Valentin Rodionov
@arbitraryeffect.bsky.social
Chemist. Neurodivergent. Orcophobe. Hand-tool woodworker. Faculty @ CWRU Macro. Lab website: rodionovlab.org
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I think I should start identifying as an orcophobe.
By the way, orc ideology is quite popular in Russia:
www.tolkienguide.com/modules/newb...
By the way, orc ideology is quite popular in Russia:
www.tolkienguide.com/modules/newb...
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Please use every opportunity to put this in front of people being pressured to let EBM/GRADE and "evidence synthesis" gatekeep and rent-seek their way into power over science.
Mind-blowingly stupid, shielded from retraction, and impacting guidance made by EBM cargo cultists today.
#MedSky #SciSky
Mind-blowingly stupid, shielded from retraction, and impacting guidance made by EBM cargo cultists today.
#MedSky #SciSky
November 11, 2025 at 12:32 AM
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Generic drug manufacturing is going to be difficult to (re)establish in the US:
Making Pills. But Not Making Them Here.
www.science.org
November 10, 2025 at 8:20 PM
Generic drug manufacturing is going to be difficult to (re)establish in the US:
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This allows Trump (via DOJ) to use taxpayer money to bribe eight GOP Senators. It's that simple, there's no other way to describe it.
And where's the compensation for people injured by the Trump admin's unlawful conduct through DHS & DOGE?
Take a bow, @schumer.senate.gov, you did this.
And where's the compensation for people injured by the Trump admin's unlawful conduct through DHS & DOGE?
Take a bow, @schumer.senate.gov, you did this.
November 10, 2025 at 9:23 PM
This allows Trump (via DOJ) to use taxpayer money to bribe eight GOP Senators. It's that simple, there's no other way to describe it.
And where's the compensation for people injured by the Trump admin's unlawful conduct through DHS & DOGE?
Take a bow, @schumer.senate.gov, you did this.
And where's the compensation for people injured by the Trump admin's unlawful conduct through DHS & DOGE?
Take a bow, @schumer.senate.gov, you did this.
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Good post by @dereklowe.bsky.social on a recent NYT article about a shuttered generics plant in Shreveport, LA: www.science.org/content/blog... #chemchat 🧪⚗️
Making Pills. But Not Making Them Here.
www.science.org
November 10, 2025 at 6:47 PM
Good post by @dereklowe.bsky.social on a recent NYT article about a shuttered generics plant in Shreveport, LA: www.science.org/content/blog... #chemchat 🧪⚗️
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How to render a publishing ban moot? Change your surname and just keep submitting.
Author changes name, publishes 10 papers in journals that banned him
How to render a publishing ban moot? Change your surname and just keep submitting. That’s what happened in the case of Hashem Babaei, aka Hashem Gharababaei. In 2010, the Institution of Mechanical …
retractionwatch.com
November 10, 2025 at 6:39 PM
How to render a publishing ban moot? Change your surname and just keep submitting.
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Don't miss @julieroginsky.bsky.social and my latest chapter of our series on how Russia attacked the 2016 U.S. election to help Trump win
How Crossfire Hurricane Became a Political Litmus Test
Chapter 16 of our series on how Russia attacked the 2016 U.S. election to help Trump win.
olgalautman.substack.com
November 10, 2025 at 5:31 PM
Don't miss @julieroginsky.bsky.social and my latest chapter of our series on how Russia attacked the 2016 U.S. election to help Trump win
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Always a good start to the week when you get notified that a paper flagged more than a year ago finally got retracted: Ahsan et al. 2021 (DOI: 10.1007/s10787-021-00840-9). Images overlap with multiple other papers. pubpeer.com/publications...
November 10, 2025 at 5:01 PM
Always a good start to the week when you get notified that a paper flagged more than a year ago finally got retracted: Ahsan et al. 2021 (DOI: 10.1007/s10787-021-00840-9). Images overlap with multiple other papers. pubpeer.com/publications...
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I am seeing a lot of posts about Rosalind Franklin that themselves ignore her publication record on DNA!
In fact Franklin and Gosling's paper, including the famous Photograph #51, was published, along with Wilkins's paper, back-to-back with the Watson and Crick paper in Nature in 1953.
In fact Franklin and Gosling's paper, including the famous Photograph #51, was published, along with Wilkins's paper, back-to-back with the Watson and Crick paper in Nature in 1953.
November 9, 2025 at 6:43 PM
I am seeing a lot of posts about Rosalind Franklin that themselves ignore her publication record on DNA!
In fact Franklin and Gosling's paper, including the famous Photograph #51, was published, along with Wilkins's paper, back-to-back with the Watson and Crick paper in Nature in 1953.
In fact Franklin and Gosling's paper, including the famous Photograph #51, was published, along with Wilkins's paper, back-to-back with the Watson and Crick paper in Nature in 1953.
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I'd like for someone in the dem caucus to tell us which senators were real no votes and which ones voted no because they were allowed to.
November 10, 2025 at 3:12 AM
I'd like for someone in the dem caucus to tell us which senators were real no votes and which ones voted no because they were allowed to.
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November 9, 2025 at 4:28 PM
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@oupress.bsky.social does Wiley's Hindawi thing, because scholarly publishing cannot function without papermills.
"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.
Depressing assessment of the commercial strategy guiding academic publishing.
OUP acquires Karger's long tail
Hello fellow journalologists,
newsletter.journalology.com
November 10, 2025 at 9:04 AM
@oupress.bsky.social does Wiley's Hindawi thing, because scholarly publishing cannot function without papermills.
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Raising a glass for Rosalind Franklin tonight. James Watson absolutely did her dirty.
But beware...
But beware...
November 7, 2025 at 8:42 PM
Raising a glass for Rosalind Franklin tonight. James Watson absolutely did her dirty.
But beware...
But beware...
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On Rosalind Franklin, I was gutted that this 50p never entered general circulation. It really is quite beautiful
November 7, 2025 at 10:29 PM
On Rosalind Franklin, I was gutted that this 50p never entered general circulation. It really is quite beautiful
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The Editor Got a Letter From ‘Dr. B.S.’ So Did a Lot of Other Editors.
The rise of artificial intelligence has produced serial writers to science and medical journals, most likely using chatbots to boost the number of citations they’ve published
#GiftLink
www.nytimes.com/2025/11/04/s...
The rise of artificial intelligence has produced serial writers to science and medical journals, most likely using chatbots to boost the number of citations they’ve published
#GiftLink
www.nytimes.com/2025/11/04/s...
The Editor Got a Letter From ‘Dr. B.S.’ So Did a Lot of Other Editors.
www.nytimes.com
November 7, 2025 at 10:21 PM
The Editor Got a Letter From ‘Dr. B.S.’ So Did a Lot of Other Editors.
The rise of artificial intelligence has produced serial writers to science and medical journals, most likely using chatbots to boost the number of citations they’ve published
#GiftLink
www.nytimes.com/2025/11/04/s...
The rise of artificial intelligence has produced serial writers to science and medical journals, most likely using chatbots to boost the number of citations they’ve published
#GiftLink
www.nytimes.com/2025/11/04/s...
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I reported this to @pnas.org in 2021 and 2022. So far I don't see that anything has happened.
Non-profit publishers sometimes seem just as disinterested in cleaning up past problems as for-profit publishers. YMMV.
pubpeer.com/publications...
Non-profit publishers sometimes seem just as disinterested in cleaning up past problems as for-profit publishers. YMMV.
pubpeer.com/publications...
November 8, 2025 at 2:19 AM
I reported this to @pnas.org in 2021 and 2022. So far I don't see that anything has happened.
Non-profit publishers sometimes seem just as disinterested in cleaning up past problems as for-profit publishers. YMMV.
pubpeer.com/publications...
Non-profit publishers sometimes seem just as disinterested in cleaning up past problems as for-profit publishers. YMMV.
pubpeer.com/publications...
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A week after the arXiv was forced to tighten down on submissions because of overwhelming volumes of AI slop, bioRxiv is throwing the doors wide open.
disappointed that @biorxivpreprint.bsky.social is implicitly endorsing the use of LLMs to replace scientific thought
@richardsever.bsky.social this is a short-sighted move and a net negative for science
@richardsever.bsky.social this is a short-sighted move and a net negative for science
IT'S HAPPENING! 💥 I'm psyched to launch the collaboration between @qedscience.bsky.social & @openrxiv.bsky.social @biorxivpreprint.bsky.social! Preprint + q.e.d = your science is out there, and anyone can appreciate it. Let's care about making discoveries, and not on “getting published” (1/3) 👇
November 7, 2025 at 1:59 PM
A week after the arXiv was forced to tighten down on submissions because of overwhelming volumes of AI slop, bioRxiv is throwing the doors wide open.
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Of course, Director Bhattacharya is likely opposed to health insurance subsidies because, you know, access to health insurance makes people fat.
www.nber.org/system/files...
1/3
www.nber.org/system/files...
1/3
November 7, 2025 at 1:50 PM
Of course, Director Bhattacharya is likely opposed to health insurance subsidies because, you know, access to health insurance makes people fat.
www.nber.org/system/files...
1/3
www.nber.org/system/files...
1/3
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You'll be surprised what "falls within the acceptable" for @wiley.com
Schneider Shorts 7.11.2025 – No data were falsified or fabricated in any way
forbetterscience.com/2025/11/07/s...
forbetterscience.com/2025/11/07/s...
Schneider Shorts 7.11.2025 – No data were falsified or fabricated in any way
Schneider Shorts 7.11.2025 – an obituary for a rector who published too much, another German professor pestered by sleuths, Canada’s superstar and his mentees, Wiley’s haphazard a…
forbetterscience.com
November 7, 2025 at 7:46 AM
You'll be surprised what "falls within the acceptable" for @wiley.com
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For those of us 4 years into having a lab, finally having put together the data to compete for an R01, being told 'the standards for tenure haven't changed', the MYF mandate is an unmitigated disaster. And not one that can be fixed by 'just submitting a few more grants' as uni leadership suggests.
And importantly, while a few years to settle out might seem no biggie, it sure as heck is a big deal to those PIs who have been on the job for just a few years and are looking at the tenure decision looming ahead.
November 5, 2025 at 6:01 PM
For those of us 4 years into having a lab, finally having put together the data to compete for an R01, being told 'the standards for tenure haven't changed', the MYF mandate is an unmitigated disaster. And not one that can be fixed by 'just submitting a few more grants' as uni leadership suggests.
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Director Bhattacharya "Let's fund emerging investigators"
Yeah, who's the idiot running NIH who allowed 15% or few fewer early stage investigators be funded in FY2025 compared to FY2024?
(Estimate: The official numbers are not yet available (at least publicly)
Yeah, who's the idiot running NIH who allowed 15% or few fewer early stage investigators be funded in FY2025 compared to FY2024?
(Estimate: The official numbers are not yet available (at least publicly)
November 6, 2025 at 12:01 PM
Director Bhattacharya "Let's fund emerging investigators"
Yeah, who's the idiot running NIH who allowed 15% or few fewer early stage investigators be funded in FY2025 compared to FY2024?
(Estimate: The official numbers are not yet available (at least publicly)
Yeah, who's the idiot running NIH who allowed 15% or few fewer early stage investigators be funded in FY2025 compared to FY2024?
(Estimate: The official numbers are not yet available (at least publicly)
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A network of peer reviewers in Italy is targeting medical journals, threatening “both the scientific record and patient safety,” a team of researchers including @deevybee.bsky.social report.
Review mill in Italy targeting ob-gyn journals, researchers allege
Examples of “boilerplate” text used in the suspect reviews.M.A. Oviedo-Garcia et al/medRxiv 2025 A network of peer reviewers in Italy is targeting medical journals, threatening “both the scientific…
retractionwatch.com
November 4, 2025 at 8:54 PM
A network of peer reviewers in Italy is targeting medical journals, threatening “both the scientific record and patient safety,” a team of researchers including @deevybee.bsky.social report.
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Chipmaker AMD has confirmed a major security bug in the RDSEED entropy generator impacting Zen 5 processors.
The RDSEED process has been failing to produce random numbers on Linux systems.
AMD is planning to release patches through November for all affected CPU models.
www.amd.com/en/resources...
The RDSEED process has been failing to produce random numbers on Linux systems.
AMD is planning to release patches through November for all affected CPU models.
www.amd.com/en/resources...
November 4, 2025 at 5:28 PM
Chipmaker AMD has confirmed a major security bug in the RDSEED entropy generator impacting Zen 5 processors.
The RDSEED process has been failing to produce random numbers on Linux systems.
AMD is planning to release patches through November for all affected CPU models.
www.amd.com/en/resources...
The RDSEED process has been failing to produce random numbers on Linux systems.
AMD is planning to release patches through November for all affected CPU models.
www.amd.com/en/resources...
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To the surprise of absolutely noone, @qmul.bsky.social is again deeply engaged in research fraud.
BMJ invaded by Iranian papermill
forbetterscience.com/2025/11/05/b...
forbetterscience.com/2025/11/05/b...
BMJ invaded by Iranian papermill
“Patients with weak heart function who receive stem cell therapy shortly after a heart attack are at lower risk of developing heart failure and related hospital stays compared with standard c…
forbetterscience.com
November 5, 2025 at 11:02 AM
To the surprise of absolutely noone, @qmul.bsky.social is again deeply engaged in research fraud.
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A retraction can also increate the confidence that we have in the integrity of someone's research. I think this is a good example of that.
This of course does not count for retractions caused by sleuths who find clearly manipulated images or data & w/ the authors continuously making poor excuses...
This of course does not count for retractions caused by sleuths who find clearly manipulated images or data & w/ the authors continuously making poor excuses...
It’s true that some scientific results can’t be replicated. And it’s also true that some people do the right thing when that happens:
Taking It Back, The Right Way
www.science.org
November 4, 2025 at 8:17 PM
A retraction can also increate the confidence that we have in the integrity of someone's research. I think this is a good example of that.
This of course does not count for retractions caused by sleuths who find clearly manipulated images or data & w/ the authors continuously making poor excuses...
This of course does not count for retractions caused by sleuths who find clearly manipulated images or data & w/ the authors continuously making poor excuses...