A 2024 study found that ants best humans at tests of collective intelligence. Learn more: https://scim.ag/42nMvQJ #ScienceMagArchives

Tis the season when we repeat "peace on earth" -- even as a massacre has been unfolding in El Fasher, Sudan, apparently claiming tens of thousands of lives. It may have slaughtered as many people in seven weeks as the Gaza war did in two years. www.nytimes.com/2025/12/24/o...

JFK’s Assassination and “Doing Your Own Research” Revelations about secret government programs after Kennedy’s assassination increased the power of conspiracy theories and the fervor of those who set out to expose them. daily.jstor.org/jfks...

Today the Swiss announced they don't have an agreement with Springer Nature -- swissuniversity tried to secure a deal and failed in the face of the extreme rise in publishing fees. When the game is rigged, it's better to stop playing. 🧵 to understand the drain of scientific publishing👇

Dana-Farber Cancer Institute Agrees to Pay $15 Million to Settle Fraud Allegations Related to Scientific Research Grants. The relator [Sholto David] will receive $2,625,000 under today’s settlement. www.justice.gov/usao-ma/pr/d...

Agenda 2063 is anchored in the aspiration to craft “The Africa We Want,” a peaceful, prosperous, integrated, people-driven, and globally influential continent. Significant strides have been made in translating vision into practice, even while significant work remains. africacenter.org/spo...

Thrilled to be part of the @uoftmedicine.bsky.social Magazine spotlight on scientific integrity, especially in AI research, emphasizing the critical importance of reproducibility, data quality, and validation, not just performance metrics. uoftmedmagazine.utoronto.ca/2026-winter/

“Today’s most serious national-security vulnerabilities involving AI stem not from too much oversight, but from the absence of it,” former Defense Secretary Chuck Hagel argues.

Scientific evidence shows, once again, there is no causal link between vaccines and autism. Vaccines cause adults. - @drtedros.who.int

So it is the same story like with the „hygiene hypothesis“ - fragmented and basically collapsed

Influential study on glyphosate safety retracted 25 years after publication View Article | Join the HN Conversation Summary of HN discussion 🧵👇 #hacker-news

"The challenges of communicating mathematical ideas to the general public are well-known. But what may be surprising to people outside the field is how little mathematicians themselves understand each other," writes Emily Riehl in a new #ScienceExpertVoices article. https://scim.ag/3K5yukX

In the devastated city of El Fasher, satellites have spotted a network of newly dug incineration and burial pits thought to be for the disposal of large numbers of bodies. 150,000 residents remain unaccounted for since the city fell to the RSF.

„Lügen erscheinen dem Verstand häufig viel einleuchtender und anziehender als die Wahrheit, weil der Lügner den großen Vorteil hat, im Voraus zu wissen, was das Publikum zu hören wünscht." Hannah Arendt

UKRI exploring use of AI in grant review - this will prompt debate but interested to know if people think it’d encourage novelty or the opposite? www.chemistryworld.com/news/ukri-op...

🔴230,000 Deaths and the ‘Calculated Silence’ of the Medical Establishment About the COVID Inquiry The Covid Inquiry Report is a devastating critique of the medical establishment which led the UK to the worst public health disaster in a century, argues Anthony Costello

Health news and science news rarely make the front pages, and meanwhile an enormous amount is happening quietly, almost in the shadows.

I don't need all these accounts and messages too tonsky.me/blog/needy-p...

Oepsie. ‘Likely the largest data leak of all time’ www.heise.de/en/news/3-5-...

There is a (not so) revolutionary proposal how to restore scientific integrity pubpeer.com/publications... which could turn a bad case into something good

Summers conferred with Epstein frequently about how to extract sexual favors from a Harvard econ grad (AB '04, PhD '09) The grad is from China Epstein and Summers referred to her by the codename "Peril" Racism and sexual exploitation in one efficient package bit.ly/3LHpin8

There is a (not so) revolutionary proposal how to restore scientific integrity pubpeer.com/publications... which could turn a bad case into something good

“The authors have informed the journal that an auditable replacement dataset has been prepared and will be made available to The BMJ. The BMJ will update this notice and make a decision about what post-publication change to the content is needed.” I am not enjoying the implications of this.

Tech companies have long promised to deliver a golden age of human connection—but with AI companions, what’s actually unfolding is a digital age “more actively anti-social than the last,” @damonberes.com argues:

Excellent summary with serious conclusions - forget diets and Wegovy but invest in prevention: better food for children in industrialized countries & creating neighborhoods where walking and cycling are prioritized over cars @kinderdok.bsky.social @adfc.de

some unknown facts about COPE and scientific integrity drpeterwilmshurst.wordpress.com/2022/11/15/h...

I have a good A3 candidate from the @nejm.org pubpeer.com/publications...

Dismantling the CDC

𝗖𝗮𝗻 𝗰𝗲𝗹𝗹𝘀 𝗲𝘃𝗲𝗿 𝘁𝗿𝘂𝗹𝘆 𝗿𝗲𝗰𝗼𝘃𝗲𝗿 𝗳𝗿𝗼𝗺 𝗗𝗡𝗔 𝗱𝗮𝗺𝗮𝗴𝗲?Excited to share our new study “Repair of DNA double-strand breaks leaves heritable impairment to genome function”, revealing DNA repair’s hidden cost, out now @science.org tinyurl.com/5n6zw3ye. Led by @sbantele.bsky.social and Jiri Lukas.🧵👇1/n

You are allowed to photoshop cells, use fake bands, show wrong SEMs - and can "correct" it pubpeer.com/publications...

Funding cuts to the world’s largest malaria programme could cause nearly 1 million additional deaths by 2030, most among children under five, warns the Global Fund. Experts say #malaria now poses a greater threat than HIV or TB. 🟠 https://f.mtr.cool/keskxrctcr #GlobalHealth #EndMalaria

A new study led by Carlos Chaccour and Matthew Rudd analyses more than 730,000 letters to scientific journals, and raises concerns about the growing use of #AI tools in academic publishing. Read in @science.org#AI 🟠 https://f.mtr.cool/ukszxtdgri #ScienceIntegrity #ResearchEthics #AIinScience

now she is running a start up - shameless called Manhattan Genomics www.wired.com/story/startu...

In a new meta-analysis I show that the lower prevalence of allergic diseases at Bavarian farms depends on the sampling strategy. Farm versus non-farm introduced a stratification collider bias. Sorry to say, no protection at all, although a beautiful landscape www.researchsquare.com/article/rs-7...

Integrity arguments used as a weapon against integrity

When Reviewer Scarcity Becomes a Reason for Rejection, Scientific Integrity Is at Risk: "If journals reject papers due to review shortages, the peer review process itself becomes compromised." Read more via The Scientst: www.the-scientist.com/when-reviewe... #PeerReview #Publishing #ScienceSky

Evidence from 14 research funding programmes confirms that early winners tend to keep winning (Matthew effect). But the idea that an early setback makes you stronger later doesn’t replicate widely. buff.ly/UEtcRd4

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...

Is science getting too competitive? Grant applications are skyrocketing and funding rates are decreasing. Yet the article in Nature fails to mention the potential role that AI/LLMs in driving up grant applications. It's becoming a lottery. www.nature.com/articles/d41...).

interesting but too many armchair arguments

#science Multiple reports and scientific analyses have documented Trump's anti-science rhetoric and policies, particularly in 2025. Critics have pointed to actions that involve undermining scientific integrity, promoting misinformation, and cutting funding for key research.

I had a wild dream tonight: someone actually sued the publisher of a fake scientific paper for “aiding and abetting fraud” - because they’d ignored her for over six months. And guess what? She won.

Could not have written this paper onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/abs/10.1... without NHANES www.statnews.com/2025/10/14/c...

Big shakeup for NZ’s research funding – Expert Reaction

Next time an institution tells you how seriously it takes research misconduct, ask them if it's *this* seriously. www.bmj.com/content/297/...