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Carlos Chordá @carloschnav.bsky.social · 1h

La población debe ser consciente de la naturaleza de la ciencia: nos estamos jugando mucho. Kathryn Schulz en El Pais.
elpais.com/ciencia/2025...

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Javier Gil @javigil.bsky.social · 22d

1. Si alguien está arruinando la vida de las nuevas generaciones son los caseros y el rentismo.

A las nuevas generaciones se les dijo que con esfuerzo, estudios y trabajo tendrían de todo.

Hoy ni pueden dejar la casa de sus padres porque el alquiler se come todo su sueldo.

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Retraction Watch @retractionwatch.com · 12h

Dr. Oransky warned of consequences for self-governance failure: "If you don't self-police, if you don't correct the record, if you don't sanction people who commit fraud, [...] someone else will come in and do that. And it very well could be a government that you don't like."

Is Science Retracting Enough Papers?

As paper mills and fraud proliferate, experts warn the retraction rate should reach 2% of published literature—ten times current levels.

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Reuters @reuters.com · 22h

A telehealth startup had a plan for ADHD drugs. Now two executives face a criminal trial reut.rs/3IXNUXN

A telehealth startup had a plan for ADHD drugs. Now two executives face a criminal trial

As diagnoses of attention deficit hyperactivity disorder continue to rise in the U.S. and many patients struggle to find treatment, a telehealth startup in 2020 began touting an easier way to get medication.

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Don Moynihan @donmoyn.bsky.social · 21h

Immigrant Nobel Prize winners exiting the United States

Florian Scheuer @florianscheuer.bsky.social · 1d

I am delighted to share that Nobel laureates Esther Duflo and Abhijit Banerjee will join our Department of Economics @econ.uzh.ch at the University of Zurich on July 1, 2026, as Lemann Foundation Professors of Economics.

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Dr Alex Bond @thelabandfield.bsky.social · 1d

It's also not "just another" extinction, it's the first from mainland Europe in centuries. CENTURIES.

And there will be others within our lifetime.

That's biodiversity loss.

We'll never hear this sound, ever again xeno-canto.org/398794

XC398794 Slender-billed Curlew (Numenius tenuirostris)

Awful wind noise in the original! See sonogram and notes of the recording circumstances on p12 of Gretton A. (1991) The ecology and conservation of the Slender-billed Curlew (Numenius tenuirostris). ...

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El Mundo Today @elmundotoday.com · 21h

Pronto las críticas literarias consistirán en una sucesión de eructos que desempeñarán la función de las actuales estrellitas o puntuaciones.

Puedes leer la información completa en la web: www.elmundotoday.com/2025/10/mas-...

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SergioEfe @sergioefe.bsky.social · 1d

"Mr. Whitney’s brain is full of amyloid, probably even more than other mutation carriers in his family because he has lived so long [...]. But he has very little tau."

www.nytimes.com/2025/10/07/h...

He Was Expected to Get Alzheimer’s 25 Years Ago. Why Hasn’t He?

www.nytimes.com

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Yago Álvarez Barba @econocabreado.bsky.social · 1d

Sabía que había una alerta hidrológica y se fue a comer más de 3 horas... no hay que echarle, tiene que acabar en la cárcel.

RTVE Comunitat Valenciana @rtvevalencia.bsky.social · 1d

- Hay una primera alerta hidrológica…

Eso decía el president Carlos Mazón a las 13:45 h, antes de irse a comer al Ventorro.

- Y en el Poyo he oído, ¿no? [respondía alguien]

🔴TVE revela imágenes inéditas de la reunión del Consell con patronal y sindicatos el día de la tragedia.

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Adrian Hugo Aginagalde @alloreag.bsky.social · 1d

Una cosa es una cosa. Y otra cosa es otra cosa.

Afirmar que ha habido fallecimientos por externalización y desfinanciación, es un triple salto mortal.

Y no quita un ápice de la responsabilidad política. Ni un poco.

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SergioEfe @sergioefe.bsky.social · 1d

¿Incierta para quién?

EL PAÍS Ciencia y Tecnología @elpaiscyt.bsky.social · 1d

La incierta burbuja de la IA: las tecnológicas mantienen la apuesta, pese a los altibajos que vaticina Altman

elpais.com/tecnologia/2...

La incierta burbuja de la IA: las tecnológicas mantienen la apuesta, pese a los altibajos que vaticina Altman

Compañías y organizaciones se lanzan a adoptar la inteligencia artificial, aunque la mayoría no sabe cómo crecer con ella y muchos proyectos fracasan

elpais.com

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SergioEfe @sergioefe.bsky.social · 1d

😬😬😬

The new policies should help weed out fraudulent papers, at least in the short term, says Matt Spick, a statistician at the University of Surrey who brought the problems to light. But some researchers worry the rule could create unnecessary barriers for genuine research that can benefit public health. “It’s good to have some guardrails,” says Thu Nguyen, an epidemiologist at the University of Maryland. But “don’t just throw the whole thing away and say it’s all garbage.”

SergioEfe @sergioefe.bsky.social · 1d

"PLOS journals have seen skyrocketing submissions of papers that find a statistical link between a health condition (such as depression) and a possible cause (such as vitamin D levels) in a specific group of people, such as women under age 35."

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www.science.org/content/arti...

Large public health data sets tend to contain a huge number of variables, making them fertile ground for studies that probe how various factors affect health. But their richness also allows unscrupulous actors to carve up the data in countless ways, seeking chance correlations that look like reliable statistical signals but are, in reality, just noise.

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SergioEfe @sergioefe.bsky.social · 1d

¡De nada!

SergioEfe @sergioefe.bsky.social · 1d

Jason Stanley acertó pirándose pronto.

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Alexander Clarkson @aphclarkson.bsky.social · 1d

With a lot of online traffic now driven by recipes, wordle and household tips the New York Times is going to end up as a kind of posh Buzzfeed with some legacy politics journalism attached

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Darren Dahly @statsepi.bsky.social · 2d

There is nothing that a certain type of medic won't try to turn into medicine. It never winds up helping anyone.

Edward Nirenberg @enirenberg.bsky.social · 2d

This is a really bad idea lol

Experts Push to Expand Role of Nutrition in Medicine www.medpagetoday.com/primarycare/...

Experts Push to Expand Role of Nutrition in Medicine

Doctors should prescribe food just like they prescribe medications, expert suggests

www.medpagetoday.com

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SergioEfe @sergioefe.bsky.social · 1d

¡Gracias! A vosotros por regalarnos algo así de bueno.

SergioEfe @sergioefe.bsky.social · 1d

No solo lo recomiendo, lo alabo mucho. La selección y traducción son magníficas, y la introducción es muy didáctica y trata con mucho respeto al lector, sin ella no se disfrutaría y entendería tanto lo que viene luego. Enhorabuena a todos los implicados, qué bien que se publiquen cosas así.

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SergioEfe @sergioefe.bsky.social · 1d

57. El elogio de la sombra (Junichirō Tanizaki).

No fue lo que esperaba. La tesis envejeció mucho mejor de lo que el viejo gruñón del autor podía imaginar y está muy bien escrita, pero tiene un aroma reaccionario propio de 1933 que requeriría contexto. La última página hace que valga la pena.

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Jacob Aron @jjaron.bsky.social · 1d

This piece, with four bylines, is full of glee for the continued survival of fossil fuel cars, with very little explanation of why that's a bad thing - no one thought it was worth spelling out? www.ft.com/content/a0cf...

Why carmakers are falling back in love with petrol

Revival comes as industry confronts higher tariff-related costs and rising threat posed by cheap Chinese EVs

www.ft.com

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SergioEfe @sergioefe.bsky.social · 1d

Es importante recordar que lo que está pasando 'it's not a bug, it's a feature'. No es la primera ni será la última vez, aunque esta vaya a batir récords.

www.politico.com/newsletters/...

What’s a technology that you think is overhyped?

I’m going to give a sideways answer to this, which is that the venture capital business model needs to be understood as requiring hype. You can go back to the Netscape IPO, and that was the proof point that made venture capital the financial lifeblood of the tech industry.

Venture capital looks at valuations and growth, not necessarily at profit or revenue. So you don’t actually have to invest in technology that works, or that even makes a profit, you simply have to have a narrative that is compelling enough to float those valuations. So you see this repetitive and exhausting hype cycle as a feature in this industry. A couple of years ago, you would have been asking me about the metaverse, then last year, you would have asked me about Web3 and crypto, and for each of these inflection points there’s an Andreessen Horowitz manifesto.

It’s not simply that one piece of technology is overhyped, it’s that hype is a necessary ingredient of the current business ecosystem of the tech industry. We should examine how often the financial incentive for hype is rewarded without any real social returns, without any meaningful progress in technology, without these tools and services and worlds ever actually manifesting. That’s key to understanding the growing chasm between the narrative of techno-optimists and the reality of our tech-encumbered world.

SergioEfe @sergioefe.bsky.social · 2d

"The risk of a sharp market correction has increased."

A sharp correction in stock prices “could drag down world growth, expose vulnerabilities and make life especially tough for developing countries”.

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IMF and BoE warn AI boom risks ‘abrupt’ stock market correction

Kristalina Georgieva and UK financial stability watchdog say valuations are closing in on dotcom bubble levels

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SergioEfe @sergioefe.bsky.social · 2d

Te confieso que no recuerdo lo que hicieron. En general es un tema que creo que se olvidó por completo a la semana siguiente.

SergioEfe @sergioefe.bsky.social · 2d

"The hundreds of billions of dollars companies are investing in AI now account for an astonishing 40 per cent share of US GDP growth this year.

AI companies have accounted for 80 per cent of the gains in US stocks so far in 2025."

on.ft.com/4pTQ3US

America is now one big bet on AI

It’s seen as the magic fix for every threat to the US economy

on.ft.com

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