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Editor in Chief of Nature, geneticist, editor, accidental potter. All views my own
@magdalenaskipper.bsky.socialThanks for highlighting this, Richard. This has indeed been my experience over the last 25 years as an editor, and I’ve shared this observation many times before
@magdalenaskipper.bsky.socialA taste of things to come - OpenAI posts 700 maths preprints online: mathematicians are up in arms
@magdalenaskipper.bsky.socialIt’s this time of year again… the time of celebration…. Medicine Nobel awarded for brain ‘switch’ that controls neurons with light: live updates
@magdalenaskipper.bsky.socialWe’ve written about predatory publishers, fake papers, fake peer review and imposter researchers…. Now suspect ‘learned societies’
Exclusive: Sham scientific societies are misleading star researchers www.nature.com/articles/d41...
@magdalenaskipper.bsky.socialMany academics are concerned about threats to independent enquiry in higher education. Here’s how @sarahderijcke.nl proposes it can be protected while taking legitimate concerns into account.
I’m a huge fan of this 6-point proposal
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@magdalenaskipper.bsky.socialEdible batteries power medical devices in the body
Isn’t science awesome? (As is science journalism!)
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Original paper in @natchembio.nature.com www.nature.com/articles/s44...
@magdalenaskipper.bsky.socialChinese firms that were restricted from accessing specific technologies created in the US increased their use of science publications to boost innovation, according to an analysis of patent citations & scientific publications in Science today.
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www.nature.com/articles/d41...
@magdalenaskipper.bsky.socialExclusive from the Nature News team!
Tutankhamun’s tomb has been suspected to contain hidden chambers, holding the remains of Nefertiti. New data from a geophysical survey might offer evidence for this controversial conclusion 🧪
A story by @jomarchant.bsky.social
@magdalenaskipper.bsky.socialThere is no paywall for our news articles for the first week; what you saw was a free registration request
@magdalenaskipper.bsky.socialMap of brain ‘microproteins’ could offer new clues to Alzheimer’s disease
Great reporting from @miryamnaddaf.bsky.social on a @nataging.nature.com paper
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@natureportfolio.nature.com
@magdalenaskipper.bsky.socialAI tool turns any paper into an ‘agent’ that can collaborate, answer complex queries and can provide a signal of a paper’s reproducibility
Meet Paper2agent
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@magdalenaskipper.bsky.socialOpenAI claims huge maths breakthrough on a famed ‘Millennium Problem’ but the claim (announced by press release & a preprint on their own server) is associated with a controversy over who should really get the credit.
There’s more in 👇
@nature.com
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@magdalenaskipper.bsky.socialAwards that celebrate humour, curiosity and irreverence are a balm in hard times - why the super-fun Ig Nobel prizes bring serious value to science
We definitely need more of this kind of camaraderie in the research community 🧪 #academicSky
@economist.comReposted by @magdalenaskipper.bsky.socialWhen women earn, the balance of power at home shifts. Our analysis of data from 27 countries found that paid work makes families more equal. Discover more here
@caulfieldtim.bsky.socialReposted by @magdalenaskipper.bsky.social"What has fundamentally changed is the emergence of the information age (the internet, social media, AI) and its integration into, and domination over, our contemporary political discourse."
Needed: a globally equitable understanding of political polarization www.nature.com/articles/s41...
@magdalenaskipper.bsky.socialBland new world: is AI making us all think the same?
Do not ask your favourite AI pal to summarise this news feature for you; read it yourself ;-)
@magdalenaskipper.bsky.social“The ice and rock collapse was strong enough to cause a 5.2-magnitude seismic event and send a massive wall of water downstream”
Glacier collapse caused Nepal’s deadly flash flood — a sign of things to come?
@magdalenaskipper.bsky.social90% of biomedical papers published in December and archived in PubMed now show signs of AI help, according to a new preprint
It’s important we realise it but are we really surprised?
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@magdalenaskipper.bsky.socialExclusive: NSF set to issue lowest number of new grants in four decades www.nature.com/articles/d41...
@magdalenaskipper.bsky.social‘A society that loses science loses the future’ says Neil Shubin, as he starts his tenure as the NAS President
@neilshubin.bsky.social - thank you for speaking to us
