image manipulation

NCBS retraction – addenda

Jul 8, 2021 2 min read

My take on the NCBS paper being retracted, and the polarised conversation that has erupted around the incident, is here. The following are some points I'd like to add. a. Why didn't the edito…

To see faces where there are none

Nov 22, 2019 2 min read

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This week in "neither university press offices nor prestigious journals know what they're doing": a professor emeritus at Ohio University who claimed he had evidence of life on Mars, and…

Roundup – March 6, 2016

Mar 6, 2016 9 min read

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Developments I’d have liked to cover but haven’t been able to for lack of time.…