Ance Tetere

Appreciated. 🙏🏼

Another retraction today for Sam S Yoon. Still currently Chief, Division of Surgical Oncology at Columbia, having lost many of the papers that came out of his lab to retractions for an epic fraud. Not clear what the consequences were apart from the retractions: forbetterscience.com/2023/11/01/m...

S. Senn: Randomisation is not about balance, nor about homogeneity but about randomness (Guest Post) Stephen Senn Consultant Statistician Edinburgh The intellectual illness of clinical drug evaluation that I have discussed here can be cured, and it will be cured when we restore intellectual primac…

100 years ago RA Fisher set out his views on randomisation. This blog of mine errorstatistics.com/2020/04/20/s... from five years ago tries to explain them.

It's 👇🏼

Did you know that Latvian Progressives were incubated in the Friedrich Ebert Stiftung's Latvian branch?

Not really sure how to reason about it.

@economist.com : "segregation has been reinforced by the school system"
Those evil Latvians treat russians like Blacks under Jim Crow!
In reality, russians refused to learn Latvian, which they called "dog language" (russian was "human language").
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Sounds uncomfortably in step with the times. 🤔

Oh, that sounds interesting. 😯

🤭

Oh, wow. 💰

Do you have any idea what the current price is for European excellencies? Is it the same?

Exactly!! 😠😡

Cool. 😎

Oh, something new is coming. 🥰

“There are only two options today: either the world stops Russia’s war, or Russia drags the world into its war.”
In his end-of-year address, President Volodymyr Zelensky put it with brutal clarity.

This is actually a big deal for me - it’s the first work of fiction in more than a decade. I’d denied myself this luxury for so long.

We’re having a fantastic snowstorm on this first day of the year. 🌬️💨

The perfect weather to curl up under the blankets and finish 'The Remains of the Day'.

What are you reading? 📚

Caught a New Year on my way home...

💯

Group of party people wearing 2026 glasses and festive hats

Happy New Year from California!

Well, I guess it will be more difficult for 2027, but in the meantime, Happy New Year 2026…

Happy New Year, y'all.

I don't do resolutions, but: my best wishes to my research integrity friends on this platform. May you persevere and find success on the road ahead. Thank all of you for your mentorship and support.

A brown lop eared bunny stamding on a colorful beach towel. He has a party hat on.

Hoppy New Year everybunny.

Russian culture we all were taught to love and admire.

Paldies. 🥰🍾

Let's hope that more legal and judicial oversight will step in to clean up this mess.

Internal academic safeguards have clearly failed.

🔗https://www.justice.gov/usao-ma/pr/dana-farber-cancer-institute-agrees-pay-15-million-settle-fraud-allegations-related

This is a rare case in which lawyers have stepped into the realm of scientific integrity.

One can no longer say, “Things happen; scientific discovery is a high-risk endeavour.” 🤷‍♀️

She was the one who supported @sholtodavid.bsky.social in the recent $15 million NIH grant fraud settlement.

Oh, wow - what a vista! 😍

Ceru, ka šis bija sarkasms. 🤔

Laimīgu Jauno Gadu! 🎉
Much health to you in the upcoming one!