Jana Christopher
@image-integrity.bsky.social
Image Data Integrity Analyst FEBS Press
Many folk are surprised to discover thay Risk of Bias assessment tools tend not to interrogate the question “Did this study actually happen? And are its results trustworthy enough to believe?” Jack’s Cochrane endorsed INSPECT-SR checks have done a lot to mainstream such Trustworthiness Assessment.
Jack Wilkinson@jdwilko.bsky.social · 5mo agoVery nice INSPECT-SR website containing the guidance and editable template, made by @ianhussey.mmmdata.io inspect.sr
The workshop is opened by @image-integrity.bsky.social, who stresses the importance of images as data in scientific papers, shares some data from the STM workshop about microscopy metadata, and shows several images with integrity issues. ImageTwin and Proofig tools are useful. #WCRI2026
'$1,000 for first author': Study of paper mill adverts reveals cost of buying authorship on dodgy scientific papers. My latest for @cenmag.bsky.social: cen.acs.org/policy/publi... @abalkina.bsky.social, @reeserichardson.bsky.social, @image-integrity.bsky.social, @jabyrnesci.bsky.social
Around $1,000 can buy you first authorship on a dodgy scientific paper
Cost varies across paper mills, but the least expensive one is in India, according to a new analysis of social media advertisements
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Two days to go until our STM webinar Thursday April 9, with Nathalie Gaudreault, Steven West, Marie Soulière and myself. We will explore practical ways to improve how image data and metadata are handled in research and publishing. There's still time to register! stm-assoc.org/events/from-...
„Die Daten fließen nur in eine Richtung, nämlich von der Wissenschaft zu Elsevier“ – Yuliya Fadeeva zum Datentracking durch Verlage #DataTracking #ScientificPublishing irights.info/artikel/date...
Datentracking bei Elsevier: Yuliya Fadeeva im Interview
Das wissenschaftliche Publikationswesen ist fest in der Hand einiger Großverlage. Als Data Analytics-Firmen spionieren sie Forschende aus.
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got inspired by some questions from phd students the other day — and also really irritated by senior academics who seem to refuse to get the issues and continue to blame students; hope useful for you! 🩷 olivia.science/cheating
Why does cheating matter?
A personal anecdote and an appeal to junior colleagues.
olivia.science
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!
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World Conferences on Research Integrity@wcrifoundation.bsky.social · 6mo agoMore ways to connect at #WCRI2026 in Vancouver: 🔹 Pre-conference workshops (May 3) 🔹 NERQ Reception (May 4, 9–11 PM) 🔹 Paper Mills & Generative AI rapid insights session (May 4) Learn more and join us in May. wcri2026.org/pre-conferen...
iDiv Leipzig is organizing a symposium for early career researchers from all fields interested in scientific integrity & reproducibility. Some good stuff, e.g.: @haesleinhuepf.bsky.social on generative AI for science, @rmcelreath.bsky.social on a guerilla approach to scientific workflow.>
iDiv Biodiversity Research@idiv-research.bsky.social · 7mo ago📢 Call for registrations - Science:TBD 📍 Leipzig | 3–4 March 2026 Join us for an inspiring lineup of keynotes: ⭐Sheena F. Bartscherer ⭐Alice Hughes @achughes.bsky.social ⭐Wolfgang Forstmeier ⭐Ulrich Dirnagl ⭐Dietram A. Scheufele @dietram.bsky.social Register now: www.idiv.de/science-tbd
I tried an even harder example on Gemini Pro image generation and this is quite scary/amazing. I asked for a microscopy image of around 20 HeLa cells, GFP tagged 20% nuclear, 10% membrane, +1 nuclear staining, + overlap. Image below and prompt in the following post.
Heading to Innovation & Integrity Days? Don’t miss the 9 Dec #ResearchIntegrity workshops: expert-led, interactive & focused on practical skills. --> Forensic Scientometrics --> Collaboration with Institutions --> Supporting Editors & Reviewers Join us! stm-assoc.org/events/stm-i... #STMinLondon
"By inventing fake scientists, paper mills can create a ready supply of publications and favourable peer reviews, ensuring more of the mills’ submissions get published [and] increase[d] credibility for paying customers" www.nature.com/articles/d41...
How to spot fake scientists and stop them from publishing papers
Journals are considering doing identity checks to expose fake authors — but there are downsides.
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if you see this post, your actions are: - if you have a spare buck, give it to Wikipedia, then repost this - if you don't have a spare buck, just repost your action is mandatory for the world's best source of information to survive
Joshua Holland@joshuaholland.bsky.social · 2y agoI’ve never donated to Wikipedia before but I set up a small monthly donation as a fuck you to the world’s richest psychopath.
Can we measure trust in scientific publications?, via @lseimpactblog.bsky.social blogs.lse.ac.uk/impactofsoci... #AcademicPublishing #Expertise #OpenResearch
Can we measure trust in scientific publications? - Impact of Social Sciences
Jonathon Alexis Coates outlines how a constellation of static and dynamic indicators could provide a means for assessing the trustworthiness of published research
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Adam @clearskiesadam.bsky.social brought this post to my attention and he does a good job of explaining the weaknesses and strengths in the current state of GenAI detection in the text of papers. clearskiesadam.medium.com/genai-detect...
GenAI detection that actually works
Clear Skies is making genAI detection with Pangram available to subscribers in Oversight.
clearskiesadam.medium.com
A paper that combines #peerreview & cheese... what could be better? Answer: writing said paper with @abalkina.bsky.social @image-integrity.bsky.social & Marie Souliere. Read on to learn how the Swiss Cheese Model could help peer review & #researchintegrity onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1002/...
Rethinking Peer Review Using the Swiss Cheese Model to Better Flag Problematic Manuscripts
Click on the article title to read more.
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A powerful new study, Richardson et al. @pnas.org reveals the scale of systematic research fraud: fake papers are doubling every 1.5 years - ten times faster than real science! Retractions and deindexing can't keep up: 📄 doi.org/10.1073/pnas... #ResearchFraud #Integrity #PaperMills #AcademicEthics
Reese and colleagues are doing incredibly important work to identify large scale credibility challenges for the research literature. The latest report is disquieting.
Reese Richardson@reeserichardson.bsky.social · last yr.Today, our article "The entities enabling scientific fraud at scale are large, resilient, and growing rapidly" is finally published in PNAS. I hope that it proves to be a wake-up-call for the whole scientific community. reeserichardson.blog/2025/08/04/a...
Today, our article "The entities enabling scientific fraud at scale are large, resilient, and growing rapidly" is finally published in PNAS. I hope that it proves to be a wake-up-call for the whole scientific community. reeserichardson.blog/2025/08/04/a...
A do-or-die moment for the scientific enterprise
Reflecting on our paper “The entities enabling scientific fraud at scale are large, resilient, and growing rapidly”
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hot off the press: huge infestation of crooked editors involved on paper mills unmasked. www.pnas.org/doi/abs/10.1...
Once upon a time, two science journalists had an idea for a blog about retractions. And on Aug. 3, 2010, Retraction Watch launched. And now, 15 years and 6,700 posts later, that work seems more important than ever. Happy 15th anniversary, Retraction Watch.
Happy 15th anniversary, Retraction Watch
Once upon a time, a long time ago, two science journalists had an idea for a blog about retractions. And on Aug. 3, 2010, Retraction Watch launched, detailing in the first post why retractions matt…
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La haine et véhémence de mes harceleurs (qui prouvent malgré le point exact de l'article) est l'un des premiers moteurs de: - ma motivation à ne pas flancher face à la mauvaise science - mais aussi de la réussite de cet article (nature.com/articles/d41...) 🤣 Changez rien :)
The COVID-19 pandemic transformed this scientist into a research-integrity sleuth
Lonni Besançon has faced online abuse, threats and legal challenges. But he remains proud of his service to science and society.
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Springer Nature@springernature.com · last yr.Data-visualization researcher @lonnibesancon.bsky.social has faced online abuse, threats and legal challenges. But he remains proud of his service to science and society. He hopes young scientists will get involved in scientific sleuthing: spklr.io/63328BEc6p
#PaperMills fälschen in großer Zahl Forschungsarbeiten. Wie sehr schadet diese Schattenindustrie dem #Wissenschaftssystem? Wie kann man ihre Methoden erkennen und sie stoppen? – Thema eines Essays von @abalkina.bsky.social und @image-integrity.bsky.social: www.laborjournal.de/rubric/essay...
Interesting look at the enormity of the paper mill problem, via @abalkina.bsky.social @image-integrity.bsky.social www.laborjournal.de/rubric/essay...
Kommerzialisierung von Paper Mills
Autorschaft als Währung: Wie Paper Mills mit gekauften Co-Autorschaften, manipuliertem Peer-Review und KI-Fälschungen die Wissenschaft unterwandern und kommerzielle Betrugsnetzwerke die Forschung gefä...
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Jana Christofer and I wrote a piece on #papermills for Laborjournal. We discuss challenges of paper mills and AI for scientific publishing. Science needs immediate solutions to correct it and prevent it from massively produced fraud. @image-integrity.bsky.social www.laborjournal.de/rubric/essay...
This piece nicely summarizes the situation and features thoughts from @elisabethbik.bsky.social, @mumumouse2.bsky.social, @davidsanderssci.bsky.social, @image-integrity.bsky.social and myself.
Great piece from Renee Hoch and Joanna Clarke. „It is likely not a coincidence that in the genAI era publishers are seeing an increase in large-scale publication ethics issues, including peer review integrity rings, authorship integrity issues and paper mills“
Nonia Pariente@npariente.bsky.social · last yr.A scientific future shared with #AI Our June editorial by Renee Hoch (PLOS Head Pub Ethics) and @plosbiology.org's FM Senior Editor Joanna Clarke reflects on how generative AI can contribute to a scientific future, and how it can (and cannot) ethically interface with publishing plos.io/4l7jgsG 🧪
Amazing talk this morning by Hub Zwart ‘Trust in science in an era of social fragmentation’ @EMBLEvents #SciSoc2025
