Hi, ČVUT v Praze. Is it normal for your staff to collaborate with an active colonel of the Russian Army into 2023?

New Finding of Research Misconduct: Arunoday K. Bhan, Ph.D. View the case summary here: ori.hhs.gov/content/case-s… #ResearchMisconduct #Falsification #Fabrication #Plagiarism

Great piece by David. Helps to put the frustration of sleuths into a context that is more familiar. Thanks!

This should be the carpeting on the way to the door in a bar. An inexpensive breathalyzer.

Is Sabine Hossenfelder hopes Elsevier will lead some sort of crusade to exhume all the bad physics from scientific publications, I think she'll be disappointed... of course, what do I know? The very few physicists that follow me are free to opine.

“Just to be clear,” twenty three years ago today, one of these two clowns could practice law. Now, neither can. Both have been held “accountable.” Yay ‘Merica.

Dr. Maria Zalm PLOS I've applied :)

Inside look at some of the sleuths. Kudos to Jessica Wapner for her reporting and to Undark Magazine for very thorough fact-checking.

A little Easter egg for the keen eyed. Who is that on my screen at the left?

I wanted them to use this photo, but someone thought it was too “playful” for the piece.

BREAKING! @FrancescaGino's ridiculous defamation lawsuit against Data Colada from last year has been dismissed by the court! This is an important victory.. if this had been allowed to move forward it would have had a chilling effect on whistleblowers! storage.courtlistener.com/recap/gov.usco…

An amazing piece of reporting and a chilling insight into the secret world of power: theguardian.com/news/2024/sep/…

Hello.

Who would dare click?

I'd argue this is not a good use of taxpayer money.

Antitrust arguments against publishers “just don't stack up” Good piece from Dorothy Bishop on how there are many issues with publishing but the new lawsuit misses the point deevybee.blogspot.com/2024/09/proddi…

Despite so much blogging and emailing, in June 2024 Toxicology Reports is still publishing crap like this, at least six inappropriate overlapping areas. What is wrong with editor-in-chief Lawrence Lash? Elsevier pubpeer.com/publications/B…