Disturbingly, this article had a pop-up appear, offering an AI Companion to answer questions about the article. (It was clearly written; as someone outside the medical or statistical field, I read it easily and had no questions.)

Long profile of Director Bhattacharya in Science. Lots of perspectives. www.science.org/content/arti... 1/13

The reason #Drosophila immunity research is so reliable is because of this spirit. The field is interested to learn what's true philosophically, not just find out what can get published. It matters when things don't replicate. 1. www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1... 2. www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1...

This kinda stuff makes me proud to work with the incredible #Drosophila community A correction made by the main lab 5 years later solely because "we couldn't replicate a couple results, so we wanted to modify the original article to reflect that uncertainty." Class act 🏆 #ResearchIntegrity #SciPub

The person who made the decision to hold this story has never been a news reporter or a news editor. Really sickening.

Quase 2025 e ainda precisamos de leis para obrigar matanças humanas…. (Nem quero saber o que se passa em Portugal).

Journals: Please don't submit papers in the last second before the new year we can't find reviewers Me: submitting a paper

'That moment crystallized a looming crisis. If generative AI can churn out data convincing enough to fool anomaly detection, then fabricated evidence will soon pass the scrutiny of even the most experienced analysts; and it will not stop at tidy tables or scatterplots.' ai.nejm.org/doi/full/10....

'Function, transport, eventual localization, half-life and stability: all of these can be messed up in unpredictable ways, so every time you get fluorescent labeling data it’s good scientific discipline to ask yourself how it might be misleading, and what you can do to cross-check the numbers.'

In the summer of 1950 most US newspapers ran an AP story about how race had become the main issue in the upcoming Georgia governor's race. Segregationist Herman Tallmadge, governor from '47 to '55 and then a Senator until 1981 made a name for himself by refusing to "apologize for being a white man."

The rate of return here is crazy: for a few hundred thousand dollars, this lab produces literally billions of oysters and supports a seafood industry worth hundreds of millions. And the Trump administration is just like "fuck all that, it's wasteful spending, you're fired"

Screw the dog... Beware the feral flying cats of Kyoto

'Industry figures said some of the AI use was malicious, with deliberate attempts to forge provenance documentation. Other examples occurred when people asked an AI model to find references to their artwork in historic databases and it had “hallucinated” the results.' www.ft.com/content/fdfb...

Dá-me muito gosto ver que isto finalmente ganha tracção. Pena não termos usado a cena do Markl para lhe dar ainda mais. bsky.app/profile/zeda...

'(...)os ministros Fernando Alexandre, Manuel Castro Almeida e Gonçalo Matias voltam a apresentar a nova agência. Neste dia, fica também a saber-se que a nova agência como EPE terá, afinal, tripla tutela ministerial – dos membros do Governo responsáveis pelas Finanças, Economia e Ciência e Inovação'

I highly recommend this book. For those whose picture of Darwin is a white-bearded old man sitting in his British study, this will blow your mind. Watch him ride across the pampas with the gauchos in the midst of a revolution and you'll learn his life was a radical as his ideas 🧪

Did you ever wonder how a dividing cambium cell looks like and what determines its striking regular division? Xiomin Liu, PhD student in the lab, found out in a heroic histological approach. Fruitful collaboration with the group of Sabine Müller (@phragmoplast.bsky.social) doi.org/10.64898/202...

Alguém acha que coisa semelhante não acontece em todos os países do mundo aonde não há um sistema de saúde totalmente público? Essa porra de enfiar PPP em hospitais públicos tem sérios riscos disso acontecer.

A polémica estalou com a divulgação de um áudio do CEO da empresa a ordenar, durante uma reunião interna, o aumento das listas de espera e a escolha das intervenções clínicas mais vantajosas para melhorar os resultados financeiros de um hospital público-privado de Madrid.'

Nicely done "On Tuesday, 21 November, four days after being sacked, Altman was reinstated and the board members who wanted to sack him were forced out. A new chairman was appointed, the well-known ethical titan Larry Summers." www.lrb.co.uk/the-paper/v4...

John Singer Sargent, Painting, Study for "Architecture, Painting and Sculpture Proctected from Raverages of Time by Athena", 1916–21 #themet #johnsingersargent

Donald Trump CAOUS: Child Abuser of the United States.

Security guard convicted of battery on a peaceful American Citizen committed at a Repub town hall meeting in Cour d’Alene ID www.idahostatesman.com/news/local/c...

'The CUDA architecture took this tool and repurposed it for a new audience. In effect, gamers were paying for the chip development costs of the scientific users who Huang believed would show up. It was a version of ‘if you build it, they will come.’' www.lrb.co.uk/the-paper/v4...

Portugal, 2025: O autarca agrediu o repórter de imagem do NOW, arrancou-nos o microfone da mão e fez de tudo para tentar impedir que esta reportagem fosse exibida

Multiple US career ambassadors, appointed during the Biden administration, have been directed by phone call to vacate their posts by January 15 or 16. No explanation has been given for these recalls.

Neuronal hyperactivity becomes mTORC1 independent due to transcriptional changes in tuberous sclerosis complex disease models

Congrats to Australia, this is really cool! report.cervicalcancercontrol.org.au

quem diria que o problema de produtividade não são trabalhadores fazerem pouco ou muito, como é comum ouvir nas televisões, mas empresas nacionais terem baixo valor acrescentado e métodos de gestão e inovação obsoletos. as duas maiores empresas são mercearias gigantes, esperaravam o quê?

Que tweet.

No Le Monde de fim-de-semana 2 páginas dedicadas a Espanha, e cito "a locomotiva económica da europa". Em todos os textos o forte fluxo de imigrantes é referido como fator fundamental para o dinamismo económico espanhol

enquanto isso, vamos tendo notícias do “moderado” e cosmopolita moedas…

Acho que já falei disto aqui, mas não tenho a certeza se já havia versão inglesa. O original chama-se "3 cidades à conquista do mundo", Amesterdão, Londres e Nova Iorque

A jangada de pedra www.geo.fr/environnemen...

Isto resume muita coisa que se possa dizer sobre os neoliberais e a extrema direita no poder. E parece que só agora começou

This is why I'm really starting to hate the data bros. Matty Y: "Dems should focus less on climate change/renewable energy, it's a losing issue." Sean Casten (an actual Congressman): "I won a purple district multiple times by focusing on those issues" Lakshya: "YEAH BUT YOU DIDN'T OVERPERFORM"

The lack of empirical evidence in the “anti-conservative bias in higher education” panic is really striking. We’ve had more than a decade of elite consternation about this so-called crisis based on a handful of anecdotes.

'There are also some examples of wolf alleles that have been shown to confer a selective advantage in dogs. For instance, there is an excess of highland gray wolf ancestry at the EPAS1 locus in highland domestic dogs in the Tibetan plateau functioning in high-altitude hypoxia response'

Vulgar, and sexist, idiot!

Data poem: Family tree of languages Interactive, expanded. Click the + to grow each branch :) dr.eamer.dev/datavis/poem...

It truly is the Donald J. Trump Department of Justice

'Noting that the suspect work had been used in NIH grant appls., he later filed a suit against Dana-Farber under the federal False Claims Act, which applies to potential fraud involving federal funding. If there is a deal or conviction the whistleblower can receive a portion of any returned money.'

Osaka

The naked saxophonist of Himeji

'Amid escalating rhetoric on both sides, a perennially paranoid Russia could be more prone to view certain acts — for instance, Baltic countries intercepting a Russian ship — as the prelude to an attack, and react accordingly.' www.ft.com/content/f3b7...

'The summary on the back cover described a white mob that, with the help of federal troops, killed hundreds of black sharecroppers in the town of Elaine, on the eastern edge of Arkansas. Hicks-Gilbert grew up in and around Elaine. “I was like, ‘What is this?’” she told me.'

'A wholesale revision of the schedule would bypass the evidence-based, committee-led process that has underpinned vaccine recommendations in the country for decades, and could affect whether private insurance and government assistance programs will cover the shots.' www.nytimes.com/2025/12/19/h...

Pure evil. "Jennie Spector, a community activist and family friend who spoke with Mr. Zheng two days before he was deported, said that he complied with the deportation order because he wanted to be reunited with his child."

'What does Europe do when confronting a power that has the aim of causing racial war in your continent and putting in power parties with - again, be brutal – which are at least ideologically rather similar to well, we have no other way of putting it, the Nazis.'

'But the duchess was not being whimsical; an educated woman of the 16th century would have believed in the existence of unicorns in the same way that she believed in the existence of giraffes; exotic, far away, surprising, true.' www.ft.com/content/5f8b...