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Alberto Baccini

@albertobaccini.bsky.social

Professor of Quantitative studies of science, University of Siena, Italy. One of the founders of http://roars.it

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Amnesty International UK@amnestyuk.bsky.social · last mo.

A United Nations’ independent commission has found that Israel is deliberately targeting Palestinian children. Commission chair Srinivasan Muralidhar described the “systematic killing and harming of children” including since the so-called ceasefire was declared in October 2025.

Retraction Watch@retractionwatch.com · 5mo ago

“Maybe, I would have been treated better if I had cited some of the editor in chief’s papers,” Bimonte, of the University of Siena, wrote in boldface in the email, which we have seen. Two days later, an unhappy editor at the journal quit, Retraction Watch has learned.

Exclusive: Unrest at Wiley journal whose EIC is cited in more than half of its papers

Timothy Lee (center) of Macau University of Science and Technology was named editor-in-chief of the International Journal of Tourism Research in 2023. On Feb. 18, a researcher in Italy sent a disgr…

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Stephen Curry@scurry.bsky.social · 6mo ago

If you would like to help put pressure on the @royalsociety.org to finally take meaningful action on this issue, you can politely decline their requests for your labour (eg invitations to review or to sit on their editorial boards or grant panels), and refer to the arguments in this blogpost.

Stephen Curry@scurry.bsky.social · 6mo ago

FOR THE RECORD: one year on, I lay out clearly how Elon Musk FRS has breached the @royalsociety.org’s code of conduct, why the Society’s failure to defend its values has been so damaging, & what they need do to recover their standing in the scientific community. occamstypewriter.org/scurry/2026/...

Colourful image from the webpage of the Royal Society. Background is a mix of images of electronic circuits and silicon wafers. Text reads: "Welcome to the Royal Society. We are the independent scientific academy of the UK, dedicated to promoting excellence in science for the benefit of humanity."
Health Nerd@gidmk.bsky.social · 7mo ago

Fascinating piece about how the fear of microplastics is almost certainly overblown. One takeaway for me is that even the scientists behind the microplastics=bad papers are VERY reserved about whether these findings are really problematic. www.theguardian.com/environment/...

‘A bombshell’: doubt cast on discovery of microplastics throughout human body

Exclusive: Some scientists say many detections are most likely error, with one high-profile study called a ‘joke’

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Caitlin Johnstone@caitoz.bsky.social · 7mo ago

Every western country on earth is currently both (A) hollering about the need to free people from authoritarian governments and (B) gradually making it illegal to criticize the state of Israel.

Alberto Baccini@albertobaccini.bsky.social · 7mo ago

Editorial power in economics journals has a long history. We analyze 150+ years of board turnover, stability, and governance with new data & methods. Big patterns, big change. 🔗 arxiv.org/abs/2601.05727 #Economics #ScienceOfScience

A Stock-Flow Framework for Editorial Board Dynamics: The Case of Economics Journals, 1866-2019

Research on the editorial boards of scholarly journals has predominantly relied on static, cross-sectional data, focusing on their composition or interlocking editorships at single points in time. To ...

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Dorothy Bishop@deevybee.bsky.social · 7mo ago

How long should it take to retract a paper with incontrovertible signs of data fabrication? Sleuths think 2 months is too long, particularly when clinical risks are involved. deevybee.blogspot.com/2026/01/an-o... #retraction #stemcells #cardiology @erictopol.bsky.social

An Open Letter to the BMJ Editorial Board

to: Editor in chief, Kamran Abbasi , kabbasi@bmj.com      Executive editor, Theodora Bloom , tbloom@bmj.com      Head of research, Elizab...

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Alberto Baccini@albertobaccini.bsky.social · 9mo ago

Bug in Springer Nature metadata may be causing ‘significant, systemic’ citation inflation retractionwatch.com/2025/11/11/b...

Bug in Springer Nature metadata may be causing ‘significant, systemic’ citation inflation

Millions of researchers could be affected by a “dramatic distortion of citation counts” likely caused by flaws in how the academic publishing giant Springer Nature handles article metadata, accordi…

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Alberto Baccini@albertobaccini.bsky.social · 10mo ago

La proposta di riforma dell’ANVUR rende finalmente evidente ciò che da anni era solo implicito: l’Agenzia è lo strumento con cui il governo attua il controllo centralizzato e indirizza le attività di università e ricerca. www.roars.it/valutare-e-o...

Valutare e obbedire. Il Governo vuole il controllo totale di ANVUR

La proposta di riforma dell'ANVUR rende finalmente evidente ciò che da anni era solo implicito: l’Agenzia è lo strumento con cui il governo attua il controllo centralizzato e indirizza le attività di ...

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Retraction Watch@retractionwatch.com · 12mo ago

Grateful that @lonnibesancon.bsky.social‬, @gcabanac.cpesr.fr, Cyril Labbe and Alexander Magazinov chose to donate the proceeds of their ASIS&T Best Paper Award for 2025 to the @elisabethbik.bsky.social Fund to support the work of sleuths. More here: centerforscientificintegrity.org/our-projects...

“Sneaked references: Fabricated reference metadata distort citation counts” Chosen for 2025 Best JASIST Paper Award

The Association for Information Science & Technology (ASIS&T) is delighted to announce that “Sneaked references: Fabricated reference metadata distort citation counts,” written by Lonni Besançon, Guil...

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Springer Nature@springernature.com · last yr.

Data-visualization researcher @lonnibesancon.bsky.social has faced online abuse, threats and legal challenges. But he remains proud of his service to science and society. He hopes young scientists will get involved in scientific sleuthing: spklr.io/63328BEc6p

The COVID-19 pandemic transformed this scientist into a research-integrity sleuth

Lonni Besançon has faced online abuse, threats and legal challenges. But he remains proud of his service to science and society.

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Carl T. Bergstrom@carlbergstrom.com · last yr.

AI summaries kill search traffic. This has been an obvious consequence of Google's AI summary strategy since its inception. Apparently the training data is so valuable that Google is willing to risk the neck of the goose that lays golden eggs. Screenshot: thebullshitmachines.com/lesson-9-blu...

Screenshot from Modern-Day Oracles or Bullshit Machines (Bergstrom and West 2025). People wandering through a desert mirage, with the text: "We anticipate powerful, damaging spillover effects. If no one follows web links, there will be few incentives for people to create high-quality content in the first place. Meanwhile large language models make it easy to produce low-quality content at the touch of a button. Quality human-created information may be swamped by AI-generated bullshit."
Jay Rosen@jayrosen.bsky.social · last yr.

Inside the digital publishing industry, which I try to monitor closely, this is the big news. By Julia Alexander at Puck.

Lonni Besançon@lonnibesancon.bsky.social · last yr.

How about a podcast on research integrity featuring big names in the field (e.g., @elisabethbik.bsky.social) and, incidentally, yours truly? Go listen to open.spotify.com/show/2AuVl4w...

Science in the Gray Zone

Podcast · Nanobubbles ERC Project - Chakalaka Medialab · Science and Technology

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Lonni Besançon@lonnibesancon.bsky.social · last yr.

Un podcast sur l'intégrité de la recherche avec des grands noms du domaine (e.g., @elisabethbik.bsky.social) et accessoirement "yours truly" ça vous dit? Allez écouter open.spotify.com/show/2AuVl4w...

Alberto Baccini@albertobaccini.bsky.social · last yr.

L’accademia dei Lincei ha da poco assegnato i premi Feltrinelli. Quest’anno il premio Feltrinelli per la medicina, consistente in €100.000, è stato assegnato a Carlo M. Croce. Hanno fatto bene? www.roars.it/i-lincei-pre...

I Lincei premiano Carlo M. Croce. Hanno fatto bene?

L'accademia dei Lincei ha da poco assegnato i premi Feltrinelli. Quest'anno il premio Feltrinelli per la medicina, consistente in €100.000, è stato assegnato a Carlo M. Croce. Questa la motivazione: ...

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LizW@cave-malum.bsky.social · last yr.

Ajan Reginald, formerly of Celixir infamy, should apply to the FDA. It's a coin toss whether the dynamic duo approve or decline to approve products on any given day. Likely there's special speedy path for packs of lies purporting to be biologics.

Questionable activities of UK company Celixir, by Patricia Murray

Patricia Murray uncovers the business secrets of the Nobelist Martin Evans and his partner Ajan Reginald. It seems the magic iMP cells used to treat patients in Greece were drawn from the blood of …

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Leonid Schneider@forbetterscience.bsky.social · last yr.

Schneider Shorts 20.06.2025 – Life goes on, as science globalizes forbetterscience.com/2025/06/20/s...

Paolo Crosetto@paolocrosetto.bsky.social · last yr.

Springer-Nature launched a series of "Discover" journals that closely mimic MDPI titles -- sharing *identical* journal names, and likely similar business model. What is going on, and why researcher will - as always - fall for it? A 🧵 the-strain-on-scientific-publishing.github.io/website/post...

Springer Nature Discovers MDPI – The Strain on Scientific Publishing

Home page for the paper ‘The Strain on Scientific Publishing’ by Mark A Hanson, Dan Brockington, Paolo Crosetto and Pablo Gomez Barreiro

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Alberto Baccini@albertobaccini.bsky.social · last yr.

"Science was born in Italy, and that’s where they will kill and bury it". A newsletter full of Italian scientists forbetterscience.com/2025/06/06/s...

Schneider Shorts 6.06.2025 – Researchers with High Citation and Publication Counts

Schneider Shorts 6.06.2025 – one anti-qualified troll to judge all scientists in Italy, another asks Trump for $50 billion, with a celebrated Thai couple, a russian in America, an incredible …

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George Monbiot@georgemonbiot.bsky.social · last yr.

The august facades and impeccable decorum of our great institutions arise from fortunes built on slavery and murder. As WH Auden noted of Oxford: "Knowledge is conceived in the hot womb of Violence". This ritual cannibalism is perfectly symbolic of the whole. www.theguardian.com/science/2025...

Oxford academics drank from cup made from human skull, book reveals

Decades-long use of chalice at Worcester College highlights violent colonial history of looted human remains, says Prof Dan Hicks

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