📢 Publication Integrity Week 2026 📢 Save the date in your calendars as we continue to build a week of virtual events around this year’s theme: Rooted in principles. United in purpose 👉 Monday 2 to Thursday 5 November 2026 #PublicationIntegrityWeek #PublicationEthics #ResearchIntegrity

Tadej Pogačar, man. Imagine if Michael Jordan had a deep respect for Isiah Thomas, and a genuine desire to see Scotty Pippin glorified. Tadej Pogačar. #TDF2026 #couchpeloton

The idea of the penalty shoot out wouldn't make it through an ethics committee. #researchintegrity #worldcup

New @biorxivpreprint.bsky.social preprint on suspected citation manipulation by #PaperMills in molecular oncology, with Baptiste Scancar, David Causer @institutagro.bsky.social & @aidybarnett.bsky.social @aushsi.bsky.social @sydney.edu.au 🙏 @nhmrc.bsky.social for💰 🧪 www.biorxiv.org/content/10.6...

If you’ll be at the World Conferences on Research Integrity, consider joining our pres, “Friendly Ghosts?”. We’ll discuss authorship dilemmas when contributors decline. Tuesday, 11.15am, Stream G. Me, Jennifer Wright, and Michael Vincent #WCRI2026 #researchintegrity @wcrifoundation.bsky.social

If you know anything about chess, this poster on Etsy is as funny as those fraudulent rat balls. www.etsy.com/au/listing/4... #chess #researchintegrity via u/MinuteRegular716

“Where whining mendeth nothing, wherefore whine?” — Robert Louis Stevenson, The Black Arrow

Recommend this post for those interested in metascience and/or philosophy. medium.com/activated-th... #researchintegrity

Metascience for whom? A question as old as science.

Before we fix science, we need to ask who built it!

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I feel like I'm noticing way more Moderator comments on @pubpeer.com . Am I tripping? I don't have an opinion about it yet, but I'm interested by it. Here's an example of a recent Moderator comment that appears in the middle of an author's comment, providing fact-checking. #researchintegrity

COPE strengthens its stance on external influence on editorial decisions, opposing undue political, corporate, or social pressure on scholarly publishing. COPE position: External influence on editorial decisions publicationethics.org/guidance/cop... #EditorialIndependence #PublicationEthics

Apparently I do unboxing videos now. (Forgive me.) We received the 1st prototype of our card game about research supervision. There will be a printable version as part of our new online course, Supervising Postgraduate Researchers. www.trickygoose.training/supervising #academicsky #researchintegrity

Less is more. This aphorism is constantly on my mind. The scientific publication system is under tremendous strain, the last thing it needs is a massive dump of LLM generated/aided papers. If you love science, then show it some love. www.nature.com/articles/d41...

I’m going to halve my publication output. You should consider slow science, too

If we don’t slow down, the research enterprise is going to crash, argues Adrian Barnett.

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Responsible-Research-Assessment-Jeopardy cracks me up. We are losing, but possibly laughing the most. #AIMOS2025

Discussions at #AIMOS2025 re: financial conflicts of expert witnesses, reminds me of this editorial from 1882 (!): “…the saying of a well-known judge that liars might be divided into three classes - liars, great liars, and scientific-witnesses - recommends itself to many.” [The Times, 4 April]

We will have workshops, discussion groups, hackathons, lightning talks, and mini-notes. Thanks to the sponsors, @sydney.edu.au, @ardc.edu.au, @proofigai.bsky.social, and Tricky Goose @markhooper.bsky.social #AIMOS2025

Our new preprint! The Acknowledgments problem, and what to do about it. With @martonkovacs.bsky.social, @pietropollo.bsky.social, @philobolobstime.bsky.social, Losia Lagisz, & Mohammad Hosseini.

MetaArXivBot@metaarxivbot.bsky.social · 9mo ago

Improving Acknowledgments Sections To Better Credit Research Contributors: https://osf.io/t2uwe

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Mark and Briohny's annual christmas gift ideas

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I'm a bit weary of talks and papers that end, "So, we need to change the incentive structure." That's not a conclusion, it's a premise! #researchintegrity

It occurred to me that we need Contributor Statements (like CRediT), except to describe various uses of Gen-AI in research. But like all decent thoughts, someone else had it first. I really like what this group has done. Their tool is useful: www.leidenmadtrics.nl/articles/gai... #researchintegrity

GAIDeT: a practical taxonomy for declaring AI use in research and publishing

Transparency of AI use in academia matters for authors, editors, reviewers, readers and repository moderators. This blog post introduces GAIDeT, a taxonomy for the structured disclosure of Generative ...

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The people who say "science is self-correcting" are not usually the same people who work hard to correct science.

Just submitted a highly amusing abstract to the International Research Integrity Conference (Sydney, November). Whatever the outcome, hope to see you there! Abstracts close on Monday. researchintegrityconf.com

Some folks confuse these things —who think the 'water movement' must be flawed, since bottled water is expensive, and contaminated water is poisonous. Clean water and #openaccess both cost $. We don't really need corporations selling packaged products, but communities funding reservoirs and taps.

Even honest research results can flip – a new approach to assessing robustness in the social sciences #ResearchIntegrity #ResearchMisconduct #WCRI2026 #WCRI blogs.lse.ac.uk/europpblog/2...

Even honest research results can flip – a new approach to assessing robustness in the social sciences

When academic studies get things wrong, it is often blamed on misconduct. Yet even good-faith research can produce contradictory conclusions.

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My daughter made this clay model, and stuck it on my webcam. So, if we’re chatting, know that I’m also speaking with a jaunty goose.

If Melbourne University Publishing doesn’t want to keep publishing Meanjin, they should hand over the journal to someone worthy of the responsibility. Me in The Conversation theconversation.com/the-decision...

The decision to close Meanjin misunderstands its wider importance. Australian culture deserves better

The decision to close Meanjin is the latest in a string of recent decisions that suggest universities are not safe harbours for priceless cultural institutions.

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It boggles my mind that anyone would submit their work to any journal that they do not also read. #Academicsky

The use of #AI tools in health care raises questions about patient informed consent, necessitating a framework to decide when disclosure is needed. Learn more in this Perspective. ja.ma/424oPR6

Ethical Obligations to Inform Patients About Use of AI Tools

This Perspective discusses the use of artificial intelligence (AI) tools in health care and offers a framework for deciding what patients should be told about AI tools.

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Navigating Open Research: A Guide for Early Career Researchers. Great work from the CONUL Research Group. Free to download zenodo.org/records/1702... #irishResearch #openResearch

Pethick et al. Is There a Reproducibility Crisis? On the Need for Evidence-based Approaches www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10.... #OpenScience

Is There a Reproducibility Crisis? On the Need for Evidence-based Approaches

The ‘Sixth Report—Reproducibility and Research Integrity’ (UK House of Commons Science, Innovation and Technology Committee 2023. ‘Sixth Report—Reproducibility and Research Integrity’) (‘The Report...

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I vibecoded this little tool for detecting duplications and clones within scientific figures. I think it works ok! Please try it. There are sample images you can try. Free to use. Not nearly as good as the paid models, obviously. 👉 dejaview.streamlit.app #researchintegrity @elisabethbik.bsky.social

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