I find it hard to be shocked by such admissions, but this one is pretty intense: A medical journal says the case reports it has published for 25 years are, in fact, fiction via @katetravis.bsky.social retractionwatch.com/2026/03/03/c...
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A scoping review on metrics to quantify reproducibility:
royalsocietypublishing.org/doi/10.1098/...
Ever conducted a replication and pondered when/how to conclude if it was (un)successful?
We have just the paper for you (led by Rachel Heyard)! 1/14
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Perplexing!
Plenty of tortured phrases (arxiv.org/abs/2107.0...) in this #IEEE paper. ieeexplore.ieee.org/...
My pubpeer report: pubpeer.com/publicat...
Fully agree! But it is also very important that the code and data are shared at the review stage, so that referees can reproduce the results and see what is actually happening. Otherwise we have the "inverse problem" discussed here
academic.oup.com/jrssig/artic...
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Figure 2B from the paper in question, showing several Western blot panels (they look like light grey rectangles, some of which have a fat or thinner black horizontal stripe in the middle). I have marked some of these rectangles with boxes of the same color, highlighting those that look unexpectedly similar.
Figure panels from Figure S2, from the supplemental. On the left a blot or gel, showing dark background with white bands. On the right a more classical western blots showing light grey background with dark grey horizontal stripes. In both panels I have highlighted lanes that look remarkably similar, with colored boxes.
Retraction @plosone.org - paper with authors from Ghent University.
"All authors either did not respond directly or could not be reached."
Does any journalist in Belgium want to write about this? It's so strange that none of the authors responded.
pubpeer.com/publications...
🚨Huge issue!
Needed: Quality > Quantity
Scientists see signs of trouble with quality at the biggest scientific journals www.wsj.com/business/med...
"Some of the work that has been published is so seriously flawed that it is not credible that it underwent any meaningful form of peer review."
@evievergauwe.bsky.social @hannowuerbel.bsky.social
Very pleased to see #reproducibility #transparency #integrity #openscience emphasized to ensure trust in science in Switzerland and beyond
All part of the @swissrn.bsky.social strategy:
www.swissrn.org/contents/com...
Truth and trust are pillars for research www.horizons-mag.ch/2025/03/06/t...
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thanks for the reminder. I just deactivated my Twitter account.
Sometimes it would help if English speaking academics understand German. E.g. Liebermeister's Bayesian analysis of the 2x2 table from 1877
www.jameslindlibrary.org/articles/par...
was reinvented by William Thompson (1933, Biometrika) and Patricia Altham (1969, JRSSB)
Highly recommended!
Welcome to Zurich, Tobias! Looking forward to interact on Open and Reproducible Science
Tired of fixed effect and random-effects meta-analysis?
Check out our revised manuscript on p-value combination methods for meta-analysis:
arxiv.org/abs/2408.08135
"The most expensive, most widespread example of catastrophic research fraud in the history of modern science?"
Listen to this, "if you love science and you want to see science done well".
podcastaddict.com/plain-englis...
ICYMI: Second paper by Nobel laureate Thomas Südhof retracted
@retractionwatch.com
retractionwatch.com/2025/02/14/i...
The Swiss Reproducibility Network (SwissRN) is now on Bluesky! Make sure to follow
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Are @zbmed.bsky.social aware of the negative reaction on social media to their just-announced contract with MDPI. There's a great many red flags they seem to have missed, e.g.
deevybee.blogspot.com/2024/08/gues...
deevybee.blogspot.com/2024/02/the-...
+ @hansonmark@bsky.social's account below
Why probability probably doesn’t exist (but it is useful to act like it does) - by D. Spiegelhalter
www.nature.com/articles/d41...
A great article highlighting the subjective nature of uncertainty, particularly relevant to our thinking about the nature of anxiety.
Big news from Finnish publication forum. Almost all MDPI and Frontiers journals will be downgraded to level 0 and thus are not considered as properly peer reviewed trustworthy scientific journals.
julkaisufoorumi.fi/en/news/chan...
ICYMI from earlier in 2024:
Reporting on data sharing: executive position of the EQUATOR Network published in the @bmj.com
www.bmj.com/content/386/...
#transparency #researchintegrity #datasharing #openscience #codesharing #reproducibility #metascience
