Disrupted Science
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Follow before the book “How the Internet Disrupted Science” is published in early 2026. We have a lot to say. https://www.disruptedscience.com/
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@fetterman.senate.gov has been the biggest disappointment across the board. So much potential it seemed, now just a broken soul in board shorts.
November 10, 2025 at 2:49 PM
@fetterman.senate.gov has been the biggest disappointment across the board. So much potential it seemed, now just a broken soul in board shorts.
Big Tech keeps pushing AI slop in science, and CZI LLC is making another push via a quirky AI company using an 18th century socialite as its face.
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openRxiv’s AI Trojan Horse
The LLC-owned preprint farm links science to an AI startup to make more slop
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November 10, 2025 at 11:42 AM
Big Tech keeps pushing AI slop in science, and CZI LLC is making another push via a quirky AI company using an 18th century socialite as its face.
www.the-geyser.com/openrxivs-ai...
www.the-geyser.com/openrxivs-ai...
Transgressives be transgressing. Social media rankings systems will reward their extremism.
www.nytimes.com/2025/11/10/u...
www.nytimes.com/2025/11/10/u...
Emboldened, Kennedy Allies Embrace a Label They Once Rejected: ‘Anti-Vax’
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November 10, 2025 at 11:14 AM
Transgressives be transgressing. Social media rankings systems will reward their extremism.
www.nytimes.com/2025/11/10/u...
www.nytimes.com/2025/11/10/u...
These people are devoted to eugenics at some deep level.
November 9, 2025 at 4:21 PM
These people are devoted to eugenics at some deep level.
Some people worship tech so much they subjugate their own humanity to promote it. A very sad and desperate case in point:
www.nytimes.com/2025/11/08/o...
www.nytimes.com/2025/11/08/o...
Opinion | A.I. Is on Its Way to Something Even More Remarkable Than Intelligence
www.nytimes.com
November 9, 2025 at 3:33 PM
Some people worship tech so much they subjugate their own humanity to promote it. A very sad and desperate case in point:
www.nytimes.com/2025/11/08/o...
www.nytimes.com/2025/11/08/o...
Like this new ad for our book?
November 9, 2025 at 3:18 AM
Like this new ad for our book?
“Vaccines cause adults.”
November 8, 2025 at 5:43 PM
“Vaccines cause adults.”
With cronyism rampant in the NIH already, this does not bode well . . .
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An NIH Shutdown Hiring Spree?
Based to Friday postings, the NIH aims to hire six Directors before Thanksgiving
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November 8, 2025 at 12:31 AM
With cronyism rampant in the NIH already, this does not bode well . . .
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Preprints, science policy, and whether Americans make a good flat white — our interview with Nick Evans.
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Pod: Interview with Nick Evans
A philosophy and political science expert talks preprints, policy, and science
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November 6, 2025 at 11:47 AM
Preprints, science policy, and whether Americans make a good flat white — our interview with Nick Evans.
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Were Covid-19 policies helped or hurt by fast science? Even selective, expert use proved problematic. Our interview with @nicholasevans.bsky.social explains why.
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Pod: Interview with Nick Evans
A philosophy and political science expert talks preprints, policy, and science
www.the-geyser.com
November 5, 2025 at 10:48 AM
Were Covid-19 policies helped or hurt by fast science? Even selective, expert use proved problematic. Our interview with @nicholasevans.bsky.social explains why.
www.the-geyser.com/pod-intervie...
www.the-geyser.com/pod-intervie...
It's been a time of freaks and geeks.
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Freaks and Geeks In the News
A lot has happened, and it’s time to put a few of the oddities together
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November 4, 2025 at 8:03 PM
It's been a time of freaks and geeks.
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While marketing departments blithely push survey results about AI in science, editors and readers are fighting a losing battle.
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AI Surveys Overcome By Events
Elsevier’s and Wiley’s AI surveys land with a thud as a battle rages around them
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November 4, 2025 at 1:43 PM
While marketing departments blithely push survey results about AI in science, editors and readers are fighting a losing battle.
www.the-geyser.com/ai-surveys-o...
www.the-geyser.com/ai-surveys-o...
Preorder available, and we can hardly wait!
November 3, 2025 at 3:45 PM
Preorder available, and we can hardly wait!
Has scientific publishing combined OA and AI into an affirmation business, with no demands for evidence or fidelity with reality?
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Our New Affirmation Businesses
As AI and OA become intertwined, are we just affirming anything for money?
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November 3, 2025 at 1:16 AM
Has scientific publishing combined OA and AI into an affirmation business, with no demands for evidence or fidelity with reality?
www.the-geyser.com/our-new-affi...
www.the-geyser.com/our-new-affi...
A great and important essay in the @theatlantic.com about how tech erodes our humanity.
www.theatlantic.com/ideas/archiv...
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The Validation Machines
Humanity thrives on friction—so why are the tools of the future built to make everything seem so easy?
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November 2, 2025 at 5:53 PM
A great and important essay in the @theatlantic.com about how tech erodes our humanity.
www.theatlantic.com/ideas/archiv...
www.theatlantic.com/ideas/archiv...
A great interview with Jason Steinhauer.
"Terrorist organizations around the world right now have 'Chief AI Officers.' That thought alone should be very sobering for all of us."
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"Terrorist organizations around the world right now have 'Chief AI Officers.' That thought alone should be very sobering for all of us."
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Is AI an asset to David or to Goliath?
An interview with the historian Jason Steinhauer
revisionsjournal.com
November 2, 2025 at 2:19 PM
A great interview with Jason Steinhauer.
"Terrorist organizations around the world right now have 'Chief AI Officers.' That thought alone should be very sobering for all of us."
revisionsjournal.com/en/page/is-a...
"Terrorist organizations around the world right now have 'Chief AI Officers.' That thought alone should be very sobering for all of us."
revisionsjournal.com/en/page/is-a...
Always good to take scientific claims with a grain of salt. When they come from OA sources, increasingly you need this.
November 1, 2025 at 4:17 PM
Always good to take scientific claims with a grain of salt. When they come from OA sources, increasingly you need this.
"Give me back my phone-brain so I father can be parent good." 😂
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Bart Gets Caught Using CheatGPT On His Homework | The Simpsons
YouTube video by AniDom
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October 31, 2025 at 2:24 PM
"Give me back my phone-brain so I father can be parent good." 😂
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www.youtube.com/watch?v=2sVX...
Friday Song: “Reptilia”
The Strokes wrote a song about our reptilian brain — and it works
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October 31, 2025 at 10:06 AM
I think this guy might like our book. We certainly see his points!
What we’re witnessing in America is what happens when disordered discourse captures a political party, then the state itself. The Republican Party was the first to fall - abandoning truth for conspiracy, ideology for grievance, and policy for performative outrage.
October 30, 2025 at 8:18 PM
I think this guy might like our book. We certainly see his points!
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Started/Going in Louisiana, home of Bill Cassidy, MD (R) who voted to confirm RFK Jr.
May 4, 2025 at 2:31 AM
Started/Going in Louisiana, home of Bill Cassidy, MD (R) who voted to confirm RFK Jr.
Our new site pulls together all our efforts.
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For the book, "How the Internet Disrupted Science."
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October 30, 2025 at 1:30 PM
Our new site pulls together all our efforts.
www.disruptedscience.com
www.disruptedscience.com
“Synthetic text extrusion machines” = STEM. One of our favorite — among many — moments from our interview with @emilymbender.bsky.social and @alexhanna.bsky.social about AI, science, and so much more.
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Pod: Emily Bender & Alex Hanna
An interview with the authors of “The AI Con”
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October 29, 2025 at 8:54 PM
“Synthetic text extrusion machines” = STEM. One of our favorite — among many — moments from our interview with @emilymbender.bsky.social and @alexhanna.bsky.social about AI, science, and so much more.
www.the-geyser.com/pod-emily-be...
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