An additional detail that I have not seen elsewhere source: bsky.app/profile/ncco...

Yes, there is in fact a moral line. Racism and attacks on democracy aren’t just “different views.” They undermine the very principles science depends on: truth, evidence, human dignity.

Watson’s death is a fantastic reminder that you can be intelligent without being a good person.

I am honnestly a bit worried by the latest fuss about qed (the IA driven review). While the results are indeed quite impressive (it is very good at listing the claim and finding potential improvement), I don't quite see how this will eventually reduce the reviewing burden or help us

It’s one thing to have different environmental/health priorities for your foundation, it’s quite another to have been bankrolling one of the primary sources of bullshit on the topic.

Two weeks ago, a paper came out, claiming that the 2019 Brucella leak in Lanzhou, China, could have been detected months before it was publicly reported. Problem: no proof was provided to support this extraordinary claim, as we explain in a letter to the editor. Details follow ▫️1/6🧵

Maybe an even more inside baseball in these documents -- but it's key: No mention of furin cleavage site in the slides... which matches a remark made by Peter Daszak in an email to David Morens in May 2021, made public by FOIA ▫️1/8 #CovidOrigin www.hsgac.senate.gov/wp-content/u...

Apparently I made the mistake of using my SNSF grant money to pay for publications from my Ambizione grant in 2023 and 2024. Does anyone know of possible solutions for retrospective funding to save me from paying 6800 CHF out of my pocket to the SNSF to cover fees paid to journals in 2023 and 2024?

Les activistes sur l'origine de la pandémie de Covid ont réussi à faire croire à une large fraction de la population que tous les maux du monde et toutes les expériences dangereuses sont liés à des virus – peste et anthrax sont causés par des bactéries #revuedepresse www.lemonde.fr/sciences/art...

If you need more science and joy in your workday, the Science Adviser newsletter is for you! The cute puns of their e-mail subjects often put a smile on my face (though sometimes with a bit of an eye roll), and it's a rare treasure these days www.science.org/content/page...

What percentage of politicians in your country are still relying on this site as a primary means of public communication? It feels slightly maddening that this isn't being treated as an extremely urgent problem.

Is @pubpeer.com down for other people as well?

There is a very good reply to that OpEd by @philippmarkolin.bsky.social in today's Letters to the Editor in STAT www.statnews.com/2025/10/25/s...

Si vous êtes en région parisienne, il y a encore deux cours, l'accès est libre et gratuit, et @neilshubin.bsky.social est un fantastique orateur, passionné et passionnant ! www.college-de-france.fr/en/agenda/gu...

#ESR Bravo David @monniauxd.bsky.social www.lemonde.fr/idees/articl...

Meta-story: "But nowhere was the ground frozen, even 1[m] down. “It’s sort of a practical personal experience of climate change,” Calvignac-Spencer said. Indeed, Svalbard has seen a steeper temperature rise than most other places, and scientists have to dig deeper each summer to hit the permafrost."

Pendant la nuit, de nouveaux licenciements de masse ont eu lieu aux CDC, touchant des secteurs clés de l'agence de santé publique états-unienne www.nytimes.com/2025/10/11/u... #revuedepresse

One of the many benefits of deck.blue is you can create regular text links, like This Is YouTube by typing it in format [url title](url)

Congrats @mclellanlab.bsky.social ! www.macfound.org/fellows/clas...

Les MOFs, récompensés par le prix Nobel de chimie, qu’est-ce que c’est ? Quelques ressources ci-dessous ⏬️

You may have seen the name "Frankenstein variant"; in France, it's been all over the news, but it's not an official name. Where does it come from? A thread on various uses of the name "Frankenstein" in news articles during #Covid: ▫️1/7

TIL that you can put language-specific formulas in an Excel file, that make your file unusable by people who have Excel in another language. (I spent some time debugging a file that had a formula containing "Faux" instead of FALSE)

the best answer i got for this:

La prise de son de cette émission sur les activités de chasseur d'orages de @sergezaka.bsky.social était impressionnante ! (Même si la musique angoissante était peut-être superflue) On est dans l'orage #revuedepresse

Interesting interview of @peterdaszak.bsky.social by @nicolascgrey.bsky.social on the personal consequences of having become a public villain in a set of conspiracy theories www.thisrobotdreaming.com/blog/intervi...

My book, Planning Miracles: How to Prevent Future Pandemics, comes out next week. It's not about flawed COVID responses. It's about scientific efforts to develop better vaccines, treatments, masks, surveillance--and to move more quickly...as one world. www.penguinrandomhouse.com/books/690752...

As a primatologist, Jane Goodall was a huge inspiration to me. I admired the way she describes chimpanzee behavior with such detail and empathy, and she’s inspired so many people and advocated for chimpanzee conservation and welfare. However, I'm dismayed at what her narrative leaves out (1/10)

« À l’échelle individuelle, le recyclage [du plastique] sert de mythe pour légitimer des pratiques de consommation ». lejournal.cnrs.fr/articles/rec... #revuedepresse

As we mourn Jane Goodall, this @nature.com article explores three ways in which she changed science: 1. Altering the way we view both other primates and ourselves 2. Inspiring generations of women scientists 3. Communicating science in a way that engaged the public www.nature.com/articles/d41...

It was nice to read @zachhensel.bsky.social 's Op Ed in the Norwegian newspaper Aftenposten "Let's return to an evidence-based debate about the corona pandemic" Google-translated version: www-aftenposten-no.translate.goog/meninger/deb...

Exciting news! The next #PopGroup meeting will take place in Lille 🍟, France, 7–9 January 2026 – just 1 hour by train from London, Brussels, and Paris. This year, PopGroup will also host ALPHY, the annual meeting of Evolutionary Genomics. More info: populationgeneticsgroup.org.uk See you there !

"To be uncivil means pointing out hypocrisies and misinformation." www.nytimes.com/2025/09/24/o...

👩‍🔬J'ai commencé un kit de démarrage "chercheuses en France" go.bsky.app/TBEzKC #FemmesEnScience J'ai besoin de votre aide pour le remplir et donner de la visibilité aux chercheuses que vous connaissez et qui sont sur Bluesky ! ▶️Taguez celles que vous connaissez, je les ajoute !

DYK: #suicide claims over 720,000 lives every year? Each life lost leaves a profound impact on families, friends, colleagues and entire communities. This #WorldSuicidePreventionDay, let’s talk openly about suicide to challenge harmful myths, reduce stigma and foster compassionate conversations.

@zachhensel.bsky.social and I have a new paper on the origin of SARS-CoV-2! 🧪 There are a lot of reviews on the topic already, so we tried to do something different: characterize "lab leak" scenarios, and directly address those on SARS-CoV-2's furin cleavage site.▫️1/9 doi.org/10.5802/crbi...

Visite avec @mclemardeley.bsky.social de la barre Cassan F, dont la réhabilitation en logements universitaires a commencé sur le campus Pierre et Marie Curie ! Un beau projet réalisé avec @paris.fr, qui dotera à terme notre campus du plus grand bâtiment d'hébergement universitaire de la ville.

How often are people interviewed for their own obituary? (Source: www.nytimes.com/2025/09/07/s...)

Still possible to apply to this #post-doc position at CESAB #Montpellier. Application closing date: September 15th 2025 (12:00 PM CET) How taking intraspecific diversity and evolutionary processes into account in translocation-based programs. Please share widely #PopGen #NbS #Biodiversity

Another side effect of lists that I had not identified when I posted that warning ⬇️: Public lists also allow stalking harassers to follow your posts without following your account. It'd be great to be able to tune the visibility of lists, to avoid such hijacking. @safety.bsky.app

In under 24h following the newly identified outbreak of #Ebola in the DRC, the virus has been isolated, sequenced and the virus sequence data made publicly available. virological.org/t/the-16th-e...

You may have missed this #ant poster at #ESEB2025, but be sure not to miss the article just published in #openacess in @nature.com: www.nature.com/articles/s41...

The minutes noted that “everyone was searched, including their vehicles, on the grounds that researchers might be carrying mosquitoes in their pockets.” #IDsky #malaria 🧪 www.science.org/content/arti...

Our 400+ page comment on the DOE climate working group report is now out. Our conclusion: The merchants of doubt are back, and they're coming for climate science.

Here are all the talks I attended and sketched at #ESEB2025 ! Only a fraction of the 642 speakers at the conference 😮 I had an absolutely amazing week chatting about lots of fascinating science #sciart #eseb #esebcongress @eseb2025.bsky.social

Congratulations, @richardsever.bsky.social ! royalsociety.org/news/2025/08...

Congratulations, @arambaut.bsky.social !!! royalsociety.org/news/2025/08...

The plot thickens! I just found what seems to be the original version of the paper. It wasn’t just AI generated, it was plagiarised. www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...

Next ESEB meeting will have an innovative format, across four hubs. The aim is to make it easier to avoid plane travel, and to diversify the locations that can host a meeting #ESEB2025 #ESEB2027