Quanta Magazine picks for the top stories in bioscience this year. I assume there will be a video about the top 3 at some point. The Maths and Physics videos are already available.

#QuantaMagazine #Biology #Bioscience #ReviewOfTheYear https://www.quantamagazine.org/the-year-in-biology-20251215/

Our new bibliometric study reveals how a tiny typographic error, confusing the German Eszett (ß) with the Greek beta (β), has created hundreds of false positives like ß-catenin and ß-glucuronidase in major databases:

 https://doi.org/10.1108/JD-08-2025-0222

Even leading journals weren’t immune. The paper highlights how small linguistic mistakes can undermine metadata quality and scientific search precision.

#bioscience #indexing #metadata #librarianship #linguistic

“Humanity is on path toward ‘climate chaos,’, scientists warn” | Great article by @byianjames in @latimes about our ( @williamjripple et al) new #Bioscience study (paywalled):

https://www.latimes.com/environment/story/2025-10-29/state-of-climate-2025

“22 of Earth’s 34 ‘vital signs’ are flashing red, new climate report reveals — but there’s still time to act” | Nice article on our new #Bioscience article by Sascha Pare for @LiveScience:

https://www.livescience.com/planet-earth/climate-change/22-of-earths-34-vital-signs-are-flashing-red-new-climate-report-reveals-but-theres-still-time-to-act

“The 2025 state of the climate report: a planet on the brink” | Honored to be a co-author with @williamjripple and the rest of this team of leading climate researchers on this new article in #BioScience:

https://academic.oup.com/bioscience/advance-article/doi/10.1093/biosci/biaf149/8303627

London #FT reports on investors that lost billions on #PumpAndDump stock scheme that inflated values of little known traded entities of small US-listed #ChineseStocks that plunged in value shortly after being heavily #hyped on hyper #capitalist social media accounts.

#Geolocation metadata suggests that key market movers were based out of #Russia and #Iran, — " a trend #InvestorLink has identified in other pump and dumps, some of which are more extreme than others."

By June 17, shares of a tiny Chinese herbal medicine holding company #Regencell #Bioscience — which reported a net loss of $4.4mn in 2024 — were up almost 60,000%, giving the company a market value of about $38bn, more than US based Jefferies investment banking group and US based Walgreens combined.

The #Regencell stock has since fallen 83%. There is no suggestion or unveiled evidence proving biz insiders were directly involved in its share price moves, and Sino based #Biosciences company has not responded to requests for comment on US market share moves as $33 Billion in value disappeared last month..

https://www.ft.com/content/38c9815b-8ccc-40d5-bcbf-cfdb8b73ffa6 #BuyerBeware #WallSt #StockTrades #MarketMovers