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Timothy Snyder @timothysnyder.bsky.social · 20h

Please join me in a new campaign to help protect Ukrainians in a very special way. My Ukrainian friends chose to call this campaign Freedom is Action. They are making an important point. One way to find our own courage is to act in support those who are showing it
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Freedom is Action: A Campaign for Ukraine

A fundraiser for life-saving drone-jamming cars and trucks

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For Better Science @forbetterscience.bsky.social · 1d

A scamference heir sues McGill University for half a billion dollars!

For Better Science @forbetterscience.bsky.social · 3d

Schneider Shorts 10.10.2025 – A forum for finding irrelevant ‘issues’ that pillory young scientists
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Schneider Shorts 10.10.2025 – A forum for finding irrelevant ‘issues’ that pillory young scientists

Schneider Shorts 10.10.2025 – – how Nobel Magic works, a German Nobelist investigates again, a Polish professor out of the job, a wise fellow in Sweden, a cunning move from Denmark, wit…

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For Better Science @forbetterscience.bsky.social · 1d

Already signed by over 650 Million proud Hungarians!

Ukrainska Pravda 🇺🇦 @pravda.ua · 1d

👹 Hungarian PM launches petition against Brussels' "war plan", developed to back Ukraine

Hungarian PM launches petition against Brussels' "war plan", developed to back Ukraine

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Euromaidan Press @euromaidanpress.bsky.social · 1d

Germany trained Russian troops and nearly placed officers inside each other's military commands just before Russia's 2014 Crimea annexation, Spiegel reports.

Rheinmetall’s tech was central to Russia’s modern war games complex in Mulino.
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Spiegel: Merkel-era Germany trained Russian troops just before Russia’s 2014 Crimea invasion

German officers and Rheinmetall helped develop Russia’s war simulation centers months before Putin seized Crimea.

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For Better Science @forbetterscience.bsky.social · 1d

Who writes this satire, it's so silly..
What?
Oh.

Olga Nesterova @onestpress.onestnetwork.com · 1d

Ugh.

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For Better Science @forbetterscience.bsky.social · 2d

Can russia also have one?

Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 2d

Hegseth: "I'm also proud that today we're signing a letter of acceptance to build a Qatari Emeri air force facility at the Mountain Home Airbase in Idaho."

For Better Science @forbetterscience.bsky.social · 2d

Possibly of some relevance, uniQure's preclinical studies on Huntington's contain fake data.
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Tanya Lewis @tanyalewis.bsky.social · 11d

After yrs of disappointment scientists have made a genuine advance in treating Huntington's. The new gene therapy slowed disease progression by 75%. But it's still experimental and will likely be $$, @parshallison.bsky.social reports for @sciam.bsky.social: www.scientificamerican.com/article/firs...

How Scientists Finally Found a Treatment that Slows Huntington’s Disease

After years of heartbreak, researchers have found an experimental treatment that can slow the progression of Huntington’s disease, according to early results from a small clinical trial

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For Better Science @forbetterscience.bsky.social · 3d

If this daily carnage is tiresome for Europeans: russians plan to extend it to the rest of Europe.
Ukrainians are fighting to protect us all.

Anton Gerashchenko @antongerashchenko.bsky.social · 3d

Yet another massive Russian drone and missile attack on Ukraine, which lasted all night. Russia used:

◾️ 465 Shahed and Gerbera drones;
◾️ 2 Kinzhal air-launched ballistic missiles;
◾️ 14 Iskander-M ballistic missiles;
◾️ 12 Iskander-K cruise missiles;
◾️ 2 Kh-59/69 guided air-launched missiles.

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For Better Science @forbetterscience.bsky.social · 3d

Poland's martyr Grzegorz Krolczyk is Christ Among the Scientists.
Do you have a job for him?

For Better Science @forbetterscience.bsky.social · 3d

Schneider Shorts 10.10.2025 – A forum for finding irrelevant ‘issues’ that pillory young scientists
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Schneider Shorts 10.10.2025 – A forum for finding irrelevant ‘issues’ that pillory young scientists

Schneider Shorts 10.10.2025 – – how Nobel Magic works, a German Nobelist investigates again, a Polish professor out of the job, a wise fellow in Sweden, a cunning move from Denmark, wit…

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For Better Science @forbetterscience.bsky.social · 3d

Omar Yaghi is not an honest guy. That's why he deserves the @nobelprize.bsky.social

For Better Science @forbetterscience.bsky.social · 3d

Schneider Shorts 10.10.2025 – A forum for finding irrelevant ‘issues’ that pillory young scientists
forbetterscience.com/2025/10/10/s...

Schneider Shorts 10.10.2025 – A forum for finding irrelevant ‘issues’ that pillory young scientists

Schneider Shorts 10.10.2025 – – how Nobel Magic works, a German Nobelist investigates again, a Polish professor out of the job, a wise fellow in Sweden, a cunning move from Denmark, wit…

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For Better Science @forbetterscience.bsky.social · 3d

Also NHANES data to be used by white scholars only. Mushrooms make white women happy and meat protects against cancer.
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NHANES – For Better Science

Posts about NHANES written by Leonid Schneider

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For Better Science @forbetterscience.bsky.social · 3d

Schneider Shorts 10.10.2025 – A forum for finding irrelevant ‘issues’ that pillory young scientists
forbetterscience.com/2025/10/10/s...

Schneider Shorts 10.10.2025 – A forum for finding irrelevant ‘issues’ that pillory young scientists

Schneider Shorts 10.10.2025 – – how Nobel Magic works, a German Nobelist investigates again, a Polish professor out of the job, a wise fellow in Sweden, a cunning move from Denmark, wit…

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For Better Science @forbetterscience.bsky.social · 3d

Ideally, UK Biobank data should be used by white men for eugenics purposes.
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I am not a racist but…

Some geneticists have very unorthodox ideas. These might sound like racism or eugenics to simple folks, but it is really high science. UK Biobank is apparently on board.

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For Better Science @forbetterscience.bsky.social · 3d

Right, milking UK Biobank for crap correlations is for white authors only.
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Reese Richardson @reeserichardson.bsky.social · 3d

@cathleenogrady.bwww.science covers the rise of shoddy public health papers for @science.org

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Journals and publishers crack down on research from open health data sets

PLOS, Frontiers, and others announce policies trying to stem the tide of suspect research

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For Better Science @forbetterscience.bsky.social · 3d

Tagged wrong Frontiers, meh.
Meant these Frontiers in Autism Quackery

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Frontiers: a danger for public health?

Frontiers is a somewhat unconventional open access publisher, which likes to have it both ways: playing scientific elite while accepting almost anything from paying customers. My regular contributo…

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For Better Science @forbetterscience.bsky.social · 3d

Attention @frontiersmedia.bsky.social @mdpiopenaccess.bsky.social

Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 3d

RFK Jr on Tylenol and autism: "It is not proof. We're doing the studies to make the proof."

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Mu Yang, Ph.D. @mumumouse2.bsky.social · 4d

We will fight back with this

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For Better Science @forbetterscience.bsky.social · 4d

Would love to hear your comment on this Science "correction".
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For Better Science @forbetterscience.bsky.social · 4d

Omar Yaghi just got the #Nobel for publishing phony MOF data and issuing phony corrections.
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Magic crystals and Nobel Science rules

As one Nobelist retracted her Science paper, another Nobelist has stealthily corrected his. The correction opens new dimensions of probabilities and is indeed best kept hidden.

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For Better Science @forbetterscience.bsky.social · 4d

More Nobelists who behave inappropriately: sexism, pseudoscience, enabling fraudsters, participating in scamferences, etc:
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Nobel Prize – Page 2 – For Better Science

Posts about Nobel Prize written by Leonid Schneider, M. van Kampen, and smut.clyde

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For Better Science @forbetterscience.bsky.social · 4d

Louis Ignarro published lots of fake stuff with his Neapolitan friends. Refuses to even correct.
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Fake data and real pomegranate juice in Nobelist Louis Ignarro’s papers

Louis J. Ignarro knew how to monetize his 1998 Nobel Prize for discovery of nitric oxide as molecular cell signalling agent. He made many millions selling dietary supplement for Herbalife and pomeg…

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For Better Science @forbetterscience.bsky.social · 4d

Gregg Semenza was exposed as a cheater right after his Nobel. 15 retractions so far. Now hangs out at scamferences awarding Florian Kongoli's psychopathic son.
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Gregg Semenza: real Nobel Prize and unreal research data

“Even after people have been telling you for, you know, 20 years or more that it’s going to happen, no one expects it.” -Gregg Semenza, Nobel Prize winner 2019

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For Better Science @forbetterscience.bsky.social · 4d

Martin Evans befriended a pathological liar and fraudster named Ajan, together they lied, cheated and abused patients.
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Requiem for Celixir

How the Nobel Prize winner Sir Martin Evans and the lying crook Ajan Reginald almost succeeded, were it not for Patricia Murray.

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For Better Science @forbetterscience.bsky.social · 4d

Thomas Südhof defends cheaters in his lab and smears those who expose fraud.
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Thomas Südhof and AI-powered weapons of micro-duplication

Thomas Südhof, victim of racist and sexist persecution, announced to retract a second paper, “even though the quantitative analyses and conclusions are correct”.

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For Better Science @forbetterscience.bsky.social · 4d

Nobelists are not role models. They are often unscrupulous, greedy and unpleasant old men.
Some Nobelists are very bad scientists. Some are outright science frauds.
An FBS thread.

For Better Science @forbetterscience.bsky.social · 4d

Omar Yaghi just got the #Nobel for publishing phony MOF data and issuing phony corrections.
forbetterscience.com/2020/01/06/m...

Magic crystals and Nobel Science rules

As one Nobelist retracted her Science paper, another Nobelist has stealthily corrected his. The correction opens new dimensions of probabilities and is indeed best kept hidden.

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For Better Science @forbetterscience.bsky.social · 4d

Next, EU Parliament will forbid calling solar and wind energy "electricity".
To protect customers.

Tagesspiegel @tagesspiegel.de · 5d

Fleischersatzprodukte sollen künftig nicht mehr mit der Bezeichnung Wurst, Schnitzel oder Burger mehr versehen werden. Das fordert das EU-Parlament. buff.ly/WtDfLE5

Ein Regal im Supermarkt mit Fleischersatzprodukten. Darüber Text: "EU-Parlament hat abgestimmt: Veggie-Wurst  darf nicht mehr  Wurst heißen"

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