"People with strong chest and back less likely to have a heart attack" <- The British Heart Foundation funded someone to show that healthier people are less like to have a heart attack. Sadly they don't show whether strength training helps reduce heart attack. Which would have been useful.

NEW: Is there a 'crisis' of public trust in science? It can feel that way — with attacks on research in the US and growing rejection of vaccines. I investigated for @nature.com - and found some surprises. My feature article is out today and a short🧵here www.nature.com/articles/d41...

This is a REALLY important story to tell: actually trust in science is quite high overall. It is dropping with Republicans and that is due to a self-sorting phenomenon that is causing one group to have low trust IN THE ESTABLISHMENT ACROSS THE BOARD. www.nature.com/articles/d41...

"public trust in science and scientists is high...The idea that there’s a pervasive lack of trust is completely unfounded...But trust has dropped in certain groups...politically right-leaning groups" Maybe it's not science/scientists that's to blame... 1/2 www.nature.com/articles/d41...

Retraction news: Springer Nature say they're working to republish the two 1940s papers by Max Planck they retracted. Statement says it appears that the decision to retract (in 2011) "...was a human error and we can confirm that no software or “bot” would have been involved in the process." (1/2)

This is very sad. The Research Fortnight (as was) / Research Professional News team has produced terrific reporting and developed star journalists. “The challenges of sustaining a specialist journalism offering in today’s environment are significant”. True, sigh.

This sucks. There has been a lot of really good journalism from @resprofnews.bsky.social, and we need more dedicated reporting like this. Sending best wishes to the team.

"A Press Gazette article exposing the dubious ‘parasite SEO’ tactics of online marketing company Clickout Media has been removed from Google results after a spurious anonymous legal challenge" Clickout buys up media brands & replaces staff with AI written bilge The Streisand Effect applies here...

Wild story of #retractions of Max Planck papers... That being said, "copyright bot is to blame" sounds like nonsense. It's not how retractions anywhere work #OverlyConfusedEditor A bit surprised the question about how was not asked (given the bland comment from SN). www.science.org/content/arti...

What's everything wrong with the media environment in one sentence? Here's mine: AI company Anthropic is hiring a member of editorial staff with an annual salary of $295,000—$345,000 USD.

I can scarcely express how much this angers me. I know it's a mean thought, but part of me is glad that the "authors" of the paper, Robert Socolow and Stephen Pacala, have lived long enough to see their deception exposed. There are few people on Earth who have caused so much harm.

Nature: Inside the new political screening that’s stalling NIH grants by Max Kozlov @nature.com @maxkozlov.bsky.social go.nature.com/4eNjKT6

Many people are sharing this tour de force but you should follow @themadstone.bsky.social and check out her thread for additional background. Also follow @amywestervelt.bsky.social and @katieworth.bsky.social.

“I have done all of the things that one is supposed to do to earn a tenure-track position. And I have done approximately 85% of them by typing prompts into a large language model and then moderately editing the output.” 🤣🤣🤣 brilliant 👌🏽 open.substack.com/pub/inprepar...

Scientific American Union Rally June 30, 2026•05:00 PM Springer Nature Offices (NYC) • 1 New York Plaza, NY, NY actionnetwork.org/events/scien... Come hear what happened to Scientific American. Nice weather at Battery Park. Check out the fancy digs that research grant money buys.

I appreciate you trying to spot fake papers in this AI ridden time, but I assure you I did not use any AI in my paper. After working for months to write and publish my first paper, it is very disheartening to be accused of creating fake data. Please be more mindful in the future.

🥵Why are so many Europeans/Britons unnecessarily sweating through a heatwave without cooling? Why are portable AC units so crap? The answers are both interesting and maddening. My latest on air conditioning👇 edconway.substack.com/p/the-missin...

Making a game that starts with the promise of AI utopia, and ends with a whole different revolution... 👀 Thanks to @irisvanrooij.bsky.social and @marentierra.bsky.social summer school on Critical AI Literacies ✨️

Is the map of global bat distribution in this paper (Nov 2025, ‘Sustainability’ journal) AI nonsense? Comments from experts on LinkedIn are suggesting so. www.mdpi.com/2071-1050/17... LinkedIn: www.linkedin.com/posts/alice-...

Reversed, wrong-headed, lied; unhinged, wrong-headed, deprived.

Once the realm of science fiction, the idea of making Mars habitable is gaining traction Play our game to see how you'd rise to this challenge: www.nature.com/immersive/d4...

🔴 We have a fun thing for you today in @nature.com - a game! We took the latest research into Mars terraforming and transformed it into an interactive adventure. 🌿 How would you make the red planet green? Try your hand and see if you can win. 🧪 www.nature.com/immersive/d4...

A Chinese supercomputer has topped the list of the world’s fastest computers go.nature.com/4w9QHzR

I've read several bad/shallow pieces on this topic but still not a good one – *why can't we just manufacture more RAM?* How long would it take to ramp up? It's not a ultra-complex chip like high-end inference stuff so…what gives?

"Chaps, I have had a go at re-writing the paper" is going to stick with me for a long time.

Fantastic and important work that sheds light on how the fossil fuel industry has put its thumb on the scales of climate solutions research. What kills me is that I expect this from them. I expect better from academic researchers. Collusion just undermines trust and makes it harder to do our jobs.

Must-read story by @drilledmedia.bsky.social and @propublica.org. Beyond Denial: How Oil Execs Shaped a Landmark Climate Study @themadstone.bsky.social @amywestervelt.bsky.social @katieworth.bsky.social

Amino acids visualized w/ a simple microscope! Using a trick that expands biological samples 1000-fold in all directions. (Shown at top. Middle: molecular structure. bottom: fluorescence microscopy for 10x-expanded cell). by @ecallaway.bsky.social | @nature.com www.nature.com/articles/d41...

"the first validated, large-scale framework for judging the quality of life science papers independently of venue, identity, and prestige...Blinded domain-expert professors sided with score three times more often than with journal rank" the-one-percent.qedscience.com 1/n

Scientific American was part of Springer Nature, Nature's parent company. It pains me to lose Dan and so many other brilliant science reporters as colleagues — and SciAm as a sister magazine. I stand in solidarity with @sciamunion.bsky.social working to secure better conditions for its employees.

Yesterday's story on passive cooling - various ways to shade your home. www.theguardian.com/environment/...

When reality surpasses fiction! Top: fictional forecast for August 2050, broadcast by French TV in 2014 to warn about the consequences of global warming. Bottom: Real French forecast for yesterday, June 22, 2026.

Scathing statement from @sciamunion.bsky.social on @springernature.com's decision to sell Scientific American just days before the NLRB will count votes in its election: "We should call this action what it is—blatant union-busting" www.wgaeast.org/wgae-scienti... @wgaeast.bsky.social

Amid chaos in US science and geopolitical turmoil, Europe wants to position itself as a research haven — but questions about funding and innovation remain 🧪 www.nature.com/articles/d41...

Employees at Scientific American were told today that the magazine has been sold to LabX Media Group, the outfit that runs Discover Magazine and IFLScience. And that means -- of course! -- editorial layoffs. The media mass extinction rolls ever onward.

🛰️ ⬇️ 🔥 🌏 ☠️ but wait 🚀 🤖 + 🛰️ ⤴️ will it work? Words by me 🧪 www.nature.com/articles/d41...

AI makes people worse at the things they’re good at.

US scientist John Jumper to leave Google DeepMind for Anthropic reut.rs/3QswiHm

Studies on AI 'deskilling' us. Even more worrying is the thought of heavy AI-use preventing students acquiring the skills in the first place www.nature.com/articles/d41...

A look at where we are in science, 10 years from the Brexit vote. The UK is edging back into Horizon Europe (and from next year will be part of Erasmus+) but the country's role as a cornerstone of European research remains much diminished. www.nature.com/articles/d41... 🧪

I suspect it's not widely known that (or how much) genetic variation that would otherwise be deleterious is "hidden" by buffering. Much of that is accomplished by a protein called Hsp90. I've written a feature for Nature about it. www.nature.com/articles/d41...

I'm attending a digital humanities event in Montreal. There was a keynote on AI and something about the talk made me wonder if it had been written by Claude. I said as much in the Q&A. As I posed the question, the speaker shifted, looking slightly uncomfortable. What he said next shocked the room +

German researchers can't be forced to publish OA, court rules (does this mean the German national funder, the DFG, also couldn't ever mandate this?) scholarlykitchen.sspnet.org/2026/06/16/a...

Sorry to say this, but it does seem @statnews.com runs AI-generated text in its 'First Opinion' columns w/o disclosure, contrary to their policy. www.statnews.com/2026/06/15/a... comes up 100% AI-generated in Pangram. www.statnews.com/2026/06/16/a... also 100% is Pangram wrong here, @statnews.com ?

EU, tech law CJEU: Member States can require age verification for porn, and ban rebroadcast of traffic cop information also ***a website that controls what viewers see via an algorithm is liable for the content*** curia.europa.eu/site/upload/...

A) This a properly brilliant piece of investigative journalism by BBC & @hopenot.bsky.social Huge kudos to all involved for doing the job the UK police & CPS failed to do: naming the alleged spymaster & clearly showing Kremlin’s role. www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...

Sorry to say this, but it does seem @statnews.com runs AI-generated text in its 'First Opinion' columns w/o disclosure, contrary to their policy. www.statnews.com/2026/06/15/a... comes up 100% AI-generated in Pangram. www.statnews.com/2026/06/16/a... also 100% is Pangram wrong here, @statnews.com ?

Bit of a weird opening even my this newsletter’s standards?

"for all the alarming headlines, most climate researchers think the AMOC is more resilient than these worst case scenarios make it seem." www.science.org/content/arti...