Andrew Porter

I also like how the illustration suggests the important thing is how many cannon you have, and not whether you can actually point them in any useful/usable direction

The PDF is available via Reese's blog post, linked here bsky.app/profile/rees...

3. Broker organizations are capable of placing articles in journals on demand and adapt well under adversarial conditions.

Incredible work

"We surmise that paper mills have a preference for fields in which plausible manuscripts can be generated rapidly by mixing and matching novel elements into formulaic templates"

Unfortunately #CancerResearch is one such field, so it is vital to educate researchers about #PaperMills

A do-or-die moment for the scientific enterprise Reflecting on our paper “The entities enabling scientific fraud at scale are large, resilient, and growing rapidly”

Today, our article "The entities enabling scientific fraud at scale are large, resilient, and growing rapidly" is finally published in PNAS. I hope that it proves to be a wake-up-call for the whole scientific community.

reeserichardson.blog/2025/08/04/a...

Wasn't sure if this was real but looked it up and realised it's a perfectly cromulent word

UKCORI annual statement on research integrity in the UK, 2025.

UK Committee on Research Integrity has just published its annual statement on Research Integrity in the UK, presenting the latest evidence on the state of #researchintegrity. Please share it and the associated analysis of annual RI statements with your networks. ukcori.org/our-work/res...

Exciting opportunity to join @cruk-mi.bsky.social and work with ‪‪our new Director, supporting #CancerResearch in #Manchester and ultimately improving the lives of patients

Join us in the amazing Paterson Building (see video) with a great team of researchers, technical and operations staff

Wanted: Biology and medical experts to share expertise and give guidance on recent headlines.

A current article needing review: Can coffee increase your risk of going blind?

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Nearly half of UK universities on Bluesky not posting - Research Professional News Despite migration from Musk’s X, universities take “watch-and-wait” approach on academics’ favoured platform

Nearly half of UK universities on Bluesky not posting

I spoke to Research Professional News about the data I had collated in relation to which universities had left X and who was active on Bluesky.
www.researchprofessionalnews.com/rr-news-uk-u...

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Too many people only ask questions about *unfamiliar* topics, and the answers sound good! But literally drill down on anything you personally are very familiar with (math, literature, football, whatever) and you'll quickly start getting nonsensical results.

‘Self-termination is most likely’: the history and future of societal collapse An epic analysis of 5,000 years of civilisation argues that a global collapse is coming unless inequality is vanquished

“Today, people find it easier to imagine that we can build intelligence on silicon than we can do democracy at scale, or that we can escape arms races. It’s complete bullshit.”
I am so here for this book. www.theguardian.com/environment/...

Happy 15th anniversary, Retraction Watch Once upon a time, a long time ago, two science journalists had an idea for a blog about retractions. And on Aug. 3, 2010, Retraction Watch launched, detailing in the first post why retractions matt…

Once upon a time, two science journalists had an idea for a blog about retractions. And on Aug. 3, 2010, Retraction Watch launched.

And now, 15 years and 6,700 posts later, that work seems more important than ever.

Happy 15th anniversary, Retraction Watch.

Today is World Wide Web Day! How has collaboration changed since its inception? Here's a quick recap. ⏩ 🧵

Nearly half of UK universities on Bluesky not posting - Research Professional News Despite migration from Musk’s X, universities take “watch-and-wait” approach on academics’ favoured platform

Bluesky is favoured by many academics - so why are universities taking a "wait-and-see" approach to it, despite migrating from X?

Latest analysis from @andytattersall.bsky.social, plus views on why many universities remain silent on Bluesky.

www.researchprofessionalnews.com/rr-news-uk-u...

I meant to repost this earlier but CHILDREN

I’m hiring FOUR people over TWO roles and I would love to hear from more people with sales experience or willingness to learn it on the job because they’re already passionate about having chats, learning and listening

2 Corinthians 13:14 May the grace of the Lord Jesus Christ, and the love of God, and the fellowship of the Holy Spirit be with you all. | New International Version (Anglicised) (NIVUK) | Download The ... May the grace of the Lord Jesus Christ, and the love of God, and the fellowship of the Holy Spirit be with you all.

Encouraged by time at the Keswick Convention this week, some pretty mind-stretching teaching from the book of 2 Corinthians brought by Dane Ortlan, finishing today with 2 Corinthians 13:14, plus a thoughtful seminar on #GenAI

Enjoying the beautiful Lake District scenery & family time ❤️

#KesCon25

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This is a really interesting question. Why has the Wellcome publishing platform been embraced by its grantees whereas the ERC version hasn't? Both are based on the F1000 publishing model and cover publishing charges for grantees, so they seem to have quite similar profiles.

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a man in a sherlock holmes costume walking out of a train Alt: Data in a sherlock holmes costume walking out of a corridor on the Enterprise, followed by Geordie dressed as Dr Watson

Elementary, my dear doctor!

* Make the sounds of a 56kbps modem connected to your analogue phone line when you accidentally pick up the receiver in the hallway while trying to torrent files from Napster

Wow, didn't know about this part of the story, thank you for sharing.

Image Integrity Checker - Cytiva Image Integrity Checker is a free software designed to authenticate image data captured in Cytiva molecular imaging instruments.

I'm aware of one example of this, from @cytiva.bsky.social - www.cytivalifesciences.com/en/us/soluti...

They have a process for hashing and authenticating images generated by some of their equipment

"They're all ... sleuths?!"

Why AI chatbots lie to us A few weeks ago, a colleague of mine needed to collect and format some data from a website, and he asked the latest version of Anthropic’s generative AI system, Claude, for help. Claude cheerfully agr...

In my latest (and last!) column for Science’s Expert Voices series, I write about the reasons behind AI chatbots’ “deceptive” behaviors (and why Claude threatened a fictional CEO with blackmail).

www.science.org/doi/10.1126/...

a man in a suit and tie is sitting in front of a window with blinds and the word same written on his face . Alt: a man in a suit and tie is sitting in front of a window with blinds, nodding sadly with the word "Same" written in white text in front of him

Two of the panels are the...

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This Webinar, presented by @samicat1990.bsky.social explores the growing importance of data availability & management in modern research.

Jason ✨👾SaaStr.Ai✨ Lemkin (@jasonlk) .@Replit goes rogue during a code freeze and shutdown and deletes our entire database

This thread is incredible.