Dorothy Bishop

A graphic promoting a book review. On the left is the cover of the book Inside an Academic Scandal: A Story of Fraud and Betrayal by Max H. Bazerman. The cover has large orange and black text and an abstract horizontal paint‑stroke graphic beneath the word “Scandal.” On the right, black text reads: “Jennifer Byrne reviews Inside an Academic Scandal: A Story of Fraud and Betrayal.” At the bottom right is small text that reads “Vol. 46 No. 1 (2026): February,” alongside a small circular logo with the letters “PIR.”

Jennifer Byrne (@jabyrnesci.bsky.social) reviews Max H. Bazerman’s 'Inside an Academic Scandal', a narrative of research misconduct, institutional response, and the ethical challenges surrounding fraud in academia.
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This 18-year-old Afghan girl nearly escaped the Taliban – then we took her visa away She resisted a forced marriage and studied in secret, winning scholarships to leave Kabul and attend a British university. But now the home secretary’s ban on study visas has removed her one chance of...

This 18-year-old Afghan girl had offers from York and Reading – thanks to Shabana Mahmood, she will now never escape the Taliban | The Independent www.independent.co.uk/news/people/...

Explainer: UK government has announced a suspension on student visa applications from nationals of Afghanistan, Cameroon, Myanmar and Sudan. Details here www.gov.uk/guidance/vis...

Medics are possessive about data. There can be good reasons for not sharing - eg data on a sensitive topic, sample is small or on a rare condition so de-identification not reliable.
Another concern is misuse of data. So there can be valid reasons. But usually it's like @steamtraen.eu says

I've been looking at this more systematically and will have more to say about it in due course!

Another Nature Medicine article with highly restrictive data availability statement.

SORTEE Webinar: On what makes good sharable and reproducible R code, how to do it, and why it’s good for science For this month's SORTEE webinar, Dr. Dax Kellie from the Atlas of Living Australia will present on good, sharable, and reproducible R code in science

In one week I'll be talking about tips for reproducible R code and why science would love you to try these tips on your own code too 🧪😍🌏

It's an online talk, so feel free to watch comfortably from your couch. Hope to see you there!
@sortee.bsky.social #rstats

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you’re probably right, but I’d love to know if anyone close to him made $$$$

Using Quarto to Write a Book I’ve spent the last couple of months revising my Data Visualization book for a second edition that, ideally, will appear some time in the next twelve months. As with the first edition, I’ve posted a c...

Using Quarto to write (and typeset) a book.

The Initiative Peer Reviewers' Openness Initiative, version 2.1 Openness and transparency are core values of science. As a manifestation of those values, a minimum requirement for publication of any scientific…

I remember the widespread pushback when the Peer Reviewer Openness Initiative started in 2017, where we would only review papers that share data and code (or explain why that is not possible) www.opennessinitiative.org/the-initiati...

Now, funders and journals are requiring it.

presumably anyone with insider knowledge is making a killing on the stock market

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.

Nescio Bridge, Amsterdam. It allows people to cycle from the city centre over the Amsterdam-Rhine canal to the new housing distrcit IJburg. Built in 2005 it cost €9.5m and was designed by British architects WilkinsonEyre.

@plosbiology.org is formalizing its long‑standing practice of asking authors to share research code, introducing a mandatory #code‑sharing policy and clarifying what is meant by code sharing.

Learn more and find guidance on best practice: plos.io/4reyX3v

Image depicts a technique used during the Dust Bowl era to prevent soil erosion by creating protective patterns in the farmland. Farmers used tractors to plow the land in curved lines, or contours, following the landscape's natural shape to stop wind from blowing away the topsoil.

Contour Plowing, Dust Bowl, Colorado
Margaret Bourke-White, 1954

Lindsey’s diplomacy working wonders in UAE.

I love the internet

Don't be so careful in time of death ✊😔

Just read the abstract 🫠 via Alexander Magazinov. I don't believe he is on Bluesky.

I am looking for any published, peer‑reviewed scientific article that has been verified as written by an LLM for a presentation. Happy for input you might have!

And “Whoever commissioned this officer has deprived some village of its idiot”

lmao i wish for this dipshit a lifetime of lawyers talking like this

sometimes i just want to find a headline writer and

Week 9 of recording everything I lose and find in 2026.

BREAKING: Oil surges above $100 a barrel; Trump says ‘small price to pay’ for keeping Epstein off the front page

A bright yellow nudibranch with black and blue markings crawls on underwater vegetation against a dark background. Photo by Olakhalaf.

There's a sea creature whose common name is the pikachu nudibranch and I need everyone to see it immediately.

Where structural masonry becomes architectural expression the stunning new belvedere at Begijnhof Hasselt, Belgium.

Where structural masonry becomes architectural expression the stunning new belvedere at Begijnhof Hasselt, Belgium.

A Day in the Life of an Ensh*ttificator YouTube video by Forbrukerrådet - Norwegian Consumer Council

The Norwegian Consumer Council with an amazing video on enshittification and how to resist it.

www.youtube.com/watch?v=T4Up...

The King is supposed to be visiting the USA *next month*. This is the definition of a diplomatic nightmare. In all seriousness, I would urge him to pull a sickie.

NEW: Foreign Secretary @YvetteCooperMP tells me that Keir Starmer has acted in the UK national interest and rejects Donald Trump and Tony Blair’s criticism

Says UK/US relationship remains strong. But confirms she hasn’t spoken to Marco Rubio since last weekend.

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Not in a celebratory mood today. Patriarchy is decimating the earth & ALL her inhabitants.
#InternationalWomensDay