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Digital Science @digital-science.com · 14d

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

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Leslie McIntosh @mcintold.bsky.social · 20d

Thrilled to be invited @dannykay68.bsky.social .

Danny Kingsley @dannykay68.bsky.social · 21d

KEYNOTE for Beyond Certainty – what does ‘Discovery’ mean in an open and artificial intelligent world? Wed 8 Oct 9:45am - 3:45pm AEDT.
@mcintold.bsky.social's talk title: "Untrustworthy & Unquestioned Information - What Could go Wrong?"

Register now! www.eventbrite.com.au/e/beyond-cer...

Beyond Certainty – what does ‘Discovery’ mean in an open and AI world

This Symposium will bring together thought leaders across different areas to share ideas and provocations regarding discovery implications.

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Digital Science @digital-science.com · Sep 4

⚠️ 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:

🔗 fosci.substack.com/p/from-nefar...

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Altmetric @altmetric.com · Sep 4

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

She will find you.

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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.

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Elisabeth Bik - Perpetrator 5, a fraudulent microbiologist @elisabethbik.bsky.social · Sep 3

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

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

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Pavithran Narayanan @npavi.bsky.social · Aug 21

"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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Leslie McIntosh @mcintold.bsky.social · Aug 13

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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Beyond Duct Tape: Forensics, Fixes, and the Future of Science

A look back on (almost) a year of FoSci

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Carl T. Bergstrom @carlbergstrom.com · Aug 12

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.

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.

www.scrippsnews.com

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Digital Science @digital-science.com · Aug 6

💚 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

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Dorothy Bishop @deevybee.bsky.social · Aug 4

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

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Digital Science @digital-science.com · Aug 4

🌟 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...

Guest Post — How Science Is Gamed - The Scholarly Kitchen

A scholarly disinformation taxonomy could help prevent scholarly communications from being gamed by fraudulent actors.

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Eva Holland @evaholland.bsky.social · Aug 1

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!

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...

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Digital Science @digital-science.com · Jul 31

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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Cats of Yore @catsofyore.bsky.social · Jul 29

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...

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.

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Leslie McIntosh @mcintold.bsky.social · Jul 28

Fine newsletter, but have you seen Bassett hound racing?

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Leslie McIntosh @mcintold.bsky.social · Jul 25

No idea but love the lashes!

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Tim Onion @bencollins.bsky.social · Jul 24

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

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altmetricreal.bsky.social @altmetricreal.bsky.social · Jul 18

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.

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Digital Science @digital-science.com · Jul 15

⚠️ 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...

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Leslie McIntosh @mcintold.bsky.social · Jul 2

So the paper he sites is questionable. Meta.

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Keith Fitzgerald @keithfitzgerald.bsky.social · Jun 26

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.

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womensartbluesky.bsky.social @womensartbluesky.bsky.social · Jun 29

"Reframing Women Printmakers" a NEW book from WA looks at historic, global, Indigenous and contemporary hugely talented printmakers!
Have you got your copy yet? 🧡💛🧡
Via www.waterstones.com/book/reframi...
Or any good online or local bookstore in your area or country!

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Digital Science @digital-science.com · Jun 26

🚨 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...

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Dorothy Bishop @deevybee.bsky.social · Jun 18

good work by @deadneanderthals.bsky.social
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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.

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Digital Science @digital-science.com · Jun 18

#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-...

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.

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