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elisabethbik.bsky.social
‘Science journals retract 500 papers a month. This is why it matters.
A small team of volunteers is tracking thousands of falsified studies, including cases of bribery, fraud and plagiarism’

Ivan Oransky @retractionwatch.com, @alicedreger.bsky.social @thetimes.com

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Science journals retract 500 papers a month. This is why it matters
A small team of volunteers is tracking thousands of falsified studies, including cases of bribery, fraud and plagiarism
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January 19, 2026 at 5:35 PM
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petersuber.bsky.social
The 2025 edition of the #AcademicFreedom Index ranks the United States in the fourth decile, below Madagascar and Mongolia. (See Fig 8.)
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#AcadSky #AcademicSky #Censorship #DefendResearch #Trump #TrumpVResearch #Universities #USPol #USPolitics
January 14, 2026 at 3:19 PM
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andrew.heiss.phd
Hey, I'm here! And I'm not the only one who's run into this!
Heiss also noticed that the AI-generated notes could be convincing to a reader because they included the names of living academics and titles that closely resemble existing literature. In some cases, he found, the citation led him to an actual author, yet the heading of the article and the journal were both fabricated — they just sounded similar to work the author has published in the past and a real periodical that covers such topics. “The AI-generated things get propagated into other real things, so students see them cited in real things and assume they’re real, and get confused as to why they lose points for using fake sources when other real sources use them,” he says. “Everything looks real and above-board.”
December 17, 2025 at 9:13 PM
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dmaupin.bsky.social
New perspective in @plosmedicine.org on safeguarding open access datasets in the post GenAI era. Looking forward to the community's perspectives and insights on this.

#openscience #metascience #academicsky
Safeguarding Open Science from exploitative practices
Open research and data transparency are a bulwark against unethical activities, but can also introduce integrity risks. In this Perspective, Danny Maupin, Matt Spick and Nophar Geifman argue that free...
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December 11, 2025 at 9:15 PM
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cnrs.fr
Trop nombreuses, frauduleuses ou écrites par intelligence artificielle générative : les critiques à l’égard des publications scientifiques s’accumulent à l’heure de leur surproduction. Faut-il dès lors en faire le deuil ?
Publications scientifiques : une surproduction fatale ?
Publications scientifiques : une surproduction fatale ? | CNRS
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December 18, 2025 at 7:15 AM
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seanjwestwood.bsky.social
AI presents a fundamental threat to our ability to use polls to assess public opinion. Bad actors who are able to infiltrate panels can flip close election polls for less than the cost of a Starbucks coffee. Models will also infer and confirm hypotheses in experiments. Current quality checks fail
November 18, 2025 at 9:23 PM
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vtiberj.bsky.social
Corrélation n'est pas causalité: un nouvel exemple à partir d'un article d'épidémiologistes sur vote et mortalité...

« Voting is a stronger determinant of mortality than education »

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November 14, 2025 at 8:28 AM
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stefhaustein.scholcommlab.ca
Thank you for coming to my TED Talk 🎤

If you’ve read this far and still need convincing, please check out our preprint arxiv.org/abs/2511.04820 and this infographic: doi.org/10.5281/zeno...
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The four-fold drain of scientific publishing: Money, Time, Trust, and Control.
November 13, 2025 at 8:17 PM
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irenehames.bsky.social
“In 2022, AI was seen as an efficiency tool for image analysis and language polishing. By 2025, AI has become a participant in the process, shaping writing, influencing review, and challenging the concept of authorship and accountability.”

Very interesting report

#PRC10 #ScholarlyPublishing
September 24, 2025 at 12:45 PM
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nature.com
Tools such as ChatGPT can be used to generate almost-identical research papers that pass standard plagiarism checks

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Journals infiltrated with ‘copycat’ papers that can be written by AI
Tools such as ChatGPT can be used to generate almost-identical research papers that pass standard plagiarism checks. Hundreds are thought to have been published.
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September 23, 2025 at 3:50 PM
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retractionwatch.com
If you're a journal or publisher using institutional email addresses to verify the identity of authors or reviewers, you'll want to read this story by @joelving.bsky.social.
University email addresses no longer effective bulwark against fake peer review
To guard against identity theft, academic publishers have been using institutional email addresses to verify authors and reviewers are who they say they are. Now, however, findings appearing in a p…
retractionwatch.com
September 22, 2025 at 1:55 PM
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samuelmoore.org
"The university will stop sharing the data required to be included in the ranking as of 2026. As a result, Sorbonne University will no longer feature in future rankings produced by THE, which include the World University Rankings, the Rankings by Subject or the Impact Rankings."

Excellent!
Sorbonne University decides to withdraw from the Times Higher Education (THE) World University Rankings
As of 2026, Sorbonne University will no longer submit data to the Times Higher Education (THE) World University Rankings. The decision comes as part of a wider approach to promote open science and ref...
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September 16, 2025 at 2:15 PM
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carlbergstrom.com
1. What does a Cold War-era game theory problem known as the silent duel have to do with high-risk research strategies, publication in Cell/Nature/Science glamor journals, and the academic job market?

Kevin Gross and I tackle these questions in our latest arXiv preprint: arxiv.org/abs/2509.06718
How competition propels scientific risk-taking Kevin Gross∗ Department of Statistics North Carolina State University Raleigh, NC USA Carl T. Bergstrom† Department of Biology University of Washington Seattle, WA USA (Dated: September 9, 2025) In science as elsewhere, attention is a limited resource and scientists compete with one another to produce the most exciting, novel and impactful results. We develop a game-theoretic model to explore how such competition influences the degree of risk that scientists are willing to embrace in their research endeavors. We find that competition for scarce resources—for example, publications in elite journals, prestigious prizes, and faculty jobs—motivates scientific risk-taking and may be important in counterbalancing other incentives that favor cautious, incremental science. Even small amounts of competition induce substantial risk-taking. Moreover, we find that in an “opt-in” contest, increasing the stakes induces increased participation—which crowds the contest and further impels entrants to pursue higher-risk, higher-return investigations. The model also illuminates a source of tension in academic training and collaboration. Researchers at different career stages differ in their need to amass accomplishments that distinguish them from their peers, and therefore may not agree on what degree of risk to accept.
September 14, 2025 at 1:50 PM
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sciencesetavenir.bsky.social
Et si l'IA incitait à la paresse cérébrale les médecins ?
Et si l'IA incitait à la paresse cérébrale les médecins ?
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August 22, 2025 at 3:49 PM
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deadneanderthals.bsky.social
The paper @elisabethbik.bsky.social, @mortenoxe.bsky.social @thatsregrettab1.bsky.social, @smutclyde.bsky.social, and I wrote together on the troubles over at Bioengineered has now officially been published by... Bioengineered!

www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....
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 ...
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August 21, 2025 at 12:59 PM
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nature.com
Researchers argue over whether ‘novel’ AI-generated works use others’ ideas without credit

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What counts as plagiarism? AI-generated papers pose new risks
Researchers argue over whether ‘novel’ AI-generated works use others’ ideas without credit.
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August 20, 2025 at 10:18 AM
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jabyrnesci.bsky.social
A paper that combines #peerreview & cheese... what could be better? Answer: writing said paper with @abalkina.bsky.social @image-integrity.bsky.social & Marie Souliere. Read on to learn how the Swiss Cheese Model could help peer review & #researchintegrity onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1002/...
Rethinking Peer Review Using the Swiss Cheese Model to Better Flag Problematic Manuscripts
Click on the article title to read more.
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August 19, 2025 at 11:14 AM
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samuelmoore.org
It says a lot about the political imagination of academia that one of the more common proposals for fixing publish-or-perish culture is to limit the number of articles we can publish each year.
Researchers suggest one-a-year publication limit - Research Professional News
“Probably controversial” proposals intended to spark renewed efforts to tackle “publish or perish...mania”
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August 14, 2025 at 6:21 PM
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erictopol.bsky.social
FRAUD ALERT: I have nothing to do with these phony books using my name on the cover. I have not written a memoir or partnered/inspired any cookbooks!
Attempts to get Amazon to take these down have gone nowhere.
August 14, 2025 at 10:11 PM
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zorn.bsky.social
La révolution IA à la FDA a un nom chic : Elsa.
Promesse : faire plus avec moins.
Réalité : l'IA invente des études et réécrit des rapports qui valide des médocs dangereux.
Bref, la FDA passe son temps à chercher les hallu d'Elsa pour éviter des drames.
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FDA’s artificial intelligence is supposed to revolutionize drug approvals. It’s making up nonexistent studies. | CNN Politics
Insiders tell CNN the FDA’s AI is “hallucinating” studies and can’t access key documents. Agency leaders insist the AI is getting better, and use is not mandatory.
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August 14, 2025 at 10:13 AM
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briannosek.bsky.social
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PLOS responds to PNAS study detailing the growth of peer review integrity issues - The Official PLOS Blog
A new PNAS study uses openly available articles to map the scale of paper mill and peer review ring activity across scholarly…
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August 12, 2025 at 2:44 PM
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briannosek.bsky.social
Excellent reporting from Traci Watson about the challenging growth of AI content in preprint services.

Here's a primer on our perspective complementing her reporting: www.cos.io/blog/evaluat...
August 12, 2025 at 6:45 PM
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cosig.net
Stocking the Librarian’s Publishing Integrity Toolkit

The number of tools available to help library staff identify potential research misconduct is rapidly expanding. Here are some recommendations.

By Matthew Goddard and Zachariah Motts

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Stocking the Librarian’s Publishing Integrity Toolkit
The number of tools available to help library staff identify potential research misconduct is rapidly expanding. Here are some recommendations.
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August 12, 2025 at 7:18 PM
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sciencemediacentre.es
Desde investigaciones fabricadas hasta autorías y citas pagadas, el fraude científico organizado va en aumento, según un nuevo estudio. El trabajo descubrió redes globales de personas y entidades que colaboran para socavar la integridad de las publicaciones.
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August 5, 2025 at 8:54 AM
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lesrec.bsky.social
Fraudes, biais, manipulations…
Cette table ronde de 2024 avec @lonnibesancon.bsky.social Amira Barhoumi et @elisabethbik.bsky.social décortique comment la pression du « Publish or Perish » déforme la recherche scientifique et fragilise son intégrité.
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Pratiques frauduleuses en Recherche : bilan et perspectives
YouTube video by REC TOULOUSE
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August 11, 2025 at 9:18 AM