It started with a misspelled word. Nature’s feature on review mills builds on the work of María Ángeles Oviedo-García, who coined the term. In summer 2023 she spotted a typo in an open peer review, searched for it, and found the same report filed by different reviewers. 1/3

Nature@nature.com · 3d ago

Review mills are setting off a war in academic publishing. What happens to those caught in the middle? go.nature.com/4wIPjVW

The #EinsteinFoundationAward was prominently featured at #WCRI2026. Thank you to @sci-integrity.com for this insightful conference report – a recommended read for everyone who couldn't attend in person!

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🚦All integrity roads met in Vancouver. See what key voices at #WCRI2026 had to say about AI, research security, and Indigenous knowledge systems. Read the full REACH coverage and explore more articles in our interactive flipbook: www.sci-integrity.com/reach @wcrifoundation.bsky.social

Crossref’s support for the CRediT taxonomy starts to close a gap Liz Allen and Veronique Kiermer wrote about in REACH Issue 3. Read the full article on a decade of CRediT, what it has changed, and what still limits its implementation. @verokiermer.bsky.social www.sci-integrity.com/reach/credit...

CRediT Where It's Due: How a Simple Taxonomy Can Strengthen Research Integrity | Science Integrity

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Crossref@crossref.bsky.social · 4w ago

Schema 5.5 is officially here 🎉 Crossref metadata can now better represent the many ways people contribute to research, and the many roles played by each contributor👏 Explore what the new schema supports 🔗https://doi.org/10.64000/6xx3c-nmp80 #CrossrefUpdate #Schema55 @Patricia Feeney

🚦All integrity roads met in Vancouver. See what key voices at #WCRI2026 had to say about AI, research security, and Indigenous knowledge systems. Read the full REACH coverage and explore more articles in our interactive flipbook: www.sci-integrity.com/reach @wcrifoundation.bsky.social

The April–June 2026 issue of REACH is now live! 🎉 🔗 www.sci-integrity.com/reach Our special coverage takes you inside the 9th World Conference on Research Integrity in Vancouver, where 700+ people from 57 countries met to confront the forces reshaping how science is done and trusted. 🧵 1/7

Deadline Sunday! Our $2,500 Ctrl-Z Award recognizes scientists who discover substantial errors in their published work and take meaningful steps to correct the scientific record. More details and nomination form here:

The Ctrl-Z Award: Recognizing the courage to correct or retract published work

The Ctrl-Z Award recognizes and celebrates scientists who discover substantial errors in their published work and take meaningful steps to correct the scientific record — even if doing so risks pro…

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Under the IHR (2005), @drtedros.who.int, the Director General of WHO, having consulted the States Parties where the event is occurring, has determined that the Ebola disease caused by Bundibugyo virus in DRC & Uganda constitutes a public health emergency of international concern bit.ly/3P4ZDac

Better research needs shared understanding, practical support, and spaces where people can ask questions and learn from each other. That is the idea behind the SIA Subscription. 🔗 Learn more at www.sci-integrity.com/subscribe

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Science Integrity Alliance@sci-integrity.com · 3mo ago

🌐 The SIA Subscription is now live. Three new resources for the research integrity community: 💬 HIKE, an expert-led forum 📖 ATLAS, a practical encyclopedia 🎙️ SIAcast, a new podcast Plus REACH magazine, training, events, and more. 👉🏻 www.sci-integrity.com/subscribe

That’s a wrap on #WCRI2026! 🇨🇦 Four days of inspiring talks, great conversations, and gorgeous Vancouver weather. So good to see SIA’s partners, Advisory Board, and contributors in person. New connection? Create your account, subscribe, and let’s keep talking! 🔗 www.sci-integrity.com

If you’re heading to #WCRI2026 in Vancouver, come find me at booth 6. I’d love to chat about research integrity, the work we’re building at SIA, and how we can support yours.

Science Integrity Alliance@sci-integrity.com · 3mo ago

We’re excited to catch up with the research integrity community at #WCRI2026 in Vancouver. SIA is sponsoring as an exhibitor and presenting two posters. Visit posters 89 and 135, and stop by booth 6 to learn how you can join the Alliance. See you there! 🇨🇦 #researchintegrity #openscience #WCRI

The @bmj.com reviewed the issues raised and found “apparent recruitment outside of the inclusion criteria, including those over 65 years old; discrepancy in the number of participants enrolled; and data irregularities, such as unusual patterns in the data.”

BMJ retracts cardiac stem cell paper, removes authors months after sleuths flag data ‘mismatch’

The BMJ has retracted a paper on stem cell therapy for heart failure after sleuths flagged the work for “serious” inconsistencies in data. Published in October, the paper reported the results of a …

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UNESCO has launched a consultation to explore "fair, inclusive ways to create, share, and access academic knowledge, and to address challenges in building more equitable systems." Deadline for contributions is April 13. www.unesco.org/en/articles/...

Launch of global consultation: Equitable scholarly communication for

UNESCO is launching a consultation to explore fair, inclusive ways to create, share, and access academic knowledge, and to address challenges in building more equitable systems.

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The January-March 2026 issue of REACH is now live! 🎉 📘Inside: CRediT, the Einstein Foundation Award, Cochrane's 30th anniversary, Jennifer Byrne on paper mills, our SIA Special Report on AI Stress Points in Scholarly Publishing (Part I), and much more! 👉🏻 www.sci-integrity.com/reach-januar...

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Read about the origins of the scientific method for testing the efficacy of health treatments in this thread by @hos-asa.bsky.social. Part of my own research has focused on how to design better controls for placebo-controlled trials, so I’m always fascinated by these stories.

This recent RCT of an "AI stethoscope" claims the technology "shows promise" for diagnosing cardiovascular conditions. It does not. It is a textbook example of the risks of conducting unprincipled 'per protocol analyses'. Once again, peer review at a major medical journal has failed. 🧵 1/

The Lancet@thelancet.com · 5mo ago

AI-enabled stethoscopes show promise for improving diagnosis of cardiovascular conditions, UK trial finds. Explore the research: spkl.io/63326AsjJ8

Mega-journal Heliyon retracts hundreds of papers after internal audit  @retractionwatch.com retractionwatch.com/2026/02/03/m...

Mega-journal Heliyon retracts hundreds of papers after internal audit

Heliyon has published fewer papers and ramped up its retractions since a major indexing service put the journal on hold and the publisher launched an audit of all papers published in the journal si…

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How many #CancerResearch papers may have been contributed to the literature by #PaperMills? We try to put numbers to this problem in our @bmj.com paper by @aidybarnett.bsky.social @aushsi.bsky.social & colleagues. Thank-you @nhmrc.bsky.social for funding @sydney.edu.au www.bmj.com/content/392/...

Machine learning based screening of potential paper mill publications in cancer research: methodological and cross sectional study

Objectives To train and validate a machine learning model to distinguish paper mill publications from genuine cancer research articles, and to screen the cancer research literature to assess the preva...

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New Year, new #Bluesky user? Interested in #ResearchIntegrity & looking to connect with others on @bsky.app? Here are two #StarterPacks covering people connected with research integrity & there's still space so please share suggestions or wave to be added! go.bsky.app/QN5upY5 go.bsky.app/5NJ9Z4N

✨2025 was a year of building, connecting, and growing.🌱 Check out a few highlights below. We are also excited about all that 2026 will bring. Stay tuned for more on our evolving governance model and the launch of new resources and subscriptions. #ResearchIntegrity #OpenScience #Community #SIA

🗣️ This is a great opportunity to learn how you can help keep papers with evidence of misconduct or fraud out of the scientific record. Read more about COSIG in the latest issue of REACH magazine: www.sci-integrity.com/reach-octobe... @cosig.net @reeserichardson.bsky.social

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COSIG@cosig.net · 8mo ago

This Thursday, COSIG maintainer @reeserichardson.bsky.social will be presenting on using COSIG to spot problematic papers! Registration details below.

Congrats to the Brazilian Reproducibility Initiative and all other awardees of the Einstein Foundation Berlin Award! 🥇👏🏻👏🏻👏🏻 @redebrrepro.bsky.social @einsteinberlin.bsky.social

Science Integrity Alliance@sci-integrity.com · 8mo ago

We’re thrilled to see the Brazilian Reproducibility Initiative honored with the Einstein Foundation Institutional Award. They are part of our esteemed partner @redebrrepro.bsky.social. Their nationwide replication effort is a remarkable example of collective action to improve research practices. 👏🏻👏🏻👏🏻

Influencer opinions are not healthcare. Treating them as such puts lives at risk. A heartbreaking story of what happens when misinformation replaces evidence and expertise:

Sam Bagenstos@sbagen.bsky.social · 9mo ago

This is an amazing, gutting story. Grifters make bank by peddling misinformation about the harms of medical or midwife-assisted births, and moms and babies suffer and die. www.theguardian.com/world/ng-int...

Unfortunately I couldn’t be there in person for my #AIMOS2025 talk, but I’m grateful for the chance to share what we’re building at @sci-integrity.com, especially alongside @aimosinc.bsky.social, one of our wonderful partners! 🌏🤝 #SIA #ResearchIntegrity #OpenScience #ScienceIntegrityAlliance

Elisabeth Bik@elisabethbik.bsky.social · 9mo ago

3. Luciana Machado @machadolac.bsky.social (online): A New Global Alliance Tackling Research Integrity Challenges. Many great initiatives deal with science integrity, but coordination is important. We connect organizations. Reach: interactive digital magazine. www.sci-integrity.com #AIMOS2025

Check out the latest issue of REACH magazine from @sci-integrity.com, which features COSIG on page 42! www.sci-integrity.com/reach-octobe...

REACH October-December 2025 | Science Integrity Alliance

REACH is a modern, interactive, and comprehensive digital magazine designed to meet the shared needs of all stakeholders in the research community.

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✨The new issue of REACH is live! If you’re looking for inspiring weekend reading, I hope you’ll enjoy exploring this new issue.📗 🗣️ Share it with your colleagues or anyone who might find it useful. 🔗 www.sci-integrity.com/reach-octobe... #openscience #researchintegrity #REACHmagazine #SIA

The link between the gut #microbiome and autism is not backed by science, researchers say. Read the full opinion piece in @cp-neuron.bsky.social: spkl.io/63322AbxpA @wiringthebrain.bsky.social, @statsepi.bsky.social, & @deevybee.bsky.social

@bmj.com has issued an expression of concern for a paper claiming stem cell therapy can reduce the risk of heart failure. The move comes after sleuths and scientists critiqued the “complete mismatch” between the study data and the article itself.

BMJ places expression of concern on heavily criticized stem cell paper

The BMJ has issued an expression of concern for a paper claiming stem cell therapy can reduce the risk of heart failure. The move comes after sleuths and scientists critiqued the “complete mismatch…

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📗 The new issue of REACH Magazine is almost here! 🔍 Featuring insights on the future of peer review, updated guidance on research misconduct oversight, science sleuthing with Lonni Besançon, WCRI history, and more. 👀 Stay tuned! #REACHmagazine #SIA #ResearchIntegrity

🚀 The first video created for the #MIRROR hub is out, marking the start of a series of multimedia resources developed in partnership with @collablibrary.bsky.social and designed to make meta-research insights more engaging, inclusive, and actionable. #SIA #MetaResearch youtu.be/M70yZ_55AQQ?...

The Pandemic's Risky Bet- Publishing Science Before It Was Checked- Video Lay summary

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