I totally thought this was going to be an obscure joke about Archangels and pearly gates
01.03.2026 17:09 β π 0 π 0 π¬ 0 π 0@retropz.bsky.social
Research Integrity and Training Adviser at the Cancer Research UK Manchester Institute Interested in improving #ResearchIntegrity & #ResearchCulture with training, #TeamScience & promoting #OpenResearch https://orcid.org/0000-0002-3353-7002
I totally thought this was going to be an obscure joke about Archangels and pearly gates
01.03.2026 17:09 β π 0 π 0 π¬ 0 π 0
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"The lead author of the study, Dr Ashwin Ramaswamy, said βwe wanted to answer the most basic safety question; if someone is having a real medical emergency and asks #ChatGPT Health what to do, will it tell them to go to the emergency department?β"
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But seriously. We are back! Next week we start shooting #bbcghosts the movie! Huge excitement in the camp, lots of splendid people joining us.
27.02.2026 10:34 β π 1898 π 302 π¬ 132 π 179
Some of those nights are *very* long
The format for the first game felt very tight, claustrophobic and the time-pressure worked, so although I still think these are some of the greatest games of all time, I could have lived with a longer timeline for Arkham City
Came across the phrase "cognitive DDOS" to describe our present culture.
Understood instantly what it meant.
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Would anybody like to read one of my long threads about a 2.5bn year old rock, bacteria that could produce oxygen but not consume it, and tank production in wwii
23.02.2026 06:14 β π 464 π 120 π¬ 20 π 45Thanks for sharing, and for highlighting that #precarity in research has many different layers, and affects people - especially ECRs - in different ways
23.02.2026 11:37 β π 1 π 0 π¬ 1 π 0Hope that's not too patronising a response, I saw your various messages and wasn't sure if they were rhetorical or not, but have responded in case they were a request for suggestions - but if it was just rhetorical then I still hope you feel better soon
23.02.2026 09:55 β π 0 π 0 π¬ 1 π 0
Postponing sooner rather than later gives people planning to attend the chance to reuse their time tomorrow - and maybe gives you some clarity
if you can contact those who signed up hopefully most will understand - we're all only human and sometimes things happen outside of our control.
Sounds like you've got an awful lot going on. I understand something of the pressure to carry on - I think academics feel this a lot, as they are often solo performers and don't have someone else who can step in and cover for them.
But my suggestion would be to look after yourself, and postpone
I enjoyed your article, Ruth. I think institutions can do more to verify research coming from them, and one way might be to support more #OpenResearch and other practices where data is shared in structured ways, including raw data, because this is much harder to fake - and is good practice anyway
20.02.2026 16:06 β π 0 π 0 π¬ 0 π 0Screenshot of panel "B" from a scientific paper, showing grey rectangular panels in two rows, three columns, with purple blueish cells in random patterns
Can you spot the overlapping panels? Tell me which ones! The first three correct answers (either by illustration or a good description) will win that shiny Emoji Award.
It will look so good on your resume!
#ImageForensics
Not got much to offer in the solar sense, but your post did make me think of this (might help a little?): youtu.be/lp_RMaHloek?...
20.02.2026 14:12 β π 1 π 0 π¬ 0 π 0
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20.02.2026 06:55 β π 0 π 0 π¬ 0 π 0I think this is an understandable use of AI, but for it not to be misleading, the physical spaces would need to be fully maintained. I feel like it is misleading, there isn't space for some of the things AI added - like a bath and garden paths - because it doesn't have a proper physical space model
19.02.2026 18:03 β π 0 π 0 π¬ 0 π 06 bad doodles with text under each one. horseshoe crab is literally the animal horseshoe crab. shoehorse crab is a crab riding a shoe, cowboy style. crabshoe horse is a horse wearing literal crabs as shoes. shoecrab horse is a horse telling a crab to go away. crabhorse shoe is a pair of shoes, left one crab shaped, right one horse shaped. horsecrab shoe is literally the same pair of shoes, flipped.
#InvertebrateShitposting as per @joabaldwin.com's request
19.02.2026 07:20 β π 1207 π 393 π¬ 16 π 13What's in a name? (as someone once said)
17.02.2026 13:04 β π 1 π 0 π¬ 0 π 0British Society for Immunology MIG seminar, Dr William Hill, CRUK Manchester Institute: "Signals and Mechanisms of Lung Cancer Promotion by Air Pollutantsβ Thursday 19th February 12 pm Michael Smith Lecture Theatre Lydia Becker Institute of Immunology and Inflammation
This week, we're joined by @drwilliamhill.bsky.social from @cruk-mi.bsky.social for the next in our @britsocimm.bsky.social MIG Seminar series:
"Signals and Mechanisms of Lung Cancer Promotion by Air Pollutantsβ
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Intro to INSPECT-SR online training workshop - this one has been timed for North America region. April 30th - I *think* this works out as 10am Pacific...but check that. www.trybooking.com/uk/GATM
16.02.2026 16:24 β π 3 π 3 π¬ 1 π 0
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1/ Finally wrote up βThe Story of Mendeleyβ! Most people know the tool, few know about its rise and fall. The Mendeley story provides important clues for how to build self-sustaining AND non-extractive knowledge commons, which is why I think it deserves more attention π§΅
13.02.2026 20:55 β π 76 π 37 π¬ 6 π 4This meme is dead.
12.02.2026 12:43 β π 32 π 4 π¬ 2 π 1Next free online INSPECT-SR training workshop on March 6th. Register here: www.trybooking.com/uk/FZUN Timed for Europe. Will try to add something for North America in the next few days...
10.02.2026 16:57 β π 7 π 6 π¬ 0 π 1#Women&GirlsinScienceDay Academic & particle physicist Anne Kernan was a huge advocate for women in science, on one occasion funding a trip to CERN for an undergrad she had never met, meeting her at the airport and paying for her accommodation until funding came through. www.dib.ie/biography/ke...
11.02.2026 08:48 β π 3932 π 826 π¬ 23 π 21A note to any editor/journal friends on here: a #papermill scammer, Bharathi Kannan, is looking to get rid of a load of articles. Shame on these scammers, who engage in and profit from #scientificmisconduct
11.02.2026 09:26 β π 6 π 2 π¬ 1 π 0
βlet us save what remains: not by vaults and locks which fence them from the public eye and use in consigning them to the waste of time, but by such a multiplication of copies, as shall place them beyond the reach of accidentβ
Thomas Jefferson on preservation principles in 1791.
Thanks for the tip, hadn't seen this one - now pinned
10.02.2026 16:59 β π 1 π 0 π¬ 0 π 0