Jon Bois @jonbois.bsky.social holy shit. i was just watching the cavs-raptors game and the ball fell out of the bottom of the basket. it was with 4:04 left in the second quarter if you can get your hands on a replay. the guy shot the ball, it went through the hoop, and then it straight up fell out of the net and onto the floor 2:11 PM • Apr 18, 2026 Everybody can reply v 57 reposts 6 quotes 6 quotes 814 likes 4 saves

i'm deleting this post. since posting it i watched some more basketball and it turns out this is pretty much always what happens

"The bixonimania research has been cited by a handful of researchers, including a study that appeared in Cureus...That study cites one of the fake preprints and says: 'Bixonimania is an emerging form of POM [periorbital melanosis] linked to blue light exposure'"

Another fake disease AI thought was real was "Kyloren syndrome." It showed up in Google's AI Overview.

It was from a hoax paper that @neuroskeptic.bsky.social wrote to expose a predatory journal.

See "The garbage'll do", July 2017, in my hoax anthology, Stinging the Predators:

bit.ly/StingPred

awesome how no one will ever be held to account for this

I Sued the Dana-Farber Cancer Institute for Research Fraud and Won $2.6 Million Dollars YouTube video by Sholto David

Now that I have finally been paid I made a video about the Dana-Farber legal case from my own perspective: youtu.be/ioRtnMEV46Y

Sal Sleuthmander (a floppy Chinese Giant Salamander) were a pink polkadot deerstalker, wields a pink magnifying glass, and stands next to a basket of eggs

Happy Easter from Sal Sleuthmander and the COSIG team! 🐣🐰🪺

Ok but who’s gonna replicate the SCORE thing?

Rather than framing AI competition as a “race” with China, to drive innovation the US should promote greater local and global AI regulation | LSE United States Politics and Policy Local and global regulation can promote AI innovation that benefits society at large.

Laura Caroli and I argue that the framing #AI competition as a race with #China has resulted in #deregulation and undermines the development of safer AI tools: "The real question is not who wins the race, but who builds AI systems that people can #trust. blogs.lse.ac.uk/usappblog/20...

Hallucinated citations are polluting the scientific literature. What can be done? Tens of thousands of publications from 2025 might include invalid references generated by AI, a Nature analysis suggests.

My colleague & I teamed up w/ Grounded AI to look for fake/hallucinated references. Our analysis suggests that at least tens of thousands of publications from 2025 likely contain such references. More detz at @nature.com, w/ input from @gcabanac.cpesr.fr, @mhmdhsini.bsky.social & @kowb.bsky.social.

But behind the scenes, Israeli officials have conveyed a more targeted message. In private calls to local leaders across southern Lebanon, Israeli military officials have assured several Christian and Druse communities that they could remain in the evacuation zone. They have pressed them, however, to force out any Lebanese from neighboring Shiite Muslim communities who have sought refuge among them as Israeli bombardment flatten Shiite towns, according to local Christian, Druse and Shiite leaders who spoke to The New York Times. The Shiites make up the majority of southern Lebanon.

So what this describes is ethnic cleansing www.nytimes.com/2026/04/01/w...

The Trump Administration Says IUDs and the Pill Are Abortions 9.12.25

I started covering this last year, and I can't overstate how important this is: the Trump administration officially labeled some of the most commonly-used forms of birth control as 'abortion' jessica.substack.com/i/173447780/...

really can't be said enough that this case was decided by the same court that decided plessy v. ferguson. if they could have found a plausible rationale to limit birthright citizenship they would have done it. but there is none! the text is as clear as constitutional language can be.

Only 23% of government workers believe they “can report a suspected violation of a law, rule, or regulation without experiencing retaliation.”
That's way down form the share the prior year (72%) who said they could report suspected illegal activity without fear
www.thebulwark.com/p/two-more-g...

The Ghosts of Al-Shifa Hospital Months into a supposed ceasefire in Gaza, doctors still have to smuggle in basic medical supplies—and treat new casualties of war.

I’ve been a journalist for 27 years. I’ve reported major stories about mass surveillance, torture, war, the military-industrial complex, police black sites, etc.

But this is the most important story I’ve ever had the horror/honor to work on. For it is a story about the current phase of a genocide.

absolutely--I appreciated your attention to the fundraising angle in the piece!

The Lancet retracts half-century-old unsigned commentary on talc for undisclosed industry ties SewcreamStudio/iStock The Lancet has retracted a 49-year-old unsigned commentary on the safety of cosmetic talc after two researchers discovered the author was a paid consultant to Johnson & Jo…

The Lancet has retracted a 49-year-old unsigned commentary on the safety of cosmetic talc after two researchers discovered the author was a paid consultant to Johnson & Johnson, at the time a leading producer of talc products. (No, that's not a record for longest time for publication to retraction.)

Thanks again to the New Horizons #DiamondOA conference for the invitation to speak. If you would like to see this presentation on the Strain, Drain, and "Stain" (PISS) papers, there is a recording here.

Find the papers here:
bit.ly/StrainQSS
bit.ly/DrainPub
bit.ly/PISSpaper

Regular reminder that RELX -- owner of academic publisher Elsevier -- is one of those brokers providing data to ICE.

Research integrity is locked into an arms race with agentic AI slop - LSE Impact Advances in agentic AI combined with increasingly large reserves of openly accessibly and machine-readable data are creating a perfect storm for the mass-production of AI authored research papers. Adr...

👀ICYMI: "For some datasets, we estimate that the amount of mass-manufactured research now outnumbers legitimate research by ten to one"

@aidybarnett.bsky.social #AcademicPublishing #OpenData #ResearchIntegrity

When it stands unchallenged, an academic article is supposed to testify to countless hours of work. When it is questioned, an academic article suddenly only testifies to one or two main conclusions.

I tried to buy a scientific paper YouTube video by Christophe

Looking for a good introduction to the world of research paper mills? Check out this episode of Tunnel Vision (by Christophe Haubersin & team) doing a deep dive. Featuring myself, @jabyrnesci.bsky.social, Matt Spick and Ivan Oransky.

youtu.be/SEwiOykoXXc?...

excellent job!

jesus h

I'm excited to make a presentation at WCRI in May 2026. With my co-authors ( @solalpirelli.bsky.social , Yagmur Ozturk
and Marie Kunešová), we explore paper mills in conferences, a topic which is not well studied in the literature. I will be happy to meet my friends there and make new ones!

NIH pivots away from agency-directed science US biomedical funding behemoth says the approach will boost innovation, but some researchers worry that understudied areas of science will suffer.

The US NIH is stepping back from 'top-down' science.

My latest analysis for @nature.com shows that funding calls have plummeted by 90%, funneling billions into broad, 'investigator-initiated' ideas, rather than targeted, agency-driven ones.

A massive shift for the American biomedical enterprise.

REACH January-March 2026 | Science Integrity Alliance REACH is a modern, interactive, and comprehensive digital magazine designed to meet the shared needs of all stakeholders in the research community.

The latest issue of REACH e-magazine, published by @sci-integrity.com, is out!
* spotlight on the @einsteinberlin.bsky.social Award
* 30th anniversary of Cochrane
* CRediT
* INSPECT-SR
* interview with @jabyrnesci.bsky.social
* the Stockholm Declaration
www.sci-integrity.com/reach-januar...

A white marble table leg in the form of a lion head and descending into a claw as the foot. The view is from above and since there is no table top the inscription of P. Casca Long can be seen engraved into the table top support.

View across an atrium of the so-called House of Casca Longus (he never lived here!). To the left a blue painted wall. In the centre-right an impluvium basin with a circular ceramic cistern head nearest to us on one side. On the far side the white marble tripod table support.

One of the most remarkable objects in #Pompeii is a marble table support with P. Casca Longus inscribed on it. Longus was the 1st assassin to stab Julius Caesar on #IdesOfMarch (today in 44 BC). On his death Longus’ possessions were auctioned & this table was bought by a Pompeian

Data in graph above is from the Problematic Paper Screener ‘Tortured’ detector on 4 November 2025. 80% of count are articles with 5+ tortured phrases, remainder must have 1+ high-confidence phrase that would never occur elsewhere (e.g., "electrostatic repugnance")

www.irit.fr/~Guillaume.C...

Background on tortured phrases like "counterfeit consciousness" in place of "artificial intelligence" or "bogus upsides" instead of "false positives": doi.org/10.48550/arX...

Yup, plenty of examples of adaptation to new tools for fraud detection. Case study:

Problem: 2005-2015, journals start screening submissions with text similarity software

Solution: run your plagiarized text through a paraphrasing engine (Grammarly, Quillbot), often leaving "tortured phrases".