Yesterday, Ukraine offered a ceasefire right away. russia answered by murdering twelve people in Zaporizhzhia in the air strike, five people in Kramatorsk in the FAB bombing and four in Dnipro — just today. Many more were injured. Supporting russia means supporting genocide.

Actually, Guardian only reported because Le Monde did. Journalists learn in journalist school: only write about things other have just written about. But ignore small outlets and never investigate original stuff, that's all for losers. www.lemonde.fr/m-le-mag/art...

La médaille de l’imposture : comment un professeur de lettres s’est inventé un prix international de toutes pièces

En 2016, Florent Montaclair, professeur de lettres à l’IUFM de Franche-Comté, sort de l’ombre en recevant la médaille d’or de philologie, sorte de Nobel de la discipline. Une récompense créée en réali...

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The #fraud involving #corrupt editors @brianmlucey.bsky.social (@tcddublin.bsky.social); @larisayarovaya.bsky.social (@unisouthampton.bsky.social), Samuel A. Vigne & John Goodell (@uakronpress.bsky.social) is crumbling:Goodell has been fired👇 @chrisbrunet.skystack.xyz chrisbrunet.com/p/third-edit...

Third Editor Fired in Elsevier's Citation Cartel Crackdown; Hundreds of Papers At Risk of Retraction

"This is not a series of coincidences; it is a blatant, industrial-scale quid pro quo."

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@spottingthespot.bsky.social · 7mo ago

And still this #fraud maintains he didn't do anything wrong! Unbelievable. Because others do it, so can I. That's his defence for his fraudulent behaviour. Editing your own papers, yeah, right...

Who acted, who stepped forward, and who chose courage over caution. Ukraine has already given its answer. Now is the time for the rest of us to give ours. Thank you. Slava Ukraini!

Bonus two more Nobelists of 2019!

Cheshire@thatsregrettab1.bsky.social · 4mo ago

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Join us on May 3 for a series of workshops. Workshop 6: Investigating with Integrity: A Hands-on Workshop on Research Misconduct 🕘 1:00 PM–4:00 PM May 3–6, 2026 | Vancouver 9th #WCRI

How to be a science sleuth: Research integrity experts share their tips for spotting and reporting fraudulent papers Rupali Dabas writes @chemistryworld.com Featuring @smutclyde.bsky.social , @deevybee.bsky.social, Nick Wise, Jack Wilkinson, Anna Pendlebury, and me.

Chemistry World@chemistryworld.com · 5mo ago

Meet the science sleuths: researchers who volunteer to examine research articles for signs of fraud, manipulation and fabrication. www.chemistryworld.com/careers/how-...

because Ukraine has largest, most functional, and modern army with modern warfare experience. Without Ukraine, we are vulnerable. We need their lessons learned, we need their help, we need to understand that we are as dependent on Ukraine and Ukrainian capabilities as Ukraine is dependent on us.

Congrats to Karolinska Institute, the most prestigious research institute in Sweden!

Leonid Schneider@forbetterscience.bsky.social · 4mo ago

Former Rector Karin Dahlman-Wright, who was foind guilty of research fraud and sued to avoid sacking, triumphantly returns to @ki.se ! news.ki.se/karin-dahlma...

At least in Japan they understand that research fraud is something shameful.

Leonid Schneider@forbetterscience.bsky.social · 4mo ago

Hirota’s Hypoxic Fraud sanctioned in Japan forbetterscience.com/2026/04/21/h...

If there will be history books in 2050, imagine this chapter about EU heroically fighting Ukraine for russian oil.

MAKS 26 👀🇺🇦@maks23.bsky.social · 4mo ago

🛢🇺🇦 Ukraine to resume oil transit via Druzhba today, – Reuters “Oil pumping is due to begin tomorrow during the lunch break. MOL has already submitted requests for the first volumes, which will be delivered in equal proportions to Hungary and Slovakia,” the report says.

And that Warsaw Ghetto uprising gave the Germans a reason....

Meanwhile in Ukraine@meanwhileua.bsky.social · last yr.

“They gave Putin a reason to bomb the hell out of them,” Trump said about Ukraine’s drone strikes. ❗️As if Russia needed a reason. As if they weren’t already bombing our cities every single day. As if civilians hadn’t died by the thousands before any Spiderweb operation. 👇

Excellent recent paper on how to fix scientific integrity investigations at academic institutions, by Matthew Schrag @thatsregrettab1.bsky.social @elisabethbik.bsky.social pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/40401705/

Academic Research Integrity Investigations Must be Independent, Fair, and Timely - PubMed

Our national scientific enterprise has a crisis of reproducibility. While this phenomenon has many contributors, one is the proliferation of data manipulation. Data manipulation may range from seeming...

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‘Anyone can do this’: Sleuths publish a toolkit for post-publication review The Collection of Open Science Integrity Guides (COSIG) aims to make “post-publication peer review” more accessible Project headed by @reeserichardson.bsky.social @cosig.net retractionwatch.com/2025/06/04/c...

‘Anyone can do this’: Sleuths publish a toolkit for post-publication review

For years, sleuths – whose names our readers are likely familiar with – have been diligently flagging issues with the scientific literature. More than a dozen of these specialists have teamed up to cr...

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A sense of sham: From retirement, David Bimler has embarked on a second career: exposing fraudulent research | @smutclyde.bsky.social |

A sense of sham

From retirement, David Bimler has embarked on a second career: exposing fraudulent research.

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www.eldiario.es/sociedad/pro... I see a manipulation.

Just so all of us chemists are on the same page, if @acs.org pulls this shit, we're all canceling our memberships and will never publish in an ACS journal or attend an ACS meeting ever again, right? RIGHT? And this has nothing to do with being a 25-year member and never receiving a mug.

Elisabeth Bik@elisabethbik.bsky.social · 2y ago

I am appalled by the ASM's decision to remove DEI content from their website. Here is my email to the American Society for Microbiology, @ASM.org asking them to put everything back as it was. If you are an ASM member, please consider writing them.

We are selling the tech that allow Russian and North Korean missiles to hit Kyiv. But Trump won’t give or even sell Zelens’kyi the defensive tech needed to stop them.

UNITED24 Media@united24media.com · last yr.

🔴 Zelenskyy says the missile that killed 12 in Kyiv had 116 foreign-made parts—most from U.S. firms. The missile was likely North Korean. He blames weak pressure on Russia and Pyongyang for enabling such attacks.

ScienceGuardians is a platform describing itself as the "first fully verified journal club" dedicated to fighting the "PubPeer Network Mob". They boast of a stringent verification process. On a whim, I registered an account for Larry Richardson, my grandma's cat. It was approved in 2 hours.

"Ukrainians don’t have the luxury of indulging in the fantasies and distortions of Truth Social, or X, or Russian state TV. They have no choice but to believe in the rockets flying over their heads, the news of dead neighbours – in short, in reality."--Nataliya Gumenyuk

In Kyiv, we don’t believe in the fantasy of Trump's ‘peace deal’. Our reality is more dead civilians | Nataliya Gumenyuk

At the scene of the deadliest attack on our capital this year, I see the war on Ukraine is still very real – and Putin shows no signs of ending it, says Ukrainian journalist Nataliya Gumenyuk

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Why Universities Should Make Misconduct Reports Public: A call to action from our co-founders

A familiar story for many PhD students... The cell line doesn't act the same as described in the article, the mouse phenotype doesn't replicate, the supervisor tells them it's their fault 😮‍💨

Katherine Stiles@katherinestiles.org · 2y ago

▫️ #AcademicSky ▫️ #ResearchIntegrity ▫️ #ScientificMisconduct ▫️ Investigating scientific misconduct is hard—especially when your supervisor is an author

WTF Sweden ‘It is about vulnerable guys’: violent far-right groups in Sweden recruit boys as young as 10 www.theguardian.com/world/2025/m...

‘It is about vulnerable guys’: violent far-right groups in Sweden recruit boys as young as 10

Validated by Trump, Musk and the manosphere, far-right extremists pull in boys online and use bodybuilding and fight clubs to further their white supremacist agenda

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COPE (Committee on Publication Ethics) has one integrity officer, Iratxe Puebla. She has authored only one biology research paper. It is now retracted for image manipulation. Learn by experience!

McSweeney’s university satire cutting close to the bone again. “We will also stop pretending to try to recruit a diverse faculty.”

McSweeney's@mcsweeneys.net · last yr.

Effective immediately after this sentence, the university will no longer use the word “trans” since that’s not really a thing. (The history department has informed us that [REDACTED] people do exist and always have.) The history department has been dissolved.

“Ukraine is once again is seen as a mere territory to capture and colonise, its people as a inert mass to be subjugated and exploited.” Please read Leonid Schneider’s perspective on this terrible war 🇺🇦 forbetterscience.com/2025/02/24/b...

Schneider Shorts 21.02.2025 – I reviewed the facts and could not find any scientific misconduct forbetterscience.com/2025/02/21/s...

Schneider Shorts 21.02.2025 – I reviewed the facts and could not find any scientific misconduct

Schneider Shorts 21.02.2025 – Germany special with my plea to German voters, a russia-lover in Hamburg, an animal friend in Magdeburg, a decisive art historian in Cottbus, and an Iran-loving …

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Doctored by Charles Piller review – the scandal that derailed Alzheimer’s research A dogged account of how the quest for a treatment may have been set back years by fraudulent evidence www.theguardian.com/books/2025/f...

Doctored by Charles Piller review – the scandal that derailed Alzheimer’s research

A dogged account of how the quest for a treatment may have been set back years by fraudulent evidence

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I will be giving a talk hosted by @reproducibilitea.org and @vvoikar.bsky.social on 2/12 9am EST. The focus is on highly problematic behavioral data in mouse models of Alzheimer's. I will also go over some image issues that I found in papers by Eliezer Masliah. helsinki.zoom.us/meeting/regi....

Would you like to join the fight against paper mills? Now's your chance! #ResearchIntegrity #PublicationEthics #JobAlert

Dr. Maria Zalm@drmariazalm.bsky.social · 2y ago

PLOS Pub Ethics is hiring a Sr Editor. Are you an experienced editor with interest in preventing, investigating, and resolving large-scale issues including paper mills, peer-review rings, and citation cartels? Link below for more info. UK or USA only. job-boards.eu.greenhouse.io/plos/jobs/45...