University PR offices and the researchers they nominally represent have always had a complicated relationship with accuracy, but the AI-and-science beat has made the gap structural. Wire services run drug discovery breakthroughs and chemical modeling milestones that reflect what happens when optimistic framing meets a general audience without follow-up capacity. The researchers on Bluesky — the people with follow-up capacity — have largely stopped trying to correct the record through official channels. Emily Bender's observation about the contortions AI boosters perform to avoid engaging with inconvenient evidence isn't a…