Valentin Rodionov

TRACES made Derek Lowe’s *In the Pipeline* at Science today. Years ago, Derek asked IBM what Watson for Drug Discovery would do about the garbage in PubMed. IBM said they were aware of the problem. As Derek points out, that wasn't an answer. www.science.org/content/blog...

I've been working a lot on nitrile to aldehyde conversion reactions, which has allowed me to do some pretty vanadium chemistry for the first time #vanadium #chemistry #chemsky #nitrile #aldehyde

Very few people win the Fields Medal since it is awarded only every four years. But there is en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Maryam_... Ignorant, racist, asshole.

Phil Baker’s llamas will provide you with eggs forbetterscience.com/2026/10/27/p...

What kind of numerals do you use when you make up fake statistics about vaccine harms, you shitweasel?

"AI can draft an essay for you, especially if you give it a high quality prompt." Really? This is what MIT thinks high schoolers should learn? MIT's "Day of AI" dayofai.org provides materials for K-12 teachers and claims to have reached over 5,000,000 students to date. 1/2

Elsevier out here publishing 2027-issues and they still accept papers without ever opening any figure file. Duplicated XRD pattern in Figure 1a. It's not that hard to spot this dear editors... Gong et al. 2027 in 'Synthetic Metals' (DOI: 10.1016/j.synthmet.2026.118324): pubpeer.com/publications...

Most importantly, she also felt she needed press coverage of said achievement.

In the last few weeks i've been bombarded with emails from people who have minor tech support problems. ChatGPT is telling them to email me, writing their emails, and compiling "evidence packets" after convincing them they have stumbled on a major story: www.404media.co/chatgpt-keep...

RFK Jr. is not even close to being done with destroying public health. Republican Congresspeople are 100% behind him in this effort. Vote for public health.

Dr Janelle Ayres looks like Trump's vision of a proper doctor.

Absolutely brutal: Over four years in review with Nature. Still published with a copy and paste error between experimental groups. Checked everything but the raw data I suppose. pubpeer.com/publications...

God almighty, RFK Jr is such a repulsive, dangerous human being

Urine analysis schematic explaining as much as a horsekick to the head would 🐴🥣 Aly, A.H. Enhanced urine refractive index sensing using a defect-engineered one-dimensional photonic crystal. Sci Rep 16, 19607 (2026). doi.org/10.1038/s415...

LLMs, asked to "peer" review 200 papers published this year in top science and medicine journals, either rejected or recommended major revisions 76% of the time. Telling the LLMs the paper was a revision paper made them much more generous. arxiv.org/abs/2610.31414

What’s absolutely fascinating—& entirely predictable—is that the MAHA kooks (RFK Jr, Bhattacharya, etc.) used to say that it’s important to do proper RCTs & it’s important to get rid of financial conflicts of interest in medicine, but now that they run the health system they think the opposite 🧐

Chemists Announce Upgraded Periodic Table With Dozens Of New Elements For Just $4 A Month https://theonion.com/chemists-announce-upgraded-periodic-table-with-dozens-o-1839288701/

Huh #chemsky

Sure but that's also what the over-leveraged oligarchs would want you to think. Someone has to go down with the ship.

Guess the journal.

Whenever Real Clear Science links to a post of mine, I can tell from the comments that show up.

Today I'm posting a new video to my YouTube Channel. Persistent misnaming of 17-OHPC as "progesterone" in medical literature lead to pregnant women receiving the wrong drug through compounding pharmacies: youtu.be/I1C9aDfLH-U

"All animal experiments were carried out according to Institutional Animal Care Guidelines and were ethically approved by the Administration Committee of Experimental Animals, with the approval of Nantong University, Jiangsu, China." 🤡 pubpeer.com/publications...

Starting to think that men around the world in democracies should perhaps not have the vote. I'd surrender my vote if it meant that the rest of my gender couldn't vote for fascism at every opportunity like it was 1932.

@smutclyde.bsky.social claims the graph needs axes. So I added them. Graph still makes no sense.This only shows that self-proclaimed sleuths actually know very little about science

So in a huge surprise to absolutely no one, it turns out that NIH director Jay Bhattacharya's new journal based on the premise of letting his friends and only his friends publish essentially whatever they want is full of crackpot nonsense from retired cranks.

Dr. Sethi never held an NIH grant, finished her residency in 2017, and hasn't had a significant leadership position. In other words, an early stage investigator may direct an institute. NIMH staff and stakeholders deserve a more experienced leader. www.science.org/content/arti...

Another successful authorship sale. The authorship was sold before submission, so no changes to be picked up by the publisher.

Open Science and Publication Ethics community welcomes a new Stakeholder?

Bird was crawling as she “viewed”

The first trial www.nejm.org/doi/full/10.... {NEJM, Free] was conducted by the AIDS Clinical Trials Group, National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases; by the General Clinical Research Center units funded by the National Center for Research Resources; and by Merck and Co.

Czech President Petr Pavel says a ceasefire between Russia and Ukraine was “quite close” – until Donald Trump lifted sanctions on Russian diesel. 🔗 vist.ly/5pjp8

More on how Michael Kratsios believes that Science: A New Golden Age is heir to Vannevar Bush’s Science: The Endless Frontier www.nytimes.com/2026/10/22/o...

Reminder: The lifecycle of carbon capture and storage is inconsistent with thermodynamics. Without removing all fossil fuel generation as an energy source, ccs will produce more carbon than it removes. And it removes it very badly and inefficiently. Entropy is a bitch and always wins.

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I am happy to see a downplaying retraction notice corrected with more candor. The emphasis on praising admissions of honest error to create exit strategies is pragmatic but has created too many face-saving efforts.

Another surprising "seed-42 coincidence" We were reading this: doi.org/10.1057/s415... and noted a mistmatch of data in Fig2 with reported stats (e.g. the SD of x-coordinates for blue crosses cannot be 30 as reported). We extracted the plotted points to investigate... #psychscisky #science

This seems a good prompt for your semi-annual reminder to avoid azide reactions in DCM #ChemSky #ChemChat

@pubpeer.bsky.social In which research fraudsters learn to erase the "generated by AI" watermark from their fabricated results. pubpeer.com/publications...

#Chemsky So, if you see a protocol that says they used KHMDS as a base, and the reaction was conducted in DCM... Thoughts? Mine are, Holy Fucking Carbene Batman! But am I overreacting? Is this normal?

"AI can kind of make things up, but Google Search having like, actual, real sources, makes sure that I'm not learning the wrong thing." Wild to see the company that replaced reliable search with Gemini hallucinations trying to walk it back now.

GPT-5.5 ranked reviews written by Claude Opus 4.8 higher than high-quality human ones of the same papers in 134/134 cases. Three human editors (not told they were comparing AI and human reviews), ranked the AI reviews higher in 26/30 cases. gking.harvard.edu/files/peerle...

" Springer Nature felt that Scientific American’s criticism of Trump was threatening their broader business—selling subscriptions to their scientific journals. "

Also: of those who said "yes", 2% named Elon Musk..

Crows will pwn your ass on PS5.

Schneider Shorts 23.10.2026 – Responsibility in the Conduct of Science forbetterscience.com/2026/10/23/s...