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🧵

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...