Stockholm University seeks a PhD student for a 4-year project on female sexual selection in pygmy halfbeaks. Strong interest in evolutionary and behavioral research needed. Apply by Feb 15, 2026: https://su.varbi.com/en/what:job/jobID:893229/ #phd

AI slop is everywhere in scientific publishing, we’re only catching the easy-to-detect stuff (like when you happen to peer review a manuscript with a AI-hallucinated reference of a paper you apparently wrote) www.theatlantic.com/science/2026...

A new book about science misconduct: 'The Misinformation Machine: How Fraud, AI, and Greed are Corrupting Science' by James L. Powell www.amazon.com/Misinformati...

Ever wonder what proportion of high profile social media research is tied to the tech industry? New from me, @cailinmeister.bsky.social, @jevinwest.bsky.social and @carlbergstrom.com. Thread tomorrow. arxiv.org/abs/2601.11507

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

PhD position in fish ecology at the university of Gothenburg @naturvetenskap.bsky.social with fieldwork at Kristineberg marine station @kristinebergcenter.bsky.social Apply here: web103.reachmee.com/ext/I005/103...

(1/X) I have found ~2 problematic articles / day in 2026 so far Elsevier's 'International Journal of Biological Macromolecules'. The journal is an embarrassment. This comes after hundreds of problematic papers reported to them in 2025. Here is a 'worst-of' 2026 (so far):

#SpecialIssues have fueled the growth of some of the largest #OpenAccess publishers. Does a journal that allows a #GuestEditor to both plan a special issue and write many articles in it have a conflict of interest? #scicomm #peerreview @science.org www.science.org/content/arti...

We've got ISSUES. Literally. We scraped >100k special issues & over 1 million articles to bring you a PISS-poor paper. We quantify just how many excess papers are published by guest editors abusing special issues to boost their CVs. How bad is it & what can we do? arxiv.org/abs/2601.07563 A 🧵 1/n

Spiralling global temperatures (1850-2025) The last 3 years really jump out, rather like 2015-6 did when we first produced this graphic back then. Now, 2015-6 looks rather cool... More on the spiral: doi.org/10.1175/BAMS...

I've just updated my preprint on short personal reviews of novels on #ResearchIntegrity , which now covers 35 titles. bit.ly/409E5ff Please attend me to novels which you believe to belong to this list, but are not yet included.

Despite clear evidence of image manipulation, @elsevierconnect.bsky.social's BBRC did not retract the paper. Instead, authors were allowed to submit a new, “clean” set of figures. This response seriously undermines research integrity. #ThisImageIsFine #ImageForensics pubpeer.com/publications...

First MEP report. Medical research often uses non-parametric tests. We looked, and noticed that small-sample rank-based tests (i.e. M-W, Wilcoxon) have significant granularity... like p-values! So, here's GRIM for U values -- GRIM-U. Enjoy. medicalevidenceproject.org/grim-u-obser...

As I browse around, I keep an eye out for (what I think) are surprising facts. This 2021 paper estimated that the USA, China and the UK spend USD 2.5 billion on peer review, based on the contribution made by researchers. 🧵

I have written a blog at ForBetterScience. Scientific Reports appears to be as bad as ever despite promises to change and an "excellent team" forbetterscience.com/2026/01/06/s...

Oncotarget 2025 Year in Review. Feel free to check my counts. 131 total publications in 2025 60 retractions ➡️ 45% were retractions ⬅️

10.5% of all articles I have notified journals about have been addressed to date. Most articles remain untouched, even after waiting for more than a year. I have send concerns on 2500+ articles in total.

Before embracing the plethora of papermill products coming to us in 2026, let's enjoy the retraction of this masterpiece on the last day of 2025:

Academia friendly peer-reviewed journals in EEB: academic.oup.com/jeb/advance-...

AI-hallucinated paper now cited 44 times according to Google scholar! This is not good.

Here at SLU Aqua (Uppsala campus, Sweden), we have an exciting 2 yr postdoc open for an ECR with a background in aquatic ecosystem ecology. The position focuses on investigating how land–sea interactions and climate change affect aquatic food webs. Great lab - apply! 🦑🧪🌎🐠 www.slu.se/en/about-slu...

Journal retracts weed killer study backed by Monsanto, citing ‘serious ethical concerns’ | Science | AAAS www.science.org/content/arti...

A new (and improved) version of the fantastic BES’s reproducible code guide is now live. Seriously amazing resource for those wanting to produce code that enables reproducible research. Featuring some SORTEE members and also code review!! @sortee.bsky.social

It’s great to see our systematic map highted by @envevidence.bsky.social as the most read article of 2025! It was a huge amount of work, so I am glad people are seeing it. We highlighted some major gaps and issues within the field, as well as practical ways to move forward #pollution #ecotoxicology

Stealth Corrections are corrections that are not marked at all, not traceable, unless you compare an old copy of the paper to the current version. See this paper by @deadneanderthals.bsky.social et al. onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1002/...

Grateful for received #funding from @koneensaatio.fi for our project on impact of light pollution on the flux of insects between aquatic and terrestrial habitats. Will be looking for a #postdoc and a #PhD for 4 years – take contact if interested. koneensaatio.fi/apurahat-ja-...

This new paper was a team effort among students in my lab, led by @mitchellshorgan.bsky.social. Please share with your fish tracking colleagues! @oceantracking.bsky.social @glatos-fish.bsky.social link.springer.com/article/10.1...

Here is an excellent article on the issues with STOTEN journal, and with scientific publishing in general: english.elpais.com/science-tech...

Interested in open, reliable & transparent science in ecology & evolution? Become a member of the Society for Open, Reliable, and Transparent Ecology and Evolutionary Biology @sortee.bsky.social! Membership is open to all and it's optional to join at no cost 👉 sortee.org/join/

The Thermal Ecology Alliance is growing rapidly and we are now at 51 countries! Join here: www.thermalecologyalliance.org/participation

🧵1/9 There are 35,000+ fish species, but we have formal social-behaviour classifications for a tiny fraction. Most knowledge lives in the experience of researchers, fishers, divers, aquarists, naturalists, and Indigenous communities, but almost none of it is centralised. So we built ShoalBase.org.

Salmon research and leadership position! (Swedish / Scandinavian language required) www.slu.se/om-slu/jobba...

STOTEN is now dead. It has been completely removed from Web of Science mjl.clarivate.com/search-results

In this new study, we provide new data relevant to the debate about whether oxygen limitation is a universal driver of thermal tolerance in water breathing animals. News story: www.trentu.ca/news/story/2... Paper: journals.plos.org/plosbiology/... Primer: journals.plos.org/plosbiology/...

Still think this was one of the best power moves of all time www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...

Reformation of science publishing: the Stockholm Declaration A call to action for universities, academies, science organizations and funders to unite and join this effort. Bernhard Sabel and Dan Larhammar royalsocietypublishing.org/doi/10.1098/...

Interested in thermal biology? Please join our new and growing grass roots initiative, the Thermal Ecology Alliance, initiated by @patricepottier.bsky.social. 🧪🐟🦑🌡️ Sign up here: www.thermalecologyalliance.org#participation Check who already signed up: www.thermalecologyalliance.org#community

"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.

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

Are you a Norway-based early career researcher who has demonstrated a clear commitment to open science practices? Apply for the 2025 NORRN open science award! ⬇️

The dark truth behind FormatMyPaper.com

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/

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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

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

Another retraction (#10?) for Srikanta Dash at @tulaneu.bsky.social I reported this to the journal and the university in March 2021 - more than four years ago. Despite 10 retractions, he is still a full professor at Tulane. sciencedirect.com/science/arti...

Rivers are heating up faster than the air − that’s a problem for aquatic life and people doi.org/10.64628/AAI... www.pnas.org/doi/10.1073/...

Museums of the future. A digital aquarium tunnel of the Triassic marine life, at the Geological Museum of Guizhou, China.