There's a serious risk for paper mill publications to be legitimized this way. Once you start going down this route, it's difficult to go back. Who is funding this?

De donkere dagen voor kerst worden luister bijgezet met de traditionele Kerstepisode van X-Rated #Concertzender, waar we het wat zwaarder aanzetten dan normaal. De lijst met moois wordt samengesteld, om vanavond vanaf 21:00 uur live en los te gaan! #XRated www.concertzender.nl/programma/xr...

Today, I just want to listen to Obituary all day. youtu.be/PyJfxqadrHI?...

Stealth Corrections are corrections that are not marked at all, not traceable, unless you compare an old copy of the paper to the current version. See this paper by @deadneanderthals.bsky.social et al. onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1002/...

Amazon’s Official ‘Fallout’ Season 1 Recap Is AI Garbage Filled With Mistakes gizmodo.com/fallout-ai-r...

Achal Agrawal realised how ingrained research misconduct had become, and resolved to do something about the issue He is part of Nature’s 10, a list of people who shaped science in 2025 go.nature.com/3Yk3d0T

Achal Agrawal is on Nature’s list of 10 people who shaped science in 2025. His work helped change India’s university rankings system to include a penalty for large number of retractions. www.nature.com/articles/d41...

DNMF is a collab between Dead Neanderthals and Machinefabriek, a glorious chunk of drone. deadneanderthals.bandcamp.com/album/smelter

Universities will keep sexual predators on the faculty because their "hands are tied by tenure." Turns out protesting genocide is all it takes to loosen those unshakable chains.

Daily Tune #2925 - "Incantation for turning men into swine" by @deadneanderthals.bsky.social deadneanderthals.bandcamp.com/track/incant... Otto Kokke - synthesizer Rene Aquarius - drums ...drone, rumble, rumble, drone... bliss.

Publishers will love this as it can further increase the number of articles published every year. The question is: what are we going to train this AI on? My guess: all those free peer review reports that you and I wrote.

Happy Advent! !!!🎄✨ Welcome to a new edition of the Research Integrity Advent Calendar. Each day brings a small challenge: spot the problem, detect inconsistencies, and sharpen your skills. Enjoy the season and the daily puzzles! Day 1. papermills.tilda.ws/advent2025

THREAD One Year of tracking research communication on @bsky.app This time last year we officially added the Bluesky social platform to the places where we track research communication and article sharing. Here are some of the most viral articles that gained traction in the last 12 months. 1/14

Kijk, mijn eindlijst keurig in de @oormagazine.bsky.social 🎶

Since AI slop is again all over Scientific Reports, a thread on the economics of grey-zone publishing. Why does slop keep getting published? What does it mean for science? How can we stop this? Background readings: Understand the strain: tinyurl.com/2b6wxx5r Stop the drain: tinyurl.com/3jfscscy

I don’t know if anyone else notices or cares, but when I see a presentation in which the speaker uses obviously generated-AI images to illustrate their slides, it makes me immediately less confident in whatever other content they’re presenting.

SGP Euro-parlementariër wordt slachtoffer van ironie

Classic!

Listen up, Dorks, we need to talk. Science is political and we all need to get in the game. But--and I'm going to hold your hand through this--trainings, attending planning meetings, and reading substacks isn't enough. YOU MUST TAKE ACTUAL ACTION... Look at your action to sitting ratio! 1/

The results of the RCT didn't support our hypothesis ➡️ The RCT "failed".🤦‍♂️ This is not how science works! #ResearchIntegrity 👍Kudos to Charlotte Strøm for the review www.linkedin.com/pulse/review...

Read Dorothy's blogposts! Difficult concepts explained in a clear, easy-to-read way. Plus you get insights from an academic veteran!

this is the peace plan we should be pushing russia goes home and gets nothing. they learn from this that adventures in occupying neighbors has no benefit and only costs

Fixed it for you. Idiots! If the exclusion is based on appearance then it will certainly impact cis folks as well as trans folks.

Done! Okay, this is one that should be enjoyed in a dark room, eyes closed and with headphones on - which of course I didn't do... I still found it to be once more an almost meditative experience with the heavy drums and the constant drone. Excellent work again, @deadneanderthals.bsky.social!

Papermillers complain about PubPeer. link.springer.com/article/10.1...

Disgruntled authors,with at least 1 retraction, attacking pubpeer👇 Their statements are also wrong. How did @springernature.com let this pass as it is? Does the terminology ring a bell? @elisabethbik.bsky.social @smutclyde.bsky.social @deevybee.bsky.social link.springer.com/article/10.1...

I was waiting for this paper by @deevybee.bsky.social @statsepi.bsky.social #kevinjmitchell! Looking forward to read the whole thing.

Erroneous articles can undermine scientific progress & mislead future research. Rene Aquarius &co show that 40% of articles on early #BrainInjury in animal studies have #ImageDuplication & #ImageManipulation problems, but correction by #journals remains limited @plosbiology.org 🧪 plos.io/4p59QzN

Best shit I heard all year! carbomb.bandcamp.com/album/tiles-...

What is the most profitable industry in the world, this side of the law? Not oil, not IT, not pharma. It's *scientific publishing*. We call this the Drain of Scientific Publishing. Paper: arxiv.org/abs/2511.04820 Background: doi.org/10.1162/qss_... Thread @markhanson.fediscience.org.ap.brid.gy 👇

Another troubling exposé of fraud in science publishing: organised groups of reviewers (here, in the medical sciences) conspiring to push authors to cite the reviewers' own work. Hats off to sleuths Oviedo-García, Aquarius, and @deevybee.bsky.social www.medrxiv.org/content/10.1...

New pre-print out on peer-review milling! Together with @deevybee.bsky.social and M. Angeles Oviedo Garcia. Enjoy! doi.org/10.1101/2025...

Our new album Incantations is OUT NOW. Order through Utecht records or us. Harsh, droning metal! deadneanderthals.bandcamp.com/album/incant... utechrecords.bandcamp.com/album/incant...

"40% of papers about subarachnoid haemorrhage in animals contained manipulated images." We have to face up to the fact that in some fields, over half of published science might be fake.

Nadja & MoE, together again, 2 shows in Germany, 1 in Poland: 19.11 - Arkaoda, Berlin 20.11 - Hühnermanhattan, Halle 21.11 - LAS, Poznan

Will Death Breath ever release that album that they recorded in 2009 or so? What a band! www.youtube.com/watch?v=sAzg...

A network of peer reviewers in Italy is targeting medical journals, threatening “both the scientific record and patient safety,” a team of researchers including @deevybee.bsky.social report.

Last year we released the amazing Cast Down and Hunted by Aidan Baker & Dead Neanderthals. Check out the last few copies in our shop (also with an option to get as bundle with DNMF Smelter). movingfurniturerecords.bandcamp.com/album/cast-d... @nadjaluv.bsky.social @deadneanderthals.bsky.social

arXiv will no longer accept review articles and position papers unless they have been accepted at a journal or a conference and complete successful peer review. This is due to being overwhelmed by a hundreds of AI generated papers a month. Yet another open submission process killed by LLMs.

"We included 608 articles, of which 243 articles were identified as problematic (40.0%)." (bit.ly/3X4PtGF) This finding of so many image-related problems by a team that wanted to do a systemic review, is deeply concerning.

Our new paper is out in PLOS Biology! I'm very conflicted about the project: proud because it feels like the most important project I've ever been a part of, but also very sad that we found so many problems in our field. Read the paper here: journals.plos.org/plosbiology/...

40% dierstudies naar hersenbloedingen bevat afbeeldingen die niet kloppen, ontdekten René Aquarius en Kim Wever @radboudumc.bsky.social. Sommige artikelen zijn mogelijk geheel of deels verzonnen. Zorgwekkend, zegt ook @elisabethbik.bsky.social. Voor @voxweb.bsky.social. www.voxweb.nl/nieuws/honde...

40 Percent of Stroke Animal Studies May Have Problematic Images Red flags during a literature review led to the discovery of over 200 papers on animal models of stroke with duplicated images, which is likely an underestimate. www.the-scientist.com/40-percent-o...

Our new paper is out in PLOS Biology! I'm very conflicted about the project: proud because it feels like the most important project I've ever been a part of, but also very sad that we found so many problems in our field. Read the paper here: journals.plos.org/plosbiology/...

COSIG has a new landing page! Check it out at cosig.net. (Files for COSIG are still hosted on OSF!)

How do research sleuths uncover and communicate publication concerns? Join Anna Abalkina, Reese Richardson, Rene Aquarius, & Marie Soulière for *Detectives of research: Techniques and teamwork in publication sleuthing* 🔗 Register https://ow.ly/3toB50XeQZY #PublicationIntegrityWeek

It's October. youtu.be/j-jYnU-UPcA?...