This discovery of the fabled Lost Whale Graveyard is basically a Far Side cartoon waiting to be drawn.

My PhD student: "More like, these are the 4 stages of writing a PhD thesis."

@smutclyde.bsky.social discusses the recycling of kaggle datasets into the scientific literature. A paper from Scientific Reports used the "eye disease data set" which includes only a few hundred images, including animals, diagrams, and people in sunglasses. forbetterscience.com/2026/06/09/b...

I've been robbed of my 1st Amendment right to silence people who disrespect me!

A long tradition of respect for the Tsars.

It can't do any worse.

One of the locals along the Clinical trail (Waimapihi) was up early.

To the surprise of absolutely no-one, a panel of well-connected old Oxonians from advantageous backgrounds would like to credit the fact that they lived to be old upon their personal choices rather than upon their backgrounds.

Near the top of Salvation Track.

Mushroom, you are unclear on the concept.

Thanks to AI, we no longer need bored 19th C. aristocratic English antiquarians.

Beware of russians bringing isotopes!

@forbetterscience.bsky.social Vegan food truck.

Reality outdoes itself. I merely report.

Everything is better with googly eyes, part 862.

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".