You already know this by reading this post academic.oup.com/icb/article-...

why that @thelancet.com ? drpeterwilmshurst.wordpress.com/2026/02/09/t...

I have a new paper. We look at ~all stats articles in political science post-2010 & show that 94% have abstracts that claim to reject a null. Only 2% present only null results. This is hard to explain unless the research process has a filter that only lets rejections through.

cuplyr version 0.1.0 is now out! A GPU-accelerated dplyr backend for R, powered by RAPIDS cuDF. Write familiar tidyverse code, execute on GPU. Lazy eval with AST optimization. In my benchmarks 60x faster than dplyr on 50M rows. github.com/bbtheo/cuplyr #rstats #cuda #DataScience

In January 2017, the African Union noticed that its servers were unusually busy for two hours overnight, when the offices were empty. An investigation would uncover that the AU's confidential data was being siphoned off every night and sent more than 8,000km away, to Shanghai. 1/4

Von wegen freies Wissen: Unis zahlen tausende Euro pro Artikel, um Forschungsergebnisse – oft mit Steuergeldern finanziert – frei zugänglich zu machen. Doch die Transparenz hat einen hohen Preis: Private Verlage machen damit ein undurchsichtiges Milliardengeschäft. fragdenstaat.de/artikel/exkl...

Maybe add transparency / auditability as distinct from veracity.

Great piece in the NYtimes with quotes from @stairwaytokevin.bsky.social and @sashagusevposts.bsky.social. The misuse of NIH datasets with sensitive personal information for racist aims should be concerning for anybody interested in scientific integrity. www.nytimes.com/2026/01/24/u...

“Please get the truth out about our son. He was a good man.”

And just like that, the US has left the World Health Organization. Link goes to the official announcement—lies pretending to justify a decision that will kill countless numbers—from people too stupid to even include a proper twittercard. www.hhs.gov/press-room/u...

BMJ not yet prepared to retract this trial bit.ly/4jBjyIA bit.ly/4aLeQ8L Despite innumerable integrity issues, including repeating patterns of outcome data, see comment #16: bit.ly/3NxsSks

A Controlled Descent into Pre-Enlightenment Healthcare

Science journals retract 500 papers a month. This is why it matters

Scientists are often encouraged to remain “neutral” on social and political issues as if the conditions under which science is conducted, funded, and applied are somehow separate from politics and the state of the world around us. They aren’t.

There's the way Trump is gleefully happy to accept someone else's Nobel prize, and then there's the way Richard Feynman viewed Nobel prizes.

We have the CDC-funded Hepatitis Vaccine trial in Guinea-Bissau protocol. It’s worse than you thought. Check it out, first in Inside Medicine… with @pauloffit.bsky.social David Boulware and others. insidemedicine.substack.com/p/scoop-the-...

this seems to be the next big thing although it will become even harder to verify the information chain

Billionaire hedge fund manager Bill Ackman has revealed that he’s helping Francesca Gino, the honesty researcher who was fired from Harvard for research misconduct. “We will provide whatever resources she needs to clear her name,” he wrote. New from me: www.chronicle.com/article/an-i...

Let‘s not forget many others from Leslie Florence to Widukind Lenz who was most instrumental in ending sales of Contergan web.archive.org/web/20190731...

this seems to explain the blabla I received on my last submission

We are approaching the deadline of the image forgery competition www.kaggle.com/competitions... with a clear leader. Can they keep the pace with new data?

Ten African Security Trends from 2025 in Graphics #6 The DRC crisis is complex, with contentious issues surrounding regional rivalries, natural resources, nationality and citizenship, government legitimacy, use of mercenaries, and predatory behavior by the armed forces. africacenter.org/spo...

Put pressure on publishers to follow best practice — external regulation is the answer | www.nature.com/articles/d41...

What about a DNP („do not publish“) database based on Clinical Trials post hoc registration? clinicaltrials.gov/study/NCT073...

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.