🟢 Nanoparticules, macro conséquences
Cette semaine on retrace l'affaire Jolanda Spadavecchia qui aura duré quatre ans pour déboucher sur deux ans d'exclusion et 17 publications à rétracter
https://themeta.news/nanoparticules-fraudes-et-sanction-au-cnrs/
Hi #Academics,
When you read a paper in your field and disagree with something that the authors did (e.g. interpret results incorrectly) or did not do (e.g. not cite an extremely relevant paper), how do you usually react:
#Research #Academia #AcademicChatter #ScientificPublications #Pubpeer
Edited to add the Pubpeer option, you might have to vote again, sorry
I am very tempted to try out #PubPeer to criticize some articles that I have seen. I wonder what is its business model is. Is it a company running a walled garden or a non profit?
If it is any of those I might as well muster up some courage to blog my criticism instead.
Saw this in #PubPeer:
"As is customary in the genre, this paper features hollow sentences with bulk citations."
:catroll:
Comment on 2015 mRNA paper suggests data re-used in different contexts
https://pubpeer.com/publications/323E84675EB2E849C56097D73D55FD#1
#ycombinator #pubpeer #science #peer_reviewed_publications #journals #publication_conversations #peer_reviewed_journals #post_publication_peer_review
Same three bands appear in three different presentations with different labels
https://pubpeer.com/publications/323E84675EB2E849C56097D73D55FD#1
#ycombinator #pubpeer #science #peer_reviewed_publications #journals #publication_conversations #peer_reviewed_journals #post_publication_peer_review
And another article published with yours truthfully as co-author and the use of #Snakemake on HPC-clusters: https://doi.org/10.1016/j.biopha.2025.117841
Whilst at least #OpenAccess it still does not adhere to #OpenScience principles, e.g. #FAIR and transparent data sharing. Sometimes it's hard to draw people away from the dark force. If anyone criticises this article on #PubPeer, I would not mind.
The workflow itself is in the Snakemake workflow catalogue - I wanted to write a paper about it last autumn. Might be sometime later this spring, now. Too much at hand ...
@elisabethbik.bsky.social Divide and conquer!
We (I dare include the whole #OpenScience community) are in this together. Point to #PubPeer wherever possible. Many are in for this fight - it is not "just" about tinkering with images.
Yet, we learned: Forensics and public shaming are not enough. OpenScience is the prevention part. Many are working on better rewarding OS practices to improve transparency.
"We are thrilled to share that PubPeer has been awarded the prestigious Einstein Foundation Award for Promoting Quality in Research. This international honor, bestowed by a board of distinguished scientists, recognizes not only the platform but, most importantly, the invaluable contributions of our users."
Science, particularly the biomedical branch, suffers from a #reproducibilitycrisis. Elizabeth Bik from https://microbiomedigest.com/ who is one of the best known science sleuths (and alas still on X) has received the Einstein Award - along with #PubPeer: https://award.einsteinfoundation.de/award-winners-finalists/recipients-2024
Recognizing contributions against scientific fraud and for #OpenScience is so important. Great news!
@janeadams Surprising it took this long to be noticed in such high-profile #research. It's great there are platforms like #PubPeer to identify cases such as this!
An evening rant: In #bioinformatics, we should have a systematic way to point out or declare where missing data fail us to proceed.
The lousily annotated genome, the data, which are (not) available on request or the paper, which — after a while — turned out to contain way too many methodical holes to be merit the tag #ReproducibleResearch.
Yes, there is #PubPeer. It is not enough. There still is not enough pressure for change.
Whole story can be read in "#Aguzzi And The #LowLifes" pub by Leonid Schneider in 2019 Dec.12 in ForBetterScience #Blog👇
http://bit.ly/364dCkG
You can dig up old tweets from various accounts -one of them,now banned,mine- from before #Twitter now #X too
Oh... visit #PubPeer too
For fediversers interested in #science and the rigor of scientific #research, this #nakedcapitalism article is a weekend #mustread 🙏 #PubPeer #RetractionWatch
I knew of the problems with plagiarism & zealous dissemination of pre/non peer-reviewed research papers, much thru electronic socialization of respected journal platforms, which had contributed to rising pseudo-research, but was flabbergasted by the actual depth & breadth of it.🧐🫨🔬
The Rise of the Science Sleuths
https://www.nakedcapitalism.com/2024/09/the-rise-of-the-science-sleuths.html
Two years ago, in July 2022, I was reading on a specific molecule class for a set of experiments for a cooperation partner. I read an excellent review article, but it was missing some angle, so I looked for another review article. And realized... They were the same? I checked and that article plagiarized 90 % of the original review article. I wrote about it on pubpeer. #chemiverse #publishing #academia #chemistry #pubpeer #ScientificMisconduct (1/x) https://pubpeer.com/publications/AD85BB039A6917933CC4EE362436BE
Prevalence of Problematic Papers in Non-Coding RNA Research
https://www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1101/2024.08.28.607530v1?rss=1
* prevalence of problematic papers in field of non-coding RNA (ncRNA) research
* 1.79% retracted; 5.68% raised concerns on PubPeer
* unreliable papers widely disseminated
* hundreds of thousands citations
* significant threat to research integrity / public health
#biology #MolecularBiology #MolecularGenetics #PeerReview #PubPeer #AcademicPublishing #AcademicJournals #RNA #ncRNA #FraudulentScience #JunkScience
Can brain stimulation cure social anxiety? I have my doubts
https://pubpeer.com/publications/5AF9859DC4D5A82F7FBA338CA95805
#brainstimulation #pubpeer #dataintegrity #anxiety
I was a bit dubious about this study in the Guardian https://www.theguardian.com/science/article/2024/jun/16/electrical-brain-stimulation-tdcs-ease-heartbreak-love-trauma-syndrome, and now it's led me down a rabbit hole finding loads of papers that misused G*power and are consequently badly underpowered .
And the original 'brain stimulation eases hearbreak" paper is looking v problematic.
https://pubpeer.com/publications/97F448941AEE8F0212D345EC07626E#8
#statistics #brainstimulation #PubPeer
Der nächste Streich unseres „Wissenschaftsnarren“ @dirnagl vorab online:
Zur Zukunft des #PeerReview: Die Fehlerkultur im Wissenschaftsbetrieb ist zu mies, um Publikationen adäquat zu korrigieren. Daher ist #PubPeer derzeit das beste Medium dafür…
