If you ever considered citing or publishing in Atherosclerosis (@elsevierconnect.bsky.social), be aware that they think Dr. who? a former, and now disgraced, cardiologist is a suitable peer reviewer… in 2026.

Work hard and play hard like Marcelo Kazanietz forbetterscience.com/2026/08/04/w...

Work hard and play hard like Marcelo Kazanietz

“Mariana will tell your wife things that she does not want to hear. Believe when I tell you that it is not a good idea to play games with Mariana. […] you will have to pay the consequences fo…

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@MDPIOpenAccess showing off again www.nature.com/immersive/d4...

‘A waste of time for all of us’: caught in the crossfire of the peer-review wars

Review mills — researchers who write fake referee reports with coercive citation requests — are setting off a war in academic publishing. What happens to those caught in the middle?

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I've been digging in to the Packalen and Bhattacharya paper on "edge science". They seem to have run the analysis on 1 million articles but the dataset has 6.2 million. There may be a good reason for this, but I can't find it in the paper, so have asked on PubPeer. pubpeer.com/publications...

Interesting photos www.reddit.com/r/HongKong/s...

Parallel Lives on the Rooftops of Hong Kong

Explore this post and more from the HongKong community

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Another long-awaited retraction for Eliezer Masliah. 🎩 @elisabethbik.bsky.social www.science.org/content/arti... pubpeer.com/publications...

I'm not sure tagging all of these Twitter accounts is an effective form of communication. Sheesh.

And here is retraction nr 20 already for the legendary 'I published 300 papers in 1 year' #papermill #fraud and idiot Abhijit Dey! His university of course loves him for all his 'output'... Although, Dey hasn't really published anymore since he got caught... doi.org/10.1007/s002...

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Retraction nr 19 for the Indian #papermill #fraud Abhijit Dey who once published 300 papers in 1 year! Notice also Elza Bontempi from University of Brescia who authored several papers with known paper mill authors.👇 doi.org/10.1016/j.en...

Retraction nr 19 for the Indian #papermill #fraud Abhijit Dey who once published 300 papers in 1 year! Notice also Elza Bontempi from University of Brescia who authored several papers with known paper mill authors.👇 doi.org/10.1016/j.en...

@spottingthespot.bsky.social · 2mo ago

Retraction nr 18 for #papermill #fraud Abhijit Dey! Notice also the major frauds Athanasios Alexiou and Ghulam Md Ashraf! 👇These fraud have been polluting the literature with hunders, if not thousands of fake papers! #retracted!

It took only 3 months for Spandidos journal MMR to retract this paper. Kudos. 😸 pubpeer.com/publications...

For years the anti-vaccine organization Children's Health Defense has told parents not to vaccinate. Now parents of unvaccinated children want to know why their kids are so sick. So CHD is going to make up some more lies this morning on their show.

Congratulations to Anna (@abalkina.bsky.social)! www.fu-berlin.de/presse/infor...

Sozialwissenschaftlerin Dr. Anna Abalkina erhält Rosalind-Franklin-Preis der Freien Universität Berlin für wissenschaftliche Integrität

Geowissenschaftlerin Jun.-Prof. Dr. María Piquer-Rodríguez für Engagement im Forschungsdatenmanagement ausgezeichnet

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Now I can’t tell if it’s cyclospora or Pete that’s giving me the shits #QuackMcCullough

AI making us dumber: A paper with explicit limitations transformed into an AI summary claiming parents' phone use has "long-lasting developmental and psychological effects." That's not what the study found. Correlation mutated into causation. @Ali_Lev bit.ly/3TcSiXN

Further analysis of Packalen & Bhattacharya article, where they claimed #NIH-funded research was slow to pick up on new ideas. I argue that their approach is flawed, and I present an analysis that shows the exact opposite. pubpeer.com/publications...

This artwork is part of a series created by street artist Skid Robot.The project aims to bring attention to homelessness and extreme poverty in Los Angeles.

I'm grateful to the authors of this paper for sharing their data and code, but I don't think they did the right analysis! pubpeer.com/publications...

Took almost 5 years for the @CellCellPress journal to retract this paper. 😐 pubpeer.com/publications... 🎩 Hoya

A very real doctor doing real work.

‘How can we ever trust this company again knowing what it’s done? We need a big response and a real promise to do things differently moving forward,’ says Elisabeth Bik. #ChemSky @elisabethbik.bsky.social @reeserichardson.bsky.social @sholtodavid.bsky.social www.chemistryworld.com/news/thermo-...

Thermo Fisher antibody data manipulation is a breach of trust, say researchers

Science sleuths say the problem is impacting research progress and Thermo's response falls short

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I am definitely not sharing an image of Prof Florian Bentzinger in the next post.

Leonid Schneider@forbetterscience.bsky.social · 2w ago

Prof Florian Bentzinger sent us "Formal Request to Remove Unauthorized Use of My Photograph", to be "replaced with an alternative image that does not depict me." @sholtodavid.bsky.social & I complied and used a cartoon of a generic scientist instead. forbetterscience.com/2026/07/21/d...

Exclusive: Death of girl in Chinese gene-editing trial was never made public | Science | AAAS -- amazing and important story via @retractionwatch.com reporter Brendan Borrell www.science.org/content/arti...

Exclusive: Death of girl in Chinese gene-editing trial was never made public

Parents want accountability after study went disastrously wrong, Science and Retraction Watch investigation reveals

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Does the (live) shingles vaccine protect against dementia? Fergus Hamilton and colleagues provide important evidence in a new preprint using hospital data from the whole of England in a regression discontinuity design from which we *don't* show evidence of a meaningful protective effect /cont

It's been a long time coming, but I'm so proud of my amazing wife @erinduffyphd.bsky.social starting her lab at Brown next year 🎉 Follow her for all things RNA in the brain! 🧠🧬

Erin Duffy, Ph.D.@erinduffyphd.bsky.social · 2w ago

The Duffy Lab is coming July 2027!! I’m thrilled to announce that I’ll be joining the Center for Alzheimer’s Disease Research at Brown University as an Assistant Professor of Molecular Biology, Cell Biology, & Biochemistry.

Great video by Full Disclosure, where Loveena Kamath investigates how bad research enters legitimate systems. She even calls a paper mill to buy a scientific paper! With Achal Agrawal, PhD, and myself. "World’s Easiest Fraud, Apparently!" www.youtube.com/watch?v=bYTk...

I Read 126 Research Papers To Expose A Billion Dollar Fraud

YouTube video by Full Disclosure

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Is Dr. who? making stuff up again? I suspect LLM hallucinated references. pubpeer.com/publications...

Mephisto, by Joaquín Espalter y Rull, 1872, 📸 by Dan Mullan

WSJ gift link | whut www.wsj.com/health/healt...

FDA Walks Back Finding of Cyclospora Parasite

Taylor Farms says it has recalled iceberg lettuce from central Mexico “in an abundance of caution.”

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It looks like he did this for 7 links, not all. That may support his explanation that ChatGPT was only used for some purposes in writing this article.

Valentin Rodionov@arbitraryeffect.bsky.social · 3w ago

Screenshotted for the record, in case it vanishes. The Editor-in-Chief of Science, explaining how the citations in his latest piece were checked. Short thread. 🧵

I'm having a hard time understanding why this (well-argued) statement in paragraph three of your article wouldn't apply to the kind of research you're describing (finding valuable links to inform the argument of your article) as well as scientific research!