#researchethics — Public Fediverse posts

The closing panel of the #FediDay2026 science track is online too (44 min):
Improving Researchability of the Fediverse

With @cypherhippie, @julian, @marco_waehner and me, moderated by Christina Dinar. We talked about consent, data trustees, trust in research, and why infrastructure only becomes visible when it fails.

https://fair.tube/w/ug1VCR3HR98HVNx7KGZ8JG

#Fediverse #Research #ResearchEthics #Mastodon #Sociology #FediDay #Science #FediScience

Mathematicians Grapple with AI's Dual Role as Tool and Threat in Mathematical Research

📰 Original title: Mathematicians Hate AI. They Can’t Quit It

🤖 IA: It's not clickbait ✅
👥 Users: It's not clickbait ✅

👇👇👇 https://en.killbait.com/mathematicians-grapple-with-ai-s-dual-role-as-tool-and-threat-in-mathematical-research.html?utm_source=mastodon_social&utm_medium=social&utm_campaign=killbait.mastodon_social

#artificialintelligence #mathematics #aiethics #researchethics

@renebekkers.bsky.social Indeed. Providing some means to resolve an ethics approval number and get some useful metadata about the approval itself and the approved study would go a long way towards shedding light on the ethics parts of the research cycle, and it would make it easier to teach such things.

#researchethics #dataethics #FAIRethics #FAIRdata #openscience

Some pointers:
- https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.2559998
- https://doi.org/10.3897/rio.8.e94685
- https://zenodo.org/communities/fair_ethics

DATE: September 12, 2026 at 12:08PM
SOURCE: SOCIALPSYCHOLOGY.ORG

TITLE: Studies May Promise Anonymity, But the Promise Is Often Broken

URL: http://www.socialpsychology.org/client/redirect.php?from=rss_feed&id=191361&url=https://www.science.org/content/article/social-science-studies-may-promise-anonymity-participant-identities-often-lurk-public

Source: Science

Economist Abel Brodeur was leading a group of colleagues examining a survey-research study when they noticed something that stunned them. Its data set, available in a public repository, contained names of people who had admitted to crimes and identified their accomplices, information never provided to police. This broken promise of anonymity, it turns out, was far from an isolated case, according to a new study released last week.

URL: http://www.socialpsychology.org/client/redirect.php?from=rss_feed&id=191361&url=https://www.science.org/content/article/social-science-studies-may-promise-anonymity-participant-identities-often-lurk-public

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OpenAI claims another huge mathematical result amid fights over credit, ethics and privacy
#Tech #OpenAI #AI #NavierStokes #Mathematics #AIResearch #Science #AIEthics #Privacy #ScientificResearch #Research #ResearchEthics #The14Media #IntellectualProperty
https://the-14.com/openai-claims-another-huge-mathematical-result-amid-fights-over-credit-ethics-and-privacy/

Expanding Health Equity Research Ethics with Black Communities
🧠 Broaden respect to community level
🤝 Enhance beneficence via meaningful involvement
⚖️ Utilize justice through innovative outreach
#HealthEquity #ResearchEthics https://tnyp.me/22znTjpN/m

Expanding health equity research ethics

🧪 Enhance respect for community in research
📊 Prioritize community-inclusive projects
⚖️ Adopt development-focused justice strategies

#HealthEquity #ResearchEthics #BlackCommunities
https://tnyp.me/22znTjpN/m

The continuing "Q collar" scandal

https://statmodeling.stat.columbia.edu/2026/08/13/we-should-probably-be-doing-more-coverage-of-science-adjacent-medical-scams-like-the-q-collar-and-less-on-repulsively-self-promoting-but-ultimately-less-harmful-academic-grifters/

Comments: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49296495

#HackerNews #Qcollar #Scandal #ScienceFraud #MedicalScams #AcademicIntegrity #ResearchEthics

'If we already have so many rules, what will it actually take to inspire people to act ethically?' Pamela Andanda @WitsUniversity on values, ethics dumping and the TRUST Code in the latest #ERCMagazine 👉 https://link.europa.eu/fc4yjK #TRUSTCode #ResearchEthics #ResearchEquity
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#CFP

#BFE Autumn Conference 2026: Fieldwork in Times of Precarity: Building Resilience

Online conference on care, resilience, ethics, wellbeing, and sustainable fieldwork in contexts of conflict, environmental change, displacement, and institutional precarity.

📍 Online
📅 24/10/2026

Deadline: 30/07/2026

https://bfe.org.uk/conf/bfe-autumn-conference-2026-online

#Ethnomusicology #Fieldwork #ResearchEthics #MusicResearch #EDI

Why did this journal retract two 1940s papers by Max Planck?

https://arstechnica.com/science/2026/06/why-did-this-journal-retract-two-1940s-papers-by-max-planck/

#HackerNews #MaxPlanck #ScienceHistory #JournalRetract #ResearchEthics #AcademicIntegrity

Why have papers by one of history's most famous physicists been retracted?

https://www.science.org/content/article/why-have-papers-one-history-s-most-famous-physicists-been-retracted

#HackerNews #famousphysicists #paperretraction #sciencehistory #academicintegrity #researchethics

I was awarded the #Geoethics Medal from the International Association for Promoting Geoethics (IAPG) and the medal arrived! Such honours are not about the individual, but are about working collectively. These prizes reflect my predecessors and collaborators. Thank you!
 
#iapg #drr #GlobalHealth #DisasterRiskReduction #ethics #ResearchEthics

How much of Thermo Fisher's antibody data has been manipulated?

https://reeserichardson.blog/2026/05/28/how-much-of-thermo-fishers-antibody-data-has-been-manipulated/

#HackerNews #ThermoFisher #AntibodyData #DataManipulation #ScientificIntegrity #ResearchEthics

(1) preregistration and #RegisteredReports as tools to strengthen confirmatory rigor in complex clinical designs;
#RCT

(2) responsible data and material sharing under appropriate governance structures that account for the sensitivity of clinical data;
#ResearchEthics

(3) analytic transparency, including documentation of analytic decisions and #QualitativeResearch practices.

* For more on the working group, link to German profile:
https://www.dgps.de/fachgruppen/fgkl/aktivitaeten/ag-open-science/

#DGPs #OpenResearch

Today I had the pleasure of presenting my fellowship research at the weekly interdisciplinary #VUIAS seminar.

:doi: https://doi.org/10.13140/RG.2.2.35582.55364

One of the key messages was simple: metrics often reveal symptoms, but understanding integrity problems requires looking at research environments, incentives, and organisational cultures.

#ResearchIntegrity #Scientometrics #ResearchEthics #OpenScience #AcademicIntegrity #ScholarlyCommunication #HigherEducation #Science

And to finish off with a quote:

"Since LLMs generate their output by predicting word sequences, there is a sense in which every GenAI citation is hallucinated because it has been made up! However, people usually do not refer to these word predictions as hallucinated when they happen to exactly match existing citations."
🤯 😂

#ResearchEthics #ResearchIntegrity

There are important side notes.

The discussion points to the general problem of inaccurate citations in the scientific literature, e.g., via research
https://link.springer.com/article/10.1186/s41073-025-00173-z
and proposals to track them
https://link.springer.com/article/10.1186/s41073-020-00099-8

And it alerts to 'stealth corrections', “post-publications changes, without providing any indication that the publication was temporarily or permanently altered” (from https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1002/leap.1660)

#StealthCorrection #AcademicPublishing #ResearchEthics #ResearchIntegrity

This paper presents a principled argument within the U.S.’ misconduct regulations that hallucinated citations may be a form of data fabrication and therefore count as research misconduct.
https://www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10.1080/08989621.2026.2645390

#ResearchEthics #ResearchIntegrity

RE: https://fediscience.org/@satrevik/116612366859411834

Really interesting question.

I brought something similar last month to our #Postgraduate group with this paper as an example:
https://www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10.1080/03075079.2026.2633517

This led to a good discussion about #AcademicCronyism. Whatever one thinks about the items in the poll, the paper offers some shades of grey regarding such actions.

#PublicationEthics #AcademicPublishing #ResearchEthics #COPE

A new study warns that automated writing tools may amplify plagiarism in scientific papers.

As AI speeds up publishing, concerns grow about integrity and originality in research outputs.

🔗 https://phys.org/news/2026-04-plagiarized-automated.html

#AI #ScientificIntegrity #ResearchEthics #Publishing #OpenScience

arXiv Imposes Year-Long Ban on Authors Over Unverified AI-Generated Content

arXiv bans authors for one year if their papers have AI mistakes like fake references. This affects researchers using AI tools. Learn why.

#arXivBan, #AIinResearch, #AcademicIntegrity, #LLMerrors, #ResearchEthics

https://newsletter.tf/arxiv-bans-authors-1-year-ai-errors/

arXiv will ban authors for one year if their papers have AI errors. This is a new rule to stop fake information in research.

#arXivBan, #AIinResearch, #AcademicIntegrity, #LLMerrors, #ResearchEthics
https://newsletter.tf/arxiv-bans-authors-1-year-ai-errors/

😂 #ResearchEthics #ResearchSky #AcademicSky #AI #GenAI

RE: https://bsky.app/profile/did:plc:wld6fad6xsm4tz4kfkoikun2/post/3mlvxiv64cc2x

😂 #ResearchEthics #ResearchSky #AcademicSky #AI #GenAI

RE: https://bsky.app/profile/did:plc:wld6fad6xsm4tz4kfkoikun2/post/3mlvxiv64cc2x

❗Update on Plagiarism and Falsification in Scientific Publications

Today, I officially submitted requests for the retraction of articles to the editorial boards of the journals "Land Reclamation and Water Management" and "Bulletin of NUWM".

❗Key facts of misconduct:
🔹 Plagiarism: Unauthorized use of my original relief map (2015) without citation.
🔹 Falsification: Intentional removal (retouching) of the author’s stamp with coordinates and date-time on site photographs.
🔹 Duplication: Publication of identical material in 2021 and 2024.

Next steps:
In the event of attempts to covertly remove the articles without an official retraction notice, relevant complaints will be forwarded directly to @crossref and the international members of the editorial boards.

#OpenScience #ResearchMisconduct #AcademicMastodon #ScientificIntegrity #Hydrology #Geoscience #GIS #FediScience #Plagiarism #SvystunovaGully #COPE #Crossref #DataIntegrity #ImageManipulation #AcademicChatter #ResearchEthics #EarthScience #HigherEducation

❗ While preparing a literature review for my monograph on the hydrogeochemical impact of mine waters, I discovered the unauthorized use of my original materials in articles published in 2021 and 2024. Both publications were prepared with the primary involvement of staff from the Institute of Water Problems and Land Reclamation of the National Academy of Agricultural Sciences of Ukraine (IWPLR NAASU).

An analysis revealed facts that go beyond a simple copyright violation:
🔹 Data Falsification: Original photo metadata (date, time, GPS) was intentionally retouched to conceal their 2015 origin and authorship.
🔹 Methodological Anachronism: Using 2015 data for 2024 modeling renders results invalid by ignoring the major infrastructure overhaul launched in early 2025.
🔹 Institutional Failure: This misconduct by state academy staff signals a systemic collapse of research quality control and ethical oversight within the institutions.

#ScientificMisconduct #SvystunovaGully #ResearchEthics #DataIntegrity #Plagiarism

In this presentation, I explore the idea of "AI plagiarism" not as a simple violation, but as a mismatch between new modes of text production and outdated systems for assessing knowledge and contribution.

:doi: https://doi.org/10.13140/RG.2.2.25560.87049

If text no longer reliably reflects thinking, what exactly are we evaluating?

This is part of my workshop at the Science Festival 2026.

#OpenScience #AcademicIntegrity #GenerativeAI #ResearchEthics #ScholarlyCommunication #SciencePolicy #HigherEducation

Working with personal data in your research? You need to think about GDPR.

Informed consent, anonymization, data minimization — these aren't bureaucratic hurdles. They protect your participants and your research.

Plan for data protection from the start, not as an afterthought.
A Datamanagement Plan (#DMP) can assist you.

👉 https://forschungsdaten.info/themen/rechte-und-pflichten/datenschutzrecht/

#GDPR #DataProtection #ResearchEthics #RDM #DSGVO
— bos

Digital watermarking in peer review: ICML 2026 rejected 2% of submissions after catching LLM misuse.

A new tool to safeguard research integrity.

🔗 https://www.nature.com/articles/d41586-026-00893-2

#AIEthics #peerreview #AcademicIntegrity #artificialintelligence #ResearchEthics #LLM

Automating science with AI raises new ethical and procedural questions.

Are we ready to rethink how research is conducted?

🔗 https://www.nature.com/articles/d41586-026-00934-w

#ArtificialIntelligence #ScientificResearch #AIinScience #ResearchEthics #Innovation

Why is #Gilead refusing to sell Lenacapavir to #MSF? Breakthrough HIV Drug Is Out Of Reach For Many Who Need It Most via @forbes https://www.forbes.com/sites/judystone/2026/04/16/breakthrough-hiv-drug-is-out-of-reach-for-many-who-need-it-most/

#Lenacapavir #ResearchEthics #bioethics