What a moment! 🌟 @elisabethbik.bsky.social, @brandonstell.bsky.social, @pubpeer.com, and Tim Errington @cos.io on stage at #WCRI2026 For our 5-year-old #EinsteinFoundationAward, there's no better birthday present than seeing our winners on the world's premier stage for research integrity.

I will be giving a BitesizeBio Webinar on Monday March 23 (5 pm UK time / 1 pm ET / 10 am PT). Title: "How to Find Errors and Misconduct in Biomedical Papers". Topics: sleuthing, @pubpeer.com, @cosig.net Register here: events.bitesizebio.com/how-to-find-...

BITSS Annual meeting April 16, 2026 in Berkeley, CA Featured topic: Frontiers on AI and Open Science Keynote: Devon Crawford, NINDS www.bitss.org/events/bitss...

Honored to highlight the incredible award winners: among them @elisabethbik.bsky.social, @pubpeer.com, @cos.io, @ucbitss.bsky.social, @guyattgh.bsky.social, @psysciacc.bsky.social, @helenajambor.bsky.social, @sofiaforss.bsky.social & more. Nominate & Apply by April 30! award.einsteinfoundation.de

Don't miss this! 🌟 Watch @elisabethbik.bsky.social, brandonstell.bsky.social, pubpeer.com & Tim Errington, cos.io on AI & research integrity. Ulrich Dirnagl, award secretary & QUEST Center, bihatcharite.bsky.social joins from the award team. 📢 check out the open call! award.einsteinfoundation.de

Towards more reliable research: Today, together with @bihatcharite.bsky.social, we welcomed the 2025 #EinsteinFoundationAward winners: @simine.com, Maximilian Sprang, and the Brazilian Reproducibility Initiative @redebrrepro.bsky.social. A recording will be available soon.

📢 Job Alert: Wir suchen eine:n Referent:in (E13 TV-L, 80 %), Schwerpunkt: Internationale Rekrutierung ab Postdoc-Level! 🗓️ Bewerbungsfrist: 2. März 2026 🔗 www.einsteinfoundation.de/stiftung/ste... #JobAlert #Wissenschaftsmanagement

As the very unbiased coordinator of this award, I highly recommend: apply. And if it's not for you, a repost might help it reach the researcher, initiative, idea it is perfect for

We proudly present the winners of the #EinsteinFoundationAward for Promoting Quality in Research 2025! The jury has selected outstanding contributions that promote research quality around the world! In coop w/ QUEST Center @bihatcharite.bsky.social www.einsteinfoundation.de/presse/2025/... (1/5)

Who will win the €100,000 Early Career #EinsteinFoundationAward? Join us Nov 10 (3-5pm CET) to discover up to six finalist projects boosting research quality, selected from 72 global applications. Online event at @berlinscienceweek.bsky.social Register now: www.einsteinfoundation.de/en/insights/...

"[W]e found that as few as 250 malicious documents can produce a 'backdoor' vulnerability in a large language model —regardless of model size or training data volume". And the large-scale implementation of these bullshitting devices in government and academia is duly on its way. Wonderful.

Free to attend virtually: a NASEM event "Rethinking researcher assessment and incentives at U.S. academic institutions: A workshop" October 28-29, 2025 Agenda: www.nationalacademies.org/event/45044_... Registration: events.nationalacademies.org/45044_10-202...

Unconference #RRiA: PixelQuality's @chrischmied.bsky.social (w/ @helenajambor.bsky.social), #EinsteinFoundationAward early-career winners, shared the journey of building a global team of 149 experts, @quarep-limi.bsky.social & creating a checklist now standard in @natureportfolio.nature.com journals

Apply online by November 1st! Wiko Early Career Call for fellowships 2026/27 in the #NaturalSciences and #LifeSciences. Gain time to think during a 3–5 month #fellowship at the Wissenschaftskolleg zu Berlin – Institute for Advanced Study: wiko-berlin.de/fellow-werde... #cfa

☎️ Berlin Calling: Your Research. Our City. A Perfect Match. The Einstein Postdoctoral Grant for early career researchers or the Einstein Visiting Fellowship for distinguished scholars – our funding opportunities offer pathways into Berlin’s research landscape. berlincalling.einsteinfoundation.de

Join us in Berlin following the RRIA Unconference for a Train-the-Trainer Session on Equity, Diversity, & Inclusion in Reproducibility Research! Free in-person workshop 25 September 2025 10:00am-4:30pm Berlin Institute of Health, Berlin Learn more & register: irise-project.eu/news/#!/Deta...

Register now for #SORTEE2025 conference! We thank our sponsors (@asn-amnat.bsky.social, @cdnsciencepub.com, @datadryad.bsky.social, @peercommunityin.bsky.social, @royalsociety.org, @sse-evolution.bsky.social, @biologists.bsky.social) who are eligible for free registration.

BIFOLD invited Angela Holzer to reflect on this year’s Summer School theme: Open Science and AI. Alongside Katrin Frisch, Sören Auer, and Elena Simperl she is a keynote speaker at the 2025 Berlin Summer School on Artificial Intelligence and Society and will discuss "Is Open Science still relevant?"

Announcing Colloquium: Problematic Science. With presentations by @elisabethbik.bsky.social and @stanvanpelt.bsky.social. RU, 14 oct.

We are accepting nominations for the 2026 NAS Awards! We will honor scientists who have made pioneering contributions to a wide range of fields, including #psychology, #mathematics, #neuroscience, #artificialintelligence & more.🏅 Who will you nominate? #NASaward www.nasonline.org/awards/curre...

🏅 Know an outstanding individual, a small team of researchers, or an institution that would be a strong candidate for the #EinsteinFoundationAward? ▶️ You can now recommend them at any time throughout the year: award.einsteinfoundation.de/recommend-a-...

Global Minds Initiative Germany: Federal Ministry of Research launches new programme to strengthen Germany as a science location together with the Humboldt Foundation, @dfg.de and @daadworldwide.bsky.social. www.bmftr.bund.de/EN/Research/...

📢 Only 6 days left to secure your spot! ⏳ Researchers, patient advocates, funders, ethics officers, journal editors, research managers, and all who shape the research ecosystem: Join us in Berlin for hands-on work on reproducibility, preregistration, assessment, and responsible research.👇

here’s a positive suggestion for academic publishing. Journals need to be accredited as meeting integrity standards in order to qualify for APCs enviromicro-journals.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/full/10....

🗓️ 24.7.2025, 17:30–18:15 Uhr 🎤 mit Rabea Müller & @kuf.bsky.social 📍 Zoom | ID: 820 4000 9306 | Code: 739401 🔗ogy.de/zrxf 📺 Aufzeichnung später auf YouTube (ZB MED) #TheCarpentries #OpenScience #Inklusion #Wissenschaft #CommunitySupport 🧵 (2/2)

Much needed! Excited to see what comes of this.

"The research assessment ecosystem hinders innovative publication models that address our biggest problems in research." 💬 Guest blog post by @rnls.bsky.social, Director of @f1000publishing.bsky.social & DORA Vice-Chair, on #ResearchAssessment and #ScholarlyCommunication 👉 sfdora.org/2025/07/23/a...

❗Reminder: Register by August 3, 2025 to join the RRiA Unconference. Excited to see so many great minds coming together Sept 22–24 in Berlin!

Life scientist? Early career? Want 6 months to think in Berlin with cool people? There’s a fellowship for that. 👇

For a long time we been wondering how the human “WEIRD” syndrome also is present in comparative cognitive research. In our new Paper led by @elisa_bandini we report on the existing biases in chimpanzee research 🚨👇🏼 @Einstein_Berlin

Congrats Elisa and Sofia on the first (of many) papers that derived from their @einsteinberlin.bsky.social price-winning project (paper available here: onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/...)

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.

Shape research culture + practices! Join the Responsible Research in Action Unconference 2025, Sept 22–24, Berlin, to collaborate on innovative solutions – from reproducibility checks to researcher-driven funding models. rr-in-action2025.org @dfg.de @ucoimbra.bsky.social @berlinualliance.bsky.social

#SupportOLSPub - every vote counts The first giant steps have been taken, the OLSPub application has been submitted. For all those who, as researchers, information specialists or simply as people, would like to position themselves, everyone can leave a signature here. blog.zbmed.de/olspub-support

#DiamondOA finally flips the script: no fees for authors or readers. That’s the kind of publishing sense we need! Can’t wait for the Open 2.0 webinar @plos.org to learn more!

Content submissions for the 5th SORTEE Conference (15-16 Oct 2025) are now OPEN. Submit your proposal for an unconference, hackathon or workshop by June 2nd via sortee.org/upcoming The conference will be FREE for members, so consider joining us (sortee.org/join/).

It’s official: PixelQuality imaging guidelines, setting the bar (literally!) for image standards, are now being piloted in FOUR Nature journals. 📏🎉 A huge congratulations to our Einstein Foundation Award Winner for this amazing achievement! Read all about it in @nature.com!

Excited to announce a webinar hosted by R4E @repro4everyone.bsky.social on data visualization with Helena Jambor (@helenajambor.bsky.social) !!! Details here: www.repro4everyone.org/blog/r4e-hos...

Last chance to nominate the heroes who make research trustworthy - and #EarlyCareerResearchers, don’t forget to send in your fresh, brilliant ideas! All disciplines welcome! #ResearchIntegrity #OpenScience #OpenAccess #Reproducibility

📅 Save the Date! The Africa Evidence Summit returns June 23–24, 2025 in Nairobi 🇰🇪—co-hosted by CEGA + @nieraglobal.bsky.social Theme: Better Data for Decision-Making. Part of #NairobiEvidenceWeek—advancing research & policy across the region. More info: buff.ly/XcnTfSv #EconSky #PoliSky

🚀 Job Alert: Studentische:r Beschäftigte:r / Stiftungskommunikation. Hier entstehen Pressemitteilungen, der Podcast #AskDifferent, das #ALBERTJournal & Veranstaltungen wie #EinsteinInTheDome. + 15 Stunden/Woche + Bezahlung in Anlehnung an TV STUD III Berlin www.einsteinfoundation.de/stiftung/ste...

#Reminder: The €350K #EinsteinFoundationAward aims to provide recognition & publicity for outstanding efforts that enhance the rigor, reliability, robustness and transparency of research in three categories. The #CallForEntries closes 30/04/2025: award.einsteinfoundation.de

US-Spitzenforscher leiden unter der Trump-Regierung. Deutschland sollte sie mit einem ambitionierten »Meitner-Einstein-Programm« ins Land locken. Es würde die hiesige Innovationskraft stärken.

OpenAI-generated western blots? And we thought that photoshopping data was bad. This is going to be very hard to pick up... 😟

If you're into big teamwork and #OpenScience, this webinar is the place to be!

🚀 Exciting news for the Open Science community! Join us for the FORRT Summaries Hackathon on April 8th (Online, 4-6pm CEST / 2-4pm UTC)! Help summarize key papers in open science & support educators. Sign up by April 4th: forms.gle/CpNXKa2tA62D... What’s a hackathon? 🧵

Final call for registration for meeting on research #fraud. Talks and discussion sessions with sleuths, research integrity experts, and more. Online and in person options. www.sjcfairsmeeting.com (turn off VPN if it doesn't load) #ResearchIntegrity #Oxford

🙋‍♀️ Convocatoria abierta para el #EinsteinFoundationAward (@einsteinberlin.bsky.social) 🏅 Categorías: Individual, Institucional y Personas que se dedican a la investigación y están al comienzo de sus carreras. 🗓️ Fecha límite: 30 de abril. 🔗 Más información (en inglés): award.einsteinfoundation.de

#Reminder: The €350K #EinsteinFoundationAward aims to provide recognition for outstanding efforts that enhance the rigor, reliability, robustness & transparency of research in 3 categories: Individual, Institutional & Early Career. The #CallForEntries closes 30/04/2025: award.einsteinfoundation.de

📣 Workshop on reproducible science and its transformative potential for science 📝 Program + registration: events.hifis.net/event/1750/ 📅 25.03.25 ℹ️ hybrid 🌐 Berlin MDC-BIMBS @mdc-bimsb.bsky.social & online It's a good opportunity to network and exchange ideas. @mdc-berlin.bsky.social #OpenScience