Valentin Rodionov
@arbitraryeffect.bsky.social
Chemist. Neurodivergent. Orcophobe. Hand-tool woodworker. Faculty @ CWRU Macro. Lab website: rodionovlab.org
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I think I should start identifying as an orcophobe.
By the way, orc ideology is quite popular in Russia:
www.tolkienguide.com/modules/newb...
By the way, orc ideology is quite popular in Russia:
www.tolkienguide.com/modules/newb...
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November 28, 2025 at 2:04 PM
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Reported in March, retracted recently: Mousazadeh et al.2022 (DOI: 10.1016/j.carbpol.2021.118747) 'Carbohydrate Polymers'.
The authors even argued on PubPeer that repetitions in noise in their various figures is totally expected 🤡
pubpeer.com/publications...
Glad Elsevier didn't buy it...
The authors even argued on PubPeer that repetitions in noise in their various figures is totally expected 🤡
pubpeer.com/publications...
Glad Elsevier didn't buy it...
November 28, 2025 at 5:58 AM
Reported in March, retracted recently: Mousazadeh et al.2022 (DOI: 10.1016/j.carbpol.2021.118747) 'Carbohydrate Polymers'.
The authors even argued on PubPeer that repetitions in noise in their various figures is totally expected 🤡
pubpeer.com/publications...
Glad Elsevier didn't buy it...
The authors even argued on PubPeer that repetitions in noise in their various figures is totally expected 🤡
pubpeer.com/publications...
Glad Elsevier didn't buy it...
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Schneider Shorts 28.11.2025 – Virtue-signalling retraction lottery
forbetterscience.com/2025/11/28/s...
forbetterscience.com/2025/11/28/s...
Schneider Shorts 28.11.2025 – Virtue-signalling retraction lottery
Schneider Shorts 28.11.2025 – a Good Russian in eastern Germany, a pensioner victimised in New York, with several MDPI retractions for papermillers and Italian bigwigs, interesting correction…
forbetterscience.com
November 28, 2025 at 6:07 AM
Schneider Shorts 28.11.2025 – Virtue-signalling retraction lottery
forbetterscience.com/2025/11/28/s...
forbetterscience.com/2025/11/28/s...
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Destroying the economy by continuing to use 50- to 70-year-old cameras.
November 27, 2025 at 7:35 PM
Destroying the economy by continuing to use 50- to 70-year-old cameras.
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Happy Thanksgiving!
A nonsense paper I posted about 9 months ago got retracted by the Elsevier journal today, what a nice Thanksgiving present:
pubpeer.com/publications...
Meng et al. 2021 (DOI: 10.1016/j.jare.2020.08.010) ...probably not the last retraction for this author.
A nonsense paper I posted about 9 months ago got retracted by the Elsevier journal today, what a nice Thanksgiving present:
pubpeer.com/publications...
Meng et al. 2021 (DOI: 10.1016/j.jare.2020.08.010) ...probably not the last retraction for this author.
November 27, 2025 at 6:56 PM
Happy Thanksgiving!
A nonsense paper I posted about 9 months ago got retracted by the Elsevier journal today, what a nice Thanksgiving present:
pubpeer.com/publications...
Meng et al. 2021 (DOI: 10.1016/j.jare.2020.08.010) ...probably not the last retraction for this author.
A nonsense paper I posted about 9 months ago got retracted by the Elsevier journal today, what a nice Thanksgiving present:
pubpeer.com/publications...
Meng et al. 2021 (DOI: 10.1016/j.jare.2020.08.010) ...probably not the last retraction for this author.
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Communities need used-book shops.
As the trends in our world are increasingly standardized and entrenched by "predictive" technologies that stifle innovation and reduce human actions into economic categories...
We need a full range of possibilities for readers and communities to explore and share.
As the trends in our world are increasingly standardized and entrenched by "predictive" technologies that stifle innovation and reduce human actions into economic categories...
We need a full range of possibilities for readers and communities to explore and share.
November 27, 2025 at 11:11 PM
Communities need used-book shops.
As the trends in our world are increasingly standardized and entrenched by "predictive" technologies that stifle innovation and reduce human actions into economic categories...
We need a full range of possibilities for readers and communities to explore and share.
As the trends in our world are increasingly standardized and entrenched by "predictive" technologies that stifle innovation and reduce human actions into economic categories...
We need a full range of possibilities for readers and communities to explore and share.
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"We followed everything we were supposed to do"
Legitimate green card applicants with US spouses are being
arrested by armed, masked men at scheduled immigration interviews, taken away from their children, sent to prison
www.nytimes.com/2025/11/26/u...
Legitimate green card applicants with US spouses are being
arrested by armed, masked men at scheduled immigration interviews, taken away from their children, sent to prison
www.nytimes.com/2025/11/26/u...
Green Card Interviews End in Handcuffs for Spouses of U.S. Citizens
www.nytimes.com
November 27, 2025 at 11:55 AM
"We followed everything we were supposed to do"
Legitimate green card applicants with US spouses are being
arrested by armed, masked men at scheduled immigration interviews, taken away from their children, sent to prison
www.nytimes.com/2025/11/26/u...
Legitimate green card applicants with US spouses are being
arrested by armed, masked men at scheduled immigration interviews, taken away from their children, sent to prison
www.nytimes.com/2025/11/26/u...
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Ralph Lee Abraham, MD, the top Ivermectin prescriber...is now in CDC's Second Highest Position. (MEDPAGE Today)
Oh...and I know this will come as a shock...but he has a very questionable public health track record.
#HOLDFAST
Oh...and I know this will come as a shock...but he has a very questionable public health track record.
#HOLDFAST
November 25, 2025 at 8:38 PM
Ralph Lee Abraham, MD, the top Ivermectin prescriber...is now in CDC's Second Highest Position. (MEDPAGE Today)
Oh...and I know this will come as a shock...but he has a very questionable public health track record.
#HOLDFAST
Oh...and I know this will come as a shock...but he has a very questionable public health track record.
#HOLDFAST
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I’m not a judge, but Witkoff should sit in prison for the rest of his life
November 25, 2025 at 11:11 PM
I’m not a judge, but Witkoff should sit in prison for the rest of his life
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Some well-founded warnings about the use of LLMs in medicine:
LLMs for Medical Practice: Look Out
www.science.org
November 25, 2025 at 7:22 PM
Some well-founded warnings about the use of LLMs in medicine:
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Every time someone sees consciousness in an LLM, I hear Jeff Winger’s speech from the Community pilot: “I can pick up this pencil, tell you its name is Steve and go like this —” [snaps pencil] “—and part of you dies just a little bit on the inside. Because people can connect with anything.”
November 25, 2025 at 11:03 PM
Every time someone sees consciousness in an LLM, I hear Jeff Winger’s speech from the Community pilot: “I can pick up this pencil, tell you its name is Steve and go like this —” [snaps pencil] “—and part of you dies just a little bit on the inside. Because people can connect with anything.”
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Q: Have you heard this audio that Bloomberg has of Witkoff coaching the Russians on how to appeal to you?
TRUMP: That's a standard thing. He's gotta sell this to Ukraine, he's gonna sell Ukraine to Russia. That's what a dealmaker does. I haven't heard it but I heard it was standard negotiation.
TRUMP: That's a standard thing. He's gotta sell this to Ukraine, he's gonna sell Ukraine to Russia. That's what a dealmaker does. I haven't heard it but I heard it was standard negotiation.
November 26, 2025 at 12:39 AM
Q: Have you heard this audio that Bloomberg has of Witkoff coaching the Russians on how to appeal to you?
TRUMP: That's a standard thing. He's gotta sell this to Ukraine, he's gonna sell Ukraine to Russia. That's what a dealmaker does. I haven't heard it but I heard it was standard negotiation.
TRUMP: That's a standard thing. He's gotta sell this to Ukraine, he's gonna sell Ukraine to Russia. That's what a dealmaker does. I haven't heard it but I heard it was standard negotiation.
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always fun to look up academic writing I did 20 years ago and to see how many sexual abusers I unknowingly cited 💕
November 26, 2025 at 12:33 AM
always fun to look up academic writing I did 20 years ago and to see how many sexual abusers I unknowingly cited 💕
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Sometimes I think it’s going to be the librarians who will save us all.
November 25, 2025 at 1:47 AM
Sometimes I think it’s going to be the librarians who will save us all.
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Unbelievable.
Very few things piss me off more than anti-vax morons killing their children.
Very few things piss me off more than anti-vax morons killing their children.
November 25, 2025 at 9:54 PM
Unbelievable.
Very few things piss me off more than anti-vax morons killing their children.
Very few things piss me off more than anti-vax morons killing their children.
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yes people call the friday after thanksgiving Brown Friday.
yes plumbers get lots of holiday calls.
yes it's because you overwork your disposals, pour fat/gravy/grease in your sink, and clog hosts' toilets.
holidays are hard enough as it is.
don't make them harder.
yes plumbers get lots of holiday calls.
yes it's because you overwork your disposals, pour fat/gravy/grease in your sink, and clog hosts' toilets.
holidays are hard enough as it is.
don't make them harder.
November 25, 2025 at 3:55 PM
yes people call the friday after thanksgiving Brown Friday.
yes plumbers get lots of holiday calls.
yes it's because you overwork your disposals, pour fat/gravy/grease in your sink, and clog hosts' toilets.
holidays are hard enough as it is.
don't make them harder.
yes plumbers get lots of holiday calls.
yes it's because you overwork your disposals, pour fat/gravy/grease in your sink, and clog hosts' toilets.
holidays are hard enough as it is.
don't make them harder.
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@smutclyde.bsky.social explains how paracetamol causes autism by breaking mitochondria, and how autism can be easily cured with leucovorin!
November 25, 2025 at 8:52 AM
@smutclyde.bsky.social explains how paracetamol causes autism by breaking mitochondria, and how autism can be easily cured with leucovorin!
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Physical mail, land lines, now increasingly even email — I find it tragic the way we will sooner abandon a once revolutionary communication technology than regulate* its use by those who seek to sell us junk by feigning familiarity.
*or even cease to subsidize, in some cases.
*or even cease to subsidize, in some cases.
November 25, 2025 at 9:07 AM
Physical mail, land lines, now increasingly even email — I find it tragic the way we will sooner abandon a once revolutionary communication technology than regulate* its use by those who seek to sell us junk by feigning familiarity.
*or even cease to subsidize, in some cases.
*or even cease to subsidize, in some cases.
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Every machine in a Hospital that diagnoses your body without cutting you open is based on a principle of Physics, discovered by a Physicist who had no interest in Medicine.
If you think the world doesn’t need Basic Science, or that somehow Science has failed you, think again.
#sciencematters
If you think the world doesn’t need Basic Science, or that somehow Science has failed you, think again.
#sciencematters
November 25, 2025 at 1:40 AM
Every machine in a Hospital that diagnoses your body without cutting you open is based on a principle of Physics, discovered by a Physicist who had no interest in Medicine.
If you think the world doesn’t need Basic Science, or that somehow Science has failed you, think again.
#sciencematters
If you think the world doesn’t need Basic Science, or that somehow Science has failed you, think again.
#sciencematters
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A great start to the week when you get a notification from @smutclyde.bsky.social spotting a Wiley retraction of a paper me & @sholtodavid.bsky.social flagged in July '25: Wu et al. 2020 (DOI: 10.1002/adhm.201901307) pubpeer.com/publications...
November 24, 2025 at 7:36 PM
A great start to the week when you get a notification from @smutclyde.bsky.social spotting a Wiley retraction of a paper me & @sholtodavid.bsky.social flagged in July '25: Wu et al. 2020 (DOI: 10.1002/adhm.201901307) pubpeer.com/publications...
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After 4 years, the Wiley journal Macromolecular Symposia retracted this "paper."
pubpeer.com/publications... h/t anon Hoya.
pubpeer.com/publications... h/t anon Hoya.
November 24, 2025 at 5:55 PM
After 4 years, the Wiley journal Macromolecular Symposia retracted this "paper."
pubpeer.com/publications... h/t anon Hoya.
pubpeer.com/publications... h/t anon Hoya.
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hmm. I can only read the lede, but this looks like further promotion of stem cells for heart failure
www.thetimes.com/uk/healthcar...
www.thetimes.com/uk/healthcar...
One-off injection ‘gives heart failure patients their life back’
The new stem cell treatment, pioneered in a London hospital, has shown remarkable results and is one clinical trial away from roll-out across the NHS
www.thetimes.com
November 24, 2025 at 5:50 PM
hmm. I can only read the lede, but this looks like further promotion of stem cells for heart failure
www.thetimes.com/uk/healthcar...
www.thetimes.com/uk/healthcar...
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No. (see Betteridge's Law).
Better question: can the media humanize and normalize an attack on the science that underpins public health?
Better question: can the media humanize and normalize an attack on the science that underpins public health?
Over many interviews, Robert F. Kennedy Jr. told Michael Scherer about how he plans to remake America’s public-health system. Can he lead the scientific establishment he’s spent much of his life crusading against?
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November 24, 2025 at 5:24 PM
No. (see Betteridge's Law).
Better question: can the media humanize and normalize an attack on the science that underpins public health?
Better question: can the media humanize and normalize an attack on the science that underpins public health?
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This, by @giacgrassi.bsky.social, remains one of the simplest and best climate visuals
November 23, 2025 at 9:30 PM
This, by @giacgrassi.bsky.social, remains one of the simplest and best climate visuals
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As @gregggonsalves.bsky.social said, here is the main winner in the forced departure of Carl Dieffenbach.
November 24, 2025 at 11:59 AM
As @gregggonsalves.bsky.social said, here is the main winner in the forced departure of Carl Dieffenbach.