Hi Naomi, I recently covered this for Chemical & Engineering News.
Although a lot of labs are trying to limit microplastics in the lab (including one that just built a lab entirely out of steel), a big problem is that there’s no common protocols to study them
🧪How do you study microplastics when everything in your lab is also made of plastic?
I spoke with researchers in Germany, Norway, the US and Australia about how they try their best to create plastic-free labs, from 100% cotton lab coats to (near) 100% steel laboratories. @cenmag.bsky.social
Many science journalists are concerned about plans to hold the profession's flagship international conference in China - a country that ranks 178th on the World Press Freedom Index
www.science.org/content/arti...
Looking for sources for a Nature.com story about dealing with predatory 'pay-to-publish' magazines.
They try to convince PhDs/academics to write for their high-impact magazine (read by business people, politicians etc), charging them thousands to do so.
DMs open! #academicsky 🧪
Article with headline ‘Businesses hiring storytellers to 'cut through the AI slop’
Time is a flat circle
Big shock - top universities in Europe's big cities & regions have no problem attracting students. But what about the universities in fringe areas with dwindling populations?
I spoke with the researchers in some of those regions to see how they adapt. 🧪 #AcademicSky
Google maps telling me to get to Dublin Airport by leaving Dublin airport and walking back an hour and a half to it. #Spéirgorm
Google must have finally incorporated AI into Google Maps. How do I know?
It just told me I needed to leave now to be at Dublin Airport by 13:30 now to catch 9am Citylink that arrives in Dublin Airport at 11am. Then I should take the 11:45 Kells bus to Ballymun and walk back one hour to the airport
Yes, I know the Tips and Tricks, but it still drives me nuts
An image macro of Gordon Ramsay from his television show Kitchen Nightmares in which he says, "Delicious. Finally, some good fucking food." The subtitle has been altered to read "Delicious. Finally, some Open Access."
As a science journalist looking through papers and being asked to 'Sign in through your institution" for two hours 🧪
Science-heads who are journalism-curious! This is one of the best internships imaginable. Many of its holders have gone on to great careers at The Economist.
Please help spread the word.
www.economist.com/science-and-...
A photo of Hamburg’s HafenCity district, with snow on the ground and patches of ice in the canal
A bit chilly in the Hansestadt
Genuinely, the high cost of a subscription. You are paying for a quality product with high standards
So the opposite of journalists then.
Looking for sources for a @nature.com story about how researchers are coping in the midst of current events: If you're a PhD or other academic who's struggling to focus with everything that's happening in the world and would like to be interviewed for this story, please get in touch ASAP!
A tweet that says: NEW: Former UK Prime Minister Boris Johnson claims a listening device was found in his bathroom after it was used by Israeli PM Benjamin Netanyahu. Johnson claims his security team found bugging devices in the toilets after they were used by Netanyahu.
The scene in Grizzly Man where Werner Herzog listens to the audio of Timothy Treadwell being eaten alive by bears, causing him to tell the grieving friend of the doomed naturalist: You must never listen to this. I think you should not keep it. You should destroy it.
unbelievably, incredibly pleased to share with you that one of my oldest friends managed, with a straight face, to convince her partner that Jon Hamm was married to an Italian woman called Ana Mortadella
My hot take on Sinners: getting those 16 nominations is deserved because of the excellent work in each of those categories.
Even if the film does not equal the whole sum of that work, it remains one of the year’s best. It deserved to break the nomination record.
Sheet of information on the locating loss project which aims to explore histories of infertility through landscapes and spaces. Please Dm me for more info if needed!
Hello! I am sharing information about my @researchireland.ie project Locating Loss: histories of infertility in landscapes and spaces. I would love to connect with researchers/ practitioners from a wide range of backgrounds and disciplines, so please share widely! Sharing again for morning Bluesky!
Looks like the LLMs powering AI chatbots have a bias against users who have a dialect. A study of German dialect speakers judged them as uneducated, angry farm workers.
Similar studies exist for English dialects from places India, Ireland (😐) and Nigeria.
My piece for Deutsche Welle 🧪
if we all agree not not email each other tomorrow it'll be okay
Hi there Blue Sky folks! I'm new here, Here's some Bach Cello Suits in the west of Ireland winter sun. Is what you're into? Would you like to hear more? I'm finding it too upsetting to open up Twitter these days...
Seems appropriate.
I've finally discovered how to bond hydrogen and oxygen in a chain: HO-HO-HO.
It's a Christmas molecule.
First fogged-up glasses of the season.
right I'm calling it, the old age thing on Spotify Wrapped was bait, tons of people got 70+ even though none of their top 5 featured songs/albums from before even the 2010's, we got played
Those Martello towers had one job...
Sad Pablo Escobar mem - a series of three-panel image macros featuring the character Pablo Escobar (played by Wagner Moura) from the Netflix series Narcos staring blankly in three different screen-captures from the series.
"Otter is down, but will be back online shortly"
Every journalist:
I'll take some good news about #IrishResearch any time I can get it 🧪
