky.social

'The Conservative party, whose leader Kemi Badenoch has repeatedly pledged to fight for “free speech”, has banned Byline Times from attending her party’s annual conference' bylinetimes.com/2025/09/04/k...