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📍 May 3–6, 2026 | Vancouver, Canada 🇨🇦

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Photo of my right hand holding a book. It has a white cover with black letters: Stan van Pelt Sloppy Science Alles over wetenschapsfraude: van foutjes to nepcongressen And it features a blue abstract smear on the front

I will be bringing my copy of @stanvanpelt.bsky.social's new book Sloppy Science (in Dutch) to read in the train.

I hope he can sign it for me!

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Symptomen van een dolgedraaid systeem ‘Nu kom je daar met een groot ego nog altijd makkelijker bovendrijven dan met grondigheid en bescheidenheid.’ Stan van Pelt over slechte wetenschap

'Nu kom je daar met een groot ego nog altijd makkelijker bovendrijven dan met grondigheid en bescheidenheid.' Over slechte wetenschap.

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I’m honored to be named one of Tagesspiegel’s “100 Researchers of Berlin” for 2025, featured in today’s category “Swimming against the current.” Grateful to be recognized alongside inspiring researchers who challenge convention and push boundaries

New post on ResToRes's website: "The Lancet–WCRIF commission on research integrity"
A new Lancet–WCRIF Commission on Research Integrity takes aim at the growing crisis of fake science and questionable research practices, calling for coordinated global action.
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Fraude in onderzoek: van verzonnen echo’s tot een alzheimermedicijn dat niet werkt Van verzonnen baarmoederlittekens tot onzinstudies over alzheimermedicatie. Gesjoemel met wetenschappelijk onderzoek is aan de orde van de dag, zegt Stan van Pelt, journalist en ex-wetenschapper van d...

Wetenschapsfraude lijkt op doping, vertelde ik in @degelderlander.bsky.social. Topsporters weten ook dat het slecht voor je is en het je je carrière kan kosten: maar ze willen de beste zijn; in de wetenschap vergroot succes bovendien de kans op subsidies. www.gelderlander.nl/nijmegen/fra...

All academics should be scientific sleuths, says scholar Exposing academic fraud should be part and parcel of an academic’s job, not an after-hours hobby, and universities should give staff support to stre...

All academics should be scientific sleuths, says scholar

#Sleuths #ScientificSleuths #ResearchIntegrity #WCRI2026 #WCRI

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New code of conduct for researchers advises caution with AI In a draft version of its new integrity code, the Royal Netherlands Academy of Arts and Sciences (KNAW) recommends that scientists support open science whenever possible, refrain from publishing in pr...

New code of conduct for researchers advises caution with AI

#AI #GenAI #ResearchIntegrity #Netherland #WCRI2026 #WCRI

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We must set the rules for AI use in scientific writing and peer review Clear policies, transparent disclosure and shared accountability are essential to protect the integrity of research, says George Chalhoub

We must set the rules for AI use in scientific writing and peer review

#AI #GenAI #Science #PeerReview #WCRI2026 #WCRI

www.timeshighereducation.com/opinion/we-m...

Balancing Privacy, Compliance And Research Integrity Leaders across higher education and industry must ensure that their teams and partners think critically about anonymization, informed consent and data handling.

Balancing Privacy, Compliance And Research Integrity

#ResearchIntegrity #Privacy #IRB #WCRI2026 #WCRI

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How fabricated data, fake journals and sham conferences are polluting science - Erasmus Magazine In the race for money and prestige, researchers regularly cross the line. Science journalist Stan van Pelt delved into the world of fraud, bogus articles and fake conferences and wrote a book about it...

How fabricated data, fake journals and sham conferences are polluting science

#ResearchIntegrity #FakeJournals #Science #WCRI2026 #WCRI

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Hoe ik met ChatGPT een nepwetenschapsartikel schreef (en het nog gepubliceerd kreeg ook) Een overduidelijk nepartikel publiceren in een chic klinkend wetenschappelijk tijdschrift is kinderlijk eenvoudig, ontdekte journalist Stan van Pelt. ‘Georganiseerde criminaliteit’, noemen fraudeonder...

Nepvakbladen publiceren jaarlijks snel een miljoen nepwetenschappelijke artikelen. Dat is een groot probleem, waarvan wetenschappers zich lang niet altijd bewust zijn, schrijft @stanvanpelt.bsky.social in deze voorpublicatie van zijn boek over wetenschapsfraude. www.volkskrant.nl/wetenschap/h...

PCI Webinar-Dorothy Bishop-How negligent publishers subvert quality control in scientific publishing

Yesterday, we had the pleasure of listening to Dorothy Bishop emphasize the responsibility of editors during the 12th PCI Webinar! If you weren't able to join, you can catch her talk and the following Q&A session at this link: youtu.be/0NJ87tYE8_s

‘Publish or perish’ evolutionary pressures shape scientific publishing, for better and worse Scientists write papers to share their results – and gain prestige and advance their careers. In this competitive field, selection can favor AI-written papers, citation cartels, paper mills and more.

"...we need to ask why bad acts are selected in the first place and design better systems. Don’t blame the player, redesign the game. If we can put better rules in place, evolution will do the rest."
@wcrifoundation.bsky.social

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Peer Review Congress Chicago – Day 1 It’s Peer Review Week! A perfect time to post my notes from the 10th International Congress on Peer Review and Scientific Publication, which was held at the Swissôtel in Chicago, two weeks ag…

For #PeerReviewWeek, I just published my BlueSky posts and notes from the 10th International Peer Review Congress, held 2 weeks ago in Chicago.
#PRC10 @peerreviewcongress.bsky.social
Part 1 is here: scienceintegritydigest.com/2025/09/16/p...

I've just updated my preprint on short personal reviews of novels on hashtag#ResearchIntegrity bit.ly/409E5ff
Please attend me to novels which you believe to belong to this list, but are not yet included.
The preprint recently also has been published in a Chinese journal: bit.ly/3K6P17B

Exclusive: Journal bans drug safety database papers as they flood the literature celafon/iStockPhoto Starting around 2023, a curious trend took hold in papers on drug safety monitoring. The number of articles published on an individual drug and its link to specific adverse even…

This is another wake-up call about what is happening with scientific literature, which is being flooded by template papers produced by paper mills. One example is the use of open-access databases like FAERS or NHANES, combined with analyses that rely on biased or incorrect methodologies.

'Publish or perish' evolutionary pressures shape scientific publishing, for better and worse While developing his theory of natural selection, Charles Darwin was horrified by a group of wasps that lay their eggs within the bodies of caterpillars, with the larvae eating their hosts alive from ...

'Publish or perish' evolutionary pressures shape scientific publishing, for better and worse

#ResearchIntegrity #AcademicPublishing #Publish #WCRI2026 #WCRI

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Education Plan Cites Nonexistent Sources In Canada, Education Accord NL just released it’s 10-year-plan for the province’s education system. However, some of the sources were fabricated.

The education plan of Newfoundland and Labrador, Canada, cited 15 non-existent sources.

#AcademicIntegrity #ResearchIntegrity #Canada #Newfoundland #Education #WCRI2026 #WCRI

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I believe novels can reveal different aspects of academic life, not unike qualitative research, but with more freedom of expression, which can help to make the didactical points you find important to get across..

Impossible to say. I’ve read them over a period spanning more than a decade. The novels that impressed me most, show how complex the minefield is early career researchers have to navigate. Like e.g. A. Goodman - Intuition and J. Rohn - The honest look (not yet in the preprint).

Bolsonaro sentenced to 27 years for plotting military coup in Brazil Former president sought to ‘annihilate’ country’s democracy after losing 2022 election

This is how you protect your democracy. The US is a demonstration of what happens when you don't. www.theguardian.com/world/2025/s...

When the Scoreboard Becomes the Game, It’s Time to Recalibrate Research Metrics - The Scholarly Kitchen Today's guest post discusses research metrics and their relationship to research integrity, inclusivity, and long-term impact.

When the Scoreboard Becomes the Game, It’s Time to Recalibrate Research Metrics scholarlykitchen.sspnet.org/2025/09/11/g...

Europe’s largest paper mill? 1,500 research articles linked to Ukrainian network Nature - A group of companies has flooded 380 journals with hundreds of suspect papers since 2017.

An investigation has identified more than 1,500 research articles produced by a network of Ukrainian companies that could be one of Europe’s largest paper mills

go.nature.com/3JLlu3n

My favorite part of this story on excellent work by @abalkina.bsky.social and Svetlana Kleiner is when @miryamnaddaf.bsky.social asks the paper mill if they are a paper mill and they respond "it's a secret 😋🙈"

A @bmj.com RCT is comparing effects of use of an #OpenScience checklist on provision of study protocols, code, data, more. Too early to assess reproducibility FX!
@mariskaleeflang.bsky.social @ingestegeman.bsky.social
@floriannaudet.bsky.social @mlrethlefsen.bsky.social @amsterdamumc.bsky.social

DISCO II and III Methods

Methods for DISCO II and III (no idea what that means)
Comparing 2012 and 2016.
Industry-sponsored RCTs had 98% registered - doing really well. Non-industry sponsored did good, 90%.
Completion status: Here we found lots of dicontinuation, usually because of poor recruitment.
#PRC10

A non-identified speaker with his title slide. Slide has lots of names, so I assume the person is one of them.

Next: 'Nonregistration, Discontinuation, and Nonpublication of Randomized Trials in Switzerland, the UK, Germany, and Canada: An Updated Meta-Research Study'
What proportion of RCTs are registered, discontinued, published?
[EB: not sure who the speaker is - another non-informative slide!]
#PRC10

A prompt-based approach was highly accurate in defining clinical trial outcomes and identifying outcome changes in ClinicalTrials.gov. This approach could be expanded to identify changes between registrations and manuscripts. Although it did not achieve perfect accuracy, our prompt-based approach could help editors and peer reviewers detect likely discrepancies that warrant further review.

#ChatGPT was accurate in identifying changes in RCT outcomes on ClinicalTrials.gov, and completed the entire process (ie, matching, defining, comparing) in ~2 min per trial vs 27 min for humans
@ischoolui.bsky.social @colbyvorland.bsky.socia
#clinepi #metaresearch
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