James A Campbell

Turn off AI in search results. I just did this in Chrome and it works.
tenbluelinks.org#chrome-windows

Amazing. I stopped using google as soon as they did this... But its honestly hard to deal with the lower quality of search results, especially image searches.

This is a great backup option.

From skimming the page... It sounds like it works better in more complex images... So i'm expecting plots on white backgrounds would be too simplistic to modify in a manner that also preserves the quality/features of the original.

That being said... I have no idea how all this works under the hood.

I just learned about nightshade: A filter for images that "poisons" AI training by passing misleading feature information.

#rstats does anyone know if this also works on plots?

I'd be very happy to put this on figures in papers if it means AI has a harder time scraping my work.

Is Colossal a threat to Science or Is it Science's Last Hope for the Next Generation?

Just got a 🧪pitch from a PR claiming to work with Colossal (de-extinction chancers). It was a pre-written article claiming the science sector is carrying out "coordinated attacks" on the co. Spy the headline. They asked if I'd publish it on my Forbes column.

Not enough eye rolls on Earth for this 🙄

u.s. department of energy post on x praising coal: "She's an icon She's a legend And she is the moment [sparkly picture of coal]

If a scholar of petro-masculinity said that men lust for coal, it would be seen as an exaggeration. But here we are...

🧪🦣🏺 Who wants to hear a story about biotech billions, unscientific claims, and shoddy smear tactics attacking women in science*?

Thread 🧵

*which, for legal clarity, are totally denied as being connected

We have plenty of talented scientists in Europe... What we're missing is that *orders of magnitude* larger american funding... Which will not be moving out of the US.

Not sure why ppl think there is somehow a shortage of "top scientists" outside the US.

Nearly 4,000 NASA employees opt to leave agency through deferred resignation program The employees who have chosen to leave the agency amount to about 20% of NASA's workforce.

4,000 NASA workers are leaving through deferred resignation. "The cuts amount to an estimated 20% of NASA's workforce" www.npr.org/2025/07/26/n...

In this case, the authors did not violate any terms of their submission agreement to the journal (i believe?).

IMO, a retraction should be like a "voiding" of an acceptance agreement, as the author has deliberately misled reviewers on the paper.

A good scientist can slip up and write a paper with a bad conclusion. It just feels wrong to pile these well-intended ppl in the same pool as doing malpractice.

I would say, state the findings are "disputed", not "incorrect". We can't just label papers that we disagree with wrong, even if it's an overwhelming majority.

That opens the gates for abuse of power if vocal ppl can just label a paper "as wrong". I'm thinking of more niche fields.

Ideally the author chooses to retract. If the author refuses, then indeed i think an expression of concern is linking to response/critic papers is a good approach.

The existence of these papers do not cause damage to the fields of science they belong to, as the community is aware of the issues.

My concern is that if we normalize late retractions (outside of malpractice), it incentivises journals to accept sketchy papers with big headlines, then retract those papers later if said headlines give negative press.

If there was fraud, then of course, there is no time limit. But here... The journal just backtracked on their decision to accept... There is no malpractice or novel info brought to light to spur a retraction. Or maybe i'm missing something?

In this case, as i understand, it was not fraud, just sloppy science, which is *very* different. IMO, the damage here is the time spent by others writing response papers.

How does a late retraction like this benefit the sci cmnty?

Why I didn't retract this paper when I was Editor-in-Chief at Science (THREAD 🧵)

Is there any scientific argument to retract the paper 6-7 years later? Surely the response/comment papers following made it clear to the sci cmnty that this was not taken seriously.

Curious to know why you *were* considering retracting it during ur time.

Nice overview, thanks! So supposed i wanted to know where a feature was identified within an image? Where is the position info stored in this pipeline?

Actually on my list! Already watched half of a presentation he (name is Grant i believe) did on transformers.

I actually wanted to listen to an audio podcast *before* watching his stuff, so i wouldn't have to pause it so much 🤣.

His Fourier videos were transformative for me (pun intended).

Every podcast i found on the topic so far is just techbro/startup garbage or explaining simple, broad concepts with awful analogies.

Does anybody have a podcast recommendation for a technical overview of convolutional neural networks and transformer models?

Something to serve as a primer before jumping into the primary literature, aimed at scientists?

#deeplearning

How to tackle research misconduct: survey finds stark disagreement Data sleuths and research-integrity officers have different views on how to handle allegations of wrongdoing in science.

Nature News has a short piece on the survey we did in conjunction with the FAIRS meeting on responding to serious research misconduct www.nature.com/articles/d41...

15 years later: After a reporter contacted Science "that's when I started talking to the authors about retracting". - editor in chief

Can we stop feeding these "high impact", methods-last journals that don't give a shit about science, and are only interested in media headlines?

Nice! If i have time next weekend, i'll see if I can have a crack at writing a linux wrapper package for it. Did u need any special for ur wine prefix setup? Or it just works?

Keep me updated on the EULA response if it sounds like it'd be an issue.

I'd be shocked if bluetooth worked. Wine is generally limited when it comes to interfacing with hardware. However, i've never looked into bluetooth specifically.

Ps, i believe USB access doesn't work through wine. So you can only use this approach for extracting the contents of the vdat files already on your machine

If it's working in wine, let me know. Id be very interested in making linux install scripts & a deb package for this.

If fathom CLI runs in wine, it should be pretty easy to make deb and homebrew packages to automate the wine prefix setup (you have preinstall scripts). I believe you could also manually unpack the fathom setup exe to skip the installer? (not 100% sure).

What about creating a separate wrapper package for fathom in linux (deb) and macos (homebrew), then just calling those programs from your r package?