Peter Higgs: I wouldn't be productive enough for today's academic system

Carl Sagan’s Baloney Detection Kit: Tools for Thinking Critically & Knowing Pseudoscience When You See It

Though he died too young, Carl Sagan left behind an impressively large body of work, including more than 600 scientific papers and more than 20 books.

Jason Shepherd on Twitter / X

I have quite a lot of thoughts on this..that won't fit in a tweet. Bottomline is that there are issues scientists in the US would love to improve - faster review, less grant writing, more stability and freedom to do risky science. The folks celebrating this doc are mostly../1 https://t.co/xlPAH9XYNC— Jason Shepherd (@JasonSynaptic) July 23, 2026

Scientific sleuths come in from the cold

Research integrity investigators are starting to organize, but the field, and the people, remain idiosyncratic

Anka Reuel | @ankareuel.bsky.social on Twitter / X

+1. To all slop authors, I’m not sure if you realize that senior reviewers (often the same ppl you apply to for grad school) see your real name. Last year I PC’d and an author (who I knew…) submitted 8 slop papers, all rejected. Guess who I’d never work with or admit to my lab. https://t.co/chrg1vrOqc— Anka Reuel | @ankareuel.bsky.social (@AnkaReuel) September 19, 2026

Pioneering Scientific Superintelligence

Pioneering Scientific Superintelligence to solve humankind’s greatest challenges.

Information: the Measure of All Things? Part II: The Genius in the Gene - 3 Quarks Daily

by Yohan J. John

The new way we’ll do science

Papers should become human-readable views over a graph of data, tools, results, and certificates.

Let’s hear it for the four-hour working day

Are you working your brain too hard? Take it easy – like Charles Darwin, Alice Munro or Thomas Jefferson

Jake Wintermute 🧬/acc on Twitter / X

I’ve expected this for a while but it still hurts. The “Life Sciences Verification Program.” It breaks my heart to know that biological knowledge will be locked down and gatekept like this. I want to take a moment to mourn, because I believe this marks an end for open science as… https://t.co/l5WLjOuEdk— Jake Wintermute 🧬/acc (@SynBio1) September 17, 2026

When Nature Calls: The Enshittification of Science and Its Enablers

Proof-of-work papers, policy laundering, and the collapse of self-correction

The Engine of Scientific Discovery: How New Methods and Tools Spark Major Breakthroughs

Abstract. How do we spark new scientific discoveries? Why do some breakthroughs seem even accidental? And most importantly, how can we accelerate them and