Great article by Charles Piller! Teamwork with Matthew Schrag Cheshire Elisabeth Bik. I was very fortunate to have the opportunity to learn from these master sleuths and to work alongside them. 🙏 science.org/content/articl…

"Rules are important in setting Research Integrity standards and improving research practice, but they can lead to increased bureaucracy..." bit.ly/3YevTcJ World Conf Research Integrity @NRIN_Integrity The Embassy of Good Science embassysci.bsky.social Research Integrity Universiteiten van Nederland Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam (inactief)

Web of Science puts mega-journals Cureus and Heliyon on hold retractionwatch.com/2024/09/30/web…

"Chain retraction: how to stop bad science propagating through the literature" Guillaume Cabanac ⟨here and elsewhere⟩ in nature about PubSmear and Problematic Paper Screener. It is worth reading! nature.com/articles/d4158…

🔥📣[REPORTAGE] Un beau reportage de RTS sur la fraude scientifique. Avec des bouts de Elisabeth BIK Elisabeth Bik, Lonni Besançon 🇫🇷 🇸🇪, Boris Barbour, Solal Pirelli, Guillaume Cabanac ⟨here and elsewhere⟩ et quelques autres traqueurs de fraudeurs. Bien sûr, le savant de Marseille y rayonne

Covid-19 : le professeur Didier Raoult interdit d’exercer la médecine pendant deux ans l.francetvinfo.fr/f5V

How to win the Nobel Prize? @nature has looked into the data on the 346 prizes & their 646 winners (Nobel prizes can be shared by up to three people) to work out which characteristics can be reliably linked to medals nature.com/immersive/d415…

MicroRNAs – the focus of today's #NobelPrize – are just one of several flavours of RNA now being harnessed in therapies, as a former Nobel winner, Thomas Cech, explains in his book The Catalyst go.nature.com/40cMhMf

"I was under the impression nobody committed #research #misconduct. And then you go through this situation, and you start to wonder if everybody does." thetransmitter.org/science-and-so… 🙏Calli McMurray The Transmitter #AcademicTwitter

"13 ways in which research reporting is less transparent than it could be" link.springer.com/article/10.100…

🗣️ Talking to the public? #ResearchIntegrity still applies LERU's new paper underlines the need to communicate with integrity and suggests support that universities can give academics. Read the paper and the interview with the main author Dr Rhys Morgan Cambridge University. 👇

“There needs to be more visibility on journals and publishers that cut corners and fail to do appropriate due diligence on the papers that they publish and monetize,” nature.com/articles/d4158… Retraction Watch World Conf Research Integrity Elisabeth Bik @NRIN_Integrity

Notre dernier article dans The Conversation France avec @olivierpourret.bsky.social "En adoptant des systèmes d’évaluation qui privilégient l’accès libre aux données et la reproductibilité des analyses, nous pouvons garantir que les évaluations soient basées sur des preuves complètes et

.Web of Science has suspended eLife - the journal from its listings because its novel publishing model - public peer review but no final decision whether a manuscript is accepted or rejected—conflicts with WOS' standards for assuring quality science.org/content/articl…

🎯🎯 And not going to happen. "Rather than focusing on securing #research funds and impact points, #universities and clinics must invest much more in oversight and safeguards that can detect #misconduct at an early stage" retractionwatch.com/2024/10/28/dec… v Retraction Watch

The Incorrigible Elsevier forbetterscience.com/2024/10/28/the… via Leonid Schneider

Faced with growing worries about academic freedom in the European Union, the European Parliament launched an Academic Freedom Forum in 2022. The studies undertaken for the forum show that academic freedom is eroding in practically all EU member states. universityworldnews.com/post.php?story…

Turns out the biggest threat to democracy was democracy all along.

In Elsevier: “As strongly requested by the reviewers, here we cite some references [[35], [36], [37], [38], [39], [40], [41], [42], [43], [44], [45], [46], [47]] although … completely irrelevant to the present work” pubpeer.com/publications/1… CC MA Oviedo-Garcia Gilles Hubert

Though not a research publication, it is cool to have a letter to the editor in the forthcoming issue of Nature, a journal with a crazy impact factor. nature.com/articles/d4158…