A personal essay on grief, memory and Iran but most important about my baba. time.com/article/2026...

The Far Gates: A father, a daughter, and flights from Iran

"My father left Iran carrying the hope of one day being buried there. He never made it back, but grief spoken into the open is the closest thing to a homeland that exile will ever leave you," writes M...

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Another depressing set of figures in a paper on Cancer research :-( A colleague noted that the PubPeer poster and our colleagues spent more time on these figures than the authors did. youtu.be/m58oMTJ9knY pubpeer.com/publications...

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Two images in two publications with shared authors. Identical except around the scale bar. pubpeer.com/publications...

The vast majority of possible image misconduct that I see in scholarly publishing is in Cancer research. This is so depressing. Here are two papers with duplicated images. youtu.be/kdT0XMx-Mro pubpeer.com/publications...

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This is a problem in publishing, with a particular relevance to Humanities and Social Sciences. We are working on solving the problem and ensuring authors get credit for their work.

Hetan Shah@hetanshah.bsky.social · 7mo ago

‘The world’s top AI models can be prompted to generate near-verbatim copies of bestselling novels, raising fresh questions about the industry’s claim that its systems do not store copyrighted works.’ www.ft.com/content/e4b7...

@mumumouse2.bsky.social has been finding a lot of cases of identical XRD plots in the same chart and across different papers. Here are 4 papers using the same plot. youtu.be/NAXSlpha0kM pubpeer.com/publications...

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Satisfying but depressing at the same time. What hope is there for the communication of scientific research? Found by @sholtodavid.bsky.social pubpeer.com/publications...

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Identical XRD spectra apart from a tiny difference. pubpeer.com/publications...

Author: "After carefully check of the results, we are sure that they were different WB bands from different experiments" What do you think folks? pubpeer.com/publications...

Thanks for making so much work for me @mumumouse2.bsky.social 😡 5 papers with identical plots! pubpeer.com/publications...

Almost a duplication but not quite. pubpeer.com/publications...

Another incontrovertible find by @mumumouse2.bsky.social Feel a bit sorry for the publisher who is punished for publishing a hi res image! Why are images in papers such low resolution?? pubpeer.com/publications...

Interested to see author's response to this duplication found by @elisabethbik.bsky.social pubpeer.com/publications...

Depressing that a huge proportion of image misconduct is in Cancer research. Paper published 20 years back. Clear signs of Photoshop. First reports on PubPeer was 2024. @grumpygasbag.bsky.social pointed to more problems. I have just done another animation based on that. pubpeer.com/publications...

Author: "A portion of this micrograph has been modified in order to obtain a nicer image." pubpeer.com/publications...

Author: "We respectfully disagree with the interpretation that the highlighted regions represent duplicated areas." pubpeer.com/publications... Found by @elisabethbik.bsky.social

Author: "The regions highlighted by ImageTwin likely reflect similarities introduced by grid or imaging artifacts during data acquisition rather than data manipulation." pubpeer.com/publications...

Mysterious similarities in XRD graphs pubpeer.com/publications...

I was kindly asked by @alpsp.bsky.social to create an educational video on XML in scholarly publishing. I was more than happy to do so and decided to use some analogies to make it more accessible. Any comments on how to improve it would be welcome. www.youtube.com/watch?v=98pu...

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Images suspiciously edited. Waiting 5 years for explanation from authors. pubpeer.com/publications...

So many of these western blots that have been duplicated. It's both satisfying and depressing when they match well. This is one of 1000s found by @elisabethbik.bsky.social The clear matching noise in the background noise is the tell tale sign here. pubpeer.com/publications...

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I am sure the authors have a good explanation! pubpeer.com/publications...

One of my biggest gripes with publishers is that the images they publish are not of high enough resolution. Here is an example of a high resolution image that leaves no doubt about the misconduct in an image. Found by my friend @mumumouse2.bsky.social pubpeer.com/publications...

Image duplication found by René Aquarius. One of 5500 animations we have created to support the tireless image sleuths. pubpeer.com/publications...

Very proud that River Valley Technologies won the #SSP2025 Gold award for Submission Systems. Thank you to our amazing team. bit.ly/3SuR6va #PeerReview #Publishing #ScienceCommunication #AcademicPublishing

River Valley Technologies launches Research Integrity Dashboard www.researchinformation.info/news/river-v...

River Valley Technologies launches Research Integrity Dashboard - Research Information

Dashboard can be customised by publisher, journal, or even article type, ensuring all appropriate checks are carried out

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Astonishing that authors openly admit they modified figures to make them look "nicer". youtu.be/QodHksO3n5M pubpeer.com/publications...

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It has been a huge pleasure to work with @gigabytejournal.bsky.social and to ensure we maximize the metadata in their publications. Proud of the @crossref.bsky.social prize awarded to GigaByte.

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Huge thanks to our partners @rivervalley1000.bsky.social for their state-of-the-art publishing platform and the responsiveness of their team in addressing our exacting metadata standards. Their ReView platform has also just won an EPIC award rivervalley.io/news/river-v...