Jennifer Byrne
@jabyrnesci.bsky.social
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
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
Rethinking Peer Review Using the Swiss Cheese Model to Better Flag Problematic Manuscripts
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onlinelibrary.wiley.com
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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Science is a collective effort, but @simine.com is a singular force. She is an exemplary model for all of us to follow in her commitment and action to improving science, on every dimension.
She is so deserving of the award. The only uncertainty is whether the award deserves her!
She is so deserving of the award. The only uncertainty is whether the award deserves her!
Congratulations to @simine.com well deserved winner of the Einstein Foundation Individual Award for Promoting Quality in Research 2025 🎉 www.einsteinfoundation.de/en/media/pre...
November 24, 2025 at 11:27 AM
Science is a collective effort, but @simine.com is a singular force. She is an exemplary model for all of us to follow in her commitment and action to improving science, on every dimension.
She is so deserving of the award. The only uncertainty is whether the award deserves her!
She is so deserving of the award. The only uncertainty is whether the award deserves her!
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Congratulations to the Brazilian Reproducibility Initiative -- a remarkable effort by a remarkable team. This is a wonderful acknowledgement of an incredible contribution to assessing and improving research quality.
🏆 Institutional: The Brazilian Reproducibility Initiative is a nationwide effort to evaluate research results in laboratory biology & the largest coordinated replication effort in the field worldwide, showcasing the potential of country-level research improvements. @redebrrepro.bsky.social (3/5)
November 24, 2025 at 11:30 AM
Congratulations to the Brazilian Reproducibility Initiative -- a remarkable effort by a remarkable team. This is a wonderful acknowledgement of an incredible contribution to assessing and improving research quality.
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“Trust but verify” is a good principle, as is “defense in depth”. It’s very easy to forge numerical data, to take one example, but it’s still worth trying to catch those forgeries (eg via Benford’s Law), b/c anything that reduces the fraud rate also reduces the load on trust as a supporting wall
November 22, 2025 at 8:24 PM
“Trust but verify” is a good principle, as is “defense in depth”. It’s very easy to forge numerical data, to take one example, but it’s still worth trying to catch those forgeries (eg via Benford’s Law), b/c anything that reduces the fraud rate also reduces the load on trust as a supporting wall
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📣 Save the date for the 13th PCI webinar on December 1st, 2025, at 4 PM CET!! Simine Vazire (University of Melbourne, Australia) will present "Recognizing and responding to a replication crisis: Lessons from Psychology". For more details and registration, visit: buff.ly/wZNoD2v
PCI Webinar Series - Peer Community In
The PCI webinar series is a series of seminars on research practices, publication practices, evaluation, scientific integrity, meta-research, organised by Peer Community In
peercommunityin.org
November 5, 2025 at 10:49 AM
📣 Save the date for the 13th PCI webinar on December 1st, 2025, at 4 PM CET!! Simine Vazire (University of Melbourne, Australia) will present "Recognizing and responding to a replication crisis: Lessons from Psychology". For more details and registration, visit: buff.ly/wZNoD2v
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🏆 Institutional: The Brazilian Reproducibility Initiative is a nationwide effort to evaluate research results in laboratory biology & the largest coordinated replication effort in the field worldwide, showcasing the potential of country-level research improvements. @redebrrepro.bsky.social (3/5)
November 24, 2025 at 10:00 AM
🏆 Institutional: The Brazilian Reproducibility Initiative is a nationwide effort to evaluate research results in laboratory biology & the largest coordinated replication effort in the field worldwide, showcasing the potential of country-level research improvements. @redebrrepro.bsky.social (3/5)
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🏆 Individual: @simine.com, psychologist at @unimelb.bsky.social & editor-in-chief of Psychological Science, is recognized for pioneering methodological rigor, reproducibility & collaborative research, driving initiatives such as @improvingpsych.org & the journal Collabra @ucpress.bsky.social. (2/5)
November 24, 2025 at 10:00 AM
🏆 Individual: @simine.com, psychologist at @unimelb.bsky.social & editor-in-chief of Psychological Science, is recognized for pioneering methodological rigor, reproducibility & collaborative research, driving initiatives such as @improvingpsych.org & the journal Collabra @ucpress.bsky.social. (2/5)
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My amazing friend and MetaMelb co-director @simine.com has won the 2025 Einstein Foundation Award! @unimelb.bsky.social @psychunimelb.bsky.social and @replicats.bsky.social are so lucky to have you
November 24, 2025 at 10:05 AM
My amazing friend and MetaMelb co-director @simine.com has won the 2025 Einstein Foundation Award! @unimelb.bsky.social @psychunimelb.bsky.social and @replicats.bsky.social are so lucky to have you
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I have been warning for this for years.
November 22, 2025 at 7:48 PM
I have been warning for this for years.
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Image screening is going to fail. We need audit trails for data provenance.
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 22, 2025 at 4:21 PM
Image screening is going to fail. We need audit trails for data provenance.
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What an amazing conference! Huge thanks to @drjbeaudry.bsky.social, Joanna Diong, and committee for organising. Looking forward to next year! #AIMOS2025
Thanks to everyone who came to Sydney for #AIMOS2025! I can't wait to see you in Wellington, NZ next year!
November 22, 2025 at 1:41 AM
What an amazing conference! Huge thanks to @drjbeaudry.bsky.social, Joanna Diong, and committee for organising. Looking forward to next year! #AIMOS2025
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Two new workshops from PATTERN project for 𝗲𝗮𝗿𝗹𝘆-𝗰𝗮𝗿𝗲𝗲𝗿 𝗿𝗲𝘀𝗲𝗮𝗿𝗰𝗵𝗲𝗿𝘀.
▪️𝗥𝗲𝘀𝗲𝗮𝗿𝗰𝗵 𝗜𝗻𝘁𝗲𝗴𝗿𝗶𝘁𝘆 𝗶𝗻 𝗽𝗿𝗮𝗰𝘁𝗶𝗰𝗲 - 26 Nov, 10.30-12.00, online:
Case-based discussion on real-world research integrity dilemmas, tools for ethical and responsible research practices
👉 www.pattern-openresearch.eu/events/resea...
▪️𝗥𝗲𝘀𝗲𝗮𝗿𝗰𝗵 𝗜𝗻𝘁𝗲𝗴𝗿𝗶𝘁𝘆 𝗶𝗻 𝗽𝗿𝗮𝗰𝘁𝗶𝗰𝗲 - 26 Nov, 10.30-12.00, online:
Case-based discussion on real-world research integrity dilemmas, tools for ethical and responsible research practices
👉 www.pattern-openresearch.eu/events/resea...
Research Integrity in practice: a joint interactive workshop for early-career researchers - PATTERN
Research Integrity in practice: a joint interactive workshop for early-career researchers This workshop is organised in collaboration with NERQ and BEYOND EU initiatives. This joint workshop will: Pre...
www.pattern-openresearch.eu
November 20, 2025 at 11:12 AM
Two new workshops from PATTERN project for 𝗲𝗮𝗿𝗹𝘆-𝗰𝗮𝗿𝗲𝗲𝗿 𝗿𝗲𝘀𝗲𝗮𝗿𝗰𝗵𝗲𝗿𝘀.
▪️𝗥𝗲𝘀𝗲𝗮𝗿𝗰𝗵 𝗜𝗻𝘁𝗲𝗴𝗿𝗶𝘁𝘆 𝗶𝗻 𝗽𝗿𝗮𝗰𝘁𝗶𝗰𝗲 - 26 Nov, 10.30-12.00, online:
Case-based discussion on real-world research integrity dilemmas, tools for ethical and responsible research practices
👉 www.pattern-openresearch.eu/events/resea...
▪️𝗥𝗲𝘀𝗲𝗮𝗿𝗰𝗵 𝗜𝗻𝘁𝗲𝗴𝗿𝗶𝘁𝘆 𝗶𝗻 𝗽𝗿𝗮𝗰𝘁𝗶𝗰𝗲 - 26 Nov, 10.30-12.00, online:
Case-based discussion on real-world research integrity dilemmas, tools for ethical and responsible research practices
👉 www.pattern-openresearch.eu/events/resea...
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5 days to go! Research integrity is rapidly rising in importance—second only to AI.
What will it look like by 2030, and what can publishers control vs. what requires broader action? Join us as we explore these key questions.
Register now! lnkd.in/dwV-YcFj
What will it look like by 2030, and what can publishers control vs. what requires broader action? Join us as we explore these key questions.
Register now! lnkd.in/dwV-YcFj
November 20, 2025 at 1:19 PM
5 days to go! Research integrity is rapidly rising in importance—second only to AI.
What will it look like by 2030, and what can publishers control vs. what requires broader action? Join us as we explore these key questions.
Register now! lnkd.in/dwV-YcFj
What will it look like by 2030, and what can publishers control vs. what requires broader action? Join us as we explore these key questions.
Register now! lnkd.in/dwV-YcFj
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Thanks to everyone who came to Sydney for #AIMOS2025! I can't wait to see you in Wellington, NZ next year!
November 21, 2025 at 10:47 PM
Thanks to everyone who came to Sydney for #AIMOS2025! I can't wait to see you in Wellington, NZ next year!
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2. Annie Whamond @anniewham.bsky.social - Analysing discussion text and references of paper mill articles in high-impact factor cancer journals.
Not all paper mill articles are easy to recognize; they are published in medium/high IF journals, authors are related to t the topic.
#AIMOS2025
Not all paper mill articles are easy to recognize; they are published in medium/high IF journals, authors are related to t the topic.
#AIMOS2025
November 20, 2025 at 2:53 AM
2. Annie Whamond @anniewham.bsky.social - Analysing discussion text and references of paper mill articles in high-impact factor cancer journals.
Not all paper mill articles are easy to recognize; they are published in medium/high IF journals, authors are related to t the topic.
#AIMOS2025
Not all paper mill articles are easy to recognize; they are published in medium/high IF journals, authors are related to t the topic.
#AIMOS2025
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AW: Set of papers where the discussion sounded like a second introduction (background information) with many new references, much more than other control papers.
Likely citation manipulation. This could help sleuths find more of such papers.
* But be aware about ESL language issues.
#AIMOS2025
Likely citation manipulation. This could help sleuths find more of such papers.
* But be aware about ESL language issues.
#AIMOS2025
November 20, 2025 at 3:06 AM
AW: Set of papers where the discussion sounded like a second introduction (background information) with many new references, much more than other control papers.
Likely citation manipulation. This could help sleuths find more of such papers.
* But be aware about ESL language issues.
#AIMOS2025
Likely citation manipulation. This could help sleuths find more of such papers.
* But be aware about ESL language issues.
#AIMOS2025
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3. Luciana Machado @machadolac.bsky.social (online): A New Global Alliance Tackling Research Integrity Challenges.
Many great initiatives deal with science integrity, but coordination is important. We connect organizations.
Reach: interactive digital magazine.
www.sci-integrity.com
#AIMOS2025
Many great initiatives deal with science integrity, but coordination is important. We connect organizations.
Reach: interactive digital magazine.
www.sci-integrity.com
#AIMOS2025
November 20, 2025 at 3:15 AM
3. Luciana Machado @machadolac.bsky.social (online): A New Global Alliance Tackling Research Integrity Challenges.
Many great initiatives deal with science integrity, but coordination is important. We connect organizations.
Reach: interactive digital magazine.
www.sci-integrity.com
#AIMOS2025
Many great initiatives deal with science integrity, but coordination is important. We connect organizations.
Reach: interactive digital magazine.
www.sci-integrity.com
#AIMOS2025
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Discussion about next steps for MetaROR @metaror.bsky.social A partnership between @aimosinc.bsky.social and @rorinstitute.bsky.social
Led by @alexh.bsky.social and @aidybarnett.bsky.social
#AIMOS2025
Led by @alexh.bsky.social and @aidybarnett.bsky.social
#AIMOS2025
November 20, 2025 at 4:38 AM
Discussion about next steps for MetaROR @metaror.bsky.social A partnership between @aimosinc.bsky.social and @rorinstitute.bsky.social
Led by @alexh.bsky.social and @aidybarnett.bsky.social
#AIMOS2025
Led by @alexh.bsky.social and @aidybarnett.bsky.social
#AIMOS2025
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More people need to know about MetaROR @metaror.bsky.social! If you are doing meta-research, then you get that the for-profit publishing system is a headache – you can help sideline journals by having your preprints handled by the MetaROR team for the peer review process. #AIMOS2025
November 20, 2025 at 10:13 AM
More people need to know about MetaROR @metaror.bsky.social! If you are doing meta-research, then you get that the for-profit publishing system is a headache – you can help sideline journals by having your preprints handled by the MetaROR team for the peer review process. #AIMOS2025
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Good morning from Sydney, on day 3 of the @aimosinc.bsky.social conference.
This morning I'll attend a workshop by the amazing @anniewham.bsky.social on: "Retrieving Scholarly Metadata with R: Introduction to Crossref and OpenAlex APIs"
#AIMOS2025
This morning I'll attend a workshop by the amazing @anniewham.bsky.social on: "Retrieving Scholarly Metadata with R: Introduction to Crossref and OpenAlex APIs"
#AIMOS2025
November 20, 2025 at 9:37 PM
Good morning from Sydney, on day 3 of the @aimosinc.bsky.social conference.
This morning I'll attend a workshop by the amazing @anniewham.bsky.social on: "Retrieving Scholarly Metadata with R: Introduction to Crossref and OpenAlex APIs"
#AIMOS2025
This morning I'll attend a workshop by the amazing @anniewham.bsky.social on: "Retrieving Scholarly Metadata with R: Introduction to Crossref and OpenAlex APIs"
#AIMOS2025
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That’s a wrap! #AIMOS2025
Dr. Jen Beaudry @drjbeaudry.bsky.social is closing the #AIMOS2025 conference, pointing out new and existing fellowship and funding opportunities for meta-research projects. "We are having a Meta Moment of $6.5 million dollars!"
We end with a very meta photo of the conference chairs!
Thank you!
We end with a very meta photo of the conference chairs!
Thank you!
November 21, 2025 at 2:00 AM
That’s a wrap! #AIMOS2025
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What does the ideal education in publication intergrity look like? How are students and ECRs supposed to learn how to identify unreliable research? @pranujanp.bsky.social @jabyrnesci.bsky.social @aidybarnett.bsky.social #AIMOS2025
November 19, 2025 at 11:58 PM
What does the ideal education in publication intergrity look like? How are students and ECRs supposed to learn how to identify unreliable research? @pranujanp.bsky.social @jabyrnesci.bsky.social @aidybarnett.bsky.social #AIMOS2025
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Research integrity conference hit with AI-generated abstracts retractionwatch.com/2025/11/18/r...
Research integrity conference hit with AI-generated abstracts
The first of three themes for next year’s World Conference on Research Integrity will be the risks and benefits of artificial intelligence for research integrity. In an ironic and possibly predicta…
retractionwatch.com
November 19, 2025 at 2:38 PM
Research integrity conference hit with AI-generated abstracts retractionwatch.com/2025/11/18/r...
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Spoiler alert - #AIMOS2025 will be in Wellington NZ from November 30 to December 2 2026
November 18, 2025 at 10:58 PM
Spoiler alert - #AIMOS2025 will be in Wellington NZ from November 30 to December 2 2026
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Lisa Bero's first slide at #AIMOS2025 on the evidence base weakening because of commercial influence on research, e.g. false claims of efficacy #metascience
November 18, 2025 at 11:07 PM
Lisa Bero's first slide at #AIMOS2025 on the evidence base weakening because of commercial influence on research, e.g. false claims of efficacy #metascience
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LB: Meta-research is like a pug wearing a pug-suit. We are doing research on research (less cute though!)
We looked at 25 meta-research studies including 2923 studies. Studies with statistically significant efficacy results are 30% higher among industry-sponsored studies than non-industry
#AIMOS2025
We looked at 25 meta-research studies including 2923 studies. Studies with statistically significant efficacy results are 30% higher among industry-sponsored studies than non-industry
#AIMOS2025
November 18, 2025 at 11:18 PM
LB: Meta-research is like a pug wearing a pug-suit. We are doing research on research (less cute though!)
We looked at 25 meta-research studies including 2923 studies. Studies with statistically significant efficacy results are 30% higher among industry-sponsored studies than non-industry
#AIMOS2025
We looked at 25 meta-research studies including 2923 studies. Studies with statistically significant efficacy results are 30% higher among industry-sponsored studies than non-industry
#AIMOS2025