Confessions of an Early Career Researcher. We've released a new 'warts and all' podcast, in collaboration with @leverhulme.ac.uk which might be of interest to anyone thinking of starting a career in research www.thebritishacademy.ac.uk/news/confess...

It's all been worth it! Surely(?) an undeniably good news AI story BBC News - Chip shop owner says customers 'love' new AI service - BBC News www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...

Taking this opportunity at the end of #NationalPostdocAppreciation week to reshare a blog I wrote for @cancerresearchuk.org last year on how #Postdocs are vital to maintaining #ResearchIntegrity: news.cancerresearchuk.org/2024/09/17/r... #NPAW25 #LovePostdocs

For #PeerReviewWeek, I just published my BlueSky posts and notes from the 10th International Peer Review Congress, held 2 weeks ago in Chicago. #PRC10 @peerreviewcongress.bsky.social Part 1 is here: scienceintegritydigest.com/2025/09/16/p...

Wild that Paul McCartney is giving advice on avoiding #AI misinformation But as someone in the public eye it makes sense that he is a target of this Main point: check your sources, and go to recognised websites This is good #ResearchIntegrity advice, too! www.paulmccartney.com/news/you-gav...

This week's comic, inspired by a study showing that AI summaries on top of search results are dramatically cutting traffic to websites.

⏳ 1 month to go! Submit your #WCRI2026 abstracts by Oct 15, 2025. 📅 May 3–6, 2026 | Vancouver 🗓️ Preliminary schedule, commissions, hosting & sponsorship details live now. #ResearchIntegrity

Primary Teachers! If you’re planning to teach how to tell the time to your students soon, you might find these FREE worksheets useful: alomshaha.com/about-time-t...

MAGNIFICO-Oh-Oh-Oh-Oh! BEATLES WORLD CUP is no more. #BeatlesWorldCup Tomorrow, we kick off the QUEEN WORLD CUP. #QueenWorldCup. A knock-out tournament, songs going head-to-head each day, until we have determined the greatest ever Queen song. Get hyped. Or don't.

International #ResearchIntegrity conference 16-18 November 2025 Come to hear @elisabethbik.bsky.social Ivan Oransky @jamesheathers.bsky.social @retractionwatch.com Lisa Bero @liammannix.bsky.social @jdwilko.bsky.social @jacksonwryan.com +many others, stay for Sydney in late Spring @sydney.edu.au 🧪

This book is gold dust! Just read the first chapter and already there are so many great takeaways for general application of visualising data Then there's all the code and instructions included so that readers and users of R can follow along step-by-step and learn as they go - so good! 📈✅🔥

"explore the option of baseline performance in research culture being a condition of funding" Wondering if this statement suggests something along the lines of the 'hygiene factors' model you've suggested for #PCE in #REF2029, @lizziegadd.bsky.social? www.ukri.org/news/new-pro...

Great opportunity from @manchester.ac.uk - support for #OpenResearch through the Open Research Fellowship Funding for 0.2 FTE for colleagues to support dedicated time spent on developing projects related to Open Research All details from @uomlibrary.bsky.social in the message & link below 👇

Don't miss our next webinar by Zoi Diamantopoulou on "Timing the perfect strike: Using circadian rhythms to target metastasis" - September 22, 2025 - more details and register here: metastasis-research.org/2025/09/11/z...

Last chance to register ⏳ Join @helenclare.bsky.social @retropz.bsky.social tomorrow to find out more about implementing #ELNs @cruk-mi.bsky.social 📔 📆 10 Sept. 2025 ⏲️ 11 am GMT 🔗 research.jiscinvolve.org/wp/events/ #ERNs #ResearchIntegrity #ResearchCulture #OpenResearch

Wrote this on the train home from Metascience. Can’t quite believe this one needed saying, but I really think that if conversations about research integrity and open science don’t take academic bullying seriously, we’ll keep perpetuating the same system that science reform was trying to change.

Very different from my take on #PCE in #REF2029 - but thought I'd share as I hadn't seen much comment on this yet, and I'd be interested where people sit on this: "The REF’s postponement raises hopes that sanity will prevail on PCE" www.timeshighereducation.com/opinion/refs...

And if you want to learn more about electronic research notebooks (ERNs) and @jisc.bsky.social -hosted ERN procurement system, catch up with this webinar from earlier in the year 👉 www.jisc.ac.uk/events/elect...

Still time to sign up to join this session of the @jisc.bsky.social Digital Research Community to discuss all things #ELN Whether you have experience with Electronic Research Notebooks or not, I hope that there will be something of interest either in the presentation or the discussion time

Ooh we've opened our call for small research grants. £10k for any humanities or social sciences research. Open to independent scholars. We use partial randomisation to allocate the funding: random allocation between all that meet the quality threshold www.thebritishacademy.ac.uk/funding/ba-l...

In the spirit of not reinventing the wheel: is anyone aware of a list of the employers UK universities students are most likely to be working for? Bonus points for related trade unions? Or produced student-facing FAQs about trade unions?

BEATLES WORLD CUP #BeatlesWorldCup Bo, selecta! He tell me there’s another tournament soon. (Date TBC.) Me, I’ll be running it on here, plus some private votes to prevent band-wagoning. An’, as we found Here Comes The Sun is the Beatles’ best, we will determine the greatest song by another band…

Read this verse this morning; always love and am challenged by it, but feels particularly relevant atm: Micah 6:8 NIVUK [8] He has shown you, O mortal, what is good. And what does the Lord require of you? To act justly and to love mercy and to walk humbly with your God. bible.com/bible/113/mi...

That’s a wrap on the 10th Peer Review Congress! Thanks to all for attending & following - we will repost in the following days & weeks to keep it all alive. Thanks to contributors and superfans @lexbouter.bsky.social @elisabethbik.bsky.social @abalkina.bsky.social and others for the amplification!

Great to see my @manchester.ac.uk colleague & friend @lhughesnoehrer.bsky.social presenting his work on #OpenScience at @peerreviewcongress.bsky.social Lukas has done an amazing amount of work building the #OpenResearch community at Manchester, including chairing two Open Research Conferences

SV: I would like to ask the scientific community to expect more of journals. We should expect them to be transparent and accountable, just as they expect us to be transparent and accountable. We can chose to review for journals that align with our vision. #PRC10

Last talk: Simine Vazire @simine.com, with 'Journal Prestige Can and Should Be Earned' SV: I wear many hats. As Editor in Chief of Psychological Science I would love my journal name to mean anything, but on the other hand, should we value one journal over another? #PRC10

Good morning from Chicago, where we are getting ready for Day 2 of the 10th International Congress on Peer Review and Scientific Publication. peerreviewcongress.org @peerreviewcongress.bsky.social #PRC10

Good advice for academics and researchers, too - read this thread and use it the next time someone asks if you'd like to collaborate on a project Collaborations are cool, but they take time and energy - so this type of framing can help think through the opportunity cost/potential benefits

Next: Daniel Moreira with 'Characterizing Problematic Images in Retracted Scientific Articles'. We focus on developing software tools. We started with @retractionwatch.com data (56K entries), 8K of which involved images, and coulped them to @pubpeer.com discussions --> 2,078 articles. #PRC10

If, like me, you enjoy hearing updates from the Peer Review Congress, happening now in Chicago, you can add this custom feed to your @bsky.app account: bsky.app/profile/did:... It's an experiment, but it should capture content that has the #PRC10 hashtag, or mentions of "peer review congress"

See you all at 10am tomorrow for our next panel on building equitable, inclusive and bibliodiverse publishing ecosystems with @simonxix.com and @kjsanders.bsky.social from @copim.bsky.social, Hannah Hillen from @thoth-metadata.bsky.social, and @samuelmoore.org #OpenFest25

Research shows most scientific papers include discoveries not anticipated in their grant proposals. Martin Reeves from the London Institute of Mathematical Sciences will explore his 'messier' view on innovation, discussing a mathematical signature of serendipity.

Sunrise in Chicago 🌇💜 Getting excited for my first international conference #PRC10 🎉

If you're heading to the Peer Review Congress, here's a Feed you can add to your Bluesky account to find content that: - uses the hashtag #PRC10 - mentions Peer Review Congress - tags @peerreviewcongress.bsky.social Use any of those to be included & connect with others: bsky.app/profile/did:...

The @jisc.bsky.social digital research community is back for the new academic year! Join @helenclare.bsky.social @retropz.bsky.social for an exciting discussion around Electronic Research Notebooks 🖥️ 📆 10 Sept. 2025 ⏲️ 11 am GMT 🌐 jisc.zoom.us/meeting/regi...

I'm looking forward to speaking at the @jisc.bsky.social community event next week (10th September, 11am, online) about implementing Electronic Lab Notebooks @cruk-mi.bsky.social 📱In-lab hardware 💻Data management 🥼User feedback 🧪#ResearchIntegrity Booking👇 research.jiscinvolve.org/wp/events/ #ELN

"Why are apps rooted in gamification and behaviour design – techniques developed to maximise screen time – now standard in classrooms? Why is a child’s future now assumed to be digital by default?" Worrying questions, relevant for #HigherEducation, too: www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...

Hey, I have had some questions about who is allowed to file. Here is the class certification:

Just posting this to check if the custom feed I've made picks up this mention of the peer review congress which starts next week If you want to test it, here's the link to add this to your feeds: bsky.app/profile/did:...

Trying an experiment: Here's a Custom Feed to capture content from the upcoming Peer Review Congress: bsky.app/profile/did:... If it works (!) then it should capture anything with #PCR10 plus other mentions tagging @peerreviewcongress.bsky.social If anyone can improve it, please let me know!

2 weeks to the Peer Review Congress! Advanced registration to attend in-person closes Aug 26, after which on-site day-of registration is available Discounted hotel room rates are available until today, Aug 19 Hope to see you there! Register now at

Read the whole thread, looks like a fully AI generated paper. @nadiah.bsky.social perhaps you should report this to the journal or to retractionwatch.com ?

On my way to Washington University in St. Louis, MO, where I will be giving a talk and a workshop about scientific integrity and #ImageForensics tomorrow. Hope to see some of you there!

The best solutions for research integrity come from the community! 💡 Join ORCID on 9 Sept to hear from Clear Skies, the team behind the Papermill Alarm and Oversight. Discover their use of AI to bring transparency to scholarly publishing. Register 👉https://linktr.ee/orcid_org #ResearchIntegrity

'Cancer Research UK told The Observer that several pieces of research had been affected by...immigration costs, which have risen by 126% since 2019 and are up to 17 times higher than the average of comparable countries including France, Australia, the US and South Korea.' Not only cancer research.

This post is about a science fiction convention, but very relevant to presenters at 🧪 conferences. Kudos to my @planteditors.bsky.social colleague @nancyrhof.bsky.social for taking hours to figure out the pronunciation of the names for the early career researchers symposium at #aBIOTECH2025

Leeds are looking for The Next Generation of researchers to take over their @reproducibilitea.org journal club - see below for more details!

🌟 Want to become a #ResearchIntegrity trainer? The next VIRT2UE Train-the-Trainers course still has a few spots open! 🧭 Learn to guide others in responsible research 📄 Flyer below 🔗 Register here 👉 www.xendens.nl/p/31/dienste...

A professor investigates whether a student's paper is #AI generated, but can't be sure or spot plagiarism, so eventually grades it in light of scholarship issues identified www.insidehighered.com/opinion/view... I wonder how much time this is costing in universities worldwide? #AcademicIntegrity