“Maybe, I would have been treated better if I had cited some of the editor in chief’s papers,” Bimonte, of the University of Siena, wrote in boldface in the email, which we have seen. Two days later, an unhappy editor at the journal quit, Retraction Watch has learned.

TIL that there is a thing called the Enhanced Games, where athletes are explicitly encouraged to take performance-boosting drugs. Perhaps we need the Journal of Enhanced Papers. People could pay to put their AI slop and paper mill stuff in there, and leave us out of it. cc @jsmoliga.bsky.social

Exclusive: Unrest at Wiley journal whose EIC is cited in more than half of its papers retractionwatch.com/2026/02/26/e...

If you would like to help put pressure on the @royalsociety.org to finally take meaningful action on this issue, you can politely decline their requests for your labour (eg invitations to review or to sit on their editorial boards or grant panels), and refer to the arguments in this blogpost.

La cattiva scienza e la sua diffusione. www.youtube.com/live/mKitu7N...

Prossima settimana a Firenze a parlare di riforma dell'università.

Fascinating piece about how the fear of microplastics is almost certainly overblown. One takeaway for me is that even the scientists behind the microplastics=bad papers are VERY reserved about whether these findings are really problematic. www.theguardian.com/environment/...

Every western country on earth is currently both (A) hollering about the need to free people from authoritarian governments and (B) gradually making it illegal to criticize the state of Israel.

Editorial power in economics journals has a long history. We analyze 150+ years of board turnover, stability, and governance with new data & methods. Big patterns, big change. 🔗 arxiv.org/abs/2601.05727 #Economics #ScienceOfScience

How long should it take to retract a paper with incontrovertible signs of data fabrication? Sleuths think 2 months is too long, particularly when clinical risks are involved. deevybee.blogspot.com/2026/01/an-o... #retraction #stemcells #cardiology @erictopol.bsky.social

A recent blogpost translated into Italian, which makes it sound much more erudite - iniquitous data! www.roars.it/i-pericoli-d...

Bug in Springer Nature metadata may be causing ‘significant, systemic’ citation inflation retractionwatch.com/2025/11/11/b...

La proposta di riforma dell’ANVUR rende finalmente evidente ciò che da anni era solo implicito: l’Agenzia è lo strumento con cui il governo attua il controllo centralizzato e indirizza le attività di università e ricerca. www.roars.it/valutare-e-o...

Nel deserto lasciato dalla guerra, l'università deve parlare www.roars.it/nel-deserto-... @filippobelloc.bsky.social

Grateful that @lonnibesancon.bsky.social‬, @gcabanac.cpesr.fr, Cyril Labbe and Alexander Magazinov chose to donate the proceeds of their ASIS&T Best Paper Award for 2025 to the @elisabethbik.bsky.social Fund to support the work of sleuths. More here: centerforscientificintegrity.org/our-projects...

Data-visualization researcher @lonnibesancon.bsky.social has faced online abuse, threats and legal challenges. But he remains proud of his service to science and society. He hopes young scientists will get involved in scientific sleuthing: spklr.io/63328BEc6p

Dietro la facciata neutrale delle regole formali, i panel VQR in area economica mostrano legami fitti e opachi, dominati da gruppi accademici vicini all’università Bocconi.

AI summaries kill search traffic. This has been an obvious consequence of Google's AI summary strategy since its inception. Apparently the training data is so valuable that Google is willing to risk the neck of the goose that lays golden eggs. Screenshot: thebullshitmachines.com/lesson-9-blu...

How about a podcast on research integrity featuring big names in the field (e.g., @elisabethbik.bsky.social) and, incidentally, yours truly? Go listen to open.spotify.com/show/2AuVl4w...

L’accademia dei Lincei ha da poco assegnato i premi Feltrinelli. Quest’anno il premio Feltrinelli per la medicina, consistente in €100.000, è stato assegnato a Carlo M. Croce. Hanno fatto bene? www.roars.it/i-lincei-pre...

Ajan Reginald, formerly of Celixir infamy, should apply to the FDA. It's a coin toss whether the dynamic duo approve or decline to approve products on any given day. Likely there's special speedy path for packs of lies purporting to be biologics.

Springer-Nature launched a series of "Discover" journals that closely mimic MDPI titles -- sharing *identical* journal names, and likely similar business model. What is going on, and why researcher will - as always - fall for it? A 🧵 the-strain-on-scientific-publishing.github.io/website/post...

Finally out my critical reflection on #CoARA. doi.org/10.1093/rese... Preprint available here: arxiv.org/abs/2408.05587

"Science was born in Italy, and that’s where they will kill and bury it". A newsletter full of Italian scientists forbetterscience.com/2025/06/06/s...

Dear @qeios.bsky.social Editor, I must respectfully but firmly ask that you refrain from sending me further review invitations until the “Highly Cited” badge is removed from your author/reviewer classification system.

The august facades and impeccable decorum of our great institutions arise from fortunes built on slavery and murder. As WH Auden noted of Oxford: "Knowledge is conceived in the hot womb of Violence". This ritual cannibalism is perfectly symbolic of the whole. www.theguardian.com/science/2025...

CoARA, and, more broadly, any reform agenda focused exclusively on improving evaluative technologies, cannot achieve on its own, unless it is accompanied by a more fundamental rethinking of the role, purpose, and governance of research evaluation itself. arxiv.org/pdf/2408.05587

The situation in Cardiff of police using live facial recognition cameras "to keep visitors safe" and then giving penalties for wearing a face covering in public should be a national call to action but people really believe "nothing to hide, nothing to fear" www.south-wales.police.uk/news/south-w...

Why does fair panel composition matter in research evaluation? How can we measure fairness? This study on Italy’s economics research assessments reveals unfair panel selection, raising concerns about results. #ResearchIntegrity doi.org/10.1007/s111...

🚨Breaking | Casualties among civilians were reported in an Israeli airstrike targeting the second floor of the emergency building at Nasser Medical Complex in Khan Younis, south of the Gaza Strip. ⭕️ I will do my best to provide you with the latest news. To support my family: gofund.me/d6592e10

La prima parte con la santificazione di DRAGHI e del PNRR è imbarazzante. Molto interessanti invece le testimonianze.

Tens of thousands of psychological measures have been created, but 79% are not reused more than twice. In a new article in NHB lead by @faridanvari.bsky.social and @ruben.the100.ci we quantify this fragmentation in psychology's measures and propose solutions. www.nature.com/articles/s41...

Che meraviglia le piattaforme sulle piattaforme scritte da altri.

« Nous sommes entrés dans une crise constitutionnelle » : la tribune de professeurs de droit américains blog.juspoliticum.com/2025/03/08/n...

"Momento storico per la scuola" secondo il ministro Valditara. Si completa il programma del PD di Renzi. Ai presidi soldi in base risultati INVALSI. www.roars.it/valditara-co...

Adesione alle mobilitazioni contro i tagli alla ricerca e il DDL Sicurezza @albertobaccini.bsky.social @marioricciardi.bsky.social www.studikant.it/news/181-dic...

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ICYMI: Second paper by Nobel laureate Thomas Südhof retracted @retractionwatch.com retractionwatch.com/2025/02/14/i...

Plenty of tortured phrases (arxiv.org/abs/2107.0...) in this #IEEE paper. ieeexplore.ieee.org/... My pubpeer report: pubpeer.com/publicat...

Nice. verfassungsblog.de/nudging-afte...

Thanks again, Daniele Padula & Samuele Giannini, for inviting me at CPiC15, Siena, to talk about "Faces of Scientific Integrity Decline - A Case Study in Computational Chemistry" and the round-table with Alberto Baccini @albertobaccini.bsky.social #researchintegrity #compchemsky #chemsky

Yesterday in Siena speaking of fake science.

If you are interested in this particular #ImageForensics #Alzheimers case, @charlespiller.bsky.social's new book Doctored describes it in detail. It came out this week!

Kicking off the CpiC in Sienna with talks about academic integrity and bad practices. Very necessary topics indeed! @gierschner.bsky.social @albertobaccini.bsky.social @jhr95.bsky.social #DORA #Eurodoc #Academia

Schneider Shorts 31.01.2025 – Falsified narrative as part of cognitive war forbetterscience.com/2025/01/31/s...

Problematic Paper Screener: Trawling for fraud in the scientific literature Have you ever heard of the Joined Together States? our paper screener has been instrumental in more than 1,000 retractions theconversation.com/problematic-...

Fake papers are contaminating the world’s scientific literature, fueling a corrupt industry and slowing legitimate lifesaving medical research fraudsters have infiltrated the academic publishing industry Frederik Joelving, Cyril Labbé, Guillaume Cabanac theconversation.com/fake-papers-...