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Astonishing that authors openly admit they modified figures to make them look "nicer". youtu.be/QodHksO3n5M pubpeer.com/publications...

It has been a huge pleasure to work with @gigabytejournal.bsky.social and to ensure we maximize the metadata in their publications. Proud of the @crossref.bsky.social prize awarded to GigaByte.

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Some authors are astonishingly laid back regarding manipulation of images. This one takes the biscuit: "A portion of this micrograph has been modified in order to obtain a nicer image..." 🤯 We made an animation to show the modifications: pubpeer.com/publications... Can't get over it!

Open Access people - is there a list/database anywhere that notes when hybrid journals have flipped to Gold? 🟩

Just re-upping this.

River Valley launches ReView 3.0 with Research Integrity checks! www.linkedin.com/feed/update/...

Yet another amazing find by @elisabethbik.bsky.social. And sadly, yet again in Cancer research. :-( youtu.be/KRVU2WPoFAc pubpeer.com/publications...

Thanks to @academic-integrity.bsky.social for spotting the huge number of duplications and manipulations here. It took us a while to create the animation, but worth it! youtu.be/zAGdiXrRkhY pubpeer.com/publications...

Astonishing find by @mumumouse2.bsky.social We extracted the vector images and reduced the line width to get a precise match! youtu.be/Lz829CHDoNk pubpeer.com/publications...

Great podcast with the inimitable Mu Yang.

Where would we be without PhotoShop! youtu.be/wuky1qk5cVk pubpeer.com/publications...

What a crappy world we live in. So many things wrong with this. www.theguardian.com/world/2024/n...

India has just announced One Nation One Subscription, which appears to be a nationwide reads-only Big Deal, though which publishers are involved is not yet clear: pib.gov.in/PressReleseD...

We sometimes wonder why we do not publish images at higher resolution in journals. Perversely, images that *are* higher resolution make it easier to spot duplication, like this one. Thanks to @elisabethbik.bsky.social as ever for spotting this. youtu.be/MrE4ILm6_-g pubpeer.com/publications...

We've just passed 3000 posts on @pubpeer.com Thanks to the amazing sleuths who provided us with so much material. @elisabethbik.bsky.social @mumumouse2.bsky.social @thatsregrettab1.bsky.social @smutclyde.bsky.social @deadneanderthals.bsky.social @sholtodavid.bsky.social and many others (1/2)

Apparent duplication in images youtu.be/foHH3Vmr4OA pubpeer.com/publications...

Trying to work out if this is a message or a massage from the director!! pragnyaspeechcenter.co.in/directors-ma...

Areas of figures "more similar than expected"! youtu.be/_9wGPBjWQwE

Author claimed the curves were not identical. We managed to extract the vector files from the PDF, reduced the line width, then animated the result: youtu.be/_DffmNko2zo pubpeer.com/publications...

Image duplication and manipulation: www.youtube.com/watch?v=fTAT... pubpeer.com/publications...

Figures seem to have been duplicated and modified youtu.be/mu0hEk9QVMM pubpeer.com/publications...

Great talks at the COPE Publication Integrity Week. publicationethics.org/events/publi... A reminder that River Valley's innovative Research Integrity Checker is now in beta testing. Get in touch if you would like access.

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My colleagues and I create animations to support Research Integrity image sleuths. It is both satisfying and depressing. Here there is clear image manipulation, but the author arguing back. This is very common. :-( Thanks to @smutclyde.bsky.social and Maarten van Kampen. pubpeer.com/publications...

Is there an equivalent of bookmarking in Bluesky? So I can come back to a post?

When authors are accused of duplicating images, some start arguing and pointing out small areas they claim to show their innocence. In this case we extracted vector files and reduce the line weight, showing precise match. Love to see authors squirm out of that!! pubpeer.com/publications...

Skin problems caused by PhotoShop pubpeer.com/publications...

Sometimes I wonder whether the animations that my colleagues and I do to support image sleuths is worth all the effort. But then I see results like this one. It would be very hard to see the PhotoShop manipulations without these animations. pubpeer.com/publications...

Author says these blots are not the same. What do you think? pubpeer.com/publications...

So many of these image manipulations being published. In this case "None of the authors agree to this retraction." HT Mu Yang x.com/mumumouse2/s... pubpeer.com/publications...

Fame at last. I am cited by a Stanford Nobel Prize winner, having found they have used questionable practice in their papers. med.stanford.edu/sudhoflab/in...

Great post on PubPeer. Author is accused of using PhotoShop but they protest saying they are not good at PhotoShop so use Paint instead!!! Great defence! pubpeer.com/publications...

Dudes, I agree that your paper is an excremental risk but I was too polite to say so.

I imported 29 friends from Twitter to Bluesky

In my presentation regarding image misconduct, I wondered why we publish images at a low resolution. Why are PDFs typically 2MB and not 50MB? Am I missing something? Thoughts welcome. youtu.be/VcW0PabVJ9U?...

Sholto David reflects on a successful year sleuthing www.youtube.com/watch?v=AxXG... Respect!

Recording of my presentation on "Questionable conduct in images and figures in Scholarly Publishing" bit.ly/Reproducibil...

I have been asked to give a talk entitled "Questionable conduct in images and figures in Scholarly Publishing" to Edinburgh ReproducibiliTea, Coming Friday 8th, 10am UK time. All are welcome to attend. #researchintegrity www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/questionab...

Scientists from Harvard gain ethical approval to aspirate bone marrow from healthy volunteers and cancer patients, then mix up the images during publication. Surely this is an enormous ethical transgression. I would be furious if I volunteered! pubpeer.com/publications...

This is un-fucking-acceptable!

Probably the most interesting example of research misconduct I have ever come across, involving researchers at MSK, Penn Medicine, Columbia University and more...

Join us to hear from Lonni Besancon, who has conducted research focussed on unreliable science or fraudulent data. In response to Lonni's rigorous and scientific approaches, he has faced lawsuits and attacks from senior scientists. asapbio.org/event/novemb...

A screenshot from yesterday's Dimensions webinar with Guillaume Cabanac, with a quiz featuring tortured phrases used in papers. Funny and sad at the same time!

Guillaume Cabanac, creator of Problematic Paper Screener in the Time today, on ChatGPT use in Scientific papers. www.thetimes.co.uk/article/45e3...

You've probably heard of the alleged misconduct of Italian ex health minister www.science.org/content/arti... My friend Elisabeth Bik put some of the papers on PubPeer and we have made animations to make them more accessible. pubpeer.com/search?q=Sch...

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