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Digital Science @digital-science.com · 1d

📣 This week: Our webinar with @researchinfo.bsky.social will explain how & why to conduct research integrity checks at scale with @dimensions.ai Author Check API.

🗓️ Thursday 9 October 2025
🕑 2pm BST 🕘 9am EDT

🔗 Don't miss out - register now: event.webcasts.com/starthere.js...

#ResearchIntegrity

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Bluesky @bsky.app · 1d

we hit 2 billion posts today! 🥳

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Elisabeth Bik - Perpetrator 5, a fraudulent microbiologist @elisabethbik.bsky.social · 1d

The 2025 #NobelPrize in Physiology or Medicine has been awarded to Mary E. Brunkow, Fred Ramsdell and Shimon Sakaguchi “for their discoveries concerning peripheral immune tolerance.”

Cartoon from the Nobel Assembly showing the three prize winners, their names, and “for their discoveries concerning peripheral immune tolerance.”

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Altmetric @altmetric.com · 2d

Would actually be funny if one or two prize winners have a Bluesky account and aren’t on X. We’ll see!

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Altmetric @altmetric.com · 2d

We applied (using a coupon) for “Nobel Prize in Sass” but we lost out to Wendy’s. AGAIN.

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Altmetric @altmetric.com · 2d

We will have a quiet word

Kara Gavin @karagavin.bsky.social · 2d

Too bad @nobelprize.bsky.social hasn’t got its Bluesky account up and running in time for today’s first prize announcement. (Can you have a chat with them @altmetric.com ?)

The livestream is at x.com/i/broadcasts...

The Nobel Prize

WATCH LIVE: Join us for the 2025 Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine announcement.

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Springer Nature @springernature.com · 4d

One of our top-rated articles on @altmetric.com this past week was published open access in @natcomms.nature.com. Read 'Future changes in severe hail across Europe, including regional emergence of warm-type thunderstorms' here: www.nature.com/articles/s41...

#earthscience #geoscience ⚒️

Future changes in severe hail across Europe, including regional emergence of warm-type thunderstorms - Nature Communications

This study finds a decrease in severe hail across Europe under a high emissions scenario using km-scale climate model projections. However, very large hail remains a threat, particularly due to the emergence of tropical-like thunderstorms around the Mediterranean coasts.

www.nature.com

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Altmetric @altmetric.com · 4d

How wonderful. Raising a glass to him tonight :-)

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Altmetric @altmetric.com · 5d

“It’s like meeting god”. Sandy blond hair.

He went on to Abbotsholme as Head master.

Same guy?

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Altmetric @altmetric.com · 5d

He swore, he could break apart the most challenging literature until it was obvious, and he performed Shakespeare on stage with his student cast including me.

He was one of us. And now, many years later, those of us lucky enough to be in that classroom, are one of him.

Happy Teachers Day.

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Robin Williams standing on his desk in the classroom where Dead Poet's Society takes place, reciting O Captain My Captain

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Altmetric @altmetric.com · 5d

Mine was Martin Allison, a gregarious, brilliant and rebellious English and Theatre teacher and probably the first Yorkshireman I met. He would exit the classroom while talking enthusiastically without stopping and would come back 15 seconds later still babbling as if we had all followed him.

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Altmetric @altmetric.com · 5d

Teachers go above and beyond every day, and there are millions of stories like this out there.

Ask anyone the quest(ion) "who was your most inspirational teacher?" and you'll unlock that story for that person. They are who they are most likely in great part because of that teacher.

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Altmetric @altmetric.com · 5d

Part 2) A love Letter to teaching

Had an English teacher not set that spark with the monologue "punishment", had he not recognised and nurtured his raw talent, we would not have had Richard Burton.

Nor would we have the film Mr Burton itself.

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Altmetric @altmetric.com · 5d

Here's an even better example, from Shakespeare's Sonnet 138. If you force the sight-rhyme of "subtleties" to rhyme with "lies" you get "subtle ties".

Two intertwined meanings which you would discover by reading "subtleties" incorrectly, as many of us do in our heads.

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When my love swears that she is made of truth,
I do believe her, though I know she lies,
That she might think me some untutored youth
Unlearned in the world’s false subtleties

Copied from: https://journals.sagepub.com/doi/epdf/10.1177/1749975520987064?src=getftr&utm_source=readcube&getft_integrator=readcube

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Altmetric @altmetric.com · 5d

Read Hamlet's famous line back to yourself and force it to end where the last iambic beat should be, and you have the secondary (perhaps the true) meaning of Hamlet's thought.

A feminine line in a sea of masculine endings.

A line subconsciously about the subconscious.

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Altmetric @altmetric.com · 5d

Hamlet's speech is also dominated with 27 masculine endings out of 35 lines. This line would have stood out very obviously in Shakespeare's day, given its placement.

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To be, or not to be: that is the question: → Feminine

Whether ’tis nobler in the mind to suffer → Masculine

The slings and arrows of outrageous fortune, → Feminine

Or to take arms against a sea of troubles → Masculine

And by opposing end them. To die—to sleep— → Masculine

No more; and by a sleep to say we end → Masculine

The heart-ache and the thousand natural shocks → Masculine

That flesh is heir to: ’tis a consummation → Feminine

Devoutly to be wish’d. To die, to sleep— → Masculine

To sleep—perchance to dream: ay, there’s the rub! → Masculine

For in that sleep of death what dreams may come → Masculine

When we have shuffled off this mortal coil, → Masculine

Must give us pause—there’s the respect → Masculine

That makes calamity of so long life. → Masculine

For who would bear the whips and scorns of time, → Masculine

Th’ oppressor’s wrong, the proud man’s contumely → Feminine

The pangs of dispriz’d love, the law’s delay, → Masculine

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Altmetric @altmetric.com · 5d

Fully 42 of the 50 lines are masculine endings, while feminine endings, where one syllable overhangs the rhythm, number just 8.

This was much more obvious to Shakespearean theatregoers, as rhythm was one of the ways actors learned lines, and delivered them much more deliberately than today.

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Textbox: According to the practice of the time, Shakespeare wrote his verse in iambic pentameter so it was easier for his actors to learn. When Shakespeare was writing, new plays were performed every day so this 10-beat structure was a great help for anyone having to learn a lot of lines for the next day's play.

Source: https://www.bbc.co.uk/teach/articles/zrpyxyc#:~:text=According%20to%20the%20practice%20of%20the%20time%2C,of%20lines%20for%20the%20next%20day's%20play.

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Altmetric @altmetric.com · 5d

It's all about meter and rhythm. Before Hamlet enters and delivers "To be or not to be--that is the question", the preceding 50 lines delivered by other characters are almost all masculine endings to each line, meaning that the "da-DUM" rhythm ends after 5 repetitions on the last syllable.

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Pictorial guide to Iambic Pentameter

Source: https://discover.hubpages.com/literature/all-you-need-to-know-about-iambic-pentameter

#PoetrySky

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Altmetric @altmetric.com · 5d

Part 1: Shakespeare's superpower

Quick, name Shakespeare's most famous line.

Universally we will recognise it from its first word.

But here's an under appreciated reason WHY it's actually good and deserves to be so famous.

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Altmetric @altmetric.com · 5d

That moment when it arrives is emotionally devastating. Not only is Lawtey pitch-perfect as Burton, but you are witnessing the effect that well-delivered Shakespeare lines can have, as well as the impact a teacher can have.

Burton's English teacher was in attendance during that performance

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Altmetric @altmetric.com · 5d

Amid alcohol problems inherited from the culture of his locale (and perhaps genetic factors) the Burton we know from stage and screen emerges in his final form on stage at the Royal Shakespeare Theatre in Stratford Upon Avon as Prince Hal in Henry V.

www.altmetric.com/details/2036...

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Report for: Genetics and genomics of alcohol sensitivity

In the top 5% of all research outputs scored by Altmetric

www.altmetric.com

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Altmetric @altmetric.com · 5d

The film then follows his development under his English teacher's tutelage as he learns to shed his Welsh tones for the requirements of the English stage.

Harry Lawtey plays Burton, morphing almost imperceptibly from a village boy to the towering baritone that we now know Burton commanded.

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Altmetric @altmetric.com · 5d

Like many including me, Richard Jenkins was made to study Shakespeare at school by his teacher in his native Welsh mining town. OK I didn't experience that last bit.

As a punishment one day he is made to learn a monologue and finds it not a punishment but that he "bloody loved it".

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"Don't Threaten Me With a Good Time" - Michael Anthony

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Altmetric @altmetric.com · 5d

THREAD

Oct 5th is Teachers Day

In April 2025 the film Mr Burton introduced a new generation to the origin story of one of the greatest Welsh actors, Richard Jenkins, later Burton.

The film actually deals with a lot more. Here are some strands to pull at.

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#AcademicSky #TeachingSky

Colour photo of Richard Burton in his later years.

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Altmetric @altmetric.com · 5d

Einen Schönen Tag der Deutschen Einheit wünschen wir alle für morgen!

#tagderdeutscheneinheit

Leibniz INM @leibnizinm.bsky.social · 5d

After 16 years, #tagderdeutscheneinheit (German Unity Day) returns to Saarbrücken & we're excited to showcase our new materials alongside @uni-saarland.de!

Today, we engaged the public with nano-enhanced devices as flexible electronics and seed-like sensors.

Tomorrow - Living Technologies!

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