The science academies of the G7 issued this statement today - the key passage is "As democracies, it is critical that our nations continue to support academic freedom, institutional autonomy, the integrity of research, research security, and the responsible conduct of research in support of the public good."
https://rsc-src.ca/sites/default/files/Ottawa%20Declaration_EN_0.pdf
Sadly easy to see that this emphasis on "gold-standard science" by the US administration is just the latest and more plausible-sounding version of "Do your own research" - a blatant attempt to use the inherent scepticism of genuine science as a weapon against science itself. No good can come from anti-science ideologues cherry-picking ideas from research integrity and taking them out of context.
https://www.cos.io/about/news/cos-statement-on-restoring-gold-standard-science-executive-order
13/ The MAHA report isn’t just an oversight—it’s a deliberate disregard for legitimate scientific inquiry. The scientific community is pushing back hard, as researchers and experts are publicly denying involvement in the studies cited. 🔥📉
#ResearchIntegrity #FakeStudies #MAHAReport
Disgraced honesty researcher Francesca Gino has lost her tenure at Harvard. It's the first time that's happened in over 80 years.
https://www.plagiarismtoday.com/2025/05/29/harvard-professor-francesca-gino-loses-tenure/
New Analysis From Springer Nature Reveals Widespread International Disparities in Research Integrity Training https://www.infodocket.com/2025/05/29/diamas-releases-international-recommendations-and-guidelines-for-diamond-open-access-new-analysis-from-springer-nature-reveals-widespread-international-disparities-in-research-integrity-trainin/ #researchintegrity
Happening now at #WOOC2025:
“Rapid-fire change, meet community action” by the invited speaker Katherine Skinner:
In a time of global uncertainty for research & education, how can Open strategies rise to the challenge?
#ResearchIntegrity
Natalia Manola will discuss all about how open infrastructures embed trust by design across every stage of research; funding, performing, publishing & evaluating. Then she joins Iryna Kuchma, Ludo Waltman, Ignasi Labastida & Javier LĂłpez Albacete for a rapid-fire debate on future-proof assessment.
Register now: https://shorturl.at/i6a7s
#OpenScience #AIethics #RRA #CoARA #ENRIO #ResearchIntegrity
“There’s been a selection, a choosing of which remains to publish, and which not. No one has the right to do that!”
The dark side of paleoanthropology.
#PaleoAnthropology #HumanOrigins #EvolutionaryBiology #Hominins #Toumai #Sahelanthropus #Fossils #MichelBrunet #ScientificControversy #ResearchIntegrity #PublicationEthics #RobertoMacchiarelli #Chad #AudeBergeret #UniversityofPoitiers #UniversiteDePoitiers
In the research life cycle, data stewards are the unsung heroes who ensure datasets are organized, documented, and reusable. Without them, context is lost, metadata vanishes, and continuity breaks down, turning valuable research into an unsolvable puzzle.
Stewardship isn’t just good practice but, is essential for reproducibility, collaboration, and long-term impact.
#DataStewardship #ResearchData #FAIRdata #CaSDaR #OpenScience #DataManagement #ResearchIntegrity
Special thanks to our host and organizer Jonathan England and our amazing Trainers & Mentors, Helen Clare, Pedro Principe, Milica Sevkusic, Pascal Flohr
Stay tuned — more to come from this inspiring week of capacity building under the PATTERN project!
#OpenAIRE #TrainTheTrainers #OpenScience #ResearchIntegrity #DataManagement #PATTERNproject
Ouch. MIT just pulled a buzzy student AI paper claiming AI speeds up science while killing joy. Turns out, the data was bunk. A stark reminder that not all AI breakthroughs are real. #AIHype #ResearchIntegrity #MIT
Have an idea for advancing the information community? Donʻt keep it to yourself—whether itʻs about AI, research Integrity, open research, metadata, or something else, answer the call and submit a session proposal for our virtual #NISOPlus25 Global/Online conference! (Weʻd love to hear from you!) Submissions deadline is June 20: https://niso.plus/2025/05/niso-plus-global-online-call-for-proposals-now-open/
#ScholComm #libraries #publishers #AI #ResearchIntegrity #PIDs #metadata
You say #OpenData is good for science?
🧪 What if it feeds paper mills & AI to churn out 2 fake papers a day?
Science sounds the alarm: public datasets are becoming raw material for junk science.
Time to rethink our standards.
#OpenScience #AI #PaperMills #ResearchIntegrity
đź”— https://doi.org/10.1126/science.zgawnij
🚨 Science is under threat and our Library @tibhannover is stepping up! To safeguard vital research, TIB has built a dark archive of #arXiv, preserving millions of scientific preprints in case the main platform goes down. A great step for resilient, decentralized access to knowledge worldwide!
#library #science #darkarchive #USPol #OpenScience #DigitalPreservation #ResearchIntegrity
https://blog.tib.eu/2025/05/14/protecting-science-tib-builds-dark-archive-for-arxiv/
Assuring an Accurate Research Record
https://economics.mit.edu/news/assuring-accurate-research-record
#HackerNews #Assuring #Accurate #Research #Record #ResearchIntegrity #AcademicResearch #MITNews #EthicsInResearch
đź“š How can university libraries protect researchers from predatory journals?
At the national seminar on displaced university libraries, I presented a framework for creating local white lists of journals — not as a tool of restriction, but as a way to guide and support responsible publishing.
🛡️ VACUP criteria
đź“‘ Journal screening tools
🌍 Nordic best practices
⚠️ How to spot red flags
đź“Ą Full presentation: http://dx.doi.org/10.13140/RG.2.2.33803.81442
Keynote on author identity from @alicemeadows this morning on the final day at our conference in Oslo.
The recent STM Association report on trusted identity recommends institutionally verified identity and using ORCID trust markers:
https://stm-assoc.org/new-stm-report-trusted-identity-in-academic-publishing/
#EASEevents #EASEoslo #PIDs #Authorship #PersistentIdentifiers #Misinformation #ORCID #OpenInfrastructure #ResearchIntegrity
Practical Tips for Editors: Identifying hallmarks of suspected Gen AI and suspected image manipulation by Dan Stuckey at our conference in Oslo.
#EASEevents #EASEoslo #ImageManipulation #ScientificFigures #PublicationEthics #ResearchIntegrity #ScientificMisconduct #EditingTips #GenAI #GenerativeAI #ChatBots #AItools #AIethics #AIwriting
Intercepting Misconduct - Practical Tips for Editors is chaired by Jason Roberts, with Paula Saikkonen, Dan Stuckey, and Ines Steffens.
Our final session today brings together experts sharing practical, low-cost ways to detect and prevent research misconduct - especially valuable for editors at smaller journals.
#EASEoslo #EASEevents #ScienceEditing #ScientificMisconduct #ResearchIntegrity
"Clarivate has announced that, from 2025 (2024 data), citations to and from retracted articles will no longer contribute towards the Journal Impact Factor." - Research Information
https://www.researchinformation.info/news/clarivate-removes-citations-to-and-from-retracted-articles-from-jif/
#ImpactFactor #JournalImpactFactor #Retractions #ResearchIntegrity #PublicationEthics #Citations #Bibliometrics
