One of the locals along the Clinical trail (Waimapihi) was up early.
My PhD student: "More like, these are the 4 stages of writing a PhD thesis."
@smutclyde.bsky.social discusses the recycling of kaggle datasets into the scientific literature. A paper from Scientific Reports used the "eye disease data set" which includes only a few hundred images, including animals, diagrams, and people in sunglasses.
forbetterscience.com/2026/06/09/b...
Near the top of Salvation Track.
Thanks to AI, we no longer need bored 19th C. aristocratic English antiquarians.
I've been robbed of my 1st Amendment right to silence people who disrespect me!
A long tradition of respect for the Tsars.
Mushroom, you are unclear on the concept.
To the surprise of absolutely no-one, a panel of well-connected old Oxonians from advantageous backgrounds would like to credit the fact that they lived to be old upon their personal choices rather than upon their backgrounds.
It can't do any worse.
Bernd Porr
Smut Clyde, X-Ray Haruspex
Smut Clyde, X-Ray Haruspex
Smut Clyde, X-Ray Haruspex
Smut Clyde, X-Ray Haruspex
Smut Clyde, X-Ray Haruspex
Smut Clyde, X-Ray Haruspex
Smut Clyde, X-Ray Haruspex
Smut Clyde, X-Ray Haruspex
Sholto David
@smutclyde.bsky.social discusses the recycling of kaggle datasets into the scientific literature. A paper from Scientific Reports used the "eye disease data set" which includes only a few hundred images, including animals, diagrams, and people in sunglasses.
forbetterscience.com/2026/06/09/b...
I don’t know what to tell you, man. I’m a medieval historian, and, in my field, if you don’t check your sources (and your sources’ sources) you are just asking to be taken for a ride by some bored 19th C. aristocratic English antiquarian with a penchant for inventing history.
Important explanation that these headlines were not based on any science but are essentially the opinions of well connected people.
open.substack.com/pub/gidmk/p/...
