Markus Englund built a tool for identifying repetitive sequences in scientific datasets! Read up here: www.sciencedetective.org/scientific-d...

Everything is for sale

The official journal of the Canadian Paediatric Society has just acknowledged that more than 100 of its case reports are fabricated. Incredible reporting from @retractionwatch.com retractionwatch.com/2026/03/03/c...

“The chronic ongoing problem, for nearly two decades, is that the Younger Dryas Impact Hypothesis proponents withhold the evidence they claim to have. When independent scientists ask to see it — in the form of materials, for example — we are attacked for ‘suggesting fraud.’”: @boslough.bsky.social

The full sequence

Stunning discoveries at @mdpiopenaccess.bsky.social ! 🦠 Vibrio cholera [sic] has a nucleus 🦠 It performs “signaling to nucleus” 🦠 And contains something called “inter membrane space” Top-quality peer-reviewed content by @mdpiopenaccess.bsky.social /sarcasm www.mdpi.com/2076-3417/12...

A great deep dive into the sorry state of gaming journalism by @jacksonwryan.com !

Some post-script that didn't make this piece: A whole heap of expired websites with high authority can be used to rank well on Search. Buy em up, get their authority. That happened to the dormant Australianaid website. In 2023, it campaigned for aid. In 2025, it began listing Best Online Casinos.

These NOFO delays have created so many gaps in longstanding programs, including programs that are congressionally mandated. www.science.org/content/arti...

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Authors say paying APCs "feels like legalized extortion." That's what we heard at ER&L! Credit to Lauren Collister and Matthew Estill for their conference presentation. Read more about their research: www.iastatedigitalpress.com/jlsc/article...

My sister made me a personal bookplate for my birthday and it is beyond sick

Amidst overwhelming Epstein revelations, I've heard from many scientists, especially women, about the deafening silence from so many corners. Many ask "how could things be different?" In this post, I answer with three metaphors, grounded in the science he tried to own medium.com/p/61a537ee8e...

Netanyahu Calls Iran Strikes Necessary To Prevent War He Just Started

when your dataset is definitely real

In support of #OpenScience, we routinely ask authors to openly share their #research #code before publication. We are now formalizing this practice with a mandatory #code-sharing policy and clarifying what we mean by code sharing. May be nice to cut-out the box for reference plos.io/47dPeOW 🧪

Breathtaking anecdotes from medical professionals in Iran about the massacres last month.

@sjmelchor.bsky.social writes for @nature.com about how to spot dubious papers, interviewing @elisabethbik.bsky.social, @abalkina.bsky.social, @jabyrnesci.bsky.social, myself and and my fellow @cosig.net maintainers @solalpirelli.bsky.social and Yagmur Ozturk! www.nature.com/articles/d41...

Remember Larry, the #scholastic #cat? 2 y ago, but still shows how easy it is to fake #papers & #citations. What can we do? Maybe simply value #quality over (easily measurable) #quantity when assessing #scientists. It's more work, but surely pays. #PaperMill #AI #ResearchIntegrity #FakeScience

New research integrity technical term coined by @elisabethbik.bsky.social: “Paper mill hairball.”, e.g., “Where every paper that overlaps with another paper will lead to more papers with overlaps.” pubpeer.com/publications... 😸

1. Kevin Gross and I have a new paper out today PLOS Biology. We used economic models based around screening games and the market for unpaid labor to highlight a meltdown cycle threatening peer review.

My own university has a "strategic goal" to increase research "outputs" by 10% annually (7 year doubling time). Your university is almost surely working towards the same. University rankings are now the main driver of this damaging institutional behavior. Publication is an out-of-control arms race.

In which we learn @acm.org is exceptionally bad at retracting articles that need retracting: arxiv.org/abs/2602.191...

Well done, @grumpygasbag.bsky.social !!!

Springer Nature adding new journals to the "Nature portfolio"

Many are appropriately outraged by Altman’s comments here implying that raising a human child is akin to “training” an AI model. This is part of a broader pattern where AI industry leaders use language that collapses the boundary between human and machine. 🧵/

We wrote a 1-year update post on stealth corrections. Thank you @deevybee.bsky.social for hosting it. We also wrote a @cosig.net guide to make reporting stealth corrections more streamlined cc: @gcabanac.cpesr.fr

Thanks to René Aquarius and Alex Glynn for their contributions to this guide. Don’t miss their one-year update on stealth corrections hosted on Dorothy Bishop's blog: deevybee.blogspot.com/2026/02/gues... cc: @deadneanderthals.bsky.social @gcabanac.cpesr.fr @deevybee.bsky.social

Stealth corrections happen when a publisher makes changes to a scientific article after its publication, without issuing any public notice. To learn more, check out the latest COSIG entry on Stealth Corrections! osf.io/34nj5 COSIG (33 guides and growing!) is available at cosig.net.

📰 David Adam reports for Nature News on our Replication Initiative "A European project calls for help to verify whether carbon quantum dots are really able to sense chemicals in cells." 🔗 www.nature.com/articles/d41... @nature.com

Image duplication found by René Aquarius. One of 5500 animations we have created to support the tireless image sleuths. pubpeer.com/publications...

Another wonderful diagram of a bacterial cell with mitochondria, this one in Frontiers in Microbology (10.3389/fmicb.2023.1194292). Reminder: Bacteria are prokaryotes, they do not have mitochondria...

I just went to PubPeer to comment on the restrictive data availability statement and found several people have already expressed concerns about other issues, including trial registration. pubpeer.com/publications...

Mithras mentioned 🗣️🗣️🗣️ www.bbc.com/news/article...

I’ve been sued for considerably less, and it’s an huge, time consuming hassle even when you win on anti-slapp grounds. www.geekwire.com/2021/mainstr...

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UnEDXpected Peaks - New and fascinating data explorations from @elisabethbik.bsky.social scienceintegritydigest.com/2026/02/09/u...

In 2018, Ilja Van Braeckel created a font based on Charles Darwin's handwriting for #DarwinDay. It was based on 12,000 pictures of Darwin's original manuscripts! Link rot happened, and the original files are missing. I have put it up again here: drive.google.com/file/d/14Kcn... Happy Darwin Day!

Great piece by @cathleenogrady.bsky.social ! Featuring words from a number of level heads, including @manuelansede.bsky.social @jbakcoleman.bsky.social @richvn.bsky.social @jacksonwryan.com and others.

New blog post: UnEDXpected Peaks Thanks to @reeserichardson.bsky.social, for teaching me to spot Energy-dispersive X-ray spectroscopy problems. @cosig.net guide: osf.io/2kdez/files/... 30+ papers from a group from Pakistan with wonky EDX plots. Read more: scienceintegritydigest.com/2026/02/09/u...

🇺🇦 Ministry of Ed.: universities shouldn't partner with companies that guarantee paper acceptance and other such dubious things 🏭 One such company: that's unfair and defamatory :( 🇺🇦 court: no no that's fair, get lost Yay for good govt! h/t @abalkina.bsky.social opendatabot.ua/court/133906...

Ring is a wildly dangerous company. Always has been. But it has sort of flown under the radar the last couple years as it tried to soften its image. Make no mistake that this is an extremely dangerous surveillance dragnet: www.404media.co/with-ring-am...

1/ ProPublica collected handwritten letters in mid-January from children held at the Dilley Immigration Processing Center, the same facility where 5-year-old Liam Conejo Ramos was taken. Hundreds of kids are still detained. We’ll let the children’s words speak for themselves. 🧵

Ludicrously inadequate response from the publishers @wolterskluwer.com A paper such as this should a) never get close to being published and b) when its problems are pointed out it should be retracted immediately.

Please admire what 'Viola sheltonii' found in Discover Oncology, in "Engineering CAR T NK and NKT cell therapies to target cancer stem cells and overcome stem like resistance". pubpeer.com/publications...

The fact that Epstein had ties to the scientific community is not news, but the enormous cache of documents released by the DOJ last week was still startling. It showed just how deeply Epstein was involved—how many were in his orbit, and how deeply involved he was with some research. My reporting:

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An intracellular meteor shower. EB3 comets tracking growing microtubule plus-ends in a cultured cell.

Nitasha is among the best of us. What a fuckin’ scam to let all this talent go untapped! But ofc, just like Thiel and Epstein tanking Gawker, Bezos and his ilk don’t want anyone snooping around Silicon Valley too closely