Plans to make refugee a status of perpetual limbo will do nothing to stop people who need help seeking it nor make it possible for them to rebuild their lives and contribute. I call for humane and effective asylum reforms because I am true Labour, not blue Labour. www.thetimes.com/uk/politics/...

This. Completely and utterly, this.

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History teachers across the country and at every grade level should organize a teach-in this week by having students explore the Boston Massacre as part of the #America250 commemoration.

"I started laughing immediately!", "It's so practical!", "There's both metric and imperial systems". We are so happy people got the joke and had fun unboxing their bag goodie! 🤩 Join us in increasing awareness of negative impacts of inappropriate metrics and spread alternative practices! #CeRRA2025

I *love* the marketing from DORA in the delegate bag for the EU Presidency High-Level Conference on Reforming Research Assessment in Copenhagen. #CeRRA2025

Except that from the image used on this post, Hitler seems to have had left-handed DNA. Which is EXTRAORDINARY!

Also, it's an export industry that is immune to tariffs!!!

This is an important question that gets to the heart of how people consume and pass on information. And I'll bet the AI number is connected to the human number. Because guess who the AI learns from.

Something had indeed changed since the 80s. Jenrick should try googling, "Why were English football clubs banned from Europe in the 1980s?" It wasn't because of good-natured rough and tumble.

Couldn’t agree more with this para from @jonathanfreedland.bsky.social www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...

Great piece on the Welsh government’s 20mph policy by @willhaycardiff.bsky.social “What is great about evidence based policy is that it has a wonderful habit of working” Inspiration for England as DfT work on the promised road safety strategy.

"Boomers bought houses at a time when saving a couple of pounds per day taking a packed lunch to work would give you a house deposit in eight years. For a millennial this would take two centuries."

That's a nice piece. And feels just as relevant to the UK as the US. Though the point about the absurdness of US bureaucracy makes for less headroom in the UK case.

Bracing myself for an intense but stimulating few days next week. A year in the planning at @rorinstitute.bsky.social but now it’s almost here! metascience.info

When people claim that peer review is irreparably broken, the development of the COVID vaccine is the counterexample I offer.

Well worth a look. As I explain in my book Serving The Reich, there was very little resistance to these measures from the physicists, even in the early days. Most kept their heads down. As Chanda says, none left Germany unless they had "non-Aryan" hanging over them.

Springer Nature reported its international web survey on research integrity. Congratulations! @silentypewriter.bsky.social In Japan, many researchers recognize that "avoiding research misconduct" is research integrity. We should update our thoughts. figshare.com/articles/onl...

It seems to me that if we believe in free trade, we should believe in free trade. That's not to say that there might not be nationally strategic reasons to protect domestic bioethanol production, but I'd be interested to hear them.

Here’s what a Labour government at its best can achieve - share to spread the word and ask for more. #TrueLabour

Huh! I feel utterly disabused.

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Love this!

"If traditional computers are precision machines that struggle with fuzziness, LLMs are the inverse: fuzzy machines that struggle with precision." 💯! And crucial to deciding when LLMs should and shouldn't be used.

Suella's refusal to accept the consensus of the English that being English has nothing to do with race is at least consistent with her assertion that she isn't herself English.

Great minds… within 24 hrs both us at @nature.com and @science.org make similar appeals to the research community. And @holdenthorp.bsky.social and I didn’t even exchange notes about it ;-) 🧪 www.nature.com/articles/d41... www.science.org/doi/10.1126/...

3 years from when russia invaded Ukraine. When the USA told the leader of the free world President Zelensky to leave, and he replied "I don't need a ride. I need ammunition". This is the first slide of every talk I gave in the last 3 years. This thread is about (quantum) science in Ukraine. 🧵

Every talk that I've ever given on writing — and I've given MANY — has begun with Tim Radford's first rule of writing to think of the reader. “This is because, although you — an employee, an apostle or an apologist — may feel compelled to write, nobody has ever felt obliged to read.”

Good morning to this man, and this man only #bbcqt

This should be changed asap. If we give someone refugee status, it can't be right to then refuse them route to become a British Citizen. To say they can have a home in our country, but never a place in our society and be forever second class. freemovement.org.uk/good-charact...

Take this #AresnicLife article with a grain of salt. The described timeline is NOT really how it went down. People like Rosie Redfield are obliquely called "critics." Wolfe-Simon never says, "We made a mistake." If anything, it sounds like she STILL thinks GFAJ-1 doesn't use phosphorus.

I think NASA gets off far too lightly in this piece. It's framed as if the folks on social media were primarily responsible for things getting out of control. Rather than the utterly shameless hyperbole of the press release and subsequent press conference.

BMJ: "instruct[ing] scientists to withdraw or retract articles from journals is sinister...We will not retract articles on the basis that they contain so-called banned words.." www.bmj.com/content/388/...

Coincidentally, that's the only song I've ever quoted in a Nature Physics editorial. doi.org/10.1038/nphy...

Roughly 6,000 readers answered our poll, with many declaring that Bluesky was nicer, kinder and less antagonistic to science than X https://go.nature.com/42tH8Ai

AI and potholes: James quietly handles THE TRUTH.

Dear New York Congrats on your congestion charge! Be aware that every Christmas your towny relatives will tell you how angry it makes them (though it doesn't affect them at all). Also 99% of people shouting about how its ruined their life in the newspapers will be filthy rich. Regards, London

Even God can be wrong once in a whi….

In this op-ed for Nature, our very own @nyalleng.bsky.social writes: "It is this difference in prioritization that is..missing... Which problems people focus on, what we regard as informative data & what types of failure are...acceptable are all human choices.” www.nature.com/articles/d41...

Listening to politicians talk about asylum seekers it sounds like their one & only purpose is to keep people out. Which of you is not too much of a coward to say: it is GOOD that people escape from danger. And it is GOOD that the UK can be a place of sanctuary, actually.

‪Happy Advent! 🎄 Day 10. This is a special 10th case on a special day for me due to my Nature's 10 award (www.nature.com/articles/d41...). You can train your skills to become a sleuth yourself. #fraudbuster papermills.tilda.ws/advent - all cases Days 1-10 papermills.tilda.ws/advent10 - case Day 10

This fearless science sleuth risked her career to expose publication fraud Anna Abalkina @abalkina.bsky.social is part of Nature’s 10, a list of people who shaped science in 2024. Holly Else reports at Nature. www.nature.com/articles/d41...

Migrating this seasonal post from the bird place.

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This is such a boneheaded decision made by someone clearly with no background in or understanding of science, technology, engineering or medicine. Some great takedowns in the piece from those who do.

COOL IDEA KLAXON: I'm looking for scientists who *aren't* expert with AI but are curious to see if it can help out their lab, to try out a new AI system designed for this purpose. The idea is to report on what happens, be it astounding, absurd, or frustrating. Pls msg to indicate interest - thanks!

This is a lovely bit of forensic bibliometrics!

“If it is not prevented by the laws of physics, it’s solvable!” I want to get this on a t-shirt. With Cathy's face, too. She was a great Chief Scientist. She'll be missed. futurecampus.com.au/2024/11/28/c...

But also: You may hate requirements for ethical approvals and think most of this is just red tape that is not needed. Yes, it makes some work harder. Yes, it makes some work almost impossible. But we should remember it is there for a reason. 7/

Oh yeah? Name twenty-five of their albums.