Only 5 days left to apply for this fully funded Phd-position: deadline on Sunday! Come join us in Uppsala!

David Berger@dbergerbiol.bsky.social · 4w ago

PhD-position ALERT! Interested in the genomics of local adaptation and the evolution of niche breadth? 🪲🧬🪲🧬🪲🧬🪲🧬🪲🧬 Come join me and @gmkov.bsky.social at @animecol-uu.bsky.social, Uppsala University, by applying here: uu.varbi.com/en/what:job/... Deadline 1st of November!

Today I am sharing a new preprint and accompanying blog post. Hundreds of published papers include impossible western blots showing protein expression in cell lines that have deleted or mutated genes. These clumsy mistakes are widespread and repeated by LLMs.

Sacrilege or sage advice? Eventually we will get #WhatWouldJutfeltDo trending 😜 #WWJD Want to see where your favorite journal sits, use the webtool here: jutfelt.github.io/Journal-Cita...

Fredrik Jutfelt 🐠@jutfelt.bsky.social · 2w ago

It's easy, publish in reputable not-for-profit society journals. They have the best reviewers and people in your field will know it is solid science. Click on the "Society" button to filter journals.

PhD-position ALERT! Interested in the genomics of local adaptation and the evolution of niche breadth? 🪲🧬🪲🧬🪲🧬🪲🧬🪲🧬 Come join me and @gmkov.bsky.social at @animecol-uu.bsky.social, Uppsala University, by applying here: uu.varbi.com/en/what:job/... Deadline 1st of November!

PhD-student in Evolutionary and Ecological Genetics

Do you want to conduct frontier research in an outstanding environment within evolutionary biology at Sweden’s largest faculty of science and technology? The Department of Ecology and Genetics at Up

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I've had several people contact me being surprised, asking if this misconduct case is still ongoing. It is! Unfortunately these things take time, and I still expect a few more retractions (in addition to the 3 retractions + multiple expressions of concerns and corrections already out).

Fredrik Jutfelt 🐠@jutfelt.bsky.social · last mo.

A foundational paper on the effects of ocean acidification on fish behaviour is retracted! "neither the publisher nor the editor has confidence in the article, primarily because the data provided during the investigation were not consistent with the observation methods described in the article."

This is the third retraction and it comes five years after we flagged data inconsistencies and other issues in 22 papers from this team. Several papers are still under investigation. Science ran a big story about this case: www.science.org/content/arti...

Does ocean acidification alter fish behavior? Fraud allegations create a sea of doubt

Whistleblowers cite eyewitness reports, data anomalies, and outsize effects in studies, but researchers deny wrongdoing

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Check how reusable your OSF materials are with my new app, which is part of my latest preprint. Plug in up to ten OSF repo links, and you’ll get a brief report + tips for fixing issues ⬇️

Dan Quintana@dsquintana.bsky.social · last mo.

And if you want to see how your OSF repos compare against this corpus in terms of usability try my OSF reusability checker app. This app also provides tips if it flags any potential issues dsquintana.shinyapps.io/osf-reusabil...

A foundational paper on the effects of ocean acidification on fish behaviour is retracted! "neither the publisher nor the editor has confidence in the article, primarily because the data provided during the investigation were not consistent with the observation methods described in the article."

It’s well known that finding reviewers is increasingly difficult. Yet I often meet researchers—especially ECRs—who’ve never or rarely been asked to review but would like to. Is that you? Natural History Notes are the perfect place to start. Aquatic & terrestrial ecologists welcome—get in touch!

Are you a mathematical modeller in ecology and evolution looking for a job? My department has an opening! Please spread the word! lu.varbi.com/en/what:job/...

Senior Lecturer in Computational Biology

Lund University welcomes applicants with different backgrounds and experiences. Gender equality, equal opportunities and diversity are fundamental principles in all parts of the University’s activit

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Marian and Fady loose their first paper. One year after reporting their questionable art to the journal. See more of their art here: forbetterscience.com/2025/09/29/f...

Fabian Wittmers@academic-integrity.bsky.social · last yr.

Someone has been making extensive use of their photoshop license here: Rofeal et al. 2021 (doi: 10.1088/1361-6528/abf7ee) - cited 39 times. Paper appears to be complete fabrication. pubpeer.com/publications... #ResearchIntegrity #ImageForensics

🚨📣 PhD opportunities with @ccioannou.bsky.social starting September 2027!! Check it out: 🐠 ioannougroup.com #ECBB2026 @asab.org

"Proceeding of the Royal society" is now officially on my list of absolutely shit journals... They published the worst paper I have every peer reviewed (and the worst piece of scientific writing I have ever read, by far).

Elsevier says it will begin investigating two papers coauthored by disgraced surgeon Paolo Macchiarini “soon,” more than a year after critics of his work formally requested the publisher retract the articles—and nearly a decade after two institutions found him guilty of misconduct for related work.

Elsevier to ‘soon investigate’ two Macchiarini papers more than a year after retraction request

Paolo Macchiarini Elsevier says it will begin investigating two papers coauthored by disgraced surgeon Paolo Macchiarini “soon,” more than a year after two critics of his work formally requested th…

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Come and work with us (the Kokkonuts) as a postdoc! Our research within (theory-evo-eco) is broad; let's say it's implicitly defined by the journal club papers we read. Which is why the application process includes a JC-related task, I hope it'll be a fun one for you! www.evoldir.net/brian/evoldi...

Come join us, PhD and postdoc positions! Please spread! Supervisor @patricepottier.bsky.social (patricepottierlab.com), me as co-supervisor. Impacts of climate change on different life-stages in fish.🐟🧪 PhD web103.reachmee.com/ext/I005/103... Postdoc web103.reachmee.com/ext/I005/103...

SLU Aqua is looking for a permanent full-time Researcher. The position involves fish stock assessment, quantitative analysis & modelling, & contributing to scientific advice for fisheries management. Location: West coast of Sweden Deadline: 15 Sept web103.reachmee.com/ext/I017/111...

"One of his fellow professors at Cambridge, a historian, who is white, was reported by the FT to have been found to have copied more than 12 pages of an undergraduate’s work. He is still in post — fittingly for the social sciences, this is an experiment with a control." By @stephenkb.bsky.social:

The difficult truth about Jason Arday

From the beginning, investigations were accompanied by a cloud of excessive references to his race

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Even data falsification is far better paid in industry than academia.

Headquarters@headquartersnews.bsky.social · 3mo ago

New reporting reveals Ohio Republican Gov. candidate Vivek Ramaswamy hired his mother to manipulate clinical trial data for an Alzheimer's drug he owned the rights to. This scheme boosted Ramaswamy's company stock price and generated a $1.4 B IPO, where he then cashed out before the stock tanked.

Are you an ecologist/evolutionary biologist looking for an ongoing academic position? Monash University’s School of Biological Sciences is hiring! Come join us in Melbourne, Australia! Details here: careers.pageuppeople.com/513/cw/en/jo...

Sea horses hanging out with a garden eel

I have a PhD project to look at the impact of climate change on an endangered WA skink 🦎. Applicants interested in herpetology, thermal ecology and collaborating with First Nations are encouraged to apply. Apply now: www.murdoch.edu.au/study/schola... Lab website: www.nicholaswulab.com

.The very talented and fun Jonathan Henshaw has two positions to offer! If you like theoretical eco-evo questions, don't hesitate. Also, Freiburg is a very pretty place PhD: uni-freiburg.de/stellenangeb... Postdoc: uni-freiburg.de/stellenangeb...

Do you live in Australia, or have you ever travelled here? Then you can help our research on Australian biosecurity by completing a short survey. Scan the QR code below, or click this link: go.unimelb.edu.au/6xah

🚨 Behavioral ecologists 🚨 I am about ready to submit a review paper on animal contest behavior. If you have any high quality photos of your study system engaging in a dyadic interaction (fight), DM me. I am revising a figure that has photos of different study systems. Photo creds will be provided!

New preprint led by Tala Jajieh from the ResToRes project. By analysing RCTs with confirmed data fabrication, our new preprint reveals that most zombie trials arise from monocentric, recurrent patterns of misconduct and often remain undetected for many years. www.medrxiv.org/content/10.6...

Hey @isbe2026.bsky.social - I’ll be in Turin from tomorrow, and looking to recruit PhD student and postdoc to my lab in Stockholm soon… anyone interested in parasites, sexual selection, transgen effects, fish (guppy) tracking - let’s meet up!

Mental note for next time: write "DL: 7 August". It seems some potential north American applicants think the deadline has passed, but in Europe, 7.8 = deadline in 3 weeks 😅, so there is still time to apply!

Craig Primmer@fishcongen.bsky.social · 4mo ago

Thanks to a couple of recent Ws on the funding front, we have 3 open postdoc positions in Helsinki, Finland in the field of salmonid fish ecological and evolutionary genomics. DL 7.8. More details in advert: jobs.helsinki.fi/job/Helsinki...

Do you have a background in behavioural ecology and are you interested in doing a PhD in Australia? I’m looking for new grad students so check out our website (BobWongLab.org) or come find me in Torino at #ISBE2026. 🐟🐠