Easy. @cdelawalla.bsky.social.

READ THIS: Still probably the best #ChristmasEve tradition I’ve heard. Iceland definitely does Christmas well — my Reykjavik clients had funny comments about this! Are you planning to curl up with a great new book on cities this #Christmas? Share your pick with us using hashtag #UrbanismBookClub!

When your mutuals discover a new favourite TV show:

I can’t be the only one who is reminded of this… 🎵 Da-da-da-DUM 🎵 🎵 Da-da-da-DUM 🎵

The one, true #Crustmas: Marmorkrebs, the marbled #Crayfish, which is an obligate parthenogen - literal virgin birth! This is reflected in the scientific name, Procambarus virginalis! marmorkrebs.org

Whatever value you think Twitter had or has in sharing your work across the internet, Bluesky is currently better than Twitter was at its peak. At least for me, with 15 years of data and roughly the same number of followers on both platforms.

You can say a lot about Texas, but I won't hear a single word against H-E-B. Not one. H 👏 E 👏 B 👏 ! H 👏 E 👏 B 👏 ! www.cbsnews.com/texas/news/v...

Do you love quantifying animal behavior as much as we do? We have just the tool for you! Presenting #OCTRON - a pipeline that helps you create rich annotation data and enables training of custom segmentation models. Have a look, particularly if you work with non-model / invertebrate organisms!

Remember this holiday season to wear at least one piece of new clothing so you don’t get eaten by the Yule Cat. www.atlasobscura.com/articles/yul...

More sand patterns seen from the drone above the Kyle of Durness. #Scotland #DronePhotography #DJIMavic3Pro

🆓 Graphic novel about animal behaviour! Just the thing for teaching ethology! www.ordlab.unsw.edu.au/understandin...

The extreme extent of the decline in quality for Google search results and news channels is fascinating. Is there a good, recent piece on this? Because it is truly remarkable. From “very good” to “often wildly incorrect” is a heck of a leap.

We were overdue for a "Do crustaceans feel pain?" article in the media. The Guardian delivers it for #Crustmas! www.theguardian.com/world/2025/d... BUT the science of crustacean "pain" is FAR more complicated than the article lets on. From the blog vault: neurodojo.blogspot.com/2013/01/what...

Science! Curse thee, thou vain toy; and cursed be all the things that cast man’s eyes aloft to that heaven

🍾 New lab paper alert! We have used our large survey in the US population to study the “Interaction of identity and beliefs with genetic literacy.” www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti... What factors affect someone’s genetic literacy, and what can we do about that? 🧵

For your pleasure I wrote up the news that apparently the University of Austin is not a great place to work: www.chron.com/culture/arti...

Some countries have Santa. Iceland has the 13 Yule Lads and their terrifying mother. Tag yourself, I'm Door-Slammer. Also, Iceland lore has a gigantic Yule Cat that eats people who do not have a piece of new clothing at Christmas.

Fascinating look at what makes aTV series work! It hints at something I’ve thought about streaming TV series: that too many try to do plot driven story arcs, but TV thrives on character driven repetition on a theme.

Officially announced today: new deals between UK unis and 'big 5' publishers will trial removing article-processing fees from some journals, effectively making them free for both readers and authors @sophieatrpn.bsky.social was well ahead of the curve on this www.jisc.ac.uk/news/all/lan...

Quite apart from the misinterpreted and poorly presented science that will continue to get some of his readers killed or disabled, I’d like to point out another glaring factual error. People that wear masks did not and do not refuse to enter society. Society refuses to accept mask wearers.

Happy summer solstice to all my friends in southern hemisphere!

To be clear, the original crime is lying about the diligence and cognitive process that are claimed to underly the report. A fake citation is secondary, and most significant as circumstantial evidence of the first. There is now an industry around obfuscating the evidence.

There are always empty words about "human in the loop", that you should always check the work of an LLM. But the entire value of a summary is as a replacement for reading. Nobody uses an LLM to generate a "summary" *and* independently verifies.

It is not "attribution and sourcing" to generate post-hoc citations that have not been read and did not inform the student's writing. Those should be regarded as fraudulent: artifacts testifying to human actions and thought that did not occur. www.theverge.com/news/760508/...

I'm on the market and working on my CV. Can I get some advice: bio, no bio? Pic, no pic? ALL the posters and talks? Any other advice? On here I have seen very short CVs without bio and very long CVs... No idea whats preferred.

Happy #CRUSTMAS from the Last Boy on Earth! By Jack Kirby of course! #invertsincomics

If a garage can’t fix my car, it should not be in business. If editors and journals can’t keep out hallucinated references, they should close shop. I don’t want to hear about how hard it is to check all this stuff out how or why things slip through. This is the job entire.

Every syllabus should now be written by Ai and submitted in 8 point white font with language that the political body of the university requires this centralized surveillance. Let them hash it out with the students directly. I just work here.

It’s the entire point. There’s no plan to make this meaningful for students. No plan to use it administratively. Its design and implementation signals its only real intent. It’s best and easiest use case is for systematic harassment and to scare faculty into complying in advance.

If you’re interested in how gen A.I. is affecting academic publishing, How’d you like to browse my new collection of gen A.I. images in journals? doi.org/10.6084/m9.f...

The #1 movie when you were 10 years old is how your 2026 is going to go.

And so checked out Google Scholar. Now on my profile it doesn't appear, but somwhow on Nelli's it does and ... and ... omg, IT'S BEEN CITED 42 TIMES almost exlusively in papers about AI in education from this year alone... scholar.google.com.vn/citations?vi...

Given all the recent buzz about how great ChatGPT has gotten, including its prowess with images, I figured I'd check in on its anatomical skills. Nope.

I have become a slop collector. 😮‍💨 Dirty job, but someone has to do it. I’m compiling gen A.I. images in academic journals. This is an ongoing project, and version 1 is here: doi.org/10.6084/m9.f... Version 2 in January with at least three 3️⃣ new illustrations. #AcademicChatter

In honor of me being mad on the internet, and also needing to feel like other people share my values: Tell me about the class you didn't want to take in college that ended up bending your mind or being otherwise "useful" in your development as a person

#crayfish www.lsu.edu/blog/2025/12...

Can scientists get a fair shake publishing solid work in specialty journals? Definitely if article metrics were used; many such papers are revealed to be as influential as papers from high tier journals 1/4 #AcademicTwitter #AcademicChatter #NIH #NSF #OpenScience journals.plos.org/plosbiology/...

A Chinese Grinch Story

"Slop" is @merriam-webster.com's word of the year. To celebrate (?), I decided to collect the generative A.I. slop imagery has been creeping into academic journals. For scholarly use. doi.org/10.6084/m9.f... #AcademicChatter

TIL that SPF values for sunscreen are calculated by… Putting sunscreen on volunteers, sticking them under heat lamps, and waiting for their skin to turn red. 🔴 Which seems far less precise than those SPF numbers suggest? www.abc.net.au/listen/progr...

Honey, I Shrunk the Grinch

Another shrimply silly nature drawing for #ArtAdventCalendar 🐡

2026 is gonna be my year.

Always interesting to look at publication cost breakdowns. Canadian Science Publishing’s estimate: US$2,600 per journal article. blog.cdnsciencepub.com/what-it-real...

Filter failure.

Literally what are we doing here? If nobody in science actually wants to do the processes that we've institutionalized as being "proper" knowledge generation then maybe we need to re-design the institution especially as Western governments throttle us out of existence anyways.

For your collective delectation this holiday season: Quite possibly the silliest thing I've ever written (and definitely the most ridiculous graph I've ever made!) loreandordure.com/2025/12/16/j...

🆕 post on the Better Posters blog! betterposters.blogspot.com/2025/12/less... HT @nataliajagielska.bsky.social

Fantastic palaeoart in a traditional Chinese style, used as a figure in a Royal Society publication, describing a false sabre-tooth feline, Taotienimravus songi. I hope this buckles the trend again "stylised" art in publications and press releases. Art by Yuefeng Song 🐈