Dorothy Bishop
@deevybee.bsky.social
Retired professor of psychology at University of Oxford. Interests in developmental neuropsychology and improving science. Blogs at deevybee.blogspot.com
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Far from enforcing their policies, publishers *hide* PISS.
We learned most publisher policies ACTIVELY hide PISS by altering article metadata post-hoc.
At a *minimum* #Frontiers, #Elsevier, #MDPI all do it publicly! Yikes. 🤯
Thanks to @deevybee.bsky.social et al. for noting this (see pics).
11/n
We learned most publisher policies ACTIVELY hide PISS by altering article metadata post-hoc.
At a *minimum* #Frontiers, #Elsevier, #MDPI all do it publicly! Yikes. 🤯
Thanks to @deevybee.bsky.social et al. for noting this (see pics).
11/n
January 13, 2026 at 8:27 AM
Far from enforcing their policies, publishers *hide* PISS.
We learned most publisher policies ACTIVELY hide PISS by altering article metadata post-hoc.
At a *minimum* #Frontiers, #Elsevier, #MDPI all do it publicly! Yikes. 🤯
Thanks to @deevybee.bsky.social et al. for noting this (see pics).
11/n
We learned most publisher policies ACTIVELY hide PISS by altering article metadata post-hoc.
At a *minimum* #Frontiers, #Elsevier, #MDPI all do it publicly! Yikes. 🤯
Thanks to @deevybee.bsky.social et al. for noting this (see pics).
11/n
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Others use Wordle for a similar purpose
news.sky.com/story/chicag...
news.sky.com/story/chicag...
Chicago: Grandmother rescued from 17-hour hostage ordeal after police were alerted because she missed a Wordle game
The victim's daughter grew concerned that she hadn't responded to texts - or sent her the daily Wordle puzzle.
news.sky.com
January 13, 2026 at 7:27 AM
Others use Wordle for a similar purpose
news.sky.com/story/chicag...
news.sky.com/story/chicag...
might be interesting to Google some of the less relevant comments and see if they recur elsewhere.
Could be your reviewer is part of a review mill.
Could be your reviewer is part of a review mill.
January 12, 2026 at 7:13 PM
might be interesting to Google some of the less relevant comments and see if they recur elsewhere.
Could be your reviewer is part of a review mill.
Could be your reviewer is part of a review mill.
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here goes
some interesting rapid responses too
and the patient experience library stuff i cited is interesting
www.bmj.com/content/377/...
some interesting rapid responses too
and the patient experience library stuff i cited is interesting
www.bmj.com/content/377/...
David Oliver: Tackling noise pollution in hospital
Hospital wards are meant to be therapeutic and healing environments, so we need more concerted action to tackle noise pollution in wards. Being surrounded by a cacophony of noise doesn’t help patients...
www.bmj.com
January 11, 2026 at 5:31 PM
here goes
some interesting rapid responses too
and the patient experience library stuff i cited is interesting
www.bmj.com/content/377/...
some interesting rapid responses too
and the patient experience library stuff i cited is interesting
www.bmj.com/content/377/...
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Kamran Abbasi, the editor-in-chief of @bmj.com, says they "continue to investigate a range of issues relating to this paper".
The main thread of their investigation, apparently, is giving the authors an indefinite period of time to fabricate a new, more convincing dataset.
The main thread of their investigation, apparently, is giving the authors an indefinite period of time to fabricate a new, more convincing dataset.
January 11, 2026 at 6:14 AM
Kamran Abbasi, the editor-in-chief of @bmj.com, says they "continue to investigate a range of issues relating to this paper".
The main thread of their investigation, apparently, is giving the authors an indefinite period of time to fabricate a new, more convincing dataset.
The main thread of their investigation, apparently, is giving the authors an indefinite period of time to fabricate a new, more convincing dataset.