#scienceintegrity — Public Fediverse posts

New blog post: The Camel's Camel. Today, I found a beautiful example of synonymized plagiarism involving the microbiome of a camel’s udder. #TorturedPhrases #ScienceIntegrity #ResearchIntegrity scienceintegritydigest.com/2026/03/12/t...

An Editorial Expression of Concern by @Nature for one of Marc Tessier-Lavigne (former @Stanford president)'s papers. pubpeer.com/publications... www.nature.com/articles/s41... #ImageForensics #ScienceIntegrity

#ScienceIntegrity #OpenScience #ResearchTransparency #AcademicPublishing
📣 New study alert: Nearly half of research projects in the social, behavioral, and economic sciences remain unpublished—even years after data collection.

Poppa, C., Nießen, D., Daikeler, J., Silber, H., Weiß, B., & Richter, D. (2025). The tip of the iceberg? Insights into the prevalence of publication bias in two probability-based academic panels. PsyArXiv. https://doi.org/10.31234/osf.io/bj3g9_v1

Reformation of Science Publishing: The Stockholm Declaration
Full declaration: https://royalsocietypublishing.org/doi/10.1098/rsos.251805
Video: https://sciii-it.org/stockholm-declaration/
Sign the Declaration: https://sciii-it.org/stockholm-declaration/#cosign

🧪 #AcademicsSky #SciencePublishing #ScienceIntegrity @royalsociety.org
@royalsocietypublishing.org @scienceacademyswe.bsky.social #RoyalSwedishAcademyOfSciences

Reformation of Science Publishing: The Stockholm Declaration
Full declaration: https://royalsocietypublishing.org/doi/10.1098/rsos.251805
Video: https://sciii-it.org/stockholm-declaration/
Sign the Declaration: https://sciii-it.org/stockholm-declaration/#cosign

🧪 #AcademicsSky #SciencePublishing #ScienceIntegrity @royalsociety.org
@royalsocietypublishing.org @scienceacademyswe.bsky.social #RoyalSwedishAcademyOfSciences

Reformation of Science Publishing: The Stockholm Declaration
Full declaration: https://royalsocietypublishing.org/doi/10.1098/rsos.251805
Video: https://sciii-it.org/stockholm-declaration/
Sign the Declaration: https://sciii-it.org/stockholm-declaration/#cosign

🧪 #AcademicsSky #SciencePublishing #ScienceIntegrity @royalsociety.org
@royalsocietypublishing.org @scienceacademyswe.bsky.social #RoyalSwedishAcademyOfSciences

Reformation of Science Publishing: The Stockholm Declaration
Full declaration: https://royalsocietypublishing.org/doi/10.1098/rsos.251805
Video: https://sciii-it.org/stockholm-declaration/
Sign the Declaration: https://sciii-it.org/stockholm-declaration/#cosign

🧪 #AcademicsSky #SciencePublishing #ScienceIntegrity @royalsociety.org
@royalsocietypublishing.org @scienceacademyswe.bsky.social #RoyalSwedishAcademyOfSciences

Reformation of Science Publishing: The Stockholm Declaration
Full declaration: https://royalsocietypublishing.org/doi/10.1098/rsos.251805
Video: https://sciii-it.org/stockholm-declaration/
Sign the Declaration: https://sciii-it.org/stockholm-declaration/#cosign

🧪 #AcademicsSky #SciencePublishing #ScienceIntegrity @royalsociety.org
@royalsocietypublishing.org @scienceacademyswe.bsky.social #RoyalSwedishAcademyOfSciences

I recently joined Science Integrity Alliance as Editorial Lead. REACH is the alliance's quarterly magazine for research integrity and open science and just published its second issue.

https://www.sci-integrity.com/reach-october-december-2025

I can't take credit for this fantastic edition (other than a quick proofread) - that's down to Luciana Machado and the editorial committee, including Daniel Ucko and Maryam Sayab - but I'll be contributing to both this and our forums at https://www.sci-integrity.com/groups. These include our open Integrity Café and our HIKE Forum (Hub for Integrity and Knowledge Exchange) for contributors and subscribers to discuss resources and approaches to integrity with invited experts.

If there are any projects, products, or news related to scientific integrity that you'd like us to cover, please get in touch.

#ResearchIntegrity #PublicationEthics #ResponsibleResearch #OpenScience #OpenScholarship #ScientificIntegrity #ScienceIntegrity #ScienceEditing #SciComm #ScienceIntegrityAlliance

I recently joined Science Integrity Alliance as Editorial Lead. REACH is the alliance's quarterly magazine for research integrity and open science and just published its second issue.

https://www.sci-integrity.com/reach-october-december-2025

I can't take credit for this fantastic edition (other than a quick proofread) - that's down to Luciana Machado and the editorial committee, including Daniel Ucko and Maryam Sayab - but I'll be contributing to both this and our forums at https://www.sci-integrity.com/groups. These include our open Integrity Café and our HIKE Forum (Hub for Integrity and Knowledge Exchange) for contributors and subscribers to discuss resources and approaches to integrity with invited experts.

If there are any projects, products, or news related to scientific integrity that you'd like us to cover, please get in touch.

#ResearchIntegrity #PublicationEthics #ResponsibleResearch #OpenScience #OpenScholarship #ScientificIntegrity #ScienceIntegrity #ScienceEditing #SciComm #ScienceIntegrityAlliance

I recently joined Science Integrity Alliance as Editorial Lead. REACH is the alliance's quarterly magazine for research integrity and open science and just published its second issue.

https://www.sci-integrity.com/reach-october-december-2025

I can't take credit for this fantastic edition (other than a quick proofread) - that's down to Luciana Machado and the editorial committee, including Daniel Ucko and Maryam Sayab - but I'll be contributing to both this and our forums at https://www.sci-integrity.com/groups. These include our open Integrity Café and our HIKE Forum (Hub for Integrity and Knowledge Exchange) for contributors and subscribers to discuss resources and approaches to integrity with invited experts.

If there are any projects, products, or news related to scientific integrity that you'd like us to cover, please get in touch.

#ResearchIntegrity #PublicationEthics #ResponsibleResearch #OpenScience #OpenScholarship #ScientificIntegrity #ScienceIntegrity #ScienceEditing #SciComm #ScienceIntegrityAlliance

I recently joined Science Integrity Alliance as Editorial Lead. REACH is the alliance's quarterly magazine for research integrity and open science and just published its second issue.

https://www.sci-integrity.com/reach-october-december-2025

I can't take credit for this fantastic edition (other than a quick proofread) - that's down to Luciana Machado and the editorial committee, including Daniel Ucko and Maryam Sayab - but I'll be contributing to both this and our forums at https://www.sci-integrity.com/groups. These include our open Integrity Café and our HIKE Forum (Hub for Integrity and Knowledge Exchange) for contributors and subscribers to discuss resources and approaches to integrity with invited experts.

If there are any projects, products, or news related to scientific integrity that you'd like us to cover, please get in touch.

#ResearchIntegrity #PublicationEthics #ResponsibleResearch #OpenScience #OpenScholarship #ScientificIntegrity #ScienceIntegrity #ScienceEditing #SciComm #ScienceIntegrityAlliance

I recently joined Science Integrity Alliance as Editorial Lead. REACH is the alliance's quarterly magazine for research integrity and open science and just published its second issue.

https://www.sci-integrity.com/reach-october-december-2025

I can't take credit for this fantastic edition (other than a quick proofread) - that's down to Luciana Machado and the editorial committee, including Daniel Ucko and Maryam Sayab - but I'll be contributing to both this and our forums at https://www.sci-integrity.com/groups. These include our open Integrity Café and our HIKE Forum (Hub for Integrity and Knowledge Exchange) for contributors and subscribers to discuss resources and approaches to integrity with invited experts.

If there are any projects, products, or news related to scientific integrity that you'd like us to cover, please get in touch.

#ResearchIntegrity #PublicationEthics #ResponsibleResearch #OpenScience #OpenScholarship #ScientificIntegrity #ScienceIntegrity #ScienceEditing #SciComm #ScienceIntegrityAlliance

Very bizarre. An investigation by @cuny.edu's expert panel found "evidence highly suggestive of deliberate scientific misconduct" - but the university concluded that Dr. Wang did not do misconduct. #ScienceIntegrity @charlespiller.bsky.social reports at Science.

RE: https://bsky.app/profile/did:plc:jfwaobwavclz2uzsouysajup/post/3m3ddnoby4c2s

The CDC has faced another wave of major staff cuts, targeting disease detectives, policy, and data teams, with firings timed late on a holiday weekend amid the government shutdown. Agency insiders say the layoffs reflect White House dissatisfaction with CDC data that challenged administration narratives, as well as resistance to unscientific policies. HHS Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr. backed the shakeup, calling for “new blood” free from conflicts and political bias, but critics say the cuts undermine evidence-based science in public health. President Trump signaled more partisan firings are coming. What will this mean for America’s health response? https://www.cnn.com/2025/10/11/health/cdc-cuts-impacts #CDC #PublicHealth #ScienceIntegrity #GovernmentShutdown #Trump #RFKJr

🟢 Nanoparticules, macro conséquences

Cette semaine on retrace l'affaire Jolanda Spadavecchia qui aura duré quatre ans pour déboucher sur deux ans d'exclusion et 17 publications à rétracter

https://themeta.news/nanoparticules-fraudes-et-sanction-au-cnrs/

#VeilleESR #ScienceIntegrity #Pubpeer

Traveling to Santa Barbara today for the 2025 @afar.org‬ AFAR Grantee Conference and Glenn Workshop, where I will be on a #ScienceIntegrity panel with @charlespiller.bsky.social, Ivan Oransky, and Matthew Schrag, moderated by Stuart Firestein. #AFAR2025 www.afar.org/2025-afar-gr...

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🕵️ This is how soft-power propaganda operates: through "objective" scientometric data, strategically framed to normalize the aggressor and obscure the voices of the oppressed. It is subtle — but no less dangerous. Shame on #ISSI2025 for platforming this.

#RussiaUkraineWar #Ukraine #ScienceIntegrity #StopRussianPropaganda #RussiaIsATerroristState

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🕵️ This is how soft-power propaganda operates: through "objective" scientometric data, strategically framed to normalize the aggressor and obscure the voices of the oppressed. It is subtle — but no less dangerous. Shame on #ISSI2025 for platforming this.

#RussiaUkraineWar #Ukraine #ScienceIntegrity #StopRussianPropaganda #RussiaIsATerroristState

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🕵️ This is how soft-power propaganda operates: through "objective" scientometric data, strategically framed to normalize the aggressor and obscure the voices of the oppressed. It is subtle — but no less dangerous. Shame on #ISSI2025 for platforming this.

#RussiaUkraineWar #Ukraine #ScienceIntegrity #StopRussianPropaganda #RussiaIsATerroristState

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🕵️ This is how soft-power propaganda operates: through "objective" scientometric data, strategically framed to normalize the aggressor and obscure the voices of the oppressed. It is subtle — but no less dangerous. Shame on #ISSI2025 for platforming this.

#RussiaUkraineWar #Ukraine #ScienceIntegrity #StopRussianPropaganda #RussiaIsATerroristState

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🕵️ This is how soft-power propaganda operates: through "objective" scientometric data, strategically framed to normalize the aggressor and obscure the voices of the oppressed. It is subtle — but no less dangerous. Shame on #ISSI2025 for platforming this.

#RussiaUkraineWar #Ukraine #ScienceIntegrity #StopRussianPropaganda #RussiaIsATerroristState

"We’ve saved the funniest tool for last: the tortured phrases detector. Sometimes researchers copy paste text from other academic papers. To avoid accusations of plagiarism they use tools that automatically rewrite the text. But this doesn’t always go well. Sometimes it results in phrases that sound weird and no longer make sense in their context. ‘Artificial intelligence’ becomes ‘counterfeit consciousness’ while ‘deep neural network’ is changed into ‘profound neural organization.’ Nonsensical terms like these suggest a paper has been produced by a paper mill. Guillaume Cabanac and colleagues have pioneered the detection of tortured phrases in computer science, but others have used it in medicine and found some hilarious examples. ‘Anal canal’ became ‘butt-centric waterway’ while ‘breast cancer’ is often rephrased as ‘bosom peril’."

#Science #ReplicationCrisis #ScienceIntegrity

https://mecfsskeptic.com/how-many-scientific-papers-are-fake/

🔍 Scientists are raising eyebrows over Microsoft's quantum computing claims. Is the rush to publish overshadowing rigorous research? What's your take on the balance between innovation and integrity? #QuantumComputing #ScienceIntegrity 🚀💻 https://science.slashdot.org/story/25/02/22/0232239/scientists-question-microsofts-quantum-computing-claims

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Fraud in science? Ivan Oransky shares a case of research misconduct that rocked the field. Get the full story: https://qspace.fqxi.org/podcasts/123/2025.02.18 #ScienceIntegrity #RetractionWatch

AI-generated images are making it easier to create fake scientific data, posing a major challenge for research integrity. Experts are racing to build AI tools to detect these fakes, but will they be fast enough? #AI #ScienceIntegrity
https://www.nature.com/articles/d41586-024-03542-8

Today I got the editorial decision on a manuscript I reviewed for a SpringerNature journal - and with it the appraisals of the 10 (!) other reviewers. They don’t inspire much confidence about the future of science under the current publishing system. I rejected the manuscript due to textual plagiarism and methods not suited to answer the questions posed (likely because the results were fictitious to begin with).
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#scienceintegrity #publishing #papermills #AcademicJournals #academicchatter

I’m reviewing a review manuscript littered with odd English expressions (including nonsensical versions of medical terms and chemical names). These could be tortured phrases (telltale signs of authors trying to hide plagiarised text), but they could also be poor but innocent translations of text first written by the authors in Chinese. Any suggestions how to distinguish those - is that’s even possible?

#academicchatter #academicintegrity #TorturedPhrases #scienceintegrity #PeerReview