@microbiocarly.bsky.social
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Scientists operate on principles of good faith. But this is just ridiculous. If you, dear reader, take nothing else away from The Drain paper, it is that publishers cannot be invited to the table any longer.
They can participate and carve a space, but they can't be part of shaping policy.
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They can participate and carve a space, but they can't be part of shaping policy.
3/n
November 11, 2025 at 11:52 AM
Scientists operate on principles of good faith. But this is just ridiculous. If you, dear reader, take nothing else away from The Drain paper, it is that publishers cannot be invited to the table any longer.
They can participate and carve a space, but they can't be part of shaping policy.
3/n
They can participate and carve a space, but they can't be part of shaping policy.
3/n
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What is the most profitable industry in the world, this side of the law? Not oil, not IT, not pharma.
It's *scientific publishing*.
We call this the Drain of Scientific Publishing.
Paper: arxiv.org/abs/2511.04820
Background: doi.org/10.1162/qss_...
Thread @markhanson.fediscience.org.ap.brid.gy 👇
It's *scientific publishing*.
We call this the Drain of Scientific Publishing.
Paper: arxiv.org/abs/2511.04820
Background: doi.org/10.1162/qss_...
Thread @markhanson.fediscience.org.ap.brid.gy 👇
November 12, 2025 at 10:31 AM
What is the most profitable industry in the world, this side of the law? Not oil, not IT, not pharma.
It's *scientific publishing*.
We call this the Drain of Scientific Publishing.
Paper: arxiv.org/abs/2511.04820
Background: doi.org/10.1162/qss_...
Thread @markhanson.fediscience.org.ap.brid.gy 👇
It's *scientific publishing*.
We call this the Drain of Scientific Publishing.
Paper: arxiv.org/abs/2511.04820
Background: doi.org/10.1162/qss_...
Thread @markhanson.fediscience.org.ap.brid.gy 👇
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Answering your questions about the Ostrich story your uncle won’t stop posting about
Answering your questions about the Ostrich story your uncle won't stop posting about
You have probably seen your right wing family and friends post a lot about ostriches lately. And, since you don’t follow Rebel News and a lot of twitter accounts with fucktrudeau and fringeminorty in ...
thebeaverton.com
November 11, 2025 at 8:20 PM
Answering your questions about the Ostrich story your uncle won’t stop posting about
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It's official: Canada has lost its measles elimination status because of an outbreak that has persisted for more than 12 months. Country can regain status only if on-going spread is of measles interrupted for more than a year. www.cbc.ca/news/health/... via @cbcnews.ca
November 10, 2025 at 3:06 PM
It's official: Canada has lost its measles elimination status because of an outbreak that has persisted for more than 12 months. Country can regain status only if on-going spread is of measles interrupted for more than a year. www.cbc.ca/news/health/... via @cbcnews.ca
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I have all kinds of thoughts here. But this is also a marker of public belief in conspiracy theories and rejection of science and we should all be very concerned.
BREAKING: "The Pan American Health Organization (PAHO) has notified the Public Health Agency of Canada (PHAC) that Canada no longer holds measles elimination status."
Statement from the Public Health Agency of Canada on Canada’s Measles Elimination Status
Following over 12 months of transmission across the country, PAHO confirms Canada's loss of measles elimination status. We are coordinating efforts with provinces and territories to restore the status...
www.canada.ca
November 10, 2025 at 2:44 PM
I have all kinds of thoughts here. But this is also a marker of public belief in conspiracy theories and rejection of science and we should all be very concerned.
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pre-writing a devastating obituary for your enemy is god-tier hating of a kind you don’t often see anymore. renaissance haterism. beautiful stuff.
A Sharon Begley byline, almost 5 years after her death.
Upon hearing the news James Watson had died, a STAT reporter said in our Slack, "I wish I could read what Sharon would have written."
Incredible news: Sharon in fact did pre-write a Watson obit. And it is masterful and excoriating.
🧪🧬🧫
Upon hearing the news James Watson had died, a STAT reporter said in our Slack, "I wish I could read what Sharon would have written."
Incredible news: Sharon in fact did pre-write a Watson obit. And it is masterful and excoriating.
🧪🧬🧫
James Watson, dead at 97, was a scientific legend and a pariah among his peers
James Watson, the co-discoverer of the structure of DNA who died Thursday at 97, was a scientific legend and a pariah among his peers.
www.statnews.com
November 9, 2025 at 12:55 AM
pre-writing a devastating obituary for your enemy is god-tier hating of a kind you don’t often see anymore. renaissance haterism. beautiful stuff.
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Your cat when you're choking to death in your apartment
November 6, 2025 at 9:16 PM
Your cat when you're choking to death in your apartment
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Librarians told 404 Media they're being inundated with new pitches for AI library tech and catalogs are being flooded with AI slop books.
But more broadly, AI maximalism across society is supercharging the ideological war on libraries, schools, government workers, and academics.
But more broadly, AI maximalism across society is supercharging the ideological war on libraries, schools, government workers, and academics.
AI Is Supercharging the War on Libraries, Education, and Human Knowledge
"Fascism and AI, whether or not they have the same goals, they sure are working to accelerate one another."
www.404media.co
November 6, 2025 at 5:19 PM
Librarians told 404 Media they're being inundated with new pitches for AI library tech and catalogs are being flooded with AI slop books.
But more broadly, AI maximalism across society is supercharging the ideological war on libraries, schools, government workers, and academics.
But more broadly, AI maximalism across society is supercharging the ideological war on libraries, schools, government workers, and academics.
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Exclusive: Forced to change labs, Kim lost a scholarship and a job offer, and had to repay about AU$90,000 (US$58,400) to his sponsor in South Korea. The university has since offered Kim AU$15,000 (US$9,750) after he sought compensation — although without admitting culpability.
Exclusive: A misconduct ruling, a flawed investigation, and an attempted payoff
University of Melbourne In April 2019, Daejung Kim, then a Ph.D. student at the University of Melbourne in Australia, found a draft manuscript on the desk of a postdoc in the same laboratory. The m…
retractionwatch.com
November 5, 2025 at 3:40 PM
Exclusive: Forced to change labs, Kim lost a scholarship and a job offer, and had to repay about AU$90,000 (US$58,400) to his sponsor in South Korea. The university has since offered Kim AU$15,000 (US$9,750) after he sought compensation — although without admitting culpability.
Nice terms used in PHEMS for a data space
Data Passport - the permission credential to access/use data
Airlock mechanism - results are vetted before being released from a secure data processing environment.
Data Passport - the permission credential to access/use data
Airlock mechanism - results are vetted before being released from a secure data processing environment.
November 4, 2025 at 7:54 PM
Nice terms used in PHEMS for a data space
Data Passport - the permission credential to access/use data
Airlock mechanism - results are vetted before being released from a secure data processing environment.
Data Passport - the permission credential to access/use data
Airlock mechanism - results are vetted before being released from a secure data processing environment.
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It is an interesting point, but it's a shame that these important things that benefit the whole research community - and support #ResearchIntegrity - are billed as time-consuming gatekeepers; ideally these should be standard steps built smoothly into the process of research
November 4, 2025 at 5:07 PM
It is an interesting point, but it's a shame that these important things that benefit the whole research community - and support #ResearchIntegrity - are billed as time-consuming gatekeepers; ideally these should be standard steps built smoothly into the process of research
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In a way, I find the authoritarian takeover of our media system even more disturbing than the authoritarian takeover of our political system.
Our political system has been failing basically my entire adult life. But, the media system provided accountability and sort of worked. Now it’s collapsing.
Our political system has been failing basically my entire adult life. But, the media system provided accountability and sort of worked. Now it’s collapsing.
November 3, 2025 at 4:18 PM
In a way, I find the authoritarian takeover of our media system even more disturbing than the authoritarian takeover of our political system.
Our political system has been failing basically my entire adult life. But, the media system provided accountability and sort of worked. Now it’s collapsing.
Our political system has been failing basically my entire adult life. But, the media system provided accountability and sort of worked. Now it’s collapsing.
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November 2, 2025 at 5:09 PM
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Bluesky has overtaken Twitter/X as the highest social engagement metric for the entire publication corpus of some universities.
Here's all the attention for all research from Rhodes University, ZA. In October 2025 Bluesky mentioned their research more than X/Twitter.
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Here's all the attention for all research from Rhodes University, ZA. In October 2025 Bluesky mentioned their research more than X/Twitter.
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October 28, 2025 at 7:58 PM
Bluesky has overtaken Twitter/X as the highest social engagement metric for the entire publication corpus of some universities.
Here's all the attention for all research from Rhodes University, ZA. In October 2025 Bluesky mentioned their research more than X/Twitter.
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Here's all the attention for all research from Rhodes University, ZA. In October 2025 Bluesky mentioned their research more than X/Twitter.
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What he said: 💯 🎯
November 1, 2025 at 6:55 PM
What he said: 💯 🎯
Happy Halloween!
November 1, 2025 at 2:09 AM
Happy Halloween!
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Merlina
Joe Coffey
2022
Joe Coffey
2022
October 31, 2025 at 11:30 AM
Merlina
Joe Coffey
2022
Joe Coffey
2022
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I can answer this. I interviewed Peterson's tailor a few years ago, although the interview was never published because I fell behind on work. Here is the story of this suit. 🧵
October 31, 2025 at 2:43 AM
I can answer this. I interviewed Peterson's tailor a few years ago, although the interview was never published because I fell behind on work. Here is the story of this suit. 🧵
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"go to TikTok. See for yourself."
![Pop Base tweets: "Kim Kardashian said on ‘The Kardashians’ that she believes the moon landing was fake:
“They’re gonna say I’m crazy no matter what, but like, go to TikTok. See for yourself. […] There’s no gravity on the moon. Why is the flag blowing? The shoes that they have in the museum that they wore on the moon is a different print in the photos. Why are there no stars?”"](https://cdn.bsky.app/img/feed_thumbnail/plain/did:plc:ks3gpa6ftoyaq7hmf6c4qx4c/bafkreickzwdynkak7r4lur6afktglm3gontqsq5r5c7jeewyecyd4dczla@jpeg)
October 31, 2025 at 4:25 AM
"go to TikTok. See for yourself."
Terms: "NSF reserves the right to terminate financial assistance awards and recover all funds if recipients, during the term of this award, operate any program in violation of Federal anti- discriminatory laws or engage in a prohibited boycott."
Oof. Risk!
developers.slashdot.org/story/25/10/...
Oof. Risk!
developers.slashdot.org/story/25/10/...
Python Foundation Rejects Government Grant Over DEI Restrictions - Slashdot
The Python Software Foundation rejected a $1.5 million U.S. government grant because it required them to renounce all diversity, equity, and inclusion initiatives. "The non-profit would've used the fu...
developers.slashdot.org
October 30, 2025 at 12:49 PM
Terms: "NSF reserves the right to terminate financial assistance awards and recover all funds if recipients, during the term of this award, operate any program in violation of Federal anti- discriminatory laws or engage in a prohibited boycott."
Oof. Risk!
developers.slashdot.org/story/25/10/...
Oof. Risk!
developers.slashdot.org/story/25/10/...
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JD Vance claims that diversity weakens unions, as people end up distrusting each other and not organizing.
Let me tell you two menswear stories related to this claim. 🧵
Let me tell you two menswear stories related to this claim. 🧵
October 30, 2025 at 8:07 AM
JD Vance claims that diversity weakens unions, as people end up distrusting each other and not organizing.
Let me tell you two menswear stories related to this claim. 🧵
Let me tell you two menswear stories related to this claim. 🧵
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P.S. Liberals who kept saying "but our economic indicators are fine, it's just vibes"
this is why that messaging doesn't work ❤️
www.cbc.ca/news/politic...
this is why that messaging doesn't work ❤️
www.cbc.ca/news/politic...
October 29, 2025 at 5:39 PM
P.S. Liberals who kept saying "but our economic indicators are fine, it's just vibes"
this is why that messaging doesn't work ❤️
www.cbc.ca/news/politic...
this is why that messaging doesn't work ❤️
www.cbc.ca/news/politic...
From the AI that called itself mecha-hitler comes a rewrite of Wikipedia: Conservapedia! No wait that wasn't good enough, instead we welcome: Grokipedia!
www.theverge.com/news/807686/...
www.theverge.com/news/807686/...
Elon Musk’s Grokipedia launches with AI-cloned pages from Wikipedia
Ironic.
www.theverge.com
October 29, 2025 at 5:40 PM
From the AI that called itself mecha-hitler comes a rewrite of Wikipedia: Conservapedia! No wait that wasn't good enough, instead we welcome: Grokipedia!
www.theverge.com/news/807686/...
www.theverge.com/news/807686/...
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It's time to get your free flu and covid shots Ontario!
Many locally owned pharmacies in Guelph are providing the shots, like Walsh's West End Pharmacy.
Check the list to find a pharmacy near you, www.ontario.ca/vaccine-loca...
Many locally owned pharmacies in Guelph are providing the shots, like Walsh's West End Pharmacy.
Check the list to find a pharmacy near you, www.ontario.ca/vaccine-loca...
October 29, 2025 at 3:15 PM
It's time to get your free flu and covid shots Ontario!
Many locally owned pharmacies in Guelph are providing the shots, like Walsh's West End Pharmacy.
Check the list to find a pharmacy near you, www.ontario.ca/vaccine-loca...
Many locally owned pharmacies in Guelph are providing the shots, like Walsh's West End Pharmacy.
Check the list to find a pharmacy near you, www.ontario.ca/vaccine-loca...