Trying a local beer.

"Chasing squiggles" was a talk given at Harvard today. 😊🤙

Working on my talk be like.....

Dysdera

Guardian

Weather report in NYC today.

Wiley: "After a detailed analysis of the concerns for each remaining article, we did not find anything to require further action on these articles. ......As such, we are now closing our investigation." Me: yeah but what about the O peaks at 8.5 KeV ....😅 pubpeer.com/publications...

Read how @jsmoliga.bsky.social and @mumumouse2.bsky.social made a woodpecker disappear!

Random antique store.

Q-Collar studies are great for learning about confounding factors and here is why. www.linkedin.com/posts/mu-yan.... @jsmoliga.bsky.social @bachynski.bsky.social @isaacerbele.bsky.social

We will fight back with this

This study on effects of probiotics in Parkinson's clinical trial has been retracted. pubpeer.com/publications.... This yogurt stuff confuses me: Could impair sociability pubpeer.com/publications... but help with Parkinson's?? I guess both studies are goofy. I love yogurt.

Had a lot of fun giving a talk at the @hope.net conference today. Being considered cool by hackers is the coolest thing ever 😎.

A sleuth's birthday be like : 1) sleuthing allllllll day 2) NOOOOOO interactions with humans 3) mouse (temporary) tattoo 4) naps 🎂☺️🐭❤️🍦🍺🍷

Ayman Atta (KSU, EPRI) has earned 5 more #SciRetraction, all from ‪ACS Omega! 👍Kudos to @acs.org @pubs.acs.org 🤝Team work with @mumumouse2.bsky.social Sylvain Bernès @elisabethbik.bsky.social and anonymous @pubpeer.com contributors ❤️ #ResearchIntegrity 🔍 #ImageForensics #FoSci #ThisImageIsFine

Tale of two retractions. www.linkedin.com/posts/mu-yan...

Dating myself

I work out and stuff. On a mini vacation.

Playing with prose.....

A journal dead (correction: discontinued!!) and the papers that lived. A saga of Journal of Chemical Neuroanatomy. www.linkedin.com/posts/mu-yan... Featuring @smutclyde.bsky.social @forbetterscience.bsky.social

It's a triplets! pubpeer.com/publications... pubpeer.com/publications... pubpeer.com/publications...

Another @plosone.org retraction of an Eliezer Masliah paper. Findings by @mumumouse2.bsky.social and me. "Regarding the similarities within the western blot panels in Fig 2A, the corresponding author stated that this figure was included for illustration purposes only." pubpeer.com/publications...

Just upgraded to an actually scary sleuth. ｡⁠◕⁠‿⁠◕⁠｡

Giving a talk on image manipulation today at the IEEE Panel of Editors meeting in Montreal.

Dysdera arabisenen

These two XRD only differ in places of two peaks. The weird part is that they indicate the same stuff, but one with two extra peaks. The peak at 7.5 KeV doesn't help.

Looking forward to this panel discussion!

Not the first time someone deleted their Google scholar as Dysdera arabisenen binge-flagging their papers on Pubpeer. ╮⁠(⁠╯⁠_⁠╰⁠)⁠╭

I posted several papers that I flagged by a certain author on LinkedIn --- I flagged 11 in 23 hours. I got a DM telling me to take my posts down. Nope! pubpeer.com/search?q=Muh...

Findings of apparent image doctoring were within a 132-paper dossier compiled primarily by @mumumouse2.bsky.social with big contributions by Matthew Schrag @thatsregrettab1.bsky.social @elisabethbik.bsky.social Story www.science.org/content/arti... Book 2/2 www.simonandschuster.com/books/Doctor...

@tkes.bsky.social and @nvitiensis.bsky.social are world's most underrated sleuths who are also insanely thorough and diligent. Check out their posts to see what I mean. pubpeer.com/publications...

Retracted by Optical Materials. Reported last fall. doi.org/10.1016/j.op...

As a chemistry/physics noob, even I can tell that C and N are not supposed to be jumping around that far along the energy spectrum. pubpeer.com/publications...

RETRACTED. With a great amount of help from @arbitraryeffect.bsky.social. Reported last June www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...

Don’t draw your data – sleuth’s stories in uncovering suspicious data in preclinical Alzheimer’s research papers by Dr. Mu Yang @mumumouse2.bsky.social 📽️ Recording: www.helsinki.fi/fi/unitube/v... 📊 Presentation: osf.io/xhr2f The event was organised by ReproducibiliTea UniHelsinki.

RETRACTED. Teamwork with @tkes.bsky.social ! pubpeer.com/publications...

Photoshopped Images, Scientific Fraud Derail Quest for Alzheimer’s Treatments mindsitenews.org/2025/02/10/s...

I will be giving a talk hosted by @reproducibilitea.org and @vvoikar.bsky.social on 2/12 9am EST. The focus is on highly problematic behavioral data in mouse models of Alzheimer's. I will also go over some image issues that I found in papers by Eliezer Masliah. helsinki.zoom.us/meeting/regi....

An analysis of Ramsden et al., 2005 from the Karen Ashe lab. www.linkedin.com/pulse/data-d...

Same trace was used in two papers to indicate different materials. No AI tool was used in this detection.

Earth is mostly water Science is mostly negative data Both are life Peace out🐭

This puzzle was a lot of fun! In RSC Advances. pubpeer.com/publications...

Swedish National Board for Assessment of Research Misconduct made a conclusion. Google translate "In summary, the committee finds that Preeti Menon, Adriana Miclescu, Fred Nyberg, Aruna Sharma, Hari Sharma and Lars Wiklund committed misconduct in research."

Challenge: write the most dry and polite comment on this for a pubpeer post. Rules: Can't use fake, fraud, hand-drawn, toddler etc. 10.1016/j.molliq.2017.10.055

Cited 477 times since 2019. And someone found dups while drinking coffee at 7am. 10.1016/j.compositesb.2019.03.045

FTIR? Nah that has to be semi-cooked instant ramen. pubpeer.com/publications...

Kind of just wanted to comment "No comment" on pubpeer about this one. pubpeer.com/publications...

A "Top 1% highly cited researcher" asked questions. I answered.

Okay fine that's my Christmas tree. ╮⁠(⁠.⁠ ⁠❛⁠ ⁠ᴗ⁠ ⁠❛⁠.⁠)⁠╭

Teamwork with @tkes.bsky.social written by our favorite Grinch @forbetterscience.bsky.social!