who made this? (I did)

Yesterday, we had the pleasure of listening to Dorothy Bishop emphasize the responsibility of editors during the 12th PCI Webinar! If you weren't able to join, you can catch her talk and the following Q&A session at this link: https://youtu.be/0NJ87tYE8_s

In celebration of the 2 YEAR anniversary of this amazing success. Let me raise the glass ... Half full... Of tears. The paper is still under consideration at @science.org 😂🤣😭

Any party favors ideas for a quantum birthday? 11yo

Portraits of Scientists in Exile photo exposition is going up at the newly renovated Hillman Library at Pitt

Age verification? I shall use my abacus whenever I goddam please.

The scale of Russia's overnight attack on the civilian population of Ukraine. This morning, there are dead and injured all over the country.

Is he going to rename HHS the Department of Death

If I’m understanding right, Aaron Clauset at Peer Review Congress showing that the strongest correlate of peer review outcomes at Science and Science Advances is the prestige of authors’ institutions. Also pretty big association with author geography, not much with author gender. #PRC10

Duolingo

📢 Open Science Workshop on Detecting Errors and Misconduct in Science will be held in Nijmegen from October 20 to 23. Full workshop program will be available soon. 🔗 Register here (limited spots are available!): lnkd.in/eRKekCkh

Looks like our former ass_dean may get his way after all. They used to call graduate students beyond year 5 "superannuated"... @ass_deans seems to not be on bsky. A pity!

www.capitalbrief.com/article/sqc-... "Watermelon QML systems are engineered with atomic precision at our quantum chip manufacturing plant in Sydney."

News Story on Colombian TV (in Spanish) about Ukrainian classical music concerts by Dr. Taras Filenko www.youtube.com/watch?v=ilSf...

A harrowing and important read by Patricia Murray and Peter Wilmshurst. https://drpeterwilmshurst.wordpress.com/2025/08/19/stem-cell-scandal-prison-for-one-surgeon-pay-bonus-for-another/ [...] "It is difficult to escape the conclusion that in order to gain career advancement and money from […]

Russia murdered an entire family in Kharkiv yesterday: a grandmother, both parents, a 15-year-old boy, and a 1.5-year-old baby girl.

Proud to have our work featured by Retraction Watch

Truly an elevated experience to be served a takeaway cup on a saucer

I just heard about @renebekkers.mastodon.social.ap.brid.gy's Bad Science Bingo Card - quite a fun approach to a serious topic. detectingbadscience.wordpress.com/bad-science-...

A great day for russia. A shameful day for the United States. A painful day for Ukraine… The worst president in U.S. history.

An absolute scam. Does this serve science? No it does not. www.thebookseller.com/news/springe...

Putin has arrived in Alaska, and there he is 100% being welcomed as an important guest. A dictator who started the biggest war since the end of World War II, who killed and tortured hundreds of thousands of people, who abducted tens of thousands of children, is still being received as a guest.

the authors were aware of the problem,as illustrated by data in a supplementary table in their paper. But they were so enamored of their hypotheses that they wished it away&doubled down on the rigor of both their results&their interpretation of them www.timeshighereducation.com/depth/arseni...

In five years, AI will assemble Hitler out of atoms

Oooh can I get a JWST implanted?

Why we need trust in science: @carlbergstrom.com nails it. This is why I’m sleuthing in retirement. Some say that talking about fraud destroys trust in science. No. Turning a blind eye to fraud and pretending it’s not happening is what destroys trust.

Excellence in Academic Mentoring award finalist

Preparing for a public lecture in Adelaide tonight I found this slide from 2014. Boy, we did move on this scale since!

High Country Nicholas Bott 2013

Some personal news. I bought this sweatshirt!

Proud to have our work appear in SCIENCE!!!

I see great value in confessions of my Pitt colleague and former EIC of Science RE:arsenic retraction. It underscores the simple truth: Science is scared to piss off its authors. They cannot afford to lose the authors' faith that a paper in Science is an nonfungible asset... 🧵

How to lie, little European democracy-style (data shared by 2020 was around 50 Mb...)

Hey... So there is arsenic in the Charlie Marcus 'flux induced Majorana' Science paper too, just sayin..

The passing of time... (on the scale of 2 days) BEFORE: AFTER:

This is genius. I need to convince them to publish a book of all the papers that need to be retracted and then just retract the book.

A lot of shocked reactions from physicists to this. But actually, many "visionaries" in our field - that is how they do it, they do vibes not actual physics. And that is why they are so offended when their work is ultimately labeled as fraud. "But I had such good vibes from my nature papers!"

don't despair! there is still quantum...

don't buy pepsi, they support russian war

I notice in my community numerous conferences featuring fraudsters. Along with people who stated that it's time to move on, and the lesson has been learned etc. Of course people who called out fraud are typically excluded. I wonder if other communities went through this and have they survived?

Microsoft Quantum's preprint out tonight is a masterclass in cherry picking. The whole claim focuses on a single device, a single data run, & a single peak in a sea of data similar in size to their claimed noise floor (red region) How much electricity was wasted finding this peak in a sea of noise?

something bullshit this way comes...

The vibes of this old Soviet poster in a lab here at Pitt: The Science f*****g proposed it. F***ing implement it into production. So different from all the "startup ecosystem" nonsense of the modern capitalist world...

Baldwin (D-WI) offers amendment reinstating over 1500 terminated NSF grants. "Every member of this committee has had research grants terminated for universities in their states." Moran: Appreciate Sen. Baldwin to make sure NSF is fulfilling its mission. Opposes amendment b/c overly broad.

My favorite account is on bsky

Where is the money going? In the case of for-profit publishers it's very clear: Your open access fees fund corporate profit margins. Profit margins for large academic publishers can far exceed those of household names like Amazon and Apple. chart source: bit.ly/4leULKi #scipub #academicsky

They are only replacing the corrupt guy now?

I just want to say 'Happy 4th of July' just in case I cannot say this next year.