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The Ctrl-Z Award: Recognizing the courage to correct or retract published work The Ctrl-Z Award recognizes and celebrates scientists who discover substantial errors in their published work and take meaningful steps to correct the scientific record — even if doing so risks pro…

The Ctrl-Z Award "recognizes and celebrates scientists who discover substantial errors in their published work and take meaningful steps to correct the scientific record." Let's reward integrity in science.

Nominations due by May 31, 2026.

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The next big open; education? For the past two decades, a lot of innovation has lived under the broad umbrella of the “open” movement. When people talk about openness today, they usually mean things like open source software or op...

The tools are here. It’s time to make knowledge a public good.

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When they submitted the manuscript to the Proceedings of the Society of Experimental Biology & Medicine, the reviewer disparagingly stated that “These authors are obviously just trying to put something on the record.”, prompting Skoog to cancel his membership in the society. #PeerReview #SciPub

Light gray ethics We are familiar with the “fraud in science” stories that make the headlines. Those are the ones that are the most unacceptable, dramatic and scandalous. They usually emerge after years and years of be...

Scientific misconduct isn't always scandalous. Some of the “light gray” ethical problems are the ones we can still rationalize.

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The main problem are the Scientists who continue to publish with such journals, using the lame cop-out that they need it to have a career. Nobody(!) needs a NatComs paper to have a career. They want the Nature logo on their paper to feed their ego. That's all.

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Just a reminder, we not only wrote about the profiteering nature of the Springer-Nature Discover journal series, but we made a "guess the publisher" game!

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Game by @pagomba.bsky.social

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...the money you pay society journals to publish at least partially goes into conference costs, fellowships, workshops, seminar series, community projects like Plantae, preLights, etc.

These are two strange arguments. How are society journals not the clearly better option here?

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📊 🎉 The Wellesley Centers for Women and the Women's Foundation of Massachusetts are pleased to announce our inaugural report on the Status of Women & Girls in Massachusetts!
Read the executive summary and the full report at wcw.wellesley.edu/statuswomeng.... 🧵⬇️
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Practical guide to ensure your supervisor is a catch, not a clash. Last week, we talked about the importance of choosing a good supervisor to oversee your work, whether it’s for your bachelor’s /master’s thesis or your PhD. That piece of advice sounds wonderful just ...

In a culture with permanent urgency, burnout is inevitable.

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Another great article by @mastroianni.bsky.social on the current #SciencePublishing system.

Don't publish with for-profit publishers like Elsevier, Springer Nature, et al. It's really simple. There are so many cool #PlantScience society journals. #SciPub

See also: bsky.app/profile/soms...

What makes a 'perfect match' for a supervisor? When we get the ball rolling in academia, we often find ourselves just eager for an opportunity. You apply for your bachelor's or master's thesis and hope for the best, fantasising about the day a PI ...

A PhD is a mutual decision. As much as you commit to the project, they must commit to your development.

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The lurking danger of people with too much power in Open Science History holds many lessons that we repeatedly ignore. One such lesson is about the concentration of power. When power concentrates around infrastructure that everyone depends on, accountability erodes...

Open Science must resist the comfort of echo chambers. Innovation comes from diverse opinions and inclusive representation that challenge the norm.

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The peer review system is breaking down. Here’s how we can fix it Peer review is so integral to the scholarly system that research would grind to a halt without it.

#PeerReview is indeed breaking down, but I believe we should build it back up instead of scrapping it entirely.

It's how we ensure trust in science.

What would make you more likely to review your colleagues' new research?

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A survey of how biology researchers assess credibility when serving on grant and hiring committees Researchers who serve on grant review and hiring committees have to make decisions about the intrinsic value of research in short periods of time, and research impact metrics such Journal Impact Facto...

At what point will we as a field finally abandon Impact Factors and focus the credibility on the actual science? 🧪

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A short list of things I wish I had done during my PhD This is a list coming straight from my experience and it is NOT a listicle (I hate that word. And the concept.). Just putting it out there, that I wish.. ..I had written a review in my field BEFORE ...

The days are long but the contracts are short.
You might want to read this before it all vanishes..

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Supervisor, Mentor, or Manager? There are many academia-specific keywords: “grant”, “stipend”, “precarity”. But what is the correct designation for the leader of a research group who writes projects, manages people, supervises stude...

We sometimes use the words "supervisor", "mentor", and "manager" interchangeably...
But they most certainly do not mean the same thing.

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Open-access software tool helps researchers spot fake journals Research papers in peer-reviewed academic journals are at the heart of academic integrity. New ideas and discoveries are vetted and checked by experts in the field as the boundaries of scientific know...

A free tool to consider using when choosing a journal for submission. #scipub #medicalwriting

phys.org/news/2026-02...

Fiktiver Artikel in einem wissenschaftlichen Journal mit Fantasienamen in der Autorenzeile. Rechts daneben Überschrift "Nicht ohne Mitte" des im Post verlinkten Artikels, darunter dessen Vorspann mit dem Text: "Mittelautorschaften gelten mindestens als zweitklassig. Wer jedoch keine hat, kann andererseits schnell Argwohn wecken."

Mittelautorschaften auf wissenschaftlichen Veröffentlichungen gelten als zweitklassig. Wer jedoch keine hat, kann schnell als nicht teamfähig oder uninterssant für Kooperationen gelten … Heute in unserer "Freitags-Kolumne": www.laborjournal.de/editorials/3... #scipub #AcademicChatter

The nightmare of saying ‘I don’t know’ out loud. If you ever wondered what the academic equivalent of “the common child’s nightmare of going to school while in your pyjamas” is, chances are most researchers under 40 years old will respond the same: ...

I don’t know.
And that sounds like the beginning of something worth investigating.

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People; the problem in Open Science? If only we fixed the publishing system. If only we fixed the incentives, rewards and recognition. Open Science (OS) likes to position itself as a systems problem. And whilst these things do matter, de...

Many researchers support Open Science in principle. But if we want a real shift in academic culture, "agreement" alone is not enough.

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Suffer-culture in academia “I spent the holidays in the lab.” “I started at 5.00 this morning.” Have you ever had that person in your team that made sure to explicitly share that they have been working during crazy hours, eve...

Independence in research does not come from being abandoned. And good mentorship is not a fixed script.

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This is a really interesting read on the history of the Journal @nature.com.
Very informative.

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Science beyond the paper; blogs, podcasts and video For most of human history, science has been communicated through the spoken word. Knowledge moved from person to person through oral storytelling and apprenticeship style training. Writing helped to f...

Let's imagine that the scientific paper format didn’t exist. And that there were no journals... How would you share your research?

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Well done Swissuniversities! @snsf.ch et al. once again leading the charge (see previous special issue announcement).

Funders and institutes hold the cards. If they don't pay the profiteers, we researchers will just adapt.

We don't need Nature. Nature needs us.

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Correction: Hyd ubiquitinates the NF-κB co-factor Akirin to operate an effective immune response in Drosophila

This kinda stuff makes me proud to work with the incredible #Drosophila community

A correction made by the main lab 5 years later solely because "we couldn't replicate a couple results, so we wanted to modify the original article to reflect that uncertainty."

Class act 🏆 #ResearchIntegrity #SciPub

Resisting Attacks on Science - Center for Critical Public Health So it happened. We have officially withdrawn a paper accepted for publication in a scientific journal because of editorial requests to remove language deemed out of compliance with executive orders.

Inspiration here for all scientific authors to push back against misguided language censorship that harms the rigor of the scientific record

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criticalpublichealth.org/blog/2025/03...

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The Scientific Method and The Emotional Damage: A Tale of Two Feelings Researchers are people of science, of facts, of specifics. With the duty of being unbiased, they set their assumptions aside and prioritize what the data tells them above everything else. And yet, whe...

Science may be objective..but scientists are not.

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