Dead Neanderthals

Stealth corrections are still a threat to scientific integrity. If you are not familiar with stealth corrections, please read this.

This guest post is on @deevybee.bsky.social's blog and is authored by from René Aquarius, Floris Schoeters, Alex Glynn and @gcabanac.cpesr.fr

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YouTube video by Utsuho Reiuji Exhumed - All Guts, No Glory (2011)

Consuming a lot of Exhumed these days (see what I did there?).

They still release quality albums, which is impressive!

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Guest blogpost by @deadneanderthals.bsky.social and colleagues on the persistence of stealth corrections in the scientific literature: deevybee.blogspot.com/2026/02/gues...

#publishing #integrity

This is a new phenomenon and business model exploiting gaps in publishing. The cartel uses fake names to produce AI-written or plagiarised papers. Reference lists contain 100s of paid entries.If papers are retracted, no real authors are punished, and citations still count, even from retracted papers

This case made it into our 1-year update blog (and 31 other ones)

deevybee.blogspot.com/2026/02/gues...

We wrote a 1-year update post on stealth corrections. Thank you @deevybee.bsky.social for hosting it.

We also wrote a @cosig.net guide to make reporting stealth corrections more streamlined

cc: @gcabanac.cpesr.fr

We wrote a 1-year update post on stealth corrections. Thank you @deevybee.bsky.social for hosting it.

We also wrote a @cosig.net guide to make reporting stealth corrections more streamlined

cc: @gcabanac.cpesr.fr

YouTube video by AnthologyOfDeath Electric Wizard - Come My Fanatics (Full Album)

Blasting this on volume 1000 right now.

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Nobody is calling you a lying monster.

In 2025, we published 2 studies, with @elisabethbik.bsky.social as one of the co-authors. All problematic studies were mentioned (including DOIs).

Yes, things have changed, but the fear of lawsuits is still real.

Even when everybody knows that the lawsuit has no merit, nobody wants to get sued.

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Ahead of next week's new episode of Under Review podcast, just a reminder of the fascinating first edition with my guest @deevybee.bsky.social as we discussed The Royal Society, Musk and academic fraud.

Listen on Apple podcasts
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Watch on YouTube www.youtube.com/watch?v=35dc...
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YouTube video by KEXP Angine de Poitrine - Full Performance (Live on KEXP)

Didn't know this band until now.
Digging in!

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<3

A short clip taken from a recent commission. Frame-by-frame animation, processed through my photocopy machine.
The video was made to promote a split single for a collaboration between Simula & Kasra - AXIOM/INTUITION

I didn't know Spandidos rejected manuscripts.

When there's no more room in hell... there's room in Oncotarget.

Holy hell!

With my upcoming album Continuation I also made an LP bundle with only Dutch musicians
A great way to discover

This includes
My LP
Coen Oscar Polack - A Concrete Pasture
Zeno van den Broek - Breach
Radboud Mens & Matthijs Kouw - 1
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Military Pressured to See ‘Melania’ Against Their Will A military group has evidence of troops being ordered into theater—the movie theater.

Acive duty military are being ordered to buy a ticket to Melania and watch it, whether they want to, or not. www.thedailybeast.com/obsessed/mil...

Ons Geld Telt – Pensioengeld duurzaam investeren Je pensioengeld heeft meer impact dan je denkt. Met één klik roep je pensioenfondsen op om duurzaam en sociaal te investeren.

Peter Thiel - sponsor Trump - noemt democratie een mislukt experiment en stelt dat vrouwen en ‘poor people’ nooit stemrecht hadden moeten krijgen. Dat schrijft hij aan Epstein. Die Thiel dus, ontwikkelt een deportatie-app voor I.C.E. en daar stroomt dus NL pensioengeld heen. Onsgeldtelt.nl : teken!

Dead Neanderthals Dead Neanderthals is a Dutch improvisational duo formed in Nijmegen in June 2010, consisting of Otto Kokke on saxophone and synthesizer and René Aquarius on drums and vocals. The band is known for the...

GROK made a 'grokipedia' enty of Dead Neanderthals and it's horrible.

Bloated and riddled with mistakes. Completely in line with other experiences where AI provides 'information'

grokipedia.com/page/dead_ne...

@jamesheathers.bsky.social did you hear this masterpiece?

Basic questions like "how many participants are in the dataset?" can produce surprisingly different answers between analysts.

Results from students in my class in data wrangling in tidyverse, who are good at wrangling but still have to make semi-subjective choices:

Let me know!

If you are here already, we could meet for a coffee at 4pm If you want!

Will you be physically here?