The idea of the penalty shoot out wouldn't make it through an ethics committee. #researchintegrity #worldcup

New @biorxivpreprint.bsky.social preprint on suspected citation manipulation by #PaperMills in molecular oncology, with Baptiste Scancar, David Causer @institutagro.bsky.social & @aidybarnett.bsky.social @aushsi.bsky.social @sydney.edu.au 🙏 @nhmrc.bsky.social for💰 🧪 www.biorxiv.org/content/10.6...

If you’ll be at the World Conferences on Research Integrity, consider joining our pres, “Friendly Ghosts?”. We’ll discuss authorship dilemmas when contributors decline. Tuesday, 11.15am, Stream G. Me, Jennifer Wright, and Michael Vincent #WCRI2026 #researchintegrity @wcrifoundation.bsky.social

If you know anything about chess, this poster on Etsy is as funny as those fraudulent rat balls. www.etsy.com/au/listing/4... #chess #researchintegrity via u/MinuteRegular716

“Where whining mendeth nothing, wherefore whine?” — Robert Louis Stevenson, The Black Arrow

Recommend this post for those interested in metascience and/or philosophy. medium.com/activated-th... #researchintegrity

I feel like I'm noticing way more Moderator comments on @pubpeer.com . Am I tripping? I don't have an opinion about it yet, but I'm interested by it. Here's an example of a recent Moderator comment that appears in the middle of an author's comment, providing fact-checking. #researchintegrity

COPE strengthens its stance on external influence on editorial decisions, opposing undue political, corporate, or social pressure on scholarly publishing. COPE position: External influence on editorial decisions publicationethics.org/guidance/cop... #EditorialIndependence #PublicationEthics

Apparently I do unboxing videos now. (Forgive me.) We received the 1st prototype of our card game about research supervision. There will be a printable version as part of our new online course, Supervising Postgraduate Researchers. www.trickygoose.training/supervising #academicsky #researchintegrity

Less is more. This aphorism is constantly on my mind. The scientific publication system is under tremendous strain, the last thing it needs is a massive dump of LLM generated/aided papers. If you love science, then show it some love. www.nature.com/articles/d41...

Responsible-Research-Assessment-Jeopardy cracks me up. We are losing, but possibly laughing the most. #AIMOS2025

Discussions at #AIMOS2025 re: financial conflicts of expert witnesses, reminds me of this editorial from 1882 (!): “…the saying of a well-known judge that liars might be divided into three classes - liars, great liars, and scientific-witnesses - recommends itself to many.” [The Times, 4 April]

We will have workshops, discussion groups, hackathons, lightning talks, and mini-notes. Thanks to the sponsors, @sydney.edu.au, @ardc.edu.au, @proofigai.bsky.social, and Tricky Goose @markhooper.bsky.social #AIMOS2025

Our new preprint! The Acknowledgments problem, and what to do about it. With @martonkovacs.bsky.social, @pietropollo.bsky.social, @philobolobstime.bsky.social, Losia Lagisz, & Mohammad Hosseini.

Our annual #Christmas gift guide. A tradition! Only for fun. No affiliate links. www.christmasgifts.io

I'm a bit weary of talks and papers that end, "So, we need to change the incentive structure." That's not a conclusion, it's a premise! #researchintegrity

It occurred to me that we need Contributor Statements (like CRediT), except to describe various uses of Gen-AI in research. But like all decent thoughts, someone else had it first. I really like what this group has done. Their tool is useful: www.leidenmadtrics.nl/articles/gai... #researchintegrity

The people who say "science is self-correcting" are not usually the same people who work hard to correct science.

Just submitted a highly amusing abstract to the International Research Integrity Conference (Sydney, November). Whatever the outcome, hope to see you there! Abstracts close on Monday. researchintegrityconf.com

Some folks confuse these things —who think the 'water movement' must be flawed, since bottled water is expensive, and contaminated water is poisonous. Clean water and #openaccess both cost $. We don't really need corporations selling packaged products, but communities funding reservoirs and taps.

Even honest research results can flip – a new approach to assessing robustness in the social sciences #ResearchIntegrity #ResearchMisconduct #WCRI2026 #WCRI blogs.lse.ac.uk/europpblog/2...

My daughter made this clay model, and stuck it on my webcam. So, if we’re chatting, know that I’m also speaking with a jaunty goose.

If Melbourne University Publishing doesn’t want to keep publishing Meanjin, they should hand over the journal to someone worthy of the responsibility. Me in The Conversation theconversation.com/the-decision...

It boggles my mind that anyone would submit their work to any journal that they do not also read. #Academicsky

The use of #AI tools in health care raises questions about patient informed consent, necessitating a framework to decide when disclosure is needed. Learn more in this Perspective. ja.ma/424oPR6

Navigating Open Research: A Guide for Early Career Researchers. Great work from the CONUL Research Group. Free to download zenodo.org/records/1702... #irishResearch #openResearch

Pethick et al. Is There a Reproducibility Crisis? On the Need for Evidence-based Approaches www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10.... #OpenScience

I vibecoded this little tool for detecting duplications and clones within scientific figures. I think it works ok! Please try it. There are sample images you can try. Free to use. Not nearly as good as the paid models, obviously. 👉 dejaview.streamlit.app #researchintegrity @elisabethbik.bsky.social

🌟 REACH is live! A new digital magazine on research integrity & open science. 📖 In this issue: ✨ Launch of the Science Integrity Alliance ✨ Coverage of the U.S. Conference on Research Integrity ✨ COPE’s evolution in publication ethics ...and more! 🔗 Read here: www.sci-integrity.com/reach-inaugu...

The Gantt Chart templates that universities offer their postgraduate students are some of the ugliest things I've ever seen.

A new #Nature story investigates a preprint by #AusHSI Prof @aidybarnett.bsky.social, which has found that peer reviewers are more likely to approve articles that cite their own work. When the reasons for citing are hard to justify, this can make the peer-review process transactional. #peerreview

Consider studying #philosophy. It’s fun, and: “Philosophy majors rank higher than all other majors on verbal and logical reasoning…” theconversation.com/studying-phi...

New paper: Tackling paper mills requires us to prevent future contamination and clean up the past – the case of the journal Bioengineered With @deadneanderthals.bsky.social, @smutclyde.bsky.social, @mortenoxe.bsky.social, @thatsregrettab1.bsky.social, and me www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....

Two academics emailed me, saying kind things about my work. This honestly made my week. If your Friday allows time, hammer-out a quick note that might make someone else's week. Let's emulate the good ones.

A paper that combines #peerreview & cheese... what could be better? Answer: writing said paper with @abalkina.bsky.social @image-integrity.bsky.social & Marie Souliere. Read on to learn how the Swiss Cheese Model could help peer review & #researchintegrity onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1002/...

“There are only three classes of men that we in general have no patience with — superiors, inferiors, and equals.” - Walter Savage Landor [hat-tip Michael Gilleland]

My 6-yr-old just described $9.80 as twenty-to-ten, as if money can be described like time, and this has shaken me.

“This LLM writes at a PhD Level” sounds a lot like, “This machine produces barista-grade coffee at the touch of a button”.

🆕 New research: Med students & researchers both miss many duplicated images in papers No big difference between groups. Tools & clearer guidelines needed. researchintegrityjournal.biomedcentral.com/articles/10.... #ResearchIntegrity #WCRI2026 #OpenScience #PeerReview

The best way to protect the scientific record is to prevent stats errors from entering it in the first place! Two weeks 'til our webinar featuring @tomhardwicke.bsky.social & @michelenuijten.bsky.social. Register here: qut.zoom.us/meeting/regi...

To me, every talk with a title like “How to Get Published in High Impact Journals” has the same vibes as “How to get rich with Realestate”.

Great article!

Today, our article "The entities enabling scientific fraud at scale are large, resilient, and growing rapidly" is finally published in PNAS. I hope that it proves to be a wake-up-call for the whole scientific community. reeserichardson.blog/2025/08/04/a...

The NHMRC has today released a Good Institutional Practice Guide. I'm biased, because I was involved in its development, but I think it's a great document that the Australian research community really needs. www.nhmrc.gov.au/about-us/pub...

Neat essay on how one can help students reach beyond mastery of facts and protocols to be able thinkers, principled researchers and virtuous scientists. @natchem.nature.com rdcu.be/ey1FO by Dominic Chaloner, MichelleFrancl, T. Ryan Byerly.

The call for proposals is now up for our long awaited #AIMOS2025 conference in Sydney this November: aimos-inc.github.io/aimos.confer...

When chess.com detects cheaters, they shouldn’t immediately tell them or ban them, but instead only pair them against other cheaters for 2 weeks, and stream those games publicly on a 24hr feed. Would watch. Then, ban them obvsly. #chess

Nice article on cultural change in the research sector: "meaningful change will require a nuanced understanding of the way that rules, norms, and incentives can interact in complex ways, and sometimes conflict, even when they are supposed to promote the very same outcomes” #researchintegrity

“Nothing we say here is against the use of proxies, which are useful, necessary, and unavoidable. The risks occur when we blindly pursue the proxy itself, use the wrong proxies, or mistake the proxy for the thing itself.” Michael Vincent‪ & @markhooper.bsky.social’s new work on research integrity.

We discuss cultural change initiatives to promote #researchintegrity. We distinguish 2 schemas of research integrity: 👉The thick, lived kind 👉The thin, rule-based kind. We need both. What’s interesting is trying to understand how they relate. Had fun writing this! link.springer.com/article/10.1...