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Jennifer Byrne

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Prof cancer research Infrastructure, research integrity, errors, paper mills Views my own PRIMeR group: https://www.sydney.edu.au/medicine-health/our-research/research-centres/publication-and-research-integrity-in-medical-research-primer.html

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Jennifer Byrne @jabyrnesci.bsky.social · Aug 19

A paper that combines #peerreview & cheese... what could be better? Answer: writing said paper with @abalkina.bsky.social @image-integrity.bsky.social & Marie Souliere. Read on to learn how the Swiss Cheese Model could help peer review & #researchintegrity onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1002/...

Rethinking Peer Review Using the Swiss Cheese Model to Better Flag Problematic Manuscripts

Click on the article title to read more.

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innostudy.bsky.social @innostudy.bsky.social · 4d

Low quality papers are flooding the cancer literature — can this AI tool help to catch them? www.nature.com/articles/d41..., Revealing the Paper Mill Iceberg: AI-Based Screening of Cancer Research Publications www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1...

Low quality papers are flooding the cancer literature — can this AI tool help to catch them?

A large language model scans abstracts and titles for signs that an article was produced by a 'paper-mill' company.

www.nature.com

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ReproducibiliTea @reproducibilitea.org · 20h

🔵 UniHelsinki - Topic: Paper Mills: Parallels with a Virus, with Dr. Dorothy Bishop
Friday, 24 October at 14:00 (Helsinki time)
Registration: helsinki.zoom.us/meeting/regi...

Welcome! You are invited to join a meeting: ReproducibiliTea_UniHelsinki webinar by Dr. Dorothy Bishop (University of Oxford, UK). After registering, you will receive a confirmation email about joinin...

“Paper Mills: Parallels with a Virus ”

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World Conferences on Research Integrity @wcrifoundation.bsky.social · 1d

⏰ 3 days left!

Both abstract submissions and travel grant applications for the 9th #WCRI2026 close on October 15, 2025!

📍 May 3–6, 2026 | Vancouver, Canada 🇨🇦

Share your work and join global conversations.

🔗 wcri2026.org/call-for-abs...

#ResearchIntegrity

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George Davey Smith @mendelrandom.bsky.social · Sep 12

"Triangulation: moving from correlations to causation", Cambridge School of Clinical Medicine Distinguished Lecture 2025, Thursday, October 16th, 5pm, in person or online
www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/school-of-...

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World Conferences on Research Integrity @wcrifoundation.bsky.social · 4d

⏰ 5 days left!

Both abstract submissions and travel grant applications for the 9th #WCRI2026 close on October 15, 2025!

📍 May 3–6, 2026 | Vancouver, Canada 🇨🇦

Share your work and join global conversations.

🔗 wcri2026.org/call-for-abstr…#ResearchIntegrityty

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Center for Open Science @cos.io · 3d

We're hosting a webinar with Emmanuel Boakye, Founder at African Reproducibility Network. He will discuss AREN's strategy for building sustainable communities through its LNL program, empowering champions in open science.

Register: cos-io.zoom.us/webinar/regi...
📅 October 15
🕐 9:00 AM ET

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COSIG @cosig.net · 18d

What is a "calculation chain" file? How can I easily identify duplicated values in a table?

COSIG's 31st guide is all about data forensics using Microsoft Excel!

osf.io/bz725

As always, all guides are available at cosig.net.

COSIG: The Collection of Open Science Integrity Guides
Newest version available at cosig.net!

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RealClearScience @rcscience.bsky.social · 4d

"Paper mills operate with a remarkable degree of transparency, advertising their illicit services online to attract customers, with little concern that they will be shut down." www.realclearscience.com/2025/10/09/a...

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Lukas Röseler @aufdroeseler.bsky.social · 4d

ReplicationResearch.org is now open for submissions!

Submit replications and reproductions from many different fields, as well as conceptual contributions. With diamond OA, open and citable peer review reports, and reproducibility checks, we push the boundaries of open and fair publishing.

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Alan McElligott @amcell.bsky.social · 4d

2025. (not just cancer lit....) Low quality papers are flooding the cancer literature — can this AI tool help to catch them? A large language model scans abstracts and titles for signs that an article was produced by a 'paper-mill' company. www.nature.com/articles/d41...

Low quality papers are flooding the cancer literature — can this AI tool help to catch them?

A large language model scans abstracts and titles for signs that an article was produced by a 'paper-mill' company.

www.nature.com

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Alex Holcombe @alexh.bsky.social · 4d

We started @metaror.bsky.social MetaROR.org in part because of the absence of a journal that publishes metascience. But rather than a traditional journal, as metascientists we wanted to explore the next frontier - Publish, Review, Curate.

Home - MetaROR

MetaResearch Open Review MetaResearch Open Review MetaResearch Open Review A new platform designed to transform how we review and share metaresearch A new platform designed to transform

MetaROR.org

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Jelena Brankovic @jelena3121.bsky.social · 4d

Next Wednesday, October 15 (11 AM CET), we're kicking off the fall semester Jour Fixe lecture series!

The first speaker will be Christian Greiffenhagen, with the talk "Judging importance before checking correctness: quick opinions in mathematical peer review.”

Join us in Berlin or on Zoom!

RMZ Jour Fixe lecture series, winter semester 2025/26

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MetaROR @metaror.bsky.social · 4d

🆕 Our latest study asks how authors incorporate the PRISMA guideline into workflows when conducting reviews.

Both reviewers highlighted the study's importance yet also requested more information and details from the author.

👇 Read the full editorial assessment, reviews and paper on MetaROR

From Form to Formation. Biomedical Reporting Standards in Practice

metaror.org

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Dorothy Bishop @deevybee.bsky.social · 14d

Open Science Workshop - detecting errors and misconduct in science
Dates: 20-22 October
Location: Radboud University, Nijmegen, The Netherlands
Registration link: tinyurl.com/3xkd8twf
ONLY PHYSICAL ATTENDENCE POSSIBLE! NO ONLINE POSSIBILITIES.

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Nature @nature.com · 5d

An AI tool that scans manuscript titles and abstracts has flagged more than 250,000 cancer studies that bear textual similarities to articles that are known to have been produced by paper mills

go.nature.com/48mbbgj

Low quality papers are flooding the cancer literature — can this AI tool help to catch them?

A large language model scans abstracts and titles for signs that an article was produced by a 'paper-mill' company.

go.nature.com

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Anna Abalkina @abalkina.bsky.social · 6d

I’m honored to be named one of Tagesspiegel’s “100 Researchers of Berlin” for 2025, featured in today’s category “Swimming against the current.” Grateful to be recognized alongside inspiring researchers who challenge convention and push boundaries

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Science News @sciencenews.bsky.social · 6d

The Nobel Prizes award some of the world's best science. But they miss some, too.

https://www.sciencenews.org/article/nobel-prize-discoveries-not-all-science

Nobel Prizes honor great discoveries — but leave much of science unseen

The Nobel Prize might be the most famous science prize but it celebrates just a narrow slice of science and very few scientists.

www.sciencenews.org

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Florian Naudet @floriannaudet.bsky.social · 9d

New post on ResToRes's website: "The Lancet–WCRIF commission on research integrity"
A new Lancet–WCRIF Commission on Research Integrity takes aim at the growing crisis of fake science and questionable research practices, calling for coordinated global action.
restores.univ-rennes.fr/highlights/l...

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NanoBubbles @nanobubbles.bsky.social · Aug 29

📢 Open Science Workshop on Detecting Errors and Misconduct in Science will be held in Nijmegen from October 20 to 23.

Full workshop program will be available soon.

🔗 Register here (limited spots are available!): lnkd.in/eRKekCkh

An advertisement for Open Science Workshop titled Detecting errors and misconduct in science. The sheet includes photos of the organisers and logos of the funders.

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Marin Dacos @marind.bsky.social · 13d

9th World Conference on Research Integrity (Vancouver, may 2026). wcri2026.org

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Ance Tetere @ancetetere.bsky.social · 14d

Distinguished panel of luminaries ✨ in research integrity. 👇🏼👇🏼👇🏼

Dorothy Bishop @deevybee.bsky.social · 14d

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LaLIST | CNRS-INIST @inistlalist.bsky.social · 14d

9th World Conference on Research Integrity | May 3 – 6, 2026 | Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada

« We invite you to join the 9th World Conference on Research Integrity (WCRI), which will be held from May 3 to 6, 2026, in beautiful Vancouver, Canada. The WCRI is open to all disciplines, all pro…

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Dorothy Canzano Beach @dorothy4climate.bsky.social · Aug 26

“Inflating a researcher’s citation count and h-index gives them “a tremendous advantage” in hiring and tenure decisions says Jennifer Byrne, a cancer researcher at the University of Sydney…drives the business model of shady organizations that promise to boost your citations in exchange for cash.”

David Green, PhD @ecologistgreen.bsky.social · Aug 26

The moment we distill research quality into meaningless metrics, they get gamed and lose all meaning.

Are citation counts, h-indexes, and impact factors still useful? How do you think we should be evaluating research?

🧪 #SciPub #AcademicSky

How easy is it to fudge your scientific rank? Meet Larry, the world’s most cited cat

“Exercise in absurdity” reveals flaws in Google Scholar’s productivity metrics

www.science.org

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PubPeer @pubpeer.com · 14d

Catching up on a summer backlog: congrats to @reeserichardson.bsky.social, winner of the July PubPeer Award for a comment on a 2024 article in @cp-cellmetabolism.bsky.social pubpeer.com/publications...

Reese donated his $1000 prize to @msf.ca and the @elisabethbik.bsky.social Science Integrity Fund

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Danny Maupin @dmaupin.bsky.social · 20d

Glad to be getting more attention to our work on redundant publications!!
@nature.com #metascience #academicsky

Journals infiltrated with ‘copycat’ papers that can be written by AI

Tools such as ChatGPT can be used to generate almost-identical research papers that pass standard plagiarism checks. Hundreds are thought to have been published.

www.nature.com

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