Congratulations!
AI generated presentations are the Comic Sans of our time.
May future generations look back on us with grace.
Flashbacks to first day as a grad student:
“Imagine not an escape room, but an escape building.
With enough challenges that it will take you a day to solve them so, not an hour.”
The danger of superhuman AI is not what you think. This essay in @noemamag.com by @shannonvallor.bsky.social is brilliant. Well worth a read. www.noemamag.com/the-danger-o...
We just don't end papers like this any more. Maybe the world would be better if we did?
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We're glad to amplify the good work of @bioone.bsky.social! We celebrate this milestone of Subscribe to Open (S2O), a model that is emerging as a promising means of funding sustainable #OpenAccess for publishers & library systems of all sizes.
🚨 PhD position in annelid genomics (EuroWorm) 🚨
If you love biodiversity, evolution & bioinformatics — apply or share! 🪱🧬
Details here: www.senckenberg.de/de/stellenan...
#PhD #Genomics #Annelida #MarineBiology #EuroWorm
When the original authors and those who find errors in their work, pull together for the sake of correcting the record and moving science forward, it's a beautiful thing
Retracted paper: www.science.org/doi/10.1126/...
Linking the narrative with data, code, methods, and context is something everyone wants to see, but at some point most people most of the time want to draw a line under a project, mark it complete and move on. Will that change? 2/2
During a dive last year in the Atlantic Ocean off Argentina, researchers documented a giant phantom jelly, a deep-sea species rarely seen since it was discovered a little over a century ago. “There was a mixture of excitement and disbelief,” said one marine biologist. trib.al/HfkWfp4
“…as we use AI models, let’s keep asking ourselves if we are knowledge generating or merely output generating. Are we adding information to the world, or just words?”
Please share: Pew Research Center will provide $3,000 each for 19 new papers using our recent global datasets. We encourage reuse of our Pew-Templeton Global Religious Futures data!
https://www.pewresearch.org/2026/01/16/seeking-research-using-recent-pew-templeton-global-religious-futures-datasets/
Meet Duobrachium sparksae: a newly described comb jelly that looks like a glowing hot-air balloon drifting just above the deep seafloor. Transparent, delicate, and unmistakably transfixing, it reminds us how much biodiversity is in the deep oceans.
www.fisheries.noaa.gov/feature-stor...
My timeline right now thanks to @trevorabranch.bsky.social & @drcraigmc.bsky.social
Globally, no single day in 2025 was cooler than its 1991-2020 average.
climate.copernicus.eu/global-clima...
So sad, but she achieved so much. An inspirational science leader.
In 2023 I became obsessed with videos of dads in cargo shortswaiting in parking lots during Taylor Swift's Eras Tour. So when she came to town, I grabbed a camera and headed down to talk to them. I thought it'd be funny. It turned out to be something else entirely.
A paper in Nature presents a detailed map of human chromosomes within the nucleus. This resource provides a foundation for an improved understanding of how the physical layout of human DNA is associated with biological expression. go.nature.com/4pI8knB 🧬 🧪
I’m guessing most Americans don’t know this, but because I lived in the UK for 8 years and still watch the BBC via VPN, I can tell you that the BBC iPlayer’s volume dial goes to eleven.
I was terrified when walking in a US city recently when someone drove past while I was on a crossing (when the crossing signal was active). Completely violated my assumptions. I just don’t understand the mentality.
Something like 99% of all international data travels through subsea cables protected by UNCLOS.
Freedom of Navigation and overflight are enshrined in UNCLOS.
EEZs and sovereign rights over seabed resources are created and enforced through UNCLOS.
Editors?
I feel like that slash carries a lot of weight
Help us shape our grant making priorities for the future!
Still think this was one of the best power moves of all time
www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...
I live in hope 🥲
Link to actual science behind cloud formation from the Amazon forest:
scitechdaily.com/filling-the-...
www.nature.com/articles/s41...
www.nature.com/articles/s41...
Me: “Oh cool - the Amazon forest is bouncing back” 🌳☁️
Also me: “Ooooooh… 🙄”
www.theguardian.com/technology/2...
Surely emphasis should be cracking down on LLM generated papers (and their authors) rather than the
#openaccess datasets themselves. Bizarre precedent that proprietary data would be seen as more trustworthy.
www.science.org/content/arti...
