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Elisabeth Bik - Perpetrator 5, a fraudulent microbiologist @elisabethbik.bsky.social · 2d

Another retraction (#10?) for Srikanta Dash at @tulaneu.bsky.social

I reported this to the journal and the university in March 2021 - more than four years ago.
Despite 10 retractions, he is still a full professor at Tulane.

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Screenshots of two figures from the paper, both are showing green fluorescent cells on a black background. I have added colored boxes to highlight duplications/overlaps.

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Li Li 李黎 @lireactivewater.bsky.social · 13d

Rivers are heating up faster than the air − that’s a problem for aquatic life and people

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Rivers are heating up faster than the air − that’s a problem for aquatic life and people

River heat waves are rising faster than the pace of air heat waves. That’s a problem for fish, drinking water quality, and food and energy production.

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Natalia Jagielska @nataliajagielska.bsky.social · 11d

Museums of the future. A digital aquarium tunnel of the Triassic marine life, at the Geological Museum of Guizhou, China.

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Daniel Nyqvist @daninyqvist.bsky.social · 15d

New review paper titled "Balancing hydropower production and ecology - ecological impacts, mitigation measures, and programmatic monitoring" published in KMAE. With @jnaslund.bsky.social and others. Read it here: www.kmae-journal.org/articles/kma...

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Elisabeth Bik - Perpetrator 5, a fraudulent microbiologist @elisabethbik.bsky.social · 19d

I would plus one that. Lots of Oncotarget papers have problems. I already have over 200 Oncotarget papers flagged.

Of the 125 problematic papers that I reported 5 years or more ago, about 100 remain unaddressed.

Oncotarget's EiC thinks these images are totally fine.
#ImageForensics

An image showing lots of panels with a black background and green fluorescent cells. Colored boxes of the same color and arrows show overlapping panels or groups of cells found in more than one panel.
See: https://pubpeer.com/publications/C494F24D5E8153CB50C082DE5B0B03

Four panels, each showing a grey-colored petridish with bacterial colonies (which look like little irregularly shaped black dots). I have added colored rounded boxes to indicate colonies or groups of colonies that look remarkably similar. See: https://pubpeer.com/publications/0ACA63AC48C60852962E58844828A4

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Veli-Matti Karhulahti @mkarhulahti.bsky.social · 18d

Just learned about this diamond journal, which has apparently been running since 2015! Looks like a very nice place for any meta-sciency work & probably deserves some visibility.

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Nordic Perspectives on Open Science

Nordic-Baltic journal of Open Access to publications, data, peer review and open science.

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Eli Thoré @elisjthore.bsky.social · 20d

New paper! 🥳📜 We reviewed 275 ecology & evolution journals: only 38% mandate data sharing & 27% mandate code sharing. 📉

We share recommendations to help close this gap. 💡

👉 Paper: royalsocietypublishing.org/doi/10.1098/...
👉 Blog: royalsociety.org/blog/2025/09...

From policy to practice: progress towards data- and code-sharing in ecology and evolution | Proceedings of the Royal Society B: Biological Sciences

Data and code are essential for ensuring the credibility of scientific results and facilitating reproducibility, areas in which journal sharing policies play a crucial role. However, in ecology and ev...

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Shaun Killen @shaunkillen.bsky.social · 29d

Fisheries can drive selection, but what about small-scale ornamental fisheries? Our new study shows Amazonian fishes interact w/ traps in species- & environment-specific ways, hinting at overlooked selective potential. Led by @marpineda.bsky.social Read here: onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/epdf/10....

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Nature @nature.com · Sep 5

An investigation has identified more than 1,500 research articles produced by a network of Ukrainian companies that could be one of Europe’s largest paper mills

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Europe’s largest paper mill? 1,500 research articles linked to Ukrainian network

A group of companies has flooded 380 journals with hundreds of suspect papers since 2017.

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Dom Roche @domroche.bsky.social · Sep 5

~10 years after the experiments, the paper is finally ready 😅😅

Take home: nothing beats patient collaborators 😆

Thanks @josefin-sundin.bsky.social @BenSpeers-Roesch @itchyshin.bsky.social @TimClark @SandraBinning!!

#OceanAcidification #AnimalBehaviour #OpenScience

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No effect of ocean acidification on individual-level variation in behaviour and susceptibility to predation in a Great Barrier Reef damselfish

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Steven J Cooke @sjcfishy.bsky.social · Sep 4

lab-field continuum in conservation physiology research: leveraging multiple approaches to inform policy and practice url: academic.oup.com/conphys/arti...

The lab-field continuum in conservation physiology research: leveraging multiple approaches to inform policy and practice

Abstract. In the field of conservation physiology, there is often a trade off between conducting research in controlled laboratory settings or in inherentl

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Prof Susie Maidment @tweetisaurus.bsky.social · Sep 3

Last week in Nature: ooo look at my spiky dino. This week in Nature: EVERYTHING YOU KNOW ABOUT BIOLOGY IS WRONG www.nature.com/articles/d41...

‘Almost unimaginable’: these ants are different species but share a mother

Ant queens of one species clone ants of another to create hybrid workers that do their bidding.

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Tom Staveley @tabstaveley.bsky.social · Sep 2

Status and future perspectives of pink salmon in the Nordic region 🐟🐟🐟

New article out now
@evathorstad.bsky.social @jaakkoerkinaro.bsky.social

Check it out here: doi.org/10.60910/ber...

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Shaun Killen @shaunkillen.bsky.social · Sep 2

Our new paper shows how arena size can bias sociability estimates in sticklebacks: bigger tanks = lower sociability, even after adjusting for tank size. Repeatability highest at intermediate size. #methodsmatter! Great work from @mgmci13.bsky.social! Read it here: link.springer.com/article/10.1...

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Fredrik Jutfelt 🐠 @jutfelt.bsky.social · Sep 2

Hilarious and mostly accurate character assassination of the sunfish Mola mola 😂🐟🦑

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The Dumbest Animal Alive

YouTube video by Kurzgesagt – In a Nutshell

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Mark Hooper @markhooper.bsky.social · Sep 2

I vibecoded this little tool for detecting duplications and clones within scientific figures. I think it works ok! Please try it. There are sample images you can try. Free to use. Not nearly as good as the paid models, obviously.
👉 dejaview.streamlit.app
#researchintegrity @elisabethbik.bsky.social

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Daniel Nyqvist @daninyqvist.bsky.social · Aug 29

Recently published study on a provoked escape response test in Padanian goby. Estimated maximum swimming speed was not repeatable at the individual fish level but consistently different between groups. Overall performance declined between tests. Paper here: www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....

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Elisabeth Bik - Perpetrator 5, a fraudulent microbiologist @elisabethbik.bsky.social · Aug 29

Has anyone here received offers from "Peer Publicon", a scientific writing 'consultancy' company, offering authorship positions? Please DM me privately. Will keep confidential.
#PaperMills

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The FSBI @thefsbi.bsky.social · Aug 23

#JFB: Validation of a new acoustic telemetry transmitter for the study of predation events in small fishes doi.org/10.1111/jfb.15827 #FishSci

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Jeremy De Bonville @jaydebon.bsky.social · Aug 20

Happy to see this out in @methodsinecoevol.bsky.social

Are you new to CTmax tests (or CTmin)? Are you experienced, but unsure on what to report in your Methods?🤔

Then this practical guide is for you! It even includes a fillable table! 😎

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Measuring critical thermal maximum in aquatic ectotherms: A practical guide

Critical thermal limits, commonly quantified as CTmax (maximum) or CTmin (minimum), are core metrics in the thermal biology of aquatic ectotherms. CTmax, in particular, has recently surged in popu...

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Retraction Watch @retractionwatch.com · Aug 20

Authors asked Elsevier to retract papers in 2012. They’re still waiting.

Elsevier has retracted two papers for image duplication – 13 years after the authors alerted the journal to issues with the work. The papers are the third and fourth retractions for a group o…

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Ulf Bergström @ulfbergstrom.bsky.social · Aug 18

Come work with us! 2-year postdoc position open at SLU Aqua, on the role of herring in coastal food webs of the Baltic Sea. Applications due August 25.

www.slu.se/om-slu/jobba...

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Jack A Brand @jack-brand.bsky.social · Aug 15

Take a look at our new data and code guidelines for quality control below! This was a great collaboration between data editors from multiple ecology and evolution journals and @sortee.bsky.social!

Brilliantly led by @joelpick.bsky.social and @eivimeycook.bsky.social!

Joel Pick @joelpick.bsky.social · Aug 15

🚨Introducing the @sortee.bsky.social Guidelines for Data and Code Quality Control in Ecology and Evolutionary Biology🚨 doi.org/10.32942/X24...

Increasingly E&E journals are recruiting data editors. We provide standardised guidelines for journals with data editors and those wanting to recruit them 🧵

The SORTEE Guidelines for Data and Code Quality Control in Ecology and Evolutionary Biology

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Eliza Maher Hasselquist @emhasselquist.bsky.social · Aug 14

Not from the EU and looking to come to Sweden to do reseach? There is a grant for that! Applications taken through December 2025. www.vr.se/english/appl...

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Dan Quintana @dsquintana.bsky.social · Aug 13

Systematic reviewers have a 10.7% error rate when screening papers for potential inclusion.

In other words, about 1 in 9 abstracts are categorised incorrectly (i.e., false inclusion or false exclusion). This really drives home the benefit of having at least two screeners

Error rates of human reviewers during abstract screening in systematic reviews

Background Automated approaches to improve the efficiency of systematic reviews are greatly needed. When testing any of these approaches, the criterion standard of comparison (gold standard) is usuall...

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