Zen Faulkes
@doctorzen.net
Home page: http://DoctorZen.net. Biologist. Author of Better Posters book and blog. Collector of academic hoaxes.
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The #Goldeneyes centre ice logo at the Pacific Coliseum. Vancouver is the only #PWHL team with a permanent logo at centre ice.
November 10, 2025 at 6:10 PM
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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It's amazing to see this published. It was a lot of work testing, refining, and improving our AI sentiment proof of concept that is now live in @altmetric.com. If you are curious about the process, do check it out!
Nice new paper on how we did the sentiment analysis for social media that talks about research. Tagging @careia.bsky.social and our official account @altmetric.com
A little while ago, we added sentiment analysis to #altmetric @altmetric.bsky.social and we (well, Carlos led and the rest of us helped...) wrote a paper on how we did it and what we did www.frontiersin.org/journals/res...
November 10, 2025 at 2:56 PM
It's amazing to see this published. It was a lot of work testing, refining, and improving our AI sentiment proof of concept that is now live in @altmetric.com. If you are curious about the process, do check it out!
Being able to participate in sport is a human right.
www.ohchr.org/en/special-p...
www.olympics.com/ioc/pierre-d...
www.ohchr.org/en/special-p...
www.olympics.com/ioc/pierre-d...
Right to participate in sports
www.ohchr.org
November 10, 2025 at 3:07 PM
Being able to participate in sport is a human right.
www.ohchr.org/en/special-p...
www.olympics.com/ioc/pierre-d...
www.ohchr.org/en/special-p...
www.olympics.com/ioc/pierre-d...
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"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 7:48 AM
"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.
Name your fav superhero that isn't DC or Marvel.
Gotta go national pride
Gotta go national pride
November 9, 2025 at 8:36 PM
Name your fav superhero that isn't DC or Marvel.
Gotta go national pride
Gotta go national pride
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...
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
November 9, 2025 at 6:54 PM
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...
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...
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The memes using his instantly recognizable font/color point to a graphic design team that did its job.
November 9, 2025 at 2:26 AM
The memes using his instantly recognizable font/color point to a graphic design team that did its job.
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A note: when CSI was über popular, universities in the UK ran to create an infinite number of criminal science degrees (from 2 to 285...). When taste moved to the next fad, unis were stuck with thousands of hires. This, in a place with strong tenure and high compensation (US), is a huge liability.
November 7, 2025 at 9:54 PM
A note: when CSI was über popular, universities in the UK ran to create an infinite number of criminal science degrees (from 2 to 285...). When taste moved to the next fad, unis were stuck with thousands of hires. This, in a place with strong tenure and high compensation (US), is a huge liability.
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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...
November 7, 2025 at 6:35 PM
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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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
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
November 7, 2025 at 2:02 PM
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
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
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
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
November 7, 2025 at 3:33 PM
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
And Win #25 is a mauling.
www.afl.com.au/aflw/news/14...
#AFLW
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lmao this is incredible, strong contender for one of the least useful charts ever made
you could do this with anything, draw a straight trend line plus one exponentially up and one exponentially down
average baseball fastball pitch speed in 2050:
0mph, 105mph, or 1000000mph
you could do this with anything, draw a straight trend line plus one exponentially up and one exponentially down
average baseball fastball pitch speed in 2050:
0mph, 105mph, or 1000000mph
AI could end scarcity, end humanity - or boost trend growth by 0.2 percentage points
November 7, 2025 at 1:47 PM
lmao this is incredible, strong contender for one of the least useful charts ever made
you could do this with anything, draw a straight trend line plus one exponentially up and one exponentially down
average baseball fastball pitch speed in 2050:
0mph, 105mph, or 1000000mph
you could do this with anything, draw a straight trend line plus one exponentially up and one exponentially down
average baseball fastball pitch speed in 2050:
0mph, 105mph, or 1000000mph
Far too many people on this site shared this fakery.
Status report, "Things You Discover By Accident" dep't: Apparently the Dershowitz blow-your-brains-out quote was faked. www.yahoo.com/news/article...
Fact Check: Alan Dershowitz Did NOT Say He Would 'Blow His Brains Out On Live TV' If Mamdani Becomes New York Mayor
Did retired Harvard Law School professor Alan Dershowitz publicly promise to "blow his brains out on live TV" if Zohran Mamdani wins the 2025 mayoral election in New York City? No, that's not true: De...
www.yahoo.com
November 7, 2025 at 11:43 AM
Far too many people on this site shared this fakery.
Tech bros tired of reinventing buses reinvent phrenology instead
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
November 6, 2025 at 11:00 PM
Tech bros tired of reinventing buses reinvent phrenology instead
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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.
November 6, 2025 at 7:08 PM
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.
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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...
November 6, 2025 at 6:53 PM
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...
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Academics set their metrics and incentives. And that defines everything. Including the future of scientific publishing.
And if at any point, one feels that incentives are being defined from outside, that's what needs to be fought against.
But the power of change lies within.
And if at any point, one feels that incentives are being defined from outside, that's what needs to be fought against.
But the power of change lies within.
November 6, 2025 at 12:42 PM
Academics set their metrics and incentives. And that defines everything. Including the future of scientific publishing.
And if at any point, one feels that incentives are being defined from outside, that's what needs to be fought against.
But the power of change lies within.
And if at any point, one feels that incentives are being defined from outside, that's what needs to be fought against.
But the power of change lies within.
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At best, I think it’s a good idea to treat AI in the workplace the same way you’d treat a forklift in the workplace: as a tool that’s useful for a few specific jobs, and which only a few trained people should use.
Instead, we’re largely going with “Hey, we built a forklift into all your software.”
Instead, we’re largely going with “Hey, we built a forklift into all your software.”
November 6, 2025 at 1:07 PM
At best, I think it’s a good idea to treat AI in the workplace the same way you’d treat a forklift in the workplace: as a tool that’s useful for a few specific jobs, and which only a few trained people should use.
Instead, we’re largely going with “Hey, we built a forklift into all your software.”
Instead, we’re largely going with “Hey, we built a forklift into all your software.”
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"Language models cannot reliably distinguish belief from knowledge and fact"
When AI is touted as a tool in medicine and law, among other things, this speaks volumes.
#AI 🧪
When AI is touted as a tool in medicine and law, among other things, this speaks volumes.
#AI 🧪
Language models cannot reliably distinguish belief from knowledge and fact - Nature Machine Intelligence
Suzgun et al. find that current large language models cannot reliably distinguish between belief, knowledge and fact, raising concerns for their use in healthcare, law and journalism, where such disti...
www.nature.com
November 6, 2025 at 11:45 AM
"Language models cannot reliably distinguish belief from knowledge and fact"
When AI is touted as a tool in medicine and law, among other things, this speaks volumes.
#AI 🧪
When AI is touted as a tool in medicine and law, among other things, this speaks volumes.
#AI 🧪
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Ok, just wow. If the content of this article is right, this is depressing. We're slowly reaching the point where ~100% of what I was taught in Social Psych was either innocently wrong or plainly frauded
onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/abs/10.1...
onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/abs/10.1...
Debunking “When Prophecy Fails”
In 1954, Dorothy Martin predicted an apocalyptic flood and promised her followers rescue by flying saucers. When neither arrived, she recanted, her group dissolved, and efforts to proselytize ceased....
onlinelibrary.wiley.com
November 5, 2025 at 11:09 PM
Ok, just wow. If the content of this article is right, this is depressing. We're slowly reaching the point where ~100% of what I was taught in Social Psych was either innocently wrong or plainly frauded
onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/abs/10.1...
onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/abs/10.1...
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Goddard spacecraft engineer: "I think it just kind of speaks to the atmosphere of the agency and the nation, where people are like, 'Well, laws don't matter for the people at the top anymore.'"
NASA is sinking its flagship science center during the government shutdown — and may be breaking the law in the process, critics say
"There is just a general acknowledgement that a lot of what is happening is illegal…"
www.space.com
November 4, 2025 at 4:45 PM
Goddard spacecraft engineer: "I think it just kind of speaks to the atmosphere of the agency and the nation, where people are like, 'Well, laws don't matter for the people at the top anymore.'"