Scientists link a phytoplankton bloom to starving dolphins in Florida In 2013, 8% of the bottlenose dolphins living in Florida's Indian River Lagoon died. Investigations have now revealed that the dolphins may have starved because key habitats for nutritious prey were d...

One more cascading disaster in world profoundly out of balance: "changes in prey availability, system-wide reductions in the abundance of seagrass and drifting macroalgae driven by shading from intense, extensive & long-lasting bloom of phytoplankton"

#Biodiversity
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It always surprises me how sloppy it is not to even change the acronym "(ML)"

Plenty of tortured phrases (arxiv.org/abs/2107.0...) in this #IEEE paper. ieeexplore.ieee.org/...

My pubpeer report: pubpeer.com/publicat...

When I think I did it for free ...

How naive I am !

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1st Biennale del Mare

Livorno 14-17 May

Research / Art / History / Expos

Figure from a scientific paper, showing a DNA agarose gel (dark grey background) with white bands. I drew colored boxes around different areas showing bands and background areas that look identical. The whole photo looks photoshopped. I have also added a textbox with text in red saying "Unexpected similarities between areas within the same photo"

I reported this artwork to the editors of this Spandidos journal in September 2017, but it took the publisher MORE THAN SEVEN YEARS to retract this paper.
This is what I call a 5-second retraction.
#ImageForensics

HT: @smutclyde.bsky.social

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chanyanuch@mdpi.com To: Mark & 1 more... > Re: [Antioxidants] Special Issue: Oxidative Stress in Gut Microbiota - Paper Invitation Decision CAUTION: This email originated from outside of the organisation. Do not click links or open attachments unless you recognise the sender and know the content is safe. 07:20 Dear Dr. Hanson, Thank you for your interest in submitting your manuscript to our Special Issue " Oxidative Stress in Gut Microbiota " We welcome your preprint submission;

We welcome your preprint submission; however, we kindly ask that you refine the manuscript to better align with the journal's focus. In particular, we encourage you to expand the discussion on antioxidants or oxidative stress to strengthen its relevance. You can review our journal's scope here: https:// eur03.safelinks.protection.outlook.com/2 url=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.mdpi.com%2F journal%2Fantioxidants%2Fabout&data=0 5%7C02%7Cm.hanson%40exeter.ac.uk% 7Ccfcce7483ee146732eef08dd4a6c917c %7C912a5d77fb984eeeaf321334d8f04a5 3%7C0%7C0%7C638748552589138814 %/CUnknown%/CTWEpbGZsb3d8eyJFbX BOUthcGkiOnRydWUs|YOilwLjAuMDAw MCIs|lAIOiXaW 4zMils|kFO|joit WEpbCIsIld UljoyiQ%3D%3D%7C0%7%7C%7C&sda ta=pjLOkdkzK820DleZCo4wcT VGH%2Fz4. PUM2k6NHya3EwE%3D&reserved=0

#MDPI still invites me to submit to SIs🙃 I always respond w/ our strain on scientific publishing preprint.
arxiv.org/abs/2309.15884

This time, they "welcome the submission" but I should edit it to "expand the discussion" on antioxidants.🤯 #SciPub #ResearchIntegrity #AcademicSky #PredatoryPublishing

Coucou @agencerecherche.bsky.social 👋👋

Votre "Charte française de déontologie des métiers de la recherche" 🔽

www.ird.fr/sites/ird_fr...

Dites l' @univ-amu.fr , avant que je ne porte plainte contre vous, pourriez vous enfin faire cesser ce harcèlement à mon endroit de la part de votre paucineuronal de service. Ça suffit !
Et merci d'arrêter de couvrir de la fraude et nommer des oligophrènes

"Country of the artwork" instead of "State of the art"

IEEE reviews 👍

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Business as usual ...

anr.fr/ProjetIA-10-...

C'est quand même hallucinant que l'IHU ne demande pas eux-même les rétractations par dignité et préfère cette lente agonie ...

Hanging around in Firenze, thanks to the national train strike 🇮🇹

Acoustic cover

J'ai lu un peu trop vite

If you put all village idiots in a village, he will still be the idiot

Crabs painting

Knowing that 4 and 5th of Jan 2025 were Saturday and Sunday ...

Wooow, revised in 5 days for MDPI and reviewers / authors (12) were available on 1th of January 🥳🤨

www.mdpi.com/2077-0383/14...

Done

Ok thank you but I just tried for repeated patterns
Hope your tool will help then !

Thank you very much

I tried using this paper but it doesn't find anomalies :
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Author answered (through editors) that's an artefact of the interpolation process

I'm quasi-sure that no and strongly suspect the image was edited

Impossible to obtain a retraction from MDPI even if results are Sci-Fi

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They just make you round and round for years until you give up

Finland vs. Germany: the case of MDPI

by @deevybee.bsky.social

deevybee.blogspot.com/2024/12/finl...

#PeerReview

Brilliant 😁😁

Must be confirmed by Microsoft Authentificator if by chance you record it ...

From I've read, Rev#2 does not give its approbation for publication :

"Round 2
Reviewer 2 Report
Dear authors, there are still unresolved weaknesses."

Happy new [∑_(n=0)^9 n]^2

Predatory RemoteSensing from MDPI continues its fall in 2024, after polluting literature with fake papers for years ...

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