NanoBubbles

COSIG: The Collection of Open Science Integrity Guides Newest version available at cosig.net!

Do you know what to do when a study you have cited gets retracted?

COSIG's entry on Citations to Retracted Publications has been updated with what to do in this situation.

Read all about it: osf.io/9q3as

COSIG The Collection of Open Science Integrity Guides

Pseudoreplication is the practice of treating non-independent observations as if they were independent replicates. This can dramatically increase the rate of false positives.

COSIG's newest entry covers how to spot them. Read it at osf.io/hyxvr

COSIG 🎉now with 34 guides 🎉is available at cosig.net.

De l’art difficile de reproduire des expériences scientifiques Des chercheurs ont tenté de répliquer une expérimentation menée par une équipe chinoise. Mais ils ne sont même pas parvenus à franchir la première étape et ont décelé des anomalies dans l’article de l...

📰 David Larousserie reports for Le Monde on the NanoBubbles replication project

Read in 🇫🇷 www.lemonde.fr/sciences/art...

@raphavisses.bsky.social @erc.europa.eu @univ-spn.bsky.social

How to establish whether a disputed claim is true or false? Publication of the results of our first replication and call for others to replicate our work How to establish whether a disputed claim is true or false? This is one of the questions at the centre of the ERC Synergy project NanoBubbles, which studies the barriers to the correction of science. We focus on a controversy in bionanoscience: there are hundreds of scientific articles that report the specific detection of molecules or ions inside cells with nanoparticle probes, yet, when they enter cells, nanoparticles are largely sequestered in specific compartments where they cannot reach the target that they are supposed to detect.

How to establish whether a disputed claim is true or false? Publication of the results of our first replication and call for others to replicate our work

How to establish whether a disputed claim is true or false? This is one of the questions at the centre of the ERC Synergy project NanoBubbles,…

Thank-you @willemhalffman.bsky.social @deadneanderthals.bsky.social @wytskehepkema.bsky.social @isis-radboud.bsky.social ... great discussions yesterday about cell lines, #researchintegrity and staying positive.
No cheese was eaten during the visit... well, not too much
@nanobubbles.bsky.social

Deadline has been extended to 23 March!
Send us your 🫧 and 🤖 abstracts.

ANALYSE La réplication est un sport de combat Et si tout un champ de recherche était parti dans la mauvaise direction ? Nanoparticules, cancers, vie extraterrestre, répliquer des expériences pour trancher des controverses a tout d’un parcours du combattant.

« Ce sera peut-être plus complexe, avec possiblement des résultats divergents et difficilement reproductibles » Cécilia Ménard-Moyon, CNRS

🟢 À vos manips... répliquez !

Des initiatives très concrètes de réplication d’expériences… et les obstacles que les chercheurs doivent surmonter

themeta.news/la-replicati...

#VeilleESR
@nanobubbles.bsky.social @raphavisses.bsky.social @ejsmdubois.bsky.social @reproductible-fr.bsky.social

Five ways to spot when a paper is a fraud Science sleuths share their common-sense tips for sniffing out fishy articles.

Science sleuths share their common-sense tips for sniffing out fishy articles

go.nature.com/4ceKgVF

CALL FOR PARTICIPATION – Replication in Bionanoscience ...

📣 Call for replicators: The NanoBubbles initiative aims to evaluate reproducibility of influential experimental claims in nanoscience. Independent research teams from nano or physical chemistry may apply. Participants receive financial support.

Deadline: March 16

COSIG: The Collection of Open Science Integrity Guides Newest version available at cosig.net!

Stealth corrections happen when a publisher makes changes to a scientific article after its publication, without issuing any public notice.

To learn more, check out the latest COSIG entry on Stealth Corrections!

osf.io/34nj5

COSIG (33 guides and growing!) is available at cosig.net.

Guest blogpost by @deadneanderthals.bsky.social and colleagues on the persistence of stealth corrections in the scientific literature: deevybee.blogspot.com/2026/02/gues...

#publishing #integrity

Nanoscience is latest discipline to embrace large-scale replication efforts A European project calls for help to verify whether carbon quantum dots are really able to sense chemicals in cells.

📰 David Adam reports for Nature News on our Replication Initiative

"A European project calls for help to verify whether carbon quantum dots are really able to sense chemicals in cells."

🔗 www.nature.com/articles/d41...

@nature.com

📃 Our paper "Towards More Robust Nanobioscience: Launching the NanoBubbles Replication Initiative" is out!

🔗 To read: doi.org/10.1002/anie...

🎆 Huge congratulations to our Paris team Maha Said, Mustafa Gharib and Raphaël Lévy!

@raphavisses.bsky.social @mustafagharib.bsky.social

📣 We are looking for others to replicate our work!

🔗 More information: nanobubbles.hypotheses.org/replication-...

Well, here we are (no surprises) 💫

Post doctoral Fellow: nanoparticle synthesis and characterisation for reproducible bionanoscience

JOIN US! Post doctoral Fellow: nanoparticle synthesis and characterisation for reproducible bionanoscience

Application deadline Feb 20. Starting date: 20 April 2026. Check the full ad below and contact me for more details.

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https://nanobubbles.hypotheses.org/3411

Post doctoral Fellow: nanoparticle synthesis and characterisation for reproducible bionanoscience ...

📣 We are hiring, join us!

We are looking for a postdoctoral fellow to work on nanoparticle synthesis and characterisation for reproducible bionanoscience. More information in the link below 🔽

🔗 nanobubbles.hypotheses.org/3411

for @nanobubbles.bsky.social colleagues, this 👇 sounds very analogous to the protein corona case, no?

The Collection of Open Science Integrity Guides (COSIG) COSIG is an openly licensed, continuously expanding repository of practical guides for performing post-publication peer review (PPPR). The resource is freely available at https://cosig.net. At the tim...

To make COSIG more discoverable for educators looking to develop course material on publication integrity and peer review, COSIG now has an entry in OER Commons! @oercommons.bsky.social #OER

oercommons.org/courses/the-...

NeurIPS papers contained 100+ AI-hallucinated citations, new report claims | Fortune An analysis of NeurIPS 2025 papers by startup GPTZero reveals how AI-generated citations are slipping into elite academic research.

NEW: NeurIPS,one of the world’s top academic AI conferences, accepted research papers with 100+ AI-hallucinated citations, new report claims

fortune.com/2026/01/21/n...

Pleased to share that we were awarded a 2026 #NHMRC Ideas grant via @sydney.edu.au to study/ raise awareness of published human #CellLines that may not exist. It was a tough year, but this outcome shows that NHMRC can fund topics in #metascience, as well as laboratory & clinical research
#PaperMills

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Hello, we’re Ghost in the Machine, a landmark documentary that’s mandatory viewing for anyone thinking about or using AI.

We’re thrilled to announce that we’ll be premiering at #SundanceFilmFestival next month. We hope you’ll join us in person or online, and follow along here.

Science journals retract 500 papers a month. This is why it matters A small team of volunteers is tracking thousands of falsified studies, including cases of bribery, fraud and plagiarism

‘Science journals retract 500 papers a month. This is why it matters.
A small team of volunteers is tracking thousands of falsified studies, including cases of bribery, fraud and plagiarism’

Ivan Oransky @retractionwatch.com, @alicedreger.bsky.social @thetimes.com

www.thetimes.com/uk/science/a...

We've got ISSUES. Literally.

We scraped >100k special issues & over 1 million articles to bring you a PISS-poor paper. We quantify just how many excess papers are published by guest editors abusing special issues to boost their CVs. How bad is it & what can we do?

arxiv.org/abs/2601.07563

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Twitter/X has ceased to be a neutral platform it’s time academics let go - Impact of Social Sciences Mark Carrigan, argues Twitter/X no longer holds value for academics looking to share and communicate their work to wider publics.

👀From 2024... "If you’re an academic who is still using X, I would gently suggest to you that it is time to let go. The platform will either fold ~ or complete its evolution into the central engine of a politics, that compromises your professional credibility through association."

#X #AcademicSky

📣 Coming soon: "From Metrics to Meaning: Advancing Analytics to Evaluate Scientific Exchange."

Visit us at Booth 1 at the European Meeting of ISMPP - Int'l Society for Medical Publication Professionals.

🗓️ 26-28 January 2026
📍 London, UK

👉🔗 https://ow.ly/9Lbk50XVsXM

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🧪 Here's a science mystery to start the year.

Why are species names for fish and plants appearing in the scientific literature in papers about firefighter injuries, hearing loss and heart attack?

Is it AI? Translation tools? Something else?

nobreakthroughs.substack.com/p/is-this-fi...

I launched version 3.0 of my browser extension "Lazy Scholar", a free in-browser research assistant. It opens automatically when you load an academic article.

See: lazyscholar.org/2026/01/10/l...

👥 Organizing committee and programme committee includes Nanobubbles members Y.J. Erden, Martin Lentschat, Miles MacLeod and Yagmur Ozturk

@yjerden.bsky.social

📣 Interested in 🫧 and AI?

➡️ AISB 2026 Symposium titled Hype, Promise, and Speculation: AI Bubbles and the Replication Crisis in Computer Science will take place on 1-2 July 2026 in Sussex, UK.

🕐 Deadline for submissions is 6 March 2026
🔗 For more information aisb.org.uk/aisb-2026-sy...