Reese Richardson
@reeserichardson.bsky.social
A newly-minted PhD studying metascience and computational biology.
My blog: https://reeserichardson.blog
My blog: https://reeserichardson.blog
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A do-or-die moment for the scientific enterprise
Reflecting on our paper “The entities enabling scientific fraud at scale are large, resilient, and growing rapidly”
reeserichardson.blog
Today, our article "The entities enabling scientific fraud at scale are large, resilient, and growing rapidly" is finally published in PNAS. I hope that it proves to be a wake-up-call for the whole scientific community.
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Nitasha is among the best of us. What a fuckin’ scam to let all this talent go untapped! But ofc, just like Thiel
and Epstein tanking Gawker, Bezos and his ilk don’t want anyone snooping around Silicon Valley too closely
and Epstein tanking Gawker, Bezos and his ilk don’t want anyone snooping around Silicon Valley too closely
My story on Elon Musk cutting safeguards at xAI is on the front page of today's @washingtonpost.com. I’m also among 100’s of reporters laid off. I absolutely loved my job my brilliant coworkers & the thrill of reporting @ the center of forces upending the world: AI & Silicon Valley’s political power
February 4, 2026 at 8:30 PM
Nitasha is among the best of us. What a fuckin’ scam to let all this talent go untapped! But ofc, just like Thiel
and Epstein tanking Gawker, Bezos and his ilk don’t want anyone snooping around Silicon Valley too closely
and Epstein tanking Gawker, Bezos and his ilk don’t want anyone snooping around Silicon Valley too closely
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for detailed critique see:
pubpeer.com/publications...
pubpeer.com/publications...
February 4, 2026 at 8:55 PM
for detailed critique see:
pubpeer.com/publications...
pubpeer.com/publications...
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continue to think that if instead of "raw milk" we called it "doodoo milk" people would understand the risk proposition
This is bonkers. MAHA 'farmers' with ecoli tainted raw milk admit they really don't know how to make the stuff after all.
"Producing raw milk takes careful planning from a facility and infrastructure standpoint. Unfortunately, we learned this after the fact."
people.com/ballerina-fa...
"Producing raw milk takes careful planning from a facility and infrastructure standpoint. Unfortunately, we learned this after the fact."
people.com/ballerina-fa...
Hannah Neeleman's Ballerina Farm Halts Sale of Raw Milk Due to Bacteria Concerns: Report
Hannah and Daniel Neeleman have paused Ballerina Farm's sale of raw milk following health violations discovered during routine testing. Screenings from summer 2025 showed high levels of coliform, the ...
people.com
February 4, 2026 at 2:37 AM
continue to think that if instead of "raw milk" we called it "doodoo milk" people would understand the risk proposition
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If you're interested in data sleuthing but aren't sure where to start,
or if you're conducting a systematic review/meta-analysis and want to ensure you're not including junk studies,
check out this Cochrane training session on Trustworthiness Assessment by @jdwilko.bsky.social
or if you're conducting a systematic review/meta-analysis and want to ensure you're not including junk studies,
check out this Cochrane training session on Trustworthiness Assessment by @jdwilko.bsky.social
INSPECT-SR: A tool for assessing trustworthiness of randomised controlled trials | Cochrane
www.cochrane.org
February 2, 2026 at 6:05 PM
If you're interested in data sleuthing but aren't sure where to start,
or if you're conducting a systematic review/meta-analysis and want to ensure you're not including junk studies,
check out this Cochrane training session on Trustworthiness Assessment by @jdwilko.bsky.social
or if you're conducting a systematic review/meta-analysis and want to ensure you're not including junk studies,
check out this Cochrane training session on Trustworthiness Assessment by @jdwilko.bsky.social
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Iranians are experiencing a collective trauma. Thousands have been killed/injured in recent events, the economy is crippled & the threat of a wider conflict is real. This is especially difficult for those living in Iran, as many have lost (or fear losing) loved ones. www.nature.com/articles/d41...
February 3, 2026 at 2:11 PM
Iranians are experiencing a collective trauma. Thousands have been killed/injured in recent events, the economy is crippled & the threat of a wider conflict is real. This is especially difficult for those living in Iran, as many have lost (or fear losing) loved ones. www.nature.com/articles/d41...
The authors reused at least one image from an earlier paper in the International Journal for Biological Macromolecules (Elsevier) which itself appears to have fabricated data and plagiarized images (that article was retracted in Aug 2025).
pubpeer.com/publications...
pubpeer.com/publications...
February 3, 2026 at 12:02 AM
The authors reused at least one image from an earlier paper in the International Journal for Biological Macromolecules (Elsevier) which itself appears to have fabricated data and plagiarized images (that article was retracted in Aug 2025).
pubpeer.com/publications...
pubpeer.com/publications...
"Post-publication, concerns were raised around the authenticity of the FTIR graph in figure 2b and SEM image in Figure 3c. Furthermore, during revision, two new authors were added to the revised paper without explanation..."
February 3, 2026 at 12:02 AM
"Post-publication, concerns were raised around the authenticity of the FTIR graph in figure 2b and SEM image in Figure 3c. Furthermore, during revision, two new authors were added to the revised paper without explanation..."
The Journal of Hazardous Materials (Elsevier) has retracted a 2019 article *cited 500 times* about materials for wastewater remediation.
www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...
www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...
RETRACTED: Incorporation of UiO-66-NH2 MOF into the PAN/chitosan nanofibers for adsorption and membrane filtration of Pb(II), Cd(II) and Cr(VI) ions from aqueous solutions
This article has been retracted: please see Elsevier policy on article withdrawal (https://www.elsevier.com/about/policies-and-standards/article-withd…
www.sciencedirect.com
February 3, 2026 at 12:02 AM
The Journal of Hazardous Materials (Elsevier) has retracted a 2019 article *cited 500 times* about materials for wastewater remediation.
www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...
www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...
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Wow this scoring chaos seems to be an extreme case of what I say about many ad hoc analyses: no derivation of method from a clear scientific theory, no assessment of statistical properties, and decades pass before someone notices. This happens in biology too, so let’s not pick on psychology only
Read my latest post for reflections on reproducibility, research quality and a summary of a great new study which shows how NOT to do it
https://open.substack.com/pub/tomstafford/p/gambling-with-research-quality
https://open.substack.com/pub/tomstafford/p/gambling-with-research-quality
Gambling with research quality
How you get 244 different ways to measure performance on the same test of decision making. And what it means for the reliability of behavioural science
tomstafford.substack.com
February 2, 2026 at 11:55 AM
Wow this scoring chaos seems to be an extreme case of what I say about many ad hoc analyses: no derivation of method from a clear scientific theory, no assessment of statistical properties, and decades pass before someone notices. This happens in biology too, so let’s not pick on psychology only
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To make COSIG more discoverable for educators looking to develop course material on publication integrity and peer review, COSIG now has an entry in OER Commons! @oercommons.bsky.social #OER
oercommons.org/courses/the-...
oercommons.org/courses/the-...
The Collection of Open Science Integrity Guides (COSIG)
COSIG is an openly licensed, continuously expanding repository of practical guides for performing post-publication peer review (PPPR). The resource is freely available at https://cosig.net. At the tim...
oercommons.org
February 2, 2026 at 9:11 PM
To make COSIG more discoverable for educators looking to develop course material on publication integrity and peer review, COSIG now has an entry in OER Commons! @oercommons.bsky.social #OER
oercommons.org/courses/the-...
oercommons.org/courses/the-...
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X is hiring a “great lothario” at $40 an hour to teach Grok “the pleasures of the flesh”
January 30, 2026 at 8:58 PM
X is hiring a “great lothario” at $40 an hour to teach Grok “the pleasures of the flesh”
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The journal @nature.com has corrected a highly-cited study about a robot chemist producing new materials from scratch — but some questions remain unanswered.
My latest for @cenmag.bsky.social:
cen.acs.org/research-int...
@robertpalgrave.bsky.social
#ChemSky
My latest for @cenmag.bsky.social:
cen.acs.org/research-int...
@robertpalgrave.bsky.social
#ChemSky
‘Nature’ robot chemist paper corrected, but some questions remain unanswered
The original study claimed the robot had discovered 43 new materials in 17 days
cen.acs.org
January 29, 2026 at 5:20 PM
The journal @nature.com has corrected a highly-cited study about a robot chemist producing new materials from scratch — but some questions remain unanswered.
My latest for @cenmag.bsky.social:
cen.acs.org/research-int...
@robertpalgrave.bsky.social
#ChemSky
My latest for @cenmag.bsky.social:
cen.acs.org/research-int...
@robertpalgrave.bsky.social
#ChemSky
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First post of the year, new paper out today: we present possibly the biggest case of systematic Measurement Schmeasurement in tech use. It seems that most studies on gaming (videogame) addiction/disorder haven't measured gaming after all. This research took years, so long 🧵 doi.org/10.1098/rsos...
Confusion in gaming disorder measurement
Abstract. Measurement is important for the scientific programmes of addictive behaviours. In the present study, we investigated the measurement of gaming d
doi.org
January 28, 2026 at 9:56 AM
First post of the year, new paper out today: we present possibly the biggest case of systematic Measurement Schmeasurement in tech use. It seems that most studies on gaming (videogame) addiction/disorder haven't measured gaming after all. This research took years, so long 🧵 doi.org/10.1098/rsos...
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Excited to be participating in the virtual Research Integrity Week events, by the Researchers Society/Pakistan Economics Frontier, organized by Abbas Aziz, hosted by Dr. Saba Saeed, with @sholtodavid.bsky.social , @abalkina.bsky.social, Najma Memon, and @reeserichardson.bsky.social
Starting in 2h
Starting in 2h
January 28, 2026 at 2:29 AM
Excited to be participating in the virtual Research Integrity Week events, by the Researchers Society/Pakistan Economics Frontier, organized by Abbas Aziz, hosted by Dr. Saba Saeed, with @sholtodavid.bsky.social , @abalkina.bsky.social, Najma Memon, and @reeserichardson.bsky.social
Starting in 2h
Starting in 2h
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The Alfred Jewel: A 1,100-year-old treasure from England's first king that proclaims 'Alfred ordered me to be made'
www.livescience.com/archaeology/...
"The Alfred Jewel: An Historical Essay" at PG:
www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/59372
#art #history
www.livescience.com/archaeology/...
"The Alfred Jewel: An Historical Essay" at PG:
www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/59372
#art #history
The Alfred Jewel: A 1,100-year-old treasure from England's first king that proclaims 'Alfred ordered me to be made'
This gold-encrusted jewel has an inscription revealing who made it.
www.livescience.com
January 26, 2026 at 1:11 PM
The Alfred Jewel: A 1,100-year-old treasure from England's first king that proclaims 'Alfred ordered me to be made'
www.livescience.com/archaeology/...
"The Alfred Jewel: An Historical Essay" at PG:
www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/59372
#art #history
www.livescience.com/archaeology/...
"The Alfred Jewel: An Historical Essay" at PG:
www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/59372
#art #history
"Nobody ever told me I shouldn't put my unfinished novel in the filing cabinet next to the fire place"
January 23, 2026 at 7:59 PM
"Nobody ever told me I shouldn't put my unfinished novel in the filing cabinet next to the fire place"
while it is worthwhile to complain about OpenAI's lack of transparency in data use, this piece is not about that. it's this guy admitting to taking absolutely no precautions for file management and blaming it on ChatGPT when that inevitably bites him. embarrassing!
January 23, 2026 at 7:59 PM
while it is worthwhile to complain about OpenAI's lack of transparency in data use, this piece is not about that. it's this guy admitting to taking absolutely no precautions for file management and blaming it on ChatGPT when that inevitably bites him. embarrassing!
"I saved all of my work in one place for two years and then lost it" FTFY!
www.nature.com/articles/d41...
www.nature.com/articles/d41...
When two years of academic work vanished with a single click
After turning off ChatGPT’s ‘data consent’ option, Marcel Bucher lost the work behind grant applications, teaching materials and publication drafts. Here’s what happened next.
www.nature.com
January 23, 2026 at 7:59 PM
"I saved all of my work in one place for two years and then lost it" FTFY!
www.nature.com/articles/d41...
www.nature.com/articles/d41...
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We set out to determine how many images of women and girls Grok created during its nudifying spree. What we found was “industrial-scale abuse,” experts said. www.nytimes.com/2026/01/22/t...
Musk’s Chatbot Flooded X With Millions of Sexualized Images in Days, New Estimates Show
www.nytimes.com
January 22, 2026 at 2:56 PM
We set out to determine how many images of women and girls Grok created during its nudifying spree. What we found was “industrial-scale abuse,” experts said. www.nytimes.com/2026/01/22/t...
Soulja Boy forever youtu.be/gWqnz-7iQbY?...
January 23, 2026 at 5:51 PM
Soulja Boy forever youtu.be/gWqnz-7iQbY?...
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This shiny app is pretty cool. Just cruising around, I found one special issue where it appears one editor jammed his name onto all five papers. LOL. It looks like this was the price of admission into this issue.
www.mdpi.com/journal/gene...
paolocrosetto.shinyapps.io/Editors_as_a...
www.mdpi.com/journal/gene...
paolocrosetto.shinyapps.io/Editors_as_a...
January 19, 2026 at 8:39 PM
This shiny app is pretty cool. Just cruising around, I found one special issue where it appears one editor jammed his name onto all five papers. LOL. It looks like this was the price of admission into this issue.
www.mdpi.com/journal/gene...
paolocrosetto.shinyapps.io/Editors_as_a...
www.mdpi.com/journal/gene...
paolocrosetto.shinyapps.io/Editors_as_a...
Hi, Kate! Check out the Collection of Open Science Integrity Guides (COSIG) at cosig.net (also on bsky at @cosig.net). I think you'll find a lot of useful material therein!
COSIG
The Collection of Open Science Integrity Guides
cosig.net
January 19, 2026 at 10:53 PM
Hi, Kate! Check out the Collection of Open Science Integrity Guides (COSIG) at cosig.net (also on bsky at @cosig.net). I think you'll find a lot of useful material therein!
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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’
Ivan Oransky @retractionwatch.com, @alicedreger.bsky.social @thetimes.com
www.thetimes.com/uk/science/a...
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
www.thetimes.com/uk/science/a...
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
www.thetimes.com
January 19, 2026 at 5:35 PM
‘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
www.thetimes.com/uk/science/a...
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
www.thetimes.com/uk/science/a...