@richvn.bsky.social
Features editor, Nature. E: r⟦dot⟧vannoorden⟦at⟧nature⟦dot⟧com or richardvannoorden⟦at⟧protonmail⟦dot⟧com. Signal: richvn.01 .
@richvn.bsky.socialAt this stage more impactful to find evidence it hasn’t been checked eg fake references
@nature.comReposted by @richvn.bsky.socialInternational students in the US would face a $100,000 price tag to work a science job in the country after graduation under a proposal made public yesterday by the Trump administration
@maxkozlov.bsky.socialReposted by @richvn.bsky.socialAfter our investigation into sham honor societies, many universities quietly deleted posts congratulating their faculty on joining them.
Others... are still posting new ones! @stonybrooku.bsky.social
@nature.comReposted by @richvn.bsky.socialRussia's spare disclosures combined with unverified rumours of a lab accident have triggered a plague scare. Here's what scientists know — and what Russia won't say.
@norionakatsuji.bsky.socialReposted by @richvn.bsky.social[The science of superintelligence and why AI is still a useful word]
“President Donald Trump wants to replace ‘artificial intelligence’ with ‘Super Intelligence’ — but there are questions about whether we’re there yet.”
@edmorrish.comReposted by @richvn.bsky.socialanother good way of thinking about what cracking value radio 4 is that it makes twenty hours of programming a day - news, drama, comedy, documentaries, a soap opera, arts - for about £90m/yr, while spotify pay joe rogan about £60m/year to listen gullibly to liars for about nine hours per week
@frozen-cranberry.bsky.socialReposted by @richvn.bsky.socialThis is going to end up killing cc-by unless there's a carve out for AI stuff. This sucks.
@columjournreview.bsky.socialReposted by @richvn.bsky.socialEditors are facing an influx of AI-written pitches, including at science publications like mine. What now? www.cjr.org/analysis/fak...
@philipcball.bsky.socialReposted by @richvn.bsky.socialWhen people tell me I'm a fool not to use AI in my writing, I might point them to this.
www.cjr.org/analysis/fak...
@richvn.bsky.socialI think he's referring to this work he co-authored lawzero.org/en/publicati...
@kerri-smith.bsky.socialReposted by @richvn.bsky.socialWe were hoping we’d have to update the main portion of this quiz — but this year’s awardees were all men.
Nonetheless, come test your knowledge: how many of the women who have won a science Nobel prize can you name? www.nature.com/immersive/d4...
@matthewcobb.bsky.socialReposted by @richvn.bsky.socialA lot of excitement on here about the article in Science summarising the discoveries of @alistairsponsel.bsky.social and Brian Sutton, just published in the Journal of the History of Biology. Some people have asked, so here is what I think they show, and what are the implications:
@matthewcobb.bsky.socialReposted by @richvn.bsky.social11. I will not be taking questions.The story of a woman whose data was stolen by two ambitious men who then did not credit her seems to be too powerful to be overcome by mere facts. This is, of course, all Watson's fault because of how he presented events. We are all hoist by his petard.
@castelvecchi.bsky.socialReposted by @richvn.bsky.socialMy latest, on OpenAI's dump
www.nature.com/articles/d41...
@philipcball.bsky.socialReposted by @richvn.bsky.socialIt feels very good to have been the editor who handled Soai's 1995 paper in Nature on autocatalytic amplification of an enantiomeric excess - now known as the Soai reaction. This seemed a curiosity at the time, but we clearly made the right call.
@evanurquhart.bsky.socialReposted by @richvn.bsky.socialI have said in the past that there are uses I think are acceptable - and that's still true. Advanced validated academic research seems fine. I'm not sure there's a single other use that I currently believe is safe or morally okay.
@richvn.bsky.socialLove your stuff! Trying to come up with the names on the fly a bit different I think - though I saw you got them all right ;)
@nature.comReposted by @richvn.bsky.socialNone of this year's science Nobel Prizes have gone to women.
The number of these prizes to go to women remains at 27 out of more than 600.
See how many you can name in our quiz: www.nature.com/immersive/d4...
@richvn.bsky.socialSo, no women won Nobel science prizes this year, meaning the number of female winners remains at 26.
How many of them can you name? Take the challenge here
(I've seen one person say they got them all first try, which is very impressive).
@nature.com
www.nature.com/immersive/d4...
@jamesomalley.co.ukReposted by @richvn.bsky.socialHoly shit. Someone has decompiled the Adobe suite, rebuilt it in Rust and released it as open source.
Either all software is dead or the US copyright laws are about to receive an update.
