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Annie Whamond @anniewham.bsky.social · 13d

Enjoyed being a panellist for the Wicked Research for Wicked Problems series for postgrad students at @sydney.edu.au with fellow PRIMeR member @pranujanp.bsky.social 😊 thank you @jabyrnesci.bsky.social for the photo and all your support!

#ResearchIntegrity

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Annie Whamond @anniewham.bsky.social · 20d

I'll be presenting my recent findings on post-publication critique policies and prevalence in psychology October 17 (10am CEST/7pm AEST) as part of a series of webinars on peer review hosted by @reproducibilitea.org. Register below to attend :)

ReproducibiliTea @reproducibilitea.org · 20d

Join our upcoming webinars “Peer Review and its Diversification”!

📅 15-16 October 2025 on Zoom

👉 Registration: forms.gle/1R4Y3d33W8bQ...

📄 Full programme: docs.google.com/document/d/1...

#PeerReview #PeerReviewWeek #PRW2025 #metasci #academicsky

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Annie Whamond @anniewham.bsky.social · 20d

Thank you ☺️

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Annie Whamond @anniewham.bsky.social · 21d

Excited to finally have my first paper officially published! "How Do Psychology Journals Handle Postpublication Critique?" is now online with AMPPS. Huge thanks to my supervisors @tomhardwicke.bsky.social and @simine.com and co-authors @bethclarke.bsky.social, N Moodie, S Schiavone, and R Thibault ☺️

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COSIG @cosig.net · Sep 8

This Friday, September 12, COSIG maintainer @reeserichardson.bsky.social will be participating in a panel discussion (16:00 CEST, 10:00 AM EDT) as part of the all-day event "Making Sense of Open Science" hosted by the Czech Academy of Sciences. Watch online!

www.projekt-amulet.cz/index.php/en...

Public Hearing on Open Science | Project AMULET

Making Sense of Open SciencePublic Hearing on the Principles and Practices of Data Management, Publishing Regimes, and Public Engagement in Science Location: Rooms 205 and 206, main building of the Cz...

www.projekt-amulet.cz

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Annie Whamond @anniewham.bsky.social · Sep 4

How do the discussion sections of paper mill articles in cancer research differ from similar literature? Drop by my poster to hear me over explain this graph in person today and tomorrow ✨ @peerreviewcongress.bsky.social #PRC10

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Annie Whamond @anniewham.bsky.social · Sep 2

Sunrise in Chicago 🌇💜

Getting excited for my first international conference #PRC10 🎉

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AIMOS @aimosinc.bsky.social · Aug 28

You have three more days to get your proposals in for our conference in November!

AIMOS @aimosinc.bsky.social · Aug 19

Submissions for #AIMOS2025 in Sydney close in just under two weeks!
aimos-inc.github.io/aimos.confer...

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Annie Whamond @anniewham.bsky.social · Aug 28

Join us for the Melbourne @reproducibilitea.org journal club happening today at 4pm AEST. This week, we discuss a recent preprint on replicating drosophila immunity studies, article linked below. Zoom link: unimelb.zoom.us/j/8289083982...

A retrospective analysis of 400 publications reveals patterns of irreproducibility across an entire life sciences research field

The ReproSci project retrospectively analyzed the reproducibility of 1006 claims from 400 papers published between 1959 and 2011 in the field of Drosophila immunity. This project attempts to provide a...

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Jennifer Byrne @jabyrnesci.bsky.social · Aug 19

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.

onlinelibrary.wiley.com

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AIMOS @aimosinc.bsky.social · Aug 19

Submissions for #AIMOS2025 in Sydney close in just under two weeks!
aimos-inc.github.io/aimos.confer...

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AIMOS @aimosinc.bsky.social · Aug 14

@metaror.bsky.social (our collab with @rorinstitute.bsky.social) has just announced that @plosbiology.org is now a partner journal. This means that PLOS Biology will now consider metascience articles that have passed our transparent and rigorous review process. theplosblog.plos.org/2025/08/plos...

PLOS Biology announces agreement to become a MetaROR partner journal - The Official PLOS Blog

Note: PLOS issued the following press release on Thursday, August 14th. SAN FRANCISCO, CA — Today, PLOS Biology announced a new agreement…

theplosblog.plos.org

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Annie Whamond @anniewham.bsky.social · Aug 13

Agreed. I'm not against AI, I use a local LLM for basic tasks. Still, I rarely get good output from a single prompt (factor not included in the study).

I hope authentic art will always have a market. I've heard adolescents can spot AI easier than older generations, I'd like to see a study on that.

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Annie Whamond @anniewham.bsky.social · Aug 13

Personally, I think attempts to quantify artistic expression to compare humans to AI will always be fundamentally flawed. I worry articles like this help justify devaluation of artistic endeavours. Sure, starving artists may use less CO2 than successful ones, but is that really an end point we want?

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Annie Whamond @anniewham.bsky.social · Aug 13

Great question. I get their point that AI energy use is often overstated and it can sustainably perform simple tasks. Comparing output quality and complexity would help strengthen but still reduces human creativity to over-simplified carbon footprint calculations and avoids broader social impacts.

Annie Whamond @anniewham.bsky.social · Aug 13

Article claiming AI-generated art is more sustainable than human made art. The authors acknowledge many methodological limitations but still forget one key thing: humans continue consuming energy (aka living) whether they're writing/drawing or not. Art is a surplus to life, not a deficit.

The carbon emissions of writing and illustrating are lower for AI than for humans - Scientific Reports

Scientific Reports - The carbon emissions of writing and illustrating are lower for AI than for humans

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World Conferences on Research Integrity @wcrifoundation.bsky.social · Aug 4

A statistical analysis found that the number of fake journal articles being churned out by “paper mills” is doubling every year and a half.

@jabyrnesci.bsky.social @reeserichardson.bsky.social

#ResearchIntegrity #ResearchMisconduct #PaperMill #WCRI2026 #WCRI

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PNAS

Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences (PNAS), a peer reviewed journal of the National Academy of Sciences (NAS) - an authoritative source of high-impact, original research that broadly spans...

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Annie Whamond @anniewham.bsky.social · Aug 4

Great article on an issue I think about a lot. AI developers incessantly web scrape for data with minimal quality checks. What happens when LLMs are trained on more AI generated content than genuine information? Especially concerning for students/ECRs navigating heavily compromised research corpora

Graham Kendall @grahamkendall.bsky.social · Aug 4

Delighted to be able to contribute to this QS Insights article by CC which looked at how Gen AI is creating a zombie internet.

Thanks to QS Insights and Claudia Civinini

magazine.qs.com/qs-insights-...

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Retraction Watch @retractionwatch.com · Aug 1

Once upon a time, two science journalists had an idea for a blog about retractions. And on Aug. 3, 2010, Retraction Watch launched.

And now, 15 years and 6,700 posts later, that work seems more important than ever.

Happy 15th anniversary, Retraction Watch.

Happy 15th anniversary, Retraction Watch

Once upon a time, a long time ago, two science journalists had an idea for a blog about retractions. And on Aug. 3, 2010, Retraction Watch launched, detailing in the first post why retractions matt…

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Annie Whamond @anniewham.bsky.social · Aug 1

Excited that #AIMOS2025 is joining forces with the Evidence, Policy, and Influence Collab at @sydney.edu.au. Portal for abstract proposals now open 🎉

AIMOS @aimosinc.bsky.social · Aug 1

The call for proposals is now up for our long awaited #AIMOS2025 conference in Sydney this November:
aimos-inc.github.io/aimos.confer...

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Carl T. Bergstrom @carlbergstrom.com · Jul 31

Marvin the Paranoid Android from the Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy.

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Dorothy Bishop @deevybee.bsky.social · Jul 26

Nature News has a short piece on the survey we did in conjunction with the FAIRS meeting on responding to serious research misconduct www.nature.com/articles/d41...

How to tackle research misconduct: survey finds stark disagreement

Data sleuths and research-integrity officers have different views on how to handle allegations of wrongdoing in science.

www.nature.com

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David Green, PhD @ecologistgreen.bsky.social · Jul 15

And in today's news of #AcademicPublishing not working...

🧪 #SciPub #PeerReview

www.nature.com/articles/d41...

Low-quality papers based on public health data are flooding the scientific literature

The appearance of thousands of formulaic biomedical studies has been linked to the rise of text-generating AI tools.

www.nature.com

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Dorothy Bishop @deevybee.bsky.social · Jun 30

Just deposited preprint reporting results of Delphi survey on attitudes to sanctions for serious research misconduct
zenodo.org/records/1577...
#fraud #researchIntegrity

FAIRS Delphi Survey: Attitudes to sanctions for serious research misconduct

Abstract Background: Research fraud is often seen as a rare event, but evidence from self-report surveys indicates that fabrication and falsification of data are common enough to be a problem. This st...

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Annie Whamond @anniewham.bsky.social · Jun 6

No indication of count numbers on y-axis?

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