It’s happening. My son (14) tells me that one of his classmates suddenly realized in school this morning that he must give a presentation he should have prepared. He quickly got #ChatGPT to do it, presented the result in class and got the top mark.

**Dаn̈ıel Раršlow 🥧** · Dec 19, 2022, 06:02

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**Carl T. Bergstrom** @ct_bergstrom@fediscience.org · Dec 19, 2022, 06:02

Dec 19, 2022, 06:02

Carl T. Bergstrom @ct_bergstrom@fediscience.org

Science education in an age of twitter disinformation

tl;dr — Science education needs to adapt to a world of misinformation on social media and beyond. Today, prominent antivaxxer Robert F. Kennedy Jr. tweeted the ridiculous claim that as director of the NIAID, Dr. Fauci bought the silence of the entire worldwide virology community by handing out research grants. Elon Musk then affirmed and amplified his claim.

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**Dаn̈ıel Раršlow 🥧** · Dec 18, 2022, 19:22

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**Matthew Kenworthy** @mattkenworthy@mastodon.social · Dec 18, 2022, 19:22

Dec 18, 2022, 19:22

Matthew Kenworthy @mattkenworthy@mastodon.social

It's really cool that Twitter shuts down in stages over two months so that the Mastodon servers aren't overloaded all at once, very thoughtful of them!

**Dаn̈ıel Раršlow 🥧** · Dec 18, 2022, 20:40

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**Paul Belcher 🇪🇺🇬🇧🇪🇸** @pauljbelcher@eupolicy.social · Dec 18, 2022, 20:40

Dec 18, 2022, 20:40

Paul Belcher 🇪🇺🇬🇧🇪🇸 @pauljbelcher@eupolicy.social

#Mastodon: Strong legal warning from french digital minister to #ElonMusk, in response to new #Twitter policy launched Sunday

Second thoughts about firing Twitter legal counsel Elon?

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**Dаn̈ıel Раršlow 🥧** @pieist@qoto.org · Dec 18, 2022, 18:43

**Dаn̈ıel Раršlow 🥧** @pieist@qoto.org · Dec 18, 2022, 18:43

Dec 18, 2022, 18:43

Dаn̈ıel Раršlow 🥧 @pieist@qoto.org

I notice nobody's registered strewth.social. (UK and AU readers will get it.)

I think I'm over my registering funny domains phase, so have at it somebody. Promise you'll actually put a site there; preferably a mastodon instance.

**Dаn̈ıel Раršlow 🥧** · Dec 17, 2022, 19:21

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**Thiago Carvalho** @cyrilpedia@qoto.org · Dec 17, 2022, 19:21

Dec 17, 2022, 19:21

Thiago Carvalho @cyrilpedia@qoto.org

"Our loss of access to Horizon Europe has reduced the funds available for UK science. Since Brexit, we’ve had far fewer postdoc applications from continental Europe. I still have very talented people in the lab; a lot of them are from China these days, very few from continental Europe. The way the UK government is currently conducting itself, and the fact we are now out of the EU, makes it more difficult for us to recruit top scientists. I very much hope even at this late hour, for the sake of the next generation of young UK researchers, that a way will be found for the UK to be part of Horizon Europe science funding."

Jonathan Jones @CurrentBiology
#PlantScience #sciencefunding

https://www.cell.com/current-biology/fulltext/S0960-9822(22)01683-9