Evan Spotte-Smith (they/them)

Please share!!! I am looking for a postdoctoral researcher to join us. Focus will be on exciting collaborative projects on lipids and membrane biology, pushing the boundaries of in silico "reconstitutions". Previous experience with molecular dynamics simulations of biological systems a strong plus!

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Council of Europe votes for conversion therapy ban Sex Matters tried to block a ban on conversion therapy, but the Council of Europe has voted to make it illegal

And now... Council of Europe

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The OJC model is specifically designed to protect bibliodiversity by supporting journals that are free to read and free to publish #DiamondOA

My two cents about tomorrow's strike/shutdown: Anything worth doing well is worth doing poorly--that is, if you can't fully strike everything, don't use that as an excuse to strike nothing.

This is how to convert from a for-profit Big Deal to an equitable, but professionalised, diamond OA system!

@theblochian.bsky.social and I dreamed of this scale when we launched @openlibhums.org Now, she has done it. Consortial funding, at scale.

Now over to the library community to support it.

‘Nature’ robot chemist paper corrected, but some questions remain unanswered The original study claimed the robot had discovered 43 new materials in 17 days

The journal @nature.com has corrected a highly-cited study about a robot chemist producing new materials from scratch — but some questions remain unanswered.

My latest for @cenmag.bsky.social:

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Congratulations on the launch!

Feeling quite emotional today - it's the OFFICIAL LAUNCH of @ojcollective.bsky.social! It's taken 14 months of hard work to get here & I'm incredibly proud of our brilliant team. This is just the beginning - more announcements coming soon from the collective! drive.google.com/file/d/10Hgf...

I'm exceptionally proud to be a part of the @ojcollective.bsky.social & it's fantastic to see the investment campaign go live!

HUGE congratulations to @theblochian.bsky.social, @joannaball.bsky.social & @rupertgatti.bsky.social for leading the charge.

The future is Diamond! 💎

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We've officially launched! With our new #DiamondOpenAccess investment campaign to help libraries build a sustainable, community‑led future for scholarly publishing & support journals flipping away from costly subscription models. Read the Press release here drive.google.com/file/d/10Hgf...

"Folklore in Software Engineering: A Definition and Conceptual Foundations" accepted at CHASE 2026: greg4cr.github.io/pdf/26folklo...

We draw from folklore studies to define and characterize narratives, myths, rituals, humor, and informal knowledge that circulate within development communities.

Not just any journalist, she won the goddamn Triple Crown of broadcast journalism (an Emmy, a Peabody, and a Murrow) in 2024 for her reporting on Gaza.

This is textbook censorship of the highest degree

Update: The Trans bathroom bounty hunter bill in Kansas has just passed the Kansas House.

They have rushed it to the Senate for passage.

If it passes, the most extreme anti-trans bill in the nation is about to be sent to the Governor's desk.

Live here.

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Grok is an Epistemic Weapon | TechPolicy.Press Elon Musk's Grok claims to be truth-seeking while shaping discourse and amplifying ideology, argues Matthew Kirschenbaum.

Grok stands as the clearest example of an AI that is both ideologically aligned and operationally embedded in a social media platform, says @mkirschenbaum.bsky.social. "Its mechanisms should be taken apart under bright lights, in much the same way people learn how to defuse a bomb."

The cumulative probability of getting NIH grants One of the career strategies we have discussed numerous times in various contexts is how many grant applications one should be submitting to the NIH. I have been a consistent advocate for …mo…

“a Black applicant has to put in 9 proposals to get approximately the same 62% chance a white applicant achieves with only 5 applications”

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Equity, Diversity and Inclusion: Racial inequity in grant funding from the US National Institutes of Health Grant applications submitted to the NIH by African-American/Black PIs are less likely to be funded than applications from white PIs, and the NIH must find a solution that eliminates this racial dispar...

“Black PIs are required, on average, to submit a grant application more times before it is funded”

elifesciences.org/articles/65697

(PDF) P-hacking with one prompt PDF | This brief note reports a mini-experiment, which tested whether major AI systems (Gemini, Claude, and ChatGPT) readily perform p-hacking when... | Find, read and cite all the research you need o...

"P-Hacking with one prompt" by Shigeto Kawahara.

TL/DR: Ask LLMs to find a significant effect, and they will oblige.

www.researchgate.net/publication/...

Are you looking for a #postdoc to start in 2027? Do you have a #physics background and are you interested in #ecology #forests #ecosystems #learning #plasticity?

I'm looking for candidates to nominate for the Human Frontier Science Program in the Physics Department at Seoul National University.

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It was great to talk about #ResearchIntegrity at the
Virtual Winter School on Computational Chemistry
@vwscc.bsky.social #CompChemSky

Thanks again to VWSCC - in particular Sandra Gomez @quimicafisica1.bsky.social - for the kind invitation, and the audience for the thoughtful discussion!

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table 1 extract from Guest, O., & van Rooij, I. (2025, October 4). Critical Artificial Intelligence Literacy for Psychologists. https://doi.org/10.31234/osf.io/dkrgj_v1

5 Ghostwriter in the Machine A unique selling point of these systems is conversing and writing in a human-like way. This is imminently understandable, although wrong-headed, when one realises these are systems that essentially function as lossy2 content-addressable memory: when input is given, the output generated by the model is text that stochastically matches the input text. The reason text at the output looks novel is because by design the AI product performs an automated version of what is known as mosaic or patchwork plagiarism (Baždarić, 2013) — due to the nature of input masking and next token prediction, the output essentially uses similar words in similar orders to what it has been exposed to. This makes the automated flagging of plagiarism unlikely, which is also true when students or colleagues perform this type of copypaste and then thesaurus trick, and true when so-called AI plagiarism detectors falsely claim to detect AI-produced text (Edwards, 2023a). This aspect of LLM-based AI products can be seen as an automation of plagiarism and especially of the research paper mill (Guest, 2025; Guest, Suarez, et al., 2025; van Rooij, 2022): the “churn[ing] out [of] fake or poor-quality journal papers” (Sanderson, 2024; Committee on Publication Ethics,

In addition, who is held accountable if nobody with intent authored the text? Because while the original data fed into the system is certainly written with goals, messages, and audiences in mind jumbling this into ad-libbed word salad removes authorial intent (Bender et al., 2021). So do the companies who own the chatbot own the text or do the original authors? These questions denote legal battles, which are being currently fought in the public eye and which affect all of us in all roles, not just as academics (Creamer, 2025; Knibbs, 2024; Reuters, 2025). Either way, even if the courts decide in the favour of companies, we should not allow these companies with vested interests to write our papers (Fisher et al., 2025), or to filter what we include in our papers. Because it is not the case that we only operate based on legal precedents, but also on our own ethical values and scientific integrity codes (ALLEA, 2023; KNAW et al., 2018), and we have a direct duty to protect, as with previous crises and in general, the literature from pollution. In other words, the same issues as in previous sections play out here, where essentially now every paper produced using chatbot output must declare a conflict of interest, since the output text can be biased in subtle or direct ways by the company who owns the bot (see Table 2). Seen in the right light — AI products understood as contentaddressable systems — we see that framing the user, the academic in this case, as the creator of the bot’s output is misplaced. The input does not cause the output in an authorial sense, much like input to a library search engine does not cause relevant articles and books to be written (Guest, 2025). The respective authors wrote those, not the search query!

Third, the peculiar idea that somehow we don't need to read, write, or perform literature reviews anymore; popping up like a satanic mushroom in almost all so-called OK uses of LLMs.

Companies writing our papers via their chatbots is not scientific at all. See section 5: doi.org/10.31234/osf...

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In April, #PrideinSTEM turns 10! We will have a celebration for it, and we would like to recognize individuals who have had a positive impact on LGBTQIA+ People in STEM, here in the UK!

Do you know someone who fits that description?

Nominate them here:

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We are expanding our matching program for 2SLGBTQIA+ microbiologists! Whether you need a mentor, a collaborator, or community support, we can help you.

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Now out in JACS! 🎉 : "Computing Solvation Free Energies of Small Molecules with Experimental Accuracy"! It's been a pleasure to collaborate on this with Harry Moore (@jhmchem.bsky.social) & Gábor Csányi pubs.acs.org/doi/10.1021/...

Lidia Thorpe urges decisive response to attack on First Peoples and supporters at Boorloo rally Senator Lidia Thorpe has urged the federal government to respond as decisively to the rising threats against First Peoples as it did to the antisemitic attack at Bondi.The Gunnai, Gunditjmara and Djab...

Albanese must lead a strong response to the Boorloo Day of Mourning bomb attack.

After the horror at Bondi we saw that leadership on violence and racism is possible with political will.

The same urgency is needed on rising threats against First Peoples.

My response:

nit.com.au/28-01-2026/2...

Does women’s health need sex-specific algorithms? In a paper just out in Big Data & Society (bigdatasoc.bsky.social) we at the GenderSci Lab warn against the growing use of so-called “pink” and “blue” algorithms, arguing that they risk embedding biological sex essentialist assumptions into medicine.

Introducing Causion: A web app for playing with DAGs | Peder M. Isager Personal website of Dr. Peder M. Isager

New blog post introducing Causion - a web app for causal inference teaching and learning: pedermisager.org/blog/causion....

Screenshot of Prism - I asked it to create a methods, participants, results, and discussion seconds. It did so within 54 seconds...

OpenAI just released Prism, a LaTeX editor with embedded ChatGPT for free.
Writing a paper has never been easier.
Clogging the scientific publishing pipeline has never been easier.
It took me 54 seconds to write up an experiment I did not actually conduct.

prism.openai.com