The estimate that 10% of cancer papers could be from paper mills is somewhat shocking, but less so when country of origin and rate of increase in paper output by country relative to global output is taken into account. Nice to see AACR journals with the lowest percentage of suspect papers.

World Conferences on Research Integrity@wcrifoundation.bsky.social · 6mo ago

Machine learning based screening of potential paper mill publications in cancer research: methodological and cross sectional study #ResearchIntegrity #PaperMill #WCRI2026 #WCRI @jabyrnesci.bsky.social doi.org/10.1136/bmj-...

I wrote this song on Saturday, recorded it yesterday and released it to you today in response to the state terror being visited on the city of Minneapolis. It’s dedicated to the people of Minneapolis, our innocent immigrant neighbors and in memory of Alex Pretti and Renee Good. Stay free

Bruce Springsteen - Streets Of Minneapolis (Official Audio)

YouTube video by Bruce Springsteen

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Nice to see this article in Science about our work at AACR.

Jeffrey Brainard@jeffreybrainard.bsky.social · 11mo ago

Trust but verify? #mlsky #scientificpublishing #sciencejournals @science.org www.science.org/content/arti...

I was surprised to see that a firm claims to have essentially solved the issue of detecting when there‘s LLM-generated text in content. But researchers at Pangram Labs say they have, claiming false-positive rates of 1 in 10,000. www.nature.com/articles/d41... @nature.com | @miryamnaddaf.bsky.social

AI tool detects LLM-generated text in research papers and peer reviews

Authors and peer reviewers are failing to disclose the use of LLMs despite journal policies limiting their use.

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Guest Post – Code Plagiarism and AI Create New Challenges for Publishing Integrity - The Scholarly Kitchen

Guest Post – Code Plagiarism and AI Create New Challenges for Publishing Integrity - The Scholarly Kitchen

This post explores author, reviewer, and publisher ethics and responsibilities related to the use of AI in coding and publishing research software.

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Because cancer is not one illness, but a whole category, much of the progress in fighting it has come not from big breakthroughs, but thousands of smaller advances

The world is winning the war on cancer

Progress has been remarkable. Death rates are down substantially, and are likely to fall further

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Today, the American Association for Cancer Research (AACR) called on Congress to reject the Administration's nearly 40% cut to the NIH budget and allocate a bipartisan funding increase to $51.3 billion for the agency to accelerate progress for patients. www.aacr.org/about-the-aa...

Overall, cancer cases and deaths in the US are continuing a slow decline acsjournals.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1002/...

Who’s with me? #PeerReview ensures the integrity of scientific knowledge. Science isn’t social media, and it’s dangerous to treat it as such. For this reason, I believe preprints serve an anti-science agenda & threaten our fields. Check out my editorial in @ScholarlyKitchen.bsky.social. 🧪 #SciPub

Guest Post:  Preprints Serve the Anti-science Agenda – This Is Why We Need Peer Review - The Scholarly Kitchen

Science is built on a foundation of rigor and credibility. Preprints are adding to the crumbling of that foundation, which is already under attack by anti-science political agendas.

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LEAKED: Heard Island tariff response strategy meeting! #auspol #heardisland

Donald Trump has committed the most profound, harmful and unnecessary economic error in the modern era. Almost everything he said—on history, economics and the technicalities of trade—was utterly deluded econ.st/3YbbFjq

Cancer research, long protected, feels ‘devastating’ effects under Trump www.statnews.com/2025/03/24/t... via

Cancer research, long protected, feels ‘devastating’ effects under Trump

Cancer research has had bipartisan support. But Trump administration budget cuts and delays threaten to reverse progress of recent years, experts say.

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"The [...] administration’s threat to dramatically reduce or delay funding for the NIH [...] represents a crushing blow not only to the development of future #cancer therapies, but to all of medical research. Without previous funding, I would not be alive today." www.sacbee.com/opinion/op-e...

Sacramento doctor: If not for NIH funding, I wouldn’t have survived my leukemia diagnosis | Opinion

“My survival is based on research. With limited NIH funding, I fear that my life, and the lives of others, will be left without hope.”

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The American Association for Cancer Research (AACR) is looking to fill a new publications position of Editorial Ethics Manager to oversee #ResearchIntegrity and #ImageForensics cases related to #CancerResearch manuscripts and articles at our ten journals. careers-aacr.icims.com/jobs/1702/ed...

90% of people diagnosed with pancreatic cancer die from the disease. That's why the medical community is excited about the results of a small trial in which nearly half of the pancreatic cancer patients who received an mRNA vaccine for the disease remained relapse-free three years later.

A Vaccine For Pancreatic Cancer Continues To Show Promise

In a small trial, nearly half of pancreatic cancer patients who received an mRNA vaccine for the disease had no relapse three years later.

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Meet Gracie Himes, age 20. Her goal: Fight cancer by developing new medicines. On March 3, her dreams were shattered when Trump admin cuts hit West Virginia University, which rescinded her PhD program offer. www.wsj.com/us-news/educ...

If you're a biologist interested in data visualisation, check out the vizbi conference www.linkedin.com/events/vizbi... #omics

VIZBI 2025: 15th international meeting on Visualising Biological Data | LinkedIn

VISUALIZING BIOLOGICAL DATA. Join us 8-11 April online or in-person at the University of Cambridge for VIZBI 2025, the 15th international meeting on Visualising Biological Data. Pre-register now at ht...

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Very happy to see AACR's new guaranteed peer review benefit to reward reviewers highlighted in today's "the Brief" @brieferyet.bsky.social. They incorrectly state that Cancer Discovery "is seemingly excluded from the offer." We will add a table to clarify journal-specific details.

Yikes! Peer review is critical for the integrity of our science, and outside experts are always needed to vet new grant proposals. By moving this all in-house at NIH, we lose scientific independence & make it easy for the government to determine what research should be funded. 🧪 #PeerReview

NIH centralizes peer review to improve efficiency and strengthen integrity

The proposed approach is expected to save more than $65 million annually.

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Federal judge blocks change in NIH indirect cost recovering rates, saying it would jeopardize public health. Read about it here: www.science.org/content/arti...

U.S. judge blocks NIH’s plan to slash overhead cost payments

Injunction allows universities to keep receiving billions to recover costs of supporting federal research on campus

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AACR journals launch Guaranteed Peer Review. This new benefit for reviewers who are AACR members allows them to bypass editorial desk rejection and go straight to peer review. Over 700 reviewers from 2024 were notified of their eligibility. #PeerReview #SciPub #AACR aacrjournals.org/pages/guaran...

The AACR is deeply concerned that the Administration’s recent actions are threatening NIH and its mission to accelerate progress for patients with cancer and other diseases that afflict millions of Americans. Read our statement: https://buff.ly/4gRXNB8

NIH staff told they can submit papers to journals but not preprints. "a short pause to allow the new team to set up a process for review and prioritization" <- review by whom...? www.science.org/content/arti... ht @philipncohen.com 1/2

NIH memo addresses ‘confusion’ about restrictions imposed by Trump, easing some concerns

Memo from acting director to staff allows some purchasing, and suggests travel and study sections could soon resume

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Exactly. I've said this countless times re: responding to reviewers. t.co/IX2doZkNbR

4 Weeks Until Abstract Submission Deadline! PRC10 abstracts are due January 31. To submit your work and learn more, visit peerreviewcongress.org #peerreview #science #scientificpublication #researchethics #AIinMedicine @jama.com @bmj.com @nejm.org @thelancet.bsky.social

International Congress on Peer Review and Scientific Publication

Enhancing the quality and credibility of science.

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Good, but scary, update on recent GenAI advances by @emollick.bsky.social. PhD-level expertise now required to evaluate accuracy of some outputs. Nice point about using GenAI to introduce novel approaches for humans to investigate properly. open.substack.com/pub/oneusefu...

What just happened

A transformative month rewrites the capabilities of AI

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Fake or flawed studies are polluting systematic reviews in medicine and other fields - but how do you spot them? For Nature, I report on efforts to create a short checklist of red flags, and on the automated integrity tools emerging to help. www.nature.com/articles/d41...

Giant study finds untrustworthy trials pollute gold-standard medical reviews

Two-year collaboration aims to create tools to help counter the tide of flawed research.

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The PRC10 abstract submission site is now open! Abstracts that report new research & findings w generalizable results that can improve scientific research will be given priority. Submit by Jan 31, 2025 at abstracts.peerreviewcongress.org Learn more at peerreviewcongress.org @jama.com @bmj.com

International Congress on Peer Review and Scientific Publication

Enhancing the quality and credibility of science.

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A summary of the major developments and improvements on @protocolsio.bsky.social this year: youtu.be/xeDDwrdLsBw?....

End-of-year message from Lenny Teytelman

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Exciting #RRID news! We are now part of the #DataCite metadata schema. Yes you can use RRIDs to start tracking the datasets (#DOI) associated with your database (#RRID).