Mark Hooper

Apparently I do unboxing videos now. (Forgive me.) We received the 1st prototype of our card game about research supervision. There will be a printable version as part of our new online course, Supervising Postgraduate Researchers. www.trickygoose.training/supervising
#academicsky #researchintegrity

I’m going to halve my publication output. You should consider slow science, too If we don’t slow down, the research enterprise is going to crash, argues Adrian Barnett.

Less is more. This aphorism is constantly on my mind. The scientific publication system is under tremendous strain, the last thing it needs is a massive dump of LLM generated/aided papers. If you love science, then show it some love. www.nature.com/articles/d41...

We really did mean to be complimentary of your great paper! (Forgive any nitpicking.)
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Cc @michaelvincent.bsky.social

Responsible-Research-Assessment-Jeopardy cracks me up. We are losing, but possibly laughing the most. #AIMOS2025

Discussions at #AIMOS2025 re: financial conflicts of expert witnesses, reminds me of this editorial from 1882 (!):

“…the saying of a well-known judge that liars might be divided into three classes - liars, great liars, and scientific-witnesses - recommends itself to many.”

[The Times, 4 April]

Jen Beaudry in front of the slide with the sponsors

We will have workshops, discussion groups, hackathons, lightning talks, and mini-notes.
Thanks to the sponsors, @sydney.edu.au, @ardc.edu.au,
@proofigai.bsky.social, and Tricky Goose
@markhooper.bsky.social

#AIMOS2025

Our new preprint! The Acknowledgments problem, and what to do about it.
With @martonkovacs.bsky.social, @pietropollo.bsky.social, @philobolobstime.bsky.social, Losia Lagisz, & Mohammad Hosseini.

Chritmas gift ideas 2025 Mark and Briohny's annual christmas gift ideas

Our annual #Christmas gift guide. A tradition! Only for fun. No affiliate links. www.christmasgifts.io

For sure!

I mean that everyone, for years, has agreed that perverse incentive structures drive research integrity issues.

So, it’s no longer a particularly insightful conclusion.

But it remains a real problem. Changing incentives is very hard. So, I like papers that discuss *how* to do it.

I'm a bit weary of talks and papers that end, "So, we need to change the incentive structure." That's not a conclusion, it's a premise! #researchintegrity

GAIDeT: a practical taxonomy for declaring AI use in research and publishing Transparency of AI use in academia matters for authors, editors, reviewers, readers and repository moderators. This blog post introduces GAIDeT, a taxonomy for the structured disclosure of Generative ...

It occurred to me that we need Contributor Statements (like CRediT), except to describe various uses of Gen-AI in research. But like all decent thoughts, someone else had it first. I really like what this group has done. Their tool is useful: www.leidenmadtrics.nl/articles/gai...
#researchintegrity

The people who say "science is self-correcting" are not usually the same people who work hard to correct science.

Just submitted a highly amusing abstract to the International Research Integrity Conference (Sydney, November). Whatever the outcome, hope to see you there! Abstracts close on Monday. researchintegrityconf.com

I like that @elisabethbik.bsky.social introduced us to the fish with names —e.g., Short Stripe and Beauty Mole. I particularly like that Bearded Zebra prefers to go by "BZ". I can really get behind that tone of pubpeer discourse.

On the left is a glass of clean water labelled ‘Delicious open access.’ In the middle is a plastic bottle of clean water labelled ‘Delicious open access, but stupidly costly.’ On the right is a plastic bottle full of putrid water labelled ‘Predatory open access.’

Some folks confuse these things —who think the 'water movement' must be flawed, since bottled water is expensive, and contaminated water is poisonous. Clean water and #openaccess both cost $. We don't really need corporations selling packaged products, but communities funding reservoirs and taps.

Even honest research results can flip – a new approach to assessing robustness in the social sciences When academic studies get things wrong, it is often blamed on misconduct. Yet even good-faith research can produce contradictory conclusions.

Even honest research results can flip – a new approach to assessing robustness in the social sciences

#ResearchIntegrity #ResearchMisconduct #WCRI2026 #WCRI

blogs.lse.ac.uk/europpblog/2...

A tiny clay model of a goose sits upon a Logi brand webcam. It has a white body, black eyes, one bigger than the other, and an orange beak. The neck is cocked slightly to its right, as if to convey attitude, or perhaps a lively cheerful manner.

My daughter made this clay model, and stuck it on my webcam. So, if we’re chatting, know that I’m also speaking with a jaunty goose.

Ahhhh, right you are. Thank you.

The decision to close Meanjin misunderstands its wider importance. Australian culture deserves better The decision to close Meanjin is the latest in a string of recent decisions that suggest universities are not safe harbours for priceless cultural institutions.

If Melbourne University Publishing doesn’t want to keep publishing Meanjin, they should hand over the journal to someone worthy of the responsibility. Me in The Conversation theconversation.com/the-decision...

It boggles my mind that anyone would submit their work to any journal that they do not also read.
#Academicsky

Ethical Obligations to Inform Patients About Use of AI Tools This Perspective discusses the use of artificial intelligence (AI) tools in health care and offers a framework for deciding what patients should be told about AI tools.

The use of #AI tools in health care raises questions about patient informed consent, necessitating a framework to decide when disclosure is needed. Learn more in this Perspective. ja.ma/424oPR6

Cover matter: Navigating Open Research A Guide for Early Career Researchers From CONUL - consortium of national and university libraries #openResearch #irishResearch

Navigating Open Research: A Guide for Early Career Researchers. Great work from the CONUL Research Group. Free to download zenodo.org/records/1702... #irishResearch #openResearch

Is There a Reproducibility Crisis? On the Need for Evidence-based Approaches The ‘Sixth Report—Reproducibility and Research Integrity’ (UK House of Commons Science, Innovation and Technology Committee 2023. ‘Sixth Report—Reproducibility and Research Integrity’) (‘The Report...

Pethick et al. Is There a Reproducibility Crisis? On the Need for Evidence-based Approaches www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10.... #OpenScience

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

🌟 REACH is live!
A new digital magazine on research integrity & open science.

📖 In this issue:
✨ Launch of the Science Integrity Alliance
✨ Coverage of the U.S. Conference on Research Integrity
✨ COPE’s evolution in publication ethics
...and more!

🔗 Read here: www.sci-integrity.com/reach-inaugu...

The Gantt Chart templates that universities offer their postgraduate students are some of the ugliest things I've ever seen.

Peer reviewers more likely to approve articles that cite their own work Preprint examines how citations can influence the review process.

A new #Nature story investigates a preprint by #AusHSI Prof @aidybarnett.bsky.social, which has found that peer reviewers are more likely to approve articles that cite their own work. When the reasons for citing are hard to justify, this can make the peer-review process transactional. #peerreview

Studying philosophy does make people better thinkers, according to new research on more than 600,000 college grads Philosophers are fond of saying that their field boosts critical thinking. Two of them decided to put that claim to the test.

Consider studying #philosophy. It’s fun, and: “Philosophy majors rank higher than all other majors on verbal and logical reasoning…”
theconversation.com/studying-phi...

Tackling paper mills requires us to prevent future contamination and clean up the past – the case of the journal Bioengineered Taylor & Francis journal Bioengineered has been targeted by paper mills. Our goal is to identify problematic articles published in Bioengineered during the period 2010 to 2024. Dimensions was used ...

New paper:

Tackling paper mills requires us to prevent future contamination and clean up the past – the case of the journal Bioengineered

With @deadneanderthals.bsky.social, @smutclyde.bsky.social, @mortenoxe.bsky.social, @thatsregrettab1.bsky.social, and me

www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....

Two academics emailed me, saying kind things about my work. This honestly made my week.

If your Friday allows time, hammer-out a quick note that might make someone else's week. Let's emulate the good ones.