BTW our manuscript has been accepted for publication this week in Bioengineered!

The editorial board is showing real courage. I hope this serves as an example for all other publishers.

@elisabethbik.bsky.social @thatsregrettab1.bsky.social @smutclyde.bsky.social @mortenoxe.bsky.social

The journal Bioengineered is going to pause all submissions and are currently investigating over 1000 papers they've published in the past.
www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....

We could only dream of this outcome after our investigation: arxiv.org/abs/2503.21267

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RIP Jayant Narlikar, a titan of Indian science. I first heard of him in middle school when he gave a Hindi summary of Carl Sagan's Cosmos on Doordarshan. I acquired some of his books in high school. I didn't do astronomy but had the good fortune of meeting him, briefly, just a few months ago.

Spotted in Paris. Wish it was a real book (maybe a bande dessinée of the Beatles?)

If science has no passport, perhaps the EU can make conference and research visas easier for the global south. (And India's conference visa rules are no better.)
France is relatively friendly to scientists seeking visas. Some other Schengen states are horrible.

Is it possible that your previous page was odd-numbered and the next chapter (thinks Word) should be on an odd-numbered page so it inserted a blank page?

Also, isn't this the job of your publishers and their staff?

(I don't use Word, but then I don't write crime fiction...)

This is after the fatal crash caused by a Black Hawk at the same airport!

We have extended our deadline for applying to our PhD programme in computational biology by 12 days. Apply by May 12 if you have a mathematical bent of mind, biology interest, and necessary conditions met! (4-year or 5-year degree in STEM, any qualifying exam) More: www.imsc.res.in/phd_programm...

If American science dies (or goes into a long, slow decline), what will replace it? No other country is close. www.vox.com/future-perfe...

Read TSR already. Now an Outsider followup with Rob, and a Killing Kind followup with Ingrid, please.

(Seriously, TSR was great, thanks, also for the author's note about the ending! I've never been this "into" a detective series other than Sherlock Holmes.)

you’re fired. wait you’re rehired. email us a list of things you’ve done today wait forget it you’re fired again. come back your job was important. you’re fired. or hired. come in to the office. wait the office has no computers go home. we are the department of government efficiency.

Cuisine evolves.
A lot of "Indian" dishes are unthinkable without chilis, potatoes, tomatoes, all of which originated in the Americas. But at least they have been here for a few hundred years.
Many iconic "Italian" dishes are a lot more recent, it seems.
www.bbc.com/travel/artic...

Before taking a week off social media, let me add some points
8. The winners from the chaos and destruction in US defence, security and intelligence departments are Beijing and Moscow
9. Musk has significant business ties with China
10. (repeating 6) Musk was not elected

The change in Georgia over the series is remarkable, but she seems really mature in this one, I agree

Hi @janecasey.bsky.social, just read "Outside the door". Previously you wrote a story from Georgia's p.o.v. which made her much more likeable. Liv was already likeable and this story from her p.o.v. makes her much *less* so... or so it seems? Curtain raiser for complications in "Secret room"?

A month ago the Economist suggested, only part joking I think, that Canada should join the EU. It actually makes a lot of sense. www.economist.com/europe/2025/...

With all Trump's talk of annexing Canada, I'm surprised this 2004 meme hasn't showed up very much (cf en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jesusla...)

remember stuff like this when they tell you that diversity means a lowering of standards

Beautiful tribute to a giant, the last of The Band
www.rollingstone.com/music/music-...

Get well soon, but also, contrary to the folk wisdom ("feed the cold, starve the fever") perhaps starving the cold will stop sinus leakage due to conservation of mass?

(* This is not medical advice)

I took a Tesla taxi in Germany some time ago and this vision system seemed impressive (no trains in sight) and totally unnecessary. Which human driver needs this?
But this is why my electric car (Tata Nexon) cost < €20000 (take-home) while the cheapest Tesla costs ~ €40000 (before duties/taxes).

I don't think many Californians voted for accelerating global climate change. Many Americans, however, did.

I privately reached out to folk I know/knew in the LA area, but have undoubtedly forgotten many and know many more only via SM. All of you, hope you are safe. Scary scary visuals.