🌟 The Science Integrity Alliance welcomes James Parry as Senior Strategic Advisor! James brings 20 years of research integrity leadership, including 15 years as Chief Executive of UKRIO, supporting 120+ orgs. At SIA, he'll drive partnerships and advance our educational platforms. Welcome James! 👏👏👏

"Much of what shapes a scientific paper never sees the light of day." RoRI's André Brasil writes about MetaROR (MetaResearch Open Review) and opening the black box of peer review in the inaugural issue of REACH by @sci-integrity.com: www.sci-integrity.com/reach-inaugu...

Heading home after #PRC10 feeling inspired by so many people with fresh ideas on how to make research better, and the highlight was reconnecting with my wonderful friend @james-mcauley.bsky.social after 10 years! Let’s keep the conversation going at the Science Integrity Alliance’s community forum!

Arrived in Chicago for the Peer Review Congress and looking forward to hearing about strategies to safeguard the scholarly literature from fraud and misconduct, while engaging in productive networking. #PCR10 #PeerReview #ResearchIntegrity

🌟 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...

🌟 Can you visualize a future in which you’ve won a grant of up to £25,000? #CatalystGrant 💡🌱 Digital Science’s 2025 Catalyst Grant is now open for applications - with the theme of #DataVisualization. 🔗 See more about our Catalyst Grant - and apply here: www.digital-science.com/investment/c...

This is going to be incredible! 5 days to go! 🔥

🎬 Episode 3 of "Meet Our Partners" video series is here! We're proud to feature the Brazilian Reproducibility Network @redebrrepro.bsky.social—a multidisciplinary, multi-institutional initiative promoting transparent and reliable research practices across Brazil.🇧🇷 #ResearchIntegrity #Reproducibility

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...

👀 Have you heard? The Integrity Café is now open on the #ScienceIntegrityAlliance platform! ☕️ The Integrity Café is a welcoming space to share resources, spotlight events, and post quick updates on #ResearchIntegrity and #OpenScience. Ready to join? 1/2

Disappointed to miss #Metascience2025. If you’re attending, please share your thoughts in the Integrity Café and consider joining the Meta-Research Working Group to help shape targeted collaborative projects supported by the Science Integrity Alliance. #ResearchIntegrity www.sci-integrity.com

📢 Big move toward transparency: All @nature.com research articles will now include published peer review reports and author responses. #openscience #researchintegrity #peerreview #transparency www.nature.com/articles/d41...

Don’t miss this virtual presentation on the updated Transparency and Openness Promotion (TOP) Guidelines 👇🏻

This is a long-overdue initiative. Patient care should no longer be compromised by flawed or misleading research. It’s also time to recognize that publication in a “high-profile” journal does not always reflect the true quality or integrity of a study. 👏🏻👏🏻👏🏻

The journal of sport sciences recently made a sample size justification section mandatory. More and more journals are implementing this, as it is a central part of a study! Learn how to create a state of the art sample size justification from my paper: online.ucpress.edu/collabra/art...

Ah yes, the gold standard of science. Start with an official health report full of fake citations. What could possibly go wrong? 🥇📉🤡 www.nytimes.com/2025/05/29/w...

The Science Integrity Alliance is building the first global network to unite research integrity initiatives under one powerful umbrella. 🤝 Join us in advancing research integrity worldwide! ✨ Your Initiative. ✨ Our Network. ✨ Maximum Impact. www.sci-integrity.com #ResearchIntegrity #OpenScience

"A literature that's ...polluted with junk is not only no good to anyone, it's a source of real harm, and it lends itself to ... bad-faith attacks on scientific research in general... We need to speak up more about this situation and we need to start cleaning house more vigorously" #Papermills 🧪

Couldn't agree more, Darren. Walking away from university rankings is one of the most powerful moves we can make to fix research culture. When we stop chasing numbers, we can start focusing on what really matters: quality research that helps people. #ResearchIntegrity #ResearchCulture (1/5)

Just finished a few inspiring days at the National Conference on #ResearchIntegrity in Chicago. Grateful for the thoughtful conversations and feedback on the Science Integrity Alliance. The sun came out just in time after a few rainy days, a perfect end to the trip. ☀️ #NCRI2025 #ResearchCulture

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🤩 I'm excited to see the efforts our Alliance has been making over the last year bloom into the launch of these incredible resources! ❤️ A heartfelt thank you to our amazing partners and individual contributors from across our network who've joined forces to make this happen. #WeAreStrongerTogether

🌟 Excited to share the new Science Integrity Alliance video! #WeAreStrongerTogether #ResearchIntegrity #OpenScience #Alliance

A well-written protocol is key to quality scholarship. The SPIRIT guideline for protocols of randomized trials has just been updated - please share widely! 🗣️ #researchintegrity #openscience www.bmj.com/content/389/...

Updated CONSORT guideline for reporting randomized trials👇🏻

ROBUST-RCT: A new tool for assessing risk of bias of randomised controlled trials included in systematic reviews. www.bmj.com/content/388/...

Our new paper builds upon my 2008 PhD work on the efficacy of all available treatments for low back pain. Once again, we found that only a few options surpass placebo effects, and by very small margins. #backpain #EBM ebm.bmj.com/content/earl...

Register now for our FAIRS meeting - online and in person options. Great speakers, great location, important topic! www.sjcfairsmeeting.com (turn off VPN if it doesn't load) #researchintegrity #fraud @lexbouter.bsky.social @WCRIFoundation

New guest post! Excluding "careless" responses is a routine practice in many contexts. But if careless responding itself is an outcome of the variables of interest, that may actually cause trouble.

Health pseudoscience in a nutshell: A non-expert uses in vitro/animal studies to infer a revolutionary understanding of a disease, then sells a dietary supplement whose effectiveness likewise rests on preliminary studies done in cells in culture flasks. Every. Frickin'. Time.

It’s fine. 🔥🔥🔥

ATTENTION: ALL JOURNAL EDITORS. Have the courage that Jocalyn Clark and Kamran Abbasi at the BMJ have displayed here. Call all this out for what it is. And then refuse to comply. www.bmj.com/content/388/...

Applications are now open for the 2025 L’Oréal-UNESCO For Women in Science Australian and New Zealand Fellowships. Five $25,000 fellowships will be awarded to outstanding post-doctoral scientists. Apply now at: www.forwomeninscience.com.au Applications close at 11.59pm, 5th March 2025 (AEDT).

The true story behind ‘I’m still here’ time.com/7204864/im-s...

😳 WithdrarXiv 🙏 - Dataset of 14K+ withdrawn arXiv papers - associated retraction comments - entire history through 09/24 - taxonomy of retraction reasons, from critical errors to policy violations - WithdrarXiv-SciFy, enriched version w/ scripts for parsed full-text PDFs arxiv.org/abs/2412.03775

The paper “Confronting the Risks of Mirror Life”, published in @science.org, highlights the need for the scientific community to reflect not only on what we can achieve with current knowledge but also on the implications of what we have yet to discover. www.science.org/doi/10.1126/...

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Trial of Controversial Alzheimer’s Drug Halted After Disappointing Results Cassava Sciences said that its drug did not significantly reduce cognitive decline in 1,900 people with mild to moderate Alzheimer’s disease. @teddyrosenbluth.bsky.social for @nytimes.com www.nytimes.com/2024/11/25/h...

Regulatory agencies have approved several psychedelics using accelerated procedures that require lower levels of evidence. This analysis highlights weaknesses in the evidence on efficacy and safety of hallucinogens and the use of expedited regulatory pathways www.bmj.com/content/387/...

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A highly recommended suggestion for your Sunday reading:

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Following the news that eLife will not receive an Impact Factor in 2025, we’ve shared an update on how our model is doing since we were first placed “on hold” by Web of Science, and what we’re up to now. Find out more. https://buff.ly/3ATRAFT

Congratulations to Neil O'Connell and the team on the development of the ENTRUST-PE framework—an essential tool for advancing scientific integrity in pain research! www.jpain.org/article/S152...