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Michael Clarke @mtclarke.bsky.social · 6d

Yes, yes, Europe has its benefits. Walkable cities. Cultural heritage. Amazing food. Little gun violence. Healthcare. Governments that are not shut down. But the number of website pop-ups asking one to accept cookies renders the continent pretty much unlivable.

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Brandon Stell @brandonstell.bsky.social · Aug 5

www.nytimes.com/2025/08/04/s...

“If these trends are not stopped, science is going to be destroyed…”

Uh, really?

I can’t imagine one of these papers ever influencing my lab’s research. Curious if folks studying noncoding RNA see it differently.

Fraudulent Scientific Papers Are Rapidly Increasing, Study Finds

www.nytimes.com

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Brandon Stell @brandonstell.bsky.social · Jul 16

Grateful for the invitation from the Royal Society — and heartening to see the growing momentum, evident throughout the meeting, behind separating evaluation from publication.

Richard McElreath 🐈‍⬛ @rmcelreath.bsky.social · Jul 14

Brandon Stell of PubPeer makes good points about taking focus off publication and onto content of publication. Until we do that, we are treating symptoms.

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James Fraser @fraserlab.com · Jul 11

Academia may be a prestige economy but it wasn’t some choice of scientific leadership- we do it to ourselves, every day. Leadership rarely makes tenure criteria too down - it’s a committee of peers that sets it up for institutions. Leadership doesn’t sit on study sections - it’s peers doing it!

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Brandon Stell @brandonstell.bsky.social · Jun 22

Almost as impressive as the brown trout you can find in the water just outside.

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Brandon Stell @brandonstell.bsky.social · Jun 20

Grateful for the chance to join this webinar series—great questions and engaging discussion.

Peer Community In @peercommunityin.bsky.social · Jun 20

You can now watch the recording of Brandon Stell's PCI webinar!
⏯️ Check it out here youtu.be/PXshwcUmTog?...

PCI Webinar - Brandon Stell - Elevating Scientific Standards: Community-Driven Assessment on PubPeer

PubPeer was created in 2012 to facilitate the correction of science and accelerate the convergence of ideas through open, public discussion. By focusing on t...

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Michael Andrades @michaelandrades.bsky.social · Jun 18

Brandon Stell puts it powerfully - and accurately: 'We value publications more than what's inside them.'
It's not something we wanted to hear, but it's something we needed to.

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Brandon Stell @brandonstell.bsky.social · May 30

White House Health Report Included Fake Citations www.nytimes.com/2025/05/29/w...

White House Health Report Included Fake Citations

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Gretchen Goldman, PhD @gretchentg.bsky.social · May 23

The Trump administration just dropped an executive order, "Restoring Gold Standard Science" and there's lots to unpack. This EO reveals more about how the Administration will approach scientific integrity and science in regulatory contexts. Some initial thoughts. 🧵
www.whitehouse.gov/presidential...

Restoring Gold Standard Science

By the authority vested in me as President by the Constitution and the laws of the United States of America, including section 7301 of title 5, United

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Peer Community In @peercommunityin.bsky.social · May 20

📣 Save the date for the 11th PCI webinar on June 18, 2025, at 4 PM CET!! Brandon Stell (CNRS, Paris) will present "Elevating Scientific Standards: Community-Driven Assessment on PubPeer ". For more details and registration, visit: buff.ly/XuownT0

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PubPeer @pubpeer.com · May 18

Learn more about the PubPeer Monthly Prize—made possible by the Einstein Foundation (@einsteinberlin.bsky.social‬)—and explore past winning comments to see what makes a strong entry so that you can win the next one!

pubpeer.com/static/award

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Brandon Stell @brandonstell.bsky.social · May 10

Hoping to see Horton's heat at Citi field tonight.
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Bullet

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Dr. Becca @docbecca.bsky.social · Mar 27

OK we all get that this is literally impossible though, right? Europe and Canada do not have the resources to absorb 75% of US scientists and btw getting jobs in these places was already competitive for the people who live there.

Alexandra Witze @alexwitze.bsky.social · Mar 27

We polled Nature readers to ask if they were thinking of leaving the US for jobs abroad. Three-quarters of them (who said they were US-based scientists) said yes. 🧪

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

75% of US scientists who answered Nature poll consider leaving

More than 1,600 readers answered our poll; many said they were looking for jobs in Europe and Canada.

www.nature.com

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Brandon Stell @brandonstell.bsky.social · Mar 26

I still think the best solution is to pay good reviewers—randomly. The more of your reviews an editor flags as useful, the higher your chances of getting paid.

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Yvette Cendes @whereisyvette.bsky.social · Mar 16

Pet peeve: I hate how often ppl claim “all the researchers will just move to Europe/Canada!” You vastly under-estimate how little money there is there vs the USA- and unless that changes ASAP this loss is just going to decimate global science, full stop. 🧪🔭

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Carl T. Bergstrom @carlbergstrom.com · Mar 7

Is everyone huffing paint?

Crypto guy claims to have built an LLM-based tool to detect errors in research papers; funded using its own cryptocurrency; will let coin holders choose what papers to go after; it's unvetted and a total black box—and Nature reports it as if it's a new protein structure.

AI tools are spotting errors in research papers: inside a growing movement

Study that hyped the toxicity of black plastic utensils inspires projects that use large language models to check papers.

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Popehat Agitates And Irritates @kenwhite.bsky.social · Mar 7

How bad this is depends on how far they are willing to go. Are they willing to fabricate evidence to attack vaccines? My guess would be yes.

Reuters @reuters.com · Mar 7

Exclusive: The US Centers for Disease Control and Prevention is planning a large study into potential connections between vaccines and autism, two sources told Reuters, despite extensive scientific research that has disproven or failed to find evidence of such links reut.rs/4ivfaZA

Exclusive: US CDC plans study into vaccines and autism, sources say

The U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention is planning a large study into potential connections between vaccines and autism, two sources familiar with the matter told Reuters, despite extensive scientific research that has disproven or failed to find evidence of such links.

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Einstein Foundation Berlin @einsteinberlin.bsky.social · Mar 6

⏰ Join an engaging colloquium on scientific integrity, featuring the 2024 Einstein Foundation Award Winners next week! @elisabethbik.bsky.social, @brandonstell.bsky.social @pubpeer.com, @helenajambor.bsky.social & Christopher Schmied
at Charité or online: www.einsteinfoundation.de/en/insights/...

Einstein Foundation Berlin @einsteinberlin.bsky.social · Feb 13

📆 From detection to prevention: improving the scientific publication record - Join the 2024 Einstein Foundation Award Winners’ Colloquium w/ @elisabethbik.bsky.social, @brandonstell.bsky.social @pubpeer.com, @helenajambor.bsky.social & Christopher Schmied
www.einsteinfoundation.de/en/insights/...

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Stand Up for Science! @standupforscience.bsky.social · Feb 12

Welcome to the Bluesky account for Stand Up for Science 2025!

Keep an eye on this space for updates, event information, and ways to get involved. We can't wait to see everyone #standupforscience2025 on March 7th, both in DC and locations nationwide!

#scienceforall #sciencenotsilence

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Einstein Foundation Berlin @einsteinberlin.bsky.social · Feb 13

📆 From detection to prevention: improving the scientific publication record - Join the 2024 Einstein Foundation Award Winners’ Colloquium w/ @elisabethbik.bsky.social, @brandonstell.bsky.social @pubpeer.com, @helenajambor.bsky.social & Christopher Schmied
www.einsteinfoundation.de/en/insights/...

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PubPeer @pubpeer.com · Feb 11

Congratulations to Vitaly Podzorov for winning the January PubPeer Monthly Prize for his outstanding analysis of a 2024 Nature article! pubpeer.com/publications...

These $1,000 awards are given each month. Learn more and see examples of winning comments: pubpeer.com/static/award

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Richard Sever @richardsever.bsky.social · Jan 28

NIH staff told they can submit papers to journals but not preprints. "a short pause to allow the new team to set up a process for review and prioritization" <- review by whom...? www.science.org/content/arti... ht @philipncohen.com 1/2

NIH memo addresses ‘confusion’ about restrictions imposed by Trump, easing some concerns

Memo from acting director to staff allows some purchasing, and suggests travel and study sections could soon resume

www.science.org

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Salena @salena.bsky.social · Feb 1

I was led to believe by R.E.M. that I would feel a lot better about this.

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Einstein Foundation Berlin @einsteinberlin.bsky.social · Jan 30

Important read on the devastating impact of fraud in Alzheimer's research, highlighting the work of 2024 #EinsteinFoundationAward winners @elisabethbik.bsky.social and @pubpeer.com in cleaning up the scientific record. #ResearchIntegrity www.nytimes.com/2025/01/24/o...

Opinion | The Devastating Legacy of Lies in Alzheimer’s Science (Gift Article)

Fraud in research needs to end.

www.nytimes.com

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Tim Behrens @behrenstimb.bsky.social · Jan 30

Hope you'll forgive a quick thread as I take over as the new EiC of @elife.bsky.social

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