From @johncarlosbaez 's https://arxiv.org/abs/2509.22584 I also, based on my experience last year, will avoid Springer Nature in future, unless it's unavoidable (eg a student's paper that really has nowhere else to go), or I make a one-time exception for a bucket-list journal: Comm. Math. Phys.
Biocatalysis at >100 °C by trapping the enzymes in a COF, whaaaaaat via @cenmag.bsky.social cen.acs.org/synthesis/bi...
Encapsulated enzymes break free of biocatalysis limitsConfining enzymes in covalent organic frameworks allows them to work at much higher temperaturescen.acs.org
This is 572 5 year biomedical research grants to study cancer, heart disease, blindness, Alzheimer’s, epilepsy, diabetes, infectious disease, etc…
Patrick Hickey, MDrollcall.com/2026/08/04/p...
The comments below Derek Lowe's piece from folk knowledgeable about AAV vectors is damning. This second death in an unrelated trial by a different group in China points to a culture of going fast and, unfortunately, breaking children's lives.
A tool used to rephrase plagiarised text changed "final solution" to "mass killing of an ethnic group" in a chemistry paper. Now retracted thanks to a PubPeer user who spotted this. pubpeer.com/publications...
Check out my this multiplet 🤯 open.substack.com/pub/nmrspect...
NMRMultipletRare XX'AA'MM'NN'R spin systemopen.substack.com
I understand that funding bodies want to go all in on AI as the shiny new innovation thing. But if all the grants start going to AI at the expense of everything else then the research sector is going to end up looking like a farm with dozens of threshers hacking away in a field with no wheat.
Against all odds, with an HHS that has defunded mRNA research programs, the FDA just approved the first mRNA flu vaccine
if you're reading all these articles as they come out and assuming the story is "these models are escaping containment and causing danger" and not "this is a PR campaign by companies desperate to build hype" I think you are very silly.
Alex HannaIt keeps happening... It'd be great if these companies could spend a little bit more time on network security and a little less time vibe coding.
This is so sad and so wrong on so many levels. I just saw this blurb in StatNews about another death in China during a crisper trial for Duchenne MD. What’s going on here?! Besides unsafe and possibly unethical trials… www.statnews.com/2026/08/05/c...
Once again, child dies in gene-editing trial in China, rekindling debate on transparency and safetyWith a second delayed report of a child's death in China, criticism is rising of a looser form of clinical trial. One expert: what "bothers me is the lack of transparency."www.statnews.com
Okay genuinely asking— what does accountability look like for Holden Thorp and Hank Green? What I’d like to see: I’d love if @holdenthorp.bsky.social set a clear journalistic standard at SCIENCE and prohibited the use of LLMs for researching, writing, and editing publications at SCIENCE.
Debbie Gale MitchellSo in the last two weeks EIC of Science and a famous science communicator have lost massive amounts of credibility because of their reliance on LLMs... Some examples of how to lose trust with your audience to share with my students I guess.
Trump & Russ Vought proposed a rule to take every federal grant in America hostage. They don't care about making our tax dollars work better—they just want them to work for Trump. Well, Democrats BLOCKED their corrupt rule, and I'll be fighting to kill it permanently.
As I was saying
Ed BurmilaAt some point we are going to have to reckon with what percentage of the Thought Leadership we get from this class of people is just drug addiction. Either a lot of credulous reporters have never listened to someone tooted out of their mind go on a monologue or they're afraid to call it out.
This is very good article in the Beijing News on the gene therapy trial death of a girl, a story broken in Borrell's stunning piece in Science. (At least it looks good in my laborious Google Translate version, despite quoting me) www.bjnews.com.cn/detail/17858... www.science.org/content/arti...
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I see a lot of you talking about "dopamine" and I wish you'd go back to talking about your astrological signs because at least then you wouldn't be confusing yourself about a real thing
It’s not a revelation that the president of the USA is one of the most prolific white-collar criminals on Earth, but what is slightly galling is that nobody seems to care all that much.
SchooleyHow is it that this story still hasn't appeared in the New York Times?
I got a flu booster today and it made me reflect on the sense of national accomplishment I felt when I drove to a public facility, waited in my car until my number was called on an app, and got my first covid jab. It's fucked the right gets to erase what a moment of technological liberation that was
#chemsky
Chemistry WorldA facility housing large tanks of methyl methacrylate, the monomer form of polymethyl methacrylate was overheating this May. @chemjobber.bsky.social explores the lessons learned & how risky runaway polymerisation can be prevented in the future: www.chemistryworld.com/opinion/earl...