Ioana A. Cristea

I recently reported on an ICE officer who was publicly reprimanded and “relieved of his duties” after shoving a woman to the ground in an NYC immigration court. Well, he’s back.

DHS did not respond to a request for comment.

Original story: www.propublica.org/article/ice-...

Photos: Carol Guzy

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New writing, a short piece this time

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BREAKING: Judge William Young, a Reagan appointee, delivers the most scathing legal rebuke of the Trump era, ruling that Trump and his cabinet illegally targeted pro-Palestinian students for deportation to "strike fear" into First Amendment protesters. storage.courtlistener.com/recap/gov.us...

ICE Officer ‘Relieved of His Duties’ After Pushing Woman to Floor

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Must, must-read. Just drop everything, take an hour and read this, as I have. I wish these two parents would know that strangers like me who read their writings about their Martha will think long and hard about what happened, not forget and not be the same.

The ‘pro’ reasons to share the paper with the authors of the p-curve before sharing are an uphill journey in cringe. Really terrible. Had Amy Cuddy written these back in the day, white knight saving science twitter would have crucified her.

a man in a leather jacket is looking up and saying `` big brain '' while standing in front of a building . ALT: a man in a leather jacket is looking up and saying `` big brain '' while standing in front of a building .

Some researchers don't discuss their future research plans for fear of being scooped.

Not me. I drop bad ideas for unscrupulous people to 'steal'.

- What are the neural correlates of Open Science practices?
- What is the role of habits in learning a new skill through repetitive practice?

For the record, the local police had to arrive to free the girl from … the federal police.

This is horrific. It’s undeniable that we will need trials for ICE officials and officers after all this.

“Leominster police arrived at the scene, recovered the child and returned her to the family.”

Of course I agree and know this, the point was that if we are chasing confounded associations, why only go for the ones that impact women?

Autism risk associated with parental age and with increasing difference in age between the parents - PubMed Advancing paternal and maternal age have both been associated with risk for autism spectrum disorders (ASD). However, the shape of the association remains unclear, and results on the joint association...

Cool, cool, so acetaminophen is no longer ok in pregnancy, well we'll just use the *other* drugs on the safe list for pain (haha), fever...ah wait.
Now that we fixed this, can we focus on how paternal age and widening age gaps contribute to risk of ASD?
pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/26055426/

Our piece in @psyche.co, based on our perspective @thelancet.com Psychiatry
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New post for ResToRes. Real-world datasets are shaping clinical claims, but data patterns and transparency issues raise serious concerns. Our JAMA Psych letter with @ioanaacristea.bsky.social highlights several red flags in a study using the TriNetX database.

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A meta-perspective by Malcolm Macleod on the presentations at #PRC10.

Are we going for low hanging fruit too much in research on peer review / publication?

Ioannidis: Do we enough evidence for your proposed actions to improve peer review?

Macleod: The evidence is thin, partly because many journals are hesitant to accommodate meta-research, like RCTs.

#PRC10

John Ioannidis: "We need more RCTs"

I agree, so here is an urgent call to the representatives of journals at #PRC10: Let's empirically test suggested improvements to peer review like open reports, open identities, structured review, results-free review, collaborative review, etc.

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The h-index, while popular, does not account for how citations are distributed across articles or authors. This is critical when citations are strategically concentrated to boost perceived influence.

Extreme, outlier citation concentration patterns can distort citation-based metrics, especially the #Hindex. While not implying misconduct they can serve as orange/red flags for further analysis.
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Preprint at arxiv.org/pdf/2406.1...

We didn't randomize, and there was no allocation concealment or blinding, and we can't really be sure what intervention they got or how the outcomes were measured, but we emulated a trial by drawing a DAG.

As a reminder, our comment published here (sciencedirect.com/science/arti...) showed that (i) randomization never occurred; (ii) irregularities in baseline scores, which for the same students vary systematically in ways that are unique to either the treatment or control group; ...

@floriannaudet.bsky.social?

It’s not BMJ Open but BMJ Open Research. I see some Frontiers and MDPI, you mean in these cases they actually *do* some review?

@floriannaudet.bsky.social we did BMC Medicine but it was an IPD.

Barbara Newman · Dirty Books: Boccaccio’s Reputation From the late Middle Ages all the way to Pasolini’s 1971 film, Boccaccio has been best remembered – understandably...

‘Why, to avoid naming Boccaccio, did Chaucer invent a fictional Latin poet as his source for 𝘛𝘳𝘰𝘪𝘭𝘶𝘴? It seems that Boccaccio already had a reputation problem.’

Barbara Newman on Boccaccio’s dirty book: www.lrb.co.uk/the-paper/v4...

Effects of ketamine and esketamine on death, suicidal behaviour, and suicidal ideation in psychiatric disorders: A systematic review and meta-analysis https://www.medrxiv.org/content/10.1101/2025.08.19.25333796v1

The MDPIzation of chilean science: a wake-up call about how we are conducting research and using public resources - Revista Chilena de Historia Natural MDPI, a rapidly growing mega-publisher, has significantly impacted scientific publishing with a large number of open-access journals covering all areas of knowledge. Fast publication times, numerous s...

Not an EU country, but someone sent me this on Linkedin, it is in Chile, but there is an analysis on % public funding via grants went into MDPI papers and also time trends in % of MDPI articles for Chilean universities.
revchilhistnat.biomedcentral.com/articles/10....

Perhaps the best irony here, lost on the promoters, is that forensic science actually has really shoddy, mostly non-evidence based, often harmful practices.
The police also is generally a beacon of fairness and justice.

Sorry but can we just for once really own this and acknowledge it was a mistake with no justification to use that term, it wasn’t funny, it wasn’t smart and there is absolutely *no* way to suggest, then or now, there was no awareness of how the term is associated with violence (why thug if not?)

Man, i could have written this, but probably less eloquently.
Let’s start by saying I too thought things had gone awry when Science invited us to meet the data thugs. I would be very ok with *never* meeting any thugs.

Trump Administration Can Withhold Billions in Aid, Appeals Court Rules

Devastating for global health. “A federal appeals court panel cleared the way on Wednesday for the Trump administration to continue refusing to spend billions of dollars in foreign aid, finding that aid organizations that had sued to recover the money lacked the legal right to bring the challenge.“

I agree it is useful for your project and in general fixating on bad research with 3 citations is low hanging fruit, unless the study is at the top of the evidence pyramid. In general, i think any programmatic approach is useful, just being arm up in the air over every bad paper is mostly for show