Markus Englund built a tool for identifying repetitive sequences in scientific datasets! Read up here: www.sciencedetective.org/scientific-d...
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Markus Englund built a tool for identifying repetitive sequences in scientific datasets! Read up here: www.sciencedetective.org/scientific-d...
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The official journal of the Canadian Paediatric Society has just acknowledged that more than 100 of its case reports are fabricated. Incredible reporting from @retractionwatch.com retractionwatch.com/2026/03/03/c...
“The chronic ongoing problem, for nearly two decades, is that the Younger Dryas Impact Hypothesis proponents withhold the evidence they claim to have. When independent scientists ask to see it — in the form of materials, for example — we are attacked for ‘suggesting fraud.’”: @boslough.bsky.social
The full sequence
Figure 1. Schematic of the reaction of plasma-generated reactive species with V. cholera and the DNA distortion process.
Stunning discoveries at @mdpiopenaccess.bsky.social !
🦠 Vibrio cholera [sic] has a nucleus
🦠 It performs “signaling to nucleus”
🦠 And contains something called “inter membrane space”
Top-quality peer-reviewed content by @mdpiopenaccess.bsky.social
/sarcasm
www.mdpi.com/2076-3417/12...
A great deep dive into the sorry state of gaming journalism by @jacksonwryan.com !
Some post-script that didn't make this piece:
A whole heap of expired websites with high authority can be used to rank well on Search. Buy em up, get their authority. That happened to the dormant Australianaid website.
In 2023, it campaigned for aid.
In 2025, it began listing Best Online Casinos.
it's just so bizarre to publish fictional case reports for 25 years and just...not tell readers (or some authors, apparently!) that they are supposed to be fictional
These NOFO delays have created so many gaps in longstanding programs, including programs that are congressionally mandated.
www.science.org/content/arti...
what!!!!
Authors say paying APCs "feels like legalized extortion." That's what we heard at ER&L! Credit to Lauren Collister and Matthew Estill for their conference presentation. Read more about their research: www.iastatedigitalpress.com/jlsc/article...
not only is she a talented artist, she is a talented journalist (on the job market!) columbiachronicle.com/staff_name/s...
A carved rubber stamp and its image, pressed in blue ink on the inside cover of a book. The bookplate reads "EX LIBRIS RAKR" in serif font and features a skull surrounding by radial lines.
My sister made me a personal bookplate for my birthday and it is beyond sick
Amidst overwhelming Epstein revelations, I've heard from many scientists, especially women, about the deafening silence from so many corners. Many ask "how could things be different?"
In this post, I answer with three metaphors, grounded in the science he tried to own
medium.com/p/61a537ee8e...
Netanyahu Calls Iran Strikes Necessary To Prevent War He Just Started
Netanyahu Calls Iran Strikes Necessary To Prevent War He Just Started
A line graph with Year on the x axis and Total Clinical Prediction Model Studies on the y axis. The caption reads: Figure 5. Cumulative number of publications using either of the two Kaggle datasets over time assessed by OpenAlex publication date. There were 106 of the 124 articles available in OpenAlex with a publication date available.
an alarming and fantastically thorough deep dive into a problem that is probably getting worse! Well done, @aidybarnett.bsky.social @gscollins.bsky.social @nicolewhite.bsky.social @alexdgibson.bsky.social !
when your dataset is definitely real
Specific details about PLOS Biology's mandatory code-sharing policy
In support of #OpenScience, we routinely ask authors to openly share their #research #code before publication.
We are now formalizing this practice with a mandatory #code-sharing policy and clarifying what we mean by code sharing.
May be nice to cut-out the box for reference
plos.io/47dPeOW
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Breathtaking anecdotes from medical professionals in Iran about the massacres last month.
and as for bacteria with mitochondria: all credit to @sholtodavid.bsky.social! Here's just one example he's found:
bsky.app/profile/shol...
@sjmelchor.bsky.social writes for @nature.com about how to spot dubious papers, interviewing @elisabethbik.bsky.social, @abalkina.bsky.social, @jabyrnesci.bsky.social, myself and and my fellow @cosig.net maintainers @solalpirelli.bsky.social and Yagmur Ozturk!
www.nature.com/articles/d41...
Remember Larry, the #scholastic #cat?
2 y ago, but still shows how easy it is to fake #papers & #citations.
What can we do?
Maybe simply value #quality over (easily measurable) #quantity when assessing #scientists. It's more work, but surely pays.
#PaperMill #AI #ResearchIntegrity #FakeScience
New research integrity technical term coined by @elisabethbik.bsky.social: “Paper mill hairball.”, e.g., “Where every paper that overlaps with another paper will lead to more papers with overlaps.” pubpeer.com/publications... 😸
1. Kevin Gross and I have a new paper out today PLOS Biology.
We used economic models based around screening games and the market for unpaid labor to highlight a meltdown cycle threatening peer review.
My own university has a "strategic goal" to increase research "outputs" by 10% annually (7 year doubling time). Your university is almost surely working towards the same. University rankings are now the main driver of this damaging institutional behavior. Publication is an out-of-control arms race.
In which we learn @acm.org is exceptionally bad at retracting articles that need retracting:
arxiv.org/abs/2602.191...
Well done, @grumpygasbag.bsky.social !!!
Springer Nature adding new journals to the "Nature portfolio"
Many are appropriately outraged by Altman’s comments here implying that raising a human child is akin to “training” an AI model.
This is part of a broader pattern where AI industry leaders use language that collapses the boundary between human and machine.
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