Raphaël Lévy

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ANALYSE La réplication est un sport de combat Et si tout un champ de recherche était parti dans la mauvaise direction ? Nanoparticules, cancers, vie extraterrestre, répliquer des expériences pour trancher des controverses a tout d’un parcours du combattant.

« Ce sera peut-être plus complexe, avec possiblement des résultats divergents et difficilement reproductibles » Cécilia Ménard-Moyon, CNRS

🟢 À vos manips... répliquez !

Des initiatives très concrètes de réplication d’expériences… et les obstacles que les chercheurs doivent surmonter

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How to establish whether a disputed claim is true or false? Publication of the results of our first replication and call for others to replicate our work How to establish whether a disputed claim is true or false? This is one of the questions at the centre of the ERC Synergy project NanoBubbles, which studies the barriers to the correction of science. We focus on a controversy in bionanoscience: there are hundreds of scientific articles that report the specific detection of molecules or ions inside cells with nanoparticle probes, yet, when they enter cells, nanoparticles are largely sequestered in specific compartments where they cannot reach the target that they are supposed to detect.

How to establish whether a disputed claim is true or false? Publication of the results of our first replication and call for others to replicate our work

How to establish whether a disputed claim is true or false? This is one of the questions at the centre of the ERC Synergy project NanoBubbles,…

Negative data

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Welcome to the PhD games… and may the odds be ever in your favor!

Here is a short post to share some information about a talk I gave last week, for the third consecutive year, to over 200 new PhD students (and their supervisors) at the Welcome Day for new entrants 2025-2026 of the BioSPC doctoral…

What should you do if you discover made up data in your own papers? Félix Sauvage @For Better Science

See also the last paragraph of my previous post for a comment on the too slow and inappropriate response of CNRS and université of Lille to this case.

Completely wrong direction imo. It would be better and more efficient to increase funding rates of existing schemes funding more of the already fundable, great ideas for projects that are out there instead of yet another call with, most probably, less than 10% success rate.

An inquisitive cartoon Chinese giant salamander wears a conical "2026" party hat. Multicolored fireworks explode in the background. He wields a magnifying glass and copy of COSIG.

Happy New Year from Sal Sleuthmander and the COSIG team! Here's to doing lots of post-publication peer review in 2026
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We (Miles MacLeod, YJ Erden, @ccmmody.bsky.social and me w/ editorial contributions by Yagmur Ozturk) are putting on a special issue!

In Studies in History & Philosophy of Science!
Ab/ scientific @nanobubbles.bsky.social

Deadline July 15 - spread the word!

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📣 We are happy to announce the special issue “Scientific bubbles: definitions, context, and approaches” in Studies in History and Philosophy of Science with guest editors from Nanobubbles.

⏰ Deadline: 15th of July 2026!

🔗 More information in www.sciencedirect.com/special-issu...

Response of French research institutions to research misconduct remains inadequate

In March 2023, Dorothy Bishop and sixteen other internationally recognised leaders in the field of scientific integrity took the unusual step of sending an open letter to the CEO of CNRS to highlight that "the…

would love to see other bloggers & micro-bloggers discuss the points @raphavisses.bsky.social raises. maybe not this specific, contested case. but maybe - for example - @nanoscaleviews.bsky.social has ideas about the desirability of accountability in scientific prizes & university press releases?

Prize and lies Three years ago, I asked in a blog post here What do scientific prizes celebrates? It was a reaction to false claims in press releases by the King Faisal Price and Northwestern University announcin…

Yesterday's post: where I challenge often repeated yet false claims about spherical nucleic acids (SNAs) clinical trials & commercial products; repeated eg in the press releases of Northwestern University issued when SNAs' inventor wins scientific prizes... raphazlab.wordpress.com/2025/12/04/p...

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📣 Submit to our track 'Making Science Better?' at the STS NL Conference which will take place in Twente from April 15 to 17, 2026! More details in the link below.

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The Library and the Database: Contrasting Expectations in Two Imaginaries for the Research Literature - Minerva Two competing imaginaries inform the current wave of innovations in research publishing: one that perceives ‘the literature’ as a library of research accounts, and one that sees it as a gigantic datab...

One imaginary sees the scientific literature as a gigantic library, with texts to be read. Another sees it as a database, with facts to be mined. Our analysis clarifies contrasting expectations informing current publishing innovations, and their epistemic and political risks.
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Prize and lies

Three years ago, I asked in a blog post here What do scientific prizes celebrates? It was a reaction to false claims in press releases by the King Faisal Price and Northwestern University announcing the award of the 2023 King Faisal Prize in Medicine and Science to Chad Mirkin. One…

Ultra-fast fashion : "Ce que font Shein et les acteurs du textile chinois c'est du saccage social et environnemental. Il a fallu attendre qu'ils soient au BHV pour que l'on se mobilise." @raphaelglucksmann.bsky.social

Soupçons d’inconduite scientifique pour un couple de chercheurs Le CNRS et l’université de Lille ont commencé fin novembre une instruction concernant plus de soixante articles d’un couple de chercheurs de l’Institut d’électronique, de microélectronique et de nanot...

What are the consequences of this silence for the teams involved? for students on site? for researchers elsewhere? for the values of science that those institutions must defend?
www.lemonde.fr/sciences/art...
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Almost 2 years ago Le Monde reported that CNRS & Université of Lille had opened an investigation about 60 articles published by a University Prof and a Research Director at CNRS. Two years on, nothing seems to have happened. The count on PubPeer is now at ~150 with comments still coming in.
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As his fraud trial looms, Alzheimer’s scientist is exonerated by his university—sort of Excusing record-keeping “misconduct” flagged in earlier investigative report, City University of New York concluded in letter that image doctoring by Hoau-Yan Wang was not proved

... CUNY didn’t remove Wang from the faculty at the time or request that journals retract his work. Instead, it paid a law firm $1.25 million to find the source who leaked the report to Science."
www.science.org/content/arti...
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"The [CUNY] investigative report, first reported by Science, “found evidence highly suggestive of deliberate scientific misconduct” in 14 cases. [...]
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Another example of universities taking misconduct heads on - sort of...
Charles Piller reporting in Science News
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I posted a link to your critique on PubPeer
www.pubpeer.com/publications...

Nice (and worrying). Did you try contacting Denis Campbell Health policy editor at the Guardian to see if some kind of commentary could be published in response?

Photo d'Irène Frachon, credit @Maxppp - Olivier Arandel

!!! 6 octobre 2025 - Amphi Weiss - 45 rue des Saint Pères - Paris !!!
15h Conférence d'Irène Frachon, lanceuse d'alerte du #Mediator

suivie à 16h d'une table ronde sur la manipulation de l'information scientifique et la protection des lanceurs d'alerte (détails ci-dessous).

@cnrs.fr has taken action following an investigation into research integrity breaches. Thoughtful reporting by @dalmeet.bsky.social in @chemistryworld.com.
Kudos to @raphavisses.bsky.social for blowing the whistle — even when it first felt like shouting into the wind in the middle of a shitstorm.

Season features @thatsregrettab1.bsky.social @kaveh1000.bsky.social @lonnibesancon.bsky.social @elisabethbik.bsky.social @solalpirelli.bsky.social @image-integrity.bsky.social @reeserichardson.bsky.social @smutclyde.bsky.social @jabyrnesci.bsky.social @raphavisses.bsky.social @abalkina.bsky.social

French chemist receives two-year research ban for repeated integrity breaches Exclusion for nanomedicine researcher at CNRS will start in 2026

A chemist at the French National Center for Scientific Research has received a two-year research ban for repeated research integrity breaches.

My latest for @chemistryworld.com: www.chemistryworld.com/news/french-...

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