Florida surgeon charged with killing man after removing liver instead of spleen It wasn't the first time the surgeon cut out the wrong organ.

I … I have no words. arstechnica.com/health/2026/...

oh god oh fuck I took the metro to the Tisza rally and all these kids POURED OUT of the train at the stop and started running up the escalators chanting, and briefly held hands with the older people leaving the rally and going down on the escalator, and I think I may actually just cry

Is AI the greatest art heist in history? New technologies of reproduction are plundering the art world – and getting away with it

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I wrote about the pleasures of book clubs, particularly when invited to join book clubs reading my work. www.latimes.com/entertainmen...

Do horses want cake? We conducted an investigation into statements published by @bencollins.bsky.social in the print edition of @theonion.com.

Tweet: Waiter: so how is everything? me: great! waiter: (disgusted) even war?

I just remembered this tweet, and I didn't post one when everyone was posting funny tweets

I Work Very Hard, And I Would Like To Try Cake By A Horse Hello. I am a horse. I work very hard at my job of being a horse. When humans say move the heavy thing, I move the heavy thing. When humans sit on top of me and pull on my head, I carry them where they want to go. The main food the humans give me is hay and oats. But I am thinking it would be nice to have a different food. I am thinking I would like to try cake. Yes, yes. Cake. I know all about it. When humans eat cake, it is in glad times. It is the food for a celebration, such as when a woman becomes 47. I have seen cake on the Fourth of July. When humans have a cake, they stand around it and clap hands and smile and say happy birthday at each other. Sometimes there are beautiful markings on a cake, such as balloons or a pink shape. Sometimes the top of a cake is on fire and a boy must blow on the fire with mouth wind. This is the scariest cake. I do not want this kind. But I will eat any other cake. Any cake that is not the fire cake that tries to kill the boy. Please understand: I do not get money for doing work. I do not get to go inside the house. All I am either doing my horse job or standing in my pen or eating food off the floor. I always do these things. But I have never once gotten cake and I would like it very much. I have noticed that human children get to eat cake. But I am bigger than the children. I am more helpful to the farm. Children do not move the heavy things like me or let anyone ride on them. And yet they get cake. Maybe the humans will realize this. Maybe they will say, "You know who deserves cake? That horse. That horse whose back we are always on." Every day I dream about what it will be like if I get to eat cake. Here is what will happen. First, I will walk to the cake and putt my nose at it like hrrfff to make and stomping my hooves to make sure it is not a snake. Then I will trot in a circle to show that I am a horse and I am large. After that, I will nuzzle the cake to …

The horse op-ed is an instant classic. I can't tell you how much joy this piece gives me.

It should be taught in every introductory writing class in no small part because the horse arguments are so compelling. "I have noticed that human children get to eat cake. But I am bigger than the children."

Largest study of its kind shows AI assistants misrepresent news content 45% of the time – regardless of language or territory An intensive international study was coordinated by the European Broadcasting Union (EBU) and led by the BBC

Errors present in 45% of AI generated reports of news stories 🧪 www.bbc.co.uk/mediacentre/...

Refusing to accept big tech's AI-poisoned 'future of journalism' Humans, however flawed, are

New — I wrote about how journalists proudly using AI to help them write their stories obscures the deeply human process that makes journalism a societal necessity, and one that feeds the soul of those who create it.

Hope you’ll give it a read. I promise I wrote the whole thing.

This is Poppy. She was focusing really hard on her agility course, and then she made it through the hoop and accidentally activated zoomie mode. There's no stopping her now. 13/10 (TT: poppythepittie0)

🧵The Covid Inquiry’s latest reports have made one thing brutally clear: the first year of the pandemic - and especially the second Covid wave in winter 2020/21 - was devastating.

Much of that devastation was avoidable.

This 🧵: impact on NHS, impact on bereaved, and avoidable harm. 1/19

A viral dog rescue from 2016 is now immortalized with a statue in Kazakhstan. When a dog fell into the Sayran reservoir, bystanders formed a human chain to pull him to safety. The statue is a reminder of the value of unity, solidarity and collective action. 14/10 for all

‘It’s just a bomb’ The true story of two strangers and an extraordinary act of courage

It should be outside the paywall all day now www.ft.com/content/cd59...

Yes, UK authors; just sign up, enter your books, - also articles, audiobooks etc - and let the ALCS pay you. It really is that easy.

Woman working on her scoping review on her laptop

❓Can I cite PRISMA-ScR as a methodology for my scoping review?
💬The answer is no. The PRISMA extension for scoping reviews is the guidance for reporting a scoping review, not how to conduct the review.
Learn more in the JBI Manual for Evidence Synthesis: https://ow.ly/WRWi50Yq4bc

School book banning escalates in the UK as Greater Manchester secondary school censors scores of books - Index on Censorship A school librarian faced a disciplinary hearing and scores of books were removed from her school library after she stocked Laura Bates’ Men Who Hate Women

My excellent colleague @katiedd.bsky.social has just published this remarkable investigation into rampant book banning in a Greater Manchester secondary school library.

193 books including The Da Vinci Code, Twilight, White Teeth and 1984 Graphic Novel

www.indexoncensorship.org/2026/03/scho...

ScienceAdviser: Hidden culprit found for puzzling static electricity Today in Science and science: Turning cellular powerhouses into therapies, a comet falls apart, and more

"That’s why the Center for Scientific Integrity, the nonprofit organization behind Retraction Watch, has launched a new annual award celebrating scientists who discover substantial errors in their published work and take meaningful steps to correct the scientific record."

Who is currently eligible for the MenB vaccine? close contacts of those who are confirmed or suspected to have meningococcal disease students at the University of Kent who are normally resident on the Canterbury Campus, including those who may have now travelled home. Some staff living or working in these Halls of Residence have also been offered preventative antibiotics and are eligible for vaccination students who attend other universities in Canterbury, living in halls of residence or off‑campus locations where there has been a case, and have been advised to take an antibiotic due to a close contact by UKHSA sixth form students (years 12 and 13) attending a secondary school or sixth form college in Kent where there has been a confirmed or probable case of meningococcal disease informed by local risk assessment anyone who visited or was working at Club Chemistry in Canterbury between 5 March and 15 March, when the venue closed voluntarily

Our latest blog post explains who is eligible for the MenB vaccine and why vaccination is being offered alongside preventative antibiotics in response to the meningitis outbreak in Kent.
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a-grade satire from @hugorifkind.bsky.social as always

Huge Study of Chats Between Delusional Users and AI Finds Alarming Patterns Chatbots frequently reinforced delusional and even dangerous beliefs in delusional chatbot users, an analysis found.

New — an analysis of hundreds of thousands of interactions between chatbots + users who reported experiencing psychological harm / delusions after intensive AI use found that chatbots often reinforced delusional beliefs and claimed to be sentient:

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A starter pack for NHSGGC colleagues! You've been added if you state your association in your bio. If you want added/removed, let me know👍 go.bsky.app/PK9nyEB

Reading Facts - The Reading Agency Find out about the power of reading in our reading facts, gathered by our robust research team.

Did you know that reading:

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Opinion | Why I’m Suing Grammarly

This is a good article and I'm proud of @juliaangwin.com (whom I have known since college) for suing.

(Gift link)

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I just peer reviewed an article and spent too much time verifying that the references exist & were referenced accurately, all while being paranoid that the article was written by an LLM. it's not worth the effort. And then i see this kind of slop getting published and i wonder why i even bother.

Librarian finds ‘preposterous number’ of fake references in paper from Springer Nature journal Gunnar Ridderström/Pexels As a hospital librarian, Jessica Waite is typically successful at tracking down elusive articles for clinicians at Royal Hallamshire Hospital in England. So when a colleag…

Librarian finds ‘preposterous number’ of fake references in paper from Springer Nature journal retractionwatch.com/2026/03/06/l...

Absolutely THRILLED to be able to reference Florence Nightingale's "Diagram of the causes of mortality in the Army in the East" at a journal club this afternoon.

Throwing it all the way back to 1854 to help us understand research published in 2025! 🤓

Is Glasgow losing the spaces that made it an arts powerhouse? The closing of a cluster of leading creative venues has led to dismay and intensified fears the hubs that fostered Glasgow’s celebrated arts scene are disappearing

Is Glasgow losing the spaces that made it an arts powerhouse?