"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?...

New blogpost on my concerns about Wellcome LEAP new $50m program on autism/microbiome links. deevybee.blogspot.com/2025/10/a-le... #autism #microbiome #biomarkers #diagnostic

"gold standard science"

To absolutely nobody’s surprise, the more than 2,200 episodes of the Joe Rogan Experience do not link to research items even once.

We have just released the second track of our upcoming album 'Incantations' on Bandcamp entitled: 'Incantation for dancing with flames' Listen here: deadneanderthals.bandcamp.com/album/incant... utechrecords.bandcamp.com/album/incant...

ICYMI We will release our new album 'Incantations' soon on Utech records. Listen to the 9-minute opening track "Incantation For Turning Men Into Swine" by clicking one of the links: Pre-order EU deadneanderthals.bandcamp.com/album/incant... Pre-order US utechrecords.bandcamp.com/album/incant...

Heavy!

Listen to the first track of our new album "Incantations". Out next month!

Listen to the first track of our new album 'Incantations'. It's a very heavy slab of Drone Metal, which will be released on LP through #UtechRecords Pre-order via us: deadneanderthals.bandcamp.com/album/incant... Pre-order via Utech Records: utechrecords.bandcamp.com/album/incant...

Listen to the first track of our new album 'Incantations'. It's a very heavy slab of Drone Metal, which will be released on LP through #UtechRecords Pre-order via us: deadneanderthals.bandcamp.com/album/incant... Pre-order via Utech Records: utechrecords.bandcamp.com/album/incant...

Thanks @iansample.bsky.social at @theguardian.com podcast for chatting #ScientificPublishing. This pod follows from The Strain on Scientific Publishing & reports of publisher profit margins rivalling Google etc... Paper: direct.mit.edu/qss/article/... Pod: podcasts.apple.com/gb/podcast/s...

confused who thought consumers would buy an arc'teryx jacket after seeing a colorful explosion on a mountain. what type of brand identity or aspirational lifestyle are you trying to convey?

Open Science Workshop - detecting errors and misconduct in science Dates: 20-22 October Location: Radboud University, Nijmegen, The Netherlands Registration link: tinyurl.com/3xkd8twf ONLY PHYSICAL ATTENDENCE POSSIBLE! NO ONLINE POSSIBILITIES.

Listen to Incinerated! incinerateddm.bandcamp.com/album/loboto...

Medical ethicist Arthur Kaplan, quoted in the NYT: “The announcement on autism was the saddest display of a lack of evidence, rumors, recyling old myths, lousy advice, outright lies & dangerous advice I have ever witnessed by anyone in authority in the world claiming to know anything about science”

Who needs the Stasi when you've got social media?

The world is on fire. Here's some Harmony Corruption for you. napalmdeath.bandcamp.com/album/harmon...

Reviewers: Prepare for a tsunami of manuscripts made from low-quality [or even made-up] silicon samples in social science! #ResearchIntegrity #ReproducibilityCrisis

The LP Aidan Baker & Dead Neanderthals - Cast down and Hunted is now almost sold-out (12 copies in the shop now, of which four as bundle with Smelter by DNMF). movingfurniturerecords.bandcamp.com/album/cast-down-and-hunted

Bericht uit februari. In wat voor wereld leef je dan als je dit verspreidt? www.ad.nl/berg-en-dal/...

Wat hebben Anne Frank, Hannie Schaft en de soldaten die in 1944 de Franse stranden bestormden gemeen? Dat ze vandaag de dag door de @vvdonline.bsky.social als terroristen gezien zouden worden omdat ze antifascistisch waren. #IkBenOokAntiFascistisch

The magnificent @deevybee.bsky.social gave a #fosci talk pointing out to the major issue in #scientificpublishing that corporations are desperately trying to ignore — the editors who let all the garbage in their prestigious journals 🎇 + brilliant term: Negligent Open Access Publisher = NOPE

'eau', my album with Mariska Baars (soccer Committee) is now available to download for any price you see fit, on my Bandcamp. Here's a Substack post I wrote about it: machinefabriek.substack.com/p/eau-with-mariska-baars And here's the album: machinefabriek.substack.com/p/eau-with-mariska-baars

Draait de geweldige lp Other Worlds van @deadneanderthals.bsky.social, 31 december vorig jaar verschenen, dus deze briljante krautplaat telt gewoon mee voor de eindlijst over 2025. #nowplaying #kraut #eindlijst deadneanderthals.bandcamp.com/album/other-...

Wow, someone at the AHRC has a brass neck for treating their own grantees as "research quality". Each HEI’s formula score is determined by two variables: research staff (within arts and humanities), this is a proxy for research capacity AHRC grant income, *this is a proxy for research quality*

Looked at my data collections for state-backed activity. If the report were a picture:

Four different papers, including one in Nature. The images appear to have been provided by a CDMO (Neurodigitech, LLC) to different teams in the US. Researchers have been adding these beautified and recycled images into their papers like they're filling up a sticker book.

I extensively contributed to this fact check on RFK’s critiques and calls to retract a recent Annals of Internal Medicine paper by Danish researchers showing dose of vaccine aluminum adjuvants does not increase risk of any of 50 chronic diseases including autism www.factcheck.org/2025/09/rfk-...

INACTION: Tackling paper mills requires us to prevent future contamination & clean up the past–the case of the journal Bioengineered www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10.... T&Fs lack of visible editorial action has left the scientific community vulnerable to reading & citing 100s of problematic articles

Nearly 3 months since I contacted both the authors and editor of @jama.com about failure to share data. Article states data and code is available, but the github repo is empty. Not private or partial, empty. Has never contained anything. No replies from anyone. jamanetwork.com/journals/jam...

Never knew big hat logan used to sing in Portal. youtu.be/YPZJGsDlWQk?...

@deadneanderthals.bsky.social never fails to impress me but this one really hit the spot. I have played it dozens of times in the 8 months it has out. Spaced-out droning synths and sax mesh with live rock drums for hypnotic krauty action. I would give my left pinkie to see this live. #NWDHJ

We are delighted to welcome forensic meta-scientist @deadneanderthals.bsky.social to the EASE webinar series, joining our Council member @phillbjones.bsky.social for a session discussing ethics sleuthing and image integrity in the age of generative AI ease.org.uk/event/ease-w...

Holy shit: Stateline spoke to nearly a dozen firefighters, agency staffers and contractors, who said that top officials assigned to the fire deployed the crews to a remote location under false pretenses so federal agents could check their immigration status. www.hcn.org/articles/fir...

Damn. @bandcamp.com is really going downhill. bandcamp.com/about_clubs

I'd actually argue AI actively hinders our ability to filter out rubbish by just adding even more drivel on top of the drivel we have to read already. #PeerReview