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Some of my thoughts about the surge in AI-generated papers, why this feels like a completely new kind of problem, and what this means for how we evaluate science in biology.
Out now in PLOS Biology:
journals.plos.org/plosbiolog…
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Today I'm posting a new video to my YouTube channel. Over 100 toxicology research papers, mostly published by Egyptian labs, include fabricated images of comet assays! youtu.be/s2ul4tBMzbs
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Academics waiting for 3 years for their paper to be published in a journal watching other academics share a preprint that has been QEDed and getting promoted
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The genetic changes that made the human brain may have made us uniquely vulnerable to Alzheimer’s, Adina Wise reports: theatlantic.com/health/2026/…
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Which medicines are being used the most, in which hospitals? We made OpenPrescribing.net for GP data... And now you can also use... hospitals.openprescribing.ne… too! Here's a blog about our first public outing bennett.ox.ac.uk/blog/2025/0…
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COME TO OUR CONFERENCE!
Many people work on medicines data: researchers; but also "medicines optimisation" teams, using data to directly improve NHS care; and teams who build data tools. These clans rarely meet. UNTIL NOW! Join us, Dec 10th, in Oxford.
bennett.ox.ac.uk/events/2025…
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How much do PhD students earn?
The first comprehensive overview of PhD income shows vast imbalances across much of Europe
Read the full story: go.nature.com/4B8qAwD go.nature.com/4zwzdiR
Daniel Romero-Alvarez retweeted
that was a tongue in cheek paper in NEJM back in 2012 and Switzerland topped both charts. still the best way to explain correlation vs causation to anyone
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fun fact, the guy who made this chart basically admitted it was a joke. Franz Messerli published it in NEJM in 2012, said himself the whole idea was absurd, and confessed he eats chocolate every day lol
It went viral anyway and has been passed around as “science” for 14 years.
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This is the famous 2012 New England Journal of Medicine paper, written half as a joke, and the author admitted he ate chocolate almost every day. Both numbers mostly just track how rich a country is
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China is on a trajectory to lead the world in science, a development that will reshape technological advancement, innovation and the balance of global power
go.nature.com/4yqb1Oj
Daniel Romero-Alvarez retweeted
It’s time to admit that genes are not the blueprint for life
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nature.com/articles/d41586-0…
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The genome is an important part of the picture, but just a part. What happens beyond it is fascinating.
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blog.slavovlab.net/2026/08/1…
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This sounds like a good book countering simplistic & naive notions.
“So long as we insist that cells are computers and genes are their code,” writes Ball, life might as well be “sprinkled with invisible magic”. But, reality “is far more interesting and wonderful”
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Daniel Romero-Alvarez retweeted
Creo que los cortes de luz son inminentes. 22:50 y se acaba de ir la luz en el Valle de los Chillos y según veo en varias zonas de Quito también.
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⭕️ #ATENCIÓN | La Empresa Eléctrica Quito realiza trabajos correctivos en el sector de #LaFloresta para restablecer el servicio eléctrico. La interrupción afecta a la av. De Los Conquistadores, Rafael León Larrea, Celia Zaldumbide, Guápulo y sus alrededores. Usuarios de redes sociales reportaron cortes de energía eléctrica en el sector.
#LaRadioDeLasNoticias
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Sin luz en el sector de la subida a El Bosque, 10 de Agosto, El Inca.
No entiendo cómo dicen que no habrá cortes de luz si las tres últimas semanas ya ha habido y no solo en Quito. 🥺
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Interacting with attractive women makes men stupid.
The researchers found that even a few minutes with the attractive woman was enough to make the students slower and less accurate on the test.
The more attracted they were, the worse their results.
They also studied the effects on women students of being in the company of handsome men, and found the test scores were unaffected.
sciencedirect.com/science/ar…
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With this reporting that antivax views hampered H5N1 avian influenza preparedness, I wanted to recirculate our article that describes why a "let it rip" strategy for chickens and H5N1 is a very, very, very bad idea. science.org/doi/10.1126/scie…
‘It's time to get a vaccine in place’: RFK Jr.’s views helped stall bird flu plan politi.co/47h6fYs
