Mircea Ivan

@tkes.bsky.social and @nvitiensis.bsky.social are world's most underrated sleuths who are also insanely thorough and diligent. Check out their posts to see what I mean. pubpeer.com/publications...

A true piece of art.
Rahimi et al. 2020 (DOI: 10.1016/j.carbpol.2019.115696) in 'Carbohydrate Polymers' (A true bastion of #ResearchIntegrity)
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pisses me of that animals had to suffer for this fake sh*t.

The Existence of Stealth Corrections in Scientific Literature—A Threat to Scientific Integrity Click on the article title to read more.

new paper by @deadneanderthals.bsky.social and colleagues documenting the disturbing phenonmenon of stealth corrections in the scientific literature onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1002/...

Domestic violence study that strangled rats should not have been approved, animal advocates argue Study aimed to improve detection of brain injury from intimate partner violence, but critics say its non-fatal strangulation of animals was not justified

Terrible! “Study aimed to improve detection of brain injury from intimate partner violence, but critics say its non-fatal strangulation of animals was not justified” - Australia

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You can even ask it to focus on specific institutions.

Just “comment on cases of US academic misconduct after 2019” if I recall correctly. Then you ask it to modify, or add, or focus on… It gradually build up a narrative.

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I asked Grok to start commenting on academic fraud.

Retraction Watch retractions now in the Crossref API - Crossref Retractions and corrections from Retraction Watch are now available in Crossref’s REST API. Back in September 2023, we announced the acquisition of the Retraction Watch database with an ongoing shared service. Since then, they have sent us regular updates, which are publicly available as a csv file. Our aim has always been to better integrate these retractions with our existing metadata, and today we’ve met that goal. This is the first time we have supplemented our metadata with a third-party data source.

Retraction Watch retractions now in the Crossref API - Crossref https://www.crossref.org/blog/retraction-watch-retractions-now-in-the-crossref-api/

I've said it before, but I love @mfenner.bsky.social's Rogue Scholar service. With a bit of help from Martin on the Slack forum, I can now pre-assign DOIs to blog posts that I write and that it aggregates. It's really fantastic. rogue-scholar.org

“Unreliable” by Csaba Szabo – book review and excerpt Csaba Szabo’s book “Unreliable: Bias, Fraud, and the Reproducibility Crisis in Biomedical Research” – review by Zoltan Ungvari and excerpt.

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The abundance of clones corners is worrying to say the least. Even more worrying is that this type of malpractice is only one of the many used by “high profile” folks to “create” the resemblance of sophistication, mechanistic insights and such. When raw data does not cooperate with their ambition.

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First author , now full Prof at Harvard… Tons of high profile papers with manipulated figures and questionable data . This is how we cure cancer ?…

There is a limitation of this analysis that needs to be discussed. At least in life sciences retractions tend to occur when the sleuths detect “smoking guns”, in particular figure duplications. It is entirely plausible, in fact most probable, that the bulk of science misconduct avoids these deeds.

"always hope I'm not missing important ones" - Damn, if only there was some way to check.

Signed. ✍🏼

We certainly have similar interest.

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@deevybee.bsky.social @gcabanac.cpesr.fr @lonnibesancon.bsky.social @abalkina.bsky.social @sci-integrity.bsky.social @forbetterscience.bsky.social
Please distribute, sign and join me on the upcoming AGORA LIFE platform.

Stamp out paper mills’ — science sleuths on how to fight fake research nature.com/articles/d4158…
Kudos to @deadneanderthals.bsky.social @nickwizzo @SmutClyde @AbalkinaAnna @gcabanac @MicrobiomDigest Cyril Labbe, @JAByrneSci @deevybee !

Working on a new book with @mirceaivan.bsky.social related to this subject.

Important news, flying under the radar.

Thank you Science Friday for highlighting this.

Relevant to what @mirceaivan.bsky.social and I are collaborating on regarding sci publications.

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Dear friends, please add your signature to the Google Doc using the link above. Also pls distribute this as much as you can, hopefully we reach a critical mass for the next steps. @deevybee.bsky.social @infotainment.bsky.social @badsciencedebunked.bsky.social

The case for criminalizing scientific misconduct For a crime that could cost millions of lives, universities have failed to police themselves

From @csaid.bsky.social. Seems like someone @mirceaivan.bsky.social should get in touch with. I generally like the idea of treating fraud no differently in the research field. How about opening up *qui tam* cases against public institutions too?

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This is the most inspiring bottom-up #metascience initiative I've seen in months:

The Agora Manifesto, a plan for:

1. training data sleuths to detect research waste 🧑‍🎓
2. educating the public about scientific misconduct 📰

tinyurl.com/5f94czp9

@mirceaivan.bsky.social
#SciComment

Could psychedelic drugs improve the mental health of autistic people? A brace of new studies probes benefits and risks for an understudied group

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Read carefully and you will understand how low academia has been sinking.

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Answers like these …, one wonders if the experiments have even been done…

What is ageing? Even the field’s researchers can’t agree Survey of scientists who study ageing finds no consensus on the fundamentals.

"Researchers studying ageing disagree on just about everything — including what ageing is, whether it is a disease and when it starts — according to a survey of about 100 scientists working in the field."
by @smritimallapaty.bsky.social in Nature.
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I agree with Rene …

I agree with Rene…

Exactly !