#SwissScienceImage 🦗 📸💎 A cricket's leap, a ballet of phytoplankton and the beauty of vitamin B crystals: Discover the 20 winning photos and videos from the SNSF Scientific Image Competition 2026. For more info: www.snf.ch/en/1uKR6zjXHw…

#ScienceCommunication #101 ! > When to talk about your research to a broader audience? > How to write concise posts about your results? > What to do upon a media request? I have worked on these topics with PhD students at @unibas.ch during a 1-day workshop on science communication. 1/5

Let’s go to the Winchester, have a nice cold pint, and wait for all of this to blow over.

Fascinating talk by Cory Doctorow about a small window of opportunity to sever our total (delusional?) dependence on US technology. media.ccc.de/v/39c3-a-pos... @doctorow.pluralistic.net @ccc.de

Former WH Chief Strategist Steve Bannon suggested on his podcast this week that deploying ICE agents to airports is a “test case” for sending them to polling places on Election Day. History tells us that it’d be wise to take this seriously.

pareil. plutôt simple en effet. on garde tout pareil, c'est juste le serveur qui change.

I’ve investigated how #PaperMills are polluting the scientific literature with fraudulent articles, illegitimate co-authors, and bought-off citations. ▶️ www.horizons-mag.ch/2026/02/26/f... What surprised me what the efforts made by some publishers to fight this off. 1/2

What a cover by @wired.com! Reminds me the good old days of Bloomsberg Business Week in the 2010s.

Remote Labor Index: Measuring AI Automation of Remote Work Plus de 96% d'échec. Des milliards investis et le résultat va vous surprendre. arxiv.org/abs/2510.26787

Bluesky is the new science Twitter, new study by @whysharksmatter.bsky.social and Julia Wester concludes! "Results show that for every reported professional benefit that scientists once gained from Twitter, scientists can now gain that benefit more effectively on Bluesky than on Twitter."

so the NIH could soon fund trials to test praying, eating an apple a day, and being especially careful on Friday the 13th.

The announcement of a 15 000 qbits quantum simulator is not a little thing. I think it's the first time I really think we might have a quantum computer-y device that is actually useful. www.sqc.com.au/news/sqc-lau... www.nature.com/articles/s41... 1/3

Quelle est l'ampleur du recul démocratique de Trump ? L'érosion des normes établies a été spectaculaire, mais les institutions résistent. Pire que le Venezuela, la Russie et la Hongrie en comparaison. Bravo les USA. www.ft.com/content/b474...

Très originale, cette revue de poèmes « jouables ». J'ai beaucoup aimé « Second thought » de Tereza Kotěšovcová. www.gamepoems.com/issue01/?pag... (via @thepixelhunt.bsky.social)

Amazing data journalism work by @nature.com www.nature.com/immersive/d4...

🚨 BREAKING 🚨 The UK Govt has quietly published - without announcement - the Joint Intelligence Committee/DEFRA report it suppressed last October. They tried to sneak it out in the midst of crisis. Read and share: “Global Biodiversity Loss, Ecosystem Collapse & National Security.” (link below)

Mr Kucharski will never be thanked enough for this. Life saver.

A paper in Nature suggests that artificial intelligence models that are trained to behave badly on a narrow task may generalize this behaviour across unrelated tasks, such as offering malicious advice. go.nature.com/4jFIRcc 🧪

12-16% of all Special Issues contain articles co-authored by one of the guest editors ("endogeny"). This is a blatant conflict of interest. Does the academic world really need Special Issues? Do the tax payers (who fund most of academic work) need Special Isues?

Interesting comment about this paper by @dereklowe.bsky.social www.science.org/content/blog...

This is another saddening, mind-boggling news from the US. Giving wildlife authorities the right (or mandate) to detain people ? Really? Who will be next? The post office?

Fake news spreads differently from reliable information. I report on the results of network analysis made by @abovet.bsky.social applied to #Twitter in Horizons, the magazine of @snsf.ch www.horizons-mag.ch/2025/12/04/t... 1/n

Fascinant papier du @irishtimes.com de 2021. Qui déconstruit le mythe d'Erwin Schrödinger - celui du chat du même nom - physicien de génie et Dom Juan amoureux des plaisir de la chair. Et raconte le vrai Schrödinger, agresseur sexuel de jeunes filles mineures. archive.ph?run=1&url=ht...

"Ich will, dass es der Schweiz gut geht." Why state this? Who would /not/ wish the best to any country in the world? Oh, well, maybe somebody in the defence industry.

"Criminal investigator and special agents": 0% augmentation, 20% automation. Really? I am not so convinced about the results.

An absolute scandal compounded in this case by failure of French government and EU institutions to forcefully react and sanction in turn those who have sanctioned ICC judges and prosecutors. Makes a total mockery of FR/EU's repeated commitment to the rule of law/ICC www.lemonde.fr/en/internati...

Nvidia Becomes First $5 Trillion Company https://theonion.com/nvidia-becomes-first-5-trillion-company/

“The biggest lesson of the past two decades of Silicon Valley is that Meta, Amazon, and Google—and even the newer AI labs such as OpenAI—have remade our world and have become unfathomably rich for it, all while being mostly oblivious or uninterested in the fallout.” Worth a read!

argh. D'un côté on a les plagiats (auteur pas cité pour un vrai travail) et de l'autre les hallucinations de l'IA (auteur cité pour un faux travail). On va finir par tous avoir une seconde biographie virtuelle dans la réalité parallèle des IA, faites de deepfakes et d'hallucinations.

C'est quoi ces cours générés par IA qui citent ton nom en t'inventant des publis que tu n'as jamais écrites et t'attribuant des catégorisations qui ne sont pas de toi parce que tu es juste en train d'analyser leur usage courant (surtout pas de les valider comme catégorie). Marre de ces conneries.

Has the present President of the USA been proposed yet?

Le "logo à 120 000 CHF" de l'Université de Lausanne fait des remous [1]. C'est en effet cher, notamment en temps de restrictions budgétaires. Ceci dit: > le projet avait été entamé avant. Faut-il alors le stopper et perdre l'argent investi?

Il parait que je parle trop de politique, et que je suis pas le seul. Alors, parlons-en de la politisation des créateur·rice·s justement ! Peut-on rester neutre ? Qu'est ce que cela cache ? Quand il y a engagement, celui-ci est-il sincère ? 1h40 pour y répondre. youtu.be/hzXWFWYGQ0g

Why not the present US President, while we're at it?

@jeanabbiateci.bsky.social et @lorisguemart.bsky.social ont révélé de multiples plagiats dans les travaux d’Etienne Klein. Ils actualisent le sujet en direct dans Proxy, notre Twitch bimensuel sur l’actu des médias. Ça se passe ici et maintenant ⬇️ www.twitch.tv/arretsurimages

The Onion’s Exclusive Interview With Kash Patel https://theonion.com/the-onions-exclusive-interview-with-kash-patel/

Maybe, just maybe, Trump found out that Tylenol's parent company did not donate much money to his campaign? This criteria would be much easier to evaluate than those tedious meta-analyses made by the FDA and EMA.

Newborn Loses Faith In Humanity After Record 6 Days https://theonion.com/newborn-loses-faith-in-humanity-after-record-6-days-1819573929/

Fascinating thread. thanks 100x

"The top story of the moment is the one story that our most influential newsrooms won’t touch: That the United State has become an authoritarian state." — Dan Froomkin @froomkin.bsky.social presswatchers.org/2025/08/we-h...

Famine confirmed for first time in Gaza FAO, UNICEF, WFP & WHO reiterate call for immediate ceasefire & unhindered humanitarian access to curb deaths from hunger & malnutrition.

PLOS responds to a new PNAS study that uses openly available articles to map the scale of paper mill and peer review ring activity across scholarly publishing.

Snapshot of US beliefs about science and flat-earthy stuff. [1000+ people surveyed, +/- 3%] carsey.unh.edu/publication/...

www.youtube.com/watch?v=Lfdu... "Hegel is arguing that reality is merely an a priori adjunct of non-naturalistic ethics, Kant via the categorical imperative is holding that ontologically, it exists only in the imagination and Marx is claiming it was offside"."

But companies stealing the same material for training their LLM is not obviously illegal, say tribunals.

Impressed by the eloquent words and v. dignified attitude fo Special Rapporteur Francesca Albanese www.youtube.com/watch?v=tLa4... Surprised that some Swiss media (#SRF, @tagesanzeiger.bsky.social) chose not to report on it -if only because this concerns Swiss companies and institutions.