Professor at the Centre for Organismal Studies (COS), University of Heidelberg, Germany
and at the
Living Systems Institute (LSI), University of Exeter, UK […]
🌉 bridged from ⁂ https://biologists.social/@jekely, follow @ap.brid.gy to interact
Gaspar Jekely
What a misleading, annoying, damaging press release from the University of Manchaster:
https://phys.org/news/2026-05-coral-infertility-ovarian-cancer-decoding.html
How did they go from a paper on coral cilia to ovarian cancer? The original paper does not mention cancer, disease etc. at all […]
Placozoan magic - ciliary reorientation:
"Fast mechanosensitive and Ca2+-dependent reorientation of motile cilia basal bodies in the placozoan Trichoplax"
by Marvin Leria et al
https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/42167219/
The truth about the truth in the age of A.I.
"The author, Steven Rosenbaum, whose book “The Future of Truth” was released this month to great fanfare, incorporated more than a half-dozen misattributed or fake quotes in sections of the book"
But is this now true? 🤔 #AI […]
Gaspar Jekely
We still have a few places to register for our
"Heidelberg Wild Thinking Workshop - The organism, its self and its environment: from philosophy to physics." 19-20 May 2026, Heidelberg
https://www.cos.uni-heidelberg.de/en/wild-thinking-workshop-1 […]
[Original post on biologists.social]
Great idea: A web page that simply shows you the info your browser shares about you and your system whenever you open a web page.
https://sinceyouarrived.world/taken
#Privacy #Surveillance
Coming also to your country soon: one of the myriad ways in which surveillance corporations like Elsevier directly affect the research landscape:
"UUK and Elsevier partner to map university research strengths" […]
Gaspar Jekely
There are already solutions right here on Earth to many of the problems “sunlight as a service” purports to solve. This approach is simply a reckless and inefficient use of Earth orbit, a precious and finite resource.
This list of facts was developed by me and a bunch of very concerned […]
Gaspar Jekely
Am in Heidelberg at this wonderfully diverse "Wild Thinking" workshop organized by @jekely, Fred Keijzer, and Peter Godfrey-Smith:
https://www.cos.uni-heidelberg.de/en/wild-thinking-workshop-1
Will give two talks one in the "Philosophy meets biology" public section of the workshop, called […]
A web page that tells you what your browser gave away the moment you arrived. No login, no form, no permission. Most pages do this. None of them tell you.
Kudos to 𝘗𝘓𝘖𝘚 𝘔𝘦𝘥𝘪𝘤𝘪𝘯𝘦 for adding an #OpenCode policy to its #OpenAccess and #OpenData policies.
https://doi.org/10.1371/journal.pmed.1005107
#Journals #Medicine #OpenScience #OpenSource #PLOS #ScholComm
Gaspar Jekely
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#Trump Administration to Dismantle #OceanMonitoring System
The $368 million network of instruments collecting data in both the #Atlantic & #Pacific has been #critical to #climate & #ocean #research.
There’s no reason to do this other than to be destructive & evil.
#ClimateChange […]
Recognizing that code is as essential a research artifact as the data it analyzes, this Editorial outlines how PLOS Medicine is strengthening its code sharing policy to further ensure reproducibility and trust in the scientific record.
