Jana Christopher
@image-integrity.bsky.social
Image Data Integrity Analyst FEBS Press
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I tried an even harder example on Gemini Pro image generation and this is quite scary/amazing. I asked for a microscopy image of around 20 HeLa cells, GFP tagged 20% nuclear, 10% membrane, +1 nuclear staining, + overlap. Image below and prompt in the following post.
November 21, 2025 at 5:32 PM
I tried an even harder example on Gemini Pro image generation and this is quite scary/amazing. I asked for a microscopy image of around 20 HeLa cells, GFP tagged 20% nuclear, 10% membrane, +1 nuclear staining, + overlap. Image below and prompt in the following post.
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Heading to Innovation & Integrity Days? Don’t miss the 9 Dec #ResearchIntegrity workshops: expert-led, interactive & focused on practical skills.
--> Forensic Scientometrics
--> Collaboration with Institutions
--> Supporting Editors & Reviewers
Join us! stm-assoc.org/events/stm-i... #STMinLondon
--> Forensic Scientometrics
--> Collaboration with Institutions
--> Supporting Editors & Reviewers
Join us! stm-assoc.org/events/stm-i... #STMinLondon
November 5, 2025 at 3:30 PM
Heading to Innovation & Integrity Days? Don’t miss the 9 Dec #ResearchIntegrity workshops: expert-led, interactive & focused on practical skills.
--> Forensic Scientometrics
--> Collaboration with Institutions
--> Supporting Editors & Reviewers
Join us! stm-assoc.org/events/stm-i... #STMinLondon
--> Forensic Scientometrics
--> Collaboration with Institutions
--> Supporting Editors & Reviewers
Join us! stm-assoc.org/events/stm-i... #STMinLondon
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"By inventing fake scientists, paper mills can create a ready supply of publications and favourable peer reviews, ensuring more of the mills’ submissions get published [and] increase[d] credibility for paying customers" www.nature.com/articles/d41...
How to spot fake scientists and stop them from publishing papers
Journals are considering doing identity checks to expose fake authors — but there are downsides.
www.nature.com
October 26, 2025 at 11:11 PM
"By inventing fake scientists, paper mills can create a ready supply of publications and favourable peer reviews, ensuring more of the mills’ submissions get published [and] increase[d] credibility for paying customers" www.nature.com/articles/d41...
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if you see this post, your actions are:
- if you have a spare buck, give it to Wikipedia, then repost this
- if you don't have a spare buck, just repost
your action is mandatory for the world's best source of information to survive
- if you have a spare buck, give it to Wikipedia, then repost this
- if you don't have a spare buck, just repost
your action is mandatory for the world's best source of information to survive
I’ve never donated to Wikipedia before but I set up a small monthly donation as a fuck you to the world’s richest psychopath.
Elon Musk takes aim at Wikipedia
Musk has denounced Wikipedia as "Wokepedia" on X and urged people not to donate to the platform.
www.newsweek.com
December 26, 2024 at 12:03 PM
if you see this post, your actions are:
- if you have a spare buck, give it to Wikipedia, then repost this
- if you don't have a spare buck, just repost
your action is mandatory for the world's best source of information to survive
- if you have a spare buck, give it to Wikipedia, then repost this
- if you don't have a spare buck, just repost
your action is mandatory for the world's best source of information to survive
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October 17, 2025 at 12:41 PM
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Can we measure trust in scientific publications?, via @lseimpactblog.bsky.social
blogs.lse.ac.uk/impactofsoci...
#AcademicPublishing #Expertise #OpenResearch
blogs.lse.ac.uk/impactofsoci...
#AcademicPublishing #Expertise #OpenResearch
Can we measure trust in scientific publications? - Impact of Social Sciences
Jonathon Alexis Coates outlines how a constellation of static and dynamic indicators could provide a means for assessing the trustworthiness of published research
blogs.lse.ac.uk
September 22, 2025 at 3:13 PM
Can we measure trust in scientific publications?, via @lseimpactblog.bsky.social
blogs.lse.ac.uk/impactofsoci...
#AcademicPublishing #Expertise #OpenResearch
blogs.lse.ac.uk/impactofsoci...
#AcademicPublishing #Expertise #OpenResearch
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Adam @clearskiesadam.bsky.social brought this post to my attention and he does a good job of explaining the weaknesses and strengths in the current state of GenAI detection in the text of papers.
clearskiesadam.medium.com/genai-detect...
clearskiesadam.medium.com/genai-detect...
GenAI detection that actually works
Clear Skies is making genAI detection with Pangram available to subscribers in Oversight.
clearskiesadam.medium.com
August 27, 2025 at 7:27 PM
Adam @clearskiesadam.bsky.social brought this post to my attention and he does a good job of explaining the weaknesses and strengths in the current state of GenAI detection in the text of papers.
clearskiesadam.medium.com/genai-detect...
clearskiesadam.medium.com/genai-detect...
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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.
onlinelibrary.wiley.com
August 19, 2025 at 11:14 AM
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/...
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A powerful new study, Richardson et al. @pnas.org reveals the scale of systematic research fraud: fake papers are doubling every 1.5 years - ten times faster than real science! Retractions and deindexing can't keep up: 📄 doi.org/10.1073/pnas... #ResearchFraud #Integrity #PaperMills #AcademicEthics
August 5, 2025 at 12:34 PM
A powerful new study, Richardson et al. @pnas.org reveals the scale of systematic research fraud: fake papers are doubling every 1.5 years - ten times faster than real science! Retractions and deindexing can't keep up: 📄 doi.org/10.1073/pnas... #ResearchFraud #Integrity #PaperMills #AcademicEthics
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Reese and colleagues are doing incredibly important work to identify large scale credibility challenges for the research literature. The latest report is disquieting.
Today, our article "The entities enabling scientific fraud at scale are large, resilient, and growing rapidly" is finally published in PNAS. I hope that it proves to be a wake-up-call for the whole scientific community.
reeserichardson.blog/2025/08/04/a...
reeserichardson.blog/2025/08/04/a...
A do-or-die moment for the scientific enterprise
Reflecting on our paper “The entities enabling scientific fraud at scale are large, resilient, and growing rapidly”
reeserichardson.blog
August 4, 2025 at 8:52 PM
Reese and colleagues are doing incredibly important work to identify large scale credibility challenges for the research literature. The latest report is disquieting.
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Today, our article "The entities enabling scientific fraud at scale are large, resilient, and growing rapidly" is finally published in PNAS. I hope that it proves to be a wake-up-call for the whole scientific community.
reeserichardson.blog/2025/08/04/a...
reeserichardson.blog/2025/08/04/a...
A do-or-die moment for the scientific enterprise
Reflecting on our paper “The entities enabling scientific fraud at scale are large, resilient, and growing rapidly”
reeserichardson.blog
August 4, 2025 at 8:47 PM
Today, our article "The entities enabling scientific fraud at scale are large, resilient, and growing rapidly" is finally published in PNAS. I hope that it proves to be a wake-up-call for the whole scientific community.
reeserichardson.blog/2025/08/04/a...
reeserichardson.blog/2025/08/04/a...
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hot off the press: huge infestation of crooked editors involved on paper mills unmasked. www.pnas.org/doi/abs/10.1...
August 4, 2025 at 7:53 PM
hot off the press: huge infestation of crooked editors involved on paper mills unmasked. www.pnas.org/doi/abs/10.1...
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Once upon a time, two science journalists had an idea for a blog about retractions. And on Aug. 3, 2010, Retraction Watch launched.
And now, 15 years and 6,700 posts later, that work seems more important than ever.
Happy 15th anniversary, Retraction Watch.
And now, 15 years and 6,700 posts later, that work seems more important than ever.
Happy 15th anniversary, Retraction Watch.
Happy 15th anniversary, Retraction Watch
Once upon a time, a long time ago, two science journalists had an idea for a blog about retractions. And on Aug. 3, 2010, Retraction Watch launched, detailing in the first post why retractions matt…
retractionwatch.com
August 1, 2025 at 8:38 PM
Once upon a time, two science journalists had an idea for a blog about retractions. And on Aug. 3, 2010, Retraction Watch launched.
And now, 15 years and 6,700 posts later, that work seems more important than ever.
Happy 15th anniversary, Retraction Watch.
And now, 15 years and 6,700 posts later, that work seems more important than ever.
Happy 15th anniversary, Retraction Watch.
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La haine et véhémence de mes harceleurs (qui prouvent malgré le point exact de l'article) est l'un des premiers moteurs de:
- ma motivation à ne pas flancher face à la mauvaise science
- mais aussi de la réussite de cet article (nature.com/articles/d41...) 🤣
Changez rien :)
- ma motivation à ne pas flancher face à la mauvaise science
- mais aussi de la réussite de cet article (nature.com/articles/d41...) 🤣
Changez rien :)
July 26, 2025 at 9:12 AM
La haine et véhémence de mes harceleurs (qui prouvent malgré le point exact de l'article) est l'un des premiers moteurs de:
- ma motivation à ne pas flancher face à la mauvaise science
- mais aussi de la réussite de cet article (nature.com/articles/d41...) 🤣
Changez rien :)
- ma motivation à ne pas flancher face à la mauvaise science
- mais aussi de la réussite de cet article (nature.com/articles/d41...) 🤣
Changez rien :)
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#PaperMills fälschen in großer Zahl Forschungsarbeiten. Wie sehr schadet diese Schattenindustrie dem #Wissenschaftssystem? Wie kann man ihre Methoden erkennen und sie stoppen? – Thema eines Essays von @abalkina.bsky.social und @image-integrity.bsky.social: www.laborjournal.de/rubric/essay...
July 24, 2025 at 8:43 AM
#PaperMills fälschen in großer Zahl Forschungsarbeiten. Wie sehr schadet diese Schattenindustrie dem #Wissenschaftssystem? Wie kann man ihre Methoden erkennen und sie stoppen? – Thema eines Essays von @abalkina.bsky.social und @image-integrity.bsky.social: www.laborjournal.de/rubric/essay...
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Interesting look at the enormity of the paper mill problem, via @abalkina.bsky.social @image-integrity.bsky.social www.laborjournal.de/rubric/essay...
Kommerzialisierung von Paper Mills
Autorschaft als Währung: Wie Paper Mills mit gekauften Co-Autorschaften, manipuliertem Peer-Review und KI-Fälschungen die Wissenschaft unterwandern und kommerzielle Betrugsnetzwerke die Forschung gefä...
www.laborjournal.de
July 16, 2025 at 2:44 PM
Interesting look at the enormity of the paper mill problem, via @abalkina.bsky.social @image-integrity.bsky.social www.laborjournal.de/rubric/essay...
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Jana Christofer and I wrote a piece on #papermills for Laborjournal. We discuss challenges of paper mills and AI for scientific publishing. Science needs immediate solutions to correct it and prevent it from massively produced fraud.
@image-integrity.bsky.social
www.laborjournal.de/rubric/essay...
@image-integrity.bsky.social
www.laborjournal.de/rubric/essay...
July 15, 2025 at 8:39 AM
Jana Christofer and I wrote a piece on #papermills for Laborjournal. We discuss challenges of paper mills and AI for scientific publishing. Science needs immediate solutions to correct it and prevent it from massively produced fraud.
@image-integrity.bsky.social
www.laborjournal.de/rubric/essay...
@image-integrity.bsky.social
www.laborjournal.de/rubric/essay...
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This piece nicely summarizes the situation and features thoughts from @elisabethbik.bsky.social, @mumumouse2.bsky.social, @davidsanderssci.bsky.social, @image-integrity.bsky.social and myself.
July 10, 2025 at 11:32 AM
This piece nicely summarizes the situation and features thoughts from @elisabethbik.bsky.social, @mumumouse2.bsky.social, @davidsanderssci.bsky.social, @image-integrity.bsky.social and myself.
Great piece from Renee Hoch and Joanna Clarke. „It is likely not a coincidence that in the genAI era publishers are seeing an increase in large-scale publication ethics issues, including peer review integrity rings, authorship integrity issues and paper mills“
A scientific future shared with #AI
Our June editorial by Renee Hoch (PLOS Head Pub Ethics) and @plosbiology.org's FM Senior Editor Joanna Clarke reflects on how generative AI can contribute to a scientific future, and how it can (and cannot) ethically interface with publishing
plos.io/4l7jgsG
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Our June editorial by Renee Hoch (PLOS Head Pub Ethics) and @plosbiology.org's FM Senior Editor Joanna Clarke reflects on how generative AI can contribute to a scientific future, and how it can (and cannot) ethically interface with publishing
plos.io/4l7jgsG
🧪
A scientific future shared with AI
AI tools now exist to aid almost every aspect of the research process, from hypothesis generation and data analysis to manuscript drafting and publication. This Editorial examines what the future migh...
plos.io
July 1, 2025 at 6:55 PM
Great piece from Renee Hoch and Joanna Clarke. „It is likely not a coincidence that in the genAI era publishers are seeing an increase in large-scale publication ethics issues, including peer review integrity rings, authorship integrity issues and paper mills“
Amazing talk this morning by Hub Zwart ‘Trust in science in an era of social fragmentation’ @EMBLEvents #SciSoc2025
June 17, 2025 at 8:13 AM
Amazing talk this morning by Hub Zwart ‘Trust in science in an era of social fragmentation’ @EMBLEvents #SciSoc2025
The great Prof Csaba Szabo speaking now about the reproducibility crisis #SciSoc2025
June 16, 2025 at 2:51 PM
The great Prof Csaba Szabo speaking now about the reproducibility crisis #SciSoc2025
Good morning! Looking forward to two days at EMBL, starting today: EMBL Science and Society Conference: In science we trust?
@EMBLEvents #SciSoc2025
@EMBLEvents #SciSoc2025
June 16, 2025 at 7:13 AM
Good morning! Looking forward to two days at EMBL, starting today: EMBL Science and Society Conference: In science we trust?
@EMBLEvents #SciSoc2025
@EMBLEvents #SciSoc2025
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@cosig.net coverage in Nature news!
Collection of Open Science Integrity Guides
Anyone can do post-publication peer review.
Anyone can be a steward of the scientific literature.
www.nature.com/articles/d41...
Collection of Open Science Integrity Guides
Anyone can do post-publication peer review.
Anyone can be a steward of the scientific literature.
www.nature.com/articles/d41...
How to spot suspicious papers: a sleuthing guide for scientists
An open collection of tips and tools could help researchers and publishers to pick up on problematic research.
www.nature.com
June 11, 2025 at 10:29 AM
@cosig.net coverage in Nature news!
Collection of Open Science Integrity Guides
Anyone can do post-publication peer review.
Anyone can be a steward of the scientific literature.
www.nature.com/articles/d41...
Collection of Open Science Integrity Guides
Anyone can do post-publication peer review.
Anyone can be a steward of the scientific literature.
www.nature.com/articles/d41...
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A group of research-integrity experts has launched a toolkit for researchers that outlines how to spot suspicious scientific papers.
https://go.nature.com/43U32fj
https://go.nature.com/43U32fj
How to spot suspicious papers: a sleuthing guide for scientists
An open collection of tips and tools could help researchers and publishers to pick up on problematic research.
go.nature.com
June 10, 2025 at 9:07 PM
A group of research-integrity experts has launched a toolkit for researchers that outlines how to spot suspicious scientific papers.
https://go.nature.com/43U32fj
https://go.nature.com/43U32fj