there's so much bad in the world but there's also people who lift up and carry an elderly bat around every day so he can pretend he's flying again, and that's the part of the world I think is worth fighting for
Tomorrow is the 13th anniversary of the Sandy Hook shooting. My heart aches for the Brown University community.
Perhaps we should be moving toward a view of scholarship that is more collaborative and diffuse by default, involving complex assemblages of humans and machines. Perhaps what should be rewarded is not individual effort based on claims of originality, but the dynamic co-production of new knowledge, useful ideas, and social benefit.
I wholeheartedly agree—though after laying out a good initial argument this paper takes a strange turn with the final two sentences that seems to undercut most of its own force.
It’s good to see papers start to address LLMs as structural plagiarism — provenance, more hidden than the original words or training data. www.nature.com/articles/s42...
Search and rescue operations are still ongoing in Ternopil, Ukraine at the site of the Russian strike that destroyed an apartment building.
26 people killed, including 3 children.
93 people were injured, among them 18 children.
22 others remain missing.
We are thrilled to now be on BlueSky!
We prioritize studies addressing critical health challenges—from major diseases to health equity—that bridge scientific rigor with real-world impact, connecting researchers, clinicians, and policymakers to advance global health 🧬🧪
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I wrote about the under-appreciated hazard of landslide-triggered tsunamis, which need serious consideration in discussions of new pipelines from Alberta 🧪⚒️
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An update on this story - grad students are now exempt from the cap in student visas. 🧪
An update on my column: Parliamentary committee drops most contentious parts of its demand for data on research funding. It now wants aggregated, not disaggregated data. www.theglobeandmail.com/opinion/arti...
Yes! Contact them and sign this petition here —it’s not just about EDI data! So much personally identifying information for applicants and reviewers will not be protected!
docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1F...
Canadian researchers should be aware the there is a motion before the Parliamentary Standing Committee on Science and Research to force Tricouncils to hand over disaggregated peer review data on all applications:
Applicant names, profiles, demographics
Reviewers names, profiles, comments, and scores
Just remember, the Liberals supported this too. If they think this will attract more researchers to Canada, they are smoking the dope they legalized. And once again, just like animal research, why is it @picardonhealth.bsky.social who needs to raise this publicly and not @u15ca.bsky.social
BREAKING: Royal Society to reconsider expelling Elon Musk
Violent rhetoric in address to anti-immigration rally pushes science academy to reassess billionaire’s fellowship
(Free to read)
www.researchprofessionalnews.com/rr-news-uk-c...
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Underwater view of a colorful brook trout swimming over rocky riverbed with sunlight filtering through water.
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FlyBase needs your help! We ask that European labs continue to contribute to Cambridge, UK FlyBase, whereas US and other non-European labs can contribute to US FlyBase. For more information and how to donate: wiki.flybase.org/wiki/FlyBase...
Carney is planing 15% budget cuts across most of government. @supportourscience.bsky.social and @u15ca.bsky.social worry what that would do to a research system that is already lagging behind other countries. My story for @science.org 🧪
www.science.org/content/arti...
Among the dozens of undergraduate degree programs at IU Bloomington that are being eliminated or suspended with plans either to eliminate or merge them were Art History, American Studies, Atmospheric Science, Cognitive Science, Comparative Literature, Dance, Earth Science, French, Geography, East Asian Studies, Gender Studies, German Studies, Italian, Music/Ballet, Religious Studies, Spanish, and Statistics.
I’d missed this last week but Indiana passed a new law that is leading to the forced elimination of hundreds of majors across their state universities. Apropos of recent events, the eliminated majors include atmospheric science. Sabotage is a word that comes to mind.
www.forbes.com/sites/michae...
Ontario parents, pay attention to this: underfunding our universities means there may not be a spot for your kid when it’s time for them to go. We have the *lowest* per capita support of any province!!
archive.ph/4qD1H
The Federal Court has approved a class-action settlement for people who suffered abuse at federally run ‘Indian hospitals’ following out-of-court negotiations with Ottawa and Indigenous survivors.
Front-page-style graphic titled “BREAKING NEWS” with photos of RFK Jr. and Dr. Bhattacharya in front of a government hearing chamber. Text reads: “NIH Scientists Sound the Alarm as Health Research Faces Historic Threat” and “NIH Employees Send Trump Cronies Scathing Wake-Up Call.”
🚨BREAKING: 300+ NIH employees call out the harm of censorship & politicized science in scathing email to Bhattacharya, demanding an end to political interference, a lift on funding freezes, & rehiring of fired staff whose work saves lives.
This is historic - insiders are blowing the whistle.
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They're literally doing the meme
#drosophila @flybase.bsky.social request emergency funding:
"As it stands, by the end of July, 2025, there will be no future updates to FlyBase, and in the worst case scenario access to the website will also be lost" => please donate!
www.philanthropy.cam.ac.uk/give-to-camb...
The scientific community is potentially not ready for a flood of challenges to interpretations of existing data (supercharged by AI analysis tools).
Interesting read: "...open data policies, regardless of motive, could promote adversarial reanalysis and produce potentially paralyzing challenges to existing scientific and regulatory infrastructures."
(This isn't to say that open data policies are bad, just that they have certain implications.)
Do you know someone making exceptional contributions to science and innovation policy in Canada? Nominate them for a Trailblazer Award in Science and Innovation Policy!
Deadline June 14, 2025: sciencepolicy.ca/programs/awa...
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The overall winner is a photo of biologist Audun Rikardsen, taken by his PhD student Emma Vogel, scanning the waters for whales near fishing trawlers in the fjords of northern Norway.
Congratulations to the winners of Nature’s 2025 #ScientistAtWork photo competition. The overall winner is a photo of biologist Audun Rikardsen, taken by his PhD student Emma Vogel, scanning the waters for whales near fishing trawlers in the fjords of northern Norway. 🧵 #SciArt #Academicsky 🧪
