Michael Brooks
@drmichaelbrooks.bsky.social
UK-based writer/speaker, mostly about science/maths. Latest book: The Art of More (US) / The Maths That Made Us (UK). He/him
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Reupping for the Monday crowd, @drmichaelbrooks.bsky.social offers timely digital security advice for researchers who are afraid that they — or their data — could end up in cyberattackers’ crosshairs. @nature.com 🧪
All scientists, regardless of research discipline or geography, are potential targets of cyberattacks. “The problem is bigger than any one president, prime minister or leader of a totalitarian or authoritarian state.” New @nature.com, some timely advice, by @drmichaelbrooks.bsky.social 🧪
Stay safe from online hate with these five tips
In this era of anti-science activism, it‘s wise to take steps to protect your research and reputation in the digital realm.
www.nature.com
March 17, 2025 at 6:56 PM
Reupping for the Monday crowd, @drmichaelbrooks.bsky.social offers timely digital security advice for researchers who are afraid that they — or their data — could end up in cyberattackers’ crosshairs. @nature.com 🧪
Reposted by Michael Brooks
All scientists, regardless of research discipline or geography, are potential targets of cyberattacks. “The problem is bigger than any one president, prime minister or leader of a totalitarian or authoritarian state.” New @nature.com, some timely advice, by @drmichaelbrooks.bsky.social 🧪
Stay safe from online hate with these five tips
In this era of anti-science activism, it‘s wise to take steps to protect your research and reputation in the digital realm.
www.nature.com
March 14, 2025 at 6:13 PM
All scientists, regardless of research discipline or geography, are potential targets of cyberattacks. “The problem is bigger than any one president, prime minister or leader of a totalitarian or authoritarian state.” New @nature.com, some timely advice, by @drmichaelbrooks.bsky.social 🧪
This is excellent
Don’t cheer the scale: Doctors and dieticians untangling body size from health
Healthcare professionals, from advanced sports dieticians to general practitioners, are increasingly trading a focus on weight for other, more robust health measures
www.theguardian.com
October 11, 2023 at 6:29 PM
This is excellent
Don’t know who on here needs to hear this, but I wrote a thing for Nature about file formats for biological microscopes that is much more interesting than it sounds 😁
How open-source software could finally get the world’s microscopes speaking the same language
A plethora of standards mean shareable and verifiable microscopy data often get lost in translation. Biologists are working on a solution. A plethora of standards mean shareable and verifiable microsc...
www.nature.com
October 3, 2023 at 9:40 AM
Don’t know who on here needs to hear this, but I wrote a thing for Nature about file formats for biological microscopes that is much more interesting than it sounds 😁
An extraordinary story, beautifully told
‘The climate is visiting a mental unravelling on all of us’: Charlie Hertzog Young on the danger...
The teenage campaigner took politicians to task about the environment – but their apathy contributed to a devastating decline in his mental health. He talks about his recovery and the radical ideas ...
www.theguardian.com
September 25, 2023 at 2:40 PM
An extraordinary story, beautifully told
No answer from anyone on the Other Site, and it’s a genuine journalistic issue for me: is “compute” a noun now? I’ve had a couple of tech people talk to me about “the compute” they’re working with. I haven’t felt so grammatically uncomfortable since “parent” became a verb
September 24, 2023 at 1:27 PM
No answer from anyone on the Other Site, and it’s a genuine journalistic issue for me: is “compute” a noun now? I’ve had a couple of tech people talk to me about “the compute” they’re working with. I haven’t felt so grammatically uncomfortable since “parent” became a verb
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Move over, Cordyceps, there’s a new “zombie” parasite to haunt our dreams. The lancet liver fluke controls infected ants with a temperature-based on/off switch. arstechnica.com?p=1969792
Move over, Cordyceps, there’s a new “zombie” parasite to haunt our dreams
The lancet liver fluke controls infected ants with a temperature-based on/off switch.
arstechnica.com
September 20, 2023 at 9:40 PM
Move over, Cordyceps, there’s a new “zombie” parasite to haunt our dreams. The lancet liver fluke controls infected ants with a temperature-based on/off switch. arstechnica.com?p=1969792
This is right on my doorstep, I really want to do it, and I bet I don’t because there’s always something unimportant that has to be done today, isn’t there?… www.theguardian.com/travel/2023/...
My cultural day out on the Sussex Art Shuttle
With next week’s Turner prize opening in Eastbourne, we try a hop-on, hop-off bus service that takes art lovers around the area’s cultural hotspots
www.theguardian.com
September 21, 2023 at 8:46 AM
This is right on my doorstep, I really want to do it, and I bet I don’t because there’s always something unimportant that has to be done today, isn’t there?… www.theguardian.com/travel/2023/...
Let’s start with the important things. This is Raffy.
September 20, 2023 at 7:56 PM
Let’s start with the important things. This is Raffy.