Betteridge’s Law of Headlines: if a headline asks a question, the answer is usually "no,"
05.03.2026 17:56 — 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0Betteridge’s Law of Headlines: if a headline asks a question, the answer is usually "no,"
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And, for a sum maybe between $100-300, they would write a favourable review.
Wow. Just wow.
Reported to journal needless to say.
A colleague of mine told me one of the most outrageous stories I have ever heard about scientific publishing.
The submitted a paper to a respected journal and a while later got an email from an academic saying they were reviewing it (they had all details)…
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@academic-chatter.bsky.social
He ended up working for Pizza the Hutt
04.03.2026 21:57 — 👍 3 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0Just shows you can never trust them
04.03.2026 21:33 — 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0I for one am confused as to where the boots are
04.03.2026 20:17 — 👍 7 🔁 0 💬 1 📌 0Apparently an AI just got a law degree. It was an LLM.
04.03.2026 20:09 — 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 1 📌 0
I kinda love how they don’t seem to have worked out how much text they could fit on it in advance and had to improvise.
And that it doesn’t end “thank you for your attention to this matter”
Hang it in the Loovre
04.03.2026 19:19 — 👍 5 🔁 0 💬 1 📌 0I really wish articles about the war would not use the word “fallout” quite so much
03.03.2026 22:37 — 👍 2 🔁 0 💬 1 📌 0
On World Wildlife Day, sharing a photo of a ferocious beast fixing us with his terrifying stare
03.03.2026 21:41 — 👍 14 🔁 0 💬 2 📌 0These cuts are going from bad to verse
03.03.2026 20:33 — 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0Is that an I or an l?
03.03.2026 20:20 — 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 1 📌 0AI and slide design. So much Power. So little Point.
03.03.2026 20:15 — 👍 1 🔁 1 💬 1 📌 0
“Is John Hurt in Alien?”
“Oh way worse than that. Waaaaay worse”
It’s apparently linked to blood group. You might be typo negative
02.03.2026 22:57 — 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 1 📌 0Crap I meant hyphens!
02.03.2026 22:49 — 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 1 📌 0Did they leave PayPal details?
02.03.2026 22:40 — 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 1 📌 0My government has a real “we didn’t know starting a war would cause a war“ vibe going on which I realize I should be outraged about in the abstract but find myself mainly nonplussed by at this point.
02.03.2026 20:23 — 👍 1102 🔁 193 💬 25 📌 4
Did any of those word jokes actually land?
No pun in ten did
Total eclipse of the full blood moon is tonight, in case you haven’t checked in on the doom portents lately.
02.03.2026 17:26 — 👍 718 🔁 184 💬 26 📌 56I suspect Count Draculler
02.03.2026 19:04 — 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0Is “curtains for Trump” trending yet?
02.03.2026 18:56 — 👍 6 🔁 5 💬 1 📌 0"didn't shoot down any $90M airplanes today" is setting a whole new floor at work for all of us
02.03.2026 17:01 — 👍 871 🔁 56 💬 16 📌 3“Defensive”
01.03.2026 21:27 — 👍 4 🔁 1 💬 0 📌 0He’s gone Gaga
01.03.2026 20:11 — 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
"Every gun that is made, every warship launched, every rocket fired signifies, in the final sense, a theft from those who hunger and are not fed, those who are cold and are not clothed."
-Dwight D. Eisenhower, 1953
Oh FFS
01.03.2026 17:27 — 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
Trump The lives of courageous American heroes) may be lost. That often happens in war Lord Farqaad Some of you may die. But it's a sacrifice lam willing to make.
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Reminded of this, apparently genuine, tweet this morning
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