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Please enjoy our research paper on how Bluesky is the preferred home of academics of all stripes, including professors of rare moths. (Yes, we actually have lots of entomologists here).
academic.oup.com/icb/article-... 🧪
📣 Call for papers on the geopolitics of global health.
We are inviting submissions of articles that interrogate and uncover the geopolitical determinants of global health.
Read more in this editorial from @jocalynclark.bsky.social and Gabriel Leung
www.bmj.com/content/392/...
Image of the Yeti in the skiing Windows game SkiFree eating the player
Breaking: Tragedy at the Winter Olympics
07.02.2026 15:39 — 👍 7304 🔁 2240 💬 68 📌 61If you're interested in applying for a sponsored place to #UKSG2026 there are TEN bursaries available! 🎉
Open to early career professionals/ students/ underrepresented voices/ first timers
Find out more on @uksg.bsky.social website 👇
www.uksg.org/sponsored-pl...
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Semafor: Guinea worm neared global eradication, with just 10 cases reported worldwide in 2025, all of them in Chad, Ethiopia, or South Sudan. When former US President Jimmy Carter founded an eradication program in the mid-1980s, there were millions of infections in developing countries and the only human disease that had ever previously been permanently defeated was smallpox. The parasitic infection, transmitted via contaminated water, leads to three-foot worms emerging from painful leg ulcers, and causes long-term incapacitation and disability. While Carter did not, as he hoped, outlive the last Guinea worm (he died in 2024), he may have come close; the 10 cases mark a 33% decrease year-on-year.
Only 10 cases of Guinea worm disease were recorded *globally* last year.
It may become the second human disease we eradicate, after smallpox.
should be allowed to take the day off if it gets to 10am and you're still feeling too sleepy
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The cover of the book *This is How You Lose the Time War* by Amal El-Mohtar and Max Gladstone
Thys was my Heated Rivalrye
29.01.2026 17:13 — 👍 968 🔁 159 💬 20 📌 19i have just gotten off a productive call with sauron where i laid out our requests
- nazgul bodycams
- morgul knife must remain sheathed unless suspect is determined to be carrying the one ring
- shelob will be the new point of contact
Are you interested in gaining editorial experience and helping select research papers for a major medical journal? Modest time commitment for which you will be paid + work with our wonderful team of research editors and statisticians. jobsearch.bmj.com/jobs/job/Fre...
26.01.2026 22:26 — 👍 0 🔁 1 💬 1 📌 0I came to Minneapolis to report on what's going on, and one of the main questions I showed up with is "just what is the scale of the resistance?" After all, we're all used to the news calling Portland a "war zone" or whatever when it's just some protests in one part of town.
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The New World asked me to speak to some British trans women about what life has been like for them over the past few years - here's what they had to say, in their own words: www.thenewworld.co.uk/marie-le-con...
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Sir Paul Nurse is an impressive scientist but what the Royal Society needs is Dorothy Bishop to take the helm and clean the place out. Fellows who bring the Society into disrepute need tougher action than himpathy.
www.theguardian.com/science/2026...
A reminder for anyone new to Bluesky (or who just wants to follow more policy wonks here) that I've made a starter pack of all the think tanks I've spotted on the platform and the researchers working at them (if you're missing and want adding in let me know!) - go.bsky.app/Geu9Jd8
06.01.2026 13:03 — 👍 111 🔁 45 💬 13 📌 3Festive good sense. I have thought for my entire life that washing up bowls are at best pointless and at worst disgusting. Useful only if you want to flood the kitchen by dumping out sudsy water faster than the sink can drain.
26.12.2025 08:55 — 👍 72 🔁 3 💬 9 📌 3
Barbara Hepworth ~ Winter Solstice, 1971
#WinterSolstice
I spend like 55% of my wild and precious life filing paperwork to access government data
Pagel et al have a great paper on how this stops important medical discoveries - "The Road to Hell is Paved with Good Intentions"
bmjopen.bmj.com/content/bmjo...
Thank you @chrischirp.bsky.social
Vacancy: Director of cOAlition S
www.coalition-s.org/vacancy-dire...
does anyone know of cool open access datasets that would have variables relevant to fashion? people's impressions of or engagements with fashion, media, etc.
any and all tips in this general area appreciated! it's for a student project
If you've ever wanted to play with the Cerne Abbas Giant's willy...
www.crowdfunder.co.uk/p/cerne-abba...
Does Fame kill? Our new study suggests that famous singers have substantially higher risk of dying young than a group of closely matched less famous singers jech.bmj.com/content/jech...
26.11.2025 08:52 — 👍 4 🔁 3 💬 0 📌 0I would strongly recommend to anyone in the #NWSL who is trying to learn from "subject matter experts," go listen to "Tested," by @reveleth.com (from @npr.org & CBC). It's a full education on the history of sex testing in women's sports & DSD athletes today
podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/t...
Pregnant woman taking pill
New BMJ Research: Existing evidence does not clearly link paracetamol (acetaminophen) use during pregnancy with autism or ADHD in children, finds an in-depth evidence review
www.bmj.com/content/391/...
What's that? There are still a few tickets left for Three Bean Salad live at the King's Theatre Glasgow on Monday? Why the blazes haven't they mentioned this before????? www.atgtickets.com/shows/three-...
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academic.oup.com/pages/using-... Oxford Academic Discovery assistant and how it works. It claims to have implemented a RAG retrieval augmented generation system over metadata but arguably and this is nitpick I think they didn't. This is what they did (1)
06.11.2025 14:18 — 👍 11 🔁 2 💬 1 📌 0@threebeansaladpod.bsky.social
02.11.2025 20:15 — 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0“she asked if she had been contacted “because of my expertise in the subject matter or because of my reproductive organs” that is precisely why the men were always asked, historically.
30.10.2025 21:04 — 👍 16 🔁 4 💬 1 📌 0😢
30.10.2025 11:22 — 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0Python was awarded a funding grant, funding grant asked Python foundation to remove all diversity and inclusion initiatives they have.
Python foundation said no and rejected the grant.
If you use Python, send a few dollars to the charity to keep it going. I’m pushing a dono on behalf of ScamGuard.
