Theo Bloom

So great to catch up with previous @plos.org and other colleagues at #Metascience2025 @theobloom.bsky.social @roliroberts.bsky.social

The MAHA children’s health report mis-cited our research. That’s sloppy — and worrying Being cited in a major government report, like the MAHA report on children’s health, should be gratifying. Not this time.

The trenchant views of two eminent researchers miscited in the MAHA report: www.statnews.com/2025/06/20/m...
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Medical journal editors must resist CDC order and anti-gender ideology The news that on 31 January 2025 the Trump administration instructed scientists employed by the US Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) to withdraw or retract articles from medical and sci...

In case you're interested in where The BMJ stands on Presidential Executive Orders banning certain language from research communications www.bmj.com/content/388/... @kamranabbasi.bsky.social @jocalynclark.bsky.social #SciencePublishing #SciComm #AcademicSky #ResearchIntegrity

Removal of DEI content from a microbiology group’s website shows reach of Trump executive orders The professional society for microbiologists stripped content about Black, female, and LGBTQ scientists from its website

Scary to see this, whether it is unneeded over-reaction or appropriate obeisance to the new US administration. www.statnews.com/2025/02/03/t...

‘Stamp out paper mills’ — science sleuths on how to fight fake research A group of scientists who are experts at spotting fraudulent research outline five essential steps to combat industrialized scientific misconduct.

Nice summary of how to tackle paper mills, from an impressive list of 'sleuths' www.nature.com/articles/d41... #ResearchIntegrity #ScientificPublishing

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The PRC10 abstract submission site is now open!

Abstracts that report new research & findings w generalizable results that can improve scientific research will be given priority.

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bsky.app?feed=feedgen... if this works it is a link to the feed called "science communication"

What’s in a picture? Two decades of image manipulation awareness and action via www.CartoonStock.com This year marks the 20th anniversary of the publication of “What’s in a picture?  The temptation of image manipulation,” in which I described the problem of image mani…

Twenty years of image manipulation screening has got us ... where? Mike Rossner reflects. retractionwatch.com/2024/08/12/w...

Pay researchers to spot errors in published papers Borrowing the idea of ‘bug bounties’ from the technology industry could provide a systematic way to detect and correct the errors that litter the scientific literature. Borrowing the idea of ‘bug boun...

I rather like the idea of trying out a 'bug bounty' for those who find errors in published papers. Might it reverse the tendency to keep quiet about errors found, and reward professional error spotters? www.nature.com/articles/d41... #ScientificPublishing #ScienceCommunication

Nature earns ire over lack of code availability for Google DeepMind protein folding paper via Nature A group of researchers is taking Nature to task for publishing a paper earlier this month about Google DeepMind’s protein folding prediction program without requiring the authors publish…

Very disappointing to see that Nature published Google DeepMind's protein folding paper with fanfare but without requiring code availability retractionwatch.com/2024/05/14/n...

Can't work out whether to be pleased at this 'movement' or depressed that it is still required in the 2020s www.nature.com/articles/d41...

Do conflicts of interests matter when scientists and journalists talk about issues like ultra-processed foods? (TL;DR: I believe they do) www.bmj.com/content/383/... #scicomm #ScientificPublishing

Find out more about medRxiv (medrxiv.org) and bioRxiv (biorxiv.org) on more social channels now (but not yet this one): connect.medrxiv.org/news/2023/10... #Academic Publishing #SciComm

You publish no articles for ages, then two come along at once: reminiscences on 20 years of
PLOS Biology (with emmaganley.bsky.social): journals.plos.org/plosbiology/... And the future of open science for The Lancet's 200th: www.thelancet.com/journals/lan...
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Trying again with some hashtags. Apologies for new-user issues! #SciencePublishing #PublishingModels #ResearchPublishing #ScientificResearchPublishing #AcademicPublishing

Apologies for a naive question from a bluesky newbie: how does one get added to a feed? Is that by simply adding the #hashtag?

Guest Post - Reputation and Publication Volume at MDPI and Frontiers - The Scholarly Kitchen Compared to their peak levels, publication volume has declined at MDPI by 27% and at Frontiers by 36%. What's behind these declines, and how do they reflect the inherent risk in the APC open access mo...

Lots of interesting data on Frontiers and MDPI publishing output, and its recent decline, even though I don't 100% agree with the analysis. scholarlykitchen.sspnet.org/2023/09/18/g...