New project documenting A.I. slop graphics in academic journals neurodojo.blogspot.com/2025/12/new-...

What a repulsive freak.

The Republican Plan to kill kids is how we should be labeling this. It’s shocking, easy to digest, and 100% true

Zillow nixes feature that helped home buyers assess climate risks [via @theguardian.com]

I wholeheartedly endorse this. These days, research papers are written by AI, thus the peer review should also be done by AI, which can be also trained to request citations.

Crucial is shutting down — because Micron wants to sell its RAM and SSDs to AI companies instead

jfc

this clip encapsulates so much of what has been wrong about MSM Trump coverage for the past decade -- treating Trump's lies and bigotry as a valid "side" of a debate instead of calling it out, because calling it out makes it seem as though you're biased

At the CDC and the FDA, regulatory chaos reigns. And this is exactly what we don’t need:

F*cking Orwellian

Wexner handpicking the former Abercrombie CEO who is facing human trafficking and interstate prostitution charges from the same office that charged Epstein somehow flies under the radar, too.

Columbus school board votes to slash jobs, close schools to save $50M Ohio spent more than a billion dollars on private school vouchers in fiscal year 2025 #pairedtexts

UKRI exploring use of AI in grant review - this will prompt debate but interested to know if people think it’d encourage novelty or the opposite? www.chemistryworld.com/news/ukri-op...

more on Blaxill here:

To be very clear, Kennedy's team is messing with a vaccine which has led to a 99 percent drop in the incidence of hepatitis B, which kills, early and painfully, 25 percent of the people who get it as children. lnk.thebulwark.com/3Xt957M

If there is a single LLM application that is best suited for replacement of humans, it is the production of vacuous academic administrator gobbledygook.

Posting this for no particular reason before today's ACIP meeting. www.hepb.org/assets/Uploa...

ladies and gentlemen, the "liberal media"

Very bad indeed.

The border is not secure. What the hell is he talking about? Trump gutted the joint terrorism task force and the National Security Council. JFC

There's a software engineer in Hong Kong who makes incredibly detailed scientific diagrams for wikipedia, like this clickable metro-style map of metabolic pathways!!!

CDC advisors appointed by RFK Jr. are expected to vote on whether to delay hepatitis B vaccines for newborns & weaken the existing childhood vaccine schedule. This would leave all of our kids - and our communities at large - even more vulnerable to disease. www.nytimes.com/2025/12/02/h...

How fragmented sanctions prolong the war and empower Russia’s defense industry

The #papermill #fraud and #corrupt #editor Jörg Rinklebe from the Wuppertal University got his second retraction! Will the Wuppertal university finally admit he is a fraud? Or will they again clear him as being a top professor? He has hundreds of fake papers published! doi.org/10.1016/j.ec...

Rubio: “What they're literally fighting over now is about 30 to 50 kilometer space in the 20% of the Donetsk region that remains.” Sovereignty, dignity, and its existence - THAT is what Ukraine is fighting for. The lack of willingness to understand what is actually going on IS the problem.

@thehowie.bsky.social @hmkyale.bsky.social insights.som.yale.edu/podcasts/hea...

The trash drives out the quality. freethoughtblogs.com/pharyngula/2...

You won’t believe how many of such “journalists” are in and around DC. english.nv.ua/russian-war/...

“the concerns pertaining to figs. 3, 4, and 5 which remain outstanding are unlikely to impact the wider conclusions of the article” WHAT MORE is needed to impact an editor’s conclusion? At least, an EoC was issued. HT: @reeserichardson.bsky.social #ResearchIntegrity #ThisImageIsFine #Academia

GREAT blog about scientific publishing including this provocative figure: danielroelfs.com/posts/the-mo...

A couple of weeks ago I spoke at the University of Minnesota on the topic of how AI would change science. Now you can watch online (or get AI to summarize it for you.)

the plan is to kill kids and that is how we should discuss it its part of the gop war on kids they want your kids sick and dead

Whatever comes out of them, today's talks in Moscow are a diplomatic all-time low for the US. Incompetent, mercurial envoys trying to reset relations w one of the worst regimes in the world at the expense of the victim of unprovoked aggression and the security of America's best allies in Europe.

These are not references. These are what happens when the cat hoiks up a hairball while you are dictating into voice-recognition software.

Still more Alzheimer’s ideas appear to be in the process of biting the dust:

This is absolutely fucked.

liberalism has a bias towards debunk and debate and the best metaphor for this is br'er rabbit vs the tar baby. you end up trying to make cogent points and all you're doing is getting stuck.

Another gem from CD: "An app is a website wrapped in enough IP to make it a felony to install an ad blocker or any other modification that makes the product work better for you at the expense of the company’s shareholders"

The real question is not "Why is Bluesky so left-coded," the real question is "Why can't the right exist in a social media environment without algorithmic assistance, where people can ignore them"

HHS is laser-focused on the issues of the day... At least they broadened the survey from only anti-Christian bias to questions regarding bias against those with other religious beliefs as well.

Not just a tragedy for America, but, given the central place the US occupies in the research ecosystem, a tragedy for the world.

are people not deeply, existentially embarrassed to do shit like get their professor fired for giving their shitty essay a shitty grade. is there no part of them that kind of wants to die because rather than just let the trans girl win the swim meet they decided to cry no fair to the newspaper

FEMA employees reinstated by FEMA and then put back on administrative leave by DHS "leadership". DHS is very clear that they are on leave because of they signed the Katrina Declaration. www.cnn.com/2025/12/01/p... 1/2

This post by @enirenberg.bsky.social is absolutely worth your time. It's not just scicomm, it's poetry. deplatformdisease.substack.com/p/the-cdc-a-...

Texas Tech has decided it wants to be a football program affiliated with something equivalent to an air conditioning repair school

While crawling through 100th of BMC Stem Cell Research & Therapy papers last month I stumbled upon a series of questionable papers by an Australian Lab at Melbourne University (some flagged by others). The PI blamed students. Leonid Schneider summarized nicely: forbetterscience.com/2025/12/02/b...

A series of insults from Kevin McKernan and his followers after I pointed out his ‘deadman switch’ blockchain solution for posting his manuscript seemed strangely convoluted. Sounded more like an action movie than science. x.com/microbiomdig...

About Kulldorff: forbetterscience.com/2024/02/12/r...

A good analysis suggesting a two birds-one stone plan. Move Kulldorff to a higher advisory position in HHS and clear the way for a more anti-vaccine person to chair the Advisory Committee on Immunization Practices (ACIP), just before their upcoming meeting.