Give peas a chance – even AI peas: the Stephen Collins cartoon www.theguardian.com/lifeandstyle... Oh my goodness! This says *so* much! Love it

If all this (points around and indicates everything) is getting a bit too much, have a few minutes of reflection & low-stakes competitiveness and join an online #QueenWorldCup on Bluesky to decide the g̵r̵e̵a̵t̵e̵s̵t̵ ̵f̵e̵m̵a̵l̵e̵ ̵m̵o̵n̵a̵r̵c̵h̵ ̵ Best Queen Song of All Time 👇🏼

Can’t wait for this year-end #WCRI webinar! 🚀 Mentorship isn’t just guidance — it’s how we sustain integrity, curiosity, and kindness in research.

The most incredible library in the world, @bodleian.ox.ac.uk opened to OTD 1602, through the energy, money & commitment of Sir Thomas Bodley. It began with 5k books, & now more than 22m, with 2m+reader visits a year, & multi-million online users across the globe. Privilged to be its 25th librarian!

Academics in Assyria in the 7th c BC complain that admin is preventing them from doing research and teaching

Question for people who write and edit papers, create scientific figures and posters, and who advise ECRs on scientific design: Is the new Affinity - which is free, and handles both vector graphics and bitmap images all in one - pretty much ideal for scientific figures? www.affinity.studio

You may have seen reports about a paper claiming that "Stem cell therapy prevents heart attacks": bmj.altmetric.com/details/1830... If so, you might want to grab some popcorn: pubpeer.com/publications...

You've got just a few days left to submit your proposal to join us as a new Group Leader 📅 Applications close 2nd November Package includes: 🪙Multi-year funding 🧪Core Facility Access 🥼 #Postdoc & #PhD positions 🤝Mentorship Visit our website to apply: www.cruk.manchester.ac.uk/career/new-g...

TLDR; The PSF has made the decision to put our community and our shared diversity, equity, and inclusion values ahead of seeking $1.5M in new revenue. Please read and share. pyfound.blogspot.com/2025/10/NSF-... 🧵

Enjoyed this from Sheila Hayman talking about the embodiment of intelligence and experience - and why this is so hard to capture in a machine: "show a plate of random objects to any toddler, and she’ll identify the biscuit at once" What a piece of work open.substack.com/pub/sheilaha...

Live reporting on the AWS outage from the BBC: www.bbc.co.uk/news/live/c5... Seems to illustrate how dependent many seemingly unconnected services are on Amazon as a web services provider

New opportunity - this is a non clinical PhD 4 year program - have a look and DM me if wish to discuss this particular student ship in modelling high risk Leukemia. If that doesn’t take your fancy - there are plenty of exciting projects here!

This sounds great - take a look if you're interested in #SocialMedia and how it can be used to support and disseminate research. Looks like it might be up your street @altmetric.com ...

"The problem is that we tend to sometimes live in a world in which the second step [checking!] is just never taking place, and so I think it’s easy to fool people. We need to be careful and we need to spend this extra time to look at things so that we can really see beyond the façade,’ she adds."

⏰ 3 days left! Both abstract submissions and travel grant applications for the 9th #WCRI2026 close on October 15, 2025! 📍 May 3–6, 2026 | Vancouver, Canada 🇨🇦 Share your work and join global conversations. 🔗 wcri2026.org/call-for-abs... #ResearchIntegrity

I like this piece on how employers bear at least someresponsibility for poor quality #GenAI outputs ("workshop") from not training and supporting their employees sufficiently Seems an accelerated version of what's happened with IT more widely; think how many people struggle with Teams, for instance

This is such a clever idea on taking kids to museums/galleries www.theguardian.com/lifeandstyle...

Interested in PhD in CRISPR engineering to develop new models of myeloid malignancies?! Join me @cruk-mi.bsky.social www.crukcentre.manchester.ac.uk/opportunitie... For Clinically trained applicants-DM if you have queries Deadline 17th November 2025

⏰ 5 days left! Both abstract submissions and travel grant applications for the 9th #WCRI2026 close on October 15, 2025! 📍 May 3–6, 2026 | Vancouver, Canada 🇨🇦 Share your work and join global conversations. 🔗 wcri2026.org/call-for-abstr…#ResearchIntegrityty

⏰ 1 week to go! Submit your #WCRI2026 abstracts by October 15, 2025. 📅 May 3–6, 2026 | Vancouver 🗓️ Preliminary schedule, commissions, hosting, and sponsorship details are now live. #ResearchIntegrity

QUEEN WORLD CUP #QueenWorldCup I want you to stop before you vote today. I want you to actually give both tracks a listen. A few of us have been learning Queen deep cuts are amazing, and one of these is one of them. UNDER PRESSURE or TIA TORRIATTE (LET US CLING TOGETHER) Vote #UP or #TT by 10pm

Lovely summary of how the advent of confocal microscopy changed our research and ability to understand biology

"One of the rules in the document is to ‘only use technologies whose functionality is known and scientifically validated,’ which will not be easy, as AI programmes such as ChatGPT, Perplexity and Mistral generate texts and images based on statistics and data."

Thoughtful (and hopeful) reflections on the state-of-play for #ResearchCulture assessment as part of #REF2029 and the #REFPCE indicators project: wonkhe.com/blogs/is-res... "We don’t need all the answers for 2029, but we shouldn’t discard the tangible progress made"

QUEEN WORLD CUP #QueenWorldCup Delayed kick off. Let's pretend it was snowing. Anyway, it's the II album derby. Another Mercury v May clash. NEVERMORE v SOME DAY ONE DAY Probably worth giving both tracks a listen, or the whole album! Vote #Never or #Some by 10pm!

🚨 Registration is OPEN! Join us in Vancouver for the 9th World Conference on Research Integrity (#WCRI2026), May 3–6, 2026. 🌍 All disciplines, all career stages 📍 Venue: The Westin Bayshore 🔗 Register now + book your stay: wcri2026.org/registration/

Exciting news - we are recruiting new Group Leaders! 🥼 We are seeking to appoint exceptional early-career scientists & clinician scientists as #GroupLeaders to develop bold, innovative, high-impact #CancerResearch programmes Full details on our website: www.cruk.manchester.ac.uk/career/new-g...

"These technologies may have potential as helpful tools for science writers, but they are not ready for “prime time” at this point" Part of the genius of #GenAI firms has been to promote exciting but experimental tools as if they were finished products - so it's nice to see this testing in action

Confessions of an Early Career Researcher. We've released a new 'warts and all' podcast, in collaboration with @leverhulme.ac.uk which might be of interest to anyone thinking of starting a career in research www.thebritishacademy.ac.uk/news/confess...

It's all been worth it! Surely(?) an undeniably good news AI story BBC News - Chip shop owner says customers 'love' new AI service - BBC News www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...

Taking this opportunity at the end of #NationalPostdocAppreciation week to reshare a blog I wrote for @cancerresearchuk.org last year on how #Postdocs are vital to maintaining #ResearchIntegrity: news.cancerresearchuk.org/2024/09/17/r... #NPAW25 #LovePostdocs

For #PeerReviewWeek, I just published my BlueSky posts and notes from the 10th International Peer Review Congress, held 2 weeks ago in Chicago. #PRC10 @peerreviewcongress.bsky.social Part 1 is here: scienceintegritydigest.com/2025/09/16/p...

Wild that Paul McCartney is giving advice on avoiding #AI misinformation But as someone in the public eye it makes sense that he is a target of this Main point: check your sources, and go to recognised websites This is good #ResearchIntegrity advice, too! www.paulmccartney.com/news/you-gav...

This week's comic, inspired by a study showing that AI summaries on top of search results are dramatically cutting traffic to websites.

⏳ 1 month to go! Submit your #WCRI2026 abstracts by Oct 15, 2025. 📅 May 3–6, 2026 | Vancouver 🗓️ Preliminary schedule, commissions, hosting & sponsorship details live now. #ResearchIntegrity

Primary Teachers! If you’re planning to teach how to tell the time to your students soon, you might find these FREE worksheets useful: alomshaha.com/about-time-t...

MAGNIFICO-Oh-Oh-Oh-Oh! BEATLES WORLD CUP is no more. #BeatlesWorldCup Tomorrow, we kick off the QUEEN WORLD CUP. #QueenWorldCup. A knock-out tournament, songs going head-to-head each day, until we have determined the greatest ever Queen song. Get hyped. Or don't.

International #ResearchIntegrity conference 16-18 November 2025 Come to hear @elisabethbik.bsky.social Ivan Oransky @jamesheathers.bsky.social @retractionwatch.com Lisa Bero @liammannix.bsky.social @jdwilko.bsky.social @jacksonwryan.com +many others, stay for Sydney in late Spring @sydney.edu.au 🧪

This book is gold dust! Just read the first chapter and already there are so many great takeaways for general application of visualising data Then there's all the code and instructions included so that readers and users of R can follow along step-by-step and learn as they go - so good! 📈✅🔥

"explore the option of baseline performance in research culture being a condition of funding" Wondering if this statement suggests something along the lines of the 'hygiene factors' model you've suggested for #PCE in #REF2029, @lizziegadd.bsky.social? www.ukri.org/news/new-pro...

Great opportunity from @manchester.ac.uk - support for #OpenResearch through the Open Research Fellowship Funding for 0.2 FTE for colleagues to support dedicated time spent on developing projects related to Open Research All details from @uomlibrary.bsky.social in the message & link below 👇

Don't miss our next webinar by Zoi Diamantopoulou on "Timing the perfect strike: Using circadian rhythms to target metastasis" - September 22, 2025 - more details and register here: metastasis-research.org/2025/09/11/z...

Last chance to register ⏳ Join @helenclare.bsky.social @retropz.bsky.social tomorrow to find out more about implementing #ELNs @cruk-mi.bsky.social 📔 📆 10 Sept. 2025 ⏲️ 11 am GMT 🔗 research.jiscinvolve.org/wp/events/ #ERNs #ResearchIntegrity #ResearchCulture #OpenResearch

Wrote this on the train home from Metascience. Can’t quite believe this one needed saying, but I really think that if conversations about research integrity and open science don’t take academic bullying seriously, we’ll keep perpetuating the same system that science reform was trying to change.

Very different from my take on #PCE in #REF2029 - but thought I'd share as I hadn't seen much comment on this yet, and I'd be interested where people sit on this: "The REF’s postponement raises hopes that sanity will prevail on PCE" www.timeshighereducation.com/opinion/refs...

And if you want to learn more about electronic research notebooks (ERNs) and @jisc.bsky.social -hosted ERN procurement system, catch up with this webinar from earlier in the year 👉 www.jisc.ac.uk/events/elect...

Still time to sign up to join this session of the @jisc.bsky.social Digital Research Community to discuss all things #ELN Whether you have experience with Electronic Research Notebooks or not, I hope that there will be something of interest either in the presentation or the discussion time

Ooh we've opened our call for small research grants. £10k for any humanities or social sciences research. Open to independent scholars. We use partial randomisation to allocate the funding: random allocation between all that meet the quality threshold www.thebritishacademy.ac.uk/funding/ba-l...

In the spirit of not reinventing the wheel: is anyone aware of a list of the employers UK universities students are most likely to be working for? Bonus points for related trade unions? Or produced student-facing FAQs about trade unions?

BEATLES WORLD CUP #BeatlesWorldCup Bo, selecta! He tell me there’s another tournament soon. (Date TBC.) Me, I’ll be running it on here, plus some private votes to prevent band-wagoning. An’, as we found Here Comes The Sun is the Beatles’ best, we will determine the greatest song by another band…