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AI proponents are using LLMs to quickly & cheaply find errors in scientific papers at scale. The impact could be huge. But the method also creates lots of false positives & could have worrying knock-on effects (like being used to target certain fields) 🧪🤖 www.nature.com/articles/d41586-025-00648-5

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As far as I can tell from this presser, Intuitive Machines' Athena lander is lying on its side on the Moon, whimpering and clinging to what energy it can muster. Relatable.

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Another wave of previously unimaginable events in the US www.nature.com/articles/d41... 🧪

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China is leading the world in research into new kinds of computing chips, data from @csetgeorgetown.bsky.social suggests. If the research can be commercialised, the US won't be able to use export controls to hold back Chinese AI. My story here: www.nature.com/articles/d41... 🧪🤖

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“If we don’t get this hiring freeze lifted...the impact will be felt by the American people in the form of delayed treatments and therapies for diseases such as cancer, diabetes and heart disease." The latest on the dismantling of US science, from @dangaristo.bsky.social

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Want to be a science journalist? Then come work as an intern in our London news team. It's a paid, 6-month internship & we particularly encourage candidates from groups historically underrepresented in publishing. Deadline is Friday so be quick 🧪 springernature.wd3.myworkdayjobs.com/en-US/Spring...

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Rare good news: the risk of 'city killer' asteroid 2024 YR4 hitting Earth in 2032 has been downgraded. New data show that the risk of impact is now 1.5% & v likely to keep falling 🧪🔭 www.nature.com/articles/d41...

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Who knew we knew so little about static electricity? ⚛️🧪https://www.nature.com/articles/d41586-025-00298-7

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By far the most informative and nuanced take you will get on today’s quantum computer announcement from Microsoft, by @castelvecchi.bsky.social in @nature.com www.nature.com/articles/d41... ⚛️🧪

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Amazing analysis in this story by @richvn.bsky.social Where are the world's retraction hotspots? www.nature.com/articles/d41...

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⚛️🧪 New kid on the block. @nature.com study shows that films of nickelates are unconventional superconductors at room pressure (though still chilly temps). They're simpler & easier to control than cuprates. Could they help to finally unravel high-temp superconductivity? www.nature.com/articles/d41...

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Please don't shout at me if your favourite isn't included in this scientists' guide to LLMs (my latest for @nature.com) but do tell me politely what we've missed! I had to whittle out a bunch of models from my first draft and I'd love to know your favs www.nature.com/articles/d41...

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Are you a scientist whose work is being affected by changes in the Trump administration? Get in touch with @nature.com reporters @maxkozlov.bsky.social @dangaristo.bsky.social @heidiledford.bsky.social Jeff Tollefson & yours truly. Let us know what's on your mind & what we should be writing about.

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Here's a little ray of sunshine for you today (kind of). A coronal mass ejection taken by @esa.int's SOHO spacecraft back in 2012. Happy Valentine's Day everyone! 🧪🔭

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More than 1,300 scientists have signed a letter calling on the Royal Society to reassess the billionaire’s membership following cuts to US science https://go.nature.com/3X092QN

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Neutral atoms, once an underdog in quantum computing, are now drawing in some serious cash. I think we’re going to see a lot more from these lot. My story here 🧪⚛️ www.nature.com/articles/d41...

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KM3Net (behind this discovery) is so cool — eventually it will constitute a cubic kilometre of sensors under the Med. It’s HUGE (& teaming with sealife as well as neutrinos!) You can also read @castelvecchi.bsky.social ‘s great news story on this super particle here: www.nature.com/articles/d41...

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Tuesday Feb 11, 2025 is the 10th annual International Day of Women and Girls in Science. 👩‍🔬 🧪 ⚛️ 🔭 🎢 🍎 🥽

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Incredible story in Science on the devastation caused by attempts to dismantle USAID www.science.org/content/arti...

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Our US team of reporters, editors and freelancers @nature.com have been doing incredible and important work these past two weeks (as have the others mentioned in this thread). My hats off to you 🧪👏

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This is a fascinating visualisation of the Santorini earthquake swarm 'migrating'

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NSF has unfrozen funds but is continuing to scour research grants for violations of Trump’s orders Nature spoke to six NSF staff members, who shared documents detailing plans to search 10,000 flagged grants for DEI language. For @nature.com w/ @dangaristo.bsky.social www.nature.com/articles/d41...

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Nice story on Xanadu! And I love the clarity of this paper. The firm's quantum computer consists of only 12 qubits, but they've got detailed plans to scale it -- they just need much better photonic components

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Don't worry guys, it probably won't hit us www.esa.int/Space_Safety...

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My story for @nature.com on how DeepSeek's open-weight 'reasoning' AI is making waves, as researchers look to train custom reasoning models for their field. Can't believe @hf.co saw 3 million downloads of versions of R1 in its first week

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It's been ages since I wrote about fast radio bursts: mysterious extragalactic bursts of energy. My story for @nature.com is on CHIME's first localised FRB. CHIME's ability to now spot FRBs could be a game changer for the field, and this one a very odd ball indeed www.nature.com/articles/d41... 🧪🔭

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Somehow, each clarification makes things even less clear. Trump rescinded today the order that would have frozen federal grants. But Trump's press secretary said the rescission doesn't cancel the funding freeze. It remains unclear which grants are frozen. www.nature.com/articles/d41...

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Very interesting if true. The science team @huggingface.bsky.social are currently trying to use DeepSeek's published recipe to recreate R1, see here: bsky.app/profile/lewt..., so let's see if they can do it without adding some OpenAI secret sauce

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As a postdoc-turned-science writer, I 100% concur!

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‘Never seen anything like this’: Trump’s team halts NIH meetings and travel In an unprecedented move, research-grant reviews have been suspended indefinitely at the world’s largest public funder of biomedical research. #AcademicSky www.nature.com/articles/d41...

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Chinese start-up DeepSeek has released R1 - a 'reasoning model' that's as good as OpenAI's o1 but 1/30th of the price. Incorporating other AI techniques into LLMs is boosting their ability to tackle complex tasks, which could someday prove a huge boon to research 🤖🧪 www.nature.com/articles/d41...

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How common is serendipity in science? Researchers are trying to study the role this magic ingredient plays. A first finding is that it might happen much more than you expect (even in applied research) 🧪 My story here: www.nature.com/articles/d41...

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This has been fascinating to report. Europe's security is militarily threatened, but the state R&D machines of the Cold War are much diminished. Now the Commission & EU govts want to harness potential "dual-use" research in academia. www.nature.com/articles/d41...

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It's 100 years since the birth of quantum mechanics, the stunningly successful theory that left us with a slew of useful technologies, cats of questionable vitality & some unfinished business (ahem, gravity). Looking forward to diving into all things quantum this year www.nature.com/articles/d41...

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Greetings fellow, er, blueskiers?? I should probably start posting on here. How's this for starters: a fab opportunity to join team Nature! We're hiring a full time news reporter based in Berlin or Sydney: www.linkedin.com/jobs/view/41...

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