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Have you heard about the mathematician who published her first paper in Nature at the age of 10?

Paper Mills!

Scancar B, Byrne J A, Causeur D, Barnett A G. Machine learning based screening of potential paper mill publications in cancer research: methodological and cross sectional study BMJ 2026; 392 :e087581 doi:10.1136/bmj-2025-087581

Would these young folk have gone straight to smoking if Vapes had not been introduced? Compare age-sex specific smoking rates before and after introduction of Vapes.

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Given the rapid development of AI and various software to write text, we would suggest that editors/associate editors develop some system to check the veracity of the text and references prior to inviting a review.

Fake References. We were just asked by an Editor of a journal to consider replying to a letter submitted about a manuscript we had published. It was only while we were considering possible replies that we found out that all 4 citations in support of the letter were false.

An intersting graph from the Oxford Migration Laboratory. Not that you would see it in any of the right-wing commentators in the UK. What on earth caused the small boat problem?

It pains me to say this, but if you are not a US citizen, you should not attend scientific conferences in the US, visit US institutions, or otherwise travel to our country.

Right now it's not worth the risk.

Hopefully that will change. If it doesn't, science in the US is sunk anyway.

The key issue here is why would they want to prevent this information being distributed? What are they expecting, and trying to hide?

So much for sovereignty! Nicely shows of the hypocracy of the Mail.

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The news about the potential reduction of CDC staff risks a scary scenario of the USA infecting the world. Europe and the UK must consider increasing surveillance of those travelling from the USA if this comes to pass.

So, Bluesky feels like home, an extended family of mostly shared values. Its important that we keep it that way.