@resurgequality.bsky.social
This is my go to country if the west is going into world war 3
“Uruguay did what most nations still call impossible: it built a power grid that runs almost entirely on renewables—at half the cost of fossil fuels. The physicist who led that transformation says the same playbook could work anywhere—if governments have the courage to change the rules.”
Uruguay’s Renewable Charge: A Small Nation, A Big Lesson For The World
Uruguay built a power grid that runs 99% on renewables—at half the cost of fossil fuels. Here’s how its bold energy overhaul became a global model.
www.forbes.com
January 11, 2026 at 10:56 PM
This is my go to country if the west is going into world war 3
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“Uruguay did what most nations still call impossible: it built a power grid that runs almost entirely on renewables—at half the cost of fossil fuels. The physicist who led that transformation says the same playbook could work anywhere—if governments have the courage to change the rules.”
Uruguay’s Renewable Charge: A Small Nation, A Big Lesson For The World
Uruguay built a power grid that runs 99% on renewables—at half the cost of fossil fuels. Here’s how its bold energy overhaul became a global model.
www.forbes.com
January 10, 2026 at 8:29 AM
“Uruguay did what most nations still call impossible: it built a power grid that runs almost entirely on renewables—at half the cost of fossil fuels. The physicist who led that transformation says the same playbook could work anywhere—if governments have the courage to change the rules.”
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John Cage, submitting the sheet music for "4'33"" to his publisher: What do you think?
Publisher: No notes.
Publisher: No notes.
January 11, 2026 at 8:54 PM
John Cage, submitting the sheet music for "4'33"" to his publisher: What do you think?
Publisher: No notes.
Publisher: No notes.
www.nature.com/articles/s41...
Even as outsider I know that many of those trials are nothing to look out for. Loratadine for hard to define new chronical illness? Stem cell injections?
Single RNA inhibition for complicated disease? Is nothing else happening? @dereklowe.bsky.social a better list?
Even as outsider I know that many of those trials are nothing to look out for. Loratadine for hard to define new chronical illness? Stem cell injections?
Single RNA inhibition for complicated disease? Is nothing else happening? @dereklowe.bsky.social a better list?
www.nature.com
December 27, 2025 at 9:45 AM
www.nature.com/articles/s41...
Even as outsider I know that many of those trials are nothing to look out for. Loratadine for hard to define new chronical illness? Stem cell injections?
Single RNA inhibition for complicated disease? Is nothing else happening? @dereklowe.bsky.social a better list?
Even as outsider I know that many of those trials are nothing to look out for. Loratadine for hard to define new chronical illness? Stem cell injections?
Single RNA inhibition for complicated disease? Is nothing else happening? @dereklowe.bsky.social a better list?
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An ugly "stealth correction" at @tandfresearch.bsky.social's Hum Vaccin Immunother of a paper from authors at the Uniformed Services University of the Health Sciences, Bethesda.
They just removed the overlapping image panels 😱
#ThisImageIsFine #ImageForensics
pubpeer.com/publications...
They just removed the overlapping image panels 😱
#ThisImageIsFine #ImageForensics
pubpeer.com/publications...
December 14, 2025 at 9:54 PM
An ugly "stealth correction" at @tandfresearch.bsky.social's Hum Vaccin Immunother of a paper from authors at the Uniformed Services University of the Health Sciences, Bethesda.
They just removed the overlapping image panels 😱
#ThisImageIsFine #ImageForensics
pubpeer.com/publications...
They just removed the overlapping image panels 😱
#ThisImageIsFine #ImageForensics
pubpeer.com/publications...
Social media will ultimately be as lame as LinkedIn because whatever you say could be one day construed to lose your job or whatnot, even if it was just a joke. It is such a downside. A permanent job interview.
More anonymous social media with moral leeway will prevail.
More anonymous social media with moral leeway will prevail.
December 14, 2025 at 5:25 PM
Social media will ultimately be as lame as LinkedIn because whatever you say could be one day construed to lose your job or whatnot, even if it was just a joke. It is such a downside. A permanent job interview.
More anonymous social media with moral leeway will prevail.
More anonymous social media with moral leeway will prevail.
How would they lose control?
Here's another idea: Fears of a demographic crunch are being fanned by those with power and money b/c the don't want to lose their ability to easily keep most of humanity under their control. 5/
December 13, 2025 at 9:17 PM
How would they lose control?
I read diversely enough that I allow myself to say that most brains go into Amazing ideas that are iterative on improving a technology or product. Even seemingly low hanging fruit are super cool, just read the tech behind max solubility of sulfur, meta optics solar sails & their fab, FPGA's, etc.
The column then states, "Then there’s the demographic crunch: New ideas come from people, so fewer people eventually means fewer ideas."
Yeah, that's total BS. Many of the biggest and most influential ideas in human history came when the worldwide human population was well below a billion. 3/
Yeah, that's total BS. Many of the biggest and most influential ideas in human history came when the worldwide human population was well below a billion. 3/
December 13, 2025 at 9:16 PM
I read diversely enough that I allow myself to say that most brains go into Amazing ideas that are iterative on improving a technology or product. Even seemingly low hanging fruit are super cool, just read the tech behind max solubility of sulfur, meta optics solar sails & their fab, FPGA's, etc.
@bengoldacre.bsky.social Hey I once left this Naive comment on your turf about using LLM's to add new functions to Opensafely. I read about prompt injections rn and realised it could work pretty well if you button it up: Limit it to single useful functions that are pressed by a button= No prompts.
December 10, 2025 at 11:35 PM
@bengoldacre.bsky.social Hey I once left this Naive comment on your turf about using LLM's to add new functions to Opensafely. I read about prompt injections rn and realised it could work pretty well if you button it up: Limit it to single useful functions that are pressed by a button= No prompts.
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Come on man
The FDA plans to begin requiring one clinical study, instead of the standard two, for medical products before consideration for approval. www.statnews.com/2025/12/04/f...
FDA to lower number of trials required for approval of drugs, other medical products
The FDA plans to begin requiring one clinical study, instead of the standard two, for medical products before consideration for approval.
www.statnews.com
December 5, 2025 at 1:49 AM
Come on man
@dereklowe.bsky.social Now i got an RSS reader only because I could have easily missed your Reverse Proteolysis Blog post from only rrading Bluesky. This thing was insane news. It made me think of prions as well..
December 4, 2025 at 11:55 PM
@dereklowe.bsky.social Now i got an RSS reader only because I could have easily missed your Reverse Proteolysis Blog post from only rrading Bluesky. This thing was insane news. It made me think of prions as well..
This "looks like" you could just throw it into the AlphaGo @googledeepmind.zpravobot.news.ap.brid.gy engine and change the rules in how the boars looks a bit to get a potential improvement.
The traveling salesperson problem is one of the most notorious, longstanding problems in theoretical computer science. 🧵
December 4, 2025 at 10:33 PM
This "looks like" you could just throw it into the AlphaGo @googledeepmind.zpravobot.news.ap.brid.gy engine and change the rules in how the boars looks a bit to get a potential improvement.
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Random colleagues in other disciplines now commonly say "the code's on OSF". It's just so great to see an academic org like COS, that goes beyond advocating for change, and actually builds the tools and services that make science work better. More!
Each year, hundreds of people donate to COS, helping keep OSF free and strengthening our open scholarship training and community support across research fields. This #GivingTuesday, we’d be grateful for your support: www.cos.io/support-yef25.
December 2, 2025 at 8:28 PM
Random colleagues in other disciplines now commonly say "the code's on OSF". It's just so great to see an academic org like COS, that goes beyond advocating for change, and actually builds the tools and services that make science work better. More!
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Scientific error-checking, difficulty: easy
Find some issues in this table of results from an RCT of vitamin D for COVID-19. There's a couple of obvious issues, and some that are less easy to spot.
Find some issues in this table of results from an RCT of vitamin D for COVID-19. There's a couple of obvious issues, and some that are less easy to spot.
November 25, 2025 at 4:59 AM
Scientific error-checking, difficulty: easy
Find some issues in this table of results from an RCT of vitamin D for COVID-19. There's a couple of obvious issues, and some that are less easy to spot.
Find some issues in this table of results from an RCT of vitamin D for COVID-19. There's a couple of obvious issues, and some that are less easy to spot.
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Hey @nature.com, have you got an explanation for how the hell THIS happened? & especially why you accepted a paper with such a bizarre piece of genAI slop in it?!
& more to the point, why we should take you seriously at all going forward?
www.nature.com/articles/s41...
& more to the point, why we should take you seriously at all going forward?
www.nature.com/articles/s41...
November 27, 2025 at 3:03 PM
Hey @nature.com, have you got an explanation for how the hell THIS happened? & especially why you accepted a paper with such a bizarre piece of genAI slop in it?!
& more to the point, why we should take you seriously at all going forward?
www.nature.com/articles/s41...
& more to the point, why we should take you seriously at all going forward?
www.nature.com/articles/s41...
@lessig.bsky.social youtu.be/-NuXpwB2DV4?.... Johnny Harris finally did a pretty good piece on this. You probably already saw it.
How billionaires stole America's elections
YouTube video by Johnny Harris
youtu.be
November 26, 2025 at 2:24 AM
@lessig.bsky.social youtu.be/-NuXpwB2DV4?.... Johnny Harris finally did a pretty good piece on this. You probably already saw it.
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lads i found ANOTHER Table of Impossible Summary Statistics in a "green economics" paper 🚩
Can you see the problem?
Can you see the problem?
November 22, 2025 at 2:29 PM
lads i found ANOTHER Table of Impossible Summary Statistics in a "green economics" paper 🚩
Can you see the problem?
Can you see the problem?
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November 18, 2025 at 6:57 PM
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In dieser Studie glaubten 58% aller Jugendlichen nach einer Mental Health Awareness Intervention #ADHS zu haben. "Nur" 28% glaubten dies vorher. Keine*r von ihnen erfüllte die offiziellen Kriterien.
www.madinamerica.com/2025/11/adhd...
www.madinamerica.com/2025/11/adhd...
ADHD Awareness Campaigns Lead to Huge Jump in False Self-Diagnoses
More than half of young adults began to think they had ADHD after awareness campaign—despite not meeting criteria for this disorder.
www.madinamerica.com
November 19, 2025 at 8:24 AM
In dieser Studie glaubten 58% aller Jugendlichen nach einer Mental Health Awareness Intervention #ADHS zu haben. "Nur" 28% glaubten dies vorher. Keine*r von ihnen erfüllte die offiziellen Kriterien.
www.madinamerica.com/2025/11/adhd...
www.madinamerica.com/2025/11/adhd...
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EV: Rejection rate now 57% (48% desk reject by RI team). We use an AI model that can recognize paper mill papers based on 15 data points (red flags/trust markers), trained on a 64K dataset.
Benchmarking AIRA with other tools - but not much overlap. Still learning from this.
#IRICSydney
Benchmarking AIRA with other tools - but not much overlap. Still learning from this.
#IRICSydney
November 18, 2025 at 3:27 AM
EV: Rejection rate now 57% (48% desk reject by RI team). We use an AI model that can recognize paper mill papers based on 15 data points (red flags/trust markers), trained on a 64K dataset.
Benchmarking AIRA with other tools - but not much overlap. Still learning from this.
#IRICSydney
Benchmarking AIRA with other tools - but not much overlap. Still learning from this.
#IRICSydney
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* Universities are worried about reputational risks. They will resist because a national ORI might mean they cannot cover up cases as much as before.
* Do not adapt the Dutch national ORI model! It just oversees institutional investigations, but cover-ups still happen.
#IRICSydney
* Do not adapt the Dutch national ORI model! It just oversees institutional investigations, but cover-ups still happen.
#IRICSydney
November 17, 2025 at 4:16 AM
* Universities are worried about reputational risks. They will resist because a national ORI might mean they cannot cover up cases as much as before.
* Do not adapt the Dutch national ORI model! It just oversees institutional investigations, but cover-ups still happen.
#IRICSydney
* Do not adapt the Dutch national ORI model! It just oversees institutional investigations, but cover-ups still happen.
#IRICSydney
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There is a lot of fuss today over whether chatbots can replace human participants in social sciences research when the solution is obvious: ask chatbots to simulate the views of social scientists and survey them on attitudes towards chatbots as substitutes for human subjects.
November 10, 2025 at 10:45 PM
There is a lot of fuss today over whether chatbots can replace human participants in social sciences research when the solution is obvious: ask chatbots to simulate the views of social scientists and survey them on attitudes towards chatbots as substitutes for human subjects.
The nonsense of bad/fake studies is the incentive to publish them: if I (am an applied material scientist &) want to keep my experience valuable, a good bet is to "help" others to publish fake but plausible papers for a small fee.
Experience from practice will stay relevant.
Experience from practice will stay relevant.
November 12, 2025 at 1:31 AM
The nonsense of bad/fake studies is the incentive to publish them: if I (am an applied material scientist &) want to keep my experience valuable, a good bet is to "help" others to publish fake but plausible papers for a small fee.
Experience from practice will stay relevant.
Experience from practice will stay relevant.
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Reverse Image Forensics Challenge: Try to find a unique area in Figure 9 of this recent Scientific Reports paper: 10.1038/s41598-025-17456-6 [Aug 2025] - Annotated by ImageTwin.ai
November 11, 2025 at 1:49 AM
Reverse Image Forensics Challenge: Try to find a unique area in Figure 9 of this recent Scientific Reports paper: 10.1038/s41598-025-17456-6 [Aug 2025] - Annotated by ImageTwin.ai