@retractionwatch.com I hope the @crick.ac.uk keep going with their research integrity analysis of publications to which the PhD student Kevin Ng under Professor George Kassiotis’ supervision contributed. It’s shocking that the principal investigator keeps getting off the hook.

Krzysztof Potempa@braincures.bsky.social · 5d ago

Retraction of @science.org Translational Medicine research article “SARS-CoV-2 S2–targeted vaccination elicits broadly neutralizing antibodies” by Ng et al from Professor Kassiotis lab. @crick.ac.uk has concluded that fabricated data are present in Figure 2, B and C www.science.org/doi/10.1126/...

See lnkd.in/p/enVTBsMk for headlines relating to Professor David Sabatini's 5 year #MeToo saga as covered by Nick Paul Taylor, Kyle LaHucik, Max Bayer, Joshua Rhett Miller, Kathianne Boniello, Mark Arsenault, James Gordon, Meredith Wadman, Suzy Weiss, Julia Bonavita, Will Potter and Toria Sheffield

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Headlines from Professor David Sabatini's five year #MeToo saga as covered by Nick Paul Taylor, Kyle LaHucik, Max Bayer, Joshua Rhett Miller, Kathianne Boniello, Mark Arsenault, James Gordon, Meredith...

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Research-integrity campaigner and microbiologist @elisabethbik.bsky.social has suggested that universities commission independent investigations from a pool of experienced, semi-retired academics who would be paid for the work —Wyn Evans @21group.bsky.social @nature.com lnkd.in/p/e9acntuu

Whistleblowers in university or research institute settings need greater protection. See https://lnkd.in/deXQi9Qn for a survivor's guide to whistleblowing. | Krzysztof Potempa

Whistleblowers in university or research institute settings need greater protection. See https://lnkd.in/deXQi9Qn for a survivor's guide to whistleblowing.

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🧵 Proprietary plasticogens and target connectivity rules are key to high preclinical/clinical success rates. For example, the BRAINCURES Discovery Engine (BDE) prioritizes 343 hub- and 17 master- targets from a list of 11,218 @opentargets.org glioblastoma genes www.linkedin.com/pulse/tackli...

Tackling cancer with biological intelligence

Neuroscience is opening new ways to tackle cancer (see reference 1 for a full review). Figure 1 Timeline of neuroscience-cancer connectivity from reference 1 Target Connectivity based Pipeline Priorit...

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🧵 Michael Häusser reminded Ewen Callaway that optogenetics won the Brain Prize in 2013. Unlike the Nobel Prize, which is limited to three awardees, that award also recognized three other optogenetics pioneers: @eboyden3.bsky.social, Gero Miesenböck and Ernst Bamburg www.nature.com/articles/d41...

‘What took them so long?’ This year’s medicine Nobel winner is overdue

Nature’s senior biology reporter Ewen Callaway reflects on today’s prize for optogenetics — which scientists have anticipated for years.

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🧵 To mark the @nobelprize.org week here are some interesting questions from @kerri-smith.bsky.social and Chris Ryan. Also see The Nobel “Pride” Phenomenon: An analysis of Nobel Prize discoveries and their recognition by Max von Zedtwitz, Tobias Gutmann, Pascal Engelmann lnkd.in/p/edaUx9dx

To mark The Nobel Prize week here are some interesting background facts and questions. For more information see: 1) Nobel committees to tackle gender skew by Elizabeth Gibney at… | Krzysztof Potempa

To mark The Nobel Prize week here are some interesting background facts and questions. For more information see: 1) Nobel committees to tackle gender skew by Elizabeth Gibney at https://lnkd.in/e46NaC...

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🧵 Does winning a Nobel prize @nobelprize.org make you less productive? Do you get ‘Nobelitis’?Here’s what it did to Sir Paul Nurse. His rejection rates for grant applications for funding have remained essentially the same before and after the prize www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...

Does winning a Nobel prize make you less productive? Do you get ‘Nobelitis’? Here’s what it did to me | Paul Nurse

There’s something to the notion that Nobel winners create less thereafter, says scientist Paul Nurse

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🧵 Rugby legend Doddie Weir won 61 Scottish caps through the 90s, and was selected for the British and Irish Lions tour of South Africa in 1997. The 6ft 6in lock was famously described by commentator Bill McLaren as as being "on the charge like a mad giraffe" www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-scot...

Doddie Weir: The rugby legend who won't give in to MND

Three years after being told he has a terminal illness, rugby legend Doddie Weir refuses to give it an inch.

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🧵 Organizations should not be allowed to protect their image by shutting down a complaint too quickly. Investigations need to be genuinely independent, not conducted by single individuals from private employment-law firms in the pay of the institution @nature.com www.linkedin.com/pulse/sanger...

🧵 Universities must stop protecting bullies by Morteza Mahmoudi, founder of Academic Parity Movement @nature.com www.linkedin.com/posts/krzysz...

Universities must stop protecting bullies by Morteza Mahmoudi, founder of Academic Parity Movement. See https://lnkd.in/duvDEYCh | Krzysztof Potempa

Universities must stop protecting bullies by Morteza Mahmoudi, founder of Academic Parity Movement. See https://lnkd.in/duvDEYCh

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🧵 The rise and fall of Professor Jason Arday: a full rundown of the questions being asked. From accusations of plagiarism to queries over his charity work, @theguardian.com list all the allegations against the black academic | @lanre-bakare.bsky.social www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2026...

The rise and fall of Jason Arday: a full rundown of the questions being asked

From accusations of plagiarism to queries over his charity work, we list all the allegations against the academic

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🧵 Ten commitments for a bold biotechnology industry by @jeremymax.bsky.social. My favorite commitments are: We will back long-term science with long-term capital (5); We will build companies to outlast their founders (6); We will defend facts and independent science www.linkedin.com/posts/krzysz...

Dr. Jeremy Levin's Biotech Industry Commitments | Krzysztof Potempa posted on the topic | LinkedIn

Ten commitments for a bold biotechnology industry by Dr. Jeremy M. Levin. My favorite three commitments are: We will back long-term science with long-term capital (5); We will build companies to outla...

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With great power comes great responsibility: how scientific supervisors shape the wellbeing of early-career researchers by Xabier Simón Martínez de Goñi @martinezgonixs.bsky.social, Agustín Javier Marín Peña, Mario Corrochano Monsalve, Adrián Bozal-Leorri @amoadrian-bl.bsky.social

🧵 #BIO2026 What should be done about the pay gap between the 25 highest-paid CEOs in biopharma with over $25 million paydays and their employees sitting on about 250-fold lower salaries? Of note, the typical worker in pharma/biotech made $116,648 in 2025 www.linkedin.com/posts/krzysz...

🧵Leading cancer research @cancerresearchuk.org charity takes not so tough stance on bullying, discrimination, harassment and victimization. See www.linkedin.com/pulse/race-4... for more information. @hollyelse.bsky.social it would be great if you could update your @nature.com story from October 2018

Race 4 Truth on CRUK

Last update: 18 June 2026 There are more than 168,000 charities in the UK. These charities are monitored by the Charity Commission and range from universities to the British Arts Council to internatio...

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🧵 Wellcome committed more than $926 million of its holdings to at least 57 tax haven funds, documents from the Paradise Papers indicate. @wellcometrust.bsky.social declined to discuss the size or placement of its assets in offshore accounts @charlespiller.bsky.social www.science.org/content/arti...

Private research funders court controversy with billions in secretive investments

Critics say offshore investing by high-minded foundations shores up a nefarious system

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🧵 Do you remember how a row over scientific fraud led to calls for one of the country’s leading geneticists and highest-paid university chiefs to leave his posts in 2020? Should George Kassiotis remain @crick.ac.uk and Imperial College after all these controversies? www.linkedin.com/posts/krzysz...

Do you remember how a row over scientific fraud at the highest level of British academia led to calls for one of the country’s leading geneticists and highest-paid university chiefs to leave his… | Kr...

Do you remember how a row over scientific fraud at the highest level of British academia led to calls for one of the country’s leading geneticists and highest-paid university chiefs to leave his posts...

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🧵 @juliandownward.bsky.social, associate research director @crick.ac.uk, has 27 papers with comments on PubPeer, many of which were flagged for image concerns. In 2015, he lost 2 papers in one month for data issues, including one from Nature @retractionwatch.com retractionwatch.com/2026/01/14/n...

Nature retracts paper for data manipulation by Ph.D. student

Nature has retracted a paper after an investigation at a U.K. institution found the first author — then a doctoral student — manipulated data.  The paper, which looked at the sensitivity of lu…

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🧵 First author Ng was responsible for the manipulation in @nature.com paper, including manipulated data in several figures. Kevin was a PhD student at the @crick.ac.uk in London under the supervision of co-corresponding author George Kassiotis @retractionwatch.com retractionwatch.com/2026/01/14/n...

Nature retracts paper for data manipulation by Ph.D. student

Nature has retracted a paper after an investigation at a U.K. institution found the first author — then a doctoral student — manipulated data.  The paper, which looked at the sensitivity of lu…

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Krzysztof Potempa@braincures.bsky.social · 8mo ago

George Kassiotis is a Group Leader and head of the laboratory of Retroviral Immunology at @crick.ac.uk institute, London, UK. The Crick protected this @imperialcollegeldn.bsky.social professor and recipient of a new investigator award from @wellcometrust.bsky.social www.linkedin.com/pulse/ula-sc...

Francis Crick Institute @crick.ac.uk faced allegations of bullying and inappropriate research culture. This ended with the whistleblower receiving a six figure sum in compensation for the harm done (presumably with an NDA as details in the press are scarce) @21group.bsky.social 21percent.org?p=1915

Wellcome, CRUK and Bullying - 21percent.org

The 21 Group has been receiving complaints about bullying from staff in UK Universities for over a year. One subject stands out as the worst for bullying and harassment. It is cancer research. We are ...

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🧵 J Craig Venter, 79, retired on 29 April 2026. Some articles of interest: 1) Geneticist J Craig Venter: I consider retirement tantamount to death @heidiledford.bsky.social 2) Craig Venter Mapped The Genome. Now He's Trying To Decode Death @matthewherper.bsky.social www.linkedin.com/posts/krzysz...

Geneticist J Craig Venter, 79, retired on 29 April 2026. Some articles of interest: 1) Geneticist J. Craig Venter: ‘I consider retirement tantamount to death’ (2023) by Heidi Ledford… | Krzysztof Pot...

Geneticist J Craig Venter, 79, retired on 29 April 2026. Some articles of interest: 1) Geneticist J. Craig Venter: ‘I consider retirement tantamount to death’ (2023) by Heidi Ledford https://lnkd.in/...

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🧵 Solving a disease as complex as Parkinson’s requires big bets on bold biological hypotheses. We are at an inflection point where new capabilities allow us to pose more questions about factors like aging drive the disease @asapresearch.parkinsonsroadmap.org parkinsonsroadmap.org/news/261m-in...

Aligning Science Across Parkinson’s and The Michael J. Fox Foundation Expand Global Research Initiative with $261M Investment Toward Personalized Treatments

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🧵 Ten lessons from a decade of scientific translation at @crick.ac.uk by Stephen Mayhew, Dave Allen and David Roblin. Paywall link @natmed.nature.com www.nature.com/articles/s41.... See www.linkedin.com/pulse/franci... to learn more about The Francis Crick Institute

🧵 How to get venture philanthropy right? How to harness #venturephilanthropy to accelerate medical progress? How to build a high impact #philanthropy portfolio? What are some philanthropic organisations with interests in the biomedical, health or life sciences? #ESG www.linkedin.com/pulse/ventur...

Venture capital and philanthropy in biotech

Last updated: 30 January 2025 You hear more about venture capital in the world of finance and investment professionals, but the notion of venture philanthropy has been around for quite some time, too—...

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The BRAINCURES Discovery Engine prioritization of 229 Parkinson targets identifies 34 BDE targets, 11 BDE hubs, 2 BDE masters. Additionally, 83 of 229 community-led targets have hub protein properties. See www.michaeljfox.org/targets-ther... to explore Michael J Fox Foundation’s Targets to Therapies

BRAINCURES virtual phenotypic screening to accelerate the Drug Prioritization of Disease Modification Trials in Parkinson’s: The International Linked Clinical Trials Initiative-iLCT by Richard Wyse @cureparkinsons.org.uk,Tom Isaacs, Roger Barker, … and Patrik Brundin www.linkedin.com/posts/brainc...

🧵 If we are to achieve the full promise of medicine, we must reprimand harassment. We must change the culture of our organizations so that women feel the value they bring to science will be celebrated @drclairepomeroy.bsky.social @laskerfdn.bsky.social www.scientificamerican.com/article/gend...

Gender Equality in Science Will Require a Culture Shift

To support women in science, we must reckon with a culture of unconscious bias

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🧵 We have even seen an extraordinary example of a campaign of harassment and intimidation directed at a UK university by Chinese authorities… who demanded that research on human rights being done in Sheffield be halted @marialep.bsky.social @erc.europa.eu erc.europa.eu/news-events/...

ERC President’s speech on academic freedom under threat

ERC President Professor Maria Leptin gave a speech at the Coimbra Group’s 40th anniversary at Bozar, Brussels

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Young female scientists feel they can trust a woman in charge They open up about the bullying & harassment that's happening in the lab It makes the confusion & hurt so much worse when the response is the same silence & dismissal as with men

Krzysztof Potempa@braincures.bsky.social · 8mo ago

🧵On International Women’s Day we sadly need to recognise that some women leaders do not exercise their power to protect a woman whistleblower. Read about how the empowered Kate Bingham, Sam Barrell and Fiona Roberts enabled poor research culture at the @crick.ac.uk www.linkedin.com/posts/krzysz...

🧵On International Women’s Day we sadly need to recognise that some women leaders do not exercise their power to protect a woman whistleblower. Read about how the empowered Kate Bingham, Sam Barrell and Fiona Roberts enabled poor research culture at the @crick.ac.uk www.linkedin.com/posts/krzysz...

#womeninscience #internationalwomensday #iwd26 | Krzysztof Potempa

On International Women’s Day we sadly need to recognise that some women leaders do not exercise their power to protect a woman whistleblower. Read about how powerful women such as Kate Bingham, Sam Ba...

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