Sorry folks, but unfortunately the super cool study you are promoting here has some sketchy data. 2 of the images were re-colored to represent two distinct experimental conditions. Salt will remain an issue for agriculture & cyanobacteria won't change that... pubpeer.com/publications...

Another lovely evening on X. Please report.

It is raining, but still nice to work in the yard. #SucculentSunday #Succulents

Neuroscience, a @ibroorg.bsky.social journal, thought it was totally acceptable to rearrange the loading control bands a bit. Correction: "The authors regret [...] the β-actin lanes were inadvertently misassembled, resulting in an incorrect lane order." #ThisImageIsFine pubpeer.com/publications...

Closing out my year with a journal editor shocker 🧵 Checking new manuscripts today I reviewed a paper attributing 2 papers to me I did not write. A daft thing for an author to do of course. But intrigued I web searched up one of the titles and that's when it got real weird...

So. What are best strategies for us as researchers? How do we divert this sewage, what infrastructural elements help drain it out of the system? What are best—and by that I mean efficient, least effortful—practices whenever we encounter this kind of crap? We need public education in info hygiene.

Retraction @plosone.org 👏 of a paper by researchers from the School of Dentistry at UCLA. Senior researcher gave a long explanation @pubpeer.com that did not seem to make much sense. Journal did not buy it, thankfully. pubpeer.com/publications... #ImageForensics #ThisImageIsFine

If you’re a #microbiologist, @elisabethbik.bsky.social needs no introduction. Her relentless work uncovering image manipulation across publications and outspoken advocacy for stronger research scrutiny is popular. Latest by @curlyneuron.bsky.social www.theexperimentalist.org/sci-comm/the...

An interesting PubPeer discussion. Senior author and Professor at @uqam.ca claims these bands and cells are not similar at all! #ThisImageIsFine #ImageForensics Thanks @kaveh1000.bsky.social for providing the animations. pubpeer.com/publications...

Schneider Shorts 19.12.2025 – Merry Christmas! forbetterscience.com/2025/12/19/s...

Happy Advent! !!!🎄✨ Day 17. Ready for a new puzzle? Another paper-mill paper. Do you see inconsistencies? papermills.tilda.ws/2025advent17 papermills.tilda.ws/advent2025

Day 18: Graham Kendall 2025 Advent Calendar #GXKAdvent2025 If Santa Used H-Index, Who Would Make His List? 🧵

Should Australia establish an independent body to investigate scientific misconduct? We asked 5 experts theconversation.com/should-austr...

Retraction @plosone.org: miR-150-5p inhibits hepatoma cell migration and invasion by targeting MMP14 (title follows papermill-structure) pubpeer.com/publications... journals.plos.org/plosone/arti...

#ImageForensics #ThisImageIsFine #ResearchIntegrity Spot the overlapping panels! Three time points, four treatments, but are all 12 panels from different animals? You tell me!

🐬✖️ What connects the X-Files and dolphins? Apparently, #ScientificIntegrity! 🤔 Read all about it here: www.theexperimentalist.org. Special thanks to Dr. @elisabethbik.bsky.social for this interview❣️ #ImageForensics

The Medical University of South Carolina Research Integrity Officer and Committee concluded that "human error in regards to organization and record keeping of original images was the cause for this mistake." How the heck can this be caused by a mistake? #ThisImageIsFine #ImageForensics

The U.S. Department of Justice has reached a $15 million NIH grant fraud settlement with Dana-Farber Cancer Center. This resolves a False Claims Act qui tam complaint that I filed on behalf of @sholtodavid.bsky.social in April 2024, with Gregg Shapiro as my co-counsel.

An ugly "stealth correction" at @tandfresearch.bsky.social's Hum Vaccin Immunother of a paper from authors at the Uniformed Services University of the Health Sciences, Bethesda. They just removed the overlapping image panels 😱 #ThisImageIsFine #ImageForensics pubpeer.com/publications...

Can you spot some unexpected duplications? A through D are four differently treated rats. #ImageForensics #ResearchIntegrity #ThisImageIsFine #ScientificPublishing

#ImageForensics #ResearchIntegrity #ThisImageIsFine #ScientificPublishing Can you spot something unexpected? Hint: find the overlapping panels

Here's one of the corrected images, as originally annotated on @pubpeer.com by @elisabethbik.bsky.social. The published image (from 2011) contains many duplications, some with rotation, flipping, stretching & duplications between conditions. Is a correction really an appropriate way to remedy this?

When should a paper be corrected? Last December, @elisabethbik.bsky.social and other sleuths began flagging papers by a prominent bioengineer, Ali Khademhosseini. They found over 80 with image issues. Khademhosseini and his colleagues have issued over 40 corrections, but avoided retractions.

#ThisImageIsFine #ImageForensics Neurobiology of Aging issues a correction, completely ignoring the serious concerns in Figure 5. @nba-eic.bsky.social, can you please take a better look at the issues pointed out in this PubPeer thread? This should be a retraction. pubpeer.com/publications...

Three retractions for researchers at @uqam.ca pubpeer.com/publications... and pubpeer.com/publications... and pubpeer.com/publications... The authors stated in all cases that "the images [....] have not been altered in any form" 😱 HT: @smutclyde.bsky.social

Can you spot at least three unexpected overlapping panels? (There are more!) #ImageForensics #ResearchIntegrity #Academia

Greatly enjoyed @lonnibesancon.bsky.social's talk at @citystgeorges.bsky.social today on how he became a research-integrity sleuth doing difficult, massively important work with @elisabethbik.bsky.social and others to expose dodgy research. Advice for sleuths: "Be critical without being accusing."

Male scientists are more disagreeable🤷‍♀️ #econsky #academicsky marketdesigner.blogspot.com/2025/12/disa...

The covid-19 pandemic opened the door to once-controversial human challenge trials. Now, volunteers are willingly catching norovirus and influenza to reveal how our immune systems really fight back

Happy Advent! !!!🎄✨ Day 8. Today's puzzle is about figure inconsistencies! Do you spot the problem? papermills.tilda.ws/advent2025

🎶 It's tiimmmeee 🎶 Today start Whamageddon! The rules are simple, try to make it til Christmas without hearing Wham's original Last Christmas. Covers are safe but once you hear George, you're out. Last year I made it 3 days 😅 Good luck, we're all counting on you 😉✈️

Are you sure this material is not [accidentally] altered?

We were promised an amazing view from the train over the Lake of Geneva 😂

Artificial intelligence research has a slop problem, academics say: ‘It’s a mess’ AI research in question as author claims to have written over 100 papers on AI that one expert calls a ‘disaster’ @aishadown.bsky.social for @theguardian.com www.theguardian.com/technology/2...

Thank you so much @unibe.ch, Prof. Dr. Katie Peichel, and Dean Prof. Dr. Jean-Louis Reymond for awarding me an honorary doctorate for my work on #ResearchIntegrity. Congrats to the other recipients as well. What a wonderful ceremony! www.unibe.ch/university/u...

This afternoon, I will give a public lecture about #ResearchIntegrity and #ImageForensics, at the University of Bern, CH, where I will receive an honorary doctorate from the Faculty of Science tomorrow. Thank you for your support ❤️

The Scientifc Reports autism cycle article has been retracted: doi.org/10.1038/s415...

One step in the right direction from @cnrs.fr . Here’s hoping others will follow and we can get some more space for actual science. 🧪 www.cnrs.fr/en/update/cn...

This is also increasingly being used by fraudsters to hide the ball. The thing that is making you angry may not be the actual problem.

It was great to have you with us, @elisabethbik.bsky.social 🙏🏽

Was it me?

“In this case we are up against the seductive allure of claims we’d like to believe are true but aren’t – that tobacco is really not that harmful, at least not by itself, or that we can prevent and cure cancer with some kind of ‘mind work,’ and so on."

Microflora Danica: What can you learn from collecting and sequencing 10,000+ samples from a single country? Check out our new paper in @nature.com to find out. Incredible work led by Caitlin Singleton, Thomas B. N. Jensen, and Mads Albertsen from @aau.dk. 🦠🧫🧬 www.nature.com/articles/s41...

A short preprint describing our adoption of more consistent and precise use of terminology related to reproducibility, robustness, replicability, repeatability, and credibility. osf.io/preprints/me...

Claude the Albino Alligator Passes Away at Age 30 Claude was an iconic California Academy of Sciences resident who many visitors formed deep connections with during his 17 year tenure @calacademy.bsky.social www.calacademy.org/press/releas...

By retracting the article, the journal is already indicating that they consider the explanations impausible and/or insufficient, and that the journal consider the concerns unresolved, otherwise the article would not be retracted in the first place.

Good morning from Basel, where I will give a talk, a workshop, and meet with students, staff, and faculty in the BSS building of the ETH Zürich (in Basel!). #ResearchIntegrity #ImageForensics #Science

“If I’m not getting attacked…I would have felt I failed.” @charlespiller.bsky.social at #WCSJ25 on how his work exposing fraud in Alzheimer’s research was attacked and called misinformation and how he responded. “Ignoring scientific misconduct invites public distrust.”