The submission portal for #AIMOS2026 is now open. Submit your lightning talks, discussion groups hackathons, and workshops now. www.aimos2026.org/submit

New @biorxivpreprint.bsky.social preprint on suspected citation manipulation by #PaperMills in molecular oncology, with Baptiste Scancar, David Causer @institutagro.bsky.social & @aidybarnett.bsky.social @aushsi.bsky.social @sydney.edu.au 🙏 @nhmrc.bsky.social for💰 🧪 www.biorxiv.org/content/10.6...

Been using Ecosia search engine since 2018 and DuckDuckGo browser since last year. Neither of which foist AI summaries upon me, collect personal data, or manipulate search results. If you haven’t already switched, Google’s latest aggressive push for AI-generated “information” should compel you to.

Nicola Rennie@nrennie.bsky.social · 3mo ago

Regular reminder that there are alternatives to Google Search and Google Chrome. Some European alternatives are listed here: european-alternatives.eu/alternative-... (where you can also find alternatives for other tech products should you be looking for them)

Only a few days left to sign up! ⏳ On May 20 at 12 PM, the Lund Biomedicine ReproducibiliTea journal club is hosting a very special event in collaboration with ReproducibiliTea Copenhagen! For updates and to sign up, visit the Lund Biomedicine page: lnkd.in/dDnM6i9B

Making the most of my time in Canada! Visiting a friend in Vilna, AB where I can safely say this is the most excited anyone in the town has been to see snow in a long time! Pretty sure the locals would call this sludge but it still makes me happy

Well, #WCRI2026 was an amazing conference! Spent 5 days mingling with #ResearchIntegrity enthusiasts from all disciplines! Inspiring to hear all the efforts going towards battling #papermills Huge thanks to @jabyrnesci.bsky.social for organising this sleuth get together. Too many legends to tag! 💜

Great discussion on the misuse of AI by paper mills to kick off @wcrifoundation.bsky.social yesterday with @jabyrnesci.bsky.social, Daniel Moreira, Renee Hoch, and Stefan Stender #WCRI2026 #papermills #ResearchIntegrity

Outstanding work by @alexdgibson.bsky.social to uncover the use of highly dubious data sets from @kaggle.com being used in hundreds of research papers and potentially even informing clinical practice. If you're re-using data, take the time to confirm that it's real. www.nature.com/articles/d41....

Dozens of AI disease-prediction models were trained on dubious data

The models are designed to predict someone’s risk of diabetes or stroke. A few might already have been used on patients.

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I can attest that this is a great community to be a part of! Global network of researchers passionate about reproducible science 🧪

ReproducibiliTea@reproducibilitea.org · 4mo ago

🤝 How We Support You as ReproducibiliTea – Part 2 Curious about joining a journal club but not sure where to start? We’ve got you covered! 📚 Join an existing journal club Many of our ReproducibiliTea journal clubs are held online and warmly welcome new participants from around the world.

Looking for a good introduction to the world of research paper mills? Check out this episode of Tunnel Vision (by Christophe Haubersin & team) doing a deep dive. Featuring myself, @jabyrnesci.bsky.social, Matt Spick and Ivan Oransky. youtu.be/SEwiOykoXXc?...

I tried to buy a scientific paper

YouTube video by Christophe

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Sometimes it does make sense to give awards for individual contributions to science. Simine is a force for good, and brings everyone along.

Einstein Foundation Berlin@einsteinberlin.bsky.social · 5mo ago

🏆 @simine.com, psychologist at @psychunimelb.bsky.social / @unimelb.bsky.social and Editor-in-Chief of Psychological Science (@psychscience.bsky.social) is a leading voice in the reform movement in psychology - and is now being honored with the €150K Individual Award. Huge congratulations! 🎉

Put pressure on publishers to follow best practice — external regulation is the answer www.nature.com/articles/d41... Many probs: Predatory journals, slow retraction, paper mills, faulty studies... "...external oversight could push journals and publishers to work harder to reduce integrity..."

Put pressure on publishers to follow best practice — external regulation is the answer

Journals that work hard to meet the needs of both authors and readers should be acknowledged publicly — encouraging others to follow suit.

nature.com

Grateful that our @pnas.org paper by @reeserichardson.bsky.social and colleagues was selected as a finalist for the 2025 Cozzarelli Prizes. Six prize winners and 6 finalists were selected from >3,600 PNAS papers published in 2025. #ResearchIntegrity #Papermills www.nasonline.org/news/pnas-20...

PNAS Announces Six 2025 Cozzarelli Prize Recipients - NAS

WASHINGTON, DC – The Editorial Board of the Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences (PNAS) has selected six papers published by PNAS in 2025 to receive the Cozzarelli Prize, an award that reco...

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We're thrilled to announce the Ctrl-Z Award, a US$2,500 prize for researchers “who discover substantial errors in their published work and take meaningful steps to correct the scientific record." Covered by @nature.com today; read more here: centerforscientificintegrity.org/2026/03/10/a...

Pseudoreplication is the practice of treating non-independent observations as if they were independent replicates. This can dramatically increase the rate of false positives. COSIG's newest entry covers how to spot them. Read it at osf.io/hyxvr COSIG 🎉now with 34 guides 🎉is available at cosig.net.

COSIG

The Collection of Open Science Integrity Guides

cosig.net

Very much looking forward to this!

Jennifer Byrne@jabyrnesci.bsky.social · 5mo ago

Join us at #WCRI2026 for a networking session for anyone working on #PaperMills and #GenAI on the context of #ResearchIntegrity. There'll be lightning talks, networking and probs drinks/ dinner afterwards. May 4, 6.00-7.30 pm, all welcome!

A Delphi survey on attitudes to serious research misconduct: Exploring convergence vs. polarization of views of research “sleuths” and research integrity experts #ResearchIntegrity #ResearchEthics #WCRI2026 #WCRI @deevybee.bsky.social www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....

A Delphi survey on attitudes to serious research misconduct: Exploring convergence vs. polarization of views of research “sleuths” and research integrity experts

Research fraud is often seen as a rare event, but evidence from self-report surveys indicates that fabrication and falsification of data are common enough to be a problem. This study assessed attit...

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So happy our paper is finally out!!! thank you everyone in the #ScreenIT group. This effort involved at least 12 people curating 1500 papers for various criteria. Thank you all for pulling it off. doi.org/10.1371/jour...

Use as directed? A comparison of software tools intended to check rigor and transparency of published work

The causes of the reproducibility crisis include lack of standardization and transparency in scientific reporting. Checklists such as ARRIVE and CONSORT seek to improve transparency, but they are not ...

doi.org

@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...

Five ways to spot when a paper is a fraud

Science sleuths share their common-sense tips for sniffing out fishy articles.

nature.com

Join ReproducibiliTea Melbourne journal club this Thursday 4pm AEDT, to discuss "Oversight of Research Outputs by Public Organisations as a Threat to Research Integrity” by C. Brandenburg & @aidybarnett.bsky.social Zoom: uni-sydney.zoom.us/j/83909186903 #ResearchIntegrity @reproducibilitea.org

Oversight of Research Outputs by Public Organisations as a Threat to Research Integrity: A Personal Account from Australia - Journal of Academic Ethics

Research governance processes in Australian public organisations raise significant concerns for research integrity, particularly regarding the pre-dissemination review and editing of research outputs....

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📣 Call for replicators: The NanoBubbles initiative aims to evaluate reproducibility of influential experimental claims in nanoscience. Independent research teams from nano or physical chemistry may apply. Participants receive financial support. Deadline: March 16

CALL FOR PARTICIPATION – Replication in Bionanoscience

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The volume of AI-enabled decent scientific work will overwhelm scientific journals and reviewers. Good post about this except it ends on a strange note, that Wiley and Elsevier AI tools might save us, which is both unlikely and would give even more power to them. open.substack.com/pub/thebsdet...

The Coming Apocalypse for Scientific Publishing

Price was right

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TW: police violence. Last night in Sydney. You may argue at least it’s not as bad as USA or Iran but if we don’t speak out against it now it could be. I cannot fathom what context could possibly justify assaulting people praying or beating a man with his hands up and backing away. #freePalestine

I’m impressed. A nice example of how to handle this with transparency and honesty. Carroll makes a strong case for accountability. This thread makes clear that it’s reasonable to expect some explanation and soul-searching from those who were connected with Epstein.

Sean Carroll@seanmcarroll.bsky.social · 6mo ago

Hey, my name is in the Epstein files! I've told the story before, but should probably re-up. TLDR: never met the guy, never took (or asked for) any money from him, never visited the island. I was invited to the island, and said no. It's not that hard to just say no.

striking results!

Daniel Lakens@lakens.bsky.social · 6mo ago

@scientificdiscovery.dev Hi, I am creating a new version of my free online MOOC, and would like to use this picture, of which you have the copyright. Is it ok if I put it in a slide?

Aurora alert! The Sun just produced the biggest solar flare since Mother’s Day 2024. If you saw it last week, you’ll likely see even stronger over the next couple nights. We might even see in lower latitudes of Australia. You can check NOAA 30 minute forecast for predictions #spaceweather #aurora

“If fabricated studies make their way into the evidence base, they can mislead real scientists and ultimately slow progress for patients." Published in The BMJ, a new AI tool developed by @aidybarnett.bsky.social and colleagues has exposed the scale of fake studies flooding cancer research.

New tool exposes scale of fake research flooding cancer science

A new machine learning tool has identified more than 250,000 cancer research papers that may have been produced by so-called “paper mills”.

qut.edu.au

New paper mill detection model flags 10% of all cancer articles as potentially coming from paper mills. Huge congratulations @baptscc.bsky.social on an incredible first published paper with @aidybarnett.bsky.social @jabyrnesci.bsky.social #researchIntegrity #papermills

baptscc.bsky.social@baptscc.bsky.social · 6mo ago

I am thrilled to announce that my first-ever paper has been published in @bmj.com. It is available here: www.bmj.com/content/392/... I thank my colleagues @aidybarnett.bsky.social, @jabyrnesci.bsky.social and David Causeur for this opportunity and their support.

Decentralised short-range texting app. Uses bluetooth, no cell signal or wifi needed. Live somewhere prone to natural disasters, attend festivals or protests? This could be life saving. Works better the more people who have it. Made by bsky founder Jack Dorsey. For long-range, lookup meshtastic.org

Pleased to share that we were awarded a 2026 #NHMRC Ideas grant via @sydney.edu.au to study/ raise awareness of published human #CellLines that may not exist. It was a tough year, but this outcome shows that NHMRC can fund topics in #metascience, as well as laboratory & clinical research #PaperMills