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Great reading: "But the kids know, and they know that the other kids know, and they know that we don’t know shit. Children have always looked for a world without us. With the advent of the Internet, they have found one lying in the rubble." unpublishablepapers.substack.com/p/where-do-t...

JVLMA zinātniskā un radošā darba prorektore Diāna Zandberga līdz galam nesaprot studētāju mērķus:"Lūk, visi ieraudzīja tikai šo naudas summu, un tas kļuva par to varbūt pat mērķi, jo citus gadus visi stājās ar domu attīstīt sevi, sasniegt augstākus mākslinieciskus mērķus." www.lsm.lv/raksts/kultu...

Maastricht University has withdrawn a 2022 news release that claimed overweight and obesity cost Dutch society 79 billion euros annually, due to a calculation error. Additionally, questions have been raised about undisclosed conflicts of interest. nltimes.nl/2025/11/11/m...

This is alarming and unacceptable. Europe continues to uphold a strong ethical stance on embryo editing, while the US remains worryingly unpredictable. www.technologyreview.com/2025/10/31/1...

⚖️ Signe Mežinska shared updates and new plans from Work Package 8: Ethical aspects and social consequences of intergenerational transmission of risk and prediction of mental illness. @signemezinska.bsky.social @ivarsneiders.bsky.social

Man šķiet, ka uz visiem iebildumiem pret pretvardarbības konvenciju vislabāko atbildi sniedza labklājības ministrs Uldis Augulis pirms nieka diviem gadiem (no 4. minūtes). Šo tagad vajadzētu uz katra stūra nonstopā atskaņot. replay.lsm.lv/lv/skaties/i...

Sometimes it is not only about values, but also about optics. In Latvia we discuss local political gambles behind yesterday's vote for the country to leave the Istanbul Convention, from the outside, it is clear - Latvia follows Hungary, Slovakia and other countries that head East.

Aizgāju gulēt Latvijā, pamodos Ungārijā. (Patiesībā jau sagaidīju balsojumu).

Šis ir ļoti satraucoši - pacientu drošības ignorēšana, pārprasta lojalitāte profesionālajā vidē un "gan jau būs labi" attieksme.

"Sorbonne University plans to leave the Times Higher Education (THE) Rankings [..] most of these rankings are “black boxes” whose methods not only raise ethical questions but also fail to cover the breadth and diversity of university contributions." sciencebusiness.net/news/univers...

"About 67% of all antidepressant and antipsychotic treatment episodes in the 700 included patients (mean age = 14.6 years, girls = 67%) were off-label." link.springer.com/article/10.1...

Just a fact: During the 2024-2025 school year, PEN America recorded 6,870 instances of book bans across 23 states and 87 public school districts. pen.org/report/the-n...

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

Noteikti vērts noklausīties, lai labāk saprastu zinātnes būtību replay.lsm.lv/lv/klausies/...

Recent MDPI paper including diagram of a bacterial cell with a mitochondrion 🤦‍♀️ The authors propose a mechanism for the toxicity of silver nanoparticles: "Ag+ ions in AgNPs bombard the bacterial mitochondria’s electron transport chain, resulting in cell death".

Research: low productivity gains from AI may stem from employees using AI to produce "workslop", or low-effort, passable work that creates more work for others (Harvard Business Review) Main Link | Techmeme Permalink

Can large language models stand in for human participants? Many social scientists seem to think so, and are already using "silicon samples" in research. One problem: depending on the analytic decisions made, you can basically get these samples to show any effect you want. THREAD 🧵

Šodien gadījās runāt ar senioriem par pacientu tiesībām veselības aprūpē. Nekādi nepamet sajūta, cik ļoti aplami, ja jāstāsta senioriem par to, kā viņiem labāk aizstāvēt savas tiesības situācijās, kurās visu iesaistīto neapšaubāms pienākums jau sākotnēji būtu nodrošināt šo tiesību īstenošanu.

This is another wake-up call about what is happening with scientific literature, which is being flooded by template papers produced by paper mills. One example is the use of open-access databases like FAERS or NHANES, combined with analyses that rely on biased or incorrect methodologies.

What could be more cheerful than Arvo Pärt dancing on the morning of his 90th birthday? His birthday concert in Riga was also absolutely stunning. www.reddit.com/r/classicalm...

The Russians are showing the same disregard for marine wildlife as they do for human life, by dispatching an increasing number of non-ice class ships to sail on the Northern Sea Route. To prevent an environmental disaster, the Russian shadow fleet must be blocked.

INSPECT-SR has launched today — a new tool for researchers to detect problematic randomized controlled trials. 🔗 Find out more here: www.cochrane.org/about-us/new... #INSPECTSR #ClinicalTrials #EvidenceBasedMedicine #SystematicReviews #ResearchIntegrity

Here we are: "This non-profit grassroots site identifies and verifies courses where ALL student work is done in person, offline, and on paper. " certifiedaifreeskillsandknowledge.org

Sunday mood. Great to be part of a gatherer nation.

🌟 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...

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....

Can you imagine a US envoy handing a Nazi medal to the family of an American who died fighting for Hitler? Because this just happened: www.cnn.com/2025/08/20/p...

Not such a bad idea: "Academics should be limited to one publication every year, or even every two years, as a solution to the “publish or perish…mania”, two business researchers have suggested." www.researchprofessionalnews.com/rr-news-worl...

Nice! My preprint with short personal reviews of 31 novels on #ResearchIntegrity now published open access in Chinese. English preprint: bit.ly/409E5ff Chinese publication: bit.ly/4osKFYp @peerreviewcongress.bsky.social @wcrifoundation.bsky.social @nrin-integrity.bsky.social @retractionwatch.com

Sage journal retracts nearly 50 papers for signs of paper mill activity

Oļegs Krasnopjorovs norāda uz ļoti nozīmīgu un pārāk maz diskutētu problēmu - zinātniskie žurnāli būtiski atšķiras pēc kvalitātes. Ļoti labs ir rakstā minētais somu piemērs, jo somi veido savus žurnālu reitingus, lai mazinātu zemas kvalitātes publikāciju skaitu.

AI tools used by English councils downplay women’s health issues "The study, by the London School of Economics and Political Science (LSE), also found that similar care needs in women were more likely to be omitted or described in less serious terms." www.theguardian.com/technology/2...

The Vanishing Act of Esme Lennox by Maggie O'Farrell. www.goodreads.com/review/show/... #goodreads #BookSky #BookLover

"A man gave himself bromism, a psychiatric disorder that has not been common for many decades, after asking ChatGPT for advice and accidentally poisoning himself, according to a case study published this week in the Annals of Internal Medicine." www.404media.co/guy-gives-hi...

Project "Scientific Fraud in Academic Publications" is looking for candidates for a predoctoral contract on bilbiometrics and research integrity. Trained in Information Science or other social disciplines. We offers four years, internships, academic career, and international projection. Córdoba ES.

Some nice reading suggestions, especially the "Unreliable" by Csaba Szabo.

Springer Nature retracts book with fake citations. Help us find more cases like this.

Great initiative by Wiley! The publisher has started marking retracted papers in reference lists. When you click on the retraction notice, you can also see the date and reason for the retraction. All publishers should adopt this practice. But also screen references during submission.

Our book "Artificial Intelligence in Biobanking: Ethical, Legal and Societal Challenges", co-edited with @mtmayrhofer.bsky.social and Santa Slokenberga, is now available in open access. Thanks to all co-authors! www.routledge.com/Artificial-I... #ELSI #AIethics #Biobanking #OpenAccess #BBMRI

Physicists disagree wildly on what quantum mechanics says about reality, Nature survey shows www.nature.com/articles/d41...

The war will be over when Putin realizes that he can't win www.youtube.com/watch?v=jm_R...

Lai mākslīgā intelekta sarunboti spētu atbildēt uz ikkatru cilvēka uzdoto jautājumu, nepieciešami lieli serveri, kas glabājas datu centros. To darbināšanai nepieciešams liels daudzums enerģijas, taču, lai to saražotu, nāksies izmantot vairāk fosilo enerģiju. 🖥 youtu.be/AN09dlm7nLQ

www.goodreads.com/review/show/... #booksky #goodreads

@gcabanac.cpesr.fr It seems the Problematic Paper Screener might be experiencing some issues today. Does anyone know what’s going on?

454 Hints That a Chatbot Wrote Part of a Biomedical Researcher’s Paper Scientists show that the frequency of a set of words seems to have increased in published study abstracts since ChatGPT was released into the world. #giftlink www.nytimes.com/2025/07/02/h...

good work by sleuths documenting #papermill activity in Bioengineered, leading to Taylor & Francis suspending submissions so they can clean up the mess www.science.org/content/arti... #publishing #researchintegrity

A very important ending of the discussion on ethics and genAI at the ENAI conference in Uppsala - what are the environmental costs of genAI? #researchintegrity #ENAI2025 #genAIethics

Great panel on publication ethics at ECEIA 2025- Anna Abalkina, Bernhard Sabel, Laura Wilson and Sarah Eaton. The level of fraud and corruption is so worrying... Do we need a science police? #researchintegrity #publishingethics #ECEIA2025

Timely and very useful.