Authors might come up with the most ridiculous excuses to explain their photoshopped or manipulated data. Luckily, @plos.org editors and staff did the right thing and retracted this artwork. Publishers, be like PLOS. #ImageForensics #ResearchIntegrity #Science pubpeer.com/publications...

Original study here: journals.plos.org/plosone/arti...

On #WorldAIDSDay, Section Editor Limin Mao discusses HIV research and society. 'HIV research has always been about people: their courage, creativity and determination to care for one another. HIV is not only a disease but also magnifies socioeconomic disparities.' everyone.plos.org/2025/12/01/w...

An absolute pleasure to talk to one of our fantastic Academic Editors Dr. Srebrenka Letina @sreblet.bsky.social for the EveryONE blog :)

Is overeating driven by hedonism? @danasmall.bsky.social &co argue that the pleasure of eating food is not a driver of the #obesity epidemic, but rather the regular consumption of an unhealthy diet blunts sensitivity to interoceptive signals that drive food reward #neurosky 🧪 plos.io/4nTlHQc

Interoceptive signals from organs such as heart, lungs and gut influence many aspects of organismal physiology and behavior. This Perspective argues that liver signaling via the vagal nerve is another avenue of body-brain communication that shapes metabolism and mood #neurosky 🧪

🧵 1/ 🚨 New paper out in PLOS ONE! w/ @caropradier.bsky.social @benzpierre.bsky.social @natsush.bsky.social @ipoga.bsky.social @lariviev.bsky.social We studied 43k authors and 264k citation links in U.S. economics to ask: 👉 Why do some papers cite others? 🔗 journals.plos.org/plosone/arti...

Erroneous articles can undermine scientific progress & mislead future research. Rene Aquarius &co show that 40% of articles on early #BrainInjury in animal studies have #ImageDuplication & #ImageManipulation problems, but correction by #journals remains limited @plosbiology.org 🧪 plos.io/4p59QzN

Bluesky has overtaken Twitter/X as the highest social engagement metric for the entire publication corpus of some universities. Here's all the attention for all research from Rhodes University, ZA. In October 2025 Bluesky mentioned their research more than X/Twitter. 1/2

In this new Editorial, PLOS Medicine Executive Editor, Helen Lumbard, and Senior Editor, Front Section, Daniel Routledge urge the scientific community to confront research fraud and paper mills head-on by creating stronger systems for data sharing and transparency. Learn more plos.io/4nDKQ2c.

Two major publishers have begun to automatically reject the vast majority of papers based on public health data sets, following revelations that unscrupulous actors use these data sets to churn out nonsense scientific papers. https://scim.ag/4mX3DnR

Sharing knowledge is a fundamental principle within the scientific community, yet null and negative results are still being underreported. @scurry.bsky.social &co present a roadmap to a solution that has a role for everyone in the scientific community 🧪 #Academicsky #reproducibility plos.io/3VwaU2O

PLOS is exploring how research publishing can be a lever for systemic change, moving away from a broken research assessment system to one that recognizes every contribution to #openscience – before and after the article. 🔗 Read “Validating how we can go beyond the article”:

Here for absolutely no reason is the attention for the largest study conducted on Acetaminophen Use During Pregnancy and Children’s Risk of Autism, ADHD, and Intellectual Disability. www.altmetric.com/details/1618...

Important, if slightly depressing, but absolutely essential work.

Our work on the mental health of health workers in Gaza is now out in @plosglobalpublichealth.org. The findings are not surprising - health workers were being terrorized from the beginning of the genocide (data from December 2023- Jan 2024 peer review is slow). journals.plos.org/globalpublic...

PLOS ONE metadata forms the basis of our study's Figure 1. We could only study PLOS ONE because PLOS made this metadata freely available (and in bulk XML, no less)! Information is only useful if it is accessible! plos.org/text-and-dat...

FAO, UNICEF, WFP and WHO reiterate call for immediate ceasefire and unhindered humanitarian access to curb deaths from hunger and malnutrition www.who.int/news/item/22...

Hey everybody! @drjuliawester.bsky.social and I have a new paper! We surveyed over 800 scientists, science communicators, and science educators who use social media. Conclusion: Scientists no longer find Twitter useful or pleasant, and many have switched to Bluesky! 🧪🌎🦑 doi.org/10.1093/icb/...

Planning an online study? This article from researchers at @uwmadison.bsky.social and Kenyon College systematically compares five platforms (MTurk, Prolific, CloudResearch, Qualtrics, and SONA) and reports on data quality, participant attentiveness, and cost. Learn more at plos.io/45bZPJS

Multidrug-resistant bacteria amid health-system collapse in Gaza www.thelancet.com/journals/lan...

Three facts give essential context: 1️⃣ An industry-wide threat, not a PLOS-specific problem 2️⃣ Openness made the analysis possible 3️⃣ Our actions to safeguard research integrity Read the statement here: plos.io/4mvRZ3u

Aiming for 7,000 daily steps can reduce risk of chronic diseases, cognitive decline, and death, finds new study. Explore the research in @thelancetph.bsky.social: tinyurl.com/mrvd9uyt

“Only 2 of 225 US biology PhD programs assessed offer annual salaries meeting basic living wages” Sad parallel with our findings in Canada, recently published in PLOS One (Fraass et al. 2025)

Over the past three decades, researchers have documented a shocking 75 percent decline in insect biomass, based on a long-term study in Europe published by Hallmann and others in PLOS ONE. This loss goes far beyond bees.

Environmental sustainability is often sidelined by narrow economic agendas focused on growth. PLOS Sustainability and Transformation champions transformative science that values diverse knowledge, collaboration and systemic change. Read more: journals.plos.org/sustainabili... @upascual.bsky.social

New research published in PLOS Climate suggests that extreme heat could lead to 30,000 deaths per year in England and Wales by the 2070s journals.plos.org/climate/arti... @drhelenmac.bsky.social @climateclare1.bsky.social

Summary Table of the massive defunding of biomedical research in the United States www.nytimes.com/interactive/...

Louder, for those in the back! journals.plos.org/plosone/arti...

A scientific future shared with #AI Our June editorial by Renee Hoch (PLOS Head Pub Ethics) and @plosbiology.org's FM Senior Editor Joanna Clarke reflects on how generative AI can contribute to a scientific future, and how it can (and cannot) ethically interface with publishing plos.io/4l7jgsG 🧪

What is the therapeutic potential of correcting mutations by base editing of the #MitochondrialGenome? This study shows that #mitochondrial #BaseEditing can indeed functionally create & correct mitochondrial pathogenic #mutations in patient-derived cells @plosbiology.org 🧪 plos.io/3ZMa2K2

Exciting week in Bergen, Norway ahead representing PLOS and learning about the latest research in environmental economics and sustainability #EAERE2025 @eaere.bsky.social @plosclimate.org @plosone.org

🎯 Does early success in science funding shape the rest of your career? New RoRI study says yes. The ‘Matthew effect’ — early winners keep winning — holds across funders & countries. 📄 Read more: researchonresearch.org/largest-stud...

Fantastic, extremely timely work criticizing the deeply flawed Cass report.

#AI & national health databases offer opportunities, but can be exploited by unethical agents like #PaperMills. This study reveals an explosion of formulaic research articles, with inappropriate study designs & false discoveries, using data from US #NHANES resource @plosbiology.org 🧪 plos.io/3RWgNog

Huge shoutout to everyone this is what a global boycott looks like. Tesla just reported a staggering 71% drop in profits compared to Q1 of 2024. It’s working. Keep the pressure on.

It's never about the science. It's always about having a legal basis for your fear and hatred of other people.

My latest in @plosbiology.org Look I get it, it seems really dark, but there are opportunities. My paper explores some ideas and tries to guide ways of thinking through the anticipated challenges. An emphasis on America’s “biohubs” and entrepreneurship journals.plos.org/plosbiology/...

As I describe in an infographic in my new @plos.org article, given the massive size of our awful 4-state measles epidemic that began in West Texas, a second measles death is sadly predictable and >50 hospitalizations. This is so sad and was totally unnecessary journals.plos.org/globalpublic...

#NewPLOSMentalHealthArticle Researchers from University of Melbourne evaluate the potential of podcasts as mental health interventions. doi.org/10.1371/jour...

THREAD The numbers are in. @bsky.app research sharing volumes vs X Formerly Twitter In March 2024, on most days, Bluesky hosts more posts linked to research published in 2025 than X. By quite a lot. Release the Kraken... #AcademicSky #HigherEd #Altmetrics 1/11

Thousands of protesters rallied worldwide for Palestine, demanding an end to Israel's war on Gaza.

The term "reviewer fatigue” has become familiar in scientific publishing. In this Editorial, @droutledge.bsky.social & @npariente.bsky.social discuss how we can make the peer review system more sustainable & ways that PLOS Biology is already helping to ease the burden on reviewers🧪 ▶️ plos.io/41YKIRa

There's still time to join us for the next webinar in our Open 2.0 series! This panel-style webinar will explore how #OpenScience practices like sharing data, code, protocols, and methods are being embraced by Big Team Science Initiatives. 📅 March 28, 2PM CET 📝 Register: plos.io/3DBYe53

A most vicious circle: "Global energy demand surged...last year as record-high temperatures fueled the need for cooling systems." www.wsj.com/articles/ris...

Roses are red Violets are blue

🦧 Relocating orangutans may do more harm than good.🧪A PLOS ONE study shows that translocated individuals face higher mortality, stress, and struggle to adapt. Losing cultural knowledge makes survival even harder🌏 www.theguardian.com/environment/... #Conservation #Wildlife #EndangeredSpecies

I have a new article out today with the homie @pereed.bsky.social in PLOS One, “Gender and Racial Bias Issues in a Commercial ‘Tone of Voice’ Analysis System”! In short, don’t believe devices that claim to tell you how you sound to other humans! journals.plos.org/plosone/arti...

Science under attack: a growing list of statements from journals @jama.com jamanetwork.com/journals/jam... @plos.org theplosblog.plos.org/2025/02/plos... @science.org www.science.org/doi/10.1126/... @nature.com www.nature.com/articles/d41... @embopress.org www.embopress.org/doi/full/10....