Meanwhile in a parallel timeline:

The scriptwriters are clearly plagiarising from Eric Frank Russell's 'With a Strange Device".

We could have a whole thread on "bat species that could inspire new Star Trek characters"!!!🦇🖖

Palantir is a nazi organization, this is not news, but it's still insane for a publicly traded company to just put out a full throated Turner Diaries-ass "manifesto"

All bats used to look like this before the Klingon Augment virus crossed species.

And here's a little rehearsal vid

Zombie Albert Speer is in touch with his lawyers about the plagiarism from his memoirs.

Urine for a big pay-out.

It would be VERY WRONG to photoshop Christopher Luxon into this.

How to be a science sleuth: Research integrity experts share their tips for spotting and reporting fraudulent papers Rupali Dabas writes @chemistryworld.com Featuring @smutclyde.bsky.social , @deevybee.bsky.social, Nick Wise, Jack Wilkinson, Anna Pendlebury, and me.

Question for ethicists: Is an Expression of Concern enough when authors claim to have trained ML to diagnose autism from facial appearance, using a collection of facial images that were scraped from the Intertubes without niceties like "formal diagnosis" or "consent"? pubpeer.com/publications...

Another gem from the nanorrhea literature.

'Wired' stenographer: "The startup leader sez it's been done with mice." Narrator: It has not been done with mice. @forbetterscience.bsky.social

How it started How it's going

I regret to report the retraction of this glorious LLM rodomontade. If only the authors would describe the prompts they used to produce it! "A sense of preparedness and expectation permeates the huge stage amid the wide expanse of the learning universe. ..." pubpeer.com/publications...

The quality of the worshippers reflects well upon whichever god this shrine belongs to.

Their next paper will be "Optimizing waste heat recovery in papermilling: A dual approach of building heating integration and ORC power generation" pubpeer.com/publications...

@pubpeer.com Is there any scope to incorporate this in the PP framework, to encourage the commentariat to push back on 'misguided' critiques? As in science as a whole, we prefer positive posts ("this is fake!!") over posting negative findings ("I could not replicate Camphor-Leaf's concerns...").

Waiting to read Chaucer Doth Tweet's reaction to this. @levostregc.bsky.social

Now I want a cap with the word אמת.

Having successfully field-stripped and reassembled a Dyson vacuum cleaner, my pride is immeasurable.

Papermillers: Whoops, we forgot to copy-paste into all the columns of the spreadsheet when inserting the paid-for, irrelevant citations into the manuscript. Scientific Reports editors: Do we look like we care? www.nature.com/articles/s41...

The original was great (in a dystopian way). We don't need a remake.

Crivens! Deepak Chopra was involved in the rise of this bumptious shitweasel!

The good news: this was just retracted. The bad news: it was published in the first place. onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1002/...

Please admire these remarkably bimodal distributions of hemocrit, red-corpuscle count, & hemoglobin level. It appears that half of the 5066 subjects were already dead from anemia and half had such extreme polycytemia that blood couldn't flow in their veins. pubpeer.com/publications...

Nice incompetence. Abject?

'Scientific Reports' is inordinately fond of papermill products in a 'retinopathy diagnosis through AI' style - I guess the mill installed editors in the system, to ensure that they're reviewed by other mill sockpuppets. Even so, this was more annoying than most. pubpeer.com/publications...

So we stole someone's identity to be Corresponding Author, and plagiarised the figures and images, but "the conclusions of the article are otherwise unaffected." doi.org/10.1002/prp2... Publisher: We see you're reading this Retraction Note. Allow us to recommend the paper that it retracted.

Nice nonsense. Arrant?

My "Euthanasia doesn't count as Murder" t-shirt is raising many questions that my t-shirt refuses to answer, instead choosing to plead the 5th Amendment.

"mRNA" in the NBC headline is unnecessary. They could just have written "Under Health Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr., the Food and Drug Administration has taken an aggressive stance against technology".

I was inspired to check Google Street Maps for Down House (Darwin's old abode) and yes, these sinister red blobs continue to hover above the kitchen garden. www.google.com/maps/@51.330...

Crunchy Frog and Cockroach Cluster forbetterscience.com/2026/02/10/c...

Heat transmission in hamburgers. From "Cattaneo-Christov heat transfer method on free convective three-dimensional flow with periodic permeability" (Arshad &c 2025). pubpeer.com/publications... Now retracted: not because it was garbage, but the papermill stole someone's identity to use as coauthor.

I want to be author of a paper about cancer biomarkers. You're in luck! We're running a 1/2-price special on processed-alloy papers! What good is that! I'm an oncologist, not a metallurgist. We'll tie a sign to it that says 'cancer'. Do you want the text or not? OK then. pubpeer.com/publications...

JanciToxDoc seems very well-informed.

One seldom sees such commitment to holothurian cosplay.

Please admire what 'Viola sheltonii' found in Discover Oncology, in "Engineering CAR T NK and NKT cell therapies to target cancer stem cells and overcome stem like resistance". pubpeer.com/publications...

I reckon it would be a good move for cinemas in the US to be showing the original Downfall film now. Magnificent film with huge relevance for today

At the sauna this morning, recovering from the plunge pool.

The publishers of Frontiers are very proud of their fraud-detection software and have appointed themselves as "Guardians of Research Integrity". Also, they publish stuff like this.

1. Aotearoa New Zealand friends and colleagues 🇳🇿, Logistics for my February trip are coming together. I'd love to meet more of you and/or talk with groups of interested colleagues about AI course and teaching in a ChatGPT world (thebullshitmachines.com). Right now, my schedule is as follows:

Pompous idiots are *always* a joking matter!

And here are both David (Smut Clyde on X/Hoya campingear on PubPeer) and Kevin (Cheshire on X/Actinosome thing-or-other on PubPeer) sharing a 🍻; we will again. Together we’ve posted comments on ~40,000 papers, including retraction notices to make the database more useful. Re: x.com/SciGuardians...

Imagine my delight to discover that one of the artists who designs cans for Garage Project beers is a fan of Musrum (Earnshaw & Thacker 1968).

The References had a seizure and started speaking Qwghlmian.

@spottingthespot.bsky.social Merry $mas! pubpeer.com/publications...