Preparing a presentation on research integrity, I came across some tortured phrases I had to share: Foundation commotion (background noise) Vitality source (energy source) Prospering countries (developing nations) Corruption of polymers (polymer decomposition) Hairlike activity (capillary action)

New study from my fab masters student. There are some people who have so many retractions that they are famous for it. The most notorious frauds in science. Do the unretracted papers from these authors get cited in Cochrane reviews? Yes. link.springer.com/article/10.1...

Research integrity within systematic reviews: investigating the prevalence of studies by authors with multiple retraction histories in Cochrane reviews - Research Integrity and Peer Review

Background Research misconduct poses a significant threat to the integrity of evidence synthesis. Although Cochrane reviews are known for rigorous methodological standards, the potential inclusion of ...

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PRISMA 2020 is a reporting guideline! How is it possible that so many reviews go through the entire publication and peer-review process without this being corrected? - 55.5% used PRISMA 2020 inadequately - only 20.5% were categorised as ‘adequate’. onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1002/...

PRISMA 2020 Is a Reporting Guideline for Systematic Reviews but Is Often Misused to Guide Review Content

Introduction The Preferred Reporting Items for Systematic reviews and Meta-Analyses (PRISMA) is a reporting guideline aiming to facilitate transparent and accurate reporting in systematic reviews. T.....

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A tool used to rephrase plagiarised text changed "final solution" to "mass killing of an ethnic group" in a chemistry paper. Now retracted thanks to a PubPeer user who spotted this. pubpeer.com/publications...

Data transformation in mixed methods systematic reviews. This presentation was recorded at #JBIiGNITE: https://ow.ly/OLBx50YaEPg #JBIMethodology

We still have a few spots left for our 2026 version of the hybrid JASP Workshop week end of August featuring a day on Discovering Statistics, a day on State-of-the-art Meta Analyses, a day on Machine learning, and two days on Bayesian hypothesis testing😊 (also single days) jasp-stats.org/workshops/

Workshops - JASP - Free and User-Friendly Statistical Software

The JASP team is excited to support four workshops this year (2026). Each of these workshops can be attended either in person (at the University of Amsterdam) or online: On Monday August 24th, we orga...

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Planning a systematic review or map? Join my next course 7-8th Sep, 9-16 BST, for intensive, hands-on training in SR/SM methods, covering: formulating a question, protocols, searching, screening, data extraction, critical appraisal, synthesis, and reporting! opencollective.com/esmarconf/ev...

Systematic Review and Mapping Methods Course - Open Collective

A 2-day online workshop on how to plan and conduct a systematic review or systematic map

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In other disciplines such as medicine, RoB assessment is the standard norm & is extensively used, highlighting a significant gap in ecology & evolution #synthesis To bridge this, we provide a clear roadmap to make RoB Known, Easy, and Possible for the entire community 🏗️ 🔗 doi.org/10.1111/2041...

Today we launch the first stable release of RegCheck: v1.0.0. RegCheck makes it easier and quicker to compare study registrations to published papers for consistency - something we know is important in principle, but rarely done in practice. A 🧵 on what's new: regcheck.app

RegCheck

RegCheck is an AI tool to compare preregistrations with papers instantly.

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My experience as well, but very nice too see a thorough examination!

Alfredo Sánchez-Tójar@asanchez-tojar.bsky.social · 2mo ago

Are our ecological conclusions built on shaky foundations? Our latest paper in @methodsinecoevol.bsky.social highlights that Risk of Bias (RoB) assessment, crucial for ensuring the internal validity of research, is almost never used in #systematicreviews in eco & evo 📉 🔗 doi.org/10.1111/2041...

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#medlibs - excellent article on the need for more defined standards on the use and reporting of grey / gray literature www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...

Guidance to including gray literature in systematic reviews-recommendations from an epidemiological study

Gray literature studies are materials produced outside traditional academic or commercial publishing such as theses, conference proceedings, technical…

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There are still free spots for the 2nd edition of the 5-day course: "Systematic Reviews and Meta-analysis in R", run in collaboration with the @eco-aeet.bsky.social This year we are running the event at beautiful and historic @ucoimbra.bsky.social (Portugal) Info: aeet.org/events/2026/... #rstats

Course Systematic Reviews and Meta-analysis in R, 2ed

This course provides a practical introduction to modern methods of evidence synthesis, with a focus on systematic review and meta-analysis in ecology and evolution.

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Center for Neuroscience and Cell Biology@cnc-uc.bsky.social · 4mo ago

📚 Applications are open for the 2nd edition of the course Systematic Reviews and Meta-Analysis in R. 🗓️ Oct 19–23, 2026 📍 University of Coimbra 📝 Apply until Sept 18 🔗 www.cnc.uc.pt/pt/systemati... @ucoimbra.bsky.social

Tired of "methods sections" lacking detail? Check out our new preprint: "Ten simple rules for writing a reusable step-by-step protocol" 📢 This is not only for lab work. Detailed protocols are essential for reproducibility across ALL research fields 🔗 osf.io/preprints/me...

Vi letar ny doktorand i agrarhistoria till ett projekt om hur människor i det förindustriella Sverige fick tillgång till mat – Känner du någon som vill du forska om bröd, öl och gröt i fyra år!? www.slu.se/om-slu/jobba...

Doktorand i agrarhistoria | slu.se

Vetenskap och utbildning för hållbart liv.

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Trials that fail INSPECT-SR trustworthiness assessments (inspect.sr) have much larger and implausible effect sizes. Checks are as simple as "is the mean within the scale range". Review included 857 Chinese RCTs, just published in the Lancet Psychiatry: doi.org/10.1016/S221...

Titta! En valkompass som bygger på vad partierna gjort istället för vad de säger.

Stockholm University@stockholm-uni.bsky.social · 3mo ago

Doktoranden Ernst Cederholm @ernstcederholm.bsky.social har utvecklat en digital valkompass som ska ge väljare en annan bild av svensk politik än traditionella valbarometrar. Plattformen minDemokrati bygger inte på partiernas vallöften utan på hur de har röstat i riksdagen. www.su.se/nyheter/nyhe...

För rolig för att inte dela…

Vee@veroniqueb99.mastodon.social.ap.brid.gy · 2mo ago

Several bars and restaurants have brought their best minds and resources together to introduce a new high end cocktail to the world. The Reflecting Pool

Gamla Saltkråkan var före sin tid när Melker blir alldeles tokig av att försöka jobba hemifrån mitt under sommarlovet när alla ungar är hemma. -Jag arbetar! -Du sitter ju bara och skriver på skrivmaskin, det är väl inte att arbeta!?

What is the replication crisis? Is it a problem in Ecology and Evolution? Can journals help us fight it? I'll be answering all these questions and more later this week in a free and open @sortee.bsky.social webinar. Come along to find out more!!

SORTEE@sortee.bsky.social · 3mo ago

For the June edition of the SORTEE workshop and webinar series, Dr. Joel Pick (@joelpick.bsky.social) will join us at 13:00 hrs UTC on June 25th to discuss the role of journals in fighting the replication crisis ✨ Sign up at: events.humanitix.com/webinar-what...

I’ve worked with systematic reviews for 14+ years, but have only recently moved into agronomy and environmental science. And one thing keeps surprising me… #SystematicReview #SysRev #EvidenceSynthesis

Retract and resubmit is a bold new option

I've also found this shinyapp tool to be useful as a reference checker in manuscript reviewing: drkap.shinyapps.io/APA_Cheat_Ca...

JsonGeller@jgeller1phd.bsky.social · 3mo ago

Going to start using www.scienceverse.org/metacheck/ in all reviews

The third edition of the Open Handbook of Experience Sampling Methodology is out! The book includes 14 chapters that cover all aspects of designing, running, and analyzing the data from an ESM/EMA study. The book is freely available here: www.kuleuven.be/samenwerking...

We're excited to launch J·ROR, the Journal of Research on Research. A new open-access home for research on how research is funded, organised, conducted, communicated, and evaluated. Our first editorial: www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10.... #ResearchOnResearch #MetaScience #OpenScience #STS

Introducing the Journal of Research on Research (J·ROR): aligning constellations and communities

Published in Journal of Research on Research (Vol. 1, No. 1, 2026)

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Excellent news! Nature is expanding Registered Reports to all the fields in which they publish! A great result by all those proposing this strong solution to publication bias and selective reporting (and getting expert feedback before data collection)! www.nature.com/articles/d41...

📢 From discussion to action: GRIOS has opened its first call for evidence synthesis on key #OpenScience topics. If you have experience in systematic or scoping reviews, this is your moment to contribute. ➡️ www.grios.org/grios-launch... #Metascience #SystematicReviews

GRIOS launches open call for evidence synthesis on Open Science

The Global Research Initiative on Open Science (GRIOS), hosted by the European Science Foundation (ESF), is pleased to announce the launch of its first open call for proposals to conduct in-depth evid...

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Why do reaserchers do this type of graphs?

A master student, Mink Veltman, is helping us to develop a miscitation detection module for Metacheck. If you want to help us to reduce miscitations, it would be great if you could take 5 minutes to fill out this survey: forms.cloud.microsoft/e/J7ugQw8mic Thanks in advance!

Julia M. Rohrer@dingdingpeng.the100.ci · 4mo ago

Sometimes co-authors ask me “did you see what they cited us for???” and of course I didn’t, because if you want to keep faith in humanity, you don’t look up what people cite you for, just like you don’t read comment sections.

AI is not just "likely to blame" AI is absolutely to blame. Before AI no author ever hallucinated fake citations out of thin air. Authors did "fraud" the old tried and true way. Cite actual legitimate papers that don't actually support the point you are making and hope no one notices.