This book coming out in early 2026 looks interesting.

Oh dear, @bmj.com will now call me a racist... The last author Negar Azarpira: pubpeer.com/search?q=%22... Retracted for fraud: pubpeer.com/publications... All flagged by @elisabethbik.bsky.social

Nagoya City University should hire an actual expert. This is absolutely image manipulation.

My current office at Lake Taupō, New Zealand.

Microbiologist Siouxsie Wiles @siouxsiew.bsky.social has launched a fundraising campaign to cover some of the legal fees accrued in taking a case against her employer, the University of Auckland. She explains why. thespinoff.co.nz/society/01-1...

For others troubled by the exoneration of Hoau-Yan Wang, there's an analysis of the difficulty prosecuting scientific fraudsters at 13:00 in this @bjkspod.bsky.social podcast. I didn't anticipate the role of institutional research integrity offices in manufacturing "reasonable doubts."

"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.

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...

The problems were so pervasive they abandoned their review and instead began investigating how widespread image duplication was in their field. Widespread image reuse, manipulation uncovered in animal studies of brain injury

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...

Let me be very clear. It is not enough that RFK Jr. was forced to admit today that no causal relationship between Tylenol and autism has been shown. We know that while disinformation spreads like wildfire on social media, corrections most often die on the vine.

Congrats, FBS!

@elisabethbik.bsky.social Story notes claim that Dr. Patterson has treated 12k patients. Yet this doc, whose company owns the patent for use of maraviroc to treat long covid, has to date managed to publish a chart review of 18 patients. His in-house unregistered IRB prompted queries:

In today's episode of @npr.org's @marketplace.org, I talk to @kairyssdal.bsky.social about science fraud and paper mills (segment starts at 25 min). www.marketplace.org/episode/2025...

Paper by former top NIH official and neuropathologist Eliezer Masliah received an Expression of Concern last week by Neuron. While it benefits other scientists that the paper is now flagged, two things could have been done much better. / www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...

Happy #Caturday from Buster!

this is relevant jamanetwork.com/journals/jam...

Hey, Sir Gilles was always open about having contributed nothing except his name! forbetterscience.com/2021/09/07/n...

Another example of institutional investigations conducted in secret, without a public report, for 'privacy reasons'. Investigation found UBC researcher fabricated data, gave spinal patients 'false hope.' The public was not told. www.cbc.ca/news/canada/...

NEW: NBC News confirms that the Jacqueline Kennedy Garden, on the east side of the White House, has been destroyed as part of the demolition of the East Wing. (📸 Getty Images)

Retraction #8 for Australian neuroscientist Gilles Guillemin, published in and retracted by Oncotarget. 'The corresponding author Dr. Guillemin agreed with the retraction, but the rest of the authors either did not respond directly or could not be reached.' pubpeer.com/publications...

Retraction @plosone.org for concerns I partially reported in 2015 with additional problems I later posted on @pubpeer.com: pubpeer.com/publications...

Competition @kaggle.com: Scientific Image Forgery Detection Who can develop the best model to detect copy/move forgeries in biomedical images? #ImageForensics www.kaggle.com/competitions...

Happy to share a new peer-reviewed study on PubMed. Blessing eggs creates bigger and tastier chickens (p < 0.001). pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/41035978/

Here's the details for Elisabeth Bik's talk in Auckland www.eventbrite.co.nz/e/dr-elisabe... [sign-up required, but it's free] Monday Nov 3 on the Grafton campus (505-007). A workshop follows the talk

Wiley today retracted this nonsense: Yang et al. 2019. Almost all issues were already flagged in 2020 by @smutclyde.bsky.social. I send a complaint about the paper in June 2025 and that seems to have woken up the journal at last... pubpeer.com/publications...

The editors of ACS Omega cheerfully accepted the authors' excuses and replacement image for this weird shit. pubs.acs.org/doi/10.1021/... H/t Leonid @forbetterscience.bsky.social

Looking forward to travel to New Zealand and Sydney next week. I will give talks in Auckland (November 3rd, sponsored by @proofigai.bsky.social ), Wellington (November 10th), and at the International Research Integrity Conference in Sydney on November 17th. researchintegrityconf.com

When Everything Is Fake, What’s the Point of Social Media? time.com/7326718/sora... @elisabethbik.bsky.social

Free data resources in science are having the shit mined out of them to produce X,000's of bullshit papers. What should we do? (Warning: I sat on this draft for too long, and publishers are already doing some of it. That's what I get for engaging with the news.) open.substack.com/pub/jamescla...

Hey @tandfresearch.bsky.social, - you should not allow authors to address photoshopped tumors by just leaving out the photoshopped tumors. This paper was 1 year old at the time of correction. Where are the originals? Horrible editorial decision. #ImageForensics

Very bizarre. An investigation by @cuny.edu's expert panel found "evidence highly suggestive of deliberate scientific misconduct" - but the university concluded that Dr. Wang did not do misconduct. #ScienceIntegrity @charlespiller.bsky.social reports at Science.

Just had a manuscript submission (to a Springer Nature journal) bounced because I had not provided a 'State' in the address of my affiliation. 1) We don't have states in the UK 2) Why is this kind of utterly trivial time-wasting bullshit required before peer-review?

kids teacher just sent this home as part of an assignment he's doing and i want to smash every computer at the school

A key element of an article I wrote about OMICS last year (the only proven predatory publisher) was to identify (and drawing on a paper by Downes: doi.org/10.1002/leap...) 19 OMICS 'agents'. That is other publishers that are affiliated with OMICS. 🧵

Indiana University has fired the staff director of the student newspaper, after disputes in which university leadership tried to pressure him to prevent students from publishing news.

What a journey this book copy made! It was great meeting @elisabethbik.bsky.social in persoon again, and to hear her talk about science integrity issues at @isis-radboud.bsky.social this afternoon.

#ImageForensics, XRD edition. Do you spot something of concern? #ResearchIntegrity

Problemen rond wetenschappelijke integriteit halen zelden de media. Dinsdag vertel ik waarom dat problematisch is voor het publieke vertrouwen in de wetenschap en de media, bij een colloquium van @isis-radboud.bsky.social, @willemhalffman.bsky.social. Ook @elisabethbik.bsky.social is van de partij!

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?

“The administration did not like that CDC data did not support their narrative, so they got rid of them. They didn’t like that CDC policy groups would not rubber stamp their unscientific ideas, so they got rid of them”. The damage to the CDC is “beyond repair”.

Standing in solidarity with colleagues at the CDC who were fired as part of yet another RIF wave. We are all less safe without their expertise and dedication.

Lost Science is a new NYT series of accounts from scientists who have lost their jobs or funding. You can send your story to the Times here www.nytimes.com/2025/10/08/c...

Trump Administration Lays Off Dozens of C.D.C. Officials “Disease detectives,” high-ranking scientists, the entire Washington office and the staff of a weekly public health journal were among those who learned late Friday that they would lose their jobs. #GiftLink www.nytimes.com/2025/10/11/u...

Dr. Oransky warned of consequences for self-governance failure: "If you don't self-police, if you don't correct the record, if you don't sanction people who commit fraud, [...] someone else will come in and do that. And it very well could be a government that you don't like."

NIH Leadership Is Failing Early Career Researchers ‘These bottlenecks have gotten so bad that some labs have had to ration gloves and paper towels.’ Ian Morgan for TheScientist www.the-scientist.com/nih-leadersh...

I don’t know who needs to hear this but the CDC is being eviscerated right now. America is not going to have any kind of outbreak response capacity after tonight. Americans’ health data is no longer secure. Say goodbye to federal public health in any capacity. It’s a disaster. We won’t recover.

Schneider Shorts 10.10.2025 – A forum for finding irrelevant ‘issues’ that pillory young scientists forbetterscience.com/2025/10/10/s...

"Make the proof" colloquial phrase that means fabrication of data