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Garbled text, including misspellings and unreadable glyphs, are a hallmark of AI-generated images.

Not only did they put fake data out there, in marketing materials, they denied it was an issue. Trust is destroyed.

Congratulations to Anna (@abalkina.bsky.social)! www.fu-berlin.de/presse/infor...

Y'all remember how they were going to put an AI teacher robot into a high school serving the Seneca Nation of Indians? OF COURSE it was built by a sexbot company. Gift link.

Every part of this story is more horrifying than the last.

"MBFC is, as its website makes clear, one person’s hobby...we have not been able to find a single paper that adequately describes MBFC as the opinions of one person or critically engages with its methodology in order to justify proceeding with its use..." doi.org/10.48550/arX...

‘How can we ever trust this company again knowing what it’s done? We need a big response and a real promise to do things differently moving forward,’ says Elisabeth Bik. #ChemSky @elisabethbik.bsky.social @reeserichardson.bsky.social @sholtodavid.bsky.social www.chemistryworld.com/news/thermo-...

Today I'm posting a blog about another ridiculous antibody blunder. Dozens of papers in the senescence and ageing field have mistakenly used an antibody for E. coli β-galactosidase when trying to stain for the human protein with the same name. forbetterscience.com/2026/07/21/d...

Here the first of two news stories posting back-to-back. The Commerce Department's decision to ban "noise injection" for the 2030 census and numerous surveys is really about politics, not statistics. www.science.org/content/arti...

This article ends with a good conclusion, but it is extremely misguided along the way. It is also a rich text for exploring how clear language helps make the point better. A thread: www.science.org/doi/10.1126/... >>

Science sleuths say the doctored Western blots uncovered so far are likely the ‘tip of the iceberg’ and greater transparency & accountability is needed moving forward. @elisabethbik.bsky.social @reeserichardson.bsky.social @sholtodavid.bsky.social www.chemistryworld.com/news/thermo-...

They gotta find a better way to communicate the dangers of wildfire smoke. All people my age are getting from "standing outside is equivalent to smoking 10 cigarettes" is "standing outside is really not that bad and actually sounds delightful after a couple beers"

Oriental fire-bellied toad. Not a true toad, this frog species sports small tubercules on its dorsal side and a vibrant red or yellow pattern on their ventral side. When threatened, they exhibit the unken reflex, where they curl their limbs backward to display this pattern as a warning.

Researchers at two Russell Group universities published scientific research funded by an "anonymous donation". But the money really came from an industry group with a clear conflict of interest 🥸 After 10 months of "investigation", Wiley has done... nothing. No retraction, no EOC, no correction.

Two years ago, my colleagues and I were sued by Stephen Miller's America First Legal. The Hines v Stamos case — built atop a number of false allegations — was a central element of the "censorship industrial complex" myth. Today, that case was dismissed (by a Trump judge in LA). We won.

A professor in Tufts University’s School of Engineering required one of his international graduate students to work an unpaid TA job this past spring semester. After she went to her union and blew the whistle, Tufts withdrew her from her program. A thread of rage. 1/

This article only earned my click because I had to confirm that the "Erdős method" they refer to isn't just "abusing amphetamines". www.quantamagazine.org/after-80-yea...