i can not be the only person wondering about the five percent gap between bigfoot and the yeti i mean is this where u draw the line

Many people don't know this but arXiv is maintained and operated by @cornelltech.bsky.social (that does NOT mean you can send me complaints or feature requests!) Everyone in the community should be excited that arXiv got $7M to upgrade from Schmidt Sciences, NASA news.cornell.edu/stories/2025...

Next Monday Dec 1 At 7pm after the holiday: Reproducibilily Salon will meet at my house in the Boston area to discuss incentives to get science right first time and before anyone else has to help out by reproducibility efforts! Please RSVP on meetup or to [email protected]

I don't remember one materials science expert in that original WSJ article. Why were experts in the actual subject not consulted? Why rely on the words of economists that this is something revelatory?

Fish have committed credit card fraud

Thanks to everyone who came to Sydney for #AIMOS2025! I can't wait to see you in Wellington, NZ next year!

Good morning from Sydney! Today is Day 2 of the @aimosinc.bsky.social conference I am attending one of the discussion sessions: Addressing journal editors' failure to retract fraudulent and misleading publications Speaker/Chair -Jon Jureidini, Leemon McHenry & George (Skip) Murgatroyd #AIMOS2025

Today in 1952, the Boston Globe published an article by science writer Michael Amrine sharing the news that the hydrogen bomb—successfully tested for the first time 18 days earlier but not yet deployed—would enable the United States to conduct mass slaughter for the low, low cost of $1 per person.

I'm excited about my Lightning Talk at @aimosinc.bsky.social about how professionals tell the difference between scientific fraud and scientific error at 1.30pm today. After I invite all those with interest or experience in this to join my afternoon workshop and help add their tools and insights.

We end today's conference day with a discussion led by Gideon Meyerowitz-Katz @gidmk.bsky.social Anyone who has tried to report concerns will have experienced how journals and institutions defer responsibility to the other party and how they 'investigate' and find 'no misconduct'. #IRICSydney

I think this is an overly pessimistic take from the @bmj.com. Sharing data does not inherently increase trust, rather it enables verification which allows for trust calibration. This example is a win. Serious issues were rapidly detected that would not have been without mandatory data sharing.

Guys! I've got a little nuclear mystery for you! I've had complaints about the AP caption of this image, which says its "a sub-surface atomic test" from March 23, 1955. That would make it a photo of the Operation Teapot ESS (Effects Subsurface) test. I think it might be labelled wrong...

Defense says that the officer's testimony was "very questionable" because he said the sandwich both exploded in spray of mustard and onions and also landed in its wrapper on the ground.

2025 is not over yet! Still unclear if I will remain intact by new year... especially if I have to review further papers by a certain colleague...

A little less than a year ago, a large team of cosmologists reported evidence that dark energy (which drives the acceleration of the expansion of the Universe) evolves over time. This made a huge splash but has also been viewed with healthy skepticism. Today they report that evidence has weakened. 🧪

If you have a very low-latitude aurora observation from tonight, please record your exact time and rough location and DO NOT DELETE your photo. These observations will be important for scientific research of this event. Comment below if you have a low-latitude aurora sighting.

I am excited to share our new preprint on our structural and biochemical analyses of human methionine synthase (MTR). This was the hard work of Douglas Ferreira who carried out this research as a significant part of his PhD. #CryoEM www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1...

Thank you to my hosts at Sandia National Laboratories for this recording of "Scientific Fraud in the 21st Century," my evolving lecture highlighting root causes of the 2002 Bell Labs case that remain with us today. tinyurl.com/mvhsh844

I've summarized the truth about Loeb's 10 "anomalies" about 3I/ATLAS in one post. Thanks to @deschscoveries.bsky.social @michael-w-busch.bsky.social @cometary.org and @marshall-eubanks.bsky.social for contributing their expertise!

have you seen the video about teaching an octopus to play piano yet it contains the breadth of human/cephalopod experience youtu.be/PcWnQ7fYzwI?...

I didn't know Begley, but the prescience needed to write an obituary of a scientist she had followed, knowing that her colleagues would think of her, find it, and publish it if she died first, makes me wonder what else she had in unpublished drafts

Excited to attend the @astrosociety.org gala tonight & receive the Nancy Grace Roman Award! I read about her life & career on my way here. Did you know she was responsible for making NASA data archives public so that everyone could benefit, not just PIs? Such an amazing impact on our field. 🔭

Part of a great thread and there are also some great holiday presents for scientists here. I like the "who wants to talk about physics?" buttons.

My books cartoon for this week’s @theguardian.com

For others troubled by the exoneration of Hoau-Yan Wang, there's an analysis of the difficulty prosecuting scientific fraudsters at 13:00 in this @bjkspod.bsky.social podcast. I didn't anticipate the role of institutional research integrity offices in manufacturing "reasonable doubts."

Halloween season, so in Boston we will hold the next Reproducibility Salon on Mon Oct 27 on spooky datasets: what about some data gets antennae up? (Yes, I repurposed image from a prior joke.)

📢 New article out in PLOS BIology! It was truly a pleasure and honour be a part of the core team members to lead this study and work alongside 129 collaborators from 82 institutions across 24 countries - the largest ever comparative study of neophobia in 🐦! 🥰

Calculator to ChatGPT

Brilliant history of failure to debunk scientific fraud via failure to explain why other technical people are falling for it

She is involved in a criminal enterprise with at least 10 RICO predicates

“Why is the night sky dark, if we live in an infinite universe?” Kepler, Halley, and Cheseaux all pondered this apparent paradox, but the question is commonly attributed to Heinrich Olbers, who was born #OTD in 1758. 🧪 🔭 Images: hyperphysics.phy-astr.gsu.edu/hbase/Astro/..., Wellcome Collection

“I have given several scientific talks that included our retraction story,” Greer said of the paper, which was retracted in December 2024. “Audience reaction has been uniformly positive.”

Today I am writing the professional email etiquette section of my upcoming marine biology career advice book.

uhhh... Marie and Pierre Curie showed decades prior that microwaves could unstale a croissant

I like this from RW roundup, but can't get through the paywall. How will this idea change the conclusions? And what if the data is wrong? Does this affect the speculation? www.nature.com/articles/d41...

Halloween season, so in Boston we will hold the next Reproducibility Salon on Mon Oct 27 on spooky datasets: what about some data gets antennae up? (Yes, I repurposed image from a prior joke.)

Hey hey! There are some tall pillars visible now in Maine that could be seen from states further south. Take a look north if you are in upper New England! The night is young, but it's great to see the aurora out already. go.theauroraguy.com/webcams

This makes a lot of sense. Science suffers from such a serious incentives issue that the more unhappy the authors are with their results, the more reliable they are likely to be.

See Figs 1-13 below

In her latest video, @acollierastro.bsky.social tackles physics grifters and I'm so here for it. www.youtube.com/watch?v=miJb...

This is what happens when Wittgenstein edits your math textbook. #science #philosophysky #math #mathematics #academia #philsky

I am putting my clippers away for the winter

Boston-area scientists & advocates for sound science: the next Reproducibility Salon will be Wed. Sep. 24, at 7pm! We will discuss "standing on the shoulders of giants" ... is it a good idea or can science proceed by consensus? Email me on [email protected] for my address near Davis Sq.

The magnificent @deevybee.bsky.social gave a #fosci talk pointing out to the major issue in #scientificpublishing that corporations are desperately trying to ignore — the editors who let all the garbage in their prestigious journals 🎇 + brilliant term: Negligent Open Access Publisher = NOPE

Boston-area scientists & advocates for sound science: the next Reproducibility Salon will be Wed. Sep. 24, at 7pm! We will discuss "standing on the shoulders of giants" ... is it a good idea or can science proceed by consensus? Email me on [email protected] for my address near Davis Sq.

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 🧪

Honestly, relying on copy paste errors to detect scientific fraud was never a foolproof strategy

HST two-color view of NGC 1068. Proposal 17165 / @astronomisty.bsky.social archive.stsci.edu/proposal_sea... Some more info, plus links to all the other processing I've done of this galaxy. flic.kr/p/2rsj7rm

This is worth a read. I especially like the line that scientists are not standing on the shoulders of giants if one of the giants ... wasn't. I have also started saying this as a way of explaining why fraudulent big results matter and must be exposed not forgotten.