Leslie McIntosh

Digital Science and Silverchair partner to bring researcher screening into workflows - Research Information Supporting the integrity of the scholarly record is vital for upholding trust and transparency in research, say partners

Digital Science and Silverchair partner to bring researcher screening into workflows

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Supporting the integrity of the scholarly record is vital for upholding trust and transparency in research, say partners

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📣 NEW on Substack: "The Battle for Knowledge" by our VP of #ResearchIntegrity & Security, Dr Leslie McIntosh.

"We are now fully engaged in a power struggle over knowledge itself," Leslie writes in her first FoSci post for 2026.

🔗 Join us at the front line - see more here: https://ow.ly/QnIy50XXbCm

Photo of an adorable black white kitten trying to hide under a tiny toy tent but failing quite spectacularly.

Marcel’s camping skills have not improved. 😔

My child asked for “airplane spoon” during dinner and I had to explain that we simply don’t have enough air traffic controllers. Shutdowns have consequences.

@deadneanderthals.bsky.social

It’s very uncomfortable yet we need to speak of these difficult discussions as geopolitical winds change. How are we in science going to deal with how politics dances with science?

Thanks for the shoutout.

Dr. Rene Aquarius @ Radboud UMC discussing - "We need to talk about RS:" fosci.substack.com/p/we-need-to... Shoutout to LM and @digital-science.com work in this space. #OAI14 #researchsecurity #ResearchIntegrity #OpenScience

📣 Webinar on demand: See how publishers can scale research integrity checks with the Dimensions Author Check API.

🔗 Watch the full webinar: https://ow.ly/kaTt50Xn4YQ

Hosted with Research Information, presented by Dr Leslie McIntosh & Tyler Ruse.

#ResearchIntegrity #scholcomm

We may not see dead people - but in this new blog post from Leslie McIntosh, there are ghosts aplenty: "Pepper's Ghosts" of research organizations that never were or will be. 👻

How do these apparitions haunt the realm of #ResearchIntegrity?

🔗 Find out: https://ow.ly/RFMW50Xkm9s

#Halloween2025

NEW post: "Intelligence Gathering in an Era of (Research) Conflict."

Our VP of #ResearchIntegrity & Security, Leslie McIntosh, writes about the war-like operations eroding trust in science, and the need for intelligence to counter them.

🔗 Read more: https://ow.ly/FkZA50X2IjW

Thrilled to be invited @dannykay68.bsky.social .

⚠️ Leslie @mcintold.bsky.social has also written a blog post about the investigation's findings. #ResearchIntegrity

"From Nefarious Networks to Legitimate Funding" - now available to read on the Forensic Scientometrics #FoSci Substack:

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From Shady to Funded Our investigation shows that more than 20 authors tied to Pharmakon now hold legitimate grants worth at least (US equivalent) $6.5 million since 2022. Some had never secured funding before their Pharmakon-linked publications, yet went on to receive awards from national funders in Ireland, Portugal, and Croatia. This is the pivot that should concern us all: fraudulent publications can act as stepping stones to taxpayer-funded research.

If @mcintold.bsky.social ever invites you to a game of hide and seek, decline.

She will find you.

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The speaker and her first slide about Trust Markers in scientific papers.

Next: Leslie McIntosh @mcintold.bsky.social‬ with: 'How a Questionable Research Network Manipulated Scholarly Publishing'
Authorship and transparency are both trust markers in science.
Emails/institutions/funders can be used as trust markers
#PRC10

"Self-citation requests can turn peer review into a transaction rather than an objective critique of the article" - @aidybarnett.bsky.social in his OSF @cos.io preprint! #PeerReview #SelfCitation #Preprint #OSF

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Beyond Duct Tape: Forensics, Fixes, and the Future of Science A look back on (almost) a year of FoSci

Duct tape famously brought the Apollo 13 astronauts home alive – but you don't build a mission on duct tape and hope.
As Forensic Scientometrics nears its one-year mark, here’s a look at the ideas, cases, and solutions.

#FoSci #ResearchIntegrity #ResearchSecurity
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RFK Jr. in interview with Scripps News: ‘Trusting the experts is not science’ HHS Secretary RFK Jr. sat down with Scripps News for a wide-ranging interview, discussing mRNA vaccine funding policy changes and a recent shooting at the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention.

1. "'Trusting the experts is not a feature of either a science or democracy," Kennedy said."

It's literally a vital feature of both science and of representative democracy.

I've written a fair bit about trust in expertise as a vital mechanism in the collective epistemology of science.

💚 Great news! As part of Emerald Publishing’s ongoing commitment to #ResearchIntegrity, Emerald has adopted Dimensions Author Check from Digital Science.

🔗 See our announcement: www.digital-science.com/blog/2025/08...

@emeraldpublishing.bsky.social @dimensions.ai #ScholarlyPublishing #scholcomm

hot off the press: huge infestation of crooked editors involved on paper mills unmasked. www.pnas.org/doi/abs/10.1...

Guest Post — How Science Is Gamed - The Scholarly Kitchen A scholarly disinformation taxonomy could help prevent scholarly communications from being gamed by fraudulent actors.

🌟 Guest post on @scholarlykitchen.bsky.social: "How Science is Gamed."

Our VP of #ResearchIntegrity, @mcintold.bsky.social, and Will White discuss scientific manipulation and the need for a framework to classify & detect it.

🔗 Read their post now: scholarlykitchen.sspnet.org/2025/08/04/g...

Why Did National Geographic Disappear Its Own Documentary About A Queer Climate Scientist? | Defector If you’re not a particular kind of mountain sports nerd, you might not be familiar with the Banff Centre Mountain Film Festival World Tour. But for people who live their lives in the overlapping circl...

One last time before the weekend, my new story from this week, on a film that vanished in late January without explanation. Thanks to everyone who's read and shared it so far! If you haven't yet, please join this cool group of people!

Are you ready for part 2? "Error vs. Deception: Unpacking the 'Why' of Retractions."

Our VP of #ResearchIntegrity, Dr Leslie McIntosh @mcintold.bsky.social, shares some sample retractions and discusses the Retraction Reasons Taxonomy in practice.

🔗 Read her post: fosci.substack.com/p/error-vs-d...

Old timey star chart illustration of a shorthaired ginger and white cat floating amongst overlapping grids and little black stars. The word "Felis" is written underneath.

Did you know there was once a domestic cat constellation? 'Felis' was created by French astronomer Joseph Jérôme Lefrançois de Lalande in 1799, but the International Astronomical Union dumped Felis when they created their official constellation boundaries in 1930. www.ianridpath.com/startales/fe...

Fine newsletter, but have you seen Bassett hound racing?

No idea but love the lashes!

when they close it all up, I do believe this will go down as the funniest video on the internet

THREAD

Impostors

In January 2025 @digital-science.com's own @mcintold.bsky.social published a fascinating run-down of fake authors and impostors over the years. We explore the attention these pretend individuals have received over time. Her Substack is linked at the end. Strong recommend.

⚠️ This new blog post issues a warning: Co-authors Federica Silvi & Leslie McIntosh @mcintold.bsky.social use @altmetric.com to investigate how questionable articles can move into Wikipedia and news outlets without notice.

🔗 See more at the #FoSci Substack: fosci.substack.com/p/research-a...

So the paper he sites is questionable. Meta.