The #EinsteinFoundationAward hosts a plenary showcasing winners advancing transparency, reproducibility & responsible science. Timothy Errington @cos.io, @brandonstell.bsky.social @pubpeer.com & @elisabethbik.bsky.social share insights on open science, post-publication peer review & error detection.

Congrats to anonymous commenter Gymnothorax javanicus, winner of the August PubPeer Award for a comment on a 2025 @natneuro.nature.com paper. To claim the $1000 prize, log in with the same account and add a follow-up comment with contact info (that won't be published by moderators).

Catching up on a summer backlog: congrats to @reeserichardson.bsky.social, winner of the July PubPeer Award for a comment on a 2024 article in @cp-cellmetabolism.bsky.social pubpeer.com/publications... Reese donated his $1000 prize to @msf.ca and the @elisabethbik.bsky.social Science Integrity Fund

while our commentary to the infamous paper is still stuck at the editor after 2 months with no reason, the preprint has become a top download :D papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers.... #ChemSky #researchintegrity @pubpeer.com

Grateful for the invitation from the Royal Society — and heartening to see the growing momentum, evident throughout the meeting, behind separating evaluation from publication.

Great to see our awardees @elisabethbik.bsky.social & @brandonstell.bsky.social (founder of @pubpeer.com) among the speakers at the @royalsociety.org Future of Scientific Publishing conference. Their work continues to shape responsible publishing. Joined by @magdalenaskipper.bsky.social and others.

On Monday, July 21 at @reeserichardson.bsky.social will be giving a talk about COSIG for Open Research Summer School, organized by @kingsioppn.bsky.social! Online attendance for all of Open Research Summer School is free! Register here: www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/open-resea...

Recommended talk about @pubpeer.com after 10 years of comments, including questions and answers on the platform's economic model, moderation rules, and litigations! #openscience

While I am sad that it took eleven years to retract this paper, @PLOS.org journals make good decisions about when to correct or retract. They are also one of the few publishers that keep me informed of retractions. Other publishers should follow their example.

‘Anyone can do this’: Sleuths publish a toolkit for post-publication review @averyorrall.bsky.social reports on an initiative from @reeserichardson.bsky.social and colleagues

📣 Save the date for the 11th PCI webinar on June 18, 2025, at 4 PM CET!! Brandon Stell (CNRS, Paris) will present "Elevating Scientific Standards: Community-Driven Assessment on PubPeer ". For more details and registration, visit: buff.ly/XuownT0

Congratulations to Placida kingstoni for winning the latest $1000 PubPeer Monthly Prize for outstanding comment! 🏆 Their analysis offers fresh perspective on a key Nature study linking herpes zoster virus to dementia: pubpeer.com/publications... The anon user can get in touch to claim the award.

#neuroscience I don’t see discussions on BlueSky. It is just a list of mentions of papers.Surely the point of the site is more than that?

After every encounter with the current scientific publishing system

I reviewed a paper recently. It was flawed & rejected. It later appeared unchanged in another journal. So how is peer review a “gold standard”? You can’t have a gold standard if people can’t tell the difference between gold and bauxite..

Congratulations to Florence Débarre @flodebarre.bsky.social for winning the March PubPeer Monthly Prize for her outstanding comment on a 2025 arXiv preprint! 🏆 pubpeer.com/publications... Insightful contributions like this help strengthen the scientific record—thank you!

While i agree we need to be alert to weaponisation, the threat to put all Sylvain's papers on the #PubPeer site to obtain their retraction is empty. I think we should avoid amplifying this view of PubPeer as some kind of unmoderated site where anyone can make false accusations.

A Sciences & médias, on est force de solutions. Comme avec cette table ronde : "Junk science et junk journalism : comment sortir de la poubelle ?" On vous a préparé une table ronde de toute beauté, avec :

🏆 Research integrity consultant and image forensics expert @elisabethbik.bsky.social has uncovered fraudulent data in over 7,600 scientific papers and exposed the practices of ‘paper mills’ that produce counterfeit scientific articles. She is honoured with the €200K Individual Award. Congrats!

Announcing the February winner of the $1,000 PubPeer Monthly Prize! Congratulations to Palaquium morobense for their insightful comment: pubpeer.com/publications... This marks our first anonymous winner. To claim the $1,000 prize, contact us using the anonymous login linked to the comment.

Is there even a small chance this could finally put the issue to rest in the minds of Kennedy et al? Let's hope that the data from this study will be open and the results published in a format that allows for scientific discussion and critique.

Interested in how we can tackle the scourge of research fraud? And meeting people in the delightful city of Oxford? Join us at the FAIRS meeting in April - in-person and online options. More details and booking form: www.sjcfairsmeeting.com (turn off VPN if it doesn't load)

⏰ Join an engaging colloquium on scientific integrity, featuring the 2024 Einstein Foundation Award Winners next week! @elisabethbik.bsky.social, @brandonstell.bsky.social @pubpeer.com, @helenajambor.bsky.social & Christopher Schmied at Charité or online: www.einsteinfoundation.de/en/insights/...

Putting the prize our Cake Club won for a comment on @pubpeer.com to good use by spending it on.... more cake (and discussing Echenique & He, www.pnas.org/doi/10.1073/...)

📢 Coming soon: Season 2 of the Lab Coats & Life™ Podcast! Hear from Dr. Brandon Stell, @pubpeer.com co-founder, Dr. Judy Mielke, @scientifyresearch.org co-founder, Dr. Nokuthula Mchunu, Deputy Director of The National Research Foundation of South Africa (NRF), and more this season.

Ugh.

Unfortunately, this remains all too common.

If scientific assessment shifted from counting publications to expert evaluation of their quality, the tactic of citing junk papers to support bad arguments would lose its power. More open evaluation by the community, more retractions, and fewer metrics would make science harder to hijack.

More and more authors are engaging with post-publication discussion—offering clarifications, corrections, and insights. Author comments on PubPeer have grown dramatically over the past decade, as shown in the graph below. Scientific dialogue doesn’t end at publication. #ScienceEditorial

There is an important message today of @holdenthorp.bsky.social & @meagan-g-phelan.bsky.social to all scientists who always ignore their @pubpeer.com record: "... the public may take a response of <no comment> as a concession that the critics are correct" www.science.org/doi/10.1126/...

📆 From detection to prevention: improving the scientific publication record - Join the 2024 Einstein Foundation Award Winners’ Colloquium w/ @elisabethbik.bsky.social, @brandonstell.bsky.social @pubpeer.com, @helenajambor.bsky.social & Christopher Schmied www.einsteinfoundation.de/en/insights/...

Congratulations to Vitaly Podzorov for winning the January PubPeer Monthly Prize for his outstanding analysis of a 2024 Nature article! pubpeer.com/publications... These $1,000 awards are given each month. Learn more and see examples of winning comments: pubpeer.com/static/award

Important read on the devastating impact of fraud in Alzheimer's research, highlighting the work of 2024 #EinsteinFoundationAward winners @elisabethbik.bsky.social and @pubpeer.com in cleaning up the scientific record. #ResearchIntegrity www.nytimes.com/2025/01/24/o...

First review of my book, DOCTORED: FRAUD, ARROGANCE, AND TRAGEDY IN THE QUEST TO CURE ALZHEIMER’S, to be published Feb 4, out from Publisher’s Weekly: “hard-hitting exposé…troubling look at the corruption of Big Science.” Available for prerelease orders www.publishersweekly.com/9781668031247

Hat tip to various members of our journal club who contributed to the comment: @grinschglsandra.bsky.social (who wrote the first draft of the comment) @sabrinanorwood.bsky.social @jamiecummins.bsky.social @taymalsalti.bsky.social

Congratulations to @malte.the100.ci for winning the inaugural PubPeer $1000 Monthly Prize for the best comment! December brought many excellent contributions, but Malte's journal club discussion truly stood out. pubpeer.com/publications...

There’s still time to share your insights and qualify for our first $1,000 award! Add your comment before the end of the month, and stay tuned here to find out who the December winner will be: pubpeer.com/static/award

Hello, friends. Have you installed the @pubpeer.com plug-in for your browser yet? If not, why not? Bigly recommended if you want to be like Ms Stone, below.

19 months and counting: Former Hindawi journal still hasn’t marked paper Featuring @elisabethbik.bsky.social @thatsregrettab1.bsky.social @pubpeer.com

And check @pubpeer.com if you act as reviewer or editor of a manuscript, what I systematically do and recommend…

Tip of the day: use @pubpeer.com for evaluating a grant application: if an author have a serious issue (it is important to appraise this qualitatively) that has not been addressed (no satisfying answer), do not recommend the application for funding. Wish of the day: funder make this tip mandatory.

We read this paper in our journal club, and found it interesting and an illustrative contribution to statistical education. There were a few points that we think the authors could address to strengthen it. Full summary of our journal club on @pubpeer.com: pubpeer.com/publications...

We’re encouraging meaningful commentary with $1,000 rewards for selected PubPeer comments. bsky.app/profile/pubp... Now imagine if @hhmi.bsky.social , NIH, NSF, etc also awarded outstanding public reviews. These could boost careers and CVs while building a vital layer of scientific evaluation.

Attention #MedLibs and others running journal clubs! Opportunity to win Cash Money for a valuable post-publication peer review comment on PubPeer.

PubPeer has received the 2024 Einstein Foundation Award. This recognition celebrates the contributions of our community to scientific discourse. award.einsteinfoundation.de/award-winner... This award provides a financial boost that we’re reinvesting back into the platform and its users. See below:

tap tap tap. Is this thing on?