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"Zwischen der Erde und der Sonne ist die Atmosphäre. Und wenn die immer dünner wird, dann wird die Sonne immer heißer. Und der Grund dafür sind Abgase, CO₂ und und und" - Manuel Hagel, CDU Spitzenkandidat für die Landtagswahl in Baden-Württemberg zu Schülern, ARD Mittagsmagazin vom 2. März 2026

SF is such a cooked place. The Mission used to be home to a massive Latine diaspora. And now it's filled with people who speak like this.

Study finds ChatGPT Health did not recommend a hospital visit when medically necessary in more than half of cases. www.theguardian.com/technology/2...

"Runctitiononal features"? "Medical fymblal"? "1 Tol Line storee"? This gets worse the longer you look at it. But it's got to be good, because it was published in Nature Scientific Reports last week: www.nature.com/articles/s41... h/t @asa.tsbalans.se

We wrote the Strain on scientific publishing to highlight the problems of time & trust. With a fantastic group of co-authors, we present The Drain of Scientific Publishing: a 🧵 1/n Drain: arxiv.org/abs/2511.04820 Strain: direct.mit.edu/qss/article/... Oligopoly: direct.mit.edu/qss/article/...

ChatGPT ignores retractions of scientific papers — my latest for @cenmag.bsky.social: cen.acs.org/policy/publi... @mikethelwall.bsky.social, @wisewoman.bsky.social

First off, a sincere thank you for actually reading the PNAS article. For those interested: www.pnas.org/doi/10.1073/...

Maintaining research integrity in the age of GenAI: an analysis of ethical challenges and recommendations to researchers @sonjabjelobaba.bsky.social, @wisewoman.bsky.social et al. edintegrity.biomedcentral.com/articles/10....

Putting the Hindawi Nonsense into perspective: it broke the vertical scale of yearly retractions.

How should scientists – including Nobel Prize winners – respond to allegations about their work? Practices to avoid or embrace, by @retractionwatch.com ‘s cofounders. Retraction Reactions | American Scientist www.americanscientist.org/article/retr...

A new open-access Springer journal brand Discover, has absolute resemblance to MDPI and its strategy. A shocking new analysis by @paolocrosetto.bsky.social and other members of the Strain Team the-strain-on-scientific-publishing.github.io/website/post... HT: @deevybee.bsky.social

New from The Strain Team: 🎊 Springer Nature Discovers MDPI 🎊 Springer Nature has spawned a copycat journal series called "Discover" mimicking #MDPI journal titles and citation behaviours. We even made a browser game to prove it (see 🔗). Gross! 😀 1/n #ResearchIntegrity #SciPub #AcademicSky

welcome to the future, now your error-prone software can call the cops (this is an Anthropic employee talking about Claude Opus 4)

If you are an EU citizen, please sign this petition about a ban on (homosexual) conversion practices in the European Union! Yes, it is 2025 and this is still a thing some folks want to bring back. eci.ec.europa.eu/043/public/#... Another 500.000 signatures needed by Saturday! Please boost!

To be clear, AP said it would accede to Trump changing the name of Denali back to Mt. McKinley because it was within the US, whereas the Gulf of Mexico is an international body of water not subject to the US's exclusive control. This is what you get for meeting an authoritarian halfway.

Okay, it looks like the federation is partially working. Still, I tend to be on Mastodon and not here.

I want to highlight this stupid fucking bullshit because literally EVERY TIME an AI writing company has a website, they always have a screenshot that looks good until you read the words that are on the screenshot.

It's amazing to me that "criticizing the use of AI" is supposedly classism, but "building a product on the stolen work of people with a median annual income of $25k and refusing to compensate them because you know they can't afford lawyers" isn't.

Another day, another AI-generated, Cronenberg nightmare published in (then retracted from) a scientific journal. 🧪🐡 Alternative title: Gout gives you flippers? (Don’t tell JD this.) There are artists! Amongst us! Who know phalanges from flippers! Call them! www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles...