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This is absurdly great, but I haven't read a single news article about it. A fully open source, offline-first alternative to Notion that's a collab between the French and German governments because they want to host docs securely and on their own terms. THIS is what Europe should be doing.

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A brief, last-day-of-holiday blog post from me, on gardening and (belatedly) 20 years of LabLit magazine. Featuring an amazing graph of the year-on-year increase in published novels about scientists! @lablit.bsky.social occamstypewriter.org/mindthegap/2...

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Thanks to @comeflywithjo.bsky.social for sending us two packs of these cards for use in our public engagement activities! They look great - and we're looking forward to using them with school children to help unpack why and how we use different model systems here @cruk-mi.bsky.social

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If you’re buying a copy of Who Wants Normal? this week for your disabled teenager, and would like a personalised dedication, email me on bio. I have a few bookplates and limited edition postcards hanging around and am happy to post them out.

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The days of Google Docs are ending; we enter the age of Docs, made by France's Interministerial Directorate for Digital Affairs and Germany's Center for Digital Sovereignty of Public Administration. We need more governments to collaborate on public software projects to achieve digital sovereignty.

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Happy Easter ✝️

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Easy to overlook this given previous mega-retractions, but by any measure this is a PHENOMENAL amount of retractions. Also: Wiley loses their single journal all time record. I thought it would take longer. 🥺 retractionwatch.com/2025/04/17/s...

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Did you know we create resources to support health professionals with improving cancer outcomes? From screening to safety netting, our library of resources covers key areas to drive earlier cancer diagnosis. Visit our health professional webpages today: cruk.ink/4j3wGVA

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Heck of a closing paragraph.

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Looking forward to trying this out when the new version launches - already had a look at the integration using the demo pages (which anyone can access online to test out eLabFTW) demo.elabftw.net/login.php Great to see some new tools being added to the #ELN

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#OpenCloning is an amazing tool, and we've integrated it into the next version of eLabFTW!

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CaSDaR is launching a dedicated Network+ for Data Stewards to bridge this gap, empower professionals, and embed stewardship at the heart of the research lifecycle.

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Looking for content on research careers, came across this from @nature.com: www.nature.com/articles/d41... No-one mentions bullying or harassment - despite how the writer feels - or suggests speaking to HR If this is how we give guidance, no wonder we're struggling with improving #ResearchCulture

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🚨 New PhD position at CWTS! We're excited to announce a fully-funded PhD position on a crucial topic: Paper Mills and Systematic Manipulation in Research Publishing 📄 www.universiteitleiden.nl/en/news/2025...

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🧵About that article in @nytimes.com about teachers using AI to give writing feedback to students: Giving good writing feedback is incredibly time consuming and can bring the best teacher to tears. There is definitely a problem with what teachers who have 150 students are being asked to do. /1

submitted 8 days ago • 4 comments

On the anniversary of the sinking of the Titanic, we thought we'd answer a question that's often asked, "If they raised the Mary Rose, why not raise the Titanic?" Allow our scaled diagram to explain...

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More nuance than the headline suggests, but adds further questions for those working with #DNA, genomic and health data www.theguardian.com/technology/2... Lots to consider re: #TrustedResearch, #OpenResearch, #DataProtection, #DualUse, economics, politics and more

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Practical question - anyone regularly commute by train between Nottingham and Leeds, or Nottingham and Cambridge? How bad is it? Specifically, Notts to Cambridge how often do you have to change at Grantham?

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We love impact stories. How do you use this tool?

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My cartoon for this week's @newscientist.com

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Large language models are less effective at clinical prediction tasks than locally trained machine learning models academic.oup.com/jamia/advanc... #llms #machinelearning #MLSky (not surprising but important to document)

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The list of university sackings below must now include Coventry, Derby, Hull and Lincoln. That's twelve universities getting rid of staff... in just ten days. Still nothing is done. 🇬🇧

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The scientific integrity community has many members with no current academic affiliation, who hence make a lot of #ICanHazPDF requests. Sympathetic institutions could make 1 or 2 fixed-term unremunerated positions available, just for the library access. Can your university help? 🙏 (Please boost!)

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One of my favourite London Transport posters is the 1921 'Boat Race' by Charles Paine. As it's race day tomorrow I was inspired to create my own take on it. #illustration #poster #boatrace

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'Professor Gina Neff of Queen Mary University London told the BBC ChatGPT is "burning through energy" and the data centres used to power it consume more electricity in a year than 117 countries.' Tech bros are sociopathic exintinction events aided by demented power-needy govs bbc.com/news/article...

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