Ahead of next week's new episode of Under Review podcast, just a reminder of the fascinating first edition with my guest @deevybee.bsky.social as we discussed The Royal Society, Musk and academic fraud. Listen on Apple podcasts apple.co/4qthaFo Watch on YouTube www.youtube.com/watch?v=35dc... 1/2

Didn't know this band until now. Digging in! www.youtube.com/watch?v=0Ssi...

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A short clip taken from a recent commission. Frame-by-frame animation, processed through my photocopy machine. The video was made to promote a split single for a collaboration between Simula & Kasra - AXIOM/INTUITION

When there's no more room in hell... there's room in Oncotarget.

With my upcoming album Continuation I also made an LP bundle with only Dutch musicians A great way to discover This includes My LP Coen Oscar Polack - A Concrete Pasture Zeno van den Broek - Breach Radboud Mens & Matthijs Kouw - 1 orphax.bandcamp.com/album/contin... #supportyourlocalunderground

Acive duty military are being ordered to buy a ticket to Melania and watch it, whether they want to, or not. www.thedailybeast.com/obsessed/mil...

Peter Thiel - sponsor Trump - noemt democratie een mislukt experiment en stelt dat vrouwen en ‘poor people’ nooit stemrecht hadden moeten krijgen. Dat schrijft hij aan Epstein. Die Thiel dus, ontwikkelt een deportatie-app voor I.C.E. en daar stroomt dus NL pensioengeld heen. Onsgeldtelt.nl : teken!

GROK made a 'grokipedia' enty of Dead Neanderthals and it's horrible. Bloated and riddled with mistakes. Completely in line with other experiences where AI provides 'information' grokipedia.com/page/dead_ne...

Basic questions like "how many participants are in the dataset?" can produce surprisingly different answers between analysts. Results from students in my class in data wrangling in tidyverse, who are good at wrangling but still have to make semi-subjective choices:

Holy hell! I wasn't prepared for god-tier gore grind this early in the year. Immaculate Dead Infection worship. www.youtube.com/watch?v=ypiE...

Why not go for an even stronger signal? deevybee.blogspot.com/2026/02/the-...

🧪 It's been 10 years since Dorothy Bishop and I published a commentary in Nature about the risks of transparency. doi.org/10.1038/529459a 1/10

Onlangs ontving ik de 'Fluister Award', een glazen beeldje voor het beste luisterboek van 2025 volgens audioboekaanbieder Fluister. Hartstikke leuk! Ik dacht, nu zal de zilvervloot wel binnenvaren, dus ik vroeg hoeveel Fluister mij afgelopen jaar had opgeleverd.

See you at @roadburnfest.bsky.social in April!

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Art by Lar DeSouza…

As people in Iran intermittently regain connectivity, they are sharing that they feel abandoned. They have risked their lives in the streets, and the government killed tens of thousands of people. But instead of expelling Iranian diplomats and shutting down embassies, foreign governments are doing…

#JustListened @mossknightcometh.bsky.social has a new song out and it's about the events in Minneapolis. Unsurprisingly, it's full of fury and anger. It hits hard and doesn't stop, which is pretty appropriate, I feel. Absolutely stellar song and proceeds go to mutual aid for folks in the city. 👍👍

Every single pair of these glasses needs to come with a mandatory flashing pink neon sign that says “warning, I am a creep”.

(1/X) I have found ~2 problematic articles / day in 2026 so far Elsevier's 'International Journal of Biological Macromolecules'. The journal is an embarrassment. This comes after hundreds of problematic papers reported to them in 2025. Here is a 'worst-of' 2026 (so far):

#SpecialIssues have fueled the growth of some of the largest #OpenAccess publishers. Does a journal that allows a #GuestEditor to both plan a special issue and write many articles in it have a conflict of interest? #scicomm #peerreview @science.org www.science.org/content/arti...

BREAKING: This dog is named Susan From Accounting

* nearly all problematic studies I've identified come from China. * China's plan is to be the leader of the world in 2050. Science is one of the main strategies to get there. You can basically fake your way to the top by placing misinformation / disinformation. www.nytimes.com/2026/01/15/u...

The publishers of Frontiers are very proud of their fraud-detection software and have appointed themselves as "Guardians of Research Integrity". Also, they publish stuff like this.

first collage sunday of the year of our lady 2026! though it has some listens from the last days of 2025 on it... (Dec. 28 - Jan. 4) a balanced mix between old faves and first-time listens, I think the remixes on that ShyGirl record easily best the originals imo, they're just a lot harder in impact

De 12 beste album van 2025 volgens X-Rated gemist? Met The Bug vs Ghost Dubs, Rod Modell, De Fabriek, Young Gods, worriedaboutsatan, Loscil, Cosey Fanni Tutti, Dead Neanderthals, Gnaw Their Tongues, Mütterlein, Sankt Otten, Laibach. Beste single: Dopplereffekt. www.concertzender.nl/programma/xr...

A new day, a new dead neanderthals

When I was a freelance BBC science presenter, I wrote in support of Professor Dorothy Bishop and was then told I should not be critical of the Royal Society. Now I’ve resigned, so I can say I think @profrachelgan.bsky.social is making an important point here.

We've got ISSUES. Literally. We scraped >100k special issues & over 1 million articles to bring you a PISS-poor paper. We quantify just how many excess papers are published by guest editors abusing special issues to boost their CVs. How bad is it & what can we do? arxiv.org/abs/2601.07563 A 🧵 1/n

Nee, Mark, het werd ingetrokken omdat er een figuur gephotoshopt was. retractionwatch.com/2020/11/19/s...

Such a classic!

Hartstikke leuk, zo’n artikel over hoe geweldig krantenbezorgers zijn. Maar waarom betaalt DPG haar bezorgers niet uit wanneer ze - door sneeuw of ziekte - de krant niet kunnen bezorgen? Wat is dat voor kapitalistisch shitgedrag? Neem bezorgers gewoon in dienst. www.volkskrant.nl/economie/gli...

In stead of running scared and appeasing Farage, Starmer should reclaim the phrase "Brexit betrayal", noting that the British people were betrayed into voting leave by false promises of numerous benefits.

I'm convinced Kevin Hassett is just Mark Proksch in character

First MEP report. Medical research often uses non-parametric tests. We looked, and noticed that small-sample rank-based tests (i.e. M-W, Wilcoxon) have significant granularity... like p-values! So, here's GRIM for U values -- GRIM-U. Enjoy. medicalevidenceproject.org/grim-u-obser...

You and your wife drop your 6-year-old off at school. You just moved here. You see ICE terrorizing your new neighbors. You film them, as is your legal right. Your wife complies with orders. She is then shot in the head. You still have to pick up your child later today. This could be you.

What an album!

I get the impression that @bmj.com, like many journals, assign far greater weight to possible risks of retraction than they do to the risks of NOT retracting a flawed paper, and leaving it to influence others. Not a good balance when patient care is involved.

Really sick album! ampwall.com/a/typearmoru...

We recently published a paper in @plosbiology.org We found a lot of problems in animal studies of hemorrhagic stroke. Research integrity folks found the paper but the neuroscience community seems to have missed it completely. I'd like them to read it too! doi.org/10.1371/journal.pbio.3003438

En we zijn los! #XRated #Concertzender #BestAlbumsOf2025 www.concertzender.nl/programma/xr...

FINALLY! Music technology has unlocked the sheer power of the hard boiled egg.

Marta Root found a far-right dating website, exposed all their users and deleted the whole thing during a live presentation while the crowd was cheering her on. Here is the presentation (in German) www.youtube.com/watch?v=Szdz... Check whether one of its members lives near you: okstupid.lol

Even het nieuwe jaar inbeuken met 12 liedjes op 1 singletje, van @deadneanderthals.bsky.social

We probably released one of the last EPs of 2025 and we probably also released one of the first demos of 2026! Here are 3 heavy metallic tracks to start your year in style. Through us: deadneanderthals.bandcamp.com/album/demo-m... Through Utech Records: utechrecords.bandcamp.com/album/demo-m...

We probably released one of the last EPs of 2025 and we probably also released one of the first demos of 2026! Here are 3 heavy metallic tracks to start your year in style. Through us: deadneanderthals.bandcamp.com/album/demo-m... Through Utech Records: utechrecords.bandcamp.com/album/demo-m...

Daily Tune #2942 - "Evocation of the everlasting spirit" by @deadneanderthals.bsky.social deadneanderthals.bandcamp.com/track/evocat... Otto Kokke - synthesizer Rene Aquarius - drums ...the traditional DN last-moments-of-the-year release...