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There's a follow up to this blog post on Nature https://www.nature.com/articles/d41586-024-00202-9

No sh*t sherlock!

As a pedestrian who found himself on the receiving end of a hood and survived via a last-second jump to end up on top of the said hood, I certainly concur.

Exactly, honests mistakes can be made (happens to me), and it happened that I spotted some in a paper and contacted the authors and they publish an erratum (or not). But this kind of photoshopping, done over a period, really gets me.

This is insane. As a researcher I had to take research ethics course, and obviously we study some cases of research misconduct and fraud. But this kind of stuff is next-level.

I know Sweden launched a national board to investigate research misconduct [1], I hope more countries do the same.

[1] https://npof.se/en/

Aaah that does it, thanks. My phone started having the exact same issue the other day. Finding a fix was on my to do list, and you saved me some time, thanks!

I can dig it!

This is excellent news. Their HTML formatting is also more pleasant than the HTML articles offered by most journals in my field (e.g arXiv HTML footnotes displayed as sidenotes on large displays!)

Yeah, very recently. I am still very confused trying to find the Deezer tab on my browser with the new logo as favicon!

Exactly :). The funny part is, the thing actually crashed! [1]

Why? Bad error handling in the software (primarily). What is the worst that could happen? An instrument saturate, a variable gets stuck at a value, but keeps being integrated, the spacecraft computes a negative altitude and thinks it'a below ground level (negative altitude) but is in fact in full descent and at 3+ km from the surface. Oopsie !

[1] https://exploration.esa.int/web/mars/-/59176-exomars-2016-sc...

I can't say about NASA, but I can say about my experience at ESA (European Space Agency), where I worked on Mars lander hardware. You have very very formal procedures and detailed checks as soon as you approach any parts which is going to fly.

The simplest task you can imagine takes incredible proportions (for good reasons).

Disconnect and reconnect that plug? Please inform persons X and Y, person Z must be present, only person W can touch that plug, and do perform a functional test according to the procedure in this document before and after and file these reports etc ...

Cleaning a part? Oh glob. Get ready for 3 months of adventure talking to planetary protection experts and book the cleanest room in the continent.

I stumbled upon one while hiking the Swedish coast north of Stockholm [https://www.atlasobscura.com/places/den-optiska-telegrafen-t...]. We took a minute or so to guess what it could be before reading the explanation plate. It impressively allowed communication through the baltic towards Åland.

In parallel, regular "snail mail" was brought from mainland Sweden to Åland along a similar route, but through a peasant relay. Local farmers were obliged by the state to move bags of mail to the next farmers. And the coastal ones were taking turns to sail the 44 km to Åland all year round.

Yes, would be nice if they had a regular A, and that one as stylistic alternate. Removing the bit on the A to turn it into a regular one takes only a few clicks on Fontforge or another font-editing software, and the license allows modification and redistribution ;) [https://github.com/HelsinkiTypeStudio/Finlandica/blob/master...].

More recently I found about Finlandica for Finland, quite nice too. https://toolbox.finland.fi/brand-identity-and-guidelines/fin...

Yep

You beat me to it :)

NRK is Norway public broadcaster, so it makes sense of their choice.

Most people I know in the Swedish countryside still don't look any of their doors.

Actually, you can get removed from most of these websites rather simply, either by logging in with BankID and select that option, or by sending an angry email.

A very big room, with me in it ;)

Yes, everything heavier than hydrogen and helium is called metals by astronomers. It's a misleading term for the public, but very widely employed.

(I'm an astronomer)

Oh damn, I had forgotten about the sixty one. Spent so much time on it! Thanks for the nostalgia.

For people in Sweden, there is a similar service at https://www.cineasterna.com/sv/ with a usually pretty interesting film selection.

I alternate between this and this "Blue tit nest cam" from Germany. Very relaxing. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=d88nua75yJA