RoRI is now on Substack! With Go Meta!, we’re joining the growing metascience conversation with essays, reflections & provocations on how research is funded and evaluated. Our first post, by @scurry.bsky.social, reflects on his journey into metascience: open.substack.com/pub/research...

In this episode of the Under Review podcast, I talk to @andytattersall.bsky.social about research fraud detection, papermills, and that rat. open.spotify.com/episode/0pYD...

Why every scientist needs a librarian www.nature.com/articles/d41... #libraries

John Oliver did a brutal exposé of how Elon Musk destroyed Twitter and turned X into a cesspool of right-wing misinformation. Oliver hasn't posted in over a year: "I will be going back there tomorrow to post a link to this piece before going silent again." Worth a watch.

nice long chat with @elisabethbik.bsky.social putting the scientific world to rights. Recommended #researchintegrity

A Google Gemini summary tying itself in knots with a contradictive AI summary of the Creative Commons NC licence. You can use the content for commercial purposes, but you also can't. Hope that's clear

Twitter would have been 20 years old next month, but it didn't make it beyond its teenage years 😢 I've written about the fact X still exerts a lot of influence over our public discourse, and why that's bad for all of us. tumshie.me/x-why-are-yo...

I dipped back in for the purposes of this post, and it's evident there's still loads of active accounts, and particular groups keeping things ticking along nicely. Huge kudos to @andytattersall.bsky.social's article and research into UK academia's use of X blogs.lse.ac.uk/impactofsoci...

Under Review episode 2 is out and I discuss research fraud detection, papermills and that 'rat' with @elisabethbik.bsky.social Listen and watch: Spotify open.spotify.com/episode/0pYD... Apple Podcasts podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/u... YouTube youtube.com/watch?v=l2548stXDAo&feature=youtu.be 1/2

I’m really glad I’ve given a good amount of time to watch the #WinterOlympics These guys are amazing, so brave, strong, fast, technical and artistic. They are the best of us.

AI is like the modern car and that we could fall into the trap of using it by default when sometimes it’s better to take the longer organic route to the shops than just start the engine. Use the car too much and you run the risk of becoming lazy. Same applies to the human brain.

This is a new phenomenon and business model exploiting gaps in publishing. The cartel uses fake names to produce AI-written or plagiarised papers. Reference lists contain 100s of paid entries.If papers are retracted, no real authors are punished, and citations still count, even from retracted papers

I saw a rather large, very pale green butterfly in the garden today., It rested on a leaf for minutes. Throw in a few early opening Daffodils and I'm starting to feel a whole load more positive about this year.

New from @katherineeban.bsky.social in @rollingstone.com: CDC appointees bypassed the agency’s scientists to rush-fund a study questioning the hep B birth dose. The ethics committee president says his name was used on the approval without his knowledge. www.rollingstone.com/politics/pol...

www.statnews.com/2026/02/20/c... i hope they can get the data from the authors. I was told by the editor that data weren’t available because of patient confidentiality- so many authors use that excuse , it makes data sharing policies worthless

Dogsleigh #WinterOlympics

Guest blogpost by @deadneanderthals.bsky.social and colleagues on the persistence of stealth corrections in the scientific literature: deevybee.blogspot.com/2026/02/gues... #publishing #integrity

👀ICYMI: "22% of university academics and 59% of professional services staff agreed that generative AI could support the development of REF2029 environment statements" ✍️Kayvan Kousha, @mikethelwall.bsky.social & @lizziegadd.bsky.social #REF2029

Libraries are among the few public institutions that represent the kind of world we want to live in. They must be fought for.

Coming up on Monday, episode 2 of Under Review podcast where I chatted with Elisabeth Bik who is the renowned microbiologist and scientific integrity consultant. Her work involves detecting and outing photo manipulation in scientific publications. 1/2

Who or what is to blame for the waves of redundancies at UK universities? Whether you are academic or professional staff, still employed or unemployed, we are anxious to hear your perspectives in our UK Redundancy Survey timeshighered.survey.fm/uk-redundanc...

This year, for Lent, I’m giving up.

If you want to reduce the toxic chemicals lurking in your home, tune into my new 3 part series called Toxic. Starts TODAY BBC Radio 4 - Toxic!, A Recipe for Disaster? share.google/GqwZFlleAL9H...

Our list of retracted COVID-19 papers is up to just shy of 650, representing about 1% of all retracted papers in the Retraction Watch Database.

1/ Finally wrote up “The Story of Mendeley”! Most people know the tool, few know about its rise and fall. The Mendeley story provides important clues for how to build self-sustaining AND non-extractive knowledge commons, which is why I think it deserves more attention 🧵

“Scientists should stop trying to be neutral and instead embrace their values,”says a group of top climate scientists, including @katharinehayhoe.com. The neutrality myth is harming the reputation of science right when we need it most.” #ClimateCrisis Science isn’t neutral. It’s science.

Good impact narratives must connect to our everyday lives. I mean, it's not rocket science, but it still seems to be for the majority of research (that is of benefit to the public) @lseimpactblog.bsky.social blogs.lse.ac.uk/impactofsoci...

Do you work in local authority, public health facing roles and want to get evidence into practice? Then we want to hear from you! We have a small group of local authority staff who help shape and support the KNOW-PH programme. You can get in touch. www.know-ph.ac.uk/our-collabor... 1/1

FOR THE RECORD: one year on, I lay out clearly how Elon Musk FRS has breached the @royalsociety.org’s code of conduct, why the Society’s failure to defend its values has been so damaging, & what they need do to recover their standing in the scientific community. occamstypewriter.org/scurry/2026/...

This feels true... by Instagram user @beckybarnicomics www.instagram.com/p/DFXYUJatjBV

I couldn't agree more with the position on Musk and the Royal Society laid out in this excellent post by @scurry.bsky.social. What continues to dismay folks like Stephen and @deevybee.bsky.social & me is that the RS seems unwilling to speak to *this* case... occamstypewriter.org/scurry/2026/...

Hello. Former Index On Censorship staffer here. To be very clear, having your request to speak at a society of which you are not a member does not count, in any sense whatsoever, as censorship. nation.cymru/news/uproar-...

2026 is the year Bluesky and the Atmosphere really come alive here's what's next bsky.social/about/blog/0...

Mozilla will allow Firefox users to entirely block current and future generative AI features on the browser after user feedback revealed many who wanted an AI-free browser experience.

Ahead of next week's new episode of Under Review podcast, just a reminder of the fascinating first edition with my guest @deevybee.bsky.social as we discussed The Royal Society, Musk and academic fraud. Listen on Apple podcasts apple.co/4qthaFo Watch on YouTube www.youtube.com/watch?v=35dc... 1/2

He’s got a lot to say for himself today

I was chatting to a friend about AI, academia, fraud, authenticity and creativity and for some reason it led me down a rabbit hole to the classic satirical TV news show, The Day Today; and the great bluffer of the reporting world, Peter O'Hanraha-hanrahan. Bear with me on this one... 1/6

I'll get my coat... This Social Media Platform Is Just for AI Bots. Humans Can Only Watch (in Horror). www.vice.com/en/article/t...

A chatbot designed by scholars can outperform PhD students and postdocs in undertaking scientific literature reviews, according to a Nature study that says the LLM is capable of producing reliable summaries for less than a penny. @jgro-the.bsky.social reports #AcademicSky https://ow.ly/xokF50Y8M1y

A story from higher ed: Faculty at an R1 university are being required to participate in a “design sprint“ led by a consultant. The goal is to completely redesign Calculus curriculum with the help of AI, even though there is zero evidence that this is necessary or a good idea 1/2

X offices raided in France as UK opens fresh investigation into Grok www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...

💥New | We need to move beyond the accept/reject binary in peer review ✍️ @georgealfredcurrie.bsky.social & Damian Pattinson #PeerReview #AcademicSky #AcademicPublishing

If you're interested in applying for a sponsored place to #UKSG2026 there are TEN available this year! 🎉 Find more out 🔗 www.uksg.org/news/2026/01... 🚨Deadline for applications is 15 February 2026 2/2

Based on episode one of my podcast - we're gonna need a bigger Under Review bin

many thanks to @andytattersall.bsky.social for indulging me and encouraging me to discuss all the things that should go in the bin. Nice long chat which is the antithesis of Tiktok.

Academia doesn’t need another minor tweak. It needs a total overhaul. Welcome to the debut of Under Review, my podcast where we stop polite desk-shuffling and start reimagining a system that actually works. Episode 1. @deevybee.bsky.social Spotify open.spotify.com/episode/0vdP... 1/3

Proper citation of research by journalists is necessary for more trustworthy news A piece I wrote for @lseimpactblog.bsky.social blogs.lse.ac.uk/impactofsoci...

And in local news Council to stop using 'unsafe' social media site X www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...

📚 On this International Day of Education, we’re excited to share that DORA is launching an introductory course on Responsible Research Assessment in February 2026! An online, self-paced course on the basics of RRA, open to all career stages. Watch this space! 🧐

Pay for Alan Turing Institute’s top earners rose 16% in 2025. Increase in remuneration, including one staff member paid over £300,000, accompanied controversial cuts to research. www.researchprofessionalnews.com/rr-news-uk-c...