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Hallucinated References: Five Excuses for Academic Misconduct When I proposed rejecting papers with hallucinated references, the support was overwhelming. But the critical voices revealed five argument patterns: from AI hype through TINA rhetoric to nihilism.

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Hallucinated References: Five Excuses for Academic Misconduct: dorotheabaur.ch/en/texts-and...

#AcademicResearch #ResearchMisconduct #ResearchIntegrity #AcademicWriting #AcademicSky #ScholarlyPublishing #AcademicPublishing #AcademicChatter #Retractions #PaperMills #AI #ArtificialIntelligence

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The Camel’s Camel On some days, after hours of image scanning, I feel like doing something different. Today, I searched for some scientific papers containing “tortured phrases”. This term was first coine…

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The Camel’s Camel: scienceintegritydigest.com/2026/03/12/t...

#Research #AcademicResearch #ResearchMisconduct #ResearchIntegrity #AcademicWriting #AcademicSky #ScholarlyPublishing #AcademicPublishing #AcademicChatter #ScientificResearch #TorturedPhrases #Plagiarism #AI #ArtificialIntelligence #LLM

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Preprint server removes study attributing increased infant mortality to vaccines Alachua County/Flickr A preprint server has withdrawn a study that suggested children vaccinated in the second month of life are more likely to die soon after when compared to those who did not rec…

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Preprint server removes study attributing increased infant mortality to vaccines retractionwatch.com/2026/03/02/p...

#Bias #AcademicResearch #ResearchMisconduct #ResearchIntegrity #AcademicSky #Vaccine #Immunization #Infants #ScholarlyPublishing #AcademicPublishing #AcademicChatter #Retractions

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Hey ChatGPT, write me a fictional paper: these LLMs are willing to commit academic fraud Mainstream chatbots presented varying levels of resistance to deliberate requests for fabrication, study finds.

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Hey ChatGPT, write me a fictional paper: these LLMs are willing to commit academic fraud www.nature.com/articles/d41...

#AI #ArtificialIntelligence #ResearchMisconduct #ResearchIntegrity #AcademicWriting #AcademicSky #ScholarlyPublishing #AcademicPublishing #AcademicChatter #LLMs #Ethics #Fraud

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Ars Technica Fires Reporter After AI Controversy Involving Fabricated Quotes Ars Technica has fired senior AI reporter Benj Edwards following an outrage-sparking controversy involving AI-fabricated quotes.

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Ars Technica Fires Reporter After AI Controversy Involving Fabricated Quotes: futurism.com/artificial-i...

#AI #ArtificialIntelligence #AcademicResearch #ResearchMisconduct #ResearchIntegrity #AcademicWriting #AcademicSky #ScholarlyPublishing #AcademicPublishing #AcademicChatter #Retractions

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LSE Impact Blog

@lseimpactblog.bsky.social

1 month ago

The growing market for student academic misconduct services - LSE Impact A growing market for student academic misconduct services is increasingly outsourcing research ethics in higher education institutions.

👀ICYMI: "It has evolved into a platform-oriented business model that systematically captures students precisely when they are likely to feel uncertain or anxious"

@gengyantang.bsky.social, @saraheaton.bsky.social #AcademicSky #ResearchMisconduct #HigherEducation

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Beyond metrics: Restoring integrity to Indias research ecosystem - The Tribune For a nation aspiring to global leadership, research credibility, not publication volume, will determine economic strength, policy resilience and technological sovereignty.

1 month ago

Beyond metrics: Restoring integrity to India's research ecosystem

#ResearchIntegrity #ResearchMisconduct #India #WCRI2026 #WCRI

www.tribuneindia.com/news/upsc/be...

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New Documents Reveal a Controversial Vaccine Study's Unusual Path to CDC Approval A new investigation has found irregularities in the ethics review of a grant to study effects of a birth dose of hepatitis B vaccine in Guinea-Bissau.

1 month ago

New Documents Reveal a Controversial Vaccine Study’s Unusual Path to CDC Approval: www.rollingstone.com/politics/pol...

#Ethics #COPE #Science #Research #AcademicResearch #ResearchMisconduct #ResearchIntegrity #AcademicSky #HepatitisB #Trump #Kennedy #Vaccine #CDC #Africa #Immunization #Infants

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China to punish universities that fail to sanction research misconduct Policy follows establishment of a national database of papers retracted for serious misconduct.

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China to punish universities that fail to sanction research misconduct www.nature.com/articles/d41...

#China #Science #Research #AcademicResearch #ResearchMisconduct #ResearchIntegrity #AcademicSky #ScholarlyPublishing #AcademicPublishing #AcademicChatter #Retractions #ScientificResearch

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Court challenge could chill reporting of research fraud, say whistleblower attorneys utah778/iStock The U.S. government recently announced a record $6.8 billion in False Claims Act settlements and judgments in 2025, the most in a single year since the law’s enactment 163 years ago.…

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Court challenge could chill reporting of research fraud, say whistleblower attorneys retractionwatch.com/2026/02/11/f...

#Science #Research #AcademicResearch #ResearchMisconduct #ResearchIntegrity #AcademicSky #AcademicChatter #FalsifyingData #Whistleblower #Fraud #FalseClaimsAct #FCA #QuiTam

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Guest post: The CDC hepatitis B study is unethical and must never be published Manjurul/iStock The Committee on Publication Ethics (COPE), an international organization that establishes best practices for scholarly journals, has endorsed specific ethical standards for studies…

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Guest post: The CDC hepatitis B study is unethical and must never be published retractionwatch.com/2026/02/10/g...

#Ethics #COPE #Science #Research #AcademicResearch #ResearchMisconduct #ResearchIntegrity #AcademicSky #HepatitisB #Trump #Kennedy #Vaccine #CDC #Africa #Immunization #Infants

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Scientists Could Help Reveal Fraud — and Get Paid For It Opinion | Whistleblower statutes should be changed to incentivize university research groups to investigate potential fraud.

1 month ago

Opinion: Scientists Could Help Reveal Fraud — and Get Paid For It: undark.org/2026/02/09/o...

#Science #Research #AcademicResearch #ResearchMisconduct #ResearchIntegrity #AcademicSky #ScholarlyPublishing #AcademicChatter #FalsifyingData #Whistleblower #Fraud

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Nicola Low

@nicolamlow.bsky.social

1 month ago

🧪 #ResearchMisconduct
„The abstract of a paper on analgesia in women giving birth contained the sentence: “One hundred sixty full-term protozoa are included in this work.”“

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Accountability in Research: Ethics, Integrity, and Policy

@accountabilityair.bsky.social

2 months ago

Closing the paper mines Scientific fakery is a centuries old problem. Twinned with the long history of hard-working scientists earning fame for genuine discoveries, runs a tawdry history of those who were willing fabricat...

📝 Latest Article Commentary Alert! 📝

"Closing the paper mines"

@aidybarnett.bsky.social & @jabyrnesci.bsky.social

→ doi.org/10.1080/0898...

#PaperMill
#ResearchMisconduct
#AI
#GenAI
#ResearchIntegrity

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Every Researcher’s Nightmare - Plagiarism Today

2 months ago

Every Researcher’s Nightmare

#ResearchMisconduct #ResearchIntegrity #WCRI2026 #WCRI

www.plagiarismtoday.com/2026/01/27/e...

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Study is stolen, sold, published. Now the victim is accused of plagiarism The year 2026 did not start off kindly for Vijayalakshmi S, an economics researcher at RV University in Bengaluru, India. She received a rejection letter from a journal noting that a paper of hers …

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Study is stolen, sold, published. Now the victim is accused of plagiarism retractionwatch.com/2026/01/26/s...

#Papermills #Ethics #Plagiarism #ScholarlyPublishing #AcademicPublishing #AcademicSky #AcademicChatter #Research #AcademicResearch #ResearchMisconduct #ResearchIntegrity #AcademicWriting

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AI misconduct scandals could impact universities' global standings - The Korea Times A series of artificial intelligence (AI)-related cheating scandals at Korean universities could carry long term risks for their global rankings, po...

2 months ago

AI misconduct scandals could impact universities' global standings

#ResearchMisconduct #ResearchIntegrity #University #WCRI2026 #WCRI

www.koreatimes.co.kr/southkorea/s...

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CITI Program

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2 months ago

Compliance with Updated Research Misconduct Regulations ORI has released a new set of topic-specific guidance documents to help institutions prepare for the updated PHS Policies on Research Misconduct.

The newly released documents focus on three areas central to effective research misconduct proceedings: the institutional record, research records and sequestration, and misconduct proceedings involving multiple institutions.
https://post.citiprogram.org/4aNZG2A
#ORI #ResearchMisconduct

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Five rhetorical signs that might reveal research misconduct A new study from Chalmers University of Technology suggests that research misconduct may leave traces in the text itself, not only in how the research is conducted. By analyzing scientific articles la...

2 months ago

Five rhetorical signs that might reveal research misconduct

#ResearchMisconduct #Signs #WCRI2026 #WCRI

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Court: University disclosure of researcher’s misconduct did not violate due process Flavia Pichiorri An appellate court has dismissed a legal challenge by a cancer researcher against her former institution, ruling the university’s misconduct investigation and disclosure process di…

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Court: University disclosure of researcher’s misconduct did not violate due process

#ResearchMisconduct #ResearchIntegrity #WCRI2026 #WCRI

retractionwatch.com/2026/01/05/f...

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@scigeek69.bsky.social

3 months ago

Dana-Farber’s $15M False Claims Case - Radical Compliance Dana-Farber Cancer Institute is paying $15 million to end False Claims Act charges that researchers used manipulated images for grant money.

This time, it's not a western blot: "$15 million to settle charges that researchers there slipped false data and images into research grant applications" #researchmisconduct #RadminSky www.radicalcompliance.com/2025/12/17/d...

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Irene Hames

@irenehames.bsky.social

4 months ago

Great and detailed live posting from bsky.app/profile/elis... from #IRICSydney the International Research Integrity Conference, 16-18 November 2025, Sydney, Australia

#ResearchIntegrity #ResearchMisconduct
#PublicationEthics

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Scientific fraud: analysis of a growing phenomenon Scientific fraud: analysis of a growing phenomenon – Read the column on Polytechnique Insights

4 months ago

www.polytechnique-insights.com/en/columns/s...

#Fraud #FraudDetection #ResearchFraud #Science #Research #AcademicResearch #ResearchMisconduct #ResearchIntegrity #AcademicWriting #AcademicSky #ScholarlyPublishing #AcademicPublishing #AcademicChatter #Retractions #PaperMills

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Sleuths flag ‘complete mismatch’ in data of BMJ stem cell study A week after The BMJ published a highly publicized paper claiming stem cell therapy can reduce the risk of heart failure, sleuths have unearthed what they are calling “serious” inconsistencies in t…

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Sleuths flag ‘complete mismatch’ in data of BMJ stem cell study retractionwatch.com/2025/11/06/s...

#Science #Research #AcademicResearch #ResearchMisconduct #DataManagement #AcademicWriting #AcademicSky #ScholarlyPublishing #AcademicPublishing #AcademicChatter #Retractions #FalsifyingData #Data

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False hope, fabricated data: No public notice after UBC uncovered serious misconduct in medical study | CBC News A celebrated Vancouver researcher used fabricated data and hid evidence of infected wounds to falsely claim his patented skin treatment could heal years-old bed sores in a matter of weeks, according t...

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Investigation found UBC researcher fabricated data, gave spinal patients 'false hope.' The public was not told

#ResearchIntegrity #ResearchMisconduct #UBC #Canada #WCRI2026 #WCRI

www.cbc.ca/news/canada/...

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Duke scientists lose eight papers for alleged image manipulation Salvatore Pizzo Eight papers by two emeritus researchers from Duke University have been retracted in recent months for alleged image duplications. Although the researchers had worked at the univers…

6 months ago

Duke scientists lose eight papers for alleged image manipulation

#ResearchMisconduct #ResearchIntegrity #ImageManipulation #WCRI2026 #WCRI

retractionwatch.com/2025/09/29/d...

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Different Perspectives on Scientific Misconduct For me, the most interesting takeaway from the panel discussion on scientific integrity at the 12th Heidelberg Laureate Forum was that scientific misconduct means rather different things from differen...

6 months ago

Different Perspectives on Scientific Misconduct

#ResearchMisconduct #ResearchIntegrity #WCRI2026 #WCRI

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