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Hemingway had this nice idea about stopping work ‘mid-thought’, when the next step is clear. Makes it more exciting to get back to work in the morning. “I always stopped when I knew what was going to happen next. That way I could be sure of going on the next day.” [Hemingway, Moveable Feast]

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new paper by @deadneanderthals.bsky.social and colleagues documenting the disturbing phenonmenon of stealth corrections in the scientific literature onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1002/...

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I made an icon on the Noun Project about six years ago.This is my running total profit. Killing it!

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Apparently libraries like to claim February 14th as "Library Lovers Day". I'm all for it. And as a person who once worked for universities, but no longer has access to university libraries, let me tell you mournfully that it is better to have loved and lost, than never to have loved at all.

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Image detection tools are wild. Consider this PubPeer comment by @sholtodavid.bsky.social : pubpeer.com/publications... However long I looked, I couldn't see the match. But I put them in AfterEffects, messed with their rotation and proportions, and voilà! Would you see it by eye? #researchintegrity

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Latest blogpost on Musk/Royal Society debacle: deevybee.blogspot.com/2025/02/seve... I look at the reasons that have been given for inaction, and find them wanting. @royalsociety.org

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Great to see @jabyrnesci.bsky.social 's work being recognised: www.science.org.au/news-and-eve...

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Like it! Interesting comparison of different codes by a Sankey plot.

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Adding “so rogue governments can’t delete your stuff” to the list of reasons why researchers should share their data

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New page! Hope it’s useful for students who know something about academia, but haven’t yet reflected critically on the importance of #researchintegrity. Hope it annoys anyone who is boring enough to think that integrity is only about following basic rules. www.trickygoose.training/intro_resear...

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Food for thought. Insightful commentory on the past and the future of academic publishing. bit.ly/4jJujs2 @peerreviewcongress.bsky.social @elisabethbik.bsky.social @cos.io @scholarlykitchen.bsky.social @retractionwatch.com @opensciencenl.bsky.social

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A thing I have learnt is that you should never share your favourite poetry with anyone, because it’s impossible to make them understand how good it is, and why it is so good.

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Ok fine, I will send three more emails, but only if I can have a beer at my desk, and only if it is thereafter the weekend.

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"If some HRECs view statisticians as indispensable, and others view statisticians as fairly useless, then this is an interesting state of affairs suggestive of deep heterogeneity in Chairs’ understandings of how often, and in what ways, statisticians might contribute to ...an ethics committee."

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188: Double-blind peer review vs. scientific integrity everythinghertz.com/188 Here we discuss a recent editorial which argues that double-blind peer review is detrimental to scientific integrity and proposes some suggestions for improving peer review. Here's how the article begins ⬇️

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Australian uni Vice-Chancellors are among the highest paid in the world. You'll be shocked (shocked!!!) to discover that higher pay does not lead to a better student experience. @jack-thrower.bsky.social writes #OffTheCharts australiainstitute.org.au/post/the-hig...

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#ImageForensics Twelve immunohistochemistry panels, displaying two different antibodies and six differently treated mouse groups. Show me at least three sets of overlaps to win (I found five so far).

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I think the term "predatory publishing" is pretty silly, and on LinkedIn (with more space) I explain why and suggest some broader categories. www.linkedin.com/posts/mark-h... #researchintegrity #academicsky

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I'm delighted to share our opinion on #papermills published in Nature. Science is flooded with papers from paper mills.Certain steps can be taken, but this is a challenge that neither universities nor journals are ready to face.Some use paper mills to their advantage. www.nature.com/articles/d41...

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“But you have dishonored the poor. Is it not the rich who are exploiting you?” James 2:6

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What's your view of special issues? I like em. They've been rightly criticised lately for the prevalence of fraudulent manipulation of editorial & review processes. But what volumes do I actually like to read? Special issues. Give me many perspectives on a single interesting topic. #academicsky

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When you buy second-hand Lego, and your kids complain they can’t find pieces in the giant bin bag, and it’s Sunday morning and the mania strikes.

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Universities should charge large publishers a subscription to ask their researchers for peer review. Then, institutions should use that money for better, fairer research assessment. And, of course, as a reciprocal bargaining tool in read-and-publish agreements. #academicsky

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The terms for researchers examining potential violations of research integrity are bad (data police, data thug). What is an alternative term that: * doesn't imply anything about the intentions of the people who did the work being investigated (deliberate or accidental) more>>

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Black to move and mate in 2. #chess

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This, but in Australia, please! Also, as @deevybee.bsky.social pointed out, it would be good if it also included the valuable work of exposing (and helping to understand and mitigate) scientific fraud. #researchintegrity