Mark Ziemann 🇺🇦🌻🦩

Suspect patterns of citations indicate paper mills are responsible for 5-10% of articles in some top ranked cancer journals.
https://www.biorxiv.org/content/10.64898/2026.05.25.727627v1

Funding for science in Australia is running out, and will have a terrible impact on our economic situation. The so called progressive labour government has let this get worse and worse. Liam Mannix reports on what this means for CSIRO

https://moe_6a5h.api-02.moengage.com/v1/emailview?q=CNz4uh8jqq2uEhkLFlo7IUkhMSU5F8Tg9z4IacY.EifL2EcQTPeFdGg3jqc9-QdJMVv9TS3iWECzOR9xKY1shZ6rGOBBykMpcg6ngGE6LowYSz.wJVTV5WIC8AcCOagWm0vER2U2jB.qYkL2D8vvlr6S0VsAIGMci.kaemEV.Cp8Z.acKGbm6Lj1GEV2nB.QLVwf1T.ocSoI-JeFRTNL.fV9Mq.NQCdiJASFjKTwf2k1qYLp65y2iHF6dWH72u.Q1vqWkw64VcpJX8uyf63_lnA&event_date=2026-07-28&event_time=1785265344

Just went for a jog here in Melbourne as I normally do after putting the kids to bed. It felt unseasonably warm. Just checked the temperature now is 13C at 11pm. Normally it's around 5-10C at this time of year. I guess this is climate change in real-time

Probably the most insane thing I've heard about North Korea 💩
https://youtu.be/bEKzFiWDGJc

If you want a laugh, check out what kitboga is doing to scam caller AI bots. Absolute gold.
https://youtu.be/lk3jCuITwcE

Shared and niche-specific transcriptional signatures of macrophage aging revealed by a cross-tissue meta-analysis
https://link.springer.com/article/10.1186/s12915-026-02672-x
#genomics #Bioinformatics

I think it is a bunch of separate issues. Firstly, how AI companies have used all material from the internet without permission and without any compensation to the authors of the original works. Next, the excess consumption of water and energy for a loss-making enterprise that is straining the local communities. Next is the surveillance aspect and the storage of sensitive data on each user. These all need very strong regulation. cont.

Really liking this new #postrock album from If These Trees Could Talk we waited 10 years for a new one and it doesn't disappoint.
https://ifthesetreescouldtalk.bandcamp.com/album/the-hidden-hand

RE: @EuromaidanPress@mastodon.social

It is crazy how one of russia's strategic goals was to expand access to warm deepwater ports, and now as a consequence of their war, they are losing control of Crimean ports, Azov Sea and therefore river access to the Black Sea.

You folks noticed an uptick of YT ads for chatGPT in the past few weeks? Seems kinda desperate.

I'm increasingly seeing citations to my articles that are irrelevant, in the wrong context or just plainly mis attributing my work. This was common before #AI but is getting ridiculous lately. I think there's some research to be done to determine the scale of the problem in academic articles, and increase in the clarity about justification for citing each of the sources.
#AcademicChatter

RE: @hn50@social.lansky.name

The amount of cash getting burned for #AI capex is astonishing. So big and unprofitable that it will likely never pay back. Well worth a read from Ed Zitron

Interesting story about Russia trying to send North Korea a nuclear sub reactor.
https://edition.cnn.com/2026/05/12/world/a-russian-ship-sank-in-mysterious-circumstances-it-may-have-been-carrying-nuclear-reactors-to-north-korea

RE: @noelreports@mstdn.social

Well this is something new

More examples of AI "transforming" research... For worse not better
https://retractionwatch.com/2026/05/07/one-in-277-pubmed-indexed-papers-in-2026-shows-fabricated-references-says-analysis/
#AiResearch #AI #academicchatter

Seems that Retraction Watch doesn't have an account on fedi. Let's fix that. Anyone know how to make a bot repost their blog articles?

RE: @mdziemann@genomic.social

Last chance to register for our workshop on reproducible pathway enrichment analysis. There are 2 sessions, 1st one is focused on GUI-web tools and 2nd will be based on R Markdown. We'll also be discussing best practices from our related article in PLOS Comp Biol
Register here: https://tinyurl.com/ye262hzx
#Bioinformatics #genomics

Consumer-grade PCs are better suited to R-based data analysis tasks compared to servers or workstations
https://genomespot.blogspot.com/2026/05/benchmarking-r-based-bioinformatics.html
#Bioinformatics
#dataAnalytics

I hate this so much.
Noone wants AI slop in scholarship.
If you need a nice looking graphic, please engage a graphic designer!
https://arxiv.org/abs/2603.16159
#AI #slop

Pleased to share with you our latest article "Ten common mistakes that could ruin your enrichment analysis", featuring Anusuiya Bora, Matthew McKenzie.

This article condenses what we've learned about best practices in pathway enrichment analysis over the past 15 years. We hope you find it useful.

https://doi.org/10.1371/journal.pcbi.1014122

#bioinformatics #genomics

RE: @mdziemann@genomic.social

🚨 Reminder about the upcoming workshop - you will learn best practices in pathway enrichment analysis!

🔗 Registration: https://tinyurl.com/ye262hzx

Join us for a 2-part workshop on Mastering Reproducible Enrichment Analysis! 📊

Presented by Anusuiya Bora and myself, with a focus on reproducibility and best practices.

📅 When: 12 and 13 May 2026
🕑 Time: 2:00 PM – 4:00 PM (AEST)
📍 Where: Online
💰 Cost: FREE for academic sector (places are limited!)

🔗Registration form link: https://lnkd.in/gQcHggGF

#Bioinformatics #RNAseq #scRNAseq #Genomics #ReproducibleResearch #OpenScience #RStats

73% of research papers in social and behavioural sciences are reproducible when data is provided. The problem is that out of 600 studies sampled, only 144 made data publicly available or shared data upon request.
https://www.nature.com/articles/s41586-026-10203-5
#academicchatter #reproducibility