Richard Van Noorden
Features editor, Nature. E: r⟦dot⟧vannoorden⟦at⟧nature⟦dot⟧com or richardvannoorden⟦at⟧protonmail⟦dot⟧com. Signal: richvn.01 . (Currently on parental leave, to April 2026).
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- Reposted by Richard Van NoordenWhile reporting this, I had something happen that's never happened. A comms rep for one of the co's disputed my reporting and said what I was telling them was untrue because it was not in Grok, xAI's chatbot. I was looking directly at the files. And this person was using AI to challenge the truth.
- Epstein had many known connections to Silicon Valley CEOs, but less known was how he made money from those relationships. We did a deep dive into how he got dealflow in Silicon Valley, giving him shots to invest in Coinbase, Palantir, SpaceX and other companies. www.nytimes.com/2026/02/05/b...
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- Reposted by Richard Van Noordencan't help but think there is probably a corrosive effect of having sex trafficker-elite emails unveiled for months on end as one of the biggest cultural/news stories of the last year— unearthing an inexcusable moral rot in the upper echelons of power—but without any real accountability/justice
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- Reposted by Richard Van NoordenIan McKellen performs “The Strangers’ Case” speech from “Sir Thomas More” on Colbert.
- Reposted by Richard Van NoordenThe Washington Post Guild just set up a GoFundMe. www.gofundme.com/f/standing-t...
- Reposted by Richard Van NoordenInternal emails show Department of Energy's debunked climate science report was reviewed by scientists internally, who found it "biased," "misleading," and "hypocritical." Contrarian authors tailored their work to ensure it focused on weakening climate regulations. www.eenews.net/articles/doe...
- Reposted by Richard Van NoordenA publisher who lays off a reporter whose pen is freezing because she's covering a frigid war zone while dodging missiles is not an editor you want to work for, in a more perfect world
- Reposted by Richard Van NoordenI've been through some shitty times in my 20 years as a journalist but today just might take the shit cake
- Reposted by Richard Van NoordenI wrote a blog for the Meta-Research Center expressing my infinite frustration about not getting data. What else is new, you might think? Well, I added an extra layer of annoyance directed at the journals who do NOTHING to enforce promised data sharing. metaresearch.nl/blog/2026/2/...
- Reposted by Richard Van NoordenLast week, RPN broke a string of stories on significant changes to funding across a number of research councils (see thread below) This morning, UKRI chief executive is appearing at the Commons science committee, where he is being asked about them by MPs Here are some key moments so far 🧵
- On Friday we revealed that the heads of four large-scale physics infrastructure projects have been informed that they’ve “not been prioritised” for funding. www.researchprofessionalnews.com/rr-news-uk-r...
- Reposted by Richard Van NoordenMaking it make sense: Epstein wasn't a global mastermind. He did not orchestrate a vast conspiracy that led us to today. He was a very rich man with connections to other very rich men. The shared culture of these men is that they have a right to dominate and abuse others without consequence.
- Reposted by Richard Van NoordenI read this, and I almost regret it. What do you even do with the knowledge that Epstein wanted and was trying to engineer societal breakdown via far right populism bc he thought it would benefit his sex trafficking business?
- I read thousands of pages of Epstein files this weekend trying to understand what he wanted out of his meeting with 4chan's Christopher Poole. Here's everything we know about Epstein's plans to dismantle the internet and, eventually, democracy. www.garbageday.email/p/here-s-how...
- Reposted by Richard Van NoordenIf you want a glimpse of what's coming to research, just take a gander at clawxiv.org For example: www.clawxiv.org/abs/clawxiv.... @richardsever.bsky.social @scholarlypub.bsky.social @richvn.bsky.social
- Reposted by Richard Van NoordenAnother reminder of why the Methods section matters and should be written in as much detail as possible, and why meta-analyses need to account for variations in procedures.
- Read my latest post for reflections on reproducibility, research quality and a summary of a great new study which shows how NOT to do it open.substack.com/pub/tomstafford/p/g…
- Reposted by Richard Van NoordenTake me down to the Parallax city where the far moves slow and the near moves quickly
- Reposted by Richard Van NoordenPlease reshare! Here's the first in a series of science writing resources I'm posting to my website: A list of science writing/communication internships & fellowships. brittanytrang.com/science-jour... #sciencejournalism #scicomm #scicommjobs #journojobs #sciencewriting #sciwri #stem
- Reposted by Richard Van NoordenThis is a targeted attack on science media. Bhattacharya has slammed science media for what he calls biased coverage, but how are our readers — the global scientific community — supposed to understand his new agency priorities if we can't even get in the door?
- Reposted by Richard Van NoordenI'm at the Willard Hotel where I've been denied entry and kicked out of the Reclaiming Science event with NIH director Bhattacharya & other top agency leaders. @jocelynkaiser.bsky.social and I registered for the event months ago yet were told capacity was full, even as they let in dozens of others.
- Reposted by Richard Van NoordenMysterious emails, incessant demands and a fake lawyer — read our editor’s note about a serious threat we’re facing www.the-londoner.co.uk/the-londoner...
- Reposted by Richard Van NoordenImportant thread for understanding what AlphaGenome is and isn't (and the implications). Starting here and reading down, and/or from the top.
- Reposted by Richard Van NoordenOOOOH Researchfish Is going extinct 🐡🐟🐠 help.researchfish.com/en_US/resear...
- Reposted by Richard Van NoordenarXiv is not going to survive the wave of slop heading its way
- OpenAI just released Prism, a LaTeX editor with embedded ChatGPT for free. Writing a paper has never been easier. Clogging the scientific publishing pipeline has never been easier. It took me 54 seconds to write up an experiment I did not actually conduct. prism.openai.com
- Reposted by Richard Van NoordenCovers of the 2 leading science journals this week @science.org and @nature.com www.science.org/content/arti... www.nature.com/immersive/d4...
- Reposted by Richard Van NoordenTrump has been in office for one year. We at @nature.com did a deep dive looking at the administration's disruption of science in numbers. Take a look—the numbers are staggering. By me, @dangaristo.bsky.social, Jeff Tollefson, @kimay.bsky.social, & help from @noamross.net @scott-delaney.bsky.social
- Reposted by Richard Van NoordenThis article strikes a chord with me. With mobile laser scanners and GNSS receivers I can now collect as much data in a few days as used to take weeks. Great! Except that's less time spent in the forest really looking at the trees. 🧪🌏🌲🌳 www.nature.com/articles/d41...
- Reposted by Richard Van Noorden1. Headlines everywhere today read "Grok apologizes." This is bullshit. A chatbot is not something that can apologize. Pretending otherwise is simple laundering these companies' bullshit about what AI is, while diffusing blame away from the human beings that developed and released this system.
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- Reposted by Richard Van NoordenOn delayed application review, the NIH grant terminations lawsuit appears to be headed for a settlement. Both plaintiffs and defendants have submitted a joint document outlining their agreement. Judge Young must sign off on it before it takes effect. Here's what it says and what all this means 🧵
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- Reposted by Richard Van NoordenWow. CERN has secured a promise of $1 billion (!) towards its planned Future Circular Collider from private donors (such as the Breakthrough Prize Foundation & Eric & Wendy Schmidt Fund) - the first such donation for CERN, which has until now been taxpayer funded home.cern/news/press-r... 🧪⚛️
- Reposted by Richard Van NoordenHere's our reporting on the proposed dismantling of the jewel of US atmospheric science, @ncar-ucar.bsky.social. The plan is to break NCAR apart and disburse some parts to other locations (like the research aircraft fleet) and eliminate others. www.nature.com/articles/d41... 🧪 #AGU25 #climate
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- Reposted by Richard Van Noordeni know this is hardly a new take but isn’t it WILD that wikimedia has to ask for donations to keep itself afloat when every LLM in the world has been trained on wikipedia data?
- This is my cyclical reminder that there's really only one consistently reliable source of info in the public record that isn't owned by right wing billionaires, who really want to put an end to it. Please give at least the $2.75 minimum they request if you can. en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Main_Page
- $2.6m reward for integrity sleuth Sholto David.
- Dana-Farber Cancer Institute Agrees to Pay $15 Million to Settle Fraud Allegations Related to Scientific Research Grants. The relator [Sholto David] will receive $2,625,000 under today’s settlement. www.justice.gov/usao-ma/pr/d...
- 53% of researchers say they have used AI when peer reviewing articles, according to a survey by Frontiers. www.nature.com/articles/d41...
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- Reposted by Richard Van NoordenTwo men meet in the carpark of a Leeds hospital. They sit on a bench and start chatting. One of them has a bomb in their backpack and the other must talk them out of using it. A mindblowing and entirely true story that reads like a thriller. as.ft.com/r/13756c02-0...
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- Reposted by Richard Van NoordenWhen should a paper be corrected? Last December, @elisabethbik.bsky.social and other sleuths began flagging papers by a prominent bioengineer, Ali Khademhosseini. They found over 80 with image issues. Khademhosseini and his colleagues have issued over 40 corrections, but avoided retractions.
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- Reposted by Richard Van Noordenit's wild that R, the ubiquitous statistical computing language, was co-created by a Māori prof (Ross Ihaka) — and yet the vast majority of scientists who use R don't know this is like inventing the toaster. possibly the largest impact of a single member of an indigenous community on modern science
- requiring visible and invisible watermarks for AI-generated content feels like an essential and basic policy to me—- esp as research has shown how to do it. And it doesn’t slow down AI R&D.
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- Reposted by Richard Van Noorden1. Transparency is necessary for credibility 2. Transparency is hard to change 3. Require transparency* 4. Transparency is not magic 5. Journals are part of problem 6. Expect more from journals 7. Peer review is not magic 8. A crisis can look a lot like „normal“ science 9. Meta-analysis is not magic
- In case you have missed Simine Vazire's excellent webinar yesterday, here is the link to watch it online: youtu.be/_vb1CNwC3CM Thanks again @simine.com for staying up so late and thanks to the audience for the great questions!
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- Reposted by Richard Van NoordenIn case you have missed Simine Vazire's excellent webinar yesterday, here is the link to watch it online: youtu.be/_vb1CNwC3CM Thanks again @simine.com for staying up so late and thanks to the audience for the great questions!
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