I'm seeing some people complain about being included without consent, calling their interaction graph personal data. Is it? And, in particular, is it when you are there under a pseudonym? (Genuine questions, I don't know and I'm curious to know)

I made a map of 3.4 million Bluesky users - see if you can find yourself! bluesky-map.theo.io I've seen some similar projects, but IMO this seems to better capture some of the fine-grained detail

RFK Jr said during his Senate confirmation hearings that his trip to Samoa in 2019 ahead of a devastating measles outbreak had “nothing to do with vaccines." Documents obtained by @us.theguardian.com and @apnews.com undermine that testimony. Details here, by me and @aliswenson.bsky.social ⬇️

Not really a surprise, but it's still surprising to me that some chose to believe his lie

Mapping of NGS reads to a reference genome @mbsj-official.bsky.social

Does anyone have experience with redrawing data from someone else's paper and wanting to reuse it, and then being asked to pay by the copywrite holder? I was under the impression that it was fair use to reuse data in this way. For the record: I haven't published yet, so could still take figure out!

Epstein’s economic power among academics was made possible by a capitalist system that makes higher education dependent on the charity economy rather than a public good supported by taxing the rich

The Heritage Foundation invited Robert Redfield to share his expertise on COVID-19 origins last week (and also to promote his book). Here's an excerpt from his book. Anyone want to peer review it?

La SMF ne tiendra pas de stand au Congrès International des Mathématiciens (ICM) de Philadelphie en 2026. (1/3) (Motion du Conseil d'Administration du 16 janvier 2026) smf.emath.fr/actualites-s...

First evidence in Europe of highly pathogenic avian influenza virus H5N1 infection in a dairy cow. Antibodies against H5N1 detected in a cow with mastitis and respiratory signs on a Dutch dairy farm at the end of December. A cat on that farm had died from H5N1. www.tweedekamer.nl/downloads/do...

Dans l'email TheMetaNews du matin, Laurent Simon raconte avoir été contacté en 2015 pour être ghostwriter pour Didier Raoult. À quel point la pratique de signer des livres grand public écrits par d'autres est-elle encore répandue parmi scientifiques et médecins ? #revuedepresse

The story of the WIV database, with the date of its removal, was the most successful piece of disinformation by the lab leak activist group DRASTIC. Did you know it started with different, wilder claim? If not, good for you, you did not waste time with a lie. For the curious: ▫️1/4 🧵 #covidorigin

Cow Tools! We have lived alongside cows for nearly 10,000 years. We breed them and exploit them It is now, only now, that we have discovered THEY CAN USE TOOLS Here I describe our study (paper) www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti... in @currentbiology.bsky.social with @auersperga.bsky.social

is Genbank also down for you?

Did they read what they cite? In @natmed.nature.com, NIH& NIAID leaders complain about a decrease in public trust, and cite a survey pointing to the Republicain administration as responsible for the recent decrease! www.nature.com/articles/s41... www.annenbergpublicpolicycenter.org/public-confi...

Seems like Rand Paul took the figure fron the wrong paragraph of his own speech in May 2021. The NSF budget was apparently 8 billion according to Rand Paul. The quail figure is in the next paragraph of his speech and was $800'000. www.congress.gov/117/crec/202...

(December 2021) xkcd.com/2557/

Ça fait donc plus d'un mois au moins que des SARS-CoV-2 de la lignée BA.3.2* se baladent en France. La France ne semble plus poster ses séquences sur Genbank/ENA, donc les infos ne sont pas visibles sur les plateformes publiques de visualisation. cov-spectrum.org/explore/Fran...

Il y a eu des appels à interdire SHEIN quand les poupées sexuelles ont été découvertes. Grok produit des images pédopornographiques, mais gouvernement et institutions continuent à poster sur X comme si de rien n'était.

Are you familiar with the story of the EMI article? If not, good for you, you did not waste time with a manufactured controversy aimed to sow distrust. For the curious, here's how lab leakers tried (and this time, failed) to generate outrage: ▫️1/6 🧵 #covidorigin

Looking for tips and comments! Some time ago, DRASTIC lab leak activists wrote that Shi Zhengli edited an article on 30 Dec 2019, that they have her IP and MAC addresses, and they could even tell the edits were from a train. How would this even be possible? ▫️1/4 #covidorigin archive.md/sKCPq

Congrats @jeffgroh.bsky.social et al. Some avocado trees open female-phase flowers in the morning & then male in afternoon. Others show complementary pattern (m->f), to synchronize pollination of two types. Jeff show this to be a >45Mya polymorphism at a transcription factor across 100s of species.

Some people fight against the ideas promoted by the Heritage Foundation and implemented by the Trump administration. Some other people collaborate with the Heritage Foundation. archive.is/2YsqA

#H5N1 : An infected herd was recently detected in Wisconsin, and genome sequencing indicates that this is yet another spillover event, making it the fourth detected one. How do these spillovers happen and why are they restricted, so far, to the US? www.aphis.usda.gov/news/agency-...

An example of AI hallucinations entering the scientific record, in some way -- and another reason not to let Google Scholar automatically update your profile; manually review its proposed changes instead...

Here are the people and institutions that gave me hope in 2025. 1/ www.thenation.com/article/soci...

Featuring @pleunipennings.bsky.social at @isemevol.bsky.social in Montpellier

I had the opportunity to ask NIH Dir. Jay Bhattacharya about his comments re: mRNA vaccines, that they had "failed to earn the public's trust" so the NIH should not invest. His answer demonstrates that science and pandemic preparedness are taking a backseat to ideology. youtu.be/S0rsz3Ph7XE?...

Are you familiar with the story of the Antarctica sequences? If not, good for you: you didn't clutter your brain with yet another Covid-origin damp squib, where innocuous data were made to look suspicious by misrepresenting a date. For the curious, here's the story. ▫️1/9 🧵 #CovidOrigin

Looks like it worked? In this essay ⬇️, @naomioreskes.bsky.social called out issues with a 2000 paper on glyphosate. There is now a retraction notice on the website (but I cannot find the exact date though) www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...

To be clear, there’s a big difference between criticizing the anti-vaccine movement & discrediting their influencers/leaders vs shaming vax-hesitant or quietly vax-refusing parents. The latter backfires; the former is essential. But SciComm folks often conflate them. Cc @ryanmarino.bsky.social

From January 1st 2026, the CNRS will cut access to one of the largest commercial bibliometric databases, Clarivate Analytics' Web of Science, along with the Core Collection and Journal Citation Reports.

Your yearly reminder that this Dec 1st date for the beginning of the pandemic is not correct: the case's symptom onset date was later corrected. The case is well known, and there's basically no debate about this, even with hard-core leakers who have studied the data. 🖼️: 2021 WHO report, page 47

Sondage sur l’antisémitisme à l’université : un questionnaire mal conçu qui fragilise la cause L’enquête d’opinion commandée par le ministère de l’Enseignement supérieur mélange actes, croyances et positions politiques, en plus de véhiculer des clichés antisémites, relève le rabbin Emile Ackermann.

A horrific example of so-called natural or alternative medical practices with tragic consequences. All these alternative practices are unregulated and can be very unsafe and make a fortune for those developing whatever ‘miracle cure/approach

Calling something "scientific orthodoxy" rather than "established fact" or even "scientific consensus" is so incredibly damaging.

And yes, the swag bags. Attendees received MAHA-branded tote bags with: - Packets of creatine - Beef tallow potato chips ($79 for a 6-pack!!) - Mouth tape - RFK Jr's biography - Beef protein bars

www.lemonde.fr/sciences-au-... La "décroiscience" - mais la décroissance de quelles sciences ? - doit-elle faire partie de l'arsenal mobilisé pour faire reculer la menace climatique ? Un débat sérieux s'impose.

Apparently RFK Jr. promised Senator Bill Cassidy that he wouldn’t remove the statement “Vaccines do not cause autism” from the CDC website. So what RFK Jr. did instead is spit in his face by leaving the statement there and adding this:

A paper critiquing post-publication peer review has numerous made-up references, including a @nature.com article falsely attributed to our Ivan Oransky. link.springer.com/article/10.1...

But Sweden! Say NIH director J Bhattacharya and his deputy director MJ Memoli in City Journal. Really? Checking their source, you see that it only holds if you extend the comparison to irrelevant years -- no lockdowns in 2024! oped: archive.ph/HKcS0 graph: www.mortality.watch/explorer/?c=...

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🧵