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elisabethbik.bsky.social
Science integrity consultant and crowdfunded volunteer, PhD. Ex-Stanford University. Maddox Prize/Einstein F Award winner NL/USA/SFO. #ImageForensics @MicrobiomDigest on X. Blog: ScienceIntegrityDigest.com Support me: https://www.patreon.com/elisabethbik
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the Bsky experience

submitted 19 hours ago • 3 comments

Since 1960, childhood mortality has dropped by a factor of five. A large portion of this is due to the benefits of vaccines.

submitted 19 hours ago • 2 comments

One of the country's leading Alzheimer's projects is in jeopardy A pause to NIH funding has researchers scrambling for contingency plans at the University of Washington’s Alzheimer’s Disease Research Center @evanbush.bsky.social reports at @nbcnews.com www.nbcnews.com/health/healt...

submitted 20 hours ago • 4 comments

Marseille University Hospital: Whistleblowers denounce "astonishing judicial and political impunity” @garciavictor.bsky.social reports at @lexpress.bsky.social

submitted 1 day ago • 0 comments

Has anyone else had the experience recently of a whole load of (probably fraudulent) papers being added to their ResearchGate listing? I’m just removing ~12 preprints with 377 authors from 2019/20 by Katsushige Abe that list me as an author! #ScienceFraud

submitted 2 days ago • 2 comments

48th retraction for the IHU. 39th for Didier Raoult Absence of CPP approval. doi.org/10.3390/jcm1...

submitted 2 days ago • 2 comments

Happy Friday for those who celebrate. forbetterscience.com/2025/04/11/s...

submitted 3 days ago • 0 comments

Oh dear. The journal Applied Physics Letters issued a correction for these concerns. These images appear to have been photoshopped, but EiC @loima.bsky.social allowed the authors to issue a correction. WTF. pubpeer.com/publications...

submitted 2 days ago • 10 comments

Science isn't a belief. It's the GPS in the fog, the seatbelt on the rollercoaster, the friend who tells you your fly is down. Undermining it isn’t edgy—it’s like replacing your smoke alarm with a lava lamp. 🧪🔬🔥 We need brains, not vibes. #SaveScience

submitted 6 days ago • 2 comments

We went to The Book of Mormon musical tonight. Excellent show, but there was an unexpected halt just after break where the show stopped for 15 min and the lights went on. Not sure what happened.

submitted 2 days ago • 4 comments

Great talk at the Crick by @elisabethbik.bsky.social and nice to have a chance to chat beforehand. "The Crick is doing great work in making sure that the data is open and available" - I'll take that 😉

submitted 3 days ago • 1 comment

My second talk of today will be at the @ucl.ac.uk Nice building, but in order to get guest WiFi access you need to give them name, address, phone number, DoB, and a password that follows 5 different requirements. Oh, and agree to get marketing email too! Not kind to your guests, UCL.

submitted 3 days ago • 12 comments

Giving a talk today at @crick.ac.uk - enjoying the architecture before I enter the building.

submitted 3 days ago • 6 comments

The "testing and research effort" that RFK Jr. mentions here is being headed by a career anti-vaccine advocate whose only formal qualification is a Bachelor of Arts.

submitted 3 days ago • 4 comments

47th retraction for the IHU. Absence of written consent. doi.org/10.1038/s415...

submitted 4 days ago • 3 comments

Fantastic news! After years of critical post publication reviews it seems that @SciReports will soon retract the Sodom comet paper. cosmictusk.com/nature-scien...

submitted 4 days ago • 3 comments

Regent’s Park, London, on a sunny day.

submitted 4 days ago • 7 comments

Made-up XRD by Ahmadi et al. 2024 (DOI: 10.1038/s41598-024-80596-8) in 'Scientific Reports'. The authors explained on PubPeer that because of sanctions on Iran they had to use their XRD machine as a printer and that explains the repetitive noise. Sounds legit to me! pubpeer.com/publications...

submitted 5 days ago • 1 comment

A second child has died of measles in Texas. Measles is both dangerous AND preventable. In fact high childhood Vax rates (>95%) can eliminate it completely from a country. Please read and share our recent report on once common childhood diseases. independentsage.org/wp-content/u...

submitted 8 days ago • 50 comments

How do you solve a problem like systemic research misconduct? Some thoughts. Features The Sound of Music, the Dark Tetrad, horse-bolting management strategy, and HTs to @deevybee.bsky.social @urisohn.bsky.social @steamtraen.eu @elisabethbik.bsky.social gneilmartin.substack.com/p/how-do-you...

submitted 6 days ago • 2 comments

FAIRS conference ongoing with @steamtraen.eu talking about how to detect impossible numbers using GRIM. www.sjcfairsmeeting.com

submitted 6 days ago • 2 comments

Elisabeth Bik @elisabethbik.bsky.social has identified potential issues in over 8000 papers and published the concerns on (pubpeer.com/search?q=Eli...), but most journals fail to act. 🧪 FAIRS meeting www.sjcfairsmeeting.com

submitted 6 days ago • 2 comments

@thatsregrettab1.bsky.social It was lovely to bump into you earlier:). Re: our conversational confetti, some ticker-tape, as promised.

submitted 6 days ago • 0 comments

Jay Graber, the C.E.O. of Bluesky, wants to liberate social media from the “self-styled tech monarch.” @chaykak.bsky.social reports on Graber’s quest to build better digital town squares.

submitted 7 days ago • 18 comments

For the love of all that is holy stop calling it a collaboration when you’re really just asking for a favor. This is mostly a PSA for my fellow Americans, we’re gonna need to get over our aversion to admitting we need/asking for help, and general transactional behavior, stat. Just ask for a favor!

submitted 6 days ago • 5 comments

Scientists should try to repeat more studies, but not those looking for a link between vaccines with autism - the replication studies were done and found that there is, in fact, no link between vaccines and autism. theconversation.com/scientists-s...

submitted 6 days ago • 8 comments

Today's #Microbiome digest microbiomedigest.com/2025/04/06/a... @elisabethbik.bsky.social #microbiomesky 🦠

submitted 7 days ago • 0 comments