Elisabeth Bik
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Authorities that ignore big problems
might be hurting the rest of the scientific community in France twitter.com/fabrice_frank/…
And also kudos to @KargerPublisher for retracting this beauty: the Very Regular Protein Gel, where all bands are equally spaced in distance and might resemble each other.
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Kudos to @KargerPublisher for retracting this paper: "Protective Effects of Colivelin Against Alzheimer's Disease in a PDAPP Mouse Model"
Authors never responded to editors despite multiple attempts of contact.
HT: @SmutClyde
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‘I suggest that you come to the University of Tehran and observe all our works closely, and then we will complain to you. I hope you will never object to our next articles.’
An inspection condemns the authoritarian and medical excesses of @raoult_didier @IHU_Marseille
The inspectors also point to the immobility of the authorities. twitter.com/Mediapart/stat…
My reporting on an experimental Alzheimer's drug and the allegations of fraud, financial conspiracy, conflicts of interest, and weirdness with the scientific advisory board.
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I took a quick look at this Cassava thing, having only paid semi-attention to it for a year or so.
Obviously this is a broader article, and the abbreviated quote is only slightly longer than 'JH says it's crap' - which is fine, as to be expected.
But: here are the details. twitter.com/SpichakSimon/s…
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The conference on Safeguarding academic integrity in Montenegro is about to start… Part of the efforts of @coe in the Western Balkans.
My presentation about technical tools for addressing plagiarism comes after the lunch
Retweeted by Elisabeth Bik Me: "There appears to be an overlap between two figure panels."
Authors: "Dear i am sure you are not fine Why you think this green box is fake abd it has problem You are not sientific person"
#PubPeerPearls
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Die Mikrobiologin Elisabeth Bik sucht nach manipulierten Bildern in Fachartikeln. Mehrere Tausend problematische Veröffentlichungen hat sie schon gefunden – und setzt damit Verlage unter Druck.
Von @ramselyan @DIEZEIT zeit.de/2022/28/elisab…
@josephy1717 Not thanking you later, but reporting you now.
Retweeted by Elisabeth Bik MacBook received a full reset. I spend an hour setting everything back up, downloaded Chrome and Whatsapp for desktop, and immediately got another kernel panic and sudden shutdown of the laptop.
I deleted Whatsapp again; perhaps that is the problem?
Thread:
Investigation (General Inspectorate of Social Affairs) on the IHU of D. RAOULT:
"serious breaches", "loss of chance for patients", "non-compliance with the Public Health Code", numerous "facts falling under CRIMINAL qualification" twitter.com/Sonic_urticant…
This evokes, more broadly, a very authoritarian functioning of the management of Didier Raoult [...]
Out of 300 employees questioned, around fifty expressed “a situation ranging from discomfort to great suffering related to their professional activity”.
"On the scientific level, the report also denounces poor research practices: the IHU teams certainly publish a lot, but in journals of mediocre quality. This research would often be conducted in a biased manner, again under pressure from management."
Translated text from lepoint.fr/societe/marsei…
"“Patients treated at the IHU are notably given prescriptions that do not comply with the Public Health Code, which is likely to fall under a criminal qualification”, according to an extract from this report cited by La Provence."
Article today in @laprovence (paywalled) about a damning provisional report from the General Inspectorate of Social Affairs (Igas) about biased research and overly authoritarian leadership at the @IHU_Marseille under Didier Raoult. twitter.com/Chamchamat/sta…
Photoshopping is rampant in the @amazon Seed Starter Tray aisle 😂#ImageForensicssO
What we see with $SAVA is the same pattern over and over. Journals ask for original data and are provided something by Drs. Wang and Burns, but they're quite clearly not really *original* in any reasonable sense and contain far more questions than answers.
Retweeted by Elisabeth Bik It needs to stay in the store for a full reset. Luckily my files are all backed up.
Keynote talk by keen blogger @deevybee: deevybee.blogspot.com/2012/11/bishop….
Highlights @gcabanac on 'tortured phrases' as an example of the output of paper mills. Also refers to @JAByrneSci's work on faked nucleotide sequences and @MicrobiomDigest's figure spotting. #NSRI2022 #PaperMills
Retweeted by Elisabeth Bik Had to take my MacBook to the Apple hospital today. It keeps on crashing 😢
Running diagnostics……
Hope it will be ok.Z
PubPeer commenters: There are some unexpected and duplicated coordinates in Table 1.
Authors: "we created this table in Excel and the reason why some numbers were repeated was Excel's problem, not the author's problem"
#PubPeerPearls @PubPeer pubpeer.com/publications/F…
Prison sentence for an @IHU_Marseille researcher sentenced for sexual assault, moral harassment and sexual harassment
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Otolaryngologist Shares Experience with Image Manipulation in Research and How to Prevent It
Do-Yeon Cho at #ENTtoday @Triological
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July is #DisabilityPrideMonth. I recently wrote an article for @NatureMicrobiol about my experiences being a deaf scientist. My hope is that young deaf scientists will have an easier path to success than I did. rdcu.be/cQJym 1/n
Retweeted by Elisabeth Bik The distribution and dynamics of microbial populations on surfaces within a clinical microbiology lab during the COVID-19 pandemic news-medical.net/news/20220629/…
$SAVA This email exchange is huge for a few reasons. One, we can see that, just as @MicrobiomDigest suspected, @CUNY did in fact decide after an initial inquiry that a full investigation was warranted. It was reviewed and signed off on by Chancellor Boudreau @Vgbcc1.
Retweeted by Elisabeth Bik @hannes_radinger Wut? Why do you make this about appearance? Please do explain to my followers.
Retweeted by Elisabeth Bik This unfortunately happens regularly - and in many fields.
And this Nature study confirmed what many scientist women already knew:
Women are Credited Less in Science than are Men
nature.com/articles/s4158…
This has been a frustrating day. Two occurrences where men continue work I started, without involving me.
I would love to know how to handle these situations.
But if I share my frustration, I will be labeled a whiney b**ch.
It is death by a 1000 cuts, and so hard to navigate.
$SAVA Dr. Wang's primary defense against image manipulation claims appears to be that it's unfair to change the contrast in images. Someone should probably point him to the HHS ORI Research Integrity Forensic Tools page...
ori.hhs.gov/forensic-tools
Retweeted by Elisabeth Bik Congrats to the winners, but a loss for the institution.
What is the gender ratio in your Undergraduate and Masters programs, @eth_dmavt @ETH_en? Would you be willing to share a bit more about the process of the selection of the winners?
Imagine being a female engineer @ETH_en and seeing this. twitter.com/eth_dmavt/stat…
Retweeted by Elisabeth Bik 'We Asked GPT-3 To Write an Academic Paper About Itself -- Then We Tried To Get It Published' bit.ly/3I7bfkX
Retweeted by Elisabeth Bik “It was alleged that he was producing fecal transplant products in a basement apartment in Abbotsford using his nephews' feces.”
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Retweeted by Elisabeth Bik Preprint is out for one of my favourite projects of the last year
What happened when research was retracted during COVID-19?
The answer? No one seems to care 1/10
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Retweeted by Elisabeth Bik And of course, a visit to our favorite State Park, @pointlobossnr
Bixby Bridge, where we met the wonderful artist @alchemistresss
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I wrote about how numerous academics--grad students and tenured PIs alike--have announced their intentions to leave or decline career opportunities in states where abortion rights aren't protected.
Retweeted by Elisabeth Bik Taking another day off for a drive along Highway 1, because the California Coast is so gorgeous
In this reading suggestion, Gavin Taylor with @IGDOREinstitute, discusses our paper together with @GidMK @jamesheathers and @MicrobiomDigest "Correction of scientific literature: Too little, too late!" (doi.org/10.1371/journa…)
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Retweeted by Elisabeth Bik Author demands a refund after his paper is retracted for plagiarism
@RetractionWatch retractionwatch.com/2022/06/29/aut…
New Microbiome Digest by @knstnr
Enjoy the summer break, Axel! twitter.com/knstnr/status/…
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