All factual comments based on publicly verifiable information are welcome.

The #EinsteinFoundationAward hosts a plenary showcasing winners advancing transparency, reproducibility & responsible science. Timothy Errington @cos.io, @brandonstell.bsky.social @pubpeer.com & @elisabethbik.bsky.social share insights on open science, post-publication peer review & error detection.

Their winning comment: pubpeer.com/publications...

All award details and previous winners: pubpeer.com/static/award

Congrats to anonymous commenter Gymnothorax javanicus, winner of the August PubPeer Award for a comment on a 2025 @natneuro.nature.com paper. To claim the $1000 prize, log in with the same account and add a follow-up comment with contact info (that won't be published by moderators).

Reminder: each month PubPeer awards $1000 for outstanding comments that bring new insight to articles. It's not too late to have a chance at the September prize.

See what comments have won in the past → pubpeer.com/static/award

Catching up on a summer backlog: congrats to @reeserichardson.bsky.social, winner of the July PubPeer Award for a comment on a 2024 article in @cp-cellmetabolism.bsky.social pubpeer.com/publications...

Reese donated his $1000 prize to @msf.ca and the @elisabethbik.bsky.social Science Integrity Fund

while our commentary to the infamous paper is still stuck at the editor after 2 months with no reason, the preprint has become a top download :D papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers.... #ChemSky #researchintegrity @pubpeer.com

Grateful for the invitation from the Royal Society — and heartening to see the growing momentum, evident throughout the meeting, behind separating evaluation from publication.

Great to see our awardees @elisabethbik.bsky.social & @brandonstell.bsky.social (founder of @pubpeer.com) among the speakers at the @royalsociety.org Future of Scientific Publishing conference.
Their work continues to shape responsible publishing. Joined by @magdalenaskipper.bsky.social and others.

Open Research Summer School Join us at the Open Research Summer School for a deep dive into the world of research - see you there on 21 to 25 July 2025 at 8:30 AM!

On Monday, July 21 at @reeserichardson.bsky.social will be giving a talk about COSIG for Open Research Summer School, organized by @kingsioppn.bsky.social!

Online attendance for all of Open Research Summer School is free! Register here: www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/open-resea...

Recommended talk about @pubpeer.com after 10 years of comments, including questions and answers on the platform's economic model, moderation rules, and litigations! #openscience

While I am sad that it took eleven years to retract this paper, @PLOS.org journals make good decisions about when to correct or retract. They are also one of the few publishers that keep me informed of retractions. Other publishers should follow their example.

‘Anyone can do this’: Sleuths publish a toolkit for post-publication review For years, sleuths – whose names our readers are likely familiar with – have been diligently flagging issues with the scientific literature. More than a dozen of these specialists have teamed up to cr...

‘Anyone can do this’: Sleuths publish a toolkit for post-publication review

@averyorrall.bsky.social reports on an initiative from @reeserichardson.bsky.social and colleagues

📣 Save the date for the 11th PCI webinar on June 18, 2025, at 4 PM CET!! Brandon Stell (CNRS, Paris) will present "Elevating Scientific Standards: Community-Driven Assessment on PubPeer ". For more details and registration, visit: buff.ly/XuownT0

Learn more about the PubPeer Monthly Prize—made possible by the Einstein Foundation (@einsteinberlin.bsky.social‬)—and explore past winning comments to see what makes a strong entry so that you can win the next one!

pubpeer.com/static/award

Congratulations to Placida kingstoni for winning the latest $1000 PubPeer Monthly Prize for outstanding comment! 🏆

Their analysis offers fresh perspective on a key Nature study linking herpes zoster virus to dementia: pubpeer.com/publications...

The anon user can get in touch to claim the award.

If you're looking for critical comments we know where to find some:

pubpeer.com/search?q=neu...

#neuroscience I don’t see discussions on BlueSky. It is just a list of mentions of papers.Surely the point of the site is more than that?

After every encounter with the current scientific publishing system

I reviewed a paper recently. It was flawed & rejected. It later appeared unchanged in another journal.

So how is peer review a “gold standard”?

You can’t have a gold standard if people can’t tell the difference between gold and bauxite..

Congratulations to Florence Débarre @flodebarre.bsky.social for winning the March PubPeer Monthly Prize for her outstanding comment on a 2025 arXiv preprint! 🏆 pubpeer.com/publications...

Insightful contributions like this help strengthen the scientific record—thank you!

While i agree we need to be alert to weaponisation, the threat to put all Sylvain's papers on the #PubPeer site to obtain their retraction is empty. I think we should avoid amplifying this view of PubPeer as some kind of unmoderated site where anyone can make false accusations.

A Sciences & médias, on est force de solutions. Comme avec cette table ronde : "Junk science et junk journalism : comment sortir de la poubelle ?"
On vous a préparé une table ronde de toute beauté, avec :

Physics Professor Aims on Setting Science Right

www.rutgers.edu/news/physics...

🏆 Research integrity consultant and image forensics expert @elisabethbik.bsky.social has uncovered fraudulent data in over 7,600 scientific papers and exposed the practices of ‘paper mills’ that produce counterfeit scientific articles. She is honoured with the €200K Individual Award. Congrats!

Anything published with a DOI, PMID, arXiv ID, etc.

The biggest challenge might be notifying the winner. They can identify themselves to us using their anonymous username or, if they prefer to stay fully anonymous, they can use it to send us a Bitcoin wallet address to claim the prize.

Announcing the February winner of the $1,000 PubPeer Monthly Prize!

Congratulations to Palaquium morobense for their insightful comment: pubpeer.com/publications...

This marks our first anonymous winner. To claim the $1,000 prize, contact us using the anonymous login linked to the comment.

Is there even a small chance this could finally put the issue to rest in the minds of Kennedy et al?

Let's hope that the data from this study will be open and the results published in a format that allows for scientific discussion and critique.

Interested in how we can tackle the scourge of research fraud? And meeting people in the delightful city of Oxford? Join us at the FAIRS meeting in April - in-person and online options.
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