Valentin Rodionov

Setting aside everything else going on here, the term "influencer" has become meaningless and should generally be retired by house style guides. "Social media / online personality" or "content creator" or "podcaster" as the case may be, modified with "political," "right-wing" whatever as applicable.

University Professor and Nobel laureate Richard Axel, CC ’67, was invited to close friend of 11 years Jeffrey Epstein’s island in 2011 <i>Editor’s Note: This article contains mentions of sexual abuse. </i>

🧵The number of academic stars with ties to Epstein is remarkable

Besides ones already noted including Martin Nowak, Lawrence Krauss, some new ones from the files are

*Nobel Laureate & Columbia Professor Richard Axel
*Network Theorist Albert-Laszlo Barabasi, Northeastern
*Data Scientist Victoria..

Deepak Chopra used to be @ucsdhealth.bsky.social professor.
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Climate-Neutral Water Management: A guide to sustainable solutions Climate-Neutral Water Management: A guide to sustainable solutions, Patra, Santanu, Manjunatha, Jamballi G, Sillanpää, Mika

In case you felt any respect for @ioppublishing.bsky.social , these idiots just published a book by Mika Sillanpää.
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A papermill fraudster who was sacked in Finland for:
-sexual harassment!
-bullying!
-theft!

Even if the pedophile thing had never come to light I’d find it stunning how many powerful people and supposed intellectuals were more than happy to tone-match their email with a sixty year old man who Beavis and Butthead would have immediately dismissed as an immature loser.

In academia, Plagiarism is the ultimate sin. Don't get me wrong: stealing from students is perfectly OK, even expected.
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But never steal from peers, especially those more senior than you.

Hannah Neeleman's Ballerina Farm Halts Sale of Raw Milk Due to Bacteria Concerns: Report Hannah and Daniel Neeleman have paused Ballerina Farm's sale of raw milk following health violations discovered during routine testing. Screenings from summer 2025 showed high levels of coliform, the ...

Link from People because they got the most pants-on-head wtf statement ever from the husband:

“Producing raw milk takes careful planning from a facility and infrastructure standpoint. Unfortunately, we learned this after the fact.”

I couldn’t make this shit up if I tried.

DON’T DRINK RAW MILK!

A picture of NIH Director Bhattacharya at a Senate HELP committee hearing on February 3, 2026 with NIH staffer Janna Norton who had been placed on administrative leave in the audience behind him.

Coverage today with NIH Dir. Bhattacharya testifying before the Senate HELP Committee with NIH staffer @jenna-m-norton.bsky.social (who was placed on administrative leave for speaking out against the illegal and immoral actions of the administration) seated behind him.

#BethesdaDeclaration

Clever Jay! Wakefield's studies claimed MMR -tripple- vaccine causes autism. And that's also what Trump says.
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1. Aren't these illegal per constitution?

2. Why have you voted to support any of his judicial and cabinet nominees?

Modernizing the National Institutes of Health: Faster Discoveries, More Cures | The U.S. Senate Committee on Health, Education, Labor & Pensions Full Committee Hearing on February 3, 2026 at 5:00 AM

I'm on Capitol Hill watching NIH director Jayanta Bhattacharya testify to the Senate HELP committee.

Thankfully I haven't been escorted out of this event (yet). Here's what I'm following. You can also watch live here:
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JIM BANKS (R-Indiana): Massachusetts, which is virtually the same size as my state (?!), received nearly $3 billion last year.

Can you explain why schools on the coast seem to get more NIH funding than schools like my state, which is doing a lot of research as well?

The only publicly available data that I know of are for SBIR/STTR grants from 2016-2024. Here is an aggregate graph of funding versus the number of applications by state.

Hint: It's the number of applications submitted...

Two bogus papers published in Cell Heliyon by pseudoscience activists that have not been retracted:

Mega-journal Heliyon retracts hundreds of papers after internal audit Heliyon has published fewer papers and ramped up its retractions since a major indexing service put the journal on hold and the publisher launched an audit of all papers published in the journal si…

Heliyon has published fewer papers and ramped up its retractions since a major indexing service put the journal on hold and the publisher launched an audit of all papers published in the journal since its launch in 2016.

Fast action taken by Journal of Cellular and Molecular Medicine (Wiley). Only 1 1/2 months between my email and retraction. 👏

pubpeer.com/publications... h/t anon Hoya for the notice.

This is a powerful line of questioning from Senator Hassan and an outrageous answer from Director Bhattacharya.

"If there were disruptions then it is the responsibility of the researchers that were managing the patients, not the NIH" because "I ordered that ... there would be continuity of care."

BERNIE SANDERS: Do vaccines cause autism?

BHATTACHARYA: I do not believe that the measles vaccine causes autism

SANDERS: Nah. Uh uh. I didn't ask measles. Do vaccines cause autism?

BHATTACHARYA: I have not seen a study that suggests any single vaccine causes autism

El-Deiry showing his love for the supplement-selling grifters by spreading fear about the supposed oncogenicity of the covid-19 vaccines. @BrownMedicine 🤡

German papermilling wuss, also known as "Lion of the World", whines about his retractions.
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Jeffrey Epstein infiltrated science because it was ready to accommodate him What could “nerd tunnel vision” possibly mean?

From 2019: Jeffrey Epstein liked to describe himself as a “science philanthropist,” and academics liked to take his money.

As more of Epstein’s enablers are uncovered, it’s worth asking why it was so easy for him to infiltrate science in the first place.

Read more from @lopatto.bsky.social:

She was put on indefinite leave from the NIH because she spoke out against the abuses there.

The NIH “Director” says that science shouldn’t be political, then he purges dissent.

Well done @jenna-m-norton.bsky.social.

Her courage is inspiring and I believe that one day it will be rewarded.

An email from the Internet Archive staff indicating that they have good backups of the NIH Record.

Good news.

I reached out to the Internet Archive folks to let them know about the discontinuation of the NIH Record.

As I have found on numerous occasions over the past year, they are "on in".

A great organization and an increasingly important resource.

Europe just started building a ‘kill switch’ for U.S. tech — and the market isn’t priced for it, says this strategist — MarketWatch Zoom and Microsoft are among those companies that could lose business, says Matthew Tuttle

“The main event is this: the world is building optionality away from U.S. policy and platform dependence. And once you see it, you can’t unsee it — because it’s showing up in procurement decisions, supply chains, defense budgets, and capital flows”

@efdavies.bsky.social @ankahajkova.bsky.social now with plagiarism!

This dumpster fire of a paper straight from Elsevier's papermill hell 'Environmental Research' just got retracted. Took just 8 months to conclude that completely nonsensical citations and insane COI between Editor and Authors warrants some consequenes... pubpeer.com/publications...

100 entries in Epstein files for Aubrey (de Grey)

those of you who follow the aging/longevity field will be utterly shocked to see that

A Secret Panel to Question Climate Science Was Unlawful, Judge Rules

Oh! “A federal judge on Friday ruled the Energy Department violated the law when Secretary Chris Wright handpicked five researchers who reject the scientific consensus on climate change to work in secret on a sweeping government report on global warming.”

Also, @wiley.com simultaneously boasts having signed DORA and their journal metrics.

I lost my job, my kids have measles, and there will be no longer be free elections in the United States. But at least now I can drink raw milk.