The memes using his instantly recognizable font/color point to a graphic design team that did its job.

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please don't @ me like "actually cerium is unique among the lanthanides for its +4 oxidation state" ⚗️🧪 #chemsky

A note: when CSI was über popular, universities in the UK ran to create an infinite number of criminal science degrees (from 2 to 285...). When taste moved to the next fad, unis were stuck with thousands of hires. This, in a place with strong tenure and high compensation (US), is a huge liability.

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Oops. Ooooooooooooops. I do hope that nobody has been given or denied a job/promotion based on their SpringerNature citation counts in the past 15 years. arxiv.org/pdf/2511.01675 h/t @nathlarigaldie.bsky.social

The women of the North Melbourne Kangaroos 🦘 won AGAIN. They now have 25 straight wins 2️⃣5️⃣, breaking the record they just set last week. And Win #25 is a mauling. www.afl.com.au/aflw/news/14... #AFLW

lmao this is incredible, strong contender for one of the least useful charts ever made you could do this with anything, draw a straight trend line plus one exponentially up and one exponentially down average baseball fastball pitch speed in 2050: 0mph, 105mph, or 1000000mph

Far too many people on this site shared this fakery.

Tech bros tired of reinventing buses reinvent phrenology instead

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Silver linings: 1. in failing to oppose this motion, universities were too chickenshit to even gesture at duty of care toward researchers and students, but this pushback was led by someone in an admin position. you don't have to hand your spine over to the comms and legal teams.

The mobilization of the research community by Gaynor Watson-Creed and others has been successful, and Parliament has withdrawn its abusive data request. Via @widowweb.bsky.social on www.linkedin.com/posts/maydia...

Academics set their metrics and incentives. And that defines everything. Including the future of scientific publishing. And if at any point, one feels that incentives are being defined from outside, that's what needs to be fought against. But the power of change lies within.

At best, I think it’s a good idea to treat AI in the workplace the same way you’d treat a forklift in the workplace: as a tool that’s useful for a few specific jobs, and which only a few trained people should use. Instead, we’re largely going with “Hey, we built a forklift into all your software.”

"Language models cannot reliably distinguish belief from knowledge and fact" When AI is touted as a tool in medicine and law, among other things, this speaks volumes. #AI 🧪

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...

Goddard spacecraft engineer: "I think it just kind of speaks to the atmosphere of the agency and the nation, where people are like, 'Well, laws don't matter for the people at the top anymore.'"

“It looks like the committee is looking to prove something that they already believe, rather than look objectively at the data to see what it does say,” Watson-Creed said. Boy does it. www.ctvnews.ca/health/artic...

"How we choose to act now will determine whether our shared basis for reality — what we see and hear — remains trustworthy." Witness's @samgregory.bsky.social on Sora's threat to visual truth:

hey #screenwriting #screenwriter who writes #tv and #film - have you ever wondered how a great writer creates unforgettable characters? ME TOO! sadly, all you get is my latest essay in which i break down how i cope with what i see as my weakest suit! www.uncannymagazine.com/article/i-am...

This isn't an AI slop problem. This is an assessment problem that comes from blindly counting publications. As Clay Shirky said, "There's not information overload, there's filter failure."

Tom Hanks explains to Stephen Colbert why he masks on the subway: "I'm doing a play right now so I cannot get sick... I've had COVID enough in my life, I don't need to do that again. So I'm wearing this for health reasons." Thank you Tom! Masks are still a key part of public health.

Good discussion in paper mills on CBC’s Quirks and Quarks this week. Reese Richardson’s suggestions for fighting paper mills: 1. Nonprofit academic publishing 2. Qualitative care assessments 3. Increased investment in research www.cbc.ca/radio/quirks...

More consolidation in the world of academic publishing. corp.oup.com/news/oxford-...

Interesting review documenting the rise in scholarship on visual misinformation, how it is more persuasive than text misinformation, and how #GenAI is both increasing visual misinformation content and being used to combat it. (!) #PsychSciSky #AcademicSky #EduSky doi.org/10.1080/1520...

A movie you’ve seen more than seven times with a gif. (I know, I cheat. This is an easy challenge for a former projectionist.)

This is really an article about academic ghostwriting. And it’s informative about that. But HOLY COW she is misfiring on public trust. I guarantee that concerns about medical ghostwriting aren’t why science budgets are being cut and people are having a harder time getting vaccines.

I really admire Oreskes, but leveraging right wing attacks to advocate for science reform is tone deaf. Trumpism isn't attacking science, expertise, and universities because of what they do wrong, they are attacking them because of what they do right. /1

I'm happy the next Godzilla movie from Toho is led by the creator of "Godzilla -1.0". But "Godzilla Minus Zero" is a nonsensical title.

The end of an era: the Tree of Life Web Project is going dark after 3 decades. Anyone interested in communicating phylogeny online should read David's account of goals, history, and future. @bembidion.bsky.social subulatepalpomere.com/2025/11/02/t...

@realgdt.bsky.social When Victor was coming the tower, my wife whispered, “This is exactly how I imagined Frankenstein. It’s like someone took a picture from my head and put it up on the screen.”

“I didn’t do NUTHIN’, man! This is a JOKE.” Share an angry bird and the curse you think it embodies. #birds 🌿

It's embarassing to see someone with a PhD and years if experience use AI to make a presentation on something they are an expert on, and then tell you to ignore some parts of diagrams because the AI made them up and those bits are wrong. That's embarrassing for us both.

And last but not least, my most popular post of all time, "12 Mistakes Nearly Everyone Who Writes About Grammar Mistakes Makes". I got tired of stupid listicles of supposed grammar errors, so I made my own meta-listicle of errors in those listicles. www.arrantpedantry.com/2013/11/18/1...

Na na na na na na na na Na na na na na na na na BATCRAB

"There are times when verbal ingenuity is not enough." - Buckaroo Banzai

“But I can’t draw.” ✍️ Would you have answered that way when you were a kid? Probably not. Why do we think we must be able to perform at some high professional level for doing something to “count”? One of the most popular cartoons on the internet is based on stick figures.

As a foreign academic who traveled a lot, it became unsustainable when every re-entry felt like a humiliation. With the gradual change in public attitudes toward immigrants, I simply no longer felt welcomed in this country. Now, I don’t even feel safe going to certain unfamiliar places.

Need an image for a conference poster or talk? Artists want work. There are tons of stock photo companies that are cheap. There are tons of Creative Commons photos on Flickr. (Flickr is an unsung treasure, really.)

Third quarter, Kangaroos lead Hawks 36 to 8. Looks like the Kangas are on their way to the record books for most consecutive wins for any pro football club. Unless the Hawks pull off a miracle last quarter. #AFLW

Canadian researchers should be aware the there is a motion before the Parliamentary Standing Committee on Science and Research to force Tricouncils to hand over disaggregated peer review data on all applications: Applicant names, profiles, demographics Reviewers names, profiles, comments, and scores

Anyone who thinks baseball is a long game truly needs to be forced to watch a test cricket match in its entirety.

I can totally identify with this feeling. But what the poll misses is that there are no jobs across the world for these 75%. Sure Nobel winners and super top researchers will be poached. But for the majority if they chose to leave, it will mean doing a non research job somewhere else

Dead every company: I would PAY YOU cold hard cash dollars 💵 to use a version of your app or website that does NOT offer "suggestions" or "summaries" or "assistance" from generative AI language models (Looking at Elsevier's Reading assistant" intruding on article's webpages. Just gimme the PDF!)

If you're watching baseball because you think some record might be broken, don't sleep on Friday's top of the ladder #AFLW clash that might break a record that's stood for 70 years: Can the Hawthorne Hawks stop the North Melbourne Kangaroos from extending their winning streak to 24 games?

“One stitch”

I jump into the moderation debate. I agree with @adambonica.bsky.social and @gelliottmorris.com on the methodology, but I want to draw attention to a bigger issue. The collapse of candidate effects generally. leedrutman.substack.com/p/the-modera...

Drop the cover of your pet’s next album