Wow, sure would be pretty crazy if a ton of experts in the artificial intelligence field relentlessly warned everyone about this state of affairs being inevitable over and over for years.

Analistas diversos coinciden en señalar un problema: el estancamiento de los salarios reales. Pero no es nuevo, sucede desde hace décadas. Crecimiento sin reparto. Pensar que se resolverá sólo con aumentos de productividad es ilusorio: es condición necesaria, pero no suficiente.

"For generations, we’ve navigated our old and gloriously eccentric food terminology without the need for government direction. Yet now Brussels has decided that a set of particular terms is apparently too confusing for the European public to handle."

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

Muy buen artículo. Compartir las famosas fotos de bikinis y faldas es un detector infalible para saber si alguien sabe de lo que habla.

At least as far as medicine goes, novice researchers unleashing machine learning algorithms on data they just happen to have lying around, hyping it all as ARTIFICIAL INTELLIGENCE and bewildering reviewer and editors has indeed led to more "impact", and this is a disaster that gen-AI will amplify.

Super-duper predictable if you can distinguish impact from publication and machine learning from gen-AI.

"To all intents and purposes, the 1.5C limit is now dead in the water. Whichever way you look at it, dangerous climate breakdown has arrived, but with little sign that the world is prepared, or even paying serious attention." www.ft.com/content/e995...

Not a single day in 2025 was cooler than the 1991-2020 average, on a global scale. @copernicusecmwf.bsky.social

Las conclusiones sobre la investigación han sido acogidas con escepticismo, hecho que los escépticos consideran un éxito. Puedes leer el artículo completo en la web: www.elmundotoday.com/2026/01/los-...

Fa 55 anys Pepe Beúnza va dir no a la mili, a la guerra i a la mort. Val la pena recordar-ho. El 12 de gener de 1971 va anar a la caserna on havia d'incorporar-se i es va declarar objector de consciència. I enlloc fer la mili va implicar-se en un servei civil comunitari a València. 1/7

Worth resharing this leader I think - social media bans are fighting the wrong war www.newscientist.com/article/mg26...

A number of world-leading experts who have conducted extensive quality research on this topic work in the UK, but no, Labour wants to make policy by airport book. www.theguardian.com/media/2026/j...

🔴 La cifra de muertos por la represión en Irán asciende ya a 2.600, según las organizaciones de derechos humanos

El cambio climático, que Trump considera “la mayor estafa jamás perpetrada contra el mundo", es precisamente lo que está alimentando el apetito por hacerse con Groenlandia: se ha acelerado la pérdida de hielo, lo que deja al descubierto nuevas rutas marítimas y recursos

Could we have a discussion about social media that involves actual evidence and not Jonathan Haidt? For once? Please? www.theguardian.com/media/2026/j...

Poco bombazo para quien haya seguido este tema en los últimos años, pero daba titulares y lo facilón e inmediato es ir con quien dice que los plásticos son malos (que lo son).

New thesis on HEPA air cleaners in school classrooms: 🧵 TL;DR: In this school study, HEPA air cleaners showed little reliable impact on absenteeism, and air-quality improvements were limited during actual classroom use.

Global deaths from cancer have increased, but the world has made progress against it—

Here we go again with using observational data when it suits them. This is particularly important here, because there’s a huge difference between observational data & trials on artificial sweeteners.

“Reclaiming academic publishing as a public good requires a return to not-for-profit models & sustainable open-access systems. Quality, accessibility & integrity need to be put ahead of profit. Change is needed to protect the purpose of academic research: to advance knowledge in the public interest”

This is good news and is to be celebrated. I wonder if it will cause any reflection among those who put out the MOAST FLU EVER!!!! press releases and those who reported them?

¿No estáis como saturados de datitos mierdosos y ya parece que no queda ninguno que os pueda sorprender? ¿SABÍAS QUE CANADÁ Y DINAMAR- Seeeh, la guerra de los licores, ahora se reparten la isla. ¿SABÍAS QUE UN PAÍS LIBRÓ UNA GUERRA CONTRA UN AV- Seeeh, la guerra del emú en australia, la perdieron.

📰 "But the problem with dancing on old journalism’s grave, even if many of its wounds are self-inflicted, is what rises up to replace it: biased TikTokers and influencers, partisan nonprofits or billionaire-funded outlets, or locally trained artificial intelligence LLMs." unherd.com/newsroom/inf...

Hace 6.000 años los veranos en Europa duraban 200 días. Entonces, las causas fueron naturales. Hoy el escenario es parecido, pero con una diferencia fundamental: el calentamiento actual avanza a un ritmo muy superior al de aquel periodo.

El último informe Reuters sobre prensa señala que los medios no pintamos mucho aquí, pero en el otro lado ya no hay nada que hacer.

"Khan said addressing the causes of serious violent crime, such as the effects of poverty and lack of opportunities, had been key."

I really need more people to understand that many, MANY of the social media accounts you see aren't real. Even the ones that seem really real. Even the ones with the hashtags you like. Especially the ones with the hashtags you like.

"España atraviesa un episodio más frío de lo habitual, pero encadenamos siete inviernos con temperaturas muy cálidas; nuestros sesgos nos hacen normalizar las temperaturas anómalas y los eventos extremos" www.lavanguardia.com/natural/2026...

Health experts: Your synthetic text "AI" overviews are misleading, for example see this about liver function tests. Google: Okay, we'll block "AI" overviews on that query. The product is fundamentally flawed and cannot be "fixed" by patching query by query. A short 🧵>>

"The patients are real, but the clustering as a mystery disease is not." "The patient advocates have arguably done more than anyone to keep the story of the cluster going, with an operation that includes lobbying the government, briefing the press and sending legal letters to scientists."

"Cuando la sociedad siente que ya no puede decidir su destino, que sus posibilidades de incidir en su futuro se ven cercenadas no importa a quién vote, entonces elige líderes que prometen cambios de fondo, aun al costo de romper las cosas".

I don’t think we should have ceded control quite so quickly and without so much as a fight.

Como en el ejemplo del Brexit, el impacto de decisiones estructurales puede tardar y hacerse visible cuando los responsables de la decisión ya no están gobernando.

Asked which was more important, the acquisition of Greenland or the preservation of NATO, he didn't answer

Good thread. I'd add that you need to know (or assume) what the true effect size is, to make a claim about who's biased. There's an implicit assumption that the average effect, or the one found by moderates, is accurate, but that might not be the case.

Si crees que la UE debería prohibir X por ser una amenaza a la seguridad de la Unión y una empresa dedicada a la pornografía infantil el primer paso es dejar de usar X tú mismo. Y convencer a quien puedas de que haga lo mismo. Y empezar a ser parte activa de la solución.

Curioso cuanto menos el contraste discursivo, cuando comparamos además un solo país con toda una coalición de países algunos teniendo incluso arsenal nuclear. Y ojo, que con esto no digo que la respuesta militar sea la más adecuada, pero el contraste con el belicismo anterior es brutal.

Here's a suggestion for a New Year's resolution: If you see influential bad research, say something. One part of the whole replication crisis story is that a lot of psychological researchers privately knew that a lot of stuff was bad, but it wasn't discussed publicly.

Los 'niños de la Guerra Civil' españoles llevan un año sin cobrar su pensión de Rusia: “No podemos esperar más”

The K subclade is still somewhat enigmatic. Antigenic distance, maybe some virological fitness differences... Yet vaccination is always a good and logical strategy. Immunization with chosen H3N2 strain will induce antibodies sure to be even marginally protective relative to peers without.

A hope for 2026 is that this perspective piece with @wiringthebrain.bsky.social & @deevybee.bsky.social will serve as a template for others who are similarly frustrated with with exaggerated claims and double speak around so much of research. It's ok to point out that the emperor has no clothes!

Just ask Vinay! (v 2016) www.statnews.com/2016/05/09/m...

“Why Valencia? Just walking outside and breathing the air,” explained Brett, “there is no tension in it. There is no hostility in it.” Igual eso debería cambiar.

no one is acknowledging it because it’s a conspiracy theory that can largely be traced back to one crank on twitter

How we should all refer to Twitter from now on

Pity FT journalists in 2026. No matter what fraud they uncover, what scandals they blow up, what deals they scoop... come December they'll be looking at a "most read of the year" list with this comfortably at the top www.ft.com/content/ad94...