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

Recent paper on paper mill activity in the Taylor & Francis journal 'Bioengineered', which we have published in Taylor & Francis journal 'Bioengineered'. ~25% of the investigated 878 papers were 'problematic' Bioengineered has now halted submissions. www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....

The true legacy of hipster metal is drone yoga.

Tackling paper mills requires us to prevent future contamination and clean up the past – the case of the journal Bioengineered buff.ly/ygaUrTC

This black metal masterpiece is from 1984! Ahead of its time and still a beloved classic. This tape rip sounds really amazing too!

Impressive look at the impact of paper mills on one journal, by Rene Aquarius, @elisabethbik.bsky.social, David Bimler, Morten Oksvold, @thatsregrettab1.bsky.social h/t @retractionwatch.com www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....

Portal, live earlier this month. Amazing!

#BREAKING 🚨 'A major report for government by Deloitte is littered with citation errors prompting concern it may have been generated by artificial intelligence' ✍️ @paulkarp.bsky.social in the AFR on the consultancy's $440,000 Targeted Compliance Framework report: www.afr.com/companies/pr...

The paper @elisabethbik.bsky.social, @mortenoxe.bsky.social @thatsregrettab1.bsky.social, @smutclyde.bsky.social, and I wrote together on the troubles over at Bioengineered has now officially been published by... Bioengineered! www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....

📣 Save the date for the 12th PCI webinar on September 18, 2025, at 4 PM CET!! Dorothy Bishop (@deevybee.bsky.social) will present "Editors matter: How negligent publishers subvert quality control in scientific publishing ". For more details and registration, visit:

New paper: Tackling paper mills requires us to prevent future contamination and clean up the past – the case of the journal Bioengineered With @deadneanderthals.bsky.social, @smutclyde.bsky.social, @mortenoxe.bsky.social, @thatsregrettab1.bsky.social, and me www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....

The paper @elisabethbik.bsky.social, @mortenoxe.bsky.social @thatsregrettab1.bsky.social, @smutclyde.bsky.social, and I wrote together on the troubles over at Bioengineered has now officially been published by... Bioengineered! www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....

A lawyer on Twitter who specialises in "vaccine injury ("Impschaden") got a lot of retweets for an article he shared but didn't read all the way through because it says "Despite these complications, the risk–benefit analysis still strongly favors vaccination."

The weaponisation of published articles. @mdpiopenaccess.bsky.social published this review on cardiopulmonary effects of COVID-19 vaccination. The conclusions of the authors are very clear: "Despite these complications, the risk–benefit analysis still strongly favors vaccination"

Do you agree PsyArXiv is a valuable service? Then please consider joining the PsyArXiv moderation team to keep it that way (more info in the link below)! There's a 1-hour training session this coming Monday, Aug 18 at 1pm ET, and the minimum commitment is just 1h/month! (reposting also helps :))

Apparently, @bandcamp.com thinks these types of emails are exactly what independent artists are waiting for. Stop sending these tacky messages. Nobody cares. We haven't forgotten that you fired nearly the entire Bandcamp Daily staff when you bought the company. Fucking leeches.

Reportage van @vpro.nl Tegenlicht die wel héél erg aanvoelt als Chinese staatspropaganda. Ik vraag me werkelijk waar af wat hier achter de schermen is gebeurd. youtu.be/bKsZWAHFNYU?...

If anyone is curious about the current list of search terms being used by right wing activist organizations to harass university professors, here's a public records request I received today from Mike Howell of the Heritage Foundation. Not intimidating or meant to curtail by my speech at all, right?

Great initiative by Wiley! The publisher has started marking retracted papers in reference lists. When you click on the retraction notice, you can also see the date and reason for the retraction. All publishers should adopt this practice. But also screen references during submission.

My hot take: we as a society don’t challenge people enough on facts and it’s metastasized. Political tension in the family? You’ll be told, “Oh, don’t let “politics” get in the way of relationships - avoid it!” Sorry, no. Politics is personal. Speak up. Do it with humility, but insist on facts.

Deeds of Flesh forever! Rest In Power Erik Lindmark youtu.be/6Z2pBSBcCzg?...

Deeds of Flesh forever! Rest In Power Erik Lindmark youtu.be/6Z2pBSBcCzg?...

So I fired my bathroom scale. Next I'm gonna fire the nutritional label on a pint of ice cream.

This one comment on AMG's recent Sp0tify article really messed me up. Playing every album digitally on mute to match your physical media listening for the end of year "Wrapped" statistics is wild ass behavior.

King of research waste complains of research waste.

La haine et véhémence de mes harceleurs (qui prouvent malgré le point exact de l'article) est l'un des premiers moteurs de: - ma motivation à ne pas flancher face à la mauvaise science - mais aussi de la réussite de cet article (nature.com/articles/d41...) 🤣 Changez rien :)

“It’s the people who are contaminating the literature, and the journals and institutions that are not taking adequate responses” who are undermining science, says Sanders. “Not the people who are authentically digging up problems in the scientific literature.” www.nature.com/articles/d41...

Data-visualization researcher @lonnibesancon.bsky.social has faced online abuse, threats and legal challenges. But he remains proud of his service to science and society. He hopes young scientists will get involved in scientific sleuthing: spklr.io/63328BEc6p

I want this MDPI cup. If you know how I can get my hands on one, please DM me!

Rest in Power, king! youtu.be/vLC2qwFLbqc?...

Lonni Besançon faced online abuse, threats and legal challenges in response to his research integrity sleuthing during the COVID-19 pandemic go.nature.com/4m5DN0X