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Following our two investigations in @ScienceMagazine (science.org/content/article/… & science.org/content/article/…), @SIMATS_Univ in India has had more than 260 papers retracted, @RetractionWatch's Avery Orrall reports retractionwatch.com/2025/02/…
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Recently released QS Subject wise rankings make no sense. IIT Bombay and IIT Madras are ranked below Lovely Professional University, SRM Institute, Amity University in research. Nobody in their right mind will accept these rankings!
We should not take these rankings seriously!
Amazing!
In Science, researchers detail a nanoscale-resolution reconstruction of a millimeter-scale fragment of human cerebral cortex, giving an unprecedented view into the structural organization of brain tissue at the supracellular, cellular, and subcellular levels.
Learn more during #BrainAwarenessWeek: scim.ag/41z2OJ4
Can’t tell if this sounds more like a spoiled 5yo or the princess and the pea. Certainly not a president of a Western country. “If you make him unhappy, he responds unhappy,” Lutnick said of Trump.
Real-world politics is necessarily strategic. Nonetheless, bowing one’s head and treating Trump with deference helps normalize his unacceptable and undignified behaviors. That’s a poor long-term strategy nytimes.com/2025/03/06/world…
If Trump is able to defy court orders, it means democracy in the US is broken
Trump allies suggest defying court orders after stinging legal rebukes washingtonpost.com/politics/…
Frederik Joelving retweeted
Congratulations to Professor Jennifer Byrne (@JAByrneSci) from @Sydney_Uni and NSW Health Pathology who is the 2025 recipient of the Academy's David Vaux Research Integrity Fellowship Award. The award recognises individuals who have led efforts to foster and promote integrity in science. Professor Byrne has an international reputation for finding problematic research articles. Learn more bit.ly/4aVDilW
And counting... @IRWatchdog
Following our two investigations in @ScienceMagazine (science.org/content/article/… & science.org/content/article/…), @SIMATS_Univ in India has had more than 260 papers retracted, @RetractionWatch's Avery Orrall reports retractionwatch.com/2025/02/…
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A giant shoe finally drops - my story: Alzheimer’s scientist resigns after university finds ‘data integrity concerns’ in papers | Science | AAAS science.org/content/article/…
Ouch
In experiments needing animal ethics committees, “only 10 percent of the articles analyzed presented correct statistical methodology,” researchers found.
biorxiv.org/content/10.1101/…
Frederik Joelving retweeted
The phrase was so strange it would have stood out even to a non-scientist.
@joelving reports
retractionwatch.com/2025/02/…
Frederik Joelving retweeted
I've flagged more than a dozen papers on PubPeer by an Editor-in-Charge of a @tandfonline journal *in their own journal* (+ more in others). I'm getting bored, so I've asked the publisher if they want me to continue or not.
Some of this looks really bad. Some could be errors.
Frederik Joelving retweeted
“We will not retract published articles on request by an author on the basis that they contain so-called banned words,” says the BMJ.
bmj.com/content/388/bmj.r253
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This is extremely concerning. The correct response is: (a) class-action lawsuits against the major plastic producers, and (b) degrow the plastics industry.
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NAAC has been embroiled in controversies. Another case of massive corruption happening in NAAC
Institute in question is KLEF. We had flagged it in the list of most retractions last year (KLEF was 10th in the list) : xitter.cf/IRWatchdog/status/1881…
Most important list if India wants to improve its Scientific Reputation.
High time that retractions are included in rankings. Else universities have every incentive to publish as much as they can without caring about consequences.
Data in thread 👇
@ugc_india @ANRFIndia
Frederik Joelving retweeted
In my view this is an important article that everybody who publishes in the scientific literature should read. It's written by a stellar line up of "data sleuths" | @AbalkinaAnna | @MicrobiomDigest | @deevybee | @JAByrneSci | @gcabanac | @ClearSkiesAdam | @nickwizzo | buff.ly/3Cr9eBA
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Very happy to see that the Cochrane Library @cochranecollab is now using the Retraction Watch Database to flag retracted papers.
cochrane.org/news/cochrane-l…
Scientific fraud is a growing problem. “You can’t just read an abstract and have any faith in it. I kind of assume everything’s wrong,” a scientist and journal editor told me. Read our deep dive for @ConversationUS theconversation.com/fake-pap…