Leslie McIntosh

💚 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...

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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.

Worth a watch:

Head of Signal, Meredith Whittaker, on so-called "agentic AI" and the difference between how it's described in the marketing and what access and control it would actually require to work as advertised.

"Reframing Women Printmakers" a NEW book from WA looks at historic, global, Indigenous and contemporary hugely talented printmakers!
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🚨 NEW: "Doctored Knowledge." Scientific sleuth René Aquarius co-authors with our VP of #ResearchIntegrity, Leslie McIntosh, on how manipulated images in scientific papers can feed #AI & amplify harm.

🔗 See more on the #FoSci Substack: fosci.substack.com/p/doctored-k...

@mcintold.bsky.social

Exclusive: Issues with dozens of papers prompt inquiry into prolific stroke researcher Two of John H. Zhang’s papers have been retracted, 19 have corrections, and 27 have expressions of concern.

good work by @deadneanderthals.bsky.social
www.thetransmitter.org/publishing/e...

Knowledge Fidelity: The Art and Science of Trust Between policy and protocol lies something deeper: the trust we place in knowledge itself—and our duty to protect it.

#ICYMI: The latest post by our VP of Research Integrity, Dr Leslie McIntosh, is: "Knowledge Fidelity: The Art and Science of Trust." @mcintold.bsky.social

Guest post written for @uksg.bsky.social - also on the #FoSci Substack. #ResearchIntegrity

🔗 fosci.substack.com/p/knowledge-...

What is common knowledge in your field, but shocks outsiders?

That trained scientists would collude to manipulate science for political reasons.

Good morning! Looking forward to two days at EMBL, starting today: EMBL Science and Society Conference: In science we trust?
@EMBLEvents #SciSoc2025

🎯 I scored 6/10 on #DiscoverOrMDPI — can you beat me?
pagoba.shinyapps.io/publi_guess/, #ResearchIntegrity #ScientificPublishing #AcademicSky

Knowledge Fidelity: The Art and Science of Trust - UKSG In this editorial, Leslie D. McIntosh, PhD, VP of Research Integrity at Digital Science, urges us to take the same approach to verifying scholarly articles than we take to original paintings by checki...

🌟 NEW: "Knowledge Fidelity: The Art & Science of Trust" - guest editorial for @uksg.bsky.social by our VP of #ResearchIntegrity @mcintold.bsky.social

"Knowledge - the pursuit of it, the production of it - should be trusted, guarded & nurtured," she writes.

🔗👉 www.uksg.org/newsletter/u...

What could possibly be wrong with this article? #Disinformation www.ssph-journal.org/journals/int...

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“Creativity is a wild mind and a disciplined eye.”

- Dorothy Parker,
US poet, writer and wit #WomensArt

Citation manipulation: lightning talk summary Kim Eggleton (COPE Council) and Leslie McIntosh (Digital Science) discussed what citation manipulation looks like, how it has changed with the growth of paper mills, and what editors can do about it.

What does citation manipulation look like and how has it changed with the growth of paper mills?

A summary of COPE’s recent Citation Manipulation Lightning Talk and discussion is now available.
Add your comments discussion:
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#CitationManipulation

See the 19 countries Trump’s travel ban affects Mapping all the countries from which President Donald Trump’s executive order would restrict travel to the United States.

Okay US #Americans, label these countries without looking them up. www.washingtonpost.com/immigration/...

Let's start with having the current US president label them.

#Geography #Integrity

Cuts have consequences, illustrated. As seen on TV 📺

Attributed to Goya but by Lucas Velázquez - MET Museum, Public Domain, https://commons.wikimedia.org/w/index.php?curid=88542299

The Art of a Crime: Fictitious Authors in Science -- a FoSci talk coming to the fantastic BRIC (Bibliometrics and Research Impact Community) Conference in Montréal, Canada, on June 5 (www.bric-conference.ca/en/program)

#ResearchIntegrity #ScienceFraud #BRIC2025 #Bibliometrics #Talk

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Inuit artist Kenojuak Ashevak rose to prominence in the 1950s with her experimental printmaking and is one of many indigenous women artists who have employed the medium to create intriguing and important artworks #ReframingWomenPrintnakers

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Science Manipulations: Myths and Truths When people hear about the messier side of science, they often push back (still). Not necessarily because they don’t believe...

Science Manipulations Myth 1: I don’t cite bad papers, so manipulated science doesn’t matter.

Truth: Manipulations of science affect everyone — more than you think.

Read more in my latest blog on Science Manipulations.

#Research #Integrity #FoSci

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