Jack Ryan 🙏🧪
@jacksonwryan.com
not a spy.
investigative / science journalist.
President, Science Journalists Association of Australia.
i write about people, science, integrity, dodgy stuff, video games, art
newsletter: nobreakthroughs.substack.com
investigative / science journalist.
President, Science Journalists Association of Australia.
i write about people, science, integrity, dodgy stuff, video games, art
newsletter: nobreakthroughs.substack.com
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Great piece by @cathleenogrady.bsky.social ! Featuring words from a number of level heads, including @manuelansede.bsky.social @jbakcoleman.bsky.social @richvn.bsky.social @jacksonwryan.com and others.
Journalists can’t control the narratives others spin from their stories, but they can ensure their reporting provides an accurate picture of the issue at hand. A guide from @cathleenogrady.bsky.social, with @richvn.bsky.social, @manuelansede.bsky.social, @fleerackers.bsky.social and others. 🧪
Reporting on Flaws in Science in an Era of Mistrust - The Open Notebook
Science journalism that reports on flaws in the scientific process operates in a fraught environment, with attacks on science and scientists worldwide and increasing concern about public mistrust in s...
www.theopennotebook.com
February 12, 2026 at 2:22 AM
Great piece by @cathleenogrady.bsky.social ! Featuring words from a number of level heads, including @manuelansede.bsky.social @jbakcoleman.bsky.social @richvn.bsky.social @jacksonwryan.com and others.
Wembanyama just put 25 points up... in the first 8 minutes. Sitting on the bench now.
February 11, 2026 at 4:02 AM
Wembanyama just put 25 points up... in the first 8 minutes. Sitting on the bench now.
🧪 Is this business suite home to a prolific science publishing house?
A prelim. investigation into "Darcy & Roy Press" -- seems to be predatory and has 1000s of publications since 2022. Many students have published in its journals. Worrying!
nobreakthroughs.substack.com/p/who-are-da...
A prelim. investigation into "Darcy & Roy Press" -- seems to be predatory and has 1000s of publications since 2022. Many students have published in its journals. Worrying!
nobreakthroughs.substack.com/p/who-are-da...
February 11, 2026 at 12:39 AM
🧪 Is this business suite home to a prolific science publishing house?
A prelim. investigation into "Darcy & Roy Press" -- seems to be predatory and has 1000s of publications since 2022. Many students have published in its journals. Worrying!
nobreakthroughs.substack.com/p/who-are-da...
A prelim. investigation into "Darcy & Roy Press" -- seems to be predatory and has 1000s of publications since 2022. Many students have published in its journals. Worrying!
nobreakthroughs.substack.com/p/who-are-da...
GamesHub's newest author Tanaka Haruto has produced this __banger__ article, a straight rip from Xbox Wire that claims Suda51 sat down with the diminished Australian outlet for a chat on Romeo is a Dead Man...
February 10, 2026 at 10:29 PM
GamesHub's newest author Tanaka Haruto has produced this __banger__ article, a straight rip from Xbox Wire that claims Suda51 sat down with the diminished Australian outlet for a chat on Romeo is a Dead Man...
I can tell you for a fact that Elon also has no idea about brain computer interfaces, though I know very little about BCIs, I know plenty of people that know a bit about BCIs.
every single person writing credulously about "elon will put people on the moon" should have to pin this post to their monitor
February 10, 2026 at 5:40 AM
I can tell you for a fact that Elon also has no idea about brain computer interfaces, though I know very little about BCIs, I know plenty of people that know a bit about BCIs.
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The footage out of Sydney overnight is abhorrent.
Peaceful protesters set upon by an army of police, punches thrown at people with raised hands, people praying ripped from their knees.
Is this violence the social cohesion that Labor wanted?
Peaceful protesters set upon by an army of police, punches thrown at people with raised hands, people praying ripped from their knees.
Is this violence the social cohesion that Labor wanted?
February 9, 2026 at 8:55 PM
The footage out of Sydney overnight is abhorrent.
Peaceful protesters set upon by an army of police, punches thrown at people with raised hands, people praying ripped from their knees.
Is this violence the social cohesion that Labor wanted?
Peaceful protesters set upon by an army of police, punches thrown at people with raised hands, people praying ripped from their knees.
Is this violence the social cohesion that Labor wanted?
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Are the games industry jobs in the room with us now Mark
At SAGE this morning, Big Ant Studios COO Mark Bracken suggests you can go and get a games degree and walk into a video game job.
"Now is the easiest time to get into the industry" he says.
"Now is the easiest time to get into the industry" he says.
February 7, 2026 at 12:19 AM
Are the games industry jobs in the room with us now Mark
Writing under a pen name is no match for The Internet, which will find your government name, all other pen names you've used, probably your social security number and high school boyfriend with the extremely complicated tool known as Google Search.
February 8, 2026 at 10:54 PM
Writing under a pen name is no match for The Internet, which will find your government name, all other pen names you've used, probably your social security number and high school boyfriend with the extremely complicated tool known as Google Search.
At SAGE this morning, Big Ant Studios COO Mark Bracken suggests you can go and get a games degree and walk into a video game job.
"Now is the easiest time to get into the industry" he says.
"Now is the easiest time to get into the industry" he says.
February 7, 2026 at 12:18 AM
At SAGE this morning, Big Ant Studios COO Mark Bracken suggests you can go and get a games degree and walk into a video game job.
"Now is the easiest time to get into the industry" he says.
"Now is the easiest time to get into the industry" he says.
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Science-heads who are journalism-curious! This is one of the best internships imaginable. Many of its holders have gone on to great careers at The Economist.
Please help spread the word.
www.economist.com/science-and-...
Please help spread the word.
www.economist.com/science-and-...
The Economist’s science and technology internship
We invite applications for the 2026 Richard Casement internship
www.economist.com
February 4, 2026 at 10:29 AM
Science-heads who are journalism-curious! This is one of the best internships imaginable. Many of its holders have gone on to great careers at The Economist.
Please help spread the word.
www.economist.com/science-and-...
Please help spread the word.
www.economist.com/science-and-...
Into the neutrino fog | Particle
The ghosts haunting our search for dark matter.
particle.scitech.org.au
February 5, 2026 at 4:40 AM
🧪 An Aussie mainstream journo reporting nationally on a study relating to "reversing" ageing -- DNA methylation etc --claims you can DM them for the full paper.
...I DM them and get told that they can't send the full paper, and it's the authors' IP. What's in the paper??? What's in the paaaaper...
...I DM them and get told that they can't send the full paper, and it's the authors' IP. What's in the paper??? What's in the paaaaper...
January 27, 2026 at 4:58 AM
🧪 An Aussie mainstream journo reporting nationally on a study relating to "reversing" ageing -- DNA methylation etc --claims you can DM them for the full paper.
...I DM them and get told that they can't send the full paper, and it's the authors' IP. What's in the paper??? What's in the paaaaper...
...I DM them and get told that they can't send the full paper, and it's the authors' IP. What's in the paper??? What's in the paaaaper...
🧪 Will absolutely be grabbing this and keen to see how some of the master journalists think about story. Would be great to see a less US-centric selection of writers, given science journalism is a global endeavour with different challenges, ideals and systems.
Coming June 2026, The Open Notebook will publish a brand new book, edited by @siricarpenter.bsky.social, and today we are absolutely THRILLED to share the cover!
Look!! 👀
www.theopennotebook.com/the-best-sci...
Look!! 👀
www.theopennotebook.com/the-best-sci...
January 21, 2026 at 5:27 AM
🧪 Will absolutely be grabbing this and keen to see how some of the master journalists think about story. Would be great to see a less US-centric selection of writers, given science journalism is a global endeavour with different challenges, ideals and systems.
Got around to playing Clair Obscur. Good game. The heaping of praise it got for certain aspects is incredibly surprising tho. Voice acting is good, yep, but the dialogue is Truly Incredible -- if you're a LiveJournal emo posting from 2006-10 (derogatory).
January 21, 2026 at 12:57 AM
Got around to playing Clair Obscur. Good game. The heaping of praise it got for certain aspects is incredibly surprising tho. Voice acting is good, yep, but the dialogue is Truly Incredible -- if you're a LiveJournal emo posting from 2006-10 (derogatory).
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Heated Rivalry you say?
Can I introduce you to the REAL HEATED RIVALRY...
Can I introduce you to the REAL HEATED RIVALRY...
January 20, 2026 at 10:39 PM
Heated Rivalry you say?
Can I introduce you to the REAL HEATED RIVALRY...
Can I introduce you to the REAL HEATED RIVALRY...
🧪 Did we solve this scientific fish-stery? Perhaps -- with plenty of help from Bluesky, researchers and others behind the scenes, it seems a fairly benign explanation.
But the rabbit hole (fish... hole?) goes deeper, I think...
nobreakthroughs.substack.com/p/episode-ii...
But the rabbit hole (fish... hole?) goes deeper, I think...
nobreakthroughs.substack.com/p/episode-ii...
Revenge of the Fish
The fishtery solved!... or the fishtery deepens?
nobreakthroughs.substack.com
January 18, 2026 at 10:13 PM
🧪 Did we solve this scientific fish-stery? Perhaps -- with plenty of help from Bluesky, researchers and others behind the scenes, it seems a fairly benign explanation.
But the rabbit hole (fish... hole?) goes deeper, I think...
nobreakthroughs.substack.com/p/episode-ii...
But the rabbit hole (fish... hole?) goes deeper, I think...
nobreakthroughs.substack.com/p/episode-ii...
🧪 The "high-profile study" in question here is one *the Guardian reported on* just under a year ago with a "shocking" headline. That story includes sections of the study copy-pasted and additional quotes from the UK science media centre that lacked their full context about why the study was flawed.
‘A bombshell’: doubt cast on discoveries of #microplastics throughout human body, from brain to blood, arteries to testes
Exclusive: Some scientists say many detections are most likely error, with one high-profile study called a ‘joke’
Story by me
www.theguardian.com/environment/...
Exclusive: Some scientists say many detections are most likely error, with one high-profile study called a ‘joke’
Story by me
www.theguardian.com/environment/...
‘A bombshell’: doubt cast on discovery of microplastics throughout human body
Exclusive: Some scientists say many detections are most likely error, with one high-profile study called a ‘joke’
www.theguardian.com
January 14, 2026 at 9:54 AM
🧪 The "high-profile study" in question here is one *the Guardian reported on* just under a year ago with a "shocking" headline. That story includes sections of the study copy-pasted and additional quotes from the UK science media centre that lacked their full context about why the study was flawed.
🧪 Here's a science mystery to start the year.
Why are species names for fish and plants appearing in the scientific literature in papers about firefighter injuries, hearing loss and heart attack?
Is it AI? Translation tools? Something else?
nobreakthroughs.substack.com/p/is-this-fi...
Why are species names for fish and plants appearing in the scientific literature in papers about firefighter injuries, hearing loss and heart attack?
Is it AI? Translation tools? Something else?
nobreakthroughs.substack.com/p/is-this-fi...
January 11, 2026 at 11:34 PM
🧪 Here's a science mystery to start the year.
Why are species names for fish and plants appearing in the scientific literature in papers about firefighter injuries, hearing loss and heart attack?
Is it AI? Translation tools? Something else?
nobreakthroughs.substack.com/p/is-this-fi...
Why are species names for fish and plants appearing in the scientific literature in papers about firefighter injuries, hearing loss and heart attack?
Is it AI? Translation tools? Something else?
nobreakthroughs.substack.com/p/is-this-fi...
Glowing CES articles on some new tech bullshit ending like
[Journalist] travelled to Vegas thanks to support from Hisense, Lego, Nvidia, BMW, Johns Chicken Shop on Main, the '96 Seattle Supersonics, Rory McLorys Glorious Stories, 14 Ancient Beings of Undisclosed Origin and Hisense (another one)
[Journalist] travelled to Vegas thanks to support from Hisense, Lego, Nvidia, BMW, Johns Chicken Shop on Main, the '96 Seattle Supersonics, Rory McLorys Glorious Stories, 14 Ancient Beings of Undisclosed Origin and Hisense (another one)
January 7, 2026 at 2:16 AM
Glowing CES articles on some new tech bullshit ending like
[Journalist] travelled to Vegas thanks to support from Hisense, Lego, Nvidia, BMW, Johns Chicken Shop on Main, the '96 Seattle Supersonics, Rory McLorys Glorious Stories, 14 Ancient Beings of Undisclosed Origin and Hisense (another one)
[Journalist] travelled to Vegas thanks to support from Hisense, Lego, Nvidia, BMW, Johns Chicken Shop on Main, the '96 Seattle Supersonics, Rory McLorys Glorious Stories, 14 Ancient Beings of Undisclosed Origin and Hisense (another one)
get her name outta your god damn mouth
Nvidia CEO Jensen Huang introduces the Vera Rubin architecture, its next-gen AI platform. The GPU is named Rubin and the CPU is Vera
January 5, 2026 at 11:15 PM
get her name outta your god damn mouth
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To bring in the New Year, here's a proposal for external regulation of academic publishing, through a voluntary system of journal certification to the ISO 9001 quality management standard. 🧪 #ResearchIntegrity (1/2) www.nature.com/articles/d41...
www.nature.com
December 30, 2025 at 11:28 PM
To bring in the New Year, here's a proposal for external regulation of academic publishing, through a voluntary system of journal certification to the ISO 9001 quality management standard. 🧪 #ResearchIntegrity (1/2) www.nature.com/articles/d41...
Has Crikey never heard of science journalism or?
Two cricket journalists 🏏
Zero science journalists 🧪
Here's my Who to Watch?
@angusdalton.bsky.social -- on a hot streak
@samjnichols.bsky.social -- health/drug reporting with great care
@clarewatson.bsky.social -- poised!! big 2026!!
Two cricket journalists 🏏
Zero science journalists 🧪
Here's my Who to Watch?
@angusdalton.bsky.social -- on a hot streak
@samjnichols.bsky.social -- health/drug reporting with great care
@clarewatson.bsky.social -- poised!! big 2026!!
"AI can never generate a news story because it can’t think to contact someone to find something out, operate on a hunch, or use deduction based on past experience to then employ the art of bluff" — AFR political editor Phil Coorey.
Australian media figures on AI, and which journos are the up-and-coming ones to watch
We asked Australia's biggest media figures about what scares them about artificial intelligence, and which new reporters are making a splash.
www.crikey.com.au
December 19, 2025 at 3:18 AM
Has Crikey never heard of science journalism or?
Two cricket journalists 🏏
Zero science journalists 🧪
Here's my Who to Watch?
@angusdalton.bsky.social -- on a hot streak
@samjnichols.bsky.social -- health/drug reporting with great care
@clarewatson.bsky.social -- poised!! big 2026!!
Two cricket journalists 🏏
Zero science journalists 🧪
Here's my Who to Watch?
@angusdalton.bsky.social -- on a hot streak
@samjnichols.bsky.social -- health/drug reporting with great care
@clarewatson.bsky.social -- poised!! big 2026!!
South Australia is a state in New Zealand I guess
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December 19, 2025 at 1:24 AM
South Australia is a state in New Zealand I guess
There were credible allegations against the multiple Game Award winning Clair Obscur: Expedition 33 ... And Sandfall said nothing. Ignored requests for comment. Quietly patched. This will be the strategy. Hide it or ignore it until people no longer care. News moves onto the next case.
Hell, there's been credible allegations of its use uncovered at AAA developers in the last couple of weeks and the companies have just not commented. The tech introduces enough uncertainty that it becomes hard to talk about instences as absolute fact which is in a developer's favor - fog of war etc.
December 17, 2025 at 2:17 AM
There were credible allegations against the multiple Game Award winning Clair Obscur: Expedition 33 ... And Sandfall said nothing. Ignored requests for comment. Quietly patched. This will be the strategy. Hide it or ignore it until people no longer care. News moves onto the next case.