In 2024 I cycled from the UK to China. I finally finished a vlog, so here it is if you'd like to watch it. It's a glorified holiday album with some complaints and maps 😂 youtu.be/MdgHZPfivVA

Many studies have shown that there is no relationship between MMR vaccine and the development of autism. Here are two of the best. This one followed every single child born in Denmark from 1991 through 1998 (n=537,303). There was no association.

I would plus one that. Lots of Oncotarget papers have problems. I already have over 200 Oncotarget papers flagged. Of the 125 problematic papers that I reported 5 years or more ago, about 100 remain unaddressed. Oncotarget's EiC thinks these images are totally fine. #ImageForensics

It's great that Safeway has these compostable plastic bags to put your produce in, but they cannot even hold three sweet potatoes. I almost got another bag after the first potato easily ripped the bag, but that would defeat the purpose. #Safeway

Dr. El-Deiry just presented at RFK Jr.’s ACIP goat rodeo. I condemned his presentation to the fires of hell, but I was not aware that 75 of his pubs were flagged for data irregularities. This tracks.

Worth noting that El-Deiry has had about 75 of his publications flagged on PubPeer for data irregularities. retractionwatch.com/2025/06/10/w...

I added comments on additional papers on @pubpeer.com and wrote up a LinkedIn article. #EconSky #ResearchIntegrity #Economics #Finance #PaperMills @datacolada.bsky.social @retractionwatch.com @elisabethbik.bsky.social www.linkedin.com/posts/peter-...

For #PeerReviewWeek, I just published my BlueSky posts and notes from the 10th International Peer Review Congress, held 2 weeks ago in Chicago. #PRC10 @peerreviewcongress.bsky.social Part 1 is here: scienceintegritydigest.com/2025/09/16/p...

Register now for a webinar discussion by Enago Academy for #PeerReviewWeek, on 17 September, with * Daniel Ucko @danielucko.bsky.social @apsphysics.bsky.social * Patrick Starke - ImageTwinAI * Elliot Lumb @research-signals.bsky.social * Mary Miskin - EnagoAcademy * and me enago.com/our-events/a...

U.S. Measles Tracker - Tracking Measles Cases in the U.S publichealth.jhu.edu/ivac/resourc... Johns Hopkins does it again! Great mapping and surveillance site like they did with COVID-19 in the early days of the pandemic! @johnshopkinssph.bsky.social

I recently wrote my first comments on @pubpeer.com Two papers—different assets & sample periods—appear to use the same figure. How did one plot end up representing different variables? #EconSky #OpenScience @elisabethbik.bsky.social @datacolada.bsky.social

The Peer Review Congress celebrates the life of Drummond Rennie. His intellect and vision created the Congress and the field of meta-research, and sustained both for over 40 year. He was a champion of inclusion, a consummate teacher, and a wonderful friend who enriched us all. Godspeed Drummond.

Drummond Rennie (1936-2025), in his own words Rennie, who died on September 12, was a towering figure in scientific publishing, known for promoting improved standards in medical journals, and for organizing the first Peer Review Congress, held in 1989, and every four years since.

⏳ 1 month to go! Submit your #WCRI2026 abstracts by Oct 15, 2025. 📅 May 3–6, 2026 | Vancouver 🗓️ Preliminary schedule, commissions, hosting & sponsorship details live now. #ResearchIntegrity

Is there anyone here at one of the universities in Wellington, NZ, who would want to host me to give a talk around November 10th?

#TableForensics What do you think about this table? Published in @cureusmedical.bsky.social

AI can now generate fake microscopy images that are nearly impossible to detect. A serious threat to scientific integrity—and we’re not prepared for it. Commentary in @natnano.nature.com #nanotechnology

International #ResearchIntegrity conference 16-18 November 2025 Come to hear @elisabethbik.bsky.social Ivan Oransky @jamesheathers.bsky.social @retractionwatch.com Lisa Bero @liammannix.bsky.social @jdwilko.bsky.social @jacksonwryan.com +many others, stay for Sydney in late Spring @sydney.edu.au 🧪

please #NMR #RNA community, carefullly review papers! These are 2 blatantly manipulated papers that should have never gone through the peer-review system. Same for editors. If not us, who will stop this?? big thanks @elisabethbik.bsky.social 😍 without you we wouldn't have scienc left!

In which @acm.org acknowledges blatant plagiarism and... Decides not to do anything unless someone copies that information into the right form. pubpeer.com/publications...

This paper, published in Scientific Reports, has it all: Apparent duplications of molecular weight markers, protein bands, graphs, and reuse of images from the author's previous lab. #ImageForensics www.nature.com/articles/s41... Take a look here: pubpeer.com/publications...

The "transcriptomic chaos" preprint has been withdrawn by @mdpiopenaccess.bsky.social! See here for more info: reeserichardson.blog/2025/07/28/n...

This Friday, September 12, COSIG maintainer @reeserichardson.bsky.social will be participating in a panel discussion (16:00 CEST, 10:00 AM EDT) as part of the all-day event "Making Sense of Open Science" hosted by the Czech Academy of Sciences. Watch online! www.projekt-amulet.cz/index.php/en...

Preprint claiming link between COVID-19 mRNA vaccines and 'transcriptomic dysregulation'/cancer (based on just 10 people who got cancer in the year after vaccination) has been withdrawn. HT: @reeserichardson.bsky.social preprints.org/manuscript/2... See: scienceintegritydigest.com/2025/07/25/p...

I will be in the Netherlands mid-October, and participating in this upcoming colloquium, 14 October, Radboud University (NL), organized by @willemhalffman.bsky.social, with @stanvanpelt.bsky.social, Maud Bernisson, and myself. linkedin.com/posts/willem... halffman.org/rrosa/proble... See you there?

Respected radiology journal warns of predatory 'imitators' claiming to be the publication healthimaging.com/topics/healt... @elisabethbik.bsky.social

Register now for a webinar discussion by Enago Academy for #PeerReviewWeek, on 17 September, with * Daniel Ucko @danielucko.bsky.social @apsphysics.bsky.social * Patrick Starke - ImageTwinAI * Elliot Lumb @research-signals.bsky.social * Mary Miskin - EnagoAcademy * and me enago.com/our-events/a...

📣 Colloquium: Problematic Science (14 October) Three short lectures on problematic developments in research, with Elisabeth Bik, Stan van Pelt and Maud Bernisson. #researchintegrity @elisabethbik.bsky.social @stanvanpelt.bsky.social @willemhalffman.bsky.social halffman.org/rrosa/proble...

Whoa! From 1998. Still incubated with 35S, hahaha! I remember those days. Mostly analog (bringing your blot to the photographer) photography, but Photoshop was starting to be used in some labs. Can you see the unexpected duplications? #ImageForensics

Celebrating our first date, this day 35 years ago ❤️

Academic authors, here's a peek into the black box of journal publishing from an journal editor if you can bear it:

No Saturday spend sleuthing is complete without some cute but fake microscopy images: Majd et al. 2025 (DOI: 10.1007/s10971-025-06864-9) pubpeer.com/publications... (I got bored marking the repetitive sections. There is a lot more...

My favorite part of this story on excellent work by @abalkina.bsky.social and Svetlana Kleiner is when @miryamnaddaf.bsky.social asks the paper mill if they are a paper mill and they respond "it's a secret 😋🙈"

Fam, Dr. Houry is on BlueSky. She was the Chief Medical Officer at the CDC before she and several others very publicly resigned in response to the clear and present danger posed by RFK Jr. I highly, HIGHLY recommend that you follow this extraordinary woman and leader. @drdebhoury.bsky.social

It is absolutely wild that the person in charge of health in America has be roundly condemned and labeled as dangerous by: - Former CDC directors - Former Surgeons General - Multiple medical professional societies - Health professionals across multiple platforms And still holds his position.

I just spent a week in Chicago and it was safe, clean, and welcoming. Thank you for standing up to the madness.

😱 “A researcher recalled wondering about the level of 6 LIN tanks used to maintain samples “going back to the 80s” and checked on them to find that “all of them were bone dry. Then they checked with their business office and learned that “our lab hadn’t purchased any liquid nitrogen since 2016.”

You can see the same cluster shape just copy pasted multiple times lmao

When I have to randomly put a bunch of dots on a map, I too copy paste clusters and rotate them around to make it look like they are actually different

An investigation has identified more than 1,500 research articles produced by a network of Ukrainian companies that could be one of Europe’s largest paper mills go.nature.com/3VxA1SD

That’s a wrap on the 10th Peer Review Congress! Thanks to all for attending & following - we will repost in the following days & weeks to keep it all alive. Thanks to contributors and superfans @lexbouter.bsky.social @elisabethbik.bsky.social @abalkina.bsky.social and others for the amplification!

We start our last session of this three-day congress, "AI for Detecting Problems and Assessing Quality in Peer Review", with four talks. First: 'Leveraging Large Language Models for Detecting Citation Quotation Errors in Medical Literature' by M. Janina Sarol #PRC10

A Cuban article on Carlo Croce @OhioState . It doesn't get all the facts correct, but it does include an image of @smutclyde.bsky.social @thatsregrettab1.bsky.social @forbetterscience.bsky.social @elisabethbik.bsky.social www.juventudtecnica.cu/articulos/fr...

KGL's Melecia Miller presenting her poster co-authored with researchers from Patient-Centered Outcomes Research Institute (PCORI) at #PRC10. Poster sessions reconvene Friday at 2:30, don't miss it! #PeerReviewCongress.

After the lunch break, the next session will be 'Open Science and Data Sharing' The first of three talks will be by Vincent Yuan, with 'Researcher Adherence to Journal Data Sharing Policies: A Meta-Research Study' VY: Science runs on trust - but we need evidence. #PRC10

After the coffee break, we continue with the session 'Open Science, Availability of Protocols, and Registration', with 5 talks. First talk: Lukas Hughes-Noehrer with 'Perceived Risks and Barriers to Open Research Practices in UK Higher Education' #PRC10

Our next session is: 'Use of AI to Assess Quality and Reporting', in which we will have 4 talks. First, 'Natural Language Processing to Assess the Role of Preprints in COVID-19 Policy Guidance' by Nicholas Evans Preprints formed the basis of policy decisions during the COVID-19 pandemic. #PRC10

Good morning from Chicago! We will start Day 3 (last day) of the 10th International Congress on Peer Review and Scientific Publication. @peerreviewcongress.bsky.social peerreviewcongress.org/peer-review-... #PRC10 <--- This hashtag will give you all the posts!

Another elaborate correction by Eliezer Masliah et al admitting image anomalies ID’d originally by @mumumouse2.bsky.social prior to my @science.org investigation of Masliah: errors in images, but not to worry, they were only “for illustration purposes.” academic.oup.com/brain/articl...

If I’m understanding right, Aaron Clauset at Peer Review Congress showing that the strongest correlate of peer review outcomes at Science and Science Advances is the prestige of authors’ institutions. Also pretty big association with author geography, not much with author gender. #PRC10