THREAD Launch Day: The Altmetric Museum At Altmetric HQ we have a large and growing collection of artefacts from the vast history of our company. Countries come and go. Empires have risen and fallen. Only Altmetric remains. Today we open this museum to the public for the first time. 1/11

Thrush etching by contemporary printmaker Faith Chevannes #WomensArt #Spring

1. Over the last few days I have received a set of queries about my research. The first one I thought was legitimate, and I was planning to answer when the second arrived, and then the third, from the same sender. Viewed together, they’re clearly LLM generated.

🧵'I don’t know what the endgame is from these messages.... But spamming seemingly informed and good faith questions of scientists serves as a DDOS attack on the field.'

Research sleuths are starting to organize, but the field, and the people, remain idiosyncratic — my latest for @cenmag.bsky.social: cen.acs.org/research-int... @mcintold.bsky.social, @reeserichardson.bsky.social, @elisabethbik.bsky.social, @sholtodavid.bsky.social, @eugenie-reich.bsky.social

If I have to synthesize the audience "chafing" to @mcintold.bsky.social 's powerful talk it's this: LM points to inherent systems threats that have to be addressed by systems/collective action and her solutions are focused on vetting individuals. The linking to art verification: provenance etc

@mcintold.bsky.social #R2R2026 "Openness w/o structural maturity accelerates contamination. ecurity without openness risks authoritarian control. Goal of #openscience is resilience. Correction requires infrastructure, expectation setting, monitoring, oversight - not just norms."

"Tradition is not the worship of ashes, but the preservation of fire." That's what we need to be doing: Giovanni Malagó Open Ceremonies of the Winter Olympics. How can we be resilient? #R2R2026 #openscience #Researchintegrity #academicsky #sciencesky #scisky #polisky #openaccess

⚠️ NEW blog post: "Access Isn’t Trust" by our VP of #ResearchIntegrity & Security, Dr Leslie McIntosh. With #AI aggregating research, we have ease of information - but do we trust it? "...our insights could be built on sand." 🔗 Read her post at the #FoSci Substack: https://ow.ly/ch4N50Yhti3

Digital Science and Silverchair partner to bring researcher screening into workflows www.researchinformation.info/news/digital... Supporting the integrity of the scholarly record is vital for upholding trust and transparency in research, say partners @digital-science.com

📣 NEW on Substack: "The Battle for Knowledge" by our VP of #ResearchIntegrity & Security, Dr Leslie McIntosh. "We are now fully engaged in a power struggle over knowledge itself," Leslie writes in her first FoSci post for 2026. 🔗 Join us at the front line - see more here: https://ow.ly/QnIy50XXbCm

Marcel’s camping skills have not improved. 😔

My child asked for “airplane spoon” during dinner and I had to explain that we simply don’t have enough air traffic controllers. Shutdowns have consequences.

Dr. Rene Aquarius @ Radboud UMC discussing - "We need to talk about RS:" fosci.substack.com/p/we-need-to... Shoutout to LM and @digital-science.com work in this space. #OAI14 #researchsecurity #ResearchIntegrity #OpenScience

📣 Webinar on demand: See how publishers can scale research integrity checks with the Dimensions Author Check API. 🔗 Watch the full webinar: https://ow.ly/kaTt50Xn4YQ Hosted with Research Information, presented by Dr Leslie McIntosh & Tyler Ruse. #ResearchIntegrity #scholcomm

We may not see dead people - but in this new blog post from Leslie McIntosh, there are ghosts aplenty: "Pepper's Ghosts" of research organizations that never were or will be. 👻 How do these apparitions haunt the realm of #ResearchIntegrity? 🔗 Find out: https://ow.ly/RFMW50Xkm9s#ResearchIntegrity? #Halloween2025

NEW post: "Intelligence Gathering in an Era of (Research) Conflict." Our VP of #ResearchIntegrity & Security, Leslie McIntosh, writes about the war-like operations eroding trust in science, and the need for intelligence to counter them. 🔗 Read more: https://ow.ly/FkZA50X2IjW

Thrilled to be invited @dannykay68.bsky.social .

⚠️ Leslie @mcintold.bsky.social has also written a blog post about the investigation's findings. #ResearchIntegrity "From Nefarious Networks to Legitimate Funding" - now available to read on the Forensic Scientometrics #FoSci Substack: 🔗 fosci.substack.com/p/from-nefar...

If @mcintold.bsky.social ever invites you to a game of hide and seek, decline. She will find you. open.substack.com/pub/fosci/p/...

Next: Leslie McIntosh @mcintold.bsky.social‬ with: 'How a Questionable Research Network Manipulated Scholarly Publishing' Authorship and transparency are both trust markers in science. Emails/institutions/funders can be used as trust markers #PRC10

"Self-citation requests can turn peer review into a transaction rather than an objective critique of the article" - @aidybarnett.bsky.social in his OSF @cos.io preprint! #PeerReview #SelfCitation #Preprint #OSF osf.io/preprints/os...

Duct tape famously brought the Apollo 13 astronauts home alive – but you don't build a mission on duct tape and hope. As Forensic Scientometrics nears its one-year mark, here’s a look at the ideas, cases, and solutions. #FoSci #ResearchIntegrity #ResearchSecurity open.substack.com/pub/fosci/p/...

1. "'Trusting the experts is not a feature of either a science or democracy," Kennedy said." It's literally a vital feature of both science and of representative democracy. I've written a fair bit about trust in expertise as a vital mechanism in the collective epistemology of science.

💚 Great news! As part of Emerald Publishing’s ongoing commitment to #ResearchIntegrity, Emerald has adopted Dimensions Author Check from Digital Science. 🔗 See our announcement: www.digital-science.com/blog/2025/08... @emeraldpublishing.bsky.social @dimensions.ai #ScholarlyPublishing #scholcomm

hot off the press: huge infestation of crooked editors involved on paper mills unmasked. www.pnas.org/doi/abs/10.1...

🌟 Guest post on @scholarlykitchen.bsky.social: "How Science is Gamed." Our VP of #ResearchIntegrity, @mcintold.bsky.social, and Will White discuss scientific manipulation and the need for a framework to classify & detect it. 🔗 Read their post now: scholarlykitchen.sspnet.org/2025/08/04/g...

One last time before the weekend, my new story from this week, on a film that vanished in late January without explanation. Thanks to everyone who's read and shared it so far! If you haven't yet, please join this cool group of people!

Are you ready for part 2? "Error vs. Deception: Unpacking the 'Why' of Retractions." Our VP of #ResearchIntegrity, Dr Leslie McIntosh @mcintold.bsky.social, shares some sample retractions and discusses the Retraction Reasons Taxonomy in practice. 🔗 Read her post: fosci.substack.com/p/error-vs-d...

Did you know there was once a domestic cat constellation? 'Felis' was created by French astronomer Joseph Jérôme Lefrançois de Lalande in 1799, but the International Astronomical Union dumped Felis when they created their official constellation boundaries in 1930. www.ianridpath.com/startales/fe...

when they close it all up, I do believe this will go down as the funniest video on the internet

THREAD Impostors In January 2025 @digital-science.com's own @mcintold.bsky.social published a fascinating run-down of fake authors and impostors over the years. We explore the attention these pretend individuals have received over time. Her Substack is linked at the end. Strong recommend.

⚠️ This new blog post issues a warning: Co-authors Federica Silvi & Leslie McIntosh @mcintold.bsky.social use @altmetric.com to investigate how questionable articles can move into Wikipedia and news outlets without notice. 🔗 See more at the #FoSci Substack: fosci.substack.com/p/research-a...

Worth a watch: Head of Signal, Meredith Whittaker, on so-called "agentic AI" and the difference between how it's described in the marketing and what access and control it would actually require to work as advertised.

"Reframing Women Printmakers" a NEW book from WA looks at historic, global, Indigenous and contemporary hugely talented printmakers! Have you got your copy yet? 🧡💛🧡 Via www.waterstones.com/book/reframi... Or any good online or local bookstore in your area or country!

🚨 NEW: "Doctored Knowledge." Scientific sleuth René Aquarius co-authors with our VP of #ResearchIntegrity, Leslie McIntosh, on how manipulated images in scientific papers can feed #AI & amplify harm. 🔗 See more on the #FoSci Substack: fosci.substack.com/p/doctored-k... @mcintold.bsky.social

good work by @deadneanderthals.bsky.social www.thetransmitter.org/publishing/e...

#ICYMI: The latest post by our VP of Research Integrity, Dr Leslie McIntosh, is: "Knowledge Fidelity: The Art and Science of Trust." @mcintold.bsky.social Guest post written for @uksg.bsky.social - also on the #FoSci Substack. #ResearchIntegrity 🔗 fosci.substack.com/p/knowledge-...

What is common knowledge in your field, but shocks outsiders? That trained scientists would collude to manipulate science for political reasons.

Good morning! Looking forward to two days at EMBL, starting today: EMBL Science and Society Conference: In science we trust? @EMBLEvents #SciSoc2025

🎯 I scored 6/10 on #DiscoverOrMDPI — can you beat me? pagoba.shinyapps.io/publi_guess/, #ResearchIntegrity #ScientificPublishing #AcademicSky

🌟 NEW: "Knowledge Fidelity: The Art & Science of Trust" - guest editorial for @uksg.bsky.social by our VP of #ResearchIntegrity @mcintold.bsky.social "Knowledge - the pursuit of it, the production of it - should be trusted, guarded & nurtured," she writes. 🔗👉 www.uksg.org/newsletter/u...

What could possibly be wrong with this article? #Disinformation www.ssph-journal.org/journals/int...

“Creativity is a wild mind and a disciplined eye.” - Dorothy Parker, US poet, writer and wit #WomensArt

What does citation manipulation look like and how has it changed with the growth of paper mills? A summary of COPE’s recent Citation Manipulation Lightning Talk and discussion is now available. Add your comments discussion: ow.ly/ZacF50W2rVS #CitationManipulation

Okay US #Americans, label these countries without looking them up. www.washingtonpost.com/immigration/... Let's start with having the current US president label them. #Geography #Integrity

Cuts have consequences, illustrated. As seen on TV 📺

The Art of a Crime: Fictitious Authors in Science -- a FoSci talk coming to the fantastic BRIC (Bibliometrics and Research Impact Community) Conference in Montréal, Canada, on June 5 (www.bric-conference.ca/en/program) #ResearchIntegrity #ScienceFraud #BRIC2025 #Bibliometrics #Talk

Inuit artist Kenojuak Ashevak rose to prominence in the 1950s with her experimental printmaking and is one of many indigenous women artists who have employed the medium to create intriguing and important artworks #ReframingWomenPrintnakers