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Zen Faulkes
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Home page: http://DoctorZen.net. Biologist. Author of Better Posters book and blog. Collector of academic hoaxes.

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Zen Faulkes @doctorzen.net · 10h
“You might think that the goal of your poster or talk is to convey information. The bigger goal should be to start conversations.

“Personal conversations are the one thing that conferences do better than any other format.

“Whoever starts the most conversations, wins.”

Reposted by Zen Faulkes

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HAR JOURNALIST @harjournalist.bsky.social · 11h
The #Goldeneyes centre ice logo at the Pacific Coliseum. Vancouver is the only #PWHL team with a permanent logo at centre ice.

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Zen Faulkes @doctorzen.net · 13h
That makes sense. Technical writing is so less restrained than social media and so different stylistically that it seems unlikely the same model could parse both.

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Zen Faulkes @doctorzen.net · 13h
Do you think this kind of model could be expanded to citations in the journal articles? That is, distinguishing positive from negative citations? Anyone working on that?

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Zen Faulkes @doctorzen.net · 14h
Being able to participate in sport is a human right.

www.ohchr.org/en/special-p...

www.olympics.com/ioc/pierre-d...
Right to participate in sports
www.ohchr.org

Reposted by Richard S.J. Tol, Dorothy Bishop, Zen Faulkes

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Samuel Moore @samuelmoore.org · 21h
"Acquiring the Karger journals will provide OUP with many more downstream transfer destinations, helping OUP to publish more of the articles that get rejected by their higher impact journals."

Depressing assessment of the commercial strategy guiding academic publishing.
OUP acquires Karger's long tail
Hello fellow journalologists,
newsletter.journalology.com

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Zen Faulkes @doctorzen.net · 1d
Name your fav superhero that isn't DC or Marvel.

Gotta go national pride
Captain Canuck

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Zen Faulkes @doctorzen.net · 1d
Break from prepping anatomy lectures.

This is the 30 anniversary of #L5R, my favourite game. I'm reviving some of my old website, plus some new stuff on the Day of Thunder.

sites.google.com/view/steel-a...
L5R: Steel and Iron
Photo by argbyreed on Flickr. Used under a Creative Commons license.
sites.google.com

Reposted by Zen Faulkes

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Ken Tremendous @kentremendous.bsky.social · 2d
Mamdani sign: No one's actually leaving for Florida

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Zen Faulkes @doctorzen.net · 2d
Ooooh 🤩
Posters for conferences

Reposted by Jesse H. Kroll, Zen Faulkes

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jo melville @jmelville.science · 2d
please don't @ me like "actually cerium is unique among the lanthanides for its +4 oxidation state"

⚗️🧪 #chemsky
A simplified, stylized periodic table of elements where large groups of elements are color-coded. Hydrogen (H) is isolated. Group 1 (alkali metals) is labeled "BOOM!". Group 2 (alkaline earth metals) is "rocks & sand & glass & stuff". The transition metals are split into sections: "the foundations of human civilization," "catalysts & superalloys," "ooh, shiny!," "expensive," and "heavy metal poisoning." Technetium (Tc) is boxed separately. The p-block is also grouped: "chips (not tasty kind)," "organic chemistry," and "useful for poisoning your husband." The noble gases are labeled "n o p e." The heaviest elements in the s-block and p-block are labeled "cancer 2" and "cancer alley," with the exception of Bismuth. The transactinides are labeled "more physics than chemistry." The bottom f-block (lanthanides and actinides) is also labeled. The lanthanides are "except for Pm these are all basically the same element," with Promethium (Pm) boxed. The actinides are labeled "rxtors & bombs" and "you probably work at Los Alamos."

Reposted by Philip N. Cohen, Shawn Graham, Silvia Secchi , and 5 more

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Hypervisible @hypervisible.blacksky.app · 3d
100!!!
Ohio State to hire 100 new faculty with AI expertise
The Ohio State University has announced a major Artificial Intelligence (AI) Faculty Hiring Initiative that will add 100 new tenure-track faculty with expertise in AI over the next five years. The ini...
news.osu.edu

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Zen Faulkes @doctorzen.net · 3d
“Prepare for combat, bucket!”
A young golden retriever dog pouncing on a pail.

Reposted by Zen Faulkes

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Nate Piekos of Blambot @blambot.bsky.social · 3d
Blambot's latest Indie font has arrived! PIXEL PANELS BB is a professionally pixelated comic book dialogue font that features Regular and Bold weights with barred-I correction and manga glyphs! Designed to look like vintage low-res game graphics! blambot.com/products/pix...

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Zen Faulkes @doctorzen.net · 3d
The women of the North Melbourne Kangaroos 🦘 won AGAIN. They now have 25 straight wins 2️⃣5️⃣, breaking the record they just set last week.

And Win #25 is a mauling.

www.afl.com.au/aflw/news/14...

#AFLW
Ruthless Roos march into prelim after keeping Hawks goalless
North Melbourne keeps Hawthorn to the lowest score in an AFLW final on the way to a 39-point win
www.afl.com.au

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Zen Faulkes @doctorzen.net · 3d
I was working as a movie projectionist when this was released, but for some reason, we never got it in our theatre! Gap in my genre knowledge that should be filled!

Reposted by Dorothy Bishop, Craig R. Primmer, Martin Kreidl , and 1 more

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Nick Brown @steamtraen.eu · 3d
Oops. Ooooooooooooops.

I do hope that nobody has been given or denied a job/promotion based on their SpringerNature citation counts in the past 15 years.

arxiv.org/pdf/2511.01675

h/t @nathlarigaldie.bsky.social

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Zen Faulkes @doctorzen.net · 3d
DORA and CoARA have ideas about how to do this, and are making progress, I think.

Reposted by Shannon Vallor, Brendan Nyhan, Michael A. Clemens , and 6 more

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Marcel Dirsus @marceldirsus.com · 3d
AI could end scarcity, end humanity - or boost trend growth by 0.2 percentage points

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Zen Faulkes @doctorzen.net · 3d
“(T)he only person to win a Nobel Prize in two disciplines”?

Linus Pauling, Chemistry and Peace.

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Zen Faulkes @doctorzen.net · 3d
Far too many people on this site shared this fakery.

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Zen Faulkes @doctorzen.net · 4d
She’s explicitly said no, a few times I think.

Reposted by Smith, Jesse D. Berman

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Zen Faulkes @doctorzen.net · 4d
Tech bros tired of reinventing buses reinvent phrenology instead

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Zen Faulkes @doctorzen.net · 4d
Coke.

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Zen Faulkes @doctorzen.net · 4d
🥪 🟰 🆕🐸

Reposted by Zen Faulkes

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Michael Hendricks 🇨🇦 @michaelhendricks.bsky.social · 4d
Silver linings: 1. in failing to oppose this motion, universities were too chickenshit to even gesture at duty of care toward researchers and students, but this pushback was led by someone in an admin position. you don't have to hand your spine over to the comms and legal teams.

Reposted by Jesse M. Shapiro, Zen Faulkes

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Michael Hendricks 🇨🇦 @michaelhendricks.bsky.social · 4d
The mobilization of the research community by Gaynor Watson-Creed and others has been successful, and Parliament has withdrawn its abusive data request. Via @widowweb.bsky.social on www.linkedin.com/posts/maydia...
Mobilization of the Scientific Community across Canada has been successful! As of yesterday, the Parliamentary Standing Committee on Science and Research hashtag#SRSR has essentially rescinded an ethically problematic motion that would have compelled the three main federal granting agencies in Canada to provide disaggregated data, including the personal identity of researchers, to the committee. The new motion asks for *aggregated* and *anonymized* data instead. The research community welcomes a good-faith analysis of research funding processes. We point community members and the hashtag#SRSR to the websites of the granting agencies, which provide extensive data on funding programs, including titles and summaries of grant content and aggregated information on where, and to whom, funding goes- a model of transparency and accountability. Let's be clear--anyone can already go to these websites, download multi-year data, then analyze it themselves. This includes the hashtag#SRSR. Any claim that the research community or the tri-agencies are wary about transparency is incorrect and contrary to the reality of what is already available. We are wary about being individually targeted as a function of our identity. We are also wary of any process that allows use of our personal data in ways that were not clear when we agreed to provide it. It was the overwhelming response of researchers and allies (including over 5000 signatures on a petition, and hundreds of messages to MPs and members of the SRSR) that led the Chair to open yesterday's meeting with: "this is an urgent issue...it is about the reputation of this committee..." and the unanimous vote in favour of the new motion

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Zen Faulkes @doctorzen.net · 4d
Oooh… first professional sports team to be named after a Tina Turner song! 😉

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Zen Faulkes @doctorzen.net · 4d
This article doesn’t distinguish LLMs from more general machine learning, either.

Reposted by Timnit Gebru, Rosemary A. Joyce, Malcolm MacLean , and 13 more

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The Economist @economist.com · 4d
A new paper suggests a photo can tell a recruiter much about an applicant’s personality
Should facial analysis help determine whom companies hire?
A new paper suggests a photo can tell a recruiter much about an applicant’s personality
econ.st