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William Lees
@williamlees.bsky.social
Scientist and European. Twitter refugee.
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The images are often rotated or otherwise lightly disguised. There are people who are very good at spotting this kind of manipulation but not everyone can do it, particularly if it involves combing past publications. It could readily be supported by machine-based analysis.

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There are examples suggested here that have been established in other cases. An image used as evidence in one article is re-used in another article as evidence for something else. An image is used twice in one article as evidence tor something unrelated.

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The Guardian is reporting that Rishi Sunak's wife, Akshata Murty, may have avoided up to £20 million in tax with non-dom status. But, you know, Arsenal tickets!The Guardian is reporting that Rishi Sunak's wife, Akshata Murty, may have avoided up to £20 million in tax with non-dom status. But, you know, Arsenal tickets!

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SCwikisteff.bsky.social

Holy fucking hell. Guy who held sway for $2.6 billion of NIA's neuroscience funding, ran AAAS (publishes Science) and helped direct drug development pipelines in Alzheimer's and Parkinson's authored or co-authored at least 132 published research papers with faked or cloned images. !!!!!

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This kind of image fakery can be caught without the need to reproduce results. Given the publication fees of the big journals, it wouldn’t be asking too much of them to dedicate some staff to the kind of forensic checking that is reported in the article. AI could help too.

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Kkatebevan.com

Pretty sure even the PM is allowed to carry on being a football fan, and it's not unreasonable that changes to how he goes to matches happen to accommodate his security needs. This hairshirt nonsense is really grinding my gears.Pretty sure even the PM is allowed to carry on being a football fan, and it's not unreasonable that changes to how he goes to matches happen to accommodate his security needs. This hairshirt nonsense is really grinding my gears.

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IDiandunt.bsky.social

Watching people use this stuff to try and shred Starmer's reputation for integrity is grim. Headlining it as if he's swimming in cash is preposterous. And comparing him to Boris Johnson, a moral sewer who wouldn't even reveal who his donors were, is straight up bullshit.

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I love this feature of my SolarEdge dashboard, which shows historical and real time performance of each panel.

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When England began, we were joined to the Continent. Freedom of movement knew no bounds.

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Main difference here is that there are more normal people and fewer nutters. There’s still a wide spectrum of views.

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William Lees
@williamlees.bsky.social
Scientist and European. Twitter refugee.
51 followers176 following75 posts