The estimate that 10% of cancer papers could be from paper mills is somewhat shocking, but less so when country of origin and rate of increase in paper output by country relative to global output is taken into account. Nice to see AACR journals with the lowest percentage of suspect papers.

I wrote this song on Saturday, recorded it yesterday and released it to you today in response to the state terror being visited on the city of Minneapolis. It’s dedicated to the people of Minneapolis, our innocent immigrant neighbors and in memory of Alex Pretti and Renee Good. Stay free

Nice to see this article in Science about our work at AACR.

I was surprised to see that a firm claims to have essentially solved the issue of detecting when there‘s LLM-generated text in content. But researchers at Pangram Labs say they have, claiming false-positive rates of 1 in 10,000. www.nature.com/articles/d41... @nature.com | @miryamnaddaf.bsky.social

Guest Post – Code Plagiarism and AI Create New Challenges for Publishing Integrity - The Scholarly Kitchen

Because cancer is not one illness, but a whole category, much of the progress in fighting it has come not from big breakthroughs, but thousands of smaller advances

Today, the American Association for Cancer Research (AACR) called on Congress to reject the Administration's nearly 40% cut to the NIH budget and allocate a bipartisan funding increase to $51.3 billion for the agency to accelerate progress for patients. www.aacr.org/about-the-aa...

Overall, cancer cases and deaths in the US are continuing a slow decline acsjournals.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1002/...

Who’s with me? #PeerReview ensures the integrity of scientific knowledge. Science isn’t social media, and it’s dangerous to treat it as such. For this reason, I believe preprints serve an anti-science agenda & threaten our fields. Check out my editorial in @ScholarlyKitchen.bsky.social. 🧪 #SciPub

LEAKED: Heard Island tariff response strategy meeting! #auspol #heardisland

Donald Trump has committed the most profound, harmful and unnecessary economic error in the modern era. Almost everything he said—on history, economics and the technicalities of trade—was utterly deluded econ.st/3YbbFjq

Cancer research, long protected, feels ‘devastating’ effects under Trump www.statnews.com/2025/03/24/t... via

"The [...] administration’s threat to dramatically reduce or delay funding for the NIH [...] represents a crushing blow not only to the development of future #cancer therapies, but to all of medical research. Without previous funding, I would not be alive today." www.sacbee.com/opinion/op-e...

The American Association for Cancer Research (AACR) is looking to fill a new publications position of Editorial Ethics Manager to oversee #ResearchIntegrity and #ImageForensics cases related to #CancerResearch manuscripts and articles at our ten journals. careers-aacr.icims.com/jobs/1702/ed...

90% of people diagnosed with pancreatic cancer die from the disease. That's why the medical community is excited about the results of a small trial in which nearly half of the pancreatic cancer patients who received an mRNA vaccine for the disease remained relapse-free three years later.

Meet Gracie Himes, age 20. Her goal: Fight cancer by developing new medicines. On March 3, her dreams were shattered when Trump admin cuts hit West Virginia University, which rescinded her PhD program offer. www.wsj.com/us-news/educ...

If you're a biologist interested in data visualisation, check out the vizbi conference www.linkedin.com/events/vizbi... #omics

Very happy to see AACR's new guaranteed peer review benefit to reward reviewers highlighted in today's "the Brief" @brieferyet.bsky.social. They incorrectly state that Cancer Discovery "is seemingly excluded from the offer." We will add a table to clarify journal-specific details.

Yikes! Peer review is critical for the integrity of our science, and outside experts are always needed to vet new grant proposals. By moving this all in-house at NIH, we lose scientific independence & make it easy for the government to determine what research should be funded. 🧪 #PeerReview

Federal judge blocks change in NIH indirect cost recovering rates, saying it would jeopardize public health. Read about it here: www.science.org/content/arti...

AACR journals launch Guaranteed Peer Review. This new benefit for reviewers who are AACR members allows them to bypass editorial desk rejection and go straight to peer review. Over 700 reviewers from 2024 were notified of their eligibility. #PeerReview #SciPub #AACR aacrjournals.org/pages/guaran...

The AACR is deeply concerned that the Administration’s recent actions are threatening NIH and its mission to accelerate progress for patients with cancer and other diseases that afflict millions of Americans. Read our statement: https://buff.ly/4gRXNB8

NIH staff told they can submit papers to journals but not preprints. "a short pause to allow the new team to set up a process for review and prioritization" <- review by whom...? www.science.org/content/arti... ht @philipncohen.com 1/2

Exactly. I've said this countless times re: responding to reviewers. t.co/IX2doZkNbR

4 Weeks Until Abstract Submission Deadline! PRC10 abstracts are due January 31. To submit your work and learn more, visit peerreviewcongress.org #peerreview #science #scientificpublication #researchethics #AIinMedicine @jama.com @bmj.com @nejm.org @thelancet.bsky.social

Good, but scary, update on recent GenAI advances by @emollick.bsky.social. PhD-level expertise now required to evaluate accuracy of some outputs. Nice point about using GenAI to introduce novel approaches for humans to investigate properly. open.substack.com/pub/oneusefu...

Fake or flawed studies are polluting systematic reviews in medicine and other fields - but how do you spot them? For Nature, I report on efforts to create a short checklist of red flags, and on the automated integrity tools emerging to help. www.nature.com/articles/d41...

The PRC10 abstract submission site is now open! Abstracts that report new research & findings w generalizable results that can improve scientific research will be given priority. Submit by Jan 31, 2025 at abstracts.peerreviewcongress.org Learn more at peerreviewcongress.org @jama.com @bmj.com

A summary of the major developments and improvements on @protocolsio.bsky.social this year: youtu.be/xeDDwrdLsBw?....

Exciting #RRID news! We are now part of the #DataCite metadata schema. Yes you can use RRIDs to start tracking the datasets (#DOI) associated with your database (#RRID).

Tips for properly handling **tabular data** MUST READ for 🧪+ 📊 & kind of which my past self would have had this 😢 Part of the "Simple Rules" in @plos.bsky.social computational biology: PLoS Comput Biol 20(11): e1012604. doi.org/10.1371/jour... by Hertz MI, McNeill AS.

Fake papers poisoning systematic reviews, genAI compromising Wikipedia. Is this an inevitable consequence of our move toward “town square”/“commons” approaches to authoritative information when it becomes too easy to appear to provide quality contributions? arxiv.org/html/2410.08...

🧪The PRIMeR group is offering a research scholarship on metaresearch/ publication integrity. Applicants must be eligible to enrol as a domestic student at the University of Sydney (no international applicants, sorry) Applications close on 19 December 2024 Details: www.sydney.edu.au/scholarships...

V good @rickanderson.bsky.social on Clarivate, e-Life, & disruption for disruption's sake. "Because obviously, there’s no such thing as “change” in the abstract....only specific changes to specific things, which may be for the better or for the worse." scholarlykitchen.sspnet.org/2024/11/27/d...

Great blog post by Anita Bandrowski and @amandafrench.net about persistent identifiers (PIDs) for research facilities, and when to use an RRID or ROR identifier. This is critical for giving core facilities credit for the important work they do. @abrf.bsky.social ror.org/blog/2024-11...

Nice Technology Feature about the computational tools behind the Human Cell Atlas. I’m obviously biased, but I often find the tools and toolmakers behind accomplishments like this more interesting than the results, partly for the simple reason that they are what make the results possible.

🧪"A call for research to address the threat of paper mills" 5 key research questions needing resourcing & support Proof: journals.plos.org/plosbiology/... 💙 @abalkina.bsky.social @image-integrity.bsky.social @saraheaton.bsky.social @nhwise.bsky.social, United2Act co-authors and members, COPE & STM

Academics wanting to 'verify' their Bluesky profile as genuine might give an ORCID identifier in their profile and link back to their Bluesky profile from ORCID. #AcademicSky

"AI tools could help scientists to produce high-quality reviews, but might also fuel the rapid generation of substandard ones". Great overview by Helen Pearson of current efforts to have AI create review articles from the scientific literature. www.nature.com/articles/d41...

Old Twitter” refers to the platform’s earlier role as a hub where scientists could talk to one another, distribute and discuss preprints and published papers and communicate their research to the public. @tmprowell.bsky.social @erikahamilton9.bsky.social www.science.org/content/arti...

Very helpful summary of the science behind fluoride in drinking water and why the difference between the US and Europe.

Survey of biomedical researchers shows how conflicted they are about fraud as a cause of irreproducibility. Participants rank it 2nd highest of all causes that "Does not contribute" and 3rd highest of all causes that "Always contributes." Each choice is demonstrably untrue. doi.org/10.1371/jour...