🫧 Exploring Scientific Bubbles: Lessons from other domains by Miles MacLeod and Y J Erden
💬 What makes a conference high quality?
by Marianne Noël
Thanks all for representing Nanobubbles!
@yjerden.bsky.social @mnoel75.bsky.social @raphavisses.bsky.social
Candida presenting in front of a screen that reads “take-home message”. Slides on the right reads “proliferation of venues creates ignorance” The configuration of those venues together enhances ignorance Attending to the systemic level can help to identify mechanisms that are not primarily intended to generat ignorance, but that can inadvertently result in ignoranc can be exploited by individuals to create ignorance
☁️ Clouded by systemic ignorance: unsettled state of knowledge about spherical nucleic acids
by Candida F. Sánchez Burmester, Wytske M. Hepkema, Cyrus C. M. Mody and Willem Halffman
@ccmmody.bsky.social @willemhalffman.bsky.social
Wytske presenting in front of a screen that reads “PERCEPTIONS OF PUBPEER as a bullet list Pubpeer is okay PubPeer is not okay PubPeer is okay, but ... written in bold”
📰PubPeer Perceptions: how authors view their own papers and those they cite in the light of PubPeer comments by Wytske Hepkema, Frédérique Bordignon, Willem Halffman, Nathanne Rost, Yj Erden and Raphaël Lévy
@wytskehepkema.bsky.social @freddie2310.bsky.social @nathannerost.bsky.social
🎆 STS NL Conference in Twente was full of Nanobubbles!
📣 We presented our work in the "Making Science Better?" track throughout the conference, organized by Bart Penders, Willem Halffman, Serge Horbach, Yj Erden and Yagmur Ozturk.
Here is a glimpse of our presented studies:
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!
🚀 Happy to announce the Concordancer is now available in Cortext Manager! @umr-lisis.bsky.social
➟ Search any word or expression in a corpus and view it in context
➟ Use it with the Sctfc Doc Parser for citation context analysis
docs.cortext.net/concordancer/
Funded by @nanobubbles.bsky.social
new article out led by ethicisit Ineke Malsch but w/ contributions by @egonw.social.edu.nl.ap.brid.gy, my @nanobubbles.bsky.social colleague/PhD Candida Sanchez Burmester & myself gauging gap b/t nanoscientists' & ethicists views on sharing data:
open-research-europe.ec.europa.eu/articles/4-2...
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! 🐣🐰🪺
my @nanobubbles.bsky.social colleague @yjerden.bsky.social will talk ab/ AI art, (non)creativity, and legal protections for creative work at the MUSTS colloquium tomorrow
Devaluation, Disruption, Dilution: What AI-Generated “Art” Creates
📅 1 April 2026
📍Attic, Grote Gracht 80-82
📣Speaker: Y. J. Erden (@utwente.bsky.social)
Do #AI images count as #art? What’s lost when we say yes? On labour, meaning, authenticity & regulation. Join this AMC-MUSTS colloquium.
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!
talk announcement for ASEH 2026 for Cyrus Mody & Tom Turnbull's paper, "Putting the Development in Research and Development: NASA and the Schuchulik Solar System" (10:30-11:45 session, May 27)
🎤NanoBubbles co-PI Cyrus Mody & Tom Turnbull will be presenting their paper, “Putting the Development in Research and Development: NASA and the Schuchulik Solar System,” at ASEH 2026!
🗓 May 27
🕥 10:30–11:45 session
@ccmmody.bsky.social
The deadline for this has been extended- please send around and apply!
Deadline extended to 23rd of March!
Waiting for your submissions 📃
🔗aisb.org.uk/aisb-2026-symposium-hype...
COSIG: The Collection of Open Science Integrity Guides Newest version available at cosig.net!
Do you know what to do when a study you have cited gets retracted?
COSIG's entry on Citations to Retracted Publications has been updated with what to do in this situation.
Read all about it: osf.io/9q3as
Pseudoreplication is the practice of treating non-independent observations as if they were independent replicates. This can dramatically increase the rate of false positives.
COSIG's newest entry covers how to spot them. Read it at osf.io/hyxvr
COSIG 🎉now with 34 guides 🎉is available at cosig.net.
📰 David Larousserie reports for Le Monde on the NanoBubbles replication project
Read in 🇫🇷 www.lemonde.fr/sciences/art...
@raphavisses.bsky.social @erc.europa.eu @univ-spn.bsky.social
How to establish whether a disputed claim is true or false? Publication of the results of our first replication and call for others to replicate our work
How to establish whether a disputed claim is true or false? This is one of the questions at the centre of the ERC Synergy project NanoBubbles,…
Thank-you @willemhalffman.bsky.social @deadneanderthals.bsky.social @wytskehepkema.bsky.social @isis-radboud.bsky.social ... great discussions yesterday about cell lines, #researchintegrity and staying positive.
No cheese was eaten during the visit... well, not too much
@nanobubbles.bsky.social
Deadline has been extended to 23 March!
Send us your 🫧 and 🤖 abstracts.
ANALYSE La réplication est un sport de combat Et si tout un champ de recherche était parti dans la mauvaise direction ? Nanoparticules, cancers, vie extraterrestre, répliquer des expériences pour trancher des controverses a tout d’un parcours du combattant.
« Ce sera peut-être plus complexe, avec possiblement des résultats divergents et difficilement reproductibles » Cécilia Ménard-Moyon, CNRS
🟢 À vos manips... répliquez !
Des initiatives très concrètes de réplication d’expériences… et les obstacles que les chercheurs doivent surmonter
themeta.news/la-replicati...
#VeilleESR
@nanobubbles.bsky.social @raphavisses.bsky.social @ejsmdubois.bsky.social @reproductible-fr.bsky.social
📣 Call for replicators: The NanoBubbles initiative aims to evaluate reproducibility of influential experimental claims in nanoscience. Independent research teams from nano or physical chemistry may apply. Participants receive financial support.
Deadline: March 16
COSIG: The Collection of Open Science Integrity Guides Newest version available at cosig.net!
Stealth corrections happen when a publisher makes changes to a scientific article after its publication, without issuing any public notice.
To learn more, check out the latest COSIG entry on Stealth Corrections!
osf.io/34nj5
COSIG (33 guides and growing!) is available at cosig.net.
Guest blogpost by @deadneanderthals.bsky.social and colleagues on the persistence of stealth corrections in the scientific literature: deevybee.blogspot.com/2026/02/gues...
#publishing #integrity
📰 David Adam reports for Nature News on our Replication Initiative
"A European project calls for help to verify whether carbon quantum dots are really able to sense chemicals in cells."
🔗 www.nature.com/articles/d41...
@nature.com
📃 Our paper "Towards More Robust Nanobioscience: Launching the NanoBubbles Replication Initiative" is out!
🔗 To read: doi.org/10.1002/anie...
🎆 Huge congratulations to our Paris team Maha Said, Mustafa Gharib and Raphaël Lévy!
@raphavisses.bsky.social @mustafagharib.bsky.social
📣 We are looking for others to replicate our work!
🔗 More information: nanobubbles.hypotheses.org/replication-...
Well, here we are (no surprises) 💫
JOIN US! Post doctoral Fellow: nanoparticle synthesis and characterisation for reproducible bionanoscience
Application deadline Feb 20. Starting date: 20 April 2026. Check the full ad below and contact me for more details.
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https://nanobubbles.hypotheses.org/3411
