Reese Richardson

real shit

continue to think that if instead of "raw milk" we called it "doodoo milk" people would understand the risk proposition

If you're interested in data sleuthing but aren't sure where to start,

or if you're conducting a systematic review/meta-analysis and want to ensure you're not including junk studies,

check out this Cochrane training session on Trustworthiness Assessment by @jdwilko.bsky.social

Iranians are experiencing a collective trauma. Thousands have been killed/injured in recent events, the economy is crippled & the threat of a wider conflict is real. This is especially difficult for those living in Iran, as many have lost (or fear losing) loved ones. www.nature.com/articles/d41...

A diagram highlighting image re-use betwren two articles that I recorded on PubPeer. Both articles are now retracted.

Two XRD patterns from the earlier article. Unexpected repetitive regions are highlighted with red and green boxes.

The authors reused at least one image from an earlier paper in the International Journal for Biological Macromolecules (Elsevier) which itself appears to have fabricated data and plagiarized images (that article was retracted in Aug 2025).

pubpeer.com/publications...

"Post-publication, concerns were raised around the authenticity of the FTIR graph in figure 2b and SEM image in Figure 3c. Furthermore, during revision, two new authors were added to the revised paper without explanation..."

RETRACTED: Incorporation of UiO-66-NH2 MOF into the PAN/chitosan nanofibers for adsorption and membrane filtration of Pb(II), Cd(II) and Cr(VI) ions from aqueous solutions This article has been retracted: please see Elsevier policy on article withdrawal (https://www.elsevier.com/about/policies-and-standards/article-withd…

The Journal of Hazardous Materials (Elsevier) has retracted a 2019 article *cited 500 times* about materials for wastewater remediation.

www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...

Wow this scoring chaos seems to be an extreme case of what I say about many ad hoc analyses: no derivation of method from a clear scientific theory, no assessment of statistical properties, and decades pass before someone notices. This happens in biology too, so let’s not pick on psychology only

The Collection of Open Science Integrity Guides (COSIG) COSIG is an openly licensed, continuously expanding repository of practical guides for performing post-publication peer review (PPPR). The resource is freely available at https://cosig.net. At the tim...

To make COSIG more discoverable for educators looking to develop course material on publication integrity and peer review, COSIG now has an entry in OER Commons! @oercommons.bsky.social #OER

oercommons.org/courses/the-...

X is hiring a “great lothario” at $40 an hour to teach Grok “the pleasures of the flesh”

‘Nature’ robot chemist paper corrected, but some questions remain unanswered The original study claimed the robot had discovered 43 new materials in 17 days

The journal @nature.com has corrected a highly-cited study about a robot chemist producing new materials from scratch — but some questions remain unanswered.

My latest for @cenmag.bsky.social:

cen.acs.org/research-int...

@robertpalgrave.bsky.social

#ChemSky

Confusion in gaming disorder measurement Abstract. Measurement is important for the scientific programmes of addictive behaviours. In the present study, we investigated the measurement of gaming d

First post of the year, new paper out today: we present possibly the biggest case of systematic Measurement Schmeasurement in tech use. It seems that most studies on gaming (videogame) addiction/disorder haven't measured gaming after all. This research took years, so long 🧵 doi.org/10.1098/rsos...

Flyer: Research Integrity Week, with photos of the speakers and organizers, with a QR code to register (but it leads to a message saying the registration is full).

Schedule (in Pakistan times): Date and TIme Speaker Topic 28 JAN, 10:00AM- th Prof. Dr. Najma 10:35AM Memon th 28 JAN, 10:45AM- 11:25AM th 28 JAN, 12:00PM- 12:35PM th 29 JAN, 9:00AM- 9:35AM Abbas Aziz Dr. Anna Abalkina Dr. Elisabeth Bik Fundamentals of Research Integrity Scientific Misconduct in Material Science Hijacked Journals: Definition and Key Challenges Errors and Misconduct in Biomedical Research Images th 29 JAN, 9:45AM- 10:25AM Dr. Reese Richardson Exploitation of intellectual property systems for the manipulation of academic reputations th 29 JAN, 10:30AM- 11:10AM Dr. Sholto David Identifying Errors and Manipulations in scientific paper with the focus on Images

Excited to be participating in the virtual Research Integrity Week events, by the Researchers Society/Pakistan Economics Frontier, organized by Abbas Aziz, hosted by Dr. Saba Saeed, with @sholtodavid.bsky.social , @abalkina.bsky.social, Najma Memon, and @reeserichardson.bsky.social
Starting in 2h

The Alfred Jewel: A 1,100-year-old treasure from England's first king that proclaims 'Alfred ordered me to be made' This gold-encrusted jewel has an inscription revealing who made it.

The Alfred Jewel: A 1,100-year-old treasure from England's first king that proclaims 'Alfred ordered me to be made'

www.livescience.com/archaeology/...

"The Alfred Jewel: An Historical Essay" at PG:

www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/59372

#art #history

"Nobody ever told me I shouldn't put my unfinished novel in the filing cabinet next to the fire place"

while it is worthwhile to complain about OpenAI's lack of transparency in data use, this piece is not about that. it's this guy admitting to taking absolutely no precautions for file management and blaming it on ChatGPT when that inevitably bites him. embarrassing!

When two years of academic work vanished with a single click After turning off ChatGPT’s ‘data consent’ option, Marcel Bucher lost the work behind grant applications, teaching materials and publication drafts. Here’s what happened next.

"I saved all of my work in one place for two years and then lost it" FTFY!

www.nature.com/articles/d41...

Musk’s Chatbot Flooded X With Millions of Sexualized Images in Days, New Estimates Show

We set out to determine how many images of women and girls Grok created during its nudifying spree. What we found was “industrial-scale abuse,” experts said. www.nytimes.com/2026/01/22/t...

Soulja Boy forever youtu.be/gWqnz-7iQbY?...

CARTOON/FOUL.GIF

This shiny app is pretty cool. Just cruising around, I found one special issue where it appears one editor jammed his name onto all five papers. LOL. It looks like this was the price of admission into this issue.

www.mdpi.com/journal/gene...

paolocrosetto.shinyapps.io/Editors_as_a...

COSIG The Collection of Open Science Integrity Guides

Hi, Kate! Check out the Collection of Open Science Integrity Guides (COSIG) at cosig.net (also on bsky at @cosig.net). I think you'll find a lot of useful material therein!

Science journals retract 500 papers a month. This is why it matters A small team of volunteers is tracking thousands of falsified studies, including cases of bribery, fraud and plagiarism

‘Science journals retract 500 papers a month. This is why it matters.
A small team of volunteers is tracking thousands of falsified studies, including cases of bribery, fraud and plagiarism’

Ivan Oransky @retractionwatch.com, @alicedreger.bsky.social @thetimes.com

www.thetimes.com/uk/science/a...

The academic community failed Wikipedia for 25 years — now it might fail us Artificial-intelligence systems are feeding on Wikipedia without giving back, and academic indifference is threatening the survival of what is arguably the most widely used reference work on the plane...

"The time for passive consumption has expired. Every scholar should begin contributing their expertise to Wikipedia — not as charity, but as a core duty."

doi.org/10.1038/d415...

Noem’s Razor: Never attribute to stupidity that which is adequately explained by malice.
statmodeling.stat.columbia.edu/2026/01/19/n...

All on PubPeer: pubpeer.com/publications...

A scientific figure containing seven scanning electron microscope images of nanoparticles on nanofibers (they look kinda like brussels sprouts on stalks).

Finally got around to reporting a big batch of dodgy biomaterials articles today. This is probably the worst image of the bunch. Can you spot anything off here?

#ImageForensics

Some guest editors pack special issues with their own articles Thousands have penned more than one-third of a journal issue, raising conflict-of-interest concerns

#SpecialIssues have fueled the growth of some of the largest #OpenAccess publishers. Does a journal that allows a #GuestEditor to both plan a special issue and write many articles in it have a conflict of interest? #scicomm #peerreview @science.org www.science.org/content/arti...

A hooded garment with long sleeves, made of strips of material stitched in horizontal rows with decorative embroidery around the hem and cuffs.

Dating from around 1865, this hooded parka from the Aleutian Islands in southern Alaska is made from seal intestines, a naturally waterproof & windproof material. Both robust & decorative, these seal gut parkas would have been used daily to keep warm & dry in this harsh environment.

bit.ly/4oRZuCC

Elon Musk tweet from 2022: You might notice small. sometimes major, improvements in speed of Twitter. Wil be especially significant in countries far away from USA. A reply from a guy named "Jay odoyle": You should invent a hammer with a camera inside!!!

I think about "You should invent a hammer with a camera inside!!!" at least once a month. What was he getting at