5️⃣4️⃣ Elisabeth Bik (1966- ) 🇳🇱 #womeninSTEM @elisabethbik.bsky.social Microbiologist, she worked on cholera epidemics in India & Bangladesh. Internationally recognised for her work in detecting image manipulation. 2021 Maddox Prize & 2024 Einstein Foundation award. www.statnews.com/2024/02/28/e...

Good morning! Today is a day ending in "y", which means I found another mathematically-impossible Table of Summary Statistics in a peer-reviewed "green economics" paper! What can you see? 🔎 #FablesofFlummeryStatistics

OpenAlex intégré au Web of Science, ou la capture du travail des “commoners” | carnetist.hypotheses.org/2572

In fact, there are several tortured phrases in this paper. My favourite: "Stochastic Effects of Relapse on Popular and Technology (STIRPAT)" which should be: "Stochastic Impacts by Regression on Population, Affluence, and Technology (STIRPAT)"

Scène de la vie académique ordinaire dans le tgv Un chercheur voisin (qui n'a pas mis de filtre de confidentialité sur son écran) Est en train de rédiger un long mail d'explications pour répondre à deux co autrices qui lui reprochent très vivement d'avoir écrit sa section d'article avec une IA

Je tiens les maisons d'édition pour responsables. Elles publient et parfois vendent de la pollution : des articles toxiques. LinkedIn me permet d'atteindre les décideurs de ces publishers et les représentants institutionnels. Du délire... 😵‍💫 voici quelques extraits : www.linkedin.com/in/guillaume...

An international computing society has begun retracting conference papers for “citation falsification” only months after the sleuth who flagged the suspect articles was convicted for defamation in a lawsuit filed by one of the offending authors.

We wrote the Strain on scientific publishing to highlight the problems of time & trust. With a fantastic group of co-authors, we present The Drain of Scientific Publishing: a 🧵 1/n Drain: arxiv.org/abs/2511.04820 Strain: direct.mit.edu/qss/article/... Oligopoly: direct.mit.edu/qss/article/...

36 cites to the same author? Retracted. 59 of them? Not retracted! 4 self-cites? Retracted. 21 self-cites? Not retracted! 70 unused cites to the same author? Retracted. 77 of them? Not retracted! Plagiarism? Cites authors didn't add? 113 cites to the TPC chair in a 0.5-page paper? Not retracted!

🟢 Vos revues profanées Des revues de référence qui se mettent à publier en masse des articles louches et à augmenter leur frais de publication ? Au moins sept revues françaises seraient passées aux mains d’obscurs éditeurs. On vous explique 👇 themeta.news/linvasion-de... #VeilleESR

!!! 6 octobre 2025 - Amphi Weiss - 45 rue des Saint Pères - Paris !!! 15h Conférence d'Irène Frachon, lanceuse d'alerte du #mediator suivie à 16h d'une table ronde sur la manipulation de l'information scientifique et la protection des lanceurs d'alerte (détails ci-dessous).

<Déroulez !>Au cœur de l’été, une alerte très relayée est arrivée des Etats-Unis. Une de plus, sur la croissance trop rapide de la fraude scientifique. Les publications vérolées augmentent « à un rythme bien supérieur à celui des publications légitimes », prévient l’Académie des sciences (PNAS).

Grateful that @lonnibesancon.bsky.social‬, @gcabanac.cpesr.fr, Cyril Labbe and Alexander Magazinov chose to donate the proceeds of their ASIS&T Best Paper Award for 2025 to the @elisabethbik.bsky.social Fund to support the work of sleuths. More here: centerforscientificintegrity.org/our-projects...

🤯 Tortured phrases in ‘ACM Computing Surveys’ a top journal in my field (JIF 28 and SJR Q1, FWIW). @acm.org tell us it's a bug in the editorial system. Did any of the reviewers recommended acceptance? Please make their reports public with the upcoming retraction notice. pubpeer.com/publications...

Once upon a time, two science journalists had an idea for a blog about retractions. And on Aug. 3, 2010, Retraction Watch launched. And now, 15 years and 6,700 posts later, that work seems more important than ever. Happy 15th anniversary, Retraction Watch.

Reporter: The FDA has a new AI tool that's intended to speed up drug approvals. But several FDA employees say the new AI helper is making up studies that do not exist. One FDA employee telling us, 'Anything that you don't have time to double check is unreliable. It hallucinates confidently'

« La science qui s'auto-corrige, explique @gcabanac.cpesr.fr, relève de la pensée magique ». Entretien vidéo intéressant, engagé mais nuancé, sur les manquements à l'intégrité scientifique, à voir sur @cairninfo.bsky.social. stm.cairn.info/comment-depo...

Anyone can do post-publication peer review. Anyone can be a steward of the scientific literature. Anyone can do forensic metascience. Anyone can sleuth. That's why we are launching COSIG: the Collection of Open Science Integrity Guides, an open source resource for all of the above. cosig.net

I presented our work at @easeeditors.bsky.social conference. We looked how visible corrections are across different platform where researchers can get their literature. Because if a paper has been corrected, the goal is that the reader actually sees the correction. #correctionofscience

🎧 Get your headphones ready 👂 We are proud to announce that our podcast "Science in the Gray Zone"’ is out! In this first season we talk about the obstacles to the self-correction of science in academia and industry from Science and Technology Studies standpoint. open.spotify.com/show/2AuVl4w...

Have you registered for our upcoming webinar? Join @gcabanac.cpesr.fr as he dives into how the Problematic Paper Screener Tool leverages Retraction Watch #metadata via the @crossref.bsky.social REST API. 📅 Save your spot now: crossref.zoom.us/webinar/regi...

Webinar Follow-Up: Detecting Problematic Papers with #Retraction Watch #Metadata. Join us for the next instalment in our webinar series, featuring @gcabanac.cpesr.fr (1/2)

It is 2025, and @elsevierconnect.bsky.social is still happily publishing AI-generated crap and asking money for this. Come on, Elsevier, where is your commitment to publishing quality articles and book chapters? pubpeer.com/publications...

A new journal record: Sage title retracts 678 more papers, tally over 1,500

Read our paper in JAMA Internal Med with a great editorial. Wonderful collaboration with @gcabanac.cpesr.fr Retracted papers are included in meta-analyses published in HIF journal. Inclusion of the retracted studies changed effect estimates. jamanetwork.com/journals/jam...

🫥 Withdrawn on 2099-12-31: Thank you @elsevierconnect.bsky.social for warning readers ahead of time: doi.org/10.1016/j.bj... CC @retractionwatch.com

Haha! Love this letter from Douglas Adams to his US editor about not Americanising the text of Hitchhiker's Guide. 🐋🌸

[THREAD] La saison 2025 de La Clairière des idées a officiellement démarré ! 🌳✨ Ce cycle de rencontres-débats, organisé par l'OPSN et la mairie d'Auzat, réunit les habitants et chercheurs pour échanger sur des enjeux contemporains. Retour en images sur cette belle aventure ! ⬇️​

Elegant paper @Jama IM with important consequences for practice 1. Retracted study impact more the size than the direction of the effect in the meta-analysis. (expected) However, it is clear that in meta-analyses with few studies or few events, one study can make a big difference. #MedSky #EpiSky

"The inclusion of retracted studies can impact the results and interpretation of reviews. Quality control measures should be implemented to prevent the dissemination of unreliable data in scientific literature." jamanetwork.com/journals/jam...

What is the impact of retracted studies being cited in systematic reviews? Cool study in @jama.com IM jamanetwork.com/journals/jam... Even cooler: ‘feet of clay’ detector from @gcabanac.cpesr.fr used here dbrech.irit.fr/pls/apex/f?p... #MedSky #EpiSky

Read our paper in JAMA Internl Med with a great editorial. Wonderful collaboration with @gcabanac.cpesr.fr Retracted papers are included in meta-analyses published in HIF journal. Inclusion of the retracted studies changed effect estimates. doi.org/10.1001/jama... doi.org/10.1001/jama...

New research in JAMA Internal Medicine reveals how much retracted studies skew results in meta-analyses, with sometimes significant changes in effect estimates once these studies are excluded. By @isabelleboutron.bsky.social @gcabanac.cpesr.fr et al. jamanetwork.com/journals/jam...

Had not given this too much thought before, but yes, retracted studies can have a sizeable effect on meta-analyses conclusions #MedSky 🧪 jamanetwork.com/journals/jam...

😵‍💫 Tortured phrases by a Google employee in an @arxiv-cs-cv.bsky.social preprint, really? Or an impersonation, or a bad joke? pubpeer.com/publications...

Modern science wouldn’t exist without the online research repository known as arXiv. Three decades in, its creator still can’t let it go.

The AI Scientist Generates its First Peer-Reviewed Scientific Publication We’re proud to announce that a paper produced by The AI Scientist-v2 passed the peer-review process at a workshop in ICLR, a top AI conference. Read more about this experiment → sakana.ai/ai-scientist...

Un excellent article qui relate le grand n'importe quoi du monde de l'édition scientifique. Des revues des maisons Elsevier, Springer et Wiley ont été "délistées" d'une des principales bases de données mondiales, Web of Science (l'équivalent d'une mort académique) pour mauvaises pratiques.

This article notes that "Among 40 papers flagged as having issues, he [i.e., me] found 14 false positives (for example, the model stating that a figure referred to in the text did not appear in the paper, when it did)". For background, here are the cases that I believe to be false positives. /0

A new one to me. Someone offering authorship of a paper in return for posting comments on @pubpeer.com.

thanks to @solalpirelli.bsky.social for this nice piece on pseudoscience published by IEEE - and the need for the publisher to step up to the plate and start retracting this garbage if they want to retain any credibility. deevybee.blogspot.com/2025/02/ieee...

I love a good "tortured phrase", but sadly haven't encountered any at work yet. I am looking forward to find my first one in an essay... Great useful work by @gcabanac.cpesr.fr, @joelving.bsky.social and Cyril Labbé. One of my favourites in there is "arms race" becoming "extraordinary battle".

Absolutely mind-blowing article in Romanian (please translate this and read it) about a major fraud operation in a Romanian scientific journal in which the administrative editor was inserting references to his own articles in accepted articles (H/T my father... :)) pressone.ro/reteaua-cita...

Re the #NIH downtimes (including #NCBI #genbank #pubmed etc) See tldr.nettime.org/@ww/11408997... "Someone is doing networking... Badly..." Really feel for all those dealing with this (from NIH IT, to global users). In general, the decimation of so much critical infrastructure is hard to fathom.

I currently (8am GMT, UK) cannot access PubMed - if you're having similar issues, here's an important thread on what to do in the short term, and on what this means for the long term

Somebody put the findings of our stealth corrections paper on MDPI's wiki page! 🥰 en.wikipedia.org?curid=13943035 Feel free to read the paper here (it's open access): onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1002/... cc: @gcabanac.cpesr.fr @nhwise.bsky.social

Don't know what Stealth Corrections are? This #OA article has you covered | @nhwise.bsky.social | @gcabanac.cpesr.fr | https://buff.ly/3Xb7vrm

Parce que je sais que la liste des Highly Cited Researchers de Clarivate vous passionne (comment pourrait-il en être autrement ?), j’ai le plaisir de vous annoncer la parution (en accès libre) de mon article intitulé “Highly Cited Researchers : anatomy of a list”. 1/5 direct.mit.edu/qss/article/...

REVEALED! This recently-declassified century-old manual explains how to obey the authorities such that the authorities will regret ever having made your acquaintance. Strategies include drunkenness, making your boss complicit in petty crimes, malingering, and anabasis.

The Problematic Paper Screener filters 130 million new and old scholarly papers every week, looking for nine types of clues that a paper might be fake or contain errors https://buff.ly/3CH61hm (@joelving.bsky.social @retractionwatch.com; @gcabanac.cpesr.fr, IRIT; Cyril Labbé, UGA)