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Jennifer Byrne
@jabyrnesci.bsky.social
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Prof cancer research Infrastructure, research integrity, errors, paper mills Views my own PRIMeR group: https://www.sydney.edu.au/medicine-health/our-research/research-centres/publication-and-research-integrity-in-medical-research-primer.html
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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.
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Dorothy Bishop @deevybee.bsky.social · 9d
Open Science Workshop - detecting errors and misconduct in science
Dates: 20-22 October
Location: Radboud University, Nijmegen, The Netherlands
Registration link: tinyurl.com/3xkd8twf
ONLY PHYSICAL ATTENDENCE POSSIBLE! NO ONLINE POSSIBILITIES.
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Nature @nature.com · 13h
An AI tool that scans manuscript titles and abstracts has flagged more than 250,000 cancer studies that bear textual similarities to articles that are known to have been produced by paper mills

go.nature.com/48mbbgj
Low quality papers are flooding the cancer literature — can this AI tool help to catch them?
A large language model scans abstracts and titles for signs that an article was produced by a 'paper-mill' company.
go.nature.com
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Anna Abalkina @abalkina.bsky.social · 21h
I’m honored to be named one of Tagesspiegel’s “100 Researchers of Berlin” for 2025, featured in today’s category “Swimming against the current.” Grateful to be recognized alongside inspiring researchers who challenge convention and push boundaries
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Science News @sciencenews.bsky.social · 1d
The Nobel Prizes award some of the world's best science. But they miss some, too.

https://www.sciencenews.org/article/nobel-prize-discoveries-not-all-science
Nobel Prizes honor great discoveries — but leave much of science unseen
The Nobel Prize might be the most famous science prize but it celebrates just a narrow slice of science and very few scientists.
www.sciencenews.org
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Florian Naudet @floriannaudet.bsky.social · 3d
New post on ResToRes's website: "The Lancet–WCRIF commission on research integrity"
A new Lancet–WCRIF Commission on Research Integrity takes aim at the growing crisis of fake science and questionable research practices, calling for coordinated global action.
restores.univ-rennes.fr/highlights/l...
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NanoBubbles @nanobubbles.bsky.social · Aug 29
📢 Open Science Workshop on Detecting Errors and Misconduct in Science will be held in Nijmegen from October 20 to 23.

Full workshop program will be available soon.

🔗 Register here (limited spots are available!): lnkd.in/eRKekCkh
An advertisement for Open Science Workshop titled Detecting errors and misconduct in science. The sheet includes photos of the organisers and logos of the funders.
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Marin Dacos @marind.bsky.social · 7d
9th World Conference on Research Integrity (Vancouver, may 2026). wcri2026.org
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Ance Tetere @ancetetere.bsky.social · 9d
Distinguished panel of luminaries ✨ in research integrity. 👇🏼👇🏼👇🏼
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Dorothy Bishop @deevybee.bsky.social · 9d
Open Science Workshop - detecting errors and misconduct in science
Dates: 20-22 October
Location: Radboud University, Nijmegen, The Netherlands
Registration link: tinyurl.com/3xkd8twf
ONLY PHYSICAL ATTENDENCE POSSIBLE! NO ONLINE POSSIBILITIES.
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LaLIST | CNRS-INIST @inistlalist.bsky.social · 8d
9th World Conference on Research Integrity | May 3 – 6, 2026 | Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada
9th World Conference on Research Integrity | May 3 – 6, 2026 | Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada
« We invite you to join the 9th World Conference on Research Integrity (WCRI), which will be held from May 3 to 6, 2026, in beautiful Vancouver, Canada. The WCRI is open to all disciplines, all pro…
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Dorothy Canzano Beach @dorothy4climate.bsky.social · Aug 26
“Inflating a researcher’s citation count and h-index gives them “a tremendous advantage” in hiring and tenure decisions says Jennifer Byrne, a cancer researcher at the University of Sydney…drives the business model of shady organizations that promise to boost your citations in exchange for cash.”
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David Green, PhD @ecologistgreen.bsky.social · Aug 26
The moment we distill research quality into meaningless metrics, they get gamed and lose all meaning.

Are citation counts, h-indexes, and impact factors still useful? How do you think we should be evaluating research?

🧪 #SciPub #AcademicSky
How easy is it to fudge your scientific rank? Meet Larry, the world’s most cited cat
“Exercise in absurdity” reveals flaws in Google Scholar’s productivity metrics
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PubPeer @pubpeer.com · 9d
Catching up on a summer backlog: congrats to @reeserichardson.bsky.social, winner of the July PubPeer Award for a comment on a 2024 article in @cp-cellmetabolism.bsky.social pubpeer.com/publications...

Reese donated his $1000 prize to @msf.ca and the @elisabethbik.bsky.social Science Integrity Fund
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Danny Maupin @dmaupin.bsky.social · 15d
Glad to be getting more attention to our work on redundant publications!!
@nature.com #metascience #academicsky
Journals infiltrated with ‘copycat’ papers that can be written by AI
Tools such as ChatGPT can be used to generate almost-identical research papers that pass standard plagiarism checks. Hundreds are thought to have been published.
www.nature.com
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Danny Maupin @dmaupin.bsky.social · 18d
Unfortunately it's more common than you may think. We've had preprint recently be published on redundant publications
Dramatic increases in redundant publications in the Generative AI era
Background Redundant publication, the practice of submitting the same or substantially overlapping manuscripts multiple times, distorts the scientific record and wastes resources. Since 2022, publicat...
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Science Integrity Alliance @sci-integrity.com · 12d
SIA will be represented at AIMOS 2025, which will explore commercial determinants of health + AIMOS's signature focus on meta-research and open science. We're proud AIMOS is part of our global Alliance as we advance research integrity worldwide. 👉 Register here: aimos-inc.github.io/aimos.confer...
AIMOS2025 Conference
AIMOS conference 2025
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Mark Hooper @markhooper.bsky.social · 14d
Just submitted a highly amusing abstract to the International Research Integrity Conference (Sydney, November). Whatever the outcome, hope to see you there! Abstracts close on Monday. researchintegrityconf.com
International Research Integrity Conference | 16-18 November 2025, Sydney, Australia
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World Conferences on Research Integrity @wcrifoundation.bsky.social · 13d
🚨 Registration is OPEN!

Join us in Vancouver for the 9th World Conference on Research Integrity (#WCRI2026), May 3–6, 2026.

🌍 All disciplines, all career stages

📍 Venue: The Westin Bayshore

🔗 Register now + book your stay: wcri2026.org/registration/
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Elisabeth Bik - Perpetrator 5, a fraudulent microbiologist @elisabethbik.bsky.social · 12d
Abstract deadline for the International Research Integrity Conference in Sydney, 16-18 November, is September 29!
researchintegrityconf.com
Speakers: Jennifer Byrne, Cyril Labbé, James Heathers, Ben Mol, Ivan Oransky, David Vaux, Annie Butler, and many more (me!).
Banner from the IRIC website, showing Sydney Harbor seen from the North at sunset, with lots of sail boats on the (blue) water, and Harbour Bridge on the left. In the distance the skyline of downtown.
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Simon Gandevia @simongandevia.bsky.social · 12d
Abstract deadline is September 29th for the International Research Integrity Conference in Sydney 16-18 November. Registrations filling quickly too.
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International Research Integrity Conference | 16-18 November 2025, Sydney, Australia
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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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Anna Abalkina @abalkina.bsky.social · 13d
I’m looking at a specific paper mill in India. So far, I have detected 339 papers, 105 of which were published in 2025. Only the biggest publishers are being targeted. Only two papers have been retracted.
This is the dashboard of a paper mill.
lookerstudio.google.com/reporting/36...
#papermills
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Jennifer Byrne @jabyrnesci.bsky.social · 13d
PRIMeR group members @anniewham.bsky.social and @pranujanp.bsky.social in action as panellists at @sydney.edu.au Wicked Research for Wicked Problems postgraduate student event "Truth Be Told: Communicating Research in the Age of Alternative Facts." #ResearchIntegrity #PaperMills🧪
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Retraction Watch @retractionwatch.com · 14d
Math has publication fraud, too.

For a long time, mathematicians thought that as long as they keep away from predatory journals or paper mills, the problem does not affect them. This turned out to be wrong.
Math has publication fraud, too
Ilka AgricolaCredit: Thorsten Richter Scholarly publishing in mathematics is unlike many other fields, marked by fewer papers, fewer coauthors per paper and fewer citations. But that doesn’t mean t…
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Overly.Honest.Editor @editoratlarge.bsky.social · 14d
Oh but if you want to try GRABDROP anyway, paper is here: pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/40587200/
Journal of Global Health's Guidelines for Reporting Analyses of Big Data Repositories Open to the Public (GRABDROP): preventing 'paper mills', duplicate publications, misuse of statistical inference, ...
In recent years, global accessibility to large 'big data' repositories that enable 'open research' - such as the UK Biobank, National Health and Nutrition Examination Survey (NHANES), and Global Burde...
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European Association of Science Editors @easeeditors.bsky.social · 15d
In this new ESE Viewpoint, @reeserichardson.bsky.social and Matt Spick help editors identify mass-produced research to reject them at the point of submission, reducing the burden on peer review, and the amount of poor-quality noise introduced to the published literature.

doi.org/10.3897/ese....
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Ginny Barbour @ginnybarbour.bsky.social · 15d
For those at the back - or in the QLD government - *pill testing saves lives*
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Bill Browne @browne90.bsky.social · 15d
"I think it just goes to show the quality of what's going on here in the ACT."

Days after Qld Govt moves to statewide ban on pill testing, the ACT's service detects a dangerous synthetic drug. www.abc.net.au/news/2025-09...
Rare nitazene found in Canberra believed to be Australian-first
The capsuled white powder was presented to the pill-testing site on Friday and, when chemists there couldn't make an identification, transferred to the Australian National University for analysis.
www.abc.net.au
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