SCOOP:

Sci-Hub, the largest illegal database of scientific papers, has released a new AI chatbot. Is it any good?

My latest for @cenmag.bsky.social:

cen.acs.org/policy/publi...

@casey.greenelab.com, @amaddi.bsky.social

10 years ago, Elisabeth Bik published a preprint heard around the world Elisabeth Bik If you are at all familiar with scientific sleuthing, you’re familiar with Elisabeth Bik. She is quoted so often in the mainstream media it is probably difficult to imagine a time bef…

10 years ago today, @elisabethbik.bsky.social published a preprint heard around the world.

NEW blog post: Why do universities often have separate offices for #ResearchSecurity & #ResearchIntegrity, and how does that expose them to risk?

Our VP of Research Integrity & Security, Dr Leslie McIntosh, discusses Deception, Discrediting & Coercion in research.

🔗 https://ow.ly/c6PB50YKlMa

📣 "Will the academic exodus from X silence research?" See comments from Dr Mike Taylor (Head of Data Insights, Digital Science) in this story for Research Professional News.

@herrison2000.bsky.social shares trends based on Altmetric data.

Story by Isaac Barbosa.

🔗 https://ow.ly/2WEf50YJRmw

Failure in Science: A Conference The Good Science Project welcomes you to its third research culture conference, themed on the issue of ‘failure in science’. The conference is a collaboration between Imperial’s Office of the Vice-Pro...

I'm really looking forward to this meeting on Failure in Science at Imperial College tomorrow. It's a topic we don't talk about enough.
www.imperial.ac.uk/events/20415...

Vibecoding this after two years: A Zotero-to-PubPeer integration (alpha, shipping in a few days).

Suppose you want to share your comments about specific parts of a report. Just follow five simple steps:

1. Highlight and annotate in Zotero

1/n 🧵

The scoring and other methods of the Retraction Risk calculator. Even “vague negative hint” is scored as -1, indicating the calculator may overestimate (rather than underestimate) retraction risk.

Learn more about #RetractionRisk methods at www.retractionrisk.com/about.html

The tool's authors admit only "8.3% of retracted articles [had] at least one [prior] critical tweet".

For non-retracted articles, it was 1.5% ...controlling for falsely labeled tweets?

doi.org/10.1002/asi....

#NLP #AI

14 things our PhD supervisors got right and why it mattered PhD students reflect on how their supervisors made a meaningful difference — from quiet acts of kindness to career-shaping guidance.

PhD students reflect on how their supervisors made a meaningful difference — from quiet acts of kindness to career-shaping guidance

go.nature.com/422vHhs

Great! 👏👏👏

LLMs can't be deployed solely - human collaboration with the LLMs is much more effective, and faster.

Er-Te and team created retractionrisk.com - which parses your references and flags retracted items.

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!

Big thanks to Altmetric for the invitation! Really enjoyed the event. Can't believe there was even a live-thread on Bluesky😆

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

Weekend reads: Half of social science ‘doesn’t replicate’; ‘Scientific ghosts: Life after retraction’; multisensory learning paper retracted If your week flew by — we know ours did — catch up here with what you might have missed. The week at Retraction Watch featured: A citation alert led researchers to a network of fake articles. But w…

Weekend reads: Half of social science ‘doesn’t replicate’; ‘Scientific ghosts: Life after retraction’; multisensory learning paper retracted

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.

🤔 How confident are you in what your current research oversight isn’t showing you?

In our recent webinar, Proactive Strategy for Research Security, Dr. Shirley Han explored how agencies can uncover hidden risks before they become real problems.

🔗https://ow.ly/EW4l50YCrZ4

#DigitalScience

Just tried Idea Gatekeeper, a very useful AI tool to evaluate the research ideas. Developed by Prof. Ning Li's team at Tsinghua University. Perfect for checking the viability of your next paper‘s pitch.
Try it out: gatekeeper.spansurvey.net

A graph showing that China is ahead of the US, followed by S Korea in terms of the number of top AI researchers

China is winning the AI talent race

“In 2025, for the first time, more studies presented at the world’s top AI conference had lead authors based in China than in either America or Europe”

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economist.com/interactive/...
from The Economist

Really great update from altmetric!

Why don’t journalists circle back to cover retractions? A conversation with Malgorzata Iwaniec-Thompson Vertigo3d via Canva In a paper published last month in the Journal of Documentation, a team of researchers in journalism, social science and data explore how and why journalists report – or don’t r…

"Journalists rarely follow up on scientific retractions due to a combination of structural, economic, and professional barriers."

RETRACTED ARTICLE: Toward a characterization of Ecuadorian ceviche: much more than shrimp - Journal of Ethnic Foods Ceviche is present in all the Pacific coast of Latin America. Its origin and history are still debated. The consensus is that it arises from creolization between local and Eurasian ingredients and tec...

Un estudio que hicimos sobre el ceviche ecuatoriano, retractado dos años después por no tener aprobación de un comité de ética, que no se solicitaba cuando se publicó. Todo muy triste. journalofethnicfoods.biomedcentral.com/articles/10....

#porCulpaDeLaEscasezDeRinocerontes

À ce rythme il va avoir plus de rétractations que d'articles publiés pour plein de collègues.

Ça existe le r-index pour le ratio rétractations/ articles ?

Very curious about 2023-25 data, to see Bluesky’s growth vs the decline of other platforms.

We also launched browser extension! Welcome to use 😄 www.retractionrisk.com/plugin.html

This is so cool

To use our RetractionRisk Scanner browser extension 👇 www.retractionrisk.com/plugin.html

Check out the Retraction Risk Scanner we built! It evaluates a paper's overall risk by aggregating PubPeer comments, negative discussions on BlueSky and X, and the paper's current retraction status. retractionrisk.com
@retractionwatch.com @altmetric.com

Check out the Retraction Risk Scanner we built! It evaluates a paper's overall risk by aggregating PubPeer comments, negative discussions on BlueSky and X, and the paper's current retraction status. www.retractionrisk.com

Unreliable Science: Unravelling the Impact of Mainstream Media Misrepresentation This session dives into a project by the University of Turku, funded by the European Media and Information Fund, tackles the pressing problem of unreliable scientific information permeating mainstream...

Happening in 1 hour: Unreliable Science - Unravelling the Impact of Mainstream Media Misrepresentations

Hosted by @culturebullet.com
. Speakers are Kim Holmberg, Irini Katsirea and
@mikethelwall.bsky.social

www.altmetric.com/event/unreli...

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