Europe's MSCA postdoctoral fellowships are now attracting many researchers who would have gone to the US. So the payline has dropped below 10% (~1,600 fellowships to 17k applicants). Super tough situation. One more reason to double the next Horizon budget, as proposed by the EU Commission.

okay maybe *one* king

Yes, yes, Europe has its benefits. Walkable cities. Cultural heritage. Amazing food. Little gun violence. Healthcare. Governments that are not shut down. But the number of website pop-ups asking one to accept cookies renders the continent pretty much unlivable.

www.nytimes.com/2025/08/04/s... “If these trends are not stopped, science is going to be destroyed…” Uh, really? I can’t imagine one of these papers ever influencing my lab’s research. Curious if folks studying noncoding RNA see it differently.

Grateful for the invitation from the Royal Society — and heartening to see the growing momentum, evident throughout the meeting, behind separating evaluation from publication.

Academia may be a prestige economy but it wasn’t some choice of scientific leadership- we do it to ourselves, every day. Leadership rarely makes tenure criteria too down - it’s a committee of peers that sets it up for institutions. Leadership doesn’t sit on study sections - it’s peers doing it!

Grateful for the chance to join this webinar series—great questions and engaging discussion.

Brandon Stell puts it powerfully - and accurately: 'We value publications more than what's inside them.' It's not something we wanted to hear, but it's something we needed to.

White House Health Report Included Fake Citations www.nytimes.com/2025/05/29/w...

The Trump administration just dropped an executive order, "Restoring Gold Standard Science" and there's lots to unpack. This EO reveals more about how the Administration will approach scientific integrity and science in regulatory contexts. Some initial thoughts. 🧵 www.whitehouse.gov/presidential...

📣 Save the date for the 11th PCI webinar on June 18, 2025, at 4 PM CET!! Brandon Stell (CNRS, Paris) will present "Elevating Scientific Standards: Community-Driven Assessment on PubPeer ". For more details and registration, visit: buff.ly/XuownT0

Learn more about the PubPeer Monthly Prize—made possible by the Einstein Foundation (@einsteinberlin.bsky.social‬)—and explore past winning comments to see what makes a strong entry so that you can win the next one! pubpeer.com/static/award

Hoping to see Horton's heat at Citi field tonight. open.spotify.com/track/1QlzrF... @cubsbot.bsky.social

OK we all get that this is literally impossible though, right? Europe and Canada do not have the resources to absorb 75% of US scientists and btw getting jobs in these places was already competitive for the people who live there.

Pet peeve: I hate how often ppl claim “all the researchers will just move to Europe/Canada!” You vastly under-estimate how little money there is there vs the USA- and unless that changes ASAP this loss is just going to decimate global science, full stop. 🧪🔭

Is everyone huffing paint? Crypto guy claims to have built an LLM-based tool to detect errors in research papers; funded using its own cryptocurrency; will let coin holders choose what papers to go after; it's unvetted and a total black box—and Nature reports it as if it's a new protein structure.

How bad this is depends on how far they are willing to go. Are they willing to fabricate evidence to attack vaccines? My guess would be yes.

⏰ Join an engaging colloquium on scientific integrity, featuring the 2024 Einstein Foundation Award Winners next week! @elisabethbik.bsky.social, @brandonstell.bsky.social @pubpeer.com, @helenajambor.bsky.social & Christopher Schmied at Charité or online: www.einsteinfoundation.de/en/insights/...

Welcome to the Bluesky account for Stand Up for Science 2025! Keep an eye on this space for updates, event information, and ways to get involved. We can't wait to see everyone #standupforscience2025 on March 7th, both in DC and locations nationwide! #scienceforall #sciencenotsilence

📆 From detection to prevention: improving the scientific publication record - Join the 2024 Einstein Foundation Award Winners’ Colloquium w/ @elisabethbik.bsky.social, @brandonstell.bsky.social @pubpeer.com, @helenajambor.bsky.social & Christopher Schmied www.einsteinfoundation.de/en/insights/...

Congratulations to Vitaly Podzorov for winning the January PubPeer Monthly Prize for his outstanding analysis of a 2024 Nature article! pubpeer.com/publications... These $1,000 awards are given each month. Learn more and see examples of winning comments: pubpeer.com/static/award

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

I was led to believe by R.E.M. that I would feel a lot better about this.

Important read on the devastating impact of fraud in Alzheimer's research, highlighting the work of 2024 #EinsteinFoundationAward winners @elisabethbik.bsky.social and @pubpeer.com in cleaning up the scientific record. #ResearchIntegrity www.nytimes.com/2025/01/24/o...

Hope you'll forgive a quick thread as I take over as the new EiC of @elife.bsky.social

But not today. Today they got beat. Everybody should take the W & the lesson that fighting back matters.

American science and medicine has been thrown into chaos and uncertainty over the past week. Here are some stories to get up to speed. 1/12

Only one week left to apply to the Paris School for Neuroscience Techniques! parisneuro.ovh

⚠️ Un poste de MCU en Maths-Info-Stats s'ouvre bientôt à Sorbonne Université pour rejoindre mon équipe (background computationnel et experience en analyse de données de neurosciences experimentales souhaités + qualification requise). Contactez-moi pour plus d'infos! Please RP!

Very much looking forward to reading this.

Check out this incredible course opportunity! We love being able to support training initiatives, and are thrilled that our vibratomes will be available for the students to use to make their slices! 🧠

There's still time to apply to the Paris NeuroCourse. This year we'll have two 2-photons, miniscopes, neuropixels, voltage imaging, patch-clamp, and of course an amazing list of lecturers: parisneuro.ovh 2 weeks of neuroscience lectures and techniques in Paris!

Congratulations to @malte.the100.ci for winning the inaugural PubPeer $1000 Monthly Prize for the best comment! December brought many excellent contributions, but Malte's journal club discussion truly stood out. pubpeer.com/publications...

There’s still time to share your insights and qualify for our first $1,000 award! Add your comment before the end of the month, and stay tuned here to find out who the December winner will be: pubpeer.com/static/award

Breaking news: A 2020 paper that sparked widespread enthusiasm for hydroxychloroquine as a #COVID19 treatment has been retracted, following campaigning by scientists who alleged the research contained major scientific flaws and may have breached ethics regulations. scim.ag/4iR9bQ6

Tip of the day: use @pubpeer.com for evaluating a grant application: if an author have a serious issue (it is important to appraise this qualitatively) that has not been addressed (no satisfying answer), do not recommend the application for funding. Wish of the day: funder make this tip mandatory.

Thank you to Prof Bishop @deevybee.bsky.social for taking this important stand 👇 “Oxford scientist resigns from Royal Society over Elon Musk’s continuing fellowship” www.theguardian.com/technology/2...

I love my job @hhmi.bsky.social This week we hosted 164 scientists and heard 30 amazing 15-minute talks, dove into 70 posters, ate many fancy meals, and saw zero journal names.

This hasn’t been our year for lasers. We’ve lost two Mai Tais (each with ~10 years of service), and last night, mid-in vivo imaging session, a Spark 920 gave out. Unlike Spectra-Physics, Spark assures us a quick repair, but it’s off to them tomorrow.

Spread the word! PubPeer is awarding $1,000 for outstanding comments. Comments featured on the front page (pubpeer.com) are strong contenders. bsky.app/profile/pubp...

Lets start with something exciting! Applications are now open to join our fantastic department as a group leader fellow! Come start your independent group at (in our opinion) the best neuroscience department! reach out here or @macaskillaf.bsky.social for more info! www.ucl.ac.uk/work-at-ucl/...

For those who missed it: Elon Musk, the Royal Society, and me deevybee.blogspot.com/2024/11/why-...

#Neuroscience and #cognition science students around the world! Want to do a #PhD in the #Paris region? Apply to the @c-brains.bsky.social international PhD program and select one of the 40+ projects selected for this year's competition! More information on dim-cbrains.fr/en/phd-progr...

My personal account won't post much about research integrity issues but you might be interested in @pubpeer.bsky.social

Einstein Foundation awards to Elisabeth Bik and Pubpeer. 💪 award.einsteinfoundation.de/award-winner...