@peer-reviewed-slop.bsky.social Maybe *you* can remember, so far back in the mists of time before last Tuesday

Zen Faulkes@doctorzen.net · 4w ago

I found the source of the first image. Could you point me to the source of the second?

i thought I recognised that name. One of the network of Frye associates on J Personalised Medicine. pubpeer.com/publications... 😕

Jenna Norton@jenna-m-norton.bsky.social · 4w ago

Don’t worry guys, grant funding decisions will stay with the IC Directors. It will be fine. 🫠

Our toys are out of the cot; Let's blame someone else for flinging them!

There's trouble at t'papermill! www.nature.com/articles/s41...

I am not a Healthcare Professional but I am reading the retraction notices at Biomed Research International and THE MAN CAN'T STOP ME

"Researchers must take the lead on how to deploy AI tools, ..." My lead is DON'T. Is this really so feckin hard?

Nature@nature.com · last mo.

Researchers must take the lead on how to deploy AI tools, while reducing the reliance on massive data centres go.nature.com/4g3BAlo

@cosig.net Are there COSIG guidelines for advising authors who fall victim to corrupt, coercive reviewers? pubpeer.com/publications...

Today in Mass Depublication Events: "International Journal of Knowledge-Based and Intelligent Engineering Systems". journals.sagepub.com/doi/10.1177/... Did Sage know what a dogs-breakfast the journal is, when they acquired it from IOS? OK, the entire Fluffy Reasoning field is a dogs-breakfast...

@author-for-sale.bsky.social "We paid the 'publishing facilitation agency' for this dude's paper to go into the journal, but we never asked to be added as co-authors!" www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...

Gundry! I did not realise that the grifter was still around. eusa-riddled.blogspot.com/2017/09/mais...

Mais où est <i>Le Journal des Neiges d'Antan</i>?

Dr Elisabeth Bik (whom God preserve) encountered the International Society of Microbiota , one spigot of the Edeas / Takayama Congress Fac...

eusa-riddled.blogspot.com

Michael Hobbes@michaelhobbes.bsky.social · 2mo ago

I'm calling it: "Start smoking" is going to be mainstream MAHA / Republican health advice by 2028. www.motherjones.com/politics/202...

Now that our daughter is 31, in accordance with family traditions I explained to her about the monstrous transformations - mental as well as physical - that afflict our people as we approach the end of our first century of life. She has met her Uncle Trevor so none of this came as a great surprise.

www.aimos2026.org AIMOS 2026 will be in Wellington this year on 30 Nov to 2 Dec. Abstracts due 15 Aug. This is a very fun and very interactive metascience conference. Come along and hang out!

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Monastic disorders.

Claire Willett@clairewillett.bsky.social · 2mo ago

exCUSE me??????????? I take a week off and there’s a KIDNAPPING?!!?!????????

Whenever someone writes "they can't hybridise", Nature says "Hold my beer".

Rosewind@rosewind.bsky.social · 2mo ago

We have a beautiful mandarin (known as Mandy or Rin) who comes and hangs out with our mallards on the canal He seems to prefer mallard company to that of other mandarins This means we don’t get baby mandarins (they can’t hybridise) but he is much loved by tow path denizens

"The rest of the long first paragraph lists all the qualities Catherine Morland does not possess: she is declared to be not an orphan, not poor, not mistreated, not beleaguered by ill-health, not beautiful, not feminine (i.e., not physically weak), not sensitive, not exceptionally gifted,..."

Courtney Milan@courtneymilan.com · 2mo ago

One of the things I love about Jane Austen is that everyone knows what these characters look like, people almost universally agree on what that is, and the text itself NEVER PROVIDES DESCRIPTIONS beyond bare bones things like "tall," "very tall," and "exceedingly tall."

"The depths of scientific stupidity are always expanding…" Deep is the well of stupidity. Should we not call it bottomless?

Sholto David@sholtodavid.bsky.social · 2mo ago

Today I'm posting a blog about another ridiculous antibody blunder. Dozens of papers in the senescence and ageing field have mistakenly used an antibody for E. coli β-galactosidase when trying to stain for the human protein with the same name. forbetterscience.com/2026/07/21/d...

"It's my thing!" I say, to explain the almost inchoate black entity from some other plane of existence that always accompanies me, always behind and on the left, somehow protectively yet slightly closer every day

LurkyMcLurk@lurkymclurk.bsky.social · 2mo ago

“its my thing!!” I say, dragging a dead deer through a conference hall

My use of a pseudonym when sciencing is inviting lots of research questions already answered by my use of a pseudonym. journals.openedition.org/regardssocio...

They call it 'addictive manufacturing' but I CAN STOP ANY TIME.

Peer-Reviewed Slop@peer-reviewed-slop.bsky.social · 2mo ago

Yeshiwas, T.A., Tiruneh, A.B. & Sisay, M.A. A review article on the assessment of additive manufacturing. J Mater. Sci: Mater Eng. 20, 85 (2025). doi.org/10.1186/s407... Journal Impact Factor 4.3

A single upvote is not enough for this.

Dr. Hilary Rose Dawson@hilaryrosed.bsky.social · 2mo ago

Absolutely agreed. I spent so long crafting that abstract to summarise the paper I spent even longer writing and analysing. Contempt is the right word for the cutting feeling that my craft as a scientist and writer doesn’t matter.

TIL that drinking pearls has many health benefits. www.frontiersin.org/journals/pha... I grieve to report that the authors of this TCM fiddlefaddle failed to cite the Cleopatra case-study. penelope.uchicago.edu/Thayer/E/jou...)

We owe it to Sam to continue to fight for the protection of Central Otago from the mining vultures that NZ First starring Shame Jones is desperate to hand over to. Let’s make that a thing in the name of our own #SamNeill ✊

Academic publishing Gen-AI slop of the day (courtesy of a colleague who finds them with Image Search. Hungry now.

Why are so many butterflies named after stock characters from Edwardian detective novels?

Matt Berry@matthewberry.bsky.social · 2mo ago

A male Lesser Fiery Copper (Lycaena thersamon).

"What should we call our ML architecture based on the Transformer model?" "I have an idea..."

Wiley join other publishers by enshittifying their previously-functioning website.

"Solar mobileular". pubpeer.com/publications...

Pro-tip: edit out your prompts from the dialog with the LLM before copy-pasting it into the text.

🚨MAJOR EXPOSÉ: We reveal the bizarre sexual preferences of the Science Guardians™, as shown in their disturbing comments on PornHub. (This is definitely the people behind the Science Guardians™ Twitter/X account. No way could someone just create an account with their name to defame them!)

If you notice a problem in a paper in the @rsc.org journal Applied Interfaces, don't bother pointing it out to the Editor-in-Chief; he'll just call you a snitch. A paragon of research ethics.

Leonid Schneider@forbetterscience.bsky.social · 2mo ago

An Italian male professor Federico Rosei questions Mu Yang who appointed her as "vigilante" and "snitch" . Doubles down to accuse her of "distasteful" behaviour. www.linkedin.com/feed/update/...