Opinion: I am a professor at Indiana University at Bloomington, where I was arrested this past weekend. How did we get here? chroni.cl/3JHpYEG

Why is UC Berkeley allowing a Pro-Palestinian encampment while violent uproar has overtaken so many other universities across the US? My take for The San Francisco Standard sfstandard.com/2024/04/28/at-…

After a $25 million donation to Louisiana State University, Shell was able to influence research and coursework at the schooL. The university also solicited money from other fossil fuel companies offering them the opportunity to review academic studies.theguardian.com/us-news/2024/a…

Folks who've been watching videos of yesterday's arrests at Emory...
The university was ALREADY mired in conflict over protests and policing — because administrators called the Atlanta police on a different student protest last year: chronicle.com/article/studen… via Calli McMurray

At some point, we will need to confront this uncomfortable truth: Fraud doesn't happen in a vacuum.

Behind many fraud cases, there are often advisors, editors, colleagues who have turned a blind eye to (or covered up) the fraud.

Yay!
Three years after Didier Raoult Pr Chabriere and IHU Méditerranée Infection filed a complaint against me for harassment and blackmail, the Marseille Procureur tells me today they could not find any grounds for criminal prosecution.

Wow. Marc Tessier-Lavigne, who resigned as Stanford University president this summer for overseeing labs that produced falsified research at 3 different institutions over 20 years, returns to biotech with $1bn in funding.

I have been asked many times how I would start a foundation to pursue scientific error detection.

My previous answers were too diffuse. After consideration, I have a better answer:

I would try to stop research fraud from killing people.

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A lot of people have asked my opinion about the Cass Review into gender services for children. It's a massive document, and a very complex topic, so this will take quite a lot of words.

Here's the start - gidmk.substack.com/p/the-cass-rev…

An absolute bombshell. Alameda County prosecutors allegedly kept Black people and Jews off juries in murder cases, believing they would not convict if the death penalty was in play.

Now dozens of capital cases from prior decades must be reviewed.

oaklandside.org/2024/04/22/ala…

A Texas A&M professor sent a few emails about Black History Month. Months later, a conservative outlet published some of those messages. Amid the fallout, she resigned.

Here's what it feels like to be the target of an anti-DEI campaign. The Chronicle of Higher Education tinyurl.com/4bb7nknf

exclusive: Columbia, Tulane, and UVA students have just filed legal complaints saying the schools' investments in fossil fuels are illegal

they come as Columbia faces outrage for its treatment of students protesting the war in Gaza

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.Jill Barshay: 'As a journalist who covers education research, I see that Boaler has a tendency to overstate the implications of a narrow study...She tends not to factor in evidence that runs counter to her views or adjust her views as new studies arise.' hechingerreport.org/proof-points-s…

No formal investigation will be opened into math education professor Jo Boaler, following a complaint filed with Stanford. Stanford “has concluded that no formal process is needed and that the allegations reflect scholarly disagreement and interpretation.” stanforddaily.com/2024/04/22/uni…

Dean in Indonesia resigns following Retraction Watch report retractionwatch.com/2024/04/19/dea…

A quick dispatch from me Alecia ☀️ Sonel Cutler — members of Congress spent much of today's hearing asking Columbia University about whether administrators were going to punish professors:
chronicle.com/article/how-fa…

Save the date! The 7th Perspectives on Scientific Error conference will take place on February 5-7, 2025 at Universität Bern, Switzerland. If you're interested in errors, fraud, negligence, or hype in science, please join us! This is what we have planned:
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A dean of engineering in Nevada is out (nevadasagebrush.com/2024/04/15/unr…) following allegations about 'bizarre publishing' (retractionwatch.com/2024/02/11/eng…) and plagiarism in a grant report.
retractionwatch.com/2024/02/28/exc…

I’m honored to be named a winner of a NIHCM journalism award for stories on apparent misconduct by a leading stroke/Alzheimer’s researcher. Thanks to the judges and foundation for seeing the importance of integrity in neuroscience research 1/4
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Months in the making, the first part of my investigation into disciplinary processes and the aftermath of misconduct for Nature Careers is live:

Shrouded in secrecy: how science is harmed by the bullying and harassment rumour mill
nature.com/articles/d4158…