Bryon N Hughson
@bryonnhughson.bsky.social
Scientist, research integrity activist, reformed athlete, friend of Tuxie.
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And that Warsaw Ghetto uprising gave the Germans a reason....
“They gave Putin a reason to bomb the hell out of them,” Trump said about Ukraine’s drone strikes.
❗️As if Russia needed a reason.
As if they weren’t already bombing our cities every single day.
As if civilians hadn’t died by the thousands before any Spiderweb operation. 👇
❗️As if Russia needed a reason.
As if they weren’t already bombing our cities every single day.
As if civilians hadn’t died by the thousands before any Spiderweb operation. 👇
June 7, 2025 at 9:54 AM
And that Warsaw Ghetto uprising gave the Germans a reason....
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Excellent recent paper on how to fix scientific integrity investigations at academic institutions, by Matthew Schrag @thatsregrettab1.bsky.social @elisabethbik.bsky.social pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/40401705/
Academic Research Integrity Investigations Must be Independent, Fair, and Timely - PubMed
Our national scientific enterprise has a crisis of reproducibility. While this phenomenon has many contributors, one is the proliferation of data manipulation. Data manipulation may range from seeming...
pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov
June 4, 2025 at 3:50 PM
Excellent recent paper on how to fix scientific integrity investigations at academic institutions, by Matthew Schrag @thatsregrettab1.bsky.social @elisabethbik.bsky.social pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/40401705/
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‘Anyone can do this’: Sleuths publish a toolkit for post-publication review
The Collection of Open Science Integrity Guides (COSIG) aims to make “post-publication peer review” more accessible
Project headed by @reeserichardson.bsky.social
@cosig.net
retractionwatch.com/2025/06/04/c...
The Collection of Open Science Integrity Guides (COSIG) aims to make “post-publication peer review” more accessible
Project headed by @reeserichardson.bsky.social
@cosig.net
retractionwatch.com/2025/06/04/c...
‘Anyone can do this’: Sleuths publish a toolkit for post-publication review
For years, sleuths – whose names our readers are likely familiar with – have been diligently flagging issues with the scientific literature. More than a dozen of these specialists have teamed up to cr...
retractionwatch.com
June 4, 2025 at 3:40 PM
‘Anyone can do this’: Sleuths publish a toolkit for post-publication review
The Collection of Open Science Integrity Guides (COSIG) aims to make “post-publication peer review” more accessible
Project headed by @reeserichardson.bsky.social
@cosig.net
retractionwatch.com/2025/06/04/c...
The Collection of Open Science Integrity Guides (COSIG) aims to make “post-publication peer review” more accessible
Project headed by @reeserichardson.bsky.social
@cosig.net
retractionwatch.com/2025/06/04/c...
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A sense of sham: From retirement, David Bimler has embarked on a second career: exposing fraudulent research | @smutclyde.bsky.social |
A sense of sham
From retirement, David Bimler has embarked on a second career: exposing fraudulent research.
buff.ly
December 28, 2024 at 12:02 PM
A sense of sham: From retirement, David Bimler has embarked on a second career: exposing fraudulent research | @smutclyde.bsky.social |
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December 29, 2024 at 4:16 PM
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Just so all of us chemists are on the same page, if @acs.org pulls this shit, we're all canceling our memberships and will never publish in an ACS journal or attend an ACS meeting ever again, right? RIGHT? And this has nothing to do with being a 25-year member and never receiving a mug.
I am appalled by the ASM's decision to remove DEI content from their website.
Here is my email to the American Society for Microbiology, @ASM.org asking them to put everything back as it was.
If you are an ASM member, please consider writing them.
Here is my email to the American Society for Microbiology, @ASM.org asking them to put everything back as it was.
If you are an ASM member, please consider writing them.
February 3, 2025 at 11:43 PM
Just so all of us chemists are on the same page, if @acs.org pulls this shit, we're all canceling our memberships and will never publish in an ACS journal or attend an ACS meeting ever again, right? RIGHT? And this has nothing to do with being a 25-year member and never receiving a mug.
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We are selling the tech that allow Russian and North Korean missiles to hit Kyiv. But Trump won’t give or even sell Zelens’kyi the defensive tech needed to stop them.
🔴 Zelenskyy says the missile that killed 12 in Kyiv had 116 foreign-made parts—most from U.S. firms.
The missile was likely North Korean. He blames weak pressure on Russia and Pyongyang for enabling such attacks.
The missile was likely North Korean. He blames weak pressure on Russia and Pyongyang for enabling such attacks.
Zelenskyy: Russian Missile That Killed Twelve People in Kyiv Contained 116 Foreign Parts, Including US Tech
Russia's missile strike on a Kyiv residence on April 24 included 116 foreign components, many from US firms, highlighting international pressure issues.
united24media.com
April 25, 2025 at 11:43 PM
We are selling the tech that allow Russian and North Korean missiles to hit Kyiv. But Trump won’t give or even sell Zelens’kyi the defensive tech needed to stop them.
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ScienceGuardians is a platform describing itself as the "first fully verified journal club" dedicated to fighting the "PubPeer Network Mob".
They boast of a stringent verification process.
On a whim, I registered an account for Larry Richardson, my grandma's cat.
It was approved in 2 hours.
They boast of a stringent verification process.
On a whim, I registered an account for Larry Richardson, my grandma's cat.
It was approved in 2 hours.
April 25, 2025 at 3:11 PM
ScienceGuardians is a platform describing itself as the "first fully verified journal club" dedicated to fighting the "PubPeer Network Mob".
They boast of a stringent verification process.
On a whim, I registered an account for Larry Richardson, my grandma's cat.
It was approved in 2 hours.
They boast of a stringent verification process.
On a whim, I registered an account for Larry Richardson, my grandma's cat.
It was approved in 2 hours.
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"Ukrainians don’t have the luxury of indulging in the fantasies and distortions of Truth Social, or X, or Russian state TV. They have no choice but to believe in the rockets flying over their heads, the news of dead neighbours – in short, in reality."--Nataliya Gumenyuk
In Kyiv, we don’t believe in the fantasy of Trump's ‘peace deal’. Our reality is more dead civilians | Nataliya Gumenyuk
At the scene of the deadliest attack on our capital this year, I see the war on Ukraine is still very real – and Putin shows no signs of ending it, says Ukrainian journalist Nataliya Gumenyuk
www.theguardian.com
April 26, 2025 at 1:50 AM
"Ukrainians don’t have the luxury of indulging in the fantasies and distortions of Truth Social, or X, or Russian state TV. They have no choice but to believe in the rockets flying over their heads, the news of dead neighbours – in short, in reality."--Nataliya Gumenyuk
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Why Universities Should Make Misconduct Reports Public: A call to action from our co-founders
Why Universities Should Make Misconduct Reports Public | Journal of Law, Medicine & Ethics | Cambridge Core
Why Universities Should Make Misconduct Reports Public
www.cambridge.org
April 14, 2025 at 11:38 AM
Why Universities Should Make Misconduct Reports Public: A call to action from our co-founders
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A familiar story for many PhD students... The cell line doesn't act the same as described in the article, the mouse phenotype doesn't replicate, the supervisor tells them it's their fault 😮💨
▫️ #AcademicSky ▫️ #ResearchIntegrity ▫️ #ScientificMisconduct ▫️
Investigating scientific misconduct is hard—especially when your supervisor is an author
Investigating scientific misconduct is hard—especially when your supervisor is an author
Investigating scientific misconduct is hard—especially when your supervisor is an author
“The paper was riddled with serious problems,” this Ph.D. student writes
www.science.org
January 31, 2025 at 10:52 PM
A familiar story for many PhD students... The cell line doesn't act the same as described in the article, the mouse phenotype doesn't replicate, the supervisor tells them it's their fault 😮💨
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WTF Sweden
‘It is about vulnerable guys’: violent far-right groups in Sweden recruit boys as young as 10 www.theguardian.com/world/2025/m...
‘It is about vulnerable guys’: violent far-right groups in Sweden recruit boys as young as 10 www.theguardian.com/world/2025/m...
‘It is about vulnerable guys’: violent far-right groups in Sweden recruit boys as young as 10
Validated by Trump, Musk and the manosphere, far-right extremists pull in boys online and use bodybuilding and fight clubs to further their white supremacist agenda
www.theguardian.com
March 30, 2025 at 4:17 PM
WTF Sweden
‘It is about vulnerable guys’: violent far-right groups in Sweden recruit boys as young as 10 www.theguardian.com/world/2025/m...
‘It is about vulnerable guys’: violent far-right groups in Sweden recruit boys as young as 10 www.theguardian.com/world/2025/m...
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COPE (Committee on Publication Ethics) has one integrity officer, Iratxe Puebla. She has authored only one biology research paper. It is now retracted for image manipulation. Learn by experience!
March 28, 2025 at 9:40 PM
COPE (Committee on Publication Ethics) has one integrity officer, Iratxe Puebla. She has authored only one biology research paper. It is now retracted for image manipulation. Learn by experience!
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McSweeney’s university satire cutting close to the bone again.
“We will also stop pretending to try to recruit a diverse faculty.”
“We will also stop pretending to try to recruit a diverse faculty.”
Effective immediately after this sentence, the university will no longer use the word “trans” since that’s not really a thing.
(The history department has informed us that [REDACTED] people do exist and always have.)
The history department has been dissolved.
(The history department has informed us that [REDACTED] people do exist and always have.)
The history department has been dissolved.
Changes Our University Is Making to Pre-Comply with Possible Future Regulations
“[T]he University of North Texas administration recently censored the content of more than two hundred academic courses, including by mandating the...
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March 1, 2025 at 7:35 AM
McSweeney’s university satire cutting close to the bone again.
“We will also stop pretending to try to recruit a diverse faculty.”
“We will also stop pretending to try to recruit a diverse faculty.”
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“Ukraine is once again is seen as a mere territory to capture and colonise, its people as a inert mass to be subjugated and exploited.”
Please read Leonid Schneider’s perspective on this terrible war 🇺🇦 forbetterscience.com/2025/02/24/b...
Please read Leonid Schneider’s perspective on this terrible war 🇺🇦 forbetterscience.com/2025/02/24/b...
March 2, 2025 at 2:32 PM
“Ukraine is once again is seen as a mere territory to capture and colonise, its people as a inert mass to be subjugated and exploited.”
Please read Leonid Schneider’s perspective on this terrible war 🇺🇦 forbetterscience.com/2025/02/24/b...
Please read Leonid Schneider’s perspective on this terrible war 🇺🇦 forbetterscience.com/2025/02/24/b...
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Schneider Shorts 21.02.2025 – I reviewed the facts and could not find any scientific misconduct
forbetterscience.com/2025/02/21/s...
forbetterscience.com/2025/02/21/s...
Schneider Shorts 21.02.2025 – I reviewed the facts and could not find any scientific misconduct
Schneider Shorts 21.02.2025 – Germany special with my plea to German voters, a russia-lover in Hamburg, an animal friend in Magdeburg, a decisive art historian in Cottbus, and an Iran-loving …
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February 21, 2025 at 6:02 AM
Schneider Shorts 21.02.2025 – I reviewed the facts and could not find any scientific misconduct
forbetterscience.com/2025/02/21/s...
forbetterscience.com/2025/02/21/s...
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Doctored by Charles Piller review – the scandal that derailed Alzheimer’s research
A dogged account of how the quest for a treatment may have been set back years by fraudulent evidence
www.theguardian.com/books/2025/f...
A dogged account of how the quest for a treatment may have been set back years by fraudulent evidence
www.theguardian.com/books/2025/f...
Doctored by Charles Piller review – the scandal that derailed Alzheimer’s research
A dogged account of how the quest for a treatment may have been set back years by fraudulent evidence
www.theguardian.com
February 21, 2025 at 7:40 AM
Doctored by Charles Piller review – the scandal that derailed Alzheimer’s research
A dogged account of how the quest for a treatment may have been set back years by fraudulent evidence
www.theguardian.com/books/2025/f...
A dogged account of how the quest for a treatment may have been set back years by fraudulent evidence
www.theguardian.com/books/2025/f...
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I will be giving a talk hosted by @reproducibilitea.org and @vvoikar.bsky.social on 2/12 9am EST. The focus is on highly problematic behavioral data in mouse models of Alzheimer's. I will also go over some image issues that I found in papers by Eliezer Masliah. helsinki.zoom.us/meeting/regi....
Welcome! You are invited to join a meeting: ReproducibiliTea UniHelsinki presents: Dr. Mu Yang (Columbia University Medical Center, New York, USA). After registering, you will receive a confirmation e...
Don’t draw your data —- a sleuth’s stories in uncovering suspicious data in preclinical Alzheimer’s research papers.
helsinki.zoom.us
February 5, 2025 at 2:18 PM
I will be giving a talk hosted by @reproducibilitea.org and @vvoikar.bsky.social on 2/12 9am EST. The focus is on highly problematic behavioral data in mouse models of Alzheimer's. I will also go over some image issues that I found in papers by Eliezer Masliah. helsinki.zoom.us/meeting/regi....
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Would you like to join the fight against paper mills? Now's your chance! #ResearchIntegrity #PublicationEthics #JobAlert
PLOS Pub Ethics is hiring a Sr Editor. Are you an experienced editor with interest in preventing, investigating, and resolving large-scale issues including paper mills, peer-review rings, and citation cartels? Link below for more info. UK or USA only. job-boards.eu.greenhouse.io/plos/jobs/45...
Senior Editor, Publication Ethics
EMEA-Remote
job-boards.eu.greenhouse.io
January 21, 2025 at 2:33 PM
Would you like to join the fight against paper mills? Now's your chance! #ResearchIntegrity #PublicationEthics #JobAlert
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SK: It takes the combined responsibility of all stakeholders to flag and correct/remove fraudulent papers.
Chopra and Eagle quote: "The consequences of research fraud are legion [...] The price of academic misconduct is simply too great to pay."
www.amjmed.com/article/S000...
#AUC2025
Chopra and Eagle quote: "The consequences of research fraud are legion [...] The price of academic misconduct is simply too great to pay."
www.amjmed.com/article/S000...
#AUC2025
Perioperative Mischief: The Price of Academic Misconduct
Recent allegations of fraud committed by one of the most prolific researchers in perioperative
medicine, Don Poldermans, have left many clinicians in a state of disbelief. With
over 500 peer-reviewed ...
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January 16, 2025 at 6:19 PM
SK: It takes the combined responsibility of all stakeholders to flag and correct/remove fraudulent papers.
Chopra and Eagle quote: "The consequences of research fraud are legion [...] The price of academic misconduct is simply too great to pay."
www.amjmed.com/article/S000...
#AUC2025
Chopra and Eagle quote: "The consequences of research fraud are legion [...] The price of academic misconduct is simply too great to pay."
www.amjmed.com/article/S000...
#AUC2025
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"The most likely career path for anyone who has committed misconduct is a long and fruitful career. Because most people, if they’re caught at all, they skate." Our Ivan Oransky on
Freakonomics, in an updated episode re-airing this weekend.
Freakonomics, in an updated episode re-airing this weekend.
Can Academic Fraud Be Stopped? (Update) - Freakonomics
Can Academic Fraud Be Stopped? (Update) - Freakonomics
freakonomics.com
January 12, 2025 at 3:19 PM
"The most likely career path for anyone who has committed misconduct is a long and fruitful career. Because most people, if they’re caught at all, they skate." Our Ivan Oransky on
Freakonomics, in an updated episode re-airing this weekend.
Freakonomics, in an updated episode re-airing this weekend.
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I will give an evening plenary lecture at the #NWOPhysics
on Tuesday 21 January, in Veldhoven, the Netherlands.
#Physics
Also, check out the duplicates on the Speakers page :-)
nwophysics.nl
on Tuesday 21 January, in Veldhoven, the Netherlands.
#Physics
Also, check out the duplicates on the Speakers page :-)
nwophysics.nl
January 7, 2025 at 6:48 PM
I will give an evening plenary lecture at the #NWOPhysics
on Tuesday 21 January, in Veldhoven, the Netherlands.
#Physics
Also, check out the duplicates on the Speakers page :-)
nwophysics.nl
on Tuesday 21 January, in Veldhoven, the Netherlands.
#Physics
Also, check out the duplicates on the Speakers page :-)
nwophysics.nl
An oldie but a goodie, now with new image oddities in this:
pubpeer.com/publications...
and other papers from the same U of Toronto group:
pubpeer.com/publications...
pubpeer.com/publications...
pubpeer.com/publications...
and other papers from the same U of Toronto group:
pubpeer.com/publications...
pubpeer.com/publications...
January 10, 2025 at 9:27 PM
An oldie but a goodie, now with new image oddities in this:
pubpeer.com/publications...
and other papers from the same U of Toronto group:
pubpeer.com/publications...
pubpeer.com/publications...
pubpeer.com/publications...
and other papers from the same U of Toronto group:
pubpeer.com/publications...
pubpeer.com/publications...
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Update: Hari and Aruna Sharma guilty of research misconduct in many cases, Original investigation by @mumumouse2.bsky.social
forbetterscience.com/2023/12/20/i...
forbetterscience.com/2023/12/20/i...
In bed with Hari and Aruna
Hari Shanker & Aruna, a YouTube influencer couple in Sweden. With or without Rudolph the Red-Faced Liar. And with Anca and Dafin, two totally innocent and upright Romanians. Pushing pig brain j…
forbetterscience.com
January 10, 2025 at 8:08 PM
Update: Hari and Aruna Sharma guilty of research misconduct in many cases, Original investigation by @mumumouse2.bsky.social
forbetterscience.com/2023/12/20/i...
forbetterscience.com/2023/12/20/i...