The ramifications of this The Sydney Morning Herald story on medical research are v. concerning. Once misinformation is published, even if retracted, it still exists to be quoted and requoted. Tks to Danielle Oste & Prof Jennifer Byrne 🧬 for yr work. smh.com.au/national/the-s…

Good news: Earthtunes, the Earthtunes app, is now available for Androids, thanks to Omkar Ranadive from NU Earth & Planetary Sciences and let me: Human=God() from Amaral Lab. Find it here: play.google.com/store/apps/det…

This is about 6 hours of seismic data recorded on the Galapagos Islands. The last sharpest sound is the April 3 02:02 UTC M5.1 off-coast of Ecuador quake, whereas the preceding sound train are different seismic waves from the M7.4 quake in Taiwan that occurred 2 hours earlier.

So excited about our recent paper in APL Machine Learning -- Computational experiments with cellular-automata generated images reveal intrinsic limitations of convolutional neural networks on pattern recognition tasks | APL Machine Learning | AIP Publishing pubs.aip.org/aip/aml/articl…

When a papermill boasted how they could increase Google Scholar citations and showed their working, Reese Richardson and I decided to try for ourselves. Introducing Larry Richardson, a cat with a Google Scholar profile and an h-index of 11. reeserichardson.blog/2024/07/18/eng…

RIP Larry's h-index, all of his citations have been removed by Google Scholar. Clients of the papermill who received citations by the same method still have them, so this is a gross act of ailurophobia. scholar.google.com/citations?user…

I have spent the last year working on this investigation, looking at private biobanks where people can store their child's umbilical cord blood (and the #stemcells they contain) You can read it now The BMJ A thread of what I found 🧵 bmj.com/content/386/bm…

I really enjoyed talking to Reese Richardson and Nick Wise about how they made Larry the world’s most highly cited cat. My latest for News from Science: science.org/content/articl…

Larry Richardson appeared to be an early-career mathematician with potential, racking up more than 130 citations in 4 years. It would all be rather remarkable—if the studies weren’t complete gibberish. And Larry wasn’t a cat. scim.ag/7Sp

It's terrible that it's so easy to fake citations that even a cat can get a double-digit h-index. But what can be done? In #ScienceAdviser, I ask the experts from News from Science piece on Larry: science.org/content/articl… (plus more of the best from Science Magazine and science!)

Researcher creates fake profile for pet to expose flaws in Google Scholar website that allow scientists to fraudulently boost their credibility ⬇️ thetimes.com/uk/science/art…

Luck, skill, and inequality inform the results of head-to-head competitions. Max Jerdee, from the University of Michigan, speaks today at SFI on modeling the depths of paired competitions to better understand hierarchy and the opportunities for underdogs to come out on top. Stream live at

'50 citations for $300': Research-integrity watchers are concerned about the growing ways in which scientists can fake or manipulate citation counts — my latest for nature: nature.com/articles/d4158… Talal Rahwan, Yasir Zaki, Manuel Ansede, Guillaume Cabanac ⟨here and elsewhere⟩, Nick Wise

Our paper just got covered by nature. We went under cover and contacted a "citation boosting" service. We managed to buy citations that appeared in a Scopus-indexed journal, providing conclusive evidence that citations can be bought in bulk!! nature.com/articles/d4158…

Important bioRxiv on #lncRNA and HCC research reproducibility "...controversies related to #lncRNA functions are likely to be resolved with time... However, cancer research cannot afford to wait to assess the validity of the reported roles of lncRNAs" Chris Ponting Amaral Lab

Exclusive: Thousands of papers misidentify microscopes, in possible sign of misconduct retractionwatch.com/2024/08/27/exc…

SCOOP: Thousands of published studies misidentify which microscopes were used in experiments — my latest for Retraction Watch 👇🏼👇🏼👇🏼 Nick Wise, Angus J Wilkinson, Amaral Lab

1 in 4 misreport scanning electron microscope, another 1 in 5 don't bother reporting on instrumentation. Fraud and incompetence threaten science --> Exclusive: Thousands of papers misidentify microscopes, in possible sign of misconduct – Retraction Watch retractionwatch.com/2024/08/27/exc…

🗞️ Just out: ‘The papers that most heavily cite retracted studies’ by Miryam Naddaf Richard Van Noorden nature.com/articles/d4158…, a companion paper to my Comment: ‘Chain retraction: how to stop bad science propagating through the literature’ nature.com/articles/d4158… feat. PPS Feet of Clay.

Science at the Palm of Your Hand Professor Luís Amaral and his lab have developed a series of apps and software programs to assist research. mccormick.northwestern.edu/news/articles/…