Peer review has a weakness in that it is not in one's interest to upset colleagues by pointing out their mistakes, as upset peers may write negative reviews in the future. But setting the record straight is an essential part of science, and an ever-self-congratulating field is prone to get stuck.

Today, our article "The entities enabling scientific fraud at scale are large, resilient, and growing rapidly" is finally published in PNAS. I hope that it proves to be a wake-up-call for the whole scientific community. reeserichardson.blog/2025/08/04/a...

📢 We’re a coalition of former staff members who saw too much, spoke up against a tyrant administrator and were pushed out. Follow us and stay tuned to learn how this department has deteriorated over the last few years and how it’s recently getting worse & worse.

Big news in the publishing landscape of 🇨🇭 The Swiss National Science Foundation will no longer support publications in special issues. This is to fight the unsustainable models pushed by publishing houses like MDPI or Frontiers. There is another way. Go Diamond! 💎💎💎💎💎💎💎 www.snf.ch/en/g2ICvujLD...

Big news from Finnish publication forum. Almost all MDPI and Frontiers journals will be downgraded to level 0 and thus are not considered as properly peer reviewed trustworthy scientific journals. julkaisufoorumi.fi/en/news/chan...

It's now possible to win $1000 for making a PubPeer comment!🤑

Worrying 👇

Impossible😂 But why the hell submitting there??? Publishing in MDPI may be the best way to kill a PhD students career before it even started: predatoryreports.org/news/f/list-... t.co/1NaeJXfSwx

Many years ago I was asked to join the editorial board of the journal Electrochem that was about to start. It sounded very interesting, since OA was just coming in and we were trying to move away from elsevier and other subscription journals. 1/

Academic fraud is rife with #china at the forefront. As I write in the Spectator, journals are waking up to reality of fake science thanks to dogged detective work of @elisabethbik.bsky.social worthy winner of @einsteinberlin.bsky.social award #fraud #science www.spectator.co.uk/article/the-...

More evidence (as if it was needed) that Frontiers and MDPI do not peer review properly, have predatory characteristics and should be avoided like the plague

Beware using FLAG tags in SUMOylation studies, as the lysines in the DYKDDDDK sequence can be SUMOylated according to this report... www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...

This study finds that at least N=8-12 RNA-seq experiments are required to avoid a >50% false positive rate www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1...

Worth bearing in mind! www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1...

Hello Bluesky, looking forward to interesting and stimulating science here!