Josefin Sundin

Still think this was one of the best power moves of all time

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Reformation of science publishing: the Stockholm Declaration | Royal Society Open Science Science relies on integrity and trustworthiness. But scientists under career pressure are lured to purchase fake publications from ‘paper mills’ that use AI-generated data, text and image fabrication....

Reformation of science publishing: the Stockholm Declaration
A call to action for universities, academies, science organizations and funders to unite and join this effort.
Bernhard Sabel and Dan Larhammar

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Fish embryos under the microscope

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"40% of papers about subarachnoid haemorrhage in animals contained manipulated images."

We have to face up to the fact that in some fields, over half of published science might be fake.

Widespread image reuse, manipulation uncovered in animal studies of brain injury One of the papers in the analysis contained a figure (bottom) found to have overlap with other work by the same author (top). Both papers have been retracted. Annotated images: PubPeer More than 20…

The problems were so pervasive they abandoned their review and instead began investigating how widespread image duplication was in their field.

Widespread image reuse, manipulation uncovered in animal studies of brain injury

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Beware giving this site your unpublished data Users noticed the website had fake testimonials and a domain name registered seemingly overnight.

The dark truth behind FormatMyPaper.com

Happy to share a new peer-reviewed study on PubMed. Blessing eggs creates bigger and tastier chickens (p < 0.001). pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/41035978/

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Screenshot of the original published figure (left) and the corrected figure (right). In the left photo we see tumors in a grid of 5 columns and 6 rows. Two sets of tumors are marked by me with blue and green boxes respectively. In the right photo the duplicated tumors are just left out.

Hey @tandfresearch.bsky.social, - you should not allow authors to address photoshopped tumors by just leaving out the photoshopped tumors. This paper was 1 year old at the time of correction. Where are the originals?
Horrible editorial decision.
#ImageForensics

In 1916 the BMJ published an article about the work done by James Shearer, an American physician working in the British Army as a sergeant (because he had no British qualification). He had described a "delineator" which was better than x rays for portraying gunshot wounds. This caused a sensation and a lot of interest — but on investigation the work was found to have been invented. The BMJ published a retraction, but Shearer was tried by court martial and sentenced to death by firing squad.

Next time an institution tells you how seriously it takes research misconduct, ask them if it's *this* seriously. www.bmj.com/content/297/...

Screenshots of two figures from the paper, both are showing green fluorescent cells on a black background. I have added colored boxes to highlight duplications/overlaps.

Another retraction (#10?) for Srikanta Dash at @tulaneu.bsky.social

I reported this to the journal and the university in March 2021 - more than four years ago.
Despite 10 retractions, he is still a full professor at Tulane.

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Rivers are heating up faster than the air − that’s a problem for aquatic life and people River heat waves are rising faster than the pace of air heat waves. That’s a problem for fish, drinking water quality, and food and energy production.

Rivers are heating up faster than the air − that’s a problem for aquatic life and people

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Museums of the future. A digital aquarium tunnel of the Triassic marine life, at the Geological Museum of Guizhou, China.

New review paper titled "Balancing hydropower production and ecology - ecological impacts, mitigation measures, and programmatic monitoring" published in KMAE. With @jnaslund.bsky.social and others. Read it here: www.kmae-journal.org/articles/kma...

An image showing lots of panels with a black background and green fluorescent cells. Colored boxes of the same color and arrows show overlapping panels or groups of cells found in more than one panel. See: https://pubpeer.com/publications/C494F24D5E8153CB50C082DE5B0B03

Four panels, each showing a grey-colored petridish with bacterial colonies (which look like little irregularly shaped black dots). I have added colored rounded boxes to indicate colonies or groups of colonies that look remarkably similar. See: https://pubpeer.com/publications/0ACA63AC48C60852962E58844828A4

I would plus one that. Lots of Oncotarget papers have problems. I already have over 200 Oncotarget papers flagged.

Of the 125 problematic papers that I reported 5 years or more ago, about 100 remain unaddressed.

Oncotarget's EiC thinks these images are totally fine.
#ImageForensics

Just learned about this diamond journal, which has apparently been running since 2015! Looks like a very nice place for any meta-sciency work & probably deserves some visibility.

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From policy to practice: progress towards data- and code-sharing in ecology and evolution | Proceedings of the Royal Society B: Biological Sciences Data and code are essential for ensuring the credibility of scientific results and facilitating reproducibility, areas in which journal sharing policies play a crucial role. However, in ecology and ev...

New paper! 🥳📜 We reviewed 275 ecology & evolution journals: only 38% mandate data sharing & 27% mandate code sharing. 📉

We share recommendations to help close this gap. 💡

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Fisheries can drive selection, but what about small-scale ornamental fisheries? Our new study shows Amazonian fishes interact w/ traps in species- & environment-specific ways, hinting at overlooked selective potential. Led by @marpineda.bsky.social Read here: onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/epdf/10....

Europe’s largest paper mill? 1,500 research articles linked to Ukrainian network 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

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~10 years after the experiments, the paper is finally ready 😅😅

Take home: nothing beats patient collaborators 😆

Thanks @josefin-sundin.bsky.social @BenSpeers-Roesch @itchyshin.bsky.social @TimClark @SandraBinning!!

#OceanAcidification #AnimalBehaviour #OpenScience

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The lab-field continuum in conservation physiology research: leveraging multiple approaches to inform policy and practice Abstract. In the field of conservation physiology, there is often a trade off between conducting research in controlled laboratory settings or in inherentl

lab-field continuum in conservation physiology research: leveraging multiple approaches to inform policy and practice url: academic.oup.com/conphys/arti...

‘Almost unimaginable’: these ants are different species but share a mother Ant queens of one species clone ants of another to create hybrid workers that do their bidding.

Last week in Nature: ooo look at my spiky dino. This week in Nature: EVERYTHING YOU KNOW ABOUT BIOLOGY IS WRONG www.nature.com/articles/d41...

Status and future perspectives of pink salmon in the Nordic region 🐟🐟🐟

New article out now
@evathorstad.bsky.social @jaakkoerkinaro.bsky.social

Check it out here: doi.org/10.60910/ber...

Our new paper shows how arena size can bias sociability estimates in sticklebacks: bigger tanks = lower sociability, even after adjusting for tank size. Repeatability highest at intermediate size. #methodsmatter! Great work from @mgmci13.bsky.social! Read it here: link.springer.com/article/10.1...

YouTube video by Kurzgesagt – In a Nutshell The Dumbest Animal Alive

Hilarious and mostly accurate character assassination of the sunfish Mola mola 😂🐟🦑

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I vibecoded this little tool for detecting duplications and clones within scientific figures. I think it works ok! Please try it. There are sample images you can try. Free to use. Not nearly as good as the paid models, obviously.
👉 dejaview.streamlit.app
#researchintegrity @elisabethbik.bsky.social

Recently published study on a provoked escape response test in Padanian goby. Estimated maximum swimming speed was not repeatable at the individual fish level but consistently different between groups. Overall performance declined between tests. Paper here: www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....

Has anyone here received offers from "Peer Publicon", a scientific writing 'consultancy' company, offering authorship positions? Please DM me privately. Will keep confidential.
#PaperMills

#JFB: Validation of a new acoustic telemetry transmitter for the study of predation events in small fishes doi.org/10.1111/jfb.15827 #FishSci