Nerea Uri Carreño

Water and wastewater nerd 💧🚰🚽

[Nerea Uri Carreño @NereaUri]

Why do we keep doing this is beyond me

[Mushtaq Bilal, PhD @MushtaqBilalPhD]

Major academic publishers' revenue and what they pay authors and reviewers:

Revenue:
Elsevier: $3.9 billion
Springer Nature: $2 billion
Wolters Kluwer: $1.6 billion
Wiley: $1.8 billion
Taylor & Francis: $800 million
Sage: $500 million

They pay:
Authors: $0
Reviewers: $0

[Mushtaq Bilal, PhD @MushtaqBilalPhD]

Major academic publishers' revenue and what they pay authors and reviewers:

Revenue:
Elsevier: $3.9 billion
Springer Nature: $2 billion
Wolters Kluwer: $1.6 billion
Wiley: $1.8 billion
Taylor & Francis: $800 million
Sage: $500 million

They pay:
Authors: $0
Reviewers: $0

[Mushtaq Bilal, PhD @MushtaqBilalPhD]

This Nature article shows that most Nobel Prize winners are part of one big, incestuous academic network.

Out of 736 Nobel Prize winners in science and economics, 702 are "part of the same academic family."

Only 32 researchers out of this network have won the Nobel Prize.

[Paul Graham @paulg]

Degrowthers should lead by example. Don't tell us how you think we should live. Live that way yourselves, and show us how much better it is.

[Neil Renic @NC_Renic]

"This significant research gap has long puzzled the discipline..."

[Chamath Palihapitiya @chamath]

PFAS are being detected at high levels on farmlands across the United States, including in Texas, Maine, Michigan, New York, and Tennessee. In some cases, PFAS are suspected of killing livestock and contaminating produce.

What are PFAS, and how are they entering our food supply?

PFAS are a group of chemicals widely used in consumer and industrial products, including grease-resistant paper, nonstick cookware, and personal care products. They are associated with elevated risks of certain cancers, birth defects, and developmental delays in children.

For years, the EPA encouraged farmers to use treated municipal sewage as fertilizer, touting it as a nutrient-rich alternative to chemical fertilizers. However, recent research has revealed that this sewage often contains high levels of PFAS, which then contaminates the soil, produce, and livestock when it is used as a fertilizer.

[Sara Wahedi @SaraWahedi]

As of today, this is how women must dress in Afghanistan, according to the Taliban's Supreme Leader.

The following rules are now in effect: The full face must be covered—no hands, nothing visible. The black veil was presented as a "recommendation" a year ago, now it is the law.

[Paul Graham @paulg]

A new paper estimates that Chernobyl cost 318 million life years by discouraging the construction of nuclear plants and thus increasing air pollution. If we conservatively estimate life expectancy at 80 years, that's about 4 million lives.

https://t.co/iaVpDKEwy7

[Anthony Bonato @Anthony_Bonato]

Simone Biles is now the most decorated US Olympics gymnast, so here is a thread of her as functions

y = x

[matt bernstein @mattxiv]

simone biles on her way to do gymnastics the likes of which the world has never seen:

[Nerea Uri Carreño @NereaUri]

Abolish peer review

[Guillaume Cabanac ⟨here and elsewhere⟩ @gcabanac]

🤖 So #ChatGPT wrote the first sentence of this @ElsevierConnect article. Any other parts of the article too? How come none of the coauthors, Editor-in-Chief, reviewers, typesetters noticed? How can this happen with regular peer-review? https://t.co/C4vX317zYV

[Nerea Uri Carreño @NereaUri]

Could this be the first generation of young people in recent western history’s fighting not to get more, but instead to restrict individual freedom?

[Cristina Sáez @saez_cristina]

Acollonant, fins ara m'havia passat que de vegades em trucaven per fer un acte, moderar una xerrada o participar en un esdeveniment per ser periodista de ciència "dona". Però entenc que valoraven la meva feina, apart de la meva condició com a dona. Avui m'han trucat simplement...

[Nerea Uri Carreño @NereaUri]

Just finished reading a great article (unfortunately behind a paywall) on the enormous efforts being carried out by heavy industry (mostly startups) to replace the use of fossil fuels. Incredibly innovative stuff imo. People who build product-based companies have all my respect

[Neil Renic @NC_Renic]

All the wrong people have imposter syndrome

[Nerea Uri Carreño @NereaUri]

Same goes for degrowth 😓

[Paul Graham @paulg]

"The people who get damaged are the ones I grew up with."

— Rob Henderson

[Paul Graham @paulg]

"The people who get damaged are the ones I grew up with."

— Rob Henderson

[Massimo @Rainmaker1973]

There's actually some difference

[Porkchop Express @Porkchop_EXP]

There is only one objective metric by which life in the US is better than in Western Europe and it’s this one.

This is real and serious.

[Nerea Uri Carreño @NereaUri]

@RagnarDanhammer That hurts 😅