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Eloquent Science (Prof. David Schultz)
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Univ. of Manchester Prof of Synoptic Meteorology, educator, scientist
Author: Eloquent Science: A Practical Guide to Becoming a Better Writer, Speaker, and Atmospheric Scientist
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Eloquent Science (Prof. David Schultz) @eloquentscience.com · 21h
What a great voice, with such classic songs to his name.
If you haven't heard Jimmy Cliff before, check out "Many Rivers to Cross". Wonderful lyrics, soulful performance. One of the best songs ever. #JimmyCliff

www.youtube.com/watch?v=fjW5...

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Jimmy Cliff, 'The Harder They Come' Reggae Giant, Dead at 81
Jimmy Cliff, the reggae legend who helped spread the genre’s reach from Jamaica to the world with ‘The Harder They Come,’ has died at the age of 81.
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Comfortably Numb @numb.comfortab.ly · 2d
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Best printer 2025: just buy a Brother laser printer, the winner is clear, middle finger in the air
Best Printer 2025: wireless laser home office supply shop now Brother
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Reposted by David M. Schultz, Elizabeth Stokoe

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Prof Christina Pagel @chrischirp.bsky.social · 5d
Privileged to share a guest post today by a US veteran and intelligence analyst on the echoes they see between the regimes they used to monitor and today’s US.

They asked to remain anonymous - itself a sign of how worrying things have become in America.

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Authoritarian echoes: how America is mirroring Egypt and Russia
**Guest post**: A US veteran’s perspective on the erosion of US democracy and the urgency of the 2026 midterms
christinapagel.substack.com

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Kris Shrishak @krisshrishak.bsky.social · 11d
The European Commission uses ChatGPT outputs in public documents.

@iccl.bsky.social has filed a complaint to the European Ombudsman as this use likely violates Commission's own guidelines and its obligation under EU treaties

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European Commission breaches own AI guidelines by using ChatGPT in public documents
ICCL has filed a complaint to the European Ombudsman against the European Commission for its use of generative AI in public documents, which likely violates its own guidelines and its obligation under...
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Mark A. Hanson @hansonmark.bsky.social · 14d
For-profit journals are supposed to improve research quality, yet they're perversely incentivized to churn out whatever they can monetize. This was happening before AI (see Strain: bit.ly/43gJPUM), and AI will make it worse.

It's insane that we volunteer our time to help them do so.

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Mark A. Hanson @hansonmark.bsky.social · 14d
Scientists operate on principles of good faith. But this is just ridiculous. If you, dear reader, take nothing else away from The Drain paper, it is that publishers cannot be invited to the table any longer.

They can participate and carve a space, but they can't be part of shaping policy.

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Reposted by David M. Schultz, Pierre Bataille, Madeleine Pownall

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Mark A. Hanson @hansonmark.bsky.social · 14d
The solutions of the past 3 decades have failed to change the incentives of #PublishOrPerish. As a result, researcher funding, time, control, and trust has been lost.

The ONE CONSTANT in the wake of the serial crisis, #PlanS and #OpenAccess reform has been publish profit margins.

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A table showing profit margins of major publishers. A snippet of text related to this table is below. 1. The four-fold drain 1.1 Money Currently, academic publishing is dominated by profit-oriented, multinational companies for whom scientific knowledge is a commodity to be sold back to the academic community who created it. The dominant four are Elsevier, Springer Nature, Wiley and Taylor & Francis, which collectively generated over US$7.1 billion in revenue from journal publishing in 2024 alone, and over US$12 billion in profits between 2019 and 2024 (Table 1A). Their profit margins have always been over 30% in the last five years, and for the largest publisher (Elsevier) always over 37%. Against many comparators, across many sectors, scientific publishing is one of the most consistently profitable industries (Table S1). These financial arrangements make a substantial difference to science budgets. In 2024, 46% of Elsevier revenues and 53% of Taylor & Francis revenues were generated in North America, meaning that North American researchers were charged over US$2.27 billion by just two for-profit publishers. The Canadian research councils and the US National Science Foundation were allocated US$9.3 billion in that year.

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Mark A. Hanson @hansonmark.bsky.social · 14d
We wrote the Strain on scientific publishing to highlight the problems of time & trust. With a fantastic group of co-authors, we present The Drain of Scientific Publishing:

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Drain: arxiv.org/abs/2511.04820
Strain: direct.mit.edu/qss/article/...
Oligopoly: direct.mit.edu/qss/article/...
A table showing profit margins of major publishers. A snippet of text related to this table is below. 1. The four-fold drain 1.1 Money Currently, academic publishing is dominated by profit-oriented, multinational companies for whom scientific knowledge is a commodity to be sold back to the academic community who created it. The dominant four are Elsevier, Springer Nature, Wiley and Taylor & Francis, which collectively generated over US$7.1 billion in revenue from journal publishing in 2024 alone, and over US$12 billion in profits between 2019 and 2024 (Table 1A). Their profit margins have always been over 30% in the last five years, and for the largest publisher (Elsevier) always over 37%. Against many comparators, across many sectors, scientific publishing is one of the most consistently profitable industries (Table S1). These financial arrangements make a substantial difference to science budgets. In 2024, 46% of Elsevier revenues and 53% of Taylor & Francis revenues were generated in North America, meaning that North American researchers were charged over US$2.27 billion by just two for-profit publishers. The Canadian research councils and the US National Science Foundation were allocated US$9.3 billion in that year. A figure detailing the drain on researcher time. 1. The four-fold drain 1.2 Time The number of papers published each year is growing faster than the scientific workforce, with the number of papers per researcher almost doubling between 1996 and 2022 (Figure 1A). This reflects the fact that publishers’ commercial desire to publish (sell) more material has aligned well with the competitive prestige culture in which publications help secure jobs, grants, promotions, and awards. To the extent that this growth is driven by a pressure for profit, rather than scholarly imperatives, it distorts the way researchers spend their time. The publishing system depends on unpaid reviewer labour, estimated to be over 130 million unpaid hours annually in 2020 alone (9). Researchers have complained about the demands of peer-review for decades, but the scale of the problem is now worse, with editors reporting widespread difficulties recruiting reviewers. The growth in publications involves not only the authors’ time, but that of academic editors and reviewers who are dealing with so many review demands. Even more seriously, the imperative to produce ever more articles reshapes the nature of scientific inquiry. Evidence across multiple fields shows that more papers result in ‘ossification’, not new ideas (10). It may seem paradoxical that more papers can slow progress until one considers how it affects researchers’ time. While rewards remain tied to volume, prestige, and impact of publications, researchers will be nudged away from riskier, local, interdisciplinary, and long-term work. The result is a treadmill of constant activity with limited progress whereas core scholarly practices – such as reading, reflecting and engaging with others’ contributions – is de-prioritized. What looks like productivity often masks intellectual exhaustion built on a demoralizing, narrowing scientific vision. A table of profit margins across industries. The section of text related to this table is below: 1. The four-fold drain 1.1 Money Currently, academic publishing is dominated by profit-oriented, multinational companies for whom scientific knowledge is a commodity to be sold back to the academic community who created it. The dominant four are Elsevier, Springer Nature, Wiley and Taylor & Francis, which collectively generated over US$7.1 billion in revenue from journal publishing in 2024 alone, and over US$12 billion in profits between 2019 and 2024 (Table 1A). Their profit margins have always been over 30% in the last five years, and for the largest publisher (Elsevier) always over 37%. Against many comparators, across many sectors, scientific publishing is one of the most consistently profitable industries (Table S1). These financial arrangements make a substantial difference to science budgets. In 2024, 46% of Elsevier revenues and 53% of Taylor & Francis revenues were generated in North America, meaning that North American researchers were charged over US$2.27 billion by just two for-profit publishers. The Canadian research councils and the US National Science Foundation were allocated US$9.3 billion in that year. The costs of inaction are plain: wasted public funds, lost researcher time, compromised scientific integrity and eroded public trust. Today, the system rewards commercial publishers first, and science second. Without bold action from the funders we risk continuing to pour resources into a system that prioritizes profit over the advancement of scientific knowledge.

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Eloquent Science (Prof. David Schultz) @eloquentscience.com · 20d
Thank you for your service, sir. Much appreciated.

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Eloquent Science (Prof. David Schultz) @eloquentscience.com · 24d
Joan O’Bannon. She did a few for me.

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Eloquent Science (Prof. David Schultz) @eloquentscience.com · 24d
Halloween hike Austwick to Clapham, Yorkshire Dales. Spooky doors with Hidden Dangers and dark tunnels. 🎃👻💀
Wooden door in stone wall with sign Hidden Dangers. Hidden Dangers sign on wooden door. Stone wall leads to dark tunnel. Red, orange, and yellow leaves on ground.

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ACARS Drama @acarsdrama.bsky.social · 25d
VDLM2 Message From: HB-IJN / LX08CD

Message: WX RADAR STRANGE ECHOS. DURING LEFT SWIPE ECHO IS STRONGER ON LEFT SIDE. DURING RIGHT SWIPE ECHO STRONGER ON RIGHT SIDE. GRUSS ANNINA

Track Aircraft: https://www.flightradar24.com/HB-IJN

Area: Southampton, UK

#acars #vdlm2 #HBIJN #LX08CD

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David Ho @davidho.bsky.social · 25d
Following Hurricane Melissa's devastation, Jamaica’s decade-long effort to build financial resilience will be tested. Its $150 million catastrophe bond, triggered by a storm’s low pressure and path, will provide quick relief. Jamaica’s model may serve as a guide for other climate-vulnerable nations.
Jamaica invested heavily in climate disaster insurance. It looks about to pay off | CBC News
Jamaica’s decade-long effort to build layers of financial protection in case of natural disasters might help the country access millions of dollars in the immediate aftermath of Hurricane Melissa — an...
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cira-csu.bsky.social @cira-csu.bsky.social · 28d
The monster eye at the center of a still strengthening Hurricane Melissa.

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Jeremy DeHart @jeremydehartwx.bsky.social · 28d
From a crewmember on yesterday's Teal 74 mission into now-Category 5 Hurricane #Melissa. As clear of an eye as you will see in the Atlantic basin.

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John Morales @johnmoralestv.bsky.social · 28d
"The NOAA aircraft left the storm early after
experiencing severe turbulence in the southwestern eyewall."

These men and women are not being paid due to the US government shutdown. Not to mention that according to AOML's director emeritus Robert Atlas, they are down 40-50% staff. #Melissa

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Senator Chris Larson @senchrislarson.bsky.social · Oct 21
ICE is stockpiling arms, including chemical weapons, guided missile warheads and explosive components. The spending dwarfs anything we've ever seen in the agency - a 700% increase.

The President is building an army to attack his own country.

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Niels G. Mede @nielsmede.bsky.social · Oct 21
Published today: One of the biggest #science #communication studies to date. We asked 71,922 people in 68 countries how they #engage with information about #science and combined the data with several country-level factors: journals.sagepub.com/doi/10.1177/... #OpenAccess

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Anthony Cunningham @sqferryman.bsky.social · Oct 19
Louvre robbery. French police release image of suspect.
The character Feathers McGraw from the film "The Wrong Trousers".

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Hart Cunningham @hpsc24.bsky.social · Oct 18
10/18/25💪Bald eagle showed up to NoKings - York, PA🇺🇸🙏

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Eloquent Science (Prof. David Schultz) @eloquentscience.com · Oct 16
This seems bad...
wired.com WIRED @wired.com · Oct 16
Former GOP operative Scott Leiendecker just bought Dominion Voting Systems, giving him ownership of voting systems used in 27 states. Election experts have concerns.
One Republican Now Controls a Huge Chunk of US Election Infrastructure
Former GOP operative Scott Leiendecker just bought Dominion Voting Systems, giving him ownership of voting systems used in 27 states. Election experts have concerns.
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WIRED @wired.com · Oct 16
Former GOP operative Scott Leiendecker just bought Dominion Voting Systems, giving him ownership of voting systems used in 27 states. Election experts have concerns.
One Republican Now Controls a Huge Chunk of US Election Infrastructure
Former GOP operative Scott Leiendecker just bought Dominion Voting Systems, giving him ownership of voting systems used in 27 states. Election experts have concerns.
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Oisín McGann @oisinmcgann.bsky.social · Oct 15
If anyone has some time to help out in transcribing old, handwritten weather records.

www.met.ie/met-eireann-...
Met Éireann opens historic weather transcription project to all - Met Éireann - The Irish Meteorological Service
Met Éireann, the Irish National Meteorological Service, is the leading provider of weather information and related services for Ireland.
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Paul Bernal @paulbernal.bsky.social · Oct 15
One of the rare pleasures in academia is being asked to review something and finding that it's really rather wonderful.

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Ketan Joshi @ketanjoshi.co · Oct 15
Never really thought about how AI slop would make pie charts even worse

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An AI Sloppy chart where a black slice of the pie 65% but clearly less than half. Another slices labelled two 1035 and has a son on it. Another slice is labelled 204%, uh and is like maybe about A quarter and then there is a blue slice that just has stars on it, on an article about Queensland reversing coal power plant closure plans,

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QM_UCU @qmucu.bsky.social · Oct 12
The VC of Leicester has been announced as the new Chair of UCEA.

He's been VC of Leicester since 2019. He's the one responsible for forcing out scholars in ways that employment tribunals showed was not permitted.

The the kind of guy UCEA values.
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book cover of 'shaping for mediocrity': The cancellation of critical thinking at our universities.

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Michael Spicer @michaelspicer.bsky.social · Oct 11
stop thinking right now

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Eloquent Science (Prof. David Schultz) @eloquentscience.com · Oct 10
"He tossed Nixon's requested setlist and played protest songs at him. He wrote "I Walk the Line," for chrissakes.... He makes Bob Dylan look like Carrot Top."

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Defector @defector.com · Oct 10
Breaking: Some guy now aware of most revered country artist who ever lived defector.com/breaking-som...
Breaking: Some Guy Now Aware Of Most Revered Country Artist Who Ever Lived | Defector
Rare indeed is the headline-and-dek combo worth noticing, or caring about. In many publications these aren’t even written by the same person who wrote the actual blog; at any rate they’re many…
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Eloquent Science (Prof. David Schultz) @eloquentscience.com · Oct 10
Very proud of my alma mater. 🦫
bostonglobe.com The Boston Globe @bostonglobe.com · Oct 10
MIT became the first university to reject the Trump administration’s compact of demands, after its president Sally Kornbluth said the school already “meet or exceed many standards outlined” by the federal government.
MIT becomes first school to reject proposed ‘compact’ with Trump administration - The Boston Globe
MIT president Sally Kornbluth said the university’s practices already “meet or exceed” the federal government’s list of demands.
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