COS will be participating in the World Conference on Research Integrity #WCRI2026 in Vancouver! The Network for Education & Research Quality (NERQ) is hosting two opportunities to connect:
🔹 Online Pre-Meeting (April 27): uni-kiel.zoom-x.de/m...
🔹 NERQ Reception (May 4): docs.google.com/form...
I'm looking forward to this workshop at the World Conference on #ResearchIntegrity at the start of May - the workshop at the last @wcrifoundation.bsky.social on checklists for screening papers was really helpful & this one is gearing up to be just as useful
Hope to see some @bsky.app people there
Join us on May 3 for a series of workshops.
Workshop 2: AI in Bioimaging: Challenges and Solutions to Facilitate FAIR Image Data
🕘 9:00 AM–12:00 PM
May 3–6, 2026 | Vancouver
9th #WCRI
A collage of images show imaging technologies, stained cells and a mouse in a specially designed research habitat
🚨 Open for applications - Director of Scientific Core Facilities & Services!
Shape the strategic future of our core facilities and work with leading experts on cutting-edge cancer discovery and translational research 🧑🔬🔬🧪
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Paging @stevebagley.bsky.social
For those attending AACR26 in San Diego, I will demonstrate how CODA can map whole tumors, organs, and organisms in 3D and at single-cell resolution.
I will also show how CODA can integrate spatial transcriptomics, spatial proteomics, IHC, IMC, etc.
April 17, 3:30 pm, Convention Center
yes, agree. Poster presenting is fun. I'm a fan of the poster walk as well - so everyone gets their 1-2 mins of a platform to showcase their work and kick off further conversations for the rest of the session
I think it's cool when more senior researchers present posters - they shouldn't be seen as a second-class option, in my opinion, as you can often get very useful feedback, input and more personal interactions through a poster than in some oral presentations
A big splash in the ocean under the three red and white parachutes
Splashdown!
Welcome home, Integrity.
Sounds familiar...
"It looks like you're trying to conduct an activity using a digital device - would you like me to help you with that?"
Gentle nudge that the deadline to apply for this is next Tuesday, 14th April. You've still got a few days to tell us why you want to come and/or propose a session!
Please note, travel bursaries are on offer to accepted delegates who do not have organisational funding to attend 😊✊
An annotated image of the original IF panels - labelled to show duplications
Know I'm late to this but couldn't resist giving it a go - and I think I barely scratched the surface!
Attending the #WCRI2026 #ResearchIntegrity conference in Vancouver? Working on #PaperMills/ #genAI misuse? Come to a free networking session, Mon 04 May, 6 pm. There'll be 2 min talks from anyone who'd like to present, networking, maybe dinner afterwards. No need to register, just come along!
Very nice INSPECT-SR website containing the guidance and editable template, made by @ianhussey.mmmdata.io
inspect.sr
From @retractionwatch.com
Guest post: Should universities investigate questionable papers students and faculty wrote elsewhere? retractionwatch.com/2026/04/03/g...
How to be a science sleuth:
Research integrity experts share their tips for spotting and reporting fraudulent papers
Rupali Dabas writes @chemistryworld.com
Featuring @smutclyde.bsky.social , @deevybee.bsky.social, Nick Wise, Jack Wilkinson, Anna Pendlebury, and me.
Good piece on "Frankenstein citations" in academic publishing, illustrating why the scale of the problem has proven hard to quantify, and why coming up with technical fixes like submission screeners remains more troublesome than it would first seem
www.nature.com/articles/d41...
'Cancer Research UK will no longer allow its block grants and institutional core funding to cover open access publishing charges, Research Professional News can reveal.'
With effect from today, but current grant-holders have until October to transition. 1/3
Here's a link to the updated Cancer Research UK Open Access policy itself, released today:
www.cancerresearchuk.org/for-research...
Important news for anyone funded by Cancer Research UK - changes in their #OpenAccess publishing policy announced today; reasons behind the withdrawal of funding for Open Access charges are given in this @resprofnews.bsky.social article
I'm interested in thoughts from research & library people
Working on the 2027 Pancreatic Diseases GRC (www.grc.org/pancreatic-d...) and I am just so excited about the developing programme.... and it's May 9-14, Renaissance Tuscany Il Ciocco, Italy. Have a look and remember to mark your calendars.
Aerial view of the Radcliffe Camera in Oxford with a freshly mown lawn featuring intricate curved stripe patterns around the circular building.
Ground-level view of striped grass patterns on the lawn beside the Radcliffe Camera, showing alternating light and dark green lines stretching across the grass.
A lawn mower on the striped grass outside the Radcliffe Camera, highlighting the precision-cut pattern with people and historic college buildings in the background.
The lawn outside the Radcliffe Camera had a trim today 🌱
No, it’s not AI.
Designed and carefully cut by James from our University Parks Estates team.
📷 Instagram | Jimigk13
"...burning out his fuse up here alone" 🎶
Is it a long and winding road?
Good to see this work out, @naomiirisvdberg.bsky.social - hope it stimulates good conversations and new research avenues!
⚡Excited to share our new paper in Cancer Cell:
We propose immunometabolic gatekeeping: the idea that tissue metabolism constrains anti-tumour immunity, even pre-transformation.
Why does immune infiltration not always predict good outcomes? Tissue context may be key.
🔗 www.cell.com/cancer-cell/...
I don’t know how one goes about doing this but I suppose it helps if you’re Paul McCartney. When I worked in museums it seemed nigh-on impossible to even change your opening hours on Google let alone insert a ghostly image of yourself, as fun as that might have been in a museum 👻
From this track I'm feeling hopeful for the whole album. The press release suggests we'll get Paul being all the different Paul's he's been - and I'm definitely here for that!
Hoping for a hymn-like piano ballad, some screaming rock vocals, multi-part song and/or medley plus whimsy, nature & love!
Great points about McCartney's vocal here. Reminds me of Early Days - I think that was actually a demo that got used as the final version because it was more honest - so this feels a little more polished. And I presume the harmony in the background is also McCartney singing up his register?
