It must suck when your copyright is stolen.

Oh, wait... 👀

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photo showing the rescuers saving the dog, next to the statue commemorating them

closeup on the base of the statue, showing a dog and a man in a ball cap

the top of the statue, where the person at the top of the slope has his hand outstretched so the viewer can "help" pull him up

in 2016 a group of strangers in Kazakhstan saved a dog from drowning by forming a human chain to reach him. they just unveiled a statue commemorating the event and I'm genuinely about to start sobbing

Author Steven Vickers wrote on Threads, "To confirm, this '100% AI generated' passage is the opening of Chapter 5 from Mary Shelley’s Frankenstein. I think authors are going to get screwed in these AI witch hunts."

I agree 100% with Steven Vickers that authors will be falsely accused of using AI in the coming years. In particular, authors like myself whose works were stolen to train AI systems are at risk. When we write in our own unique styles, AI trained on us will quite likely flag us as using AI.

Not in the slightest 😀

Screenshot of a paragraph from an article in Nature Chemistry that reads: Dr Rubidium, an analytical chemist who blogs at the Journal of Are You Fucking Kidding, contrasted several cases of homicide by the paralytic agent succinylcholine with its medical use in life-saving tracheal intubations (http://go.nature.com/bFQFv6). Although that post was shockingly free of swear words, an ode to tetracyanoethylene (TCNE) on Carbon-Based Curiosities was as vulgar as it was informative (http://go.nature.com/AmOzuB). Long-time blogger Excimer noted that “even the chemical industry is starting to shy away from chemicals” before proudly hailing applications of TCNE in the synthesis of the first organic ferromagnet and as a “highly efficient unicorn killer.” The words 'Journal of Are You Fucking Kidding' are highlighted in blue.

Tangential, but reminds me of a debate amongst the editorial team at @natchem.nature.com about whether we would asterisk-out letters in the F word in this post www.nature.com/articles/nch... - I think the vote went 3-2 to not do that (I was one of the '3')... #chemsky

The future of carbon capture, utilization and storage technologies - Nature Chemical Engineering Carbon capture, utilization and storage technologies have attracted substantial attention as a potential approach to climate mitigation. In this Editorial, we examine the need for both feasibility ass...

Our latest Editorial examines the need for both feasibility assessments and technical innovations to advance emerging technologies such as CCUS.

It's also part of our new Collection on CCUS technologies, which you can find here: nature.com/collections/...

#ChemSky

www.nature.com/articles/s44...

So as @andrewbissette.bsky.social said, there are, perhaps obviously, other factors that determine how many times any given paper will be cited. Some of which I touch on here: stuartcantrill.com/2016/01/23/i... (I think that correlation for those med journals is striking though!)

Chemistry journal citation distributions Over at my day job, I recently looked at the distribution of citations that 2012 and 2013 Nature Chemistry papers (Articles, Reviews and Perspectives) received in 2014 – essentially the citations t…

There’s a broad distribution of citation counts that make up an impact factor (stuartcantrill.com/2015/12/10/c...) - so the IF says little about how much any given paper will be cited. Point here is that the same paper in different journals gets cited differently.

Google Search is now using AI to replace headlines Let us know if you see more.

Editors: don't bother spending time concocting catchy headlines. Google will change them anyway:

"... multiple Verge staffers have seen examples of headlines that we never wrote appear in Google Search results — headlines that do not follow our editorial style"

www.theverge.com/tech/896490/...

Imperfect impact The problems with impact factors are well known – I could give you a long list of things to read that explain why, but just start with this blog post from Stephen Curry and go from there. I have a …

I also blogged about it more that a decade ago (😱) stuartcantrill.com/2016/01/23/i...

Hey #chemsky and 🧪 - if you want to know what’s going on in the world of academic publishing then James is definitely worth a follow! 👇

A slide called: 'Clinical trial registration: Looking back and moving ahead'; on the left are a list of journals listed with their impact factors and number of citations the named article received in that journal. On the right is a plot of numbers of citations vs impact factor.

Exactly the same article (same text, same authors) published in a range of journals at roughly the same time. Number of citations correlates (somewhat) with impact factor of the journal it was published in. Except in Croatia...

Yes indeed. This is Elon Musk FRS showing he has not the slightest idea of what science even is.

Are you a chemistry journal now? 🙃

A complete set of canonical nucleobases in the carbonaceous asteroid (162173) Ryugu - Nature Astronomy Samples returned from the asteroid Ryugu contain all five canonical nucleobases (A, G, C, T and U). Their presence in Ryugu and Bennu supports the hypothesis that carbonaceous asteroids contributed to the prebiotic chemical inventory of early Earth.

Samples returned from the asteroid Ryugu contain all five canonical nucleobases (A, G, C, T, U). Their presence in Ryugu and Bennu supports the hypothesis that carbonaceous asteroids contributed to the prebiotic chemical inventory of early Earth. http://dlvr.it/TRWtVp ☄️

Someone just posted about how they don't care if their students use AI as long as the text conveys the ideas the students meant to convey. The thing is, you don't know exactly what you think until you write it. And if some prefab thing pops up, you're liable to decide that was what you thought.

Hey @profdaveleigh.bsky.social - you're in here too...

I can't compete with this.

If only I had the time... in the meantime, there was this (which I recreated here) bsky.app/profile/stua...

Anyone who wants Britain to join the war in Iran needs their head examined They don't know what they want to achieve, why they're doing it or what the consequences might be. They are lost in the void.

Anyone who wants Britain to join the war in Iran needs their head examined open.substack.com/pub/iandunt/...

Once a chemist, always a chemist, I guess. I suppose that’s #Chemsky right there…

Page 11 of the Daily Mirror from Oct 30, 1964. Headline reads 'Nobel prize for a wife from Oxford'; a picture of Dorothy Hodgkin appears on the left hand side of the page.

This is the Daily Mirror coverage...

I think about this Tony Benn speech much more than I used to

Two sets of 12 bottles of red wine, each sitting in their original wooden cases. The two cases are next to each other.

There are worse ways to spend a Saturday lunchtime than going to a local auction house and winning a couple of lots…

Oh no! Get well soon.