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LLMs do much better job than @CellCellPress #CellOnions reviewers...

#MoneyForNothing #ScienceCrisis

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

Delicious irony: a publishing giant making billions supposedly to filter out dodgy papers highlighting how unpaid volunteers outperform them at it. 🤷‍♂️🤡

#NatureRipoffs #ScienceCrisis @nature.com www.nature.com/articles/d41...

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Predatory vibes from @pensoft.net — click a link to decline a review and you’re forced to create an account—purely to pump user metrics.

Declining a review should not require registration. Commercially driven #predatorypublishing plain and simple.

#sciencecrisis

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“Original” blots/gel scans (before cropping) as source data, says @cellpress.bsky.social #CellOnions

Good principle, but it’s just theatre. #ScienceCrisis 🤡

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One of the quiet tragedies of modern academia is how easily career logic outcompetes curiosity.
When survival depends on grants, metrics, and constant output, researchers adapt—not because they want to, but because they must.

#ResearchQuality
#SciencePolicy
#SciComm
#ScienceCrisis
#ScienceCritique

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This is creepy, full-on predatory-journal energy. Yo @WileyGlobal Get a grip! #WileyCoyote #sciencecrisis

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"We talk about innovation, but structurally we remain what world-systems analysis would call a semi-peripheral economy: materially comfortable, but technologically dependent, exporting raw commodities and importing complex capability.” #auspol #sciencecrisis

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Let’s Not Fool Ourselves: Fraudulent Papers Are Symptoms, Not the Disease [Science Publishing Crisis #1] The true state of science publishing is far worse than recent reports imply: fraudulent papers are not the disease, but symptoms of a systemic crisis we refuse to confront

Fraud is just a symptom. The real crisis in science publishing runs deeper—through incentives, broken peer review, and eroding norms.
Read Part 1: Let’s Not Fool Ourselves by Giovanni Baiocchi
#ScienceCrisis #OpenScience

climatemitigationubik.substack.com/p/lets-not-f...

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Science Publishing Crisis: Series Roadmap Six Acts of a Systemic Collapse

Science publishing is in crisis, not just from fraud or paper mills, but from systemic forces that reward weak, empty research.

#ScienceCrisis #OpenScience

Science Publishing Crisis: Series Roadmap
Six Acts of a Systemic Collapse

climatemitigationubik.substack.com/p/science-pu...

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CONICET has over 10k researchers and 11k doctoral/postdoc fellows.

Yet the current government froze new hires, cut funding, and blocked over 800 approved scientist entries.

As a result, highly trained PhDs are leaving the country.
A brain drain in real time. #ScienceCrisis

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19/ The integrity of our public health system is being challenged. When unverified, inaccurate, and fabricated data is allowed to influence policy, it undermines the public’s trust in science—and that’s a crisis we can’t afford.
#PublicHealth #TrustInScience #ScienceCrisis

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5/11 Researchers are already feeling the impact. Colin Carlson at Yale leads a 50-researcher pandemic prediction project funded by a $12.5 million NSF grant. He warns the freeze "is going to destroy people's labs" unless lifted soon.
#AcademicResearch #ScienceCrisis #PandemicPrep

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FAIRS: Frustrating Attempts at Integrity Reform in Science “yes, let’s clean up the literature, but I think it is immensely more important to catch the “big fish”” – Csaba Szabo

One representative of a British funding agency: “Look around, there are all sorts of problems, cheating, and misconduct in all walks of life; for example, look what’s happening in the Catholic Church.” By Csaba Szabo #sciencecrisis
forbetterscience.com/2025/04/22/f...

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Sliced And Diced: The Inside Story Of How An Ivy League Food Scientist Turned Shoddy Data Into Viral Studies Brian Wansink won fame, funding, and influence for his science-backed advice on healthy eating. Now, emails show how the Cornell professor and his colleagues have hacked and massaged low-quality data ...

Sliced & Diced #sciencecrisis www.buzzfeednews.com/article/step...

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Safeguarding the future of biomedical science in the United States NIH’s abrupt decision to cap indirect cost reimbursement at 15% threatens the critical infrastructure supporting groundbreaking biomedical research in the United States. This policy jeopardizes Americ...

📜 Safeguarding the future of biomedical science in the United States

🧑‍🔬 Tom Maniatis

📔 @cellpress.bsky.social

🔗 www.cell.com/cell/fulltex...

#️⃣ #Science #ScienceFunding #Medicine #BioScience #BioMed #ScienceCrisis

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Fancy publishing 'nonsense' and sabotaging your fellow scientists? — New Scientist The back pages Feedback Play your cards right Readers in the northern hemisphere are facing many more weeks of long, dark nights and cold weather, so what could be better than a fun card game? If you’...

“Players race to publish useless nonsense while sabotaging each other and delivering snarky comments.”

#sciencecrisis apple.news/AX-rhCYsHTxO...

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I’m concerned that qualified scientists might just resign en masse at this rate. 🧑‍🔬📉 #BrainDrain #ScienceCrisis #FutureOfScience

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www.reddit.com/r/ChatGPT/co...

The number of research articles blatantly copy-pasting ChatGPT responses is staggering.
#ScienceCrisis

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Aggressive spam attack by this predatory publisher AGBIR @AndBiological #sciencecrisis

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The sorry state of the scientific literature... #sciencecrisis #wherearethecontrols www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles...

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‘The situation has become appalling’: fake scientific papers push research credibility to crisis... Last year, 10,000 sham papers had to be retracted by academic journals, but experts think this is just the tip of the iceberg

“Tens of thousands of bogus research papers are being published in journals in a scandal that is worsening every year.”

#ScienceCrisis hits the mainstream, but this is the tip of the iceberg and the problem affects all journals as recent scandals show. www.theguardian.com/science/2024...

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‘A lot of it is sloppiness’: the biologist who finds flaws in scientific papers Sholto David has flagged thousands of papers, most because of concerns over potential image manipulation

#sciencecrisis www.theguardian.com/science/2024...

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A MAGIcal Special ERMPS Issue The European Review for Medical and Pharmacological Sciences continues to be a safe space for paper mills and very low-quality articles. Its special December issue (Supplement 6) is filled with 16 pap...

A European paper mill: The European Review for Medical and Pharmacological Sciences /via ⁦‪@MicrobiomDigest‬⁩ #sciencecrisis scienceintegritydigest.com/2023/12/22/a...

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Economists had a dreadful 2023 Mistaken recession calls were just part of it

A dismal year for the dismal science—Economists had a dreadful 2023. #sciencecrisis apple.news/AsS5jrG8-S7m...

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