This wk's @nature.com podcast has - ME on my heart-warming festive gifts piece 🎁 - A choir of scientists 🎤 - @bmaher.bsky.social on researchers who shaped science in 2025 - ME again, on our festive quiz w/ @shamini.bsky.social, @nickpetrichowe.bsky.social and Ben T 🏆 www.nature.com/articles/d41...

Have been watching this all day to clean my brain 💧🐻

What's the best science gift you ever got? 🔭🔬 We asked @nature.com readers for their faves. They include the geneticist inspired by slicing up cow eyeballs she was given as a child, and the former head of the Canadian Space Agency who got a telescope for Christmas in time for the Apollo 8 mission

Leave, just leave. Leave the country, leave the winter

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Posting an article about LinkedIn on Bluesky feels a little strange, but I think this piece is useful for anyone who breaks out in a sweat at the thought of actively 'networking' for their career: www.nature.com/articles/d41...

Asked GPT to (impossibly) "write a Bluesky post 100% guaranteed to go viral" Its suggestion: "just saw a guy confidently order a "croissantini" at the coffee shop and the barista nodded like that was a normal word. i live in a simulation." Then I said "Make it more viral" and things got weird... 🧵

Really great, moving piece from Patrick Freyne on the under-reported war in Sudan. "When it happens to us, we will expect more people to care." www.irishtimes.com/opinion/2025...

What's the most-cited paper published this century? A @nature.com analysis reveals the 25 highest-cited papers published this century and explores why they are breaking records. (With @helenpearson.bsky.social, @heidiledford.bsky.social and Matthew Hutson). www.nature.com/articles/d41...

I just discovered that the @irishtimes.com AI has an Irish accent - but cannot pronounce 'Ceann Comhairle' (however bad you're imagining its take on it, it's worse): www.irishtimes.com/politics/oir...

The next person who tells me that marathons are bad for the knees will get a little talk on how they're actually good for my myelin elasticity! 🏃‍♀️

Entries are now open for Nature’s 2025 #ScientistAtWork photo competition! Capture a moment in your working day for the chance to win a cash prize, and see your winning image in Nature https://go.nature.com/41Ff5Me

The mood was defiant at many of the rallies, where chants of “Scientists will not be silenced”, “Facts over fear” and “What do we want? Peer review! When do we want it? Now!” were heard. https://go.nature.com/3F8T6FX

J.P. Flores, a core organizer for today's rallies and a bioinformatics researcher at the University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill, told Nature: “March 7 is the beginning — I don’t necessarily see it as the endpoint.” #StandUpForScience www.nature.com/articles/d41...

Boston #standupforscience signs come out

Every major UK newspaper - left, right, broadsheet, tabloid - is running a front page campaign against copyright carveouts for AI training. I can't remember the last time any political cause had such broad support, let alone one so anti-big tech and so economically consequential.

TIL a new term: ‘cognitive offloading’, the idea of using lists, phones, etc to lessen the demands on your brain. I do this all the time - I basically let google be my memory! But is this damaging my *actual* memory? @helenpearson.bsky.social has the full story: www.nature.com/articles/d41...

A cold boiled egg pot may be a convenient shot of protein, but where’s the joy in that? | Lucy Dearlove

“We keep giving the new administration the benefit of the doubt, but I don’t think that’s warranted here”, says an NIH scientist who asked not to be identified... “We need to give up the illusion of going back to normal.” Nature's report on the chaos in US science: www.nature.com/articles/d41...

How audiences follow news on climate change? This is the question at the heart of a new report by @waqasejaz.bsky.social @mitalilive.bsky.social @richardfletcher.bsky.social based on survey data from 🇧🇷 🇫🇷 🇩🇪 🇮🇳 🇯🇵 🇵🇰 🇬🇧 🇺🇸 Read here: https://buff.ly/4jwvTNG 7 findings in thread

Interesting piece on AI slop on Quartz from @aftermath.site AI articles have a note at the bottom: “While we strive for accuracy and timeliness, due to the experimental nature of this technology we cannot guarantee that we’ll always be successful in that regard.” 🫣 aftermath.site/quartz-ai-ar...

I'm launching a new career as a demotivational speaker (thanks to everyone who got in touch this morning - it's nice to hear it strikes a chord) www.irishtimes.com/life-style/p...

Sure, I could've just copied across my Twitter follow list, but where's the fun in that? This way I get to hunt down the random mix of Irish media, politics and comedy types plus UK science and politics journos... and that one person who made my favourite ever tweet about Patrick Swayze

Even if you don't celebrate Thanksgiving, many of us use this time of year to show we appreciate our colleagues. In Nature this week, I spoke to researchers about how they give thanks to their lab-mates – from stickers to hidden chocolates. @natureportfolio.bsky.social www.nature.com/articles/d41...

Really looking forward to getting to know #ScienceSky #AcademicSky 🧪 people here. Please flag to me any posts/content that 1M+++ Nature Briefing readers need to see! 😀

We said hello to our new followers last week, but there's many more of you now! Welcome! We've created a starter pack for you, which is a work in progress. We'd also love to hear from you about your work we've published or what kind of things you want us to post.

🧪Putting out a #sourcerequest for a story in @natureportfolio.bsky.social. I'm looking for people who can speak to their experiences w/ breastfeeding in academia in different parts of the world. Preference to people outside US/EU. Please help spread the word! #WomenInSTEM #QueerInSTEM #reprosky

Filtered out nudity and now my What's Hot feed is just cats and ice-cream