happy 10-year anniversary to this razor-sharp political prognostication

Absolutely thrilled to have @theopennotebook.bsky.social join forces with @retractionwatch.com for a new fellowship program exclusively for local journalists! Details 👇

“We know the fraudsters are going to fraud. We’re gonna make it a little bit harder for them”. @elisabethbik.bsky.social @abalkina.bsky.social & other sleuths share tips for detecting dodgy papers. By @sjmelchor.bsky.social @nature.com 🧪 www.nature.com/articles/d41...

This is correct ✅ 🍊

As of tonight, licenses of trans people across Kansas are being invalidated en masse, enabling the overnight criminalization of an entire group of people for going about our lives. It’s often said you never know when you’re living through history, so let me assure you: that’s what’s happening now.

SACRED FERTILITY 🥴

Ugh.

“We know the fraudsters are going to fraud. We’re gonna make it a little bit harder for them”. @elisabethbik.bsky.social @abalkina.bsky.social & other sleuths share tips for detecting dodgy papers. By @sjmelchor.bsky.social @nature.com 🧪 www.nature.com/articles/d41...

$120,000 — that’s the financial hit for new mothers over 20 years, in Denmark 🇩🇰

“This research underlines the powerful role of the state in cushioning the financial shock of motherhood. But replacement income is not enough.” New study documents the financial hit new mothers experience -- and how much governmental aid can help. @nature.com 🧪 www.nature.com/articles/d41...

If you need another reason to listen to @lyz.bsky.social ‘s amazing podcast, her theme song is a banger. Can’t stop humming it! 🎶https://www.patreon.com/posts/151313199?utm_campaign=postshare_fan

#RStats is up baby www.infoworld.com/article/4129...

Pritzker’s invoice to White House: (via @nbcnews.com) @govpritzker.illinois.gov

my work here (on this earth) is done

Ooh, here's a useful tool in the age of #AI hallucinations and LLM-generated content. arxiv.org/abs/2602.15871 -- CheckIfExist provides a web form to check if the refs in a paper you are reading (or perhaps, provided by an AI writing tool) are legit. 🧪

Nallo: a Nextflow pipeline for comprehensive human long-read genome analysis academic.oup.com/bioinformati... 🧬💻🧪 github.com/genomic-medi...

Hard drives fail after a few years -- ever thought about writing your data into glass instead? Microsoft has developed a ready-to-deploy system which, while pricey to read and write, could save data for millennia, with minimal storage costs 🧪 www.nature.com/articles/d41...

TFW you realize you can distill a bunch of joins and for-loops into about 10 lines of #tidyverse #rstats code. :)

So thrilled @lizzylawrence.bsky.social and @statnews.com have won a Polk Award for our coverage of the Trump Administration assault on science+health. I couldn’t be prouder of our powerful coverage and the many stories we were first on. What a team. www.statnews.com/american-sci...

This is from 2019, but this is a fantastic essay by @raxkingisdead.bsky.social. magazine.catapult.co/people/stori...

@marynmck.bsky.social has an excellent TED talk on this.

This is the Colbert interview with Texas Democrat James Talarico that Barri Weiss, David Ellison & Donald Trump don’t want you to see. Twice in three months content on CBS has been censored. And this is only the beginning…

Scoop: The NIH infectious-diseases institute (NIAID) will soon scrub “pandemic preparedness” and “biodefense” from its web pages, according to e-mails I obtained. The directive is the start of a broader shake-up at NIAID, which has long been attacked by Republicans.

Let me just make a few little adjustments to that title… “How a scientist with a PhD in Geology and 25 years of experience is helping lead California’s earthquake work” Way to devalue my experience.

"Hello, Casey, the Dow is over 50,000."

Bluesky is the new science Twitter, new study by @whysharksmatter.bsky.social and Julia Wester concludes! "Results show that for every reported professional benefit that scientists once gained from Twitter, scientists can now gain that benefit more effectively on Bluesky than on Twitter."

A simple 45-nucleotide RNA molecule that is able to perfectly copy itself... Wow! 🧪🧬 doi.org/10.1126/scie...

Wonderfully nostalgic story!

You can't... repeal... a scientific finding. At that point it's just called lying about it.

Scientists across the career spectrum are burnt out, & people are leaving STEM in startling numbers, particularly those from under-represented groups. A lab handbook can foster a more positive research culture. By @scattercushion.bsky.social @nature.com 🧪 www.nature.com/articles/d41...

This. 👇👇👇

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Scientists across the career spectrum are burnt out, & people are leaving STEM in startling numbers, particularly those from under-represented groups. A lab handbook can foster a more positive research culture. By @scattercushion.bsky.social @nature.com 🧪 www.nature.com/articles/d41...

Celebrating Samira Hamza this #InternationalDayOfWomenAndGirlsInScience — the 2025 recipient of the Springer Nature Fellowship for Advancing Science Journalism in Africa and the Middle spklr.io/63326DZSoY @ksjatmit.bsky.social. 👉 spklr.io/63322DZSoq#InternationalDayOfWomenAndGirlsInScience #WomenInScience #WomenInSTEM #IDWGS

The Heritage Foundation has released a 250-year roadmap to “save America.” The document is a how-to guide for subjugating girls & young women: a detailed plan to push them out of college, funnel them into early marriage and motherhood, and then trap them there. jessica.substack.com/p/theyre-com...

Terrified Conservatives Lose Ability To Speak English After Exposure To Bad Bunny Performance https://theonion.com/terrified-conservatives-lose-ability-to-speak-english-after-exposure-to-bad-bunny-performance-dios-mio-cry-millions-of-panicking-republicans/

There are a lot of people who are going to complain about being unfairly vilified by that halftime show and it's because they know in their hearts they're on Team Hate.

I’d like to thank @lyz.bsky.social & @zacharyos.bsky.social for gifting us, in their podcast, the phrase “seasoning their chicken with thoughts and prayers”

More than half of the Pandora mission’s leading scientists and engineers are early-career researchers This is “really unheard of elsewhere in the NASA mission space”, says one. By @jennaahart.bsky.social @nature.com 🧪 🪐 🔭 www.nature.com/articles/d41...

I wept watching this

Love how this @theopennotebook.bsky.social pitching tip sheet came out!

its cool. its not as if the washington post specifically has been important to our democracy or anything

this is such a good deal that it feels like theft

Almost as good as my rule of thumb: has anyone you know ever written anything in it you want to cite? If not, then it’s not the Journal for you.

🚨Scientists 🚨: Tired of come-ons from journals & conferences that may or may not be predatory? A new tool called Aletheia-Probe could help. 🧪 By @silverjacket.bsky.social @nature.com www.nature.com/articles/d41...

ps if u want a sense of why people seem so zealously to believe themselves to be pure, just, & right while carrying out acts of unimaginable cruelty, do i have a book for you bookshop.org/p/books/wild...